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Originally posted by jupiterone Yea she is a VERY good actress, and it pissed me off how so many huge cities were demolished and little ol' boston is fine. and they are inside their homes drinking their cups of tea in red sox mugs*not like they were but probably*. thats the only thing i didnt like. the ending made me MAD.

HAHAH i didn't wanna say anything but yea, that's what annoyed me too...it was so dumb how they all came out perfectly groomed with their house in tact like, "oh hi dear ur just in time for the pot roast i've been making while the rest of the upper east coast has been under attack by giant robotic aliens"

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Originally posted by Geoff oh sorry, didn't realize I had to spell it out for u wasn't saying that HG Wells is a bad story/plot writer but that this kind of story has been done to death by now

this is true, but that doesn't make the movie any less entertaining if you ask me. yea, the plot was a lot like M. Knight Shamanandadaldjaldja's "Signs", but like i said, the special effects were ridiculous and it had decent acting.


by the way, who was the son of tom cruise? total hottie...

nou: See you just proved someone elses post. Lets read what another person has to say and follow it.

Just watch the damn movie and make your own decision instead of being a idiot

This movie was entertaining and detailwise quite loyal to the novel (partly), even more than the 1953 movie version was (from where Richard Burton's speech has been sampled in several tracks) and the version which i still prefer after the novel. I want to see the other new War of The Worlds movies too, that are coming out this year. They are much lower budget and at least the other one is set to happen in much earlier time too.. in 19th century or something like that.

Never read the book..

I found this movie to be nothing less then amazing!!!!!!!! .. I was so tense throughout the whole movie, non-stop for 2 hrs... and for a movie to do that is has to be good. Tom Cruise acting was great I think.. it just made it seem very real..

i thought it was okay, but for some reason i was under the impression it was a 3 part movie. after reading up on it more, it doesn't seem that way.

morgan freeman as the narrator? didn't like that. i thought cruise did just fine, there was NO plot, a lot of things were not explained nor made any sense.

the book is very short, but i mean we were lookin at alien crafts 5 minutes into the movie

morgan freeman has a perfect narrator voice, what are u talking about?

well bsoton isnt fineits like demolished but its weird how the family is fine in their house at the end and the rest is destroyed. great movie though

is there some kind of underlying tone to this movie? i've only read statements here and there about special effects, but my sources close to Bahgdad are saying that it reflects on the human species growing so big to do the same the Half Life 2 Strider being are doing to them in the movie. Would earth attack another country....i mean, planet? are we destined to do that with our ideas of domination and demolition?

ok for people here who are bitching about the end. if you're so smart why don't you propose an ending in here? Because obviously humans are owned so bad that its a complete massacre and it could've ended like that.

So, all you folks out there, come with a good ending not involving a 6 parts movies (a la star crap).

Yeah I noticed the thing with their van too! After everything is destroyed, all the cars were upside down the houses torn apart, but of course they go outside and their van is in perfect working absolutely brilliant...From a filmmakers point of view, Spielberg's imagery and the moods and feelings he created were flawless, I can't remember the last time I was so into a movie!

Morgan Freeman = perfect narrator, especially for a movie like this, I don't know why someone said he sucked.

Malek: I'd never read the book or seen the other movie, so personally I was hoping they would just all die at the end! That would've been a nice, sinister ending that would've left everyone uncomfortable leaving the theater...But in Hollywood all the loose ends have to be tied so everyone's happy!

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Originally posted by LiGHT78 Yeah I noticed the thing with their van too! After everything is destroyed, all the cars were upside down the houses torn apart, but of course they go outside and their van is in perfect working absolutely brilliant...From a filmmakers point of view, Spielberg's imagery and the moods and feelings he created were flawless, I can't remember the last time I was so into a movie! Morgan Freeman = perfect narrator, especially for a movie like this, I don't know why someone said he sucked. Malek: I'd never read the book or seen the other movie, so personally I was hoping they would just all die at the end! That would've been a nice, sinister ending that would've left everyone uncomfortable leaving the theater...But in Hollywood all the loose ends have to be tied so everyone's happy!

obviously, it can't end in a massacre, its just not the type of ending people expect. What would the point of the movie be? Show people being exterminated and thats it? It can't be like that.

Yeah I guess that wouldn't have worked either...people would still be like wtf...But the way they did it wasn't much better...I was waiting for some deep meaning from Morgan Freeman when he was talking at the end.

But what did he say? No man should live or die....................in vain. or something like that...What the hell did that mean?

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Originally posted by LiGHT78 Yeah I noticed the thing with their van too! After everything is destroyed, all the cars were upside down the houses torn apart, but of course they go outside and their van is in perfect working absolutely brilliant...From a filmmakers point of view, Spielberg's imagery and the moods and feelings he created were flawless, I can't remember the last time I was so into a movie!

its not their van, earlier tom told the mechanic to try something to make it work, the mechanic said yea.

later tom comes back and steal the working van.

you haven't paid attention

Wassup guys, Just came from seeing the movie, I saw it at 2:40pm (Est) in the afternoon, I only wish there were more people in the theater, The place was partially empty with the exception of some people in there, Anyways. As for my review. Let me just say that I never read the original book, My only memories of War of The World was the 1953 movie which I have vage memories of seeing when I was young, I heard the entire 1939 radio play before, So speaking as to if this version lives up to the book, I wouldn't know since I never read it, But anyways. I'm a huge scifi fan, Since I was little. When I first saw star wars, It was the one movie that got me hooked into scifi, So in the past I seen many great scifi films that brings out the little kid in me, Anyways, The movie. In my opinion, This was the best alien invasion film I ever seen, I was a fan of ID4 when it came out, But that movie wasn't a true alien invasion film in the sense that it combine elements of disaster movies, But with aliens thrown in, This on the other hand, Is a 100% true alien invasion film, You get to see things on a personal level like anyone would if it were to happen in real life, The action was relentless from start to finish, the moment those tripods emerge, I was blown away by there apearance, When they start powering up, It sounds like a jet engine when it's started, I love the sound they make when they are calling the others, It's a very loud humming sound, Also, The sound of the heatray was awesome, It's sort of this really loud buzz, The proformances were fantastic, Tom Cruise did a fantastic job at portraying your average joe, But with a bit of a New Jersey accent, Plus, Tim Robbins, He did a an incredible job at playing someone on the brink of insanity, You can't help but feel for him for his lost, While at the same time, Become disturb at his action of wanting to fight the aliens, Even though it would be impossible, Anyways, The ending of the film was fantastic, It was said that the end of the movie would nether stray or mimmic the book, But I think it does, The aliens did die of the same things thats been plagueing humans for years. I feel as though, That there might be deleted scenes, I remember reading the cast list on someone cast as the Doomsday Guy, I can only hope that we see deleted scenes on the DVD when it comes out durring the fall season, It will be load with extras and I hope it's a two disc set as apose to a 1 disc with very little to offer, Anyways, This movie is a surround sound fans dream and, I cannot wait to own this when it comes out on DVD in a few months.

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Originally posted by malek its not their van, earlier tom told the mechanic to try something to make it work, the mechanic said yea. later tom comes back and steal the working van. you haven't paid attention

We're talking about the second time they used the van. After they crashed in the house for that first night.

The news van?..i was thinking thats what you meant. Anyways, yea itd be a dumb ending if it jsut ended in a total massacre then you would of been like...so why the fuck did i see this movie if thye jsut all died whats the point.... every movie has a morale or else it would be jsut one stupid ass movie. but it would be nice if something unexpected happened, they were all hugging then BAM!!!! the get crushed by a falling tripod thing. owned!!! Haha well thats my 10 cents, i really dont care what most people say like tom cruise is a terrible actor and the movie is terrible cause then you can ask them to go act out a better part or make a better movie, but then the genius answer of "i never said i could" would come into play.

The movie was awesome, It was 100 times better then Independence Day, Independence Day wasn't so much so an alien invasion film, I see it as a disaster movie, But with aliens in it, They don't do much in that film but bomb the cities with one blow, WOTW, You see them moving around causing major destruction, But you see it from a personal point of view, If you were in that situation, Your first reaction would be to get out of dodge and fuck everything else.

I dont think it was a bad ending...it was just so abrupt! Like one min everything was happening, you where on the edge of your seat and then suddenly oh they seem to be dead. If they had stretched it out a bit more it would of been better. But still an awsome movie and the sounds! Also the bit where they where in the basement was intense lol

This movie is a steaming pile of shit. Probably the worst movie I have seen recently.




I cannot believe how bad this movie was.

I'll go see this movie only if Tom Cruise get's abducted and raped by aliens.

Tim Robbins had better luck digging tunnels in the Shawshank Redeption

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Originally posted by Geoff i agree, this movie sucked ass, nothing special about it, same old crap we're in the 21st century... and his story has been hashed out a million times

War Of The Worlds is the original space invaders story. Everything else that has been "hashed out" is actually copying War Of The Worlds, so if you're going to hate anything, hate all the rip-offs that have been made since War Of The Worlds was written.

just got back from seeing it.

i knew what the ending would be cause i remembered it from the old film. but i found it really funny when people were walking out [my friends included] saying 'so how did they beat them :/' i thought it was laid out to the audience quite sublty [is that a word] which would take a few seconds to take in. obviously the UK public is too dense to get this and there should have been a chalk and chalkboard moment.

as for the movie, it was extremely average. which was what i was expecting. the fact that the humans cant do shit against them makes for a complete lack of fighting, totally one sided.

....as i said, watchable at best.

It le suques...

They don't even elabourate on why the aliens attack, they just do for no reason the story sucks as with all populair movies and series.

Just special effects and atmosphere. Nothing that requires you to think.

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