war of the worlds

[bigkev119]

war of the worlds is an excellent movie, thanks the genious mind of steven spielberg. i would recommend seeing it. excellent special effects. the aliens are completly different than the oringinal. i give it a thumbs up. i dont understand why people say that the ending was disappointing. it should have ended the way it should. they killed all the aliens.:cool:

[noctuary]

The ending was disappointing because, first of all, the aliens should have won. A fatal flaw in the entire War of the Worlds concept is that the aliens would be so vulnerable to earthly bacteria. A race advanced enough to travel through space and construct death machines on such a large scale would certainly be advanced enough to bring doctors with them. And do they expect us to believe that these invaders would not have conducted research on this exact subject? Right.

On top of this, it was pretty cheesy when the son walked out of the house. Typical generic Hollywood garbage. Just how the hell did he survive that massive explosion?

[_____V_____]

On top of this, it was pretty cheesy when the son walked out of the house. Typical generic Hollywood garbage. Just how the hell did he survive that massive explosion?

Maybe Spielberg decided to give him wings at the last moment.

Ohh wait I have a better theory. Maybe the aliens "seduced" him and decided he was better off left alive.

:D

[Posher778]

Or maybe the explosion was farther from him than you thought. Have you ever seen an explosion in real life?

How about looking at some of the positives of the movie instead of breaking it down just to be like everyone else in the thread?

I really enjoyed this movie, especially the tripods. It actually scared me a little, when the people were all trapped and getting mutilated one by one, and the veins of blood and suction stab, thing. Plus the great suspense scene in the cabin.

6.5/10

[_____V_____]

could be, but the way they showed it, the son ran forward with the military over the hill after which the explosion occurred right after he disappeared into the exact spot.

Also, nothing was said by the son in the end regarding how he survived and made it to his mother's house. So, it pretty much left the audience to "guess for themselves"??

[Posher778]

I see nothing wrong with that.

[_____V_____]

Cant expect a person like Spielberg to make glaring mistakes like that. Also, a super-advanced race of invading aliens have no idea of microbes on our planet? And from the movie's (and supposedly novel's) early plot premise, the simple ending shoulda been that the aliens won, and the humans were captured or put to death.

The ending sorta reminded me of "Independence Day" where another race of "ultra-advanced" aliens were taken out by a computer virus? Seems like these ultra advanced aliens dont do much research on a planet before attacking to capture it. How stupid of em eh!

[scouse mac]

The aliens dont have any concept of bacteria or viruses. Where they come from there is no disease or illness, there are no germs or whatever to make them aware that such things may exist on Earth.

They are so driven by their huge, malevolent intellects that at no point does it cross their mind they could be vulnerable in any way.

Read the book!

[noctuary]

Originally posted by Posher778
Or maybe the explosion was farther from him than you thought. Have you ever seen an explosion in real life?

How about looking at some of the positives of the movie instead of breaking it down just to be like everyone else in the thread?

I really enjoyed this movie, especially the tripods. It actually scared me a little, when the people were all trapped and getting mutilated one by one, and the veins of blood and suction stab, thing. Plus the great suspense scene in the cabin.

6.5/10
Settle down there. For what it's worth, I was the first person to reply to this thread at all. I stated my honest opinion about what I thought were two glaring flaws in the film. I wasn't bashing. I enjoyed the damn movie. But I'm not going to pretend that it was better than it was. So chill out.

Oh, and yes, the scene in the cabin was cool. I actually thought the aliens were kinda cute.

[crippler666]

But that was his mistake of saying they had been here before wasn't it?

If they had been here before because their mechanical tripods were here all along they would have been exposed to the bacteria in the first place.

Its setting was all wrong, even if you say it needed to move where and when the story takes place (which should have been in London 19th century).

The story was about the struggle of man and mans defeat at the hands of the alien race, not the struggle of one man and his screaming brats because they have no respect for him.

And worse of all for me is there is talk of a possible 2 more followups of this nature.

I will say that the CG was pretty good, but you have come to accept that from the blockbuster movies now.

A generous 3 / 10

[Hate_Breeder]

I thought it was a kickass movie. The van scene was pretty hardcore. I guess Cruise's previous role in Collateral gave him some "bad ass" juice for this one.

Although i dont understand how this came from the genius mind of Spielberg when it was based off of someone elses writings :o

[ballboff]

Yeah, I went to the pictures to see this, and I thought it were awesome. Not a great fan of Tom Cruise, I want to smack that disgusting smile right off his smug little face. But, apart from that I absolutely fucking loved it! My jaw was wide open for most of the film, I couldn't believe the size of those machines, and what they could do, but not only that how real they looked. Sound crashing all around me, cars flying in the air, people being disintrigrated, but unfortunately they missed cruise! Not that intelligent after all!

I think spielberg got a bit mushy towards the end, but hey, it was always gonna be tom cruise saves the day single handed! Spielberg is a huge war of the worlds fan, and I believe he has original memorabilia of the original orson wells stuff, so I think it's fair to say he did it justice as much as he could. Bit too contemporary for my liking, you're too inclined to compare it with the original when they do that.

[tarcher80]

i can't believe you guys are arguing over this.

[alkytrio666]

Originally posted by scouse mac
Read the book!

Amen. The book is excellent.

I thought the movie was ecxellent as well.

[ballboff]

Originally posted by tarcher80
i can't believe you guys are arguing over this.

Not that anybody is, but why do you say that? This is a discussion forum, this is what I'd call a discussion. One person voices their oppinion, then another exchanges that with their own and so on and so forth. etc etc all that jazz. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong, but we all have our own oppinions. I don't really take any notice of hype or what people say about films, because I will make up my own mind when I see it, or if to see it, or not. However, if a film was slated that much that nobody had a good word to say about it, then I'd rather save that hour and 30 minutes of my life watching a good movie. I find this useful, and I'm sure others do too.

[tarcher80]

you're arguing over whether a fictitious group of aliens would or would not be immune or are smart enough to anticipate the earth's bacteria.... you don't see the hilarity in that?

[urgeok]

i think how the aliens died is completely immaterial ..
h.g. wells wrote it that way

at the time it was written it would have seemed very clever and plausible.

its not like it doesnt happen here by the way ..
we can get very sick by simply drinking the water of another country on OUR planet. Its not like we dont have Drs.

i think that would be fuel enough for Wells' imagination back in the day.

as i've said on a couple of occasions .. this movie was full of effective moments and only really failed at the end.

(the brother surviving for a feelfood hollywood ending) and the bullshit 'carry the child up the street' sequence which was so obviously for dramatic effect alone that it was rediculous.

its a pity someone just doesnt film the book proper. I think JAckson should redo the damn thing.

[ballboff]

The thing is, I think wells was trying to empasize on the fact that although they were intelligent enough to fly to another planet, they had overlooked the most basic faculty with their greed to take over another planet.

[urgeok]

could very well be ..