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War Of The Worlds (pg. 5)
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| chojin |
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 against them makes for a complete lack of fighting, totally one sided.
....as i said, watchable at best. |
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| kutvolkots |
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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| RickyM |
| So why exactly couldn't they live on earth, I watched it last night, very good film, but they didn't tell us why they could't live on earth...was it somethin to do with water or some small organism? |
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| kutvolkots |
| Of course they don't tell you, the story of the film is nothing if I read the facts about it, I'm not even going to bother too watch. |
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| Subey |
In order to comprehend the film you have to comprehend the approach that Spielberg is taking with it.
Looking for logic flaws in the movie is a trivial exercise because the movie is full of them. Nothing AT ALL is logical about the aliens or their invasion.
But that's not the point.
The point is, to recreate a plot from an era where the audience wasn't sophisticated enough to require a logical plot.
Why bother?
Because in doing that, what Spielberg is doing is freeing himself to construct a film which isn't limited by those constraints. And he uses that freedom to stage scenes which wouldn't be possible in a strictly "logical" story.
Thus the lesson of the movie is that as the audience becomes more and more sophisticated, there is still a place and still value to be had in setting a film in a world that isn't "logical".
And as such its up to you the audience to change your perspective with each film based on an individual films intent. |
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| Haak |
SPOILERS (not that there hasn't been plenty already in the thread)
I thought the start was great, but then it went to .
Just a few things that annoyed me:
If the damn aliens planned the attack millions of years ago, before there were people here, why the hell didn't they just take the planet when they were here digging down the tripod things?
The endless scene in Tim Robbins' basement. If the aliens were that advanced, couldn't they have made a search thingy that wasn't really stupid? And then Tom Cruise just killed Tim Robbins? Just cause he was getting a little weird?
When they were captured and in the cages on the tripod, they couldn't give a crap when the first guy was sucked into the thing. But when it tried to suck in Tom Cruise, EVERYBODY jumped to save him.
The ending. Praise the Lord. Well, god must have created those aliens too, right? Was the point of it all to reduce the population?
Oh, and why do aliens always have to look like that? It's ok that they weren't scary-looking (they looked like those cute little monkeys). But they are always really slimey. And their ships looked stupid too.
Enough crap from me |
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| chojin |
| quote: | Originally posted by Haak
If the damn aliens planned the attack millions of years ago, before there were people here, why the hell didn't they just take the planet when they were here digging down the tripod things?
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i might be wrong
but if they used the humans as fertilizer...they had to wait for there to be a good amount of humans surely. |
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| TigerClaw |
| I thought this was the best alien invasion film ever made, It's not all about seeing the goverment officials reacting to the situation, But watching from the point of an average citizen, If this were to happen right in your backyard, Your first instinct is to run like hell and find a safe spot. The film also had these halocaust like elements where ordinary people become savages to try and survive, And they will do anything to stay alive, Even take someone elses life to save there own, Thats some pretty dark stuff, Stuff thats never been exploded on films until now. If such a thing were to happen, People would first think if it's the terrorist, Anyways, I loved that little joke about Europe. |
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| TigerClaw |
| So I highly recomend this movie to anyone and see it with an open mind. |
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| wienerschnitzel |
| im really naive and so my first instinct is always to believe everything i see and hear, which is a disadvantage in most cases but when it comes to movies, somewhat benificial because i am not so bloddy hard to please. I really liked this movie, in fact, i had white knuckles the whole time. I grew up with the old movie and the radio broadcast and i thought steven spielburg did a pretty good job. If you didn't like the original, your probably not going to like this one either. Apart from the previously mentioned ridiculous parts.. i also didn't understand how everyones watches and electricity and vehicles weren't working but peoples cameras and video cameras worked really well when they first started comming out of the ground. It made me laugh. |
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| TigerClaw |
| quote: | Originally posted by wienerschnitzel
im really naive and so my first instinct is always to believe everything i see and hear, which is a disadvantage in most cases but when it comes to movies, somewhat benificial because i am not so bloddy hard to please. I really liked this movie, in fact, i had white knuckles the whole time. I grew up with the old movie and the radio broadcast and i thought steven spielburg did a pretty good job. If you didn't like the original, your probably not going to like this one either. Apart from the previously mentioned ridiculous parts.. i also didn't understand how everyones watches and electricity and vehicles weren't working but peoples cameras and video cameras worked really well when they first started comming out of the ground. It made me laugh. |
Not all electrical devices were exposed outside when it happens, If you have a video camera stashed into one of those camera bags, It will not be affected since it was never outside when the EMP acured. |
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| gouuryella |
| just came from the theaters a while ago, i thought it was a great movie. oh yeah and one of the street names in the movie was Van Buuren :D |
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