War of the Worlds....

    above all i loved the sounds

    the sound of the beams killing the people

    the sound before the house exploded (the part with the down plane)

    everything just sounded....alien like....dunno i think that was my favorite part

    yeah the ending was kind of....anti-climatic...but the movie was good. the back story on the aliens could have been a little more but i'm not complaining.

    **Spoilers Ahead**

    Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

    Just got back from seeing it and over all I enjoyed it, but there were several small things that spoilt it for me. My overall reason was the end (don’t shoot me), I didn’t dislike the end due to the aliens dying of infection I was already quite aware of this happening as I’ve listened to Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds probably too much. It was the fact that the son re-appeared and all it ended happily, I jokingly said to my friend a couple of minutes before the scene, that it would be un-believably cheesy if he had actually made it to Boston and be very stereotypically bad Hollywood ending, and sadly he had re-appear. I do understand that for most films even if they’re not a happy they story have to have some sort of uplifting ending, to keep average Joe happy when the film ends and he leaves the cinema. But for me, bringing Robin back into the story alive just made me cringe.

    The rest of my points for not enjoying the film as much as others have done here, will probably be seen as a bit nit-picky. But I’ll go into them anyway so I don’t seem like another person just attacking the ending.

    One of these qualms was the part near the end where Ray and Rachel were picked up and put into the cage type part of the alien machines, it made me think “Well why aren’t the aliens vaporizing the human race now like they were before the two main characters got into immediate danger?” But then again you can’t usually continue a film when you’ve killed of your main characters. The main cheesier part of this general scene, was the fact when the Alien picked up and ate the extra everyone was happy to stand by and watch him die, but as soon as Mr. Cruise is in danger everyone clubs together and saves him, which is a little bit un-believable seeing they hadn’t batted an eye lid at poor old extra #456 was being eaten alive. Overall I felt basically there were too many little minor things of a similar nature that slightly tarnished the film for me.

    Other than the qualms expressed above, a couple of other things made me slightly ‘hmm’, were that some shots seemed like they were trying to hard to be seen as classic (the bodies in the water and the clothes falling down) when they weren’t actually classic. Other things that slightly spoilt it for me and not anything poor filming wise, were my own pre-conceptions about the film due to my over listening to Jeff Wayne’s War of The Worlds and looking at the accompanying booklets far too much. I’d seen illustrations of the strider type things as half organic, half machine type creatures rather than just being spaceman in machines and the illustrated idea really appealed to me. Also the fact the red weed wasn’t the red weed of mars but made of humans as again in the musical and booklet. But then I’m also aware that this is just an interpretation of the book much like the Musical and is kind of artistic freedom.

    Not to sound like I completely hated film and to come across as an armchair critic, there was lots of things in the film I enjoyed. I did like the initial first half of the movies pace as it didn’t get into the action to soon or too late and it also wasn’t straight away “Oh my God Alien Invasion, get the rocket launcher” it had seemingly reality in a surreal situation. I also really loved how tense at some points it was and was really quite edge of your seat type affair practically when they were in the bunker with Tim Robbins character.

    Overall, although I have bitched about parts of the film, it was enjoyable and not a waste of money, the film just had more flaws than my two previous cinema trips of the last month or so watching Sin City and Batman Begins.

    SPOILERS

    It's so stupid how things like Robbie's survival can ruin this movie for people. I will never get that. Furthermore it wasn't a typical family-gets-together-again ending, they just accepted Ray as the father in the family again, nothing else changed.

    And if we really have to analyze the things you mentioned:

    Perhaps Ray was the second person to get sucked by the machine (second one that the guys there witnessed) and didn't get the idea on the first time since they were confused about what was happening.

    Some people just cling to the most trivial things when reviewing movies, like OMG, HOW COULD THE CAMERA WORK AFTER EMP!!??!?! TEH MOVIE SUCKS BALLS!!! Who the fuck cares (for those who do: EMP does not affect electronics that are off during its effect).

    The reason why such things as Robbie’s miraculous re-appearance can ruin a movie for people (although I have not pinpointed this the soul reason for ruining the movie or even that fact I thought the movie was ruined) Is that an ending is usually the part of the movie I will clearly remember afterwards and when such an unbelievable event such as Robbie being safe sound in Boston occurs, after you’ve seen him wander off into what is made out to be certain death, it’s as I sad before, cringe worthy and that’s how I left the cinema with that event from the final scenes in my head. I find claiming it’s stupid would be like saying that if a song was perfect except for the chorus which was un-listenable, and then to state it’s only a minor thing and shouldn’t make me think less of the song, would be ridiculous as it’s one of the major parts of that media much like an end to a film is.

    Also in the case of the trivial issue I raised. For me the movie had too many tiny little flaws which these added and became a larger flaw. Yes they are trivial like you said, but an attention to small details will generally improve a film quality vastly. Unless of course were talking about Commando , where it’s errors only add to masterful film it is

    ignored all the spoilers, since i didn't see it yet. My fiance doesn't want to see another "look at me, im tom cruise" movie, so i'll probably have to go alone. hehe. sounds like it was a great movie, i'll have to check it out this week then, after crunch is over.

    bruce willis

    chaingun

    rocket launcher

    aliens

    godzilla

    would be a good movie but I got even better one and it is coming from Spielbergs talented old man brain.

    "Untitled Transformers Film (2006)" source imdb.com LICK THAT YEAH!

    If you aren't hyped by that, you have never been a kid nor human being, I will say this once, if you don't like Transformers you should really look yourself in the mirror and shoot the guy you see, I once saw Megatron take Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator, Aliens, every action film made from 1910 to 2021 and Electronic Arts and he threw them in to the sun and he said the most bestest ultimate oneliner and it went something like this

    "*** ** ****** **, *****"

    If you can't read the above, that is because it is too cool and your brain would explode and at the moment your computers processor is propably burning by the possibilities of what such concentrated cool as Megatron would say and your girlfriend got pregnand by just thinking about how strong Megatron is.

    (disclaimer. don't take everything so seriously, tho the upcoming Transformers movie is going to be the best movie humankind has ever made, even if it sucks, that is how cool Transformers really are)

    Quote from GrayFox

    Actually it's from Michael Bay.

    Yeah Mr. Bay directs the new magnificent, but Spielberg is Executive Producer for reasons rumored to be that he himself wanted to direct it but couldn't because he had earlier engagements like another best movie of all time, Indy 4.

    you know what would be great.....a teenage mutant ninja turtles movie with an allstar cast and great back story

    MOTHER OF GOD GENIUS

    I totally loved it! However I agree that having the son survive was really lame, it was like they were slowly making people realize that this wasnt a happy movie the entire way through, but then just screw it up in the end, that was a bad choice. Apart from that, brilliant, Spielbergs best movie in years.

    Now I just need those sounds from the tripod horns~

    Mazy, did you read the critism from "berlinske tidende - kultur sektionen" when they reviewed the film

    IIRC it got rather bad critism (3 out of 5 stars)

    Aye silver 3 out of 6, I subscribe for Berlingske Tidende, and tbh then I almost always disagree with their main reviewers opinions. In fact, I totally disagree with all the WotW reviews Ive read

    Quote from Mazy

    Aye silver 3 out of 6, I subscribe for Berlingske Tidende, and tbh then I almost always disagree with their main reviewers opinions. In fact, I totally disagree with all the WotW reviews Ive read

    I have learned never to trust any reviews. They are just opinions and everybody has their own. Even though I'm a huge Spielberg fan I can honestly say that this movie is awesome. Even the ending.

    As for the tripod call, here you go mazzle:

    http://%7boption%7d

    I have to agree with grayfox on this, specially when they bashed fight club over here back in 1999 because some stupid psycho broke into a theater and sprayed his gun on the people watching the movie. Then society had to blame something and they blamed the movie and doom. (The guy assumed he never watched the movie and didnt even know what movie was being played on the room).

    Im looking really forward to seeing this movie, I saw the trailler and it looked pretty good!

    Never trust any reviewer since they are prettymuch bunch of snobs with their cherry and cigars. Here is Finland we have this short review program on tv called 'Projektori' they usually review movies at theaters every week, and EVERY time me and my cousin see that and it has a artsy fartsy art flick on it, they usually give it the highest reviews, once they actually said that they would have given the movie points over the scale because it was so good and it was some mexican art picture about some mother just sitting on a beach and telling stories, so they much be brain dead or they take loads of acid and watch the movies.

    So, if you have to read action movie reviews, then take the score and double it, the you are closer to the truth.

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