War of the Worlds

[YOUR Hero]

Looks good.

I really think this will be a good movie. OK, I want it to be a good movie, in honour of the original. What's the buzz going on with this movie?

[Ninti the Mad]

I dunno about the buzz but this is on the top of my list of movies I want to see.

This and Batman.

OMG

[Jaded-Dragon]

I saw the trailer when I went to see Ring 2. It looked pretty good, I'll probably go and see it.

[Ninti the Mad]

You went to see The Ring 2 LOL

[YOUR Hero]

Does anyone know when this one opens?

[Bo]

June 29 for here in the States. Not sure bout you Canada or UK folks.

[Nowhere Man]

I'm not too sure if I like this one or not, but Spielberg is great at doing big-budget scifi movies, so that's a positive.

At the very least, it probably won't be the worst modern adaptation of a classic scifi novel; I, Robot still holds that title tightly.

[Buzzkill]

Looks real good

[YOUR Hero]

Almost 2 months after Star Wars, good. I'd hate for it to be lost in the hype.

[YOUR Hero]

I think it's time to bump this topic.

This movie should rock

[Gonzo]

Looks spectacular. At first I couldn't imagine Tom Cruise in that role but since then I have become more optimistic. Going to go see it when it hits the theaters.

[Downunder]

I can't believe they cast that midget.

Oh well - here we go again

[Lara Emily]

The tagline for War of the Worlds should have been

"This Summer Steven Spielberg blows a lot of shit up"

[Danny Electric]

I've been listening to the Jeff Wayne soundtrack, awesome stuff with Richard Burton.

[Lotus]

I really want to see this movie. Even though Tom Cruise is on this whole Scientology thing, I still think he is a very cool guy and a damn good actor.

[Downunder]

I've been listening to the Jeff Wayne soundtrack, awesome stuff with Richard Burton.
Spooky - I played that last night, out of the blue, before I read this thread.

[Boondock Saint]

I like Cruise, I like Spielberg. I like summer.

For some reason, I'm not that excited for this. Defintely gonna see it though, opening day too prolly.

But I don't think any movie can top Batman this summer.

[The Mackem]

I dunno, not too excited about it. The original was a decent film though so I guess it should be ok.

[egoslam]

So I hear in the movie that Earth is getting its ass handed to it, and then the aliens bust out some Super Soakers. Cruise will put up with his home and family getting blown to shit, but get his suit wet, and ITS ON MARTIAN SCUM!!

[Ninti the Mad]

Just saw it earlier.

I thought it was a captivating story until towards the end. The cliche formula struck again and brought down this movie from what it could've been.

It's still a good movie to enjoy. Just dont have high expectations and you will be fine. One thing is movie does well is keep you in suspense.

[The Miz]

3 reasons not to see it:

Steven Spielberg
Tom Cruise
summer blockbuster

[Loose Cannon]

I'm such an Independence Day Summer Blockbuster kind of person, so I must view this.

[Champion of Europa]

I saw it on Tuesday night at an employee only thing, and I thought it was a really solid movie up until the end. The end seemed kind of thrown together, with no buildup. But it had a lot of good acting from Cruise and Fanning. I'd rate it about 7 out of 10.

[Zelda]

I think the aliens were too simplist. Their technology made no sense, and the ending was dispaointing. It wasn't that bad until the end.

[el fregadero]

I'm thinking I might go see it and then walk out when theres about fifteen minutes left.

[Champion of Europa]

Tim Robbins steals the show.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Tim Robbins steals the show.
No he didn't. He didn't do anything.

[Champion of Europa]

No he didn't. He didn't do anything.

He played a great eerie insane guy. When he was talking to Dakota Fanning, I got chills cause it was so creepy. That whole thing at his house was great.

[RP]

I like Tom Cruise. I dont care what anyone says. He's a good actor. He's a dipshit in real life, but a great actor IMO.

I like John Cusak too. Just adding that for no reason.

[Lara Emily]

wow, some decent stuff in the begining but the movie turns to pure horshit so fast, I've never seen a movie crash and burn that badly. The ending is so utterly Deus Ex Machina it's not even funny. Before anyone says it I am aware the ending is right out of the novel. The fact of the matter is you can have the true to the book ending but even if it works in the book, if you don't build up to it properly in the movie it will not work.

[Nowhere Man]

Well, what would you suggest? Wiping the aliens out with a computer virus like the last modernized version of WotW?

There's really no way around making an ending to the story that doesn't just peeter out. After the human race hits the Martians with everything, the Martians still win, only to get taken out by common germs. That's the way H.G. Wells wrote the original, and that's the way the remakes are going to stay (unless you want to just completely fuck around with the story, like the afore-mentioned Independence Day) It might not be entirely impossible to make that less anti-climactic, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a way.

[Lotus]

It's a pretty cool movie; saw it a couple of nights ago. I was really enjoying myself until the end of the movie. The way it ended was just fucking retarded, but I won't spoil it for everyone else.

[BCWWF]

I made a new thread on opening night, but it looks like this one was bumped since them. Anyway.

I saw it last night and I thought it was a pretty sweet movie. I'm not normally into action movies, but with a guy like Spielberg directing it wasn't like most action movies. The special effects were amazing and not overdone, like they are in most movies now days. The storyline had a few holes but overall it was good.

The holes in the plot I found were: (SPOILERS)

*I thought it was kind of BS how the whole family was alive and well while waiting in Boston

*The kid definately died, based on what happened there is no way he should have been alive in the end.

*It would take quite a bit of time to get from New York to Boston on foot, especially with an attack like that. It would be days straight of walking methinks.

*It didn't do a great job of explaining why the ships forcefield went down.

But to me, those were all made to be minor details because Spielberg is a good director like that. I just thought a lot of the visuals were sweet and overall it was a pretty good storyline. I would give it probably 8/10 and recommend you see it while its still in the theaters. It's probably not going to go down as an all time great movie, but it is definately worth seeing while in theaters.
It was really kind of like Independence Day but not a comedy, don't you think?

[Champion of Europa]

Well, what would you suggest? Wiping the aliens out with a computer virus like the last modernized version of WotW?

There's really no way around making an ending to the story that doesn't just peeter out. After the human race hits the Martians with everything, the Martians still win, only to get taken out by common germs. That's the way H.G. Wells wrote the original, and that's the way the remakes are going to stay (unless you want to just completely fuck around with the story, like the afore-mentioned Independence Day) It might not be entirely impossible to make that less anti-climactic, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a way.

*SPOILERS*

Easy, when the aliens are down in the basement looking around, have them make coughing/sneezing type noises, and look ill and weak.

[AareDub]

*spoilers*

Ugh, the ending was so bad. Despite the whole deus ex machina bit, it pisses me off so much that they let the son live. Is it so freakin hard to have a main character suffer some sort of meaningful loss (besides the city being destroyed)? I won't even start with the whole thing about Boston being almost destroyed except for the family living there like nothing happened, y'know not even in a state of panic or anything.

Other than that the movie wasn't too horrible. Parts of it had me thinking "so that's what a half-life 2 movie might look like."

[Lara Emily]

Well, what would you suggest? Wiping the aliens out with a computer virus like the last modernized version of WotW?

There's really no way around making an ending to the story that doesn't just peeter out. After the human race hits the Martians with everything, the Martians still win, only to get taken out by common germs. That's the way H.G. Wells wrote the original, and that's the way the remakes are going to stay (unless you want to just completely fuck around with the story, like the afore-mentioned Independence Day) It might not be entirely impossible to make that less anti-climactic, but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a way. *spoilers*


I'm not saying change the ending from the book, it would have been worse if they had, though technically the ending has two parts, the aliens dying (which I didn't mind that much though it was still very underdevelopped) and the happy family reunion (the true problem with the ending, the bullshit sappyness of the ending)

As for how they could have made the death by disease work better how about not changing how long they Martians studied, so that it doesn't seem completely stupid that martians who have been studying the Earth for a million years would not realise that diseases exist or that it might not be a good idea to go touching rusty bikes and old pictures that have who knows how many germs on them and other random shit and drinking bad water and so forth A million years is enough time to learn that maybe they need some sort of protective suit at least at first, the book was maybe 10-20 years of study tops, I can forgive not completely grasping everything to do with human disease in that time but a million years? Give me a break, ridiculous. It's pointless chnages like that kill the general plot development.

Furthermore, to make it less anti-climatic, you drop the stupid grenade sequence and have the alien ships all around them slowly start dying, finally ending with the one they are in, then have Cruise grasp what happens earlier and do most of the Boston stuff the same (well I'd say have Boston blown to shit and family except maybe at most the mother dead but that's me hating the happy ending) minus the birds on the robots. There a little more build up.

[Lara Emily]

*SPOILERS* (gonna put the quote in black)

Easy, when the aliens are down in the basement looking around, have them make coughing/sneezing type noises, and look ill and weak. That works too.

[Boondock Saint]

Liked it a lot. Cept for the ending as most have already commented on. Not so much the alien part, but afterwards with the family is what disappointed me more.

[Crimson]

Independence day > WotW

[Boondock Saint]

LOL wtf, no way. ID4 sucks the big one.

[Penner]

it was pretty good

[Crimson]

LOL wtf, no way. ID4 sucks the big one.


Maybe it's just me but even ID4 made way more sense than WotW. More entertaining, and it got the whole world involved, unlike WotW. I mean when Cruise' son wants to stay and watch the army in combat i was like WTF nobody in their right mind would wana stay and 'watch' a fuckin war. Also I didn't like the part where the alien is looking for Cruise n' company in the dismantled house, when there is like billions of other houses and people to kill. I'm not saying ID4 was a 5 star flawless movie, but i enjoyed it better than this one.

[Kalyx triaD]

If ever a time for Speilberg to hop on the 'Trilogy Train' it should have been now. Things ended much to abruptly, and happy even. Steven is known for endings like that, but c'mon...

Robbie survives what looked like a heavy bombardment; AND makes it to Boston before his dad?!?

I can care less about how the sheilds went down, what is funny is this:

How do these 'advanced' aliens, who's been planning this extermination for "A million years", come up with simply walking around dusting people and setting up Martian floura. And not even know that Earth isn't even a safe place to be in the first place. Speilberg directed the most ill-concieved alien attack in movie history. And yes I seen Martian's Attack.

Still, putting myself in the movie, it was scary as Hell. And Tom "I'd kill for my daughter" Cruise did a good job. It's nice he's finally playing his age.

[YOUR Hero]

The Aliens just up and dieing is how the original was wrote. It's not Speilberg's idea. He's re-hashing an old story.

[Buzzkill]

It was well made. Didn't enjoy it all that much though.

[Buzzkill]

ID4 lol

[yianni]

Not a bad movie but agree what everyone else has said in here - the ending was shit. 7/10.

[Chavo Classic]

There is no way in hell that Robbie should have lived through that. NO WAY.

I could believe maybe Cruise and daughter making it to Boston alive.
I could believe the family in Boston waiting for them.

But I refuse to accept that emo boy made it out alive from that attack. It makes as much sense as a Chewbacca in a Johnnie Cochran testimony.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

It was Okay.

[UmbrellaCorporation]

I dunno. After reading the book a long time ago, I remember how much I liked that ending. I'm glad to see that it wasn't tampered with. I'd much rather take *SPOILERS for those who haven't seen/read it*

bacteria being responsible for the deaths of the aliens

than something similar to the ending of Independence Day. I thought this was a great movie based off of a great book. The whole red vine thing creeped me out too.

[yianni]

There is no way in hell that Robbie should have lived through that. NO WAY.

I could believe maybe Cruise and daughter making it to Boston alive.
I could believe the family in Boston waiting for them.

But I refuse to accept that emo boy made it out alive from that attack. It makes as much sense as a Chewbacca in a Johnnie Cochran testimony.
Yeah I agree. Thing that shat me off is I knew it would happen.

[Fox]

There is no way in hell that Robbie should have lived through that. NO WAY.

I could believe maybe Cruise and daughter making it to Boston alive.
I could believe the family in Boston waiting for them.

But I refuse to accept that emo boy made it out alive from that attack. It makes as much sense as a Chewbacca in a Johnnie Cochran testimony.

Dude, the Chewbacca Defense is seamless and irreversible. Don't fuck around.


Haven't seen the movie, btw. Probably will wait til DVD. Spielberg tends to piss me off.

[Lara Emily]

Lance Storm has a hillarious quick review of the film .

I may be in the minority on this but this movie SUCKED big time! I didn’t buy the concept at all, and it had the lamest finish, since David Arquette won the WCW World Title from his own partner in tag match by pinning someone else, and then celebrating that win with the guy who lost the title, who genuinely looked excited to have lost the World Title. I won’t go into more detail as I don’t want to ruin the movie before seeing it has a chance to on it’s own, but apart from special effects, this movie brings nothing to the table, in my opinion. I’d almost rather see Tom Cruise rant and rave about Scientology. Okay maybe the movie wasn’t that bad, but all in all I would have rather given my $10 to Brooke Shields, to buy anti depressants.

http://www.stormwrestling.com/070605.html

[Joey Slugs]

God this movie was crap. Thankfully I saw it for free. 3/10.

[Crimson]

Storm rules

[Morgan]

Read this elsewhere, but the kid could have survived if he'd just being taken by the aliens like Ray was.

[RP]

i didnt get the ending. I mean i get how they died of disease, but i didnt really know until the narrator said it. I honestly assumed the birds were distracting them and the arm way shooting them down. Maybe i was just not understanding all to well.

The kid living was just plain stupid. In fact ( Not reading the book ) I think it could have easily just erased the kid from the movie. He served no purpous at all with the exception of being a whiney bitch.

Dakota Fanning is just down right annoying.

Tom Cruise was really good tho.