Sentences with phrase «up of alien invasion»

The World's End is a hilarious send - up of alien invasion films.

Not exact matches

Unsurprisingly, Churchill ended up befriending H.G.Wells who authored the novel about a British alien invasion, The War of the Worlds.

Maybe I should have turned up for Grabbers, a midnight madness festival entry about an alien invasion off the coast of Ireland where its inhabitants discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.

Alien invasion flick The Darkest Hour, released this morning, is like a bad holiday fruitcake that somebody tried to spruce up with a zillion lumps of neon - colored, soggy jellybean guts.

Critics Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Critic Consensus: Repo Man is many things: an alien - invasion film, a punk - rock musical, a send - up of consumerism.

Now this week we have learned that he is reportedly returning to the alien invasion genre that gave him his most successful movie to date (Independence Day), and instead of amping up the effects he is going the Cloverfield route and scaling back instead.

This weekend Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost wrap up their Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy with The World's End, a cocktail comprised of one part alien invasion / takeover riff and two parts mid-life crises.

Despite whispers of a sequel ever since the release of the first movie, it's taken twenty years for the follow - up to the blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day to become a reality, and during an anniversary screening of the film, director Roland Emmerich has been talking to Entertainment Weekly about why we've waited so long -LSB-...]

Emmerich picks up the story 20 years after the events of the first one, where earth is threatened by yet another alien invasion.

Best described as «Red Dawn» meets «Independence Day» and featuring a cast of young up - and - comers, what makes the film so unique from every other alien invasion movie are the aggressors themselves: seemingly invisible entities powered by electricity that can incinerate anything with a single touch.

Poor L.A., always getting beaten up either by weather anomalies (Day After Tomorrow), giant meteors (Deep Impact), the Mayan doomsday calendar (2012)-- and yes, many alien invasions staking their claim on the City of Angels.

John Boyega shows up in the little known sci - fi movie Attack the Block where a group of inner city street kids take on an invasion of aliens.

Meanwhile, as the kids (and eventually Merrill) get caught up in the alien invasion, Graham is forced to accept the reality of the situation in order to protect his family.

Even the reasoning behind the whole alien invasion seems pretty plausible, and though the film doesn't have time to get caught up in a lot exposition, the little bit there is never stalls the rapid pace of the story.

Once shot down, or a landing sight has been discovered, you'll be able to send in a small squad of up to six operatives to capture or eliminate the aliens and uncover the reason for the sudden invasion of Earth.

Winner: Doom While the Imps, Cacodemons, and Barons of Hell that populate Doom aren't technically aliens, their invasion of the UAC Facility is just as terrifying as anything cooked up by John Carpenter or Ridley Scott over the years.

On paper, the plot for Crysis 2 is perhaps no better than Crysis 1, which in this instance is an alien invasion of NYC, and once again, it's up to some dude in a super powered suit to take them all down.

In the end, he's able to put a stop to the second alien invasion (the rest of that mess is all Gordon's to clean up), and the enigmatic dimensional traveller known as the G - Man dumps him into some sort of inter-dimensional holding cell until further notice.

The story begins with a simple amnesiac trope to prop up early moments, but quickly becomes a mind - bending loop of stuttering simulations and alien invasion.

X-COM is a series of sci - fi video games surrounding an Extraterrestrial Combat Unit set up by the nations of Earth to combat an alien invasion.

Cast in the role as cop Davis Russel along with his partner Leo Delgado, you find yourself caught up in the midst of invasion from an alien race known as the Lutadores.

The character needed help preparing for the invasion of some alien creature with a silly name, and tasked me with putting up a barricade in less than a minute.