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The First Trailer For 'Beyond Skyline' Is...Surprisingly Awesome?

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In the year 2010, a little film named Skyline was released, which promised an action- packed alien invasion movie with stunning visuals the likes of which mankind had never seen. However, what we got was an hour and a half of unlikable characters hiding in an apartment building with the blinds closed. The original Skyline was panned by critics, with a stunning 16% on Rotten Tomatoes, and quickly made its rounds on every bad movie podcast in existence. Although the first film has proudly been inducted into the bad movie hall of fame, it appears that a sequel will be forthcoming, and the first trailer looks…. awesome? Beyond Skyline Drops Its First Trailer And Blows Our Minds While we may not know why Skyline is receiving a sequel, the first full trailer for the next film in the franchise, Beyond Skyline , looks amazing. Based on what we saw in the trailer, the sequel appears to be a vast improvement from the first film. Not only does the trailer show us emotional stakes and charac...

Beyond Skyline Trailer: This Doesn't Look Terrible?

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Posted on Thursday, August 17th, 2017 by Jacob Hall Do you remember Skyline , the 2010 science fiction movie about people trapped in an apartment during an alien invasion? Of course you don’t. It was awful. Terrible. Probably one of the worst movies given a wide release in theaters that year. But it was also cheap, produced for a modest $10 million budget, allowing it to make enough money to justify a sequel. And now, seven years later, the trailer for that sequel has arrived. And it looks…not bad? Perhaps that’s because Beyond Skyline features a new cast, a new setting, a new director, and only a tenuous connection to the original movie . To be fair, the Beyond Skyline trailer (originally unveiled over at AICN) isn’t going to appeal to those who aren’t already okay with watching low- budget science fiction movies  that look like they’re one step removed from premiering on SyFy. But this looks like a very, very good low- budget science fiction movie , the kind of B- movie junk food...