War of The Worlds - Steven Spielberg

[Grave]

I walked out of this movie feeling nothing. I mean... it was alright. I doubt I'll ever have the desire to see it again, but I had a decent time. There was nothing spectacular about it to me, but it wasn't bad in the least. Dakota Fanning's screaming started to grate on me after a while, but I guess it was warranted. The early scenes with Tom Cruise running around the town when the first tripod surfaced were awesome, and a bunch that followed did a great job of conveying the panic and mass hysteria that'd probably occur if such a thing did happen. The fighting for the car scene was particularly good as well. I guess it's not really the kind of movie you need to see more than once. There's a good story to be told and lots of neat stuff to look at. The son surviving felt like a cheap copout in order to keep the ending from being too unbearably bleak after there was so much death and destruction in the movie already. Did this happen in the book? I've never read it.

All in all, I probably would have been just as happy seeing Batman again.

[usagi]

I completely agree with Grave, a second viewing of batman would of been money much better spent. I also think after the begining, which I thought was really good. His relationship or lack of with his kids and the start of the invasion was all cool. Then the movie just got really boring to me and then ended so fucking shitty that it does ruin the whole film. If that is how the book ends, then I guess it's not speilberg's fault but war of the worlds just sucks in general. I mean planning for a million years, do some fucking research. I'd give it a 5/10, completely average hollywood blockbuster, yawn.

[Rico]

I loved the first hour and a half, i was thrilled, i had chills, and stuff went boom but that ending just left a sour taste in my mouth.

7/10

[Grave]

The more I think about the ending, it feels kinda like Signs, only about 1/4th as shitty. I kept whispering to a friend of mine all kinds of bullshit weaknesses that would take the aliens down in a dramatic display. I was disappointed to find that we didn't even get a dramatic display... the movie just kind of went limp. Disappointing, definitely.

[Dolemite]

GREAT movie. It's really the first movie I've seen in ages I can say that about.

I only have ONE problem with the movie, and it'll sound weird- in a time where movies are getting too long (2 hours, 2 1/2 hours, etc.), War of the Worlds, at 2 hours, wasn't long enough. It was tense, gripping, dramatic, the characters were great, and it was never boring, but the ending came out of nowhere. I mean, the ending was completely spoiled for people who had seen the original movie or read the book anyway (as the exact same thing happened), but they probably should have built up to it a bit more. But then again, maybe leaving people wanting more is better than risking making the film too long, so whatever.

Also, I was expecting this to be an Independance Day rip-off, but it was anything but. At first I wanted to see more of the conflict between the military and the aliens, but in the end I liked how they just concentrated on how the invasion affected the average joe. I agree with Grave in that the flick reminded me of Signs, but better.

Also, the son totally should have been dead.

I went in with low expectations (just had a bad feeling), but came away plesantly suprised.

Anyone else used to watch the WotW TV show with the dude from Predator?

Yeah, that show rocked.

I mean planning for a million years, do some fucking research.

For real. It's like planning to go deep sea diving in a cardboard submarine.

[usagi]

For real. It's like planning to go deep sea diving in a cardboard submarine.

Dude, send down a couple test aliens and see how they react, it's not too hard. I mean what was the time frame here anyways. It felt like maybe a week, but I guess it could've been a month. It was just lame, but not as lame as the awesome family friendly hollywood ending. This movie reminds me of Day After Tomorrow and that is not a good thing.

[elfneedsfood]

I loved the movie, including the ending. I seem to be in the minority though. I saw it with three friends, and they liked the movie, but did not like the ending. Two of my friends thought the film should have focused more on the military, and less on Cruise's family. I disagree, but whatever.

I had pretty much zero expectations going into this, but ended up loving it.

The scene at the beginning where Cruise is running from the tripod and people are being disintegrated was awesome.

[Zerohero]

Am I the only one who liked the sound the aliens would make when they would come out the ground?

When you hear it , it's like a phycological truma in your head because you associat the sound to death, hopelessness and devestation.

I think it was a good idea to give the aliens or tripods their own theme.

[Dolemite]

Two of my friends thought the film should have focused more on the military, and less on Cruise's family. I disagree, but whatever.

I agree with you. I would have liked to have seen a bit more conflict, but too much would have made it like Independance Day.

Am I the only one who liked the sound the aliens would make when they would come out the ground?

The alien ships looked very cool, their weapon was awesome, and that sound they made before they began their slaughter was very, very cool.

I liked it too.

[YellerDog]

To be fair, ID4 is largely inspired-by/ripped-off of the original WotW novel and film.