War of the Worlds

[randym431]

Hey folks, just stop using that anti bacterial soap!!! (Alien plot to take us over, you know)

 

[Lucky]

Absolutely terrible movie. One of the worst endings of any movie I've ever seen. Tom Cruise's performance, while decent, left me wondering why he had such a personal drive to defeat the aliens when in the end he doesn't do jack sh*t.

 

[DVad3r]

Good movie, needed more army fights though, they did not show too much of how the army's weapons were being ineffective vs the martians. But other then that it was awesome, very scary too, I was just picturing that happening in real life and its some scary stuff

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: MaverickBP
ending sucked a$$..action was alright but wasnt that great of a movie

DQFT

 

[angstsoldat]

I just saw it tonight..

its kinda along the genre of Survival .. I guess .. heh.

Theres sort of a lot of missiles and army scenes yeah, but mostly its people trying to run away from.. "things".. (you know), and car jack people, kill the bad guys, etc.

 

[Rumpltzer]

If that little girl doesn't stop screaming, I'm gonna have to kill her.

I could have also done without Tom Cruise's rendition of Little Deuce Coup. That was just horrid to see/hear.

 

[alm4rr]

I love how all electronics are dead in the entire city EXCEPT the digi camcorder the guy is holding in the street the camera focuses through for product placement!

 

[alm4rr]

spoiler:


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[CVSiN]

one of the worst movies I have ever seen..
I was ready to walk out on it...

good special effects.. bad movie...

 

[loic2003]

**Spoilers**

Whining about the ending is pointless. It follows the original, and the final voiceover put it into perspective. How man has earned his right to live on earth by millions of us dying in the past and evolving.

Points I didn't like so much:
-I found the period when they were in that house with the nutcase guy a bit tedious and the film seemed to drag it's feet at this stage.
-Why would the aliens wait all these years to attack (apparently the tripods were buried millions of years ago. ie when we had sticks and rocks to fight back with, at best)?
-I didn't like how the aliens had three legs as their weapons did. Doesn't make sense. We don't make two-legged tanks. Three legs just seems like an awkward, wierd setup that was only chosen because they are aliens so they must be different in every possible way.
-I also didn't like how the tripods ran off humans rather than petrol/whatever. Seemed a bit cheesy and cliche'd. Why did they spear some people and suck their blood but kept others in little cages/lunchboxes on their backs?
I know it's just a movie and I shouldn't pick at details, but it just annoyed me a bit.

Points I liked:
-The aliens weren't made out to be stupidly scary with big stupid sharp teeth, etc (ie unlike xenomorphs from the aliens films) and seemed to be well modeled and made to look intelligent and inquisitive.
-Great little snippets such as the train going by in flames
-Some nods back to the original movie with the electronic eye on a stalk looking identical and the somewhat cheesy 'suckers-on-the-end-of-fingers' style alien hands.
-I think it was a well done 'aliens attacking earth' movie which managed to steer clear of some classic cliches (world famous landmarks being destroyed, screaming-useless-woman-who-falls-over-all-the-time love interest, scientists in glasses trying to sort things out, america saving the world again, etc) and a good bit of emotion was kept in there. Spielberg did well.

 

[stag3]

the 20 seconds of tanks/jets/helicopters/explosions you see in the commercial, is pretty much all the action in terms of fighting you see.
the movie is more about cruise's relationship with his family, more than a hostile takeover of the planet by aliens... *sigh*

on a good note, the sfx were done well.

 

[Syrch]

I thought the story was lacking but it was an entertaining movie. I left the theatre looking for more.

 

[royaldank]

Special effects and sound were great. Overall, the movie was a bit dumb. I didn't mind seeing it, but I'll probably never watch it again. So many inconsistances and points that just don't make sense. Oh well. Still better than lots of other summer high budget blockbusters.

King Kong certainly looks interesting. Glad that trailer preceeded WotW.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Good movie, I liked. Went in with a clean slate since I never read the book and only knew of the original movie. Gotta hand it to my man Cruise, I thought he did a good job, the little girls screaming did get repetitive but she was ok, and Robbins playing that crazy cop was a bit out there for him but he pulled it off. This movie is a lock for getting the sound editing Oscar and maybe even a SFX award, a good summer movie overall that I didn't think dissapointed with Speilberg running things. It's ashame the main chatacter is so malined right now and might have hurt the movies numbers but you just can't hate this guy as an actor, he's done it so good for so long and managed to shake the original casting for a hotshot/bartender/teen model type role as he got older.

 

[shud]

Originally posted by: Lucky
Absolutely terrible movie. One of the worst endings of any movie I've ever seen. Tom Cruise's performance, while decent, left me wondering why he had such a personal drive to defeat the aliens when in the end he doesn't do jack sh*t.

Um maybe you missed the entire hour of the movie that took place in Tim Robbins' basement? It became INCREDIBLY obvious from that scene that Cruise's character had no desire to defeat the aliens but just to survive. He stops Robbins from shooting them several times.

The ending was really lame, though. Spielberg just HAD to do it.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Lucky
Absolutely terrible movie. One of the worst endings of any movie I've ever seen. Tom Cruise's performance, while decent, left me wondering why he had such a personal drive to defeat the aliens when in the end he doesn't do jack sh*t.

*some spoilers below*





Did we watch the same movie? Cruise's character was trying to get his children back to their mother the entire film. He wasn't trying to defeat anything. The focus of the film was his relationship with his children and their journey to Boston to re-unite the kids with their mother. Hell, the entire scene in the basement of Tim Robbin's house, Cruise was trying to keep Robbins quiet so that the aliens would just leave without hurting anybody.

 

[Feneant2]

Best comment heard there : 'I was not aware it was going to be a sci-fi movie'

 

[JackBurton]

I give it :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Great movie!

 

[Chewy]

I thought it was an ok movie. The beginning was awesome, the middle was ok, the ending sucked. I liked the concept of how the aliens died and whatnot, but the ending was definately too sudden and lame. Was a pretty short movie - like 1 hour 45 mins. If they made it a 2.5 hour movie, it could've been A LOT BETTER.




***SPOILER QUESTIONS***
1. If it was "an extermination" as Tim Robbins said (the guy in the basement), why did they need to drink our blood instead of just killing us? If they needed our blood to "survive" (I don't remember hearing the narrator mentioning anything), then why did they zap a whole lotta ppl?

2. What was the point of the aliens passing the photo of the little girl around?

3. What was the point of the vultures pecking at the robot? Just to show the force field was down?

4. Could they have made the aliens look any more similar to the ones in Independence Day?

5. I loved how after the plane crashed, EVERYTHING was destroyed except for their car. Nit-picky, I know, but whatever

 

[Lucky]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: Lucky
Absolutely terrible movie. One of the worst endings of any movie I've ever seen. Tom Cruise's performance, while decent, left me wondering why he had such a personal drive to defeat the aliens when in the end he doesn't do jack sh*t.

*some spoilers below*





Did we watch the same movie? Cruise's character was trying to get his children back to their mother the entire film. He wasn't trying to defeat anything. The focus of the film was his relationship with his children and their journey to Boston to re-unite the kids with their mother. Hell, the entire scene in the basement of Tim Robbin's house, Cruise was trying to keep Robbins quiet so that the aliens would just leave without hurting anybody.

He was CONSTANTLY running to the forefront of the action like he was a cop trying to stop a robbery. Like when when aliens first popped out of the ground, he was one of the only people shown to stick around while everything around him was buckling and exploding. WTF was the point of that? To set him us as a character that knew more about the aliens than anyone else? Unrealistic.

It also bothered me that the aliens were zapping every human in sight early on, like their mission was just complete destruction of humans, but later it was shown that they fed off them. So what the point of that? Nonsense.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Originally posted by: Lucky
He was CONSTANTLY running to the forefront of the action like he was a cop trying to stop a robbery. Like when when aliens first popped out of the ground, he was one of the only people shown to stick around while everything around him was buckling and exploding. WTF was the point of that? To set him us as a character that knew more about the aliens than anyone else? Unrealistic.

While the alien was digging itself out of the ground, there were tons of people standing around. In fact there were still hundreds in the area watching the tripod as it arose from the ground. It wasn't until it started killing people that everybody, Cruise included, started running - perhaps you missed the scenes were the townsfolk around him were getting vaporized as he ran through their cremated bodies trying to get home?

It also bothered me that the aliens were zapping every human in sight early on, like their mission was just complete destruction of humans, but later it was shown that they fed off them. So what the point of that? Nonsense.

That's a fair point. Though it could be argued that the initial destruction was to paralyze the goverment and populace enough for occupation. Destroy any resistance first and it makes collecting people that much easier.

 

[AFB]

What was with the video camera right after the EMP storm. I want an EMP proof camera

 

[poopaskoopa]

I guess it was less boring than Jurassic Park 2.

 

[daniel1113]

I thought it was entertaining, but it completely deviated from the original theme that HW Wells wrote many years ago. By adding the children, Ray had a reason to survive other than for himself, and thus completely upset the meaning behind the microbs and bacteria that end up saving the human race.

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: loic2003
-I also didn't like how the tripods ran off humans rather than petrol/whatever. Seemed a bit cheesy and cliche'd. Why did they spear some people and suck their blood but kept others in little cages/lunchboxes on their backs?

The people kept in the cages were reserve "fuel." That was the point of the entire scene with Ray getting sucked into the machine with the grenades. He had been chosen as the next victim to become fuel for the aliens.