War of the Worlds.

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Personally, I\'ve always found the ending weak. If you\'re going to take over a world, surely with all the advanced technologies you have you\'d have defenses against simple bacteria’s. I doubt we\'d go to another planet without being in Air tight machines and be using protective air tight suits of some type.

imo...

but since it happened in a movie and not in real life

The original novel was published in 1898, when these ideas about interplanetary space travel and alien vulnurability to microscopic pathogens were very new to most people.  All the subsequent retellings of the story have retained the ending out of nostalgia and deference to Mr. Wells.

I did appreciate the scene from this film showing the first tripod emerging from the crater, but I must admit that the original scene from the novel is rather cool in a different way.  The hatch slowly unscrewing from the cylinder, and the first human peace envoys getting cut down by a death ray were pretty memorable.  Those scenes have also become classics in sci fi story telling that have been expanded and reworked in numerous other books and movies.

[GmanJoe]

Loved the movie. Thunderous affects, Tom Cruise looked scared shitless, Dakota Fanning will win best actress, Tim Robbins stole the show for what little time he had, and I agree....they should not have shown the aliens. Should have followed the same formula like the old movie...the alien hand reaching out....turning white.

Microbes will always get the best of us. No matter how advance we are.

To jump in briefly: I enjoyed the movie, plain and simple. The aliens were kinda cute lookin though. Not too scary (though that might not have been the point). It would have been a good route if they didnt show the aliens really (sort of like signs though they ended up showing them), but the "tripods" alone were barely enough for me so i didnt mind the aliens being in there.

My uncle and my mother didnt really dig it too much. They much prefer the older version. They are open to the new movies, but this one they said didnt grab them as much.  

Meh.

Good flick.

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

I thought he did ok.

I liked it.

*** out of **** stars



I\'ve seen the original movie,  so I wanted to see how it was updated,  so I checked it out

[sp]What was thewhole point of the clouds changing color?  Was there a mother ship?  and what was with the wind?  Made no since to me,  the way they landed in the original movie made more since

It was obvi]ous from the get go the director was aiming for the realistic look,  aka Signs,  which Ihated,  you didnt get to see what the military was planning and doing like the original which sucked,  but was done to keep a realistic look,  because if you were one guy you wouldnt know anything that was happening which is suppose to be scarier,  but isnt as fun as seeing them get nuked like the original

That girl actor was so corny and annoying I shared Tom\'s line when he told her to "BE QUIET"  I hatewhoever started this pale blonde head girl with big eyes thing inmovies,  they are suppose to be scary or something,  I could live without this,  believe me

Ending was too sudden,  not that the way it ends was bad,  but it happened too quick,   you dont end a movie about world invasion in 5 minutes,  even if their death was quick,  it could have been at least more dramatic like the original,  where the main guys is about to get vaporized but they die just before they get him

The director did a nice job of updating this movie,  not as good as the original,  but nice

Independence day was better[/sp]

Oh and I remember someone posting a  quote that staed these aliens looked better than Independence day aliens,  lol,  when I watched this movie I thought theylooked identical

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Independence day was better????  WTF ARE YOU SMOKING.


ohh and the girls name is dakota fanning. She is indeed annoying. Pretty much any movie with a small girl these days has her in the starring role.

I think what alliswell is trying to say is: if the independence day aliens fought the war of the world aliens, indipendence day aliens would win.

I\'ve seen better movies than Independence Day sinking to the bottom of my toilet bowl.

[GmanJoe]

ID4 was a fun movie if you check your brain at the door. But even fiction has a set of rules to follow....no way an iBook can crash the deflector shield program of the whole fleet of space.

Everyone knows that only MS Windows can manage to create that disaster.

I think its a great movie, much much better then ID4.

I thought it was a good flick and made you think a bit. ID4 was good too, but not as good as War of the Worlds.

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Originally posted by alliswell
*** out of **** stars



I\'ve seen the original movie,  so I wanted to see how it was updated,  so I checked it out

[sp]What was thewhole point of the clouds changing color?  Was there a mother ship?  and what was with the wind?  Made no since to me,  the way they landed in the original movie made more since

It was obvi]ous from the get go the director was aiming for the realistic look,  aka Signs,  which Ihated,  you didnt get to see what the military was planning and doing like the original which sucked,  but was done to keep a realistic look,  because if you were one guy you wouldnt know anything that was happening which is suppose to be scarier,  but isnt as fun as seeing them get nuked like the original

That girl actor was so corny and annoying I shared Tom\'s line when he told her to "BE QUIET"  I hatewhoever started this pale blonde head girl with big eyes thing inmovies,  they are suppose to be scary or something,  I could live without this,  believe me

Ending was too sudden,  not that the way it ends was bad,  but it happened too quick,   you dont end a movie about world invasion in 5 minutes,  even if their death was quick,  it could have been at least more dramatic like the original,  where the main guys is about to get vaporized but they die just before they get him

The director did a nice job of updating this movie,  not as good as the original,  but nice

Independence day was better[/sp]

Oh and I remember someone posting a  quote that staed these aliens looked better than Independence day aliens,  lol,  when I watched this movie I thought theylooked identical

If you don\'t understand some of those "spoilers" you list, you\'re a damn idiot, who doesn\'t need to watch Spongebob  , Squarepants never the less this movie...

Oh and Dakota Fanning is a great child actress. Not "actor", that\'s a guy.