Reply #17: I watched it and thought it fairly decent.

[Forkboy]

certainly nothing deep, but it was better than Cloverfield and Independence Day (anything is better than I.D.), the two movies it's most clearly influenced by (with a couple of references to War of the Worlds for good measure).

The two biggest complaints that I heard was that the characters were unlikable and the plot was thin. There's truth to both of those, but it's not the whole truth. The characters are unlikable, at first, but find some humanity as the movie progresses. I think they were intended to seem shallow at first. On the second part, the plot is indeed basic, but it doesn't call for anything deeper. This isn't meant to compete with a movie like The Last King of Scotland, for instance. It's an alien invasion movie, for crying out loud.

I'm not saying this is a classic movie by any stretch, and i can certainly understand that there are people who won't like it, but some of the negativity I've read about it seemed extreme, and it really wasn't that bad.