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Posted by LiGHT78 on Jun-30-2005 04:54:

War Of The Worlds

Who saw this movie tonight???

I thought it was absolutely amazing!! The effects were mind boggling. Spielberg really is a master, his work in this movie was brilliant imo!

Only thing that bugged me was the end! I thought that was pretty lame! Because of the end, I don't think I'd be able to watch this movie again...I was at the edge of my seat in all the suspense scenes...When the thing is looking for them in Tim Robbins' house... insane...But knowing the end, I could never have that feeling again, it definately wouldn't be as intense.

Fuckin AWESOME movie though!

Posted by Zenchowdah on Jun-30-2005 05:00:

Re: War Of The Worlds

quote:
Originally posted by LiGHT78
Who saw this movie tonight???

I thought it was absolutely amazing!! The effects were mind boggling. Spielberg really is a master, his work in this movie was brilliant imo!

Only thing that bugged me was the end! I thought that was pretty lame! Because of the end, I don't think I'd be able to watch this movie again...I was at the edge of my seat in all the suspense scenes...When the thing is looking for them in Tim Robbins' house... insane...But knowing the end, I could never have that feeling again, it definately wouldn't be as intense.

Fuckin AWESOME movie though!

same as the book, i imagine.

Posted by malek on Jun-30-2005 05:48:

Re: War Of The Worlds

Posted by DJ_Buddha on Jun-30-2005 05:49:

Yeaaa I so freakin' agree with you. If the movie would've stopped 15 mins before it ended, before they went to Boston, man, it woulda been one of my top fave alien sci-fi's... but whack the HECK! I think you're right... I want to see it again, but that ending is just, ahhh!!! Man, lol, everything you said is so true! I was on the edge of my seat too, so tense... all I wanted to do is find out how the heck they're gunna kill them, what they're gunna do! When he gets on that hill near the end, I'm like, holy hell, the world is fuckin' dead, how are they gunna bring it back and save themselves...?!? but then that crappy ending came along bah... anyway!!

I'll have a good quality review up on my website soon, and I'll post the link here soon enough, so check that!

Posted by wwu.punisher on Jun-30-2005 05:49:

Tom Cruise is a nutball.

The movie ruined the book.

Thanks.

Posted by apostrophe on Jun-30-2005 05:53:

quote:
Originally posted by wwu.punisher
Tom Cruise is a nutball.

The movie ruined the book.

Thanks.

I am so worried that this happened with the movie. Hey, look at the track record for books made into movies? 99% suck!

So yerr. It's no good eh?

Posted by DJ_Buddha on Jun-30-2005 05:53:

lol.. never read the book, so i can't say... but I thnk Tom Cruise did an amazing job acting... you hated him (for being such a careless jackass to the kids) but then you loved him for being so brave and eventually falling in such love with them (and caring for them). meh

Posted by Tranceplant on Jun-30-2005 06:07:

I'm going to download the movie and if the MPPA catches me, I'm blaming it on scientology and Tom Cruise for not taking my medication.

Posted by stren on Jun-30-2005 06:35:

quote:
Originally posted by wwu.punisher
Tom Cruise is a nutball.

The movie ruined the book.

Thanks.

probably

but i'm still gonna watch this

Posted by Tranex02 on Jun-30-2005 06:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranceplant
I'm going to download the movie and if the MPPA catches me, I'm blaming it on scientology and Tom Cruise for not taking my medication.

lmao! hope it works out for you!

I'll hopefully go see it this weekend!

Posted by malek on Jun-30-2005 07:10:

quote:
Originally posted by Tranceplant
I'm going to download the movie and if the MPPA catches me, I'm blaming it on scientology and Tom Cruise for not taking my medication.

make yourself a favor and go see it at the theatre, i cannot imagine seeing this movie on a 17" screen.

Posted by Shook1 on Jun-30-2005 07:37:

I may be the first to say but i personally thought the movie was terrible. Spielbergs worst film IMO.

There was action, yes, but there was no real story behind it. I was very disappointed.

Posted by DJ_Buddha on Jun-30-2005 08:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Shook1
I may be the first to say but i personally thought the movie was terrible. Spielbergs worst film IMO.

There was action, yes, but there was no real story behind it. I was very disappointed.

are you saying that the acclaimed novelist from the 1800's-1900's H.G. Wells can't write a good novel and that his books have no story/plot???

Posted by Geoff on Jun-30-2005 08:53:

quote:
Originally posted by Shook1
I may be the first to say but i personally thought the movie was terrible. Spielbergs worst film IMO.

There was action, yes, but there was no real story behind it. I was very disappointed.

i agree, this movie sucked ass, nothing special about it, same old crap

quote:
Originally posted by DJ_Buddha
are you saying that the acclaimed novelist from the 1800's-1900's H.G. Wells can't write a good novel and that his books have no story/plot???

we're in the 21st century... and his story has been hashed out a million times

Posted by Akridrot on Jun-30-2005 11:18:

All of this is dreadful news to me. I really wanted to see this movie, because I read the book. The thing I'm hearing the most is "The movie was absolutely awesome, nearly perfect and beautiful, but the ending SUCKED."

I hate it when a great movie has a horrible ending. What's the point of making the whole movie if you're gonna ruin it with a half-assed ending.

Posted by plastikE on Jun-30-2005 11:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Geoff

we're in the 21st century... and his story has been hashed out a million times

thank you captain obvious; however, you still didn't answer DJ Buddha's questions

Posted by Moongoose on Jun-30-2005 12:22:

Well how many things does the book have incommon with the movie anyway? I only saw the preview so ill save my bashing of the movie for after ive seen it but judging from the prewies things dont look that good.

Gah its I robot all over again, great book, terrible movie with no connection to the book at all.

Posted by DjConfessions on Jun-30-2005 15:30:

id still go and see it since i'm patriotic

Posted by jupiterone on Jun-30-2005 15:46:

i loved the movie. im going to see it again. i hate when people listen to others opinions about movies and dont go see it and judge it based on their liking. pisses the fuck out of me. and good luck watching the movie on 17 inches of monitor with 640x320 resolution. unless you find a rip from the studio or something. tom cruise did a great job acting.

Posted by Slylee on Jun-30-2005 15:48:

i did...very entertaining, but the ending was like laughable...hahaha

the part where they get to boston...i was like, "oh COME ON!"

man that Dakota Fanning is an amazing actress...it's crazy how good she is at such a young age...and boy is she gonna be a little hottie when she grows up.

Posted by jupiterone on Jun-30-2005 15:50:

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.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Jun-30-2005 16:21:

Ok, there are too many people to quote for this response. But for everyone who's already written, the movie wasn't supposed to be based on H.G Wells' book. It was a remake of the classic War of the Worlds movie from like the fifties, which in turn, was an adaptation of Orson Welles' radio program. Welles took the basic idea of Wells' book, but completely turned it around on itself. For instance, the scientific analysis presented at points in the book was of no interest to Welles, who instead decided to focus on the human interest stories, etc, as well as more mass-confusion as to what the things were/why they were here/how many there were/etc.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Jun-30-2005 16:22:

Oh, and I thought it was very good, though fell apart if you poked too hard at it. Most notably, where did the news van come from, and why was it in working condition, as well as how was their van spared the destruction outside?

Posted by DjConfessions on Jun-30-2005 16:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Most notably, where did the news van come from, and why was it in working condition, as well as how was their van spared the destruction outside?

was it CG?

Posted by Geoff on Jun-30-2005 17:17:

quote:
Originally posted by plastikE
thank you captain obvious; however, you still didn't answer DJ Buddha's questions

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

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