War of the Worlds — Page 3

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are u kidding me with the rays...those effing tripods werer ginormous and could only hit one person at a time with its rays...give me a break..

the movie is amazing for the 1st 2 hours...the last 30 mins of the film goes into the toilet.

I saw the movie last night. I did not like it very much. There were many inconsistencies and holes in the story. and that ending! Please! And most of the vehicles no longer work as well as electronics, yet the guy's video camera is working? Come on. The visual effects were good, but that's about it.

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Updated On: 6/30/05 at 03:54 PM

Oh, and I really could have done without Tim Robbins' political dialogue about "occupation".

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the ending is how it ends. You can't complain about that--that's the way the STORY ends. If the ending was changed, it wouldn't be HG Wells' WAR OF THE WORLDS.

From hearing people who have worked with Dakota talk about her--she really is a prodigy. She is a bona fide actor. And, she holds her own against anyone on the screen with her.

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Everytime I go to the movies, I lose a little more respect for my fellow humans.

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Just got back... loved it! Thought it was perfect. The ending is the origional and when you think about it very clever. Dieseases we have become amune too will still kill people in other countries... so things from another planet have little or no hope. It's taken millions of years to adapt to our planets illnesses after all.

Dakota was really good in this film and i was impressed with Cruise's acting for a change. Freaked me out a little though... had a great audience, everyone was really involved and people screamed and stuff... great atmosphere.

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and yet, their hubris destroyed them. They were NOT able to cover all bases.

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we saw it yesterday.......my comments. Way too much time is spent in death and destruction, rather than on the plot. Thaat took away from the movie for me.

It was not believeable that the son lives...when EVERYONE else on that militart front line dies. And the whole ship anus-like opening scene, where it sucks in people was just stupid. Everyone he cared about lives and is ok, but all of Tim Robbins people are killed....nope, not believeable.

special effects are good....but I just wasn't impressed. I much prefer the original move with Gene Barry and Anne Robertson anyday!

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Updated On: 7/1/05 at 09:42 AM

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Updated On: 7/1/05 at 10:55 AM

I didn't like the movie very much. I pretty much agree with Ebert and Dave Poland's reviews.

Spoilers follow...

To me it was just another washed out looking illogical Spielberg SciFi film like the other ones he's made after the end of the millenium.

The characters were cliches (the flawed dad, the rebellious son, the quirky, precocious daughter). I didn't think any of the lead performances were especially terrific. They were all not very natural. The ex-wife and stepfather character seemed overly perfect and almost kind of unfair to the Cruise character. Perhaps that was intended, but it wasn't fleshed out.

The son was pretty much a dumbass. I didn't understand his motivations at all. The whole family dynamic seemed set up just for the purposes of the movie.

The 9/11 references (ashes, city in ruins, people video taping the chaos, "have you seen this person?" flyers, etc.) were unsettling (Maybe on purpose, but for what purpose seemed unclear. The other political references by Robbins near the end are also questionable).

The movie just wasn't fun. It's very tense in places, but just not fun. It's almost similar to Aliens in the despairing sort of mood that's presented, but I actually cared about the characters in Aliens. The characters here basically run from setting to setting doing the usual action movie stuff. I wanted to have a good time with the movie, but it just wouldn't let me. The movie felt disjointed and didn't flow extremely well. Maybe it was a chaotic feeling that Spielberg was going for, but I think maybe he could've given off the mood of chaos without making the movie itself seem jumbled.

I wanted to have shivers run up my spine during the movie & feel creeped out, feel the suspense, and the excitement, but I just felt tense and uneasy.

As I mentioned the logic in the movie is extremely faulty. Do the aliens come down in a different form when they slide down in the lightning to the tripods? Why do they want to take over Earth in the first place? Why are they able to be defeated so easily if they have been watching the planet for years? Can the aliens not see things? Cruise and Fanning were not particularly shrouded when the aliens were in the basement with them.

Another logic problem was near the end when Cruise and Fanning are in the basket and Cruise explodes the grenade. They all would've been so dead that close to the explosion. Also convenient is how the basket falls apparently easily to the ground from a pretty extreme height.

The end of the movie just fell flat. Too many coincidences, especially the son surviving.

When it was over I just left feeling empty. It didn't give me anything to hold onto.

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This is not the ending I was referring to. I know how the aliens are supposed to die. I was referring to: (SPOILER!!!!)
the happy ending in Boston. Typical Hollywood. Look, everyone is ok.

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chaz--gotcha and I can agree. The brother living annoyed me.

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