War of the Worlds, see it yet?
 

Okay, went and seen it over the weekend. I wil have to admit that it was an awesome movie. BUT, it's one of those movies that you shouldn't dwell upon due to the numerous holes in the plot and all. The graphics were awesome and I personally really liked the characters.

Oh, Dakota Fanning kicked everyone else's asses in performancs :D

I like the first half of the movie. Dakota is amazing. I hope she have a good agent and doesn't do a Drew Barrymore. The second half sucked major arses. The ending

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The fact that the son lived pissed me of.

I can't stand Tom Cruise and due to his recent idiotic statements about Psychiatry I refuse to support anything he is in.

That's silly. The movie isn't "The Life of Tom Cruise and to watch it you must believe as he believes". It's War of the Worlds, and he just happens to be in it. Way to hate someone for their beliefs. Maybe he thinks your statements are idiotic.

I personally really liked the movie. Dakota Fanning was great (I would scream my head off too if I were 11), and Tom Cruise was AMAZING. And the special effects? Rocked my socks. I read the book, and although it had less plotholes, seeing those aliens was...great.



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I was pissed off that the mom, stepdad, and grandparents were alive and clean, whereas Tom was dirty and had almost died several times.

Yeah how come the grandparents house& neighborhood only had leaves blowing around& no destruction as compared to the area the movie started in.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by omegamcgee
[B]That's silly. The movie isn't "The Life of Tom Cruise and to watch it you must believe as he believes". It's War of the Worlds, and he just happens to be in it. Way to hate someone for their beliefs. Maybe he thinks your statements are idiotic.





Sorry but I am entitled to my opinion, especially because I am a Mental Health Professional and people that I work with often use statements like he makes as being justification for not being in treatment.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by winneythepooh7
[B]Yes, you are entitled to your opinions. And I am entitled to say that they are silly. The movie was good, in my opinion. If you don't want to see it, that's fine. I just think you're not seeing it for all the wrong reasons. It's not any of my business, but I thought I'd give my two cents (or my 7 dollars, the price of my ticket!).

I can't stand Tom Cruise to begin with. His idiotic statements over the past few months are reason enough for me to avoid ANYTHING he is in. Don't even get me started on his "knowledge" of mental health issues and treatments.

(OT--besides, he went out with one of my sorority sisters in HS and and those stories completely ended the Tommy appeal for most of us.)

Now you know you can't just leave that dangling out there without providing some details.

In my case it's not so much that I don't want to support anything he's in, but the fact that when I saw the trailer in the theatre a few weeks ago, all I could think was "crazy, crazy, crazy" during the whole trailer. I don't want to spend $8 just to keep thinking "he's crazy" the whole time.

Okay, I can share:

Our young Tommy Mapother attended St. Xavier High School in Louisville (all boys Catholic school, back in the day all the Catholic high schools were either all boys or all girls. He's still got family in Louisville and is related to some major attorneys in town.) He briefly dated one of my sorority sisters and she wasn't too impressed. Apparently he was a shy little thing back there, religious, not very charming, and left little enough impression on her that she couldn't believe it was the same guy in Risky Business or any subsequent movies.

Even though Tom Cruise bugs me, I kinda liked the movie, especially the scary part in the cellar where the alien tentacles are chasing them. That part was GREAT!

I was a little hesitant about going to see the movie because I don't like Tom Cruise and I thought I would be sitting there the entire time thinking about how crazy he is. But I was able to get into the movie well enough that I was concentrating on the character, rather than the fact it was Tom Cruise. I love the movie up until the end. They could have worked on a little better ending.

I have 2 questions- How was the son able to live?

What caused the machines to just die? I think they explaned it at the end, but I missed it.

The aliens inside the machines were not immune to all the microscopic bugs and germs that we (ie earth creatures) have evolved to live with and tolerate

Even though I can't stand Tom Cruise I wanted to see the movie, basically because the previews looked good. Plus, Steven Speilberg is an awesome director (former Arizonian and his wife is an ADPi).


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I too thought the fact that the son lived was a little lame. I also found it extremely hard to believe that his ex-wife and her parents were safe and sound in their lovely brownstone in what, Boston (or wherever the city was). It was just a little hard to believe that they didn't end up with a scrape on them.

Go Dakota Fanning. She really rocked in the movie. I think she has a much better head on her shoulders than Drew did at her age.

I must admit I did get scared in the movie but honestly it was mostly due to the music. Had there been no music the scenes wouldn't have been as scary. Especially the part where the aliens (did they not remind y'all of the ones from Independence Day?) were in the basement. Freaky.

If People relied on our EXs to be our character witnesses . . . I am not sure anyone would like us much . . .

I don't think anyone has a problem with you not liking Tom Cruise we just wonder why it would impact your impression of a screen performance. They are seperate things.

Maybe actors, like all people, have odd personal lives when exposed to the media.

Most of our private lives would look messy under the same exposure. At least I hope so, or else y'all live some boring lives ;).

[QUOTE]Originally posted by winneythepooh7

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[i] Sorry but I am entitled to my opinion, especially because I am a Mental Health Professional and people that I work with often use statements like he makes as being justification for not being in treatment.

I saw it today & I didn't get that either AND can someone explain how that idiotic son of his escaped all of that mayhem & made it to Boston?:mad:

But, the special effects were great.
I read the book when I was in middle school (a loooong time ago :p ). I also remember my mother telling me that when it was 1st read in a radio broadcast it was so realistic that tons of frightened people panicked and called their local authority. :rolleyes: I always thought that V (harvesting humans... anyone else old enough to remember that series?) & Independence Day (esp. with the death ray) were fashioned after the book.

oh my gosh I said the same thing about the aliens. Their head kinda pointed in the back. Oh yeah and I absolutely loved that movie. I didn't want to see it but I did and I am glad I did.

I was worried about the same thing, but it was same old action hero Tom we know and usually love. :p

My husband and I really enjoyed it - we thought it was suspenseful and the special effects were great. Although, as someone else said, don't dwell too much on the holes in the plot because then you start to not like it as much.

And regarding the death by virus thing - Hooey I say! They are smart enough to plant warships in our earth, build those ships in the first place, get here, etc. - they wouldn't think to put on a protective suit?!? :rolleyes:

OH, and Dakota Fanning? All she did was scream? I didn't see any different acting than Man on Fire....

I'm with you on this one.

Although I might catch it when it finally comes to The Movie Network since I won't be paying for it. I'm a fan of Spielberg's, but was never a Cruise fan.

To be pretty honest, I didn't want to watch it at first -- mainly b/c of Tom being such a media---hehehe you know what I want to say.... lately.

I ended up watching it last weekend and I have to say it was actually pretty good. Minus the last 10 minutes, I liked it. I seriously had a nightmare about running away from the "tripods" the night I watched it.. hahaha :P

ditto to this, I would not support that midget with a 10 foot pole (unless I could stick it up his a$$)

I went to see the movie with high expectations on July 4th, and I was really disappointed. I have listened to the old one and seen the old version, so I was expecting this to be similar. I thought it was really good that they showed even his watch losing power, but I thought it was ridiculous that they got the car to work (and that the aliens didn't see it driving away and blast it), and that they guy's video camera worked immediately when the aliens came out of the ground. If I remember the old ones correctly, the aliens took the power wherever they were, which means that there should have been no lights, no ferry working, no cameras, no news vehicle working.

It felt to me like Spielberg rushed to make the film (which we all know he did) and concentrated more on big action and effects than on content.

And the crazy guy in the basement... wow. That was just odd.

Weren't they consuming our blood? If so, you'd think they would've been smart enough to try one - watch that alien drop dead - then realize eating us was a bad idea.....

I thought they were just using our bodies/blood for fertilizer? But maybe they were consuming. But, right, they would have been a little smarter about dealing with our germs!

I figured the electronics could work because they weren't in USE at the time the "lightning" happened. Like the minivan, it's altenator (sp?) wasn't even hooked in at the time. However, I'm still wondering how Tom figured that out *shrugs*

i didn't like it

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I didn't get the blood thing - nor the thing with the veiny stuff that was growing all over the place.

I'm still pissed that the son lived.

From my point of view the movie sucked by comparison to the book. The original story, set back in the 1890's, was my favorite story when I was in grade school. Dad liked it too, and even named his sailboat "Thunderchild" after the Royal Navy gunboat that takes on the tripods and blows a couple of them out of the water before going down gallantly in the book.
Recommend you all read the original story which is a terrific book even after more than a hundred years since publication.

AOIIalum, do you mean to say that he was a shy little thing, or he had a shy little thing?
Bwah ha ha ha.....:p ;)

I was very disapointed with this movie too.

Getting the car to work was explained. Tom Cruise's character told the mechanic to change the solenoid. I'm not an expert on EMP, but I think that if a solenoid was out of a live circuit, it might not have been damaged.

There were, however, other things that just did not make sense, and these things blew my temporary suspension of disbelief.

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The premise was ridiculous. Aliens planted an enormous amount of infrastructure far below the earth's surface before human civilization existed. Why spend that much capital? What were they waiting for? If you are going to take over the Earth and you can do so, why wait 10,000+ years to do so?

OK, so they waited and now they are taking over the Earth. They are exterminating mankind, with energy intensive machines, one person at a time. That makes no sense at all. They had thousands of years. Just nuke the planet and wait for the radiation to go away.

No, here's the real kicker. The aliens did all of this advanced planning and they forgot to test the water and the air? Duh.

The original might have been somewhat campy, but it was more credible than this one.

i wanted a refund...i shouldn't have had to suffer twice...

i really disliked the film...i didn't expect much and yet was still disappointed. the ending was terrible, the worst i've seen in a very, very long time.