War of the Worlds

[sataneatscheezwhiz]

I saw it on Sunday, and although the reviews have been mixed (I don't like Roger Ebert anymore...), I really liked the movie. My pick for second-best drama of the year behind Crash. Sure there are a few plotholes and the ending is abrupt, but it's a pretty good movie. I'd reccomend it to my friends, so thus I disseminate my opinion amongst you all. What'd you guys think about WotW?

[WelcomeFoolishMortals999]

I saw it on Sunday, and although the reviews have been mixed (I don't like Roger Ebert anymore...), I really liked the movie. My pick for second-best drama of the year behind Crash. Sure there are a few plotholes and the ending is abrupt, but it's a pretty good movie. I'd reccomend it to my friends, so thus I disseminate my opinion amongst you all. What'd you guys think about WotW?
I can't wait to see it.

[Mickey Man]

Ya I wanna see it. maybe sometime this week. I heard the ending really came out a nowhere though.

[disneylover]

I liked it. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the movie. I didn't think much about the ending until you guys mentioned it. I guess it was a little abrubt. Oh well, I was entertained, and walked out of the theater glad I spent my 8 bucks to get in. The effects were pretty darn good, and I like how they filmed the crowd scenes, especially the mob mentality ones. I thought the acting was pretty good too, I really believed that they were scared out of their minds. I'm not a great judge of acting, but they made me believe that was really happening. Overall good movie IMHO.

[GreenLantern13]

I was very entertained during it. The ending was sudden but purposeful.

It's sad that yet again in a movie the weakest points are the new stuff they thought up to add to it in comparison to what's out of H.G. Wells' original. All of the complaints in this rant I'm about to take part in are additions they made that really were silly to me.

Things like the son's big dramatic moment they shove in. "i have to go! i have to see this." basically why won't you let me go die dad why why? uhhh who the hell is this kid :P he wasn't even interested in fighting back at that point he just wanted to...see aliens blowing humans up? they lost me :P And how in the heck did that Boston housing area they were in happen to be perfectly fine. That's one lucky block.

And why would an alien civilization plant machines underground way back in the past just to wait for our civilization to build up so they can study us and take over instead of just taking over to begin with...

Finally, I liked HG Wells' idea of what the aliens would look like a lot more. They weren't spider wall clingers that looked like every other alien you've ever seen in a sci fi movie. The whole evolution he describes and the similarities he draws to where we're headed were nicer I thought.

[KIX]

I saw it yesterday. First the movie was weird to me because I never knew there was another movie made. As I was watching it, I got into it. I'm not a big fan of watching human pain so every time someone screamed and other stuff, I just cringed but I could not take my eyes off the screen. It was also the second movie that I saw that starred Tom Cruise (the other was Top Gun). I do to also think the ending was abrupt. But other than that...good movie. I believe it's worth the 8 bucks.

[that_L_do_pig]

I am torn - I want to see it because it is a Spielberg and I enjoy the original radioplay but I cannot because Tom Cruise is an id10t.

[disneylover]

^Yes he is, but that does not affect the movie- I thought the same thing about Cruise being in it, but you forget about all that stuff when the movie starts. You're pretty much sucked into the movie from the very beginning. He does a good job:wink:

[sataneatscheezwhiz]

^I agree. Sitting in the theater before the movie started, I had three words running through my mind: "Katie Holmes, Scientology." Those three never, and i mean never, even entered my mind the movie. I have steadily lost respect for Tom Cruise given his movies since...uh...Top Gun. Was he in Jerry Maguire? Whichever one since then.

[disneylover]

Yep he was in Jerry McGuire.

[Mickey Man]

I like Tom Cruise in the movies. (no clue what he's like outside them), but he doesnt seem like a bad guy to me. I like the mission impossibles he was in, I really liked Top Gun, and the Last Samurai is in my top ten of movies.

[Wendy Darling]

I've heard many mixed coments about that movie, but I still really want to judge it for myself...I just don't know, should I go and see it in the theaters or wait till it comes out on video? Is it a movie that has to be seen in the theaters to be great, or would it be great anywhere?

[Mickey Man]

I havent seen it yet but I would think that it is better in theatres. Its got explosions and a lot of action that in all movies is way better in theatres cause you got the big screens and loud sound.

[disneyfreak59]

i really really want to see it! i saw the oldschool version its pretty sweet...but i expect the new version to have better effects

[KIX]

I've heard many mixed coments about that movie, but I still really want to judge it for myself...I just don't know, should I go and see it in the theaters or wait till it comes out on video? Is it a movie that has to be seen in the theaters to be great, or would it be great anywhere?

After watching it, I don't think I can get the same affect I had in the theateres if I watch it at home. But I do own a 13 inch screen television that I've had since I was 6. So unless you own a huge TV with surround sound, it wouldn't hurt to go check it out at the movies.

[that_L_do_pig]

(no clue what he's like outside them),

If you want to have a clue see www.clambake.org - Among other things, the first article under 'WHAT IS GOING ON NOW?'

If you don't, no worries...

I just prefer to be judicious as to who gets my entertainment dollar, eg this web site and what it is dedicated to...

[sataneatscheezwhiz]

War of the Worlds deserves to be seen in theaters, IMO. It's just so intense you have to experience it that way first.

[Wendy Darling]

I took the advise I was getting and went to see it in theaters today...it was so cool. We were literally the only people in the theater, and I am so happy that I didn't wait to see it at home...Thanks alot for telling me to see it in theaters...everyone is right, it wouldn't have been as great seeing it at home for the first time.

[Dr.Phibes02]

Just saw it, and must say it was a special effects movie that did justice to description of the martians in H.G. Well's novel (and that horrible ending) but really lacked the essence that made the novel so great. A good portion of the movie is pure destruction (which is cool to a certain degree) but wasn't so true to the characters. It was a good movie but could have been way better.

[DaddyB]

First off, Tom Cruise is excellent in this movie. He has a very realistic dramatic portrayal of a weekend Dad who is pretty much just stumbling through life not really thinking about being a dad... until this horrific thing happens right in front of him and he just has no way to cope with what he has seen, heard, and felt... and yet must someone get his children to safety. The Peanut Butter kitchen scene was just SO good. You completely forget about the whole scientology thing when the movie starts.

The next thing I want to say is that I was dissapointed that they didn't start the movie off like the novel. The beginning is much creapier... but this way gets tha action going much faster.

Third, it's a Stephen Spielberg film. You KNOW it's going to be good. It's like knowing that a Michael Bay action film is going to be good, or Bruckheimer... chances are really slim that the movie is going to be a turkey. I think the only reason you may have read any truly negative reviews of the movie is because of the whole Tom Cruise / Katy Holmes / Scientology thing. It's all publicity and some people just wanted a chance to hurt him because they were sick of the publicity.

Finally, the ending is H.G. Wells' ending. It may seem a little simplistic now, but back then it was VERY forward thinking. I don't see how they could have not kept the ending and still called the movie "War Of The Worlds". It may as well have been "Independance Day II" without that ending.

oh... I too was disappointed that the aliens looked so much like, um, "Alien". That design has been around for 30 years now. I'd rather have seen a new design, or at least follow H.G. Wells' description.

But for the record, I've seen the movie twice now, and other than for a couple minutes in the cellar, I was still riveted the second time.

[Zip~a~dee~doo~dah]

Awsome movie. But those laser vaporizers definately freaked me out. They were just so.... *shiver*. Yikes. The aliens reminded me a bit of those in Independance Day. But watching the aliens do their thing really made me want the human's revenge to be big and... avenging. Seeing the alien evil-ness made the part where Cruise uses those grenades even better.


The fact that chaos reins and people lose all reason after the attack is kinda depressing.

[GreenLantern13]

See now... in the book those were heat rays. I'm not sure what they were in the movie. I guess they were like Duck Dodgers' disintegration rays. But why is it those rays instantly vaporize people but not their clothes? And not cars, cars they just forcefully shove. And buildings they shoot right through. But people...vaporized :P

[AlexLoup]

Might i remind you all that this is Speilberg(spelled wrong). Form what I get unless it's a war movie he doesn't like to show dead bodies in mass, plus the fact that some people drag their kids to go see a movie like this. Do you think a four year old will enjoy a movie with bodies everywhere.

(My friends and I went and saw RE: Apocolypse, and it was a midnight showing. Adluts had little children in there and the kids were crying throughout the whole movie)

[DaddyB]

Might i remind you all that this is Speilberg(spelled wrong). Form what I get unless it's a war movie he doesn't like to show dead bodies in mass, plus the fact that some people drag their kids to go see a movie like this. Do you think a four year old will enjoy a movie with bodies everywhere.

(My friends and I went and saw RE: Apocolypse, and it was a midnight showing. Adluts had little children in there and the kids were crying throughout the whole movie)Yes, I quite admire Speilberg's holding back... considering that his & Lucas' "Raiders II" was the main impetus for the Pg-13 label being created (because of it's intensity) it's nice to see at least SOME restraint on his part. Amazing what parenthood does to a guy.

There was a small child with an adult in the theater the second time I saw it. Couldn't have been more than 5. I thought that was pretty young, but I admit that most parents raise their children differently than my wife and I do. Heck, my 5 year old still won't go on "Peter Pan" and we wouldn't even think to let her on/in HM or PotC. It's not that it makes us better parents, it's just we try to raise our girls to be as gentle as the world will allow. There's will be plenty of time for "Nightmare on Elm Street 20" later, just not before she's 15.

I would be quite upset to see a child at any showing of Apocalypse Now, Redux, or whatever... it's just simply not appropriate to my way of thinking.

[AlexLoup]

Agreed, and to those who don't know, RE stands for Resident Evil, a very good game series with zombies and what have you, and decent movies (Apocalypse was better than the frist)

[GreenLantern13]

I just can't escape the little kids sitting behind me. War of the Worlds, Resident Evil, doesn't matter. I remember when E.T. was rereleased I even went to the latest showing possible on a school night and still had them running back and forth across the front of the theater chasing each other during the film.

[AlexLoup]

Kinda makes you wonder if the parents are asleep since it is a late showing, I had that trouble with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

[that_L_do_pig]

Kinda makes you wonder if the parents are asleep since it is a late showing, I had that trouble with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

There is a type of parent that brings their children to adult movies that the parent wants to see and the children are there, best case, to sit and be quiet or worst case, be inadvertantly traumatized by what is on the screen.

(not that Harry Potter is an adult movie)