War of the Worlds, see it yet?

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Originally posted by AOIIalum
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.

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

[PhiPsiRuss]

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.

Originally posted by Xylochick216
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.

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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.