It is horribly cliched, I agree. I can't stand all that military pathos thing. I do have a soft spot for massive alien invasion movies but Battle LA is more like Jarhead with a few spaceships and some robots.
Anyway, finally watched:
Monsters (6/10)
I really didn't know what to make of this. It completely wasn't what I expected: in some ways better; in some ways worse. Bits of it made me cringe but other bits are superb. I loved how they did the actual creatures.
http://thesilvermirror.files.wordpre...pg?w=300&h=400
District 9 (8/10)
I love this. I love how it switches halfway through from a kind of Starship Troopers mockumentary thing, into more of a The Fly meets ET thing.