War of the Worlds

[Assassin]

are u on crack?

independance day was the biggest piece of crap ever. it wouldve been some what deent if it wasnt so cheesy.

war of the worlds is a piece of art. most of you dont seem to get that. its not suppsoed to be a independance day type "humans vs aliens" movie. pay attention to how the movie starts and ends: by talking about life.

the point of it was to show that all life comes to an end, and even the mighty alien invaders arent gods, with an immunity to death.

and for the record, all movies have some "big gossip headline guy" as a lead actor. thats why they're called stars. becasue the who world knows then and talks about them. do u expect them to come to ur house and ask u to star in a big hollywood production instead?

[Lefty]

Originally posted by: Assassin
are u on crack?

independance day was the biggest piece of crap ever. it wouldve been some what deent if it wasnt so cheesy.

war of the worlds is a piece of art. most of you dont seem to get that. its not suppsoed to be a independance day type "humans vs aliens" movie. pay attention to how the movie starts and ends: by talking about life.

the point of it was to show that all life comes to an end, and even the mighty alien invaders arent gods, with an immunity to death.

finaly someone else that hates independence day. Yes I do agree with you on that war of the worlds is more artistic in it's redition of humanity falling apart in a great time of stress adn perill which was shown very acuratly with van being covered by desperte and fearfull people.

[kAi]

I think you people were dropped on your heads at birth for liking this.

...but it's still a piece of fucking shit. The good scenes in this movie can't pick it up on a whole.

[SK]

it was so good im thinkin wow this movie was actually good. then came the ending, jesus that was weak, it was about on par with the ending in signs. these aliens who have been studying the planet for millions of years didnt test the atmosphere and know about the millions of viruses and bacterias? retarted.

[intense]

so it was the atmosphere that killed them?
i always thought it was the birds taking a crap on them hahaha.. i kid i kid.
but seriously, i still dont know how they died....
im still reading the book, im on like the 6th chapter now, havent ha dmuch time to read it though... hopefully soontimes so i can get the story.

[darkshadow]

they died of our bacteria and micro organisms, sure man has adapted to them since creation and over time, but there was no way these aliens cell structure was gonna be able to withstand them, so if they stayed in their tripods without doing the bloodthing or coming out, they would've survived prolly.............somehow

[Mut]

This movie sounds as dumb as the aliens from Signs dying from water.

[Lefty]

Pretty damn close. All the destruction and mayhem that follow the arival of the aliens is bad ass but past that it kinda get old fast.

[Xollence]

Yeah I agree with you on Independence Day, but War of the World wasn't that great either, it was overhyped.

[Tinks]

This is the best Sci Fi movie we've had in years, hands down
The only thing you could even remotely complain about is Robbie living and that single block in Boston being just fine
Everything else was executed exceedingly well, acting was believable especially the little girl, and the movie was all around intense
I havent seen any justifiable reasons posted behind saying "its bad" that should make anyone think otherwise

Go see Batman instead? Hey guys, how about this for a flaw... How is it a microwave machine that turns all water to gas not turning the water within people to gas since we are made up of over 80 percent water? Technically Batman and everyone else should have exploded considering the microwaves could easily go through anything.

[Raven]

Yes I'm bumping this thread from the second page, because I just got back from seeing this movie. What a crock of shit!

It had so many "WTF? Bullshit!" moments, cliches, cheesy lines, pathetic attempts at character development, etc. I found myself wanting everyone to die, especially the girl. Oh God, the girl. One second she's all mature speaking like an adult, the next second she's throwing a tantrum like a toddler. And the son surviving! Aaargh. And as if he'd go to the battle, let alone able to actually get in (considering the soldiers were sending everyone away). What, did he think they'd give him a gun and let him fight or something?

Another example of the crapness; why did the aliens spend half an hour thoroughly searching that one house? JUST NUKE IT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE! Oh, and the ending. Worst. Ending. Ever. The untouched, deserted street, with a perfect house holding the family that looks like they've all just stepped out of a beauty parlour.

I can't believe anyone can call this "art" or a masterpiece. Crappest movie I've seen since Electra. My brain hurts. ;_;

[Assassin]

die!

[Freki]

Glad to see other people found this movie terrible. Also about the EMP only knocking out things that are on, if that was the case Cruise would not have had the only working car, so even if that is really the case, in the movie the EMP knocked out everything regardless so the camcorder shouldn't have worked but hey why let common sense get in the way of a good shot of filming the camcorder filming the mayhem. The little girl was annoying. The aliens planned their attack for millions of years and watched the planet enough to become jealous of people but were totally oblivious to the fact that disease exists on the planet? Even if disease explains how the aliens died, why did their shields stop working it seems that the dieases would take the aliens not their machines. Also the fact that this story was really just about how it took the end of the world for tom cruise's character to become a good dad was pretty boring.(so good a dad that he left his son to walk into certain death by wall of fire, nevermind the fact that he lived) Also the plane that crashed in that neighborhood took out everything except their stupid van. I hated this movie so much and these are just a few of the reasons why. I would say it was the worst i saw this summer but I saw Star Wars 3 and Kingdom of Heaven this summer too. Oh and the thing i wanted to see most, Tim Robbins bludgened to death was done off screen with that damn kid singing.

[Mut]

Originally posted by: CmDr_RavEn
Crappest movie I've seen since Electra.

Hahaha, you actually saw Electra.

[Raven]

Originally posted by: Mut@chi

Originally posted by: CmDr_RavEn
Crappest movie I've seen since Electra.

Hahaha, you actually saw Electra.

Unfortunately, yes. My IQ dropped 30 points in the process.

Giving me an even 150. *cough*

[Tinks]

Originally posted by: Freki
Glad to see other people found this movie terrible. Also about the EMP only knocking out things that are on, if that was the case Cruise would not have had the only working car, so even if that is really the case, in the movie the EMP knocked out everything regardless so the camcorder shouldn't have worked but hey why let common sense get in the way of a good shot of filming the camcorder filming the mayhem. The little girl was annoying. The aliens planned their attack for millions of years and watched the planet enough to become jealous of people but were totally oblivious to the fact that disease exists on the planet? Even if disease explains how the aliens died, why did their shields stop working it seems that the dieases would take the aliens not their machines. Also the fact that this story was really just about how it took the end of the world for tom cruise's character to become a good dad was pretty boring.(so good a dad that he left his son to walk into certain death by wall of fire, nevermind the fact that he lived) Also the plane that crashed in that neighborhood took out everything except their stupid van. I hated this movie so much and these are just a few of the reasons why. I would say it was the worst i saw this summer but I saw Star Wars 3 and Kingdom of Heaven this summer too. Oh and the thing i wanted to see most, Tim Robbins bludgened to death was done off screen with that damn kid singing.

Go read the book

[XanBcoo]

Originally posted by: Freki
Also the fact that this story was really just about how it took the end of the world for tom cruise's character to become a good dad was pretty boring.(so good a dad that he left his son to walk into certain death by wall of fire, nevermind the fact that he lived).

I'd say the movie was more like assassin said: about life coming to an end, human nature in the face of danger, etc etc.
You have your opinion, but I liked the Father/Son relationship part of the story in this movie. Tom Cruise's character came out in the end a much better person than when he started. I thought it was cool.

And (this is debatable) I think that letting Robbie go off was not bad parenting at all. It was more like he was letting his son go (to use the cliche - he let him "leave the nest"), to go off and live his life, become a man at the end of days, blah blah blah. Cruise realized that he couldn't contain his son as he had been trying to, and allowed him make his own decisions. Yeah, it was unfortunate that Robbie "died' the next instant...but shit happens.

[Freki]

I don't care if it is like that because of the book, I still disliked those aspects of the movie and the fact that any of them were in the book really isn't gonna make me suddenly like those aspects of the movie, just dislike the book. The father/son part was him being a jerk and the kid hating him, and because the kid had no faith in his father he took off. Prolly the most annoying thing is the fact that this movie prolly didn't even need to show the aliens tripods and it woulda been same thing. They coulda just alluded to the attack and showed aftermath and nothing would have really changed except tom cruise wouldn't have had to detroy one or have the giant hide and seek session in the house, if it was advertised this way it would be one thing but the commercials are all about the aliens and getting to the theater for what I saw was a major let down just because of that.. I was told to "Prepare for the event that would change my world"...was that tom cruise becoming a good dad was that the event?