Why War Of The Worlds Was a Crock

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Mwilding
If my unlicensed teenage son took my 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350 for a spin without permission and then came home without the car, it would take more that aliens committing mass worldwide genocide to stop me from killing him.

I believe you mean xenocide.

Genocide - The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

I think the human race qualifies...

Xenocide - No entry found for xenocide.

I'll stick with my OP, thanks!

dayum joshsquall....do you need an ice pack? Cause you just got BURNED!

 

[Kishan]

Originally posted by: DonVito
Another issue:

After the lightning started, Tom Cruise looked down at his watch and it had stopped. Two problems here: it was a gold Omega chronograph, which a) would be much too costly ($2K+) for a blue-collar worker like a stevedore; and b) is mechanical, not electronic, and would not have been affected by EMF.

I noticed the Omega too. WhyTF would an average Joe have such an expensive watch and a nice car? They tried so amazingly hard to make him the working man.

 

[Syrch]

ROFL

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Mwilding
If my unlicensed teenage son took my 1966 Shelby Mustang GT350 for a spin without permission and then came home without the car, it would take more that aliens committing mass worldwide genocide to stop me from killing him.

I believe you mean xenocide.

Genocide - The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

I think the human race qualifies...

Xenocide - No entry found for xenocide.

I'll stick with my OP, thanks!

Haha. Genocide isn't really the correct term.. it's more of a national/racial issue. Xenocide is a species/planet wide term coined by sci-fi writers.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: KPSHAH316

Originally posted by: DonVito
Another issue:

After the lightning started, Tom Cruise looked down at his watch and it had stopped. Two problems here: it was a gold Omega chronograph, which a) would be much too costly ($2K+) for a blue-collar worker like a stevedore; and b) is mechanical, not electronic, and would not have been affected by EMF.

I noticed the Omega too. WhyTF would an average Joe have such an expensive watch and a nice car? They tried so amazingly hard to make him the working man.

It's the Hollywood formula. Regular joes always have fabulous downtown loft apartments and classic cars.

They screwed it up here for the sake of one scene - putting him in the crane. If they had shown him on the ground and given him a Timex, then the only technical issue with the movie would be the fact that it implied Tom Cruise had sex with women...

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Haha. Genocide isn't really the correct term.. it's more of a national/racial issue. Xenocide is a species/planet wide term coined by sci-fi writers.

Xenocide

The term Xenocide is a science fiction neologism that means an act of genocide directed towards an alien species.

Definition of "Neologism":

A neologism is word, term, or phrase which has been recently created ("coined") ?often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. Neologisms are especially useful in identifying inventions, new phenomena, or old ideas which have taken on a new cultural context.

 

[GasX]

I guess big words like neologism are thread killers...


huh huh, he said jism...

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
I guess big words like neologism are thread killers...


huh huh, he said jism...

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