War of the Worlds.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by mm
oh, i thought maybe your timid attempts at humor killed them

/shrug

You can\'t find it funny coz it\'s about you. Besides....

...a picture of your mother chased them away.

ahh, the scorned child act.
not as good as souly, tho

pathetic if you think you\'ll get a rise out of me, kid

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[sp] The aliens do indeed die in the same fashion. It has points of the movie that relate to the original.[/sp]


and gman, i saw it because i\'ve seen the original and wanted to see how it compares.

meh, i\'ll catch it at the cheap theatre in a few weeks then

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by mm
ahh, the scorned child act.
not as good as souly, tho

pathetic if you think you\'ll get a rise out of me, kid

Heh...you\'re alone. Make love to your computer.

BTW...you guys should listen to the radio version of War of the Worlds.

[MPTheory]

Originally posted by GmanJoe
Heh...you\'re alone. Make love to your computer.

BTW...you guys should listen to the radio version of War of the Worlds.

did that a looong time ago.  Loved the orgional.  Did you know that when people were listening to the radio performance, they actually thought it was really happening?  Kind of an interesting fact.

[Evi]

That shows you how stupid people were back then.

[GmanJoe]

Originally posted by EviscerationX
That shows you how stupid people were back then.

They made the announcement it was just a story just before the radio show started. However, there was no commerical breaks or anything. Some people panicked, most weren\'t sure.

[nO-One]

possible spoilers and whatnot

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[sp]the man in the beginning must have a magic camcorder because it worked pretty well after the emp.

First tripod emerging in all it\'s glory and wrecking the place was awesome and were the reason the movie was good.
Having them pick up people and putting them in basket was not and ruined them for me.

I would have watched a two hour movie with just a tripid stomping a city.

The tenticle eye was stupid, weaving through the house like that, what\'s the point blow it up and leave.
The aliens taking a break and checking out the house then going back to work when the horn sounded was good.
This red goo was not good, they breathed air and talked to each other yet the tripods were filled with liquid.

all in all the movie was ok[/sp]

Evi says: GOOD GAWD. IF YOU HAVEN\'T FIGURED OUT HOW TO USE SPOILER TAGS BY NOW YOU HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY!! :thumb:

*no-one\'s response*
pffft if you don\'t want spoilers stay of the internet

Originally posted by nO-One
nO-Ones damn spoiler post.

for the love of god black that crap out next time, I almost read it.

saw it and I really enjoyed it.. I didn\'t know a thing about the story going into it.  I\'ll have to read the book and maybe find the original radio show.

[Evi]

This was a fantastic movie. Lots of human emotion and whatnot. Dakota Fanning is the best child actor ever. Great movie, great effects. Just great.

This film Rocks & Rolls.  Very nicely done, and far exceeded my expectations.  

[sp]The part about the war machines being buried in the past and activated by aliens arriving through lightning bursts did not bother me.  I thought it was an interesting and original idea.  The machines were not necessarily buried "before humans existed" as one of the characters in the movie stated.  That was merely his uninformed theory.  It\'s quite possible that they were buried only a few hundred years ago, before humans inhabitated those landing sites.  Given the time required to cross interstellar distances, and the alternate timescale / lifespan of an alien species, this might be quite reasonable.  This movie did NOT specify that they came from Mars, as H.G. Wells wrote.

I appreciated that Spielberg did not pull many punches in displaying the killing potential of the alien\'s weapons.  Not much "dumbing it down" for the kiddies.  This was rated PG-13, and he put in as much violence as he could get away with.  I also liked the way he made the aliens no-so-scary looking when they are seen crawling around the cellar.  It would have been too obvious and boring to make them look like big scary hideous monsters.  That would have been the cheap way out, ala "Indepencence Day" which was complete trash.  These aliens have almost friendly looking faces.  All the more terrifying when you realize they have no sympathy or remorse for slaughtering our species.[/sp]

I really liked the movie, and I thought the ending was superb.

Blah. What another piece of rehashed Hollywood trash. Aside from special effects there was nothing here. The characters were flat. Tom Cruise is an absolutely terrible actor. Spielberg just took Jurassic Park scenes and used aliens instead of dinosaurs in their place. Tom Cruise is a terrible actor. The ending was the so sudden and so unexplained that when I saw it in the theater the crowd went, "Whaaaat?"

Oh, and did I mention Tom Cruise sucks at acting?