Reply With QuoteWhy didn't the EMP short out that guy's camcorder?Originally Posted by Dolemite
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No reason given, but we can assume it's one of the basics: they wanted/needed a new planet to live on, they came for the resources or they're just dicks. But for the last one I'd imagine they'd just blow up the planet. The red vines make it seem like they were moving in.
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Why didn't the EMP short out that guy's camcorder?
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Somebody said that and I think someone else said that EMPs only work on electronics that are on at the time. No idea if that's true though.
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If it were any of those why didn't they just take it the first time they were here to bury the ships? Before there were humans to fight.
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then there wouldnt be a point for the movie?
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I caught yesterday's late night showing with some friends and I thought it was pretty cool.
Not as great as Minority Report but still a good effort by Spielberg and co. It basically feels like a bigger budget version of Signs.
I loved all the alien reveal moments, they were packed with "Holy Shit!" type situations like the first time the tripod rises out of the ground, the underwater alien ship scene which reminded me of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea + Titanic, that burning train passing by, and the over the hill battle. I was surprised at just how fucking well they displayed horrific events with the PG-13 rating especially with the blood draining sequence and the river of bodies.
The whole movie felt truly epic up until the end where the aliens just fall apart due to exposure to the earth. That was kind of a stupid way of ending the threat of the aliens, I kind of expected there to be a resistance of people blowing up the tripods the same way Tom Cruise's character did when they were captured. I didn't really care for the Tim Robbins character but the scene where they hide in his basement was awesome due to the tension of not being seen.
I didn't like that the son survived either as well as so many times all of them should have died but I guess I can forgive that since the movie wouldn't have progressed the way they did. I also found it odd how the neighborhood where the mom and stepdad were remained untouched, big WTF there.
The designs of the ships looked great though and the aliens looked neat, although not the most original look for the heads. I expected something more scary like the ID4 aliens but no biggie. If you were in a theater with geat sound, this movie is a treat. The sounds are so alien and scary throughout the film like the lightning transport the aliens had, the ships creepingly coming, the shockwave of sound in the basement when the plane crashed, the other sounds coming from the second basement.....crazyness.
The cinematography is what you would expect of Spielberg and Kaminski...the special effects were truly awesome, the movie in some parts actually looked like a live action Matrix version of the scene where the humans are harvested and destroyed in animatric and the first film.
War of the Worlds is a pretty good movie overall but like Regus and Rumpy, I wanted the ending to be less of a happy ending with the humans losing or having to face the scenario of surviving like roaches in a planet overrun. Sort of like how the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits episodes don't all have happy endings.
The movie gets a 8/10 from me but Batman was a better movie and seems like the winner of the summer until FF at least.
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That's what bugs me too. With all the hate for the Signs ending, I could come up with a decent loop hole for me not to be bothered by it. But the fact that the aliens in this one had planned this out thousands of years ago and get sick just doesn't fit with me. More than that though, is how abrupt it was handled in the movie. We're cruising along for an hour and 40 minutes and then it was like someone on set was like, "Oops! We only have 10 minutes left! Wrap this shit up!"
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I haven't read the book yet.. I heard somewhere else that in the book, the aliens staged a sudden attack, and they didn't study Earth for "millions of years." Can anyone confirm this (before I get around to reading the book myself)?
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i agree. there were a lot of things thats really bothered me about his film, what you just said being one of them. i also hated most of the camera work. my gf commented as soon as the aliens showed about the saving private ryan shaky cam work. really annoying. then they had so many overly long camera shots with no cuts just for the sake of doing it. the highway scene being the worst offender. wow now were in the back seat, pan around to the front seat.....then pan outside to the front fender......the FRONT FUCKING FENDER! WHY!? just to go back into the van. really dumb and unnecessary. then the whole basement scene was just the same. and then the whole blood fertilizer thing. the aliens just kind of do it with no explanation. it was purely there for shock value. and then of course my theatre has to make every big release a 10 on the volume scale, so i was ready to leave every couple minutes when something loud would happen.
Despite the 100 year time shift, this did still feel like war of the worlds, but the one thing that kinda bugged me was how agile and able to get around the aliens were. In the original they were from a smaller planet with less gravity (in the case of the original, Mars), and when they weren't in their tripods they couldn't even walk up hills. They weren't badasses at all, except for their technology, and that would fit in great with the ending had they kept true.
It looked to me like they were harvesting the life on the planet.
It was the first time they had done something like this. They saw the problem with their own planet, and made preparations to move to another. They died the same way in the book. There's nothing that wrong with it as long as you don't make the assumption that these aliens do this all the time like the ones in ID4. They got in some shit, and started something with the nearest habitable planet and they fucked up.
The striders were obviously based on the tripods from War of the World. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw those screens from HL2. They were described pretty much like that in the novel.
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