"The truth is… with this movie I didn’t want it to be about taking out the landmarks," Liebesman said. He pointed out that we won't get to see the buildings in Los Angeles demolished into pieces, like the other big-budget science fiction flicks (let's say like what Roland Emmerich did in "Independence Day" in which he destroyed White House through an alien spaceship, and Michael Bay in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" who broke off pyramid through Transformers' arch-enemy Devastator).
Los Angeles is being attacked by an enormous army of unfriendly alien in this movie. The US troops, led by Sergeant Michael Nantz (played by Aaron Eckhart) have to save the citizen as many as they can and to fight the alien. Even so, what Liebesman tried to emphasize in it is the bond and relation of the member of the troop itself. As the Dark Horizon described, "Battle: Los Angeles" will be more like "Black Hawk Down" and "Letters from Iwo Jima" than the other Hollywood UFO sci-fi flicks.
