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Geebs wrote:Is there an unnecessary 30 minute segment starring a bunch of purple blobs after you thought the movie was already over?

i feel i should know what this reference is about, yet i dont :S

brisk wrote:Good effects, generally decent storyline. The ending threw me at first (and I feel it could still have been developed a little more), but it still worked.

There were some powerful scenes in the film. The bodies floating down the river was particularly harrowing, and the basement scene was well shot.

The minor plotholes were kinda annoying (namely the EMP/camcorder incident, plus the fact a fucking 747 lands in the back garden, destroys the shit out of the house, but the car in the driveway remains intact), and yes, the son should have died. It was a typical Spielberg cop-out ending in that respect, though it was salvaged somewhat by the fact that Cruise stood alone away from the rest of his family at the end... so despite the obvious bonding that occured during the whole survival trial, it was still quite bitter-sweet.

Not perfect, but I liked it.

may feeling exactly.
the robbie kid coming back at the end sucked.

there were some depressing moments in there.. some classic spielberg moviemaking, like the traincrossing. that made me go inside

Great flick. I love the way Speilberg can tell a story like War of the Worlds in such a personal, intimate and realistic way. Shit, I betcha Speilberg could have even made Godzilla seem great (hint, it isnt as it stands now).

MKJ wrote:there were some depressing moments in there.. some classic spielberg moviemaking, like the traincrossing. that made me go inside

Depressing how? As in you didn't like it, thought it was sad or cliché in some way?

I loved that scene. Made me go :icon28: and WTF? when it passed =)

Saw this tonight with a few of the lads. Good film
Endin was shite tho...no explanation...
Just a ximple...They ae dying!!!!

Then its all over..wtg?

o fuck aye, that train was fucking awesome

the boat crossing was coo aswell though, although my 1st thoughts were 'why the fuck would you wanna get on a boat with that thing behind you'

im upgrading my opinion from very very good to fucking fantastic

the scenes were done beautifully

the scene were the army guys are like GO GO GO and the half life 3 walkers are all like BRRRRRRRRRR then the army is like O SHIT and come hurdling back over in flames, wicked scene

Oh yeh...the train OWNED hard
The Aliens were nicked fresh outta Independace Day tho

i think my only gripe with the film is the basement scene

it was good but it just didnt feel right in the film, like theyre running away from a shitload of shit and some crazy dude singles them out in the croud for cookies n milk

just didnt fit right for me, like he was thinking "hmmm budgets running a tad low"

Don Carlos wrote:Oh yeh...the train OWNED hard
The Aliens were nicked fresh outta Independace Day tho

NO. No no no no noooooooooo.


Independance Day stole eveything from War of the Worlds. Except they upgraded the virus thing to a computer virus lol.

losCHUNK wrote:i think my only gripe with the film is the basement scene

Yes that was shit. It didn't work at all.

Pauly wrote:

Don Carlos wrote:Oh yeh...the train OWNED hard
The Aliens were nicked fresh outta Independace Day tho

NO. No no no no noooooooooo.


Independance Day stole eveything from War of the Worlds. Except they upgraded the virus thing to a computer virus lol.

Yeh granted, but did they have to steal the way the aliens looked?
Same shaped head n same eye n all sorts...

I thought it was good, but it definately had pacing issues. That basement scene with the tentacle eyeball was way too fucking long. It went on for like 20 minutes. Other than that I'd have to say that the special effects were probably the best I've ever seen.

I just got back from seeing it. The first 30 minutes were awesome. They really deserve to be watched in the theatre (or at home with surround sound). The way Speilberg built up the first alien tripod was great. He built it up and up and up until you can't imagine it getting any crazier, and then people start getting incinerated. :lol:
When the first tripod roared, I thought it was fucking awesome. That was worth the ticket price alone.

Things are pretty crazy and edge-of-your-seet for the first half of the flick, but it goes downhill from there. The pacing was all off. I was able to sit back and relax for the rest of the film and wasn't really excited again after that. The basement scene was cheesy and too slow/long. Now, I know Spielberg was focusing on the family interaction instead of the invasion itself, but it still IS an action movie about a fucking alien invasion! I didn't go to see some kid try to join the army and his little sister give daddy lectures on how to communicate with his son. :icon13:

And the end of the movie? Give me a break. You'd think that if an obviously technologically advanced alien race with millions of years of planning intended to invade a planet, they'd do their homework first. BACTERIA killed them? I mean, fuck, even if they didn't bother to research a basic building block of live on the planet, you'd think those tripods of theirs would have breathing masks (you know, in case they don't breathe our air) That's almost as pathetic as WATER killing the aliens in Signs! :icon27:

I mean, come on. The movie ended way too quick. And Ray's son should have died. I could hear a lot of mutters of disappointment around me from the other people watching when the credits started rolling.

Oh, and I would have liked to see more about what was going on around the world. That news reporter and her deaf cameraman (WTF was with that?) did NOT satisfy me. Then suddenly everyone knows to call them tripods, like news about their nickname spread, yet the video feeds didn't. But I will admit that from the direction Spielberg was taking it, that the confusion about not knowing what else was going on worked for him. My curiosity still got the better of me, though.

I'm still miffed about the Signs-like ending. That was bullshit.
I give War of the Worlds a 6/10.
10/10 for the first 30 minutes, and 2/10 for the rest.

I think people called them tripods because that's exactly what they were.

People are complaining about the end, but that's the story by HG Wells. I think Spielberg could have handled it better but the guy always has problems with endings.

oh btw the totally brainwashed kids going "omg lol are they terrorists?" made me puke :@ i'll just give spielberg the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a jab at modern day society

Fucking loved the film, start to finish. The only problem i had with the film was that it had to end.

MKJ wrote:oh btw the totally brainwashed kids going "omg lol are they terrorists?" made me puke :@ i'll just give spielberg the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a jab at modern day society

Speilberg, being the master filmmaker that he is, found a way to play on the feelings and emotion of a post-9/11 pshcye (sp), which single-handedly made this movie relevant and personal and great, and yet you critisize (sp) him for doing so?

Shit, like I said before, War of the Worlds is no different than Godzilla as far as a story goes... it's the way Speilberg tells the story that makes it amazing. -He tells it in such a way that we can understand and relate and identify with each of the characters... Thereby drawing the audience into the movie and allowing us to experience the same events that the characters are. Perhaps this is much too subliminal for the average movie-goer to understand?

edit: grammer-pak powerup

guess you missed my point

MKJ: I did. I'm not trying to be rude, but what is your point? Because I don't get it.

no wait, i guess you didnt miss my point.
it is indeed a movie (story) seen from the common man's perspective. and a nice one at that. what i meant was that its just so lame that the first thing these kids think when everything blows up is "are they terrorists?".
i guess spielberg shows us how people are indoctrinated/overfascinated with "terrorism" nowadays. thats why i said "i hope it was a jab at modern day society [war-on-terror-society]"

I see.

MKJ wrote:no wait, i guess you didnt miss my point.
it is indeed a movie (story) seen from the common man's perspective. and a nice one at that. what i meant was that its just so lame that the first thing these kids think when everything blows up is "are they terrorists?".
i guess spielberg shows us how people are indoctrinated/overfascinated with "terrorism" nowadays. thats why i said "i hope it was a jab at modern day society [war-on-terror-society]"

Get over it. The world trade center got fucked. A sad, sad day to many. But for fucks sake, stop crying already. People will also been blown up. There will always be terrorists in the world. Deal with it.

Looks like you're the one crying, o'dium. STFU.