Attack The Block Torrent

Attack The Block Torrent

Attack the Block follows an unlucky young woman and a gang of tough inner city kids who make an unlikely alliance to try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an intergalactic war-zone.
A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
This movie was just terrible and after 45 minutes I went out and had a workout in the gym, fortunately next door. That makes it the 3rd film I've walked out on during over 40 years of going to the cinema. It was neither remotely amusing nor remotely scary - was it supposed to be either? Was it lack of budget or lack of imagination that made the aliens look like black old English sheepdogs with luminous teeth? I suppose in the little time (half of it?) I watched it was almost always in darkness, which was probably some sort of way of disguising the general feebleness of these aliens. What was their problem? Would no-one take them for a walk? Perhaps it was all revealed at the end. And,sorry, probably an ageist or anti-London thing, but I couldn't stand listening to those dreadful accents a minute longer.
First thing is that if you are not very patient with strong accents, you should watch this movie with subtitles.<br/><br/>What I love about this movie is how the director challenges you in the first couple of minutes to hate the protagonist, he does this by making him mug a random by-passer. What is then very interesting is the way this character is developed, when there is a scene where every character hops back home and we see their flat/family, and in this scene it is highlighted that we do not see the protagonists living conditions. This scene is a spectacular way to imply something about the character.<br/><br/>The movie also has very fun societal commentary, mainly the drug lord of the block. The implication is that the protagonist is making progress to become like him, but the situation(aliens attacking) calls for him to change into something else. Of course the sad societal commentary here is that if this alien invasion did not occur then a perfectly good kid would have turned into another criminal. So its got a very deep message in terms of societal constructs and pressures which make certain family structures(like living alone as a kid) not at all possible under the current paradigm.<br/><br/>The characters all seem genuine and talk with very strong but hilarious accents. This movie was fun all the way through, however I have noticed that people who are a little more casual movie-goers seems to not like this movie much, its got some technical and obscure appreciations that don&#39;t necessarily make this appropriate for the close-minded.
Starring a tough-minded band of scrappy teens who actually do some solving, it's the movie "Super 8" wanted to be - or should have been.
The movie takes place on Guy Fawkes night, November 5th, which is traditionally celebrated with fireworks and bonfires in England. a5c7b9f00b