War of the Worlds

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I liked it. It was just what I expected it to be. Not the greatest movie ever, but an enjoyable 2 hour popcorn flick.

[Deleted]

I'm boycotting seeing it in the theaters because Tom Cruise is such a twat. Now that it's had a successful weekend, more a-list celebs will try and see how much scandal they can pull right when their film comes out because they will think that they can get away with it.

[indygirl]

From MSN.com.

[mardigras]

I saw it on Sunday, and thought it was horrible. Spielberg yet again used his child in red clothes imagery. There were too many 9/11-related images for my taste. I found them emotionally manipulative. They included >>> a plane crash, a train fire (Madrid), and an alien vehicle crashed into a building.<<< One would have made sense, but he went overboard.

Also, the whole >>> playing hide and go seek with the aliens scene went on waaaaay too long. <<<

There were other things that didn't make sense from a scientific point of view. >>> Why the incredibly energy-expensive blasts of energy to kill individual people? Why didn't the aliens know that our planet contained viruses/bacteria that could kill them? That ending made sense back when the book was written, but with the technology that we know is possible now it doesn't make sense. They have vehicles hidden in our Earth. They didn't take the time to take soil/water/air samples and see what was on the planet?<<<<

I went with two other people. None of us were impressed.

[Karrit]

Mardigras, your points about illogical scientific explanations were the first things my husband was questioning as we were walking out of the theatre.

Also, in the beginning >>>when all the electronic/electrical equipment wasn't working, some guy was out in the street with a digital videocam recording everything. And yet just a couple of scenes before TC was going through the house and the cell phone didn't work, his wristwatch...etc. Sloppy, sloppy

And I just didn't buy into TC as some middle-age working class slob. IMO, it would have been better casting to have given the lead to Tim Robbins and cast Tom as the nutty survivalist.

[Benni]

Do you think this is the type of movie that some teenagers will sit through over and over again. I have alot of nephews and nieces. 2 of my nephews went to all the Star Wars movies probably 10 times each. My 3 nieces brag because they went to Pirates of the Caribbean 12 times. OK I went to it 3 times with them. Another set of nephews were addicted to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I think with these block buster summer movies this is where the numbers keep climbing as summer wears on. But I could be wrong. My nephews that saw it said it was lame and are not going back. They didn't like little girls screaming in their movies.

[elledriver]

mardigras said:

I saw it on Sunday, and thought it was horrible. Spielberg yet again used his child in red clothes imagery. There were too many 9/11-related images for my taste. I found them emotionally manipulative. They included >>> a plane crash, a train fire (Madrid), and an alien vehicle crashed into a building.<<< One would have made sense, but he went overboard.

Also, the whole >>> playing hide and go seek with the aliens scene went on waaaaay too long. <<<

There were other things that didn't make sense from a scientific point of view. >>> Why the incredibly energy-expensive blasts of energy to kill individual people? Why didn't the aliens know that our planet contained viruses/bacteria that could kill them? That ending made sense back when the book was written, but with the technology that we know is possible now it doesn't make sense. They have vehicles hidden in our Earth. They didn't take the time to take soil/water/air samples and see what was on the planet?<<<<

I went with two other people. None of us were impressed.

I thought the same thing they burried machines millions of years ago but never thought of checking to see if they could survive on our planet? Out of all the planets in the universe there wasn't another one more suited to thier needs.

Another thing that bothered me was Ok the aliens have cool lazers that desintegrate people right but it leaves the clothes completely unharmed to float neatly through the air? I guess its a cool visual but come on?

And don't get me started on that lame ass ending The mom is ok wow but wait no Robbie is also completely unharmed by the massive firebal that he walked into with the army and he beat them to Boston. And wait; no, the aliens destroyed every major city in the world but forgot all about Boston which must have running water because everyone is all freshly scrubed and perfectly coiffed despite the fact that THE WORLD HAS BEEN DESTROYED. Thanks Speilberg. the best thing about this movie was the cool ass trailer for King Kong.

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Over $100 million during a holiday weekend sure sounds like a success, but Paramount executives are dissapointed, no matter what they say publically.

This movie was hyped to be the next Titanic! I've even read that Spielberg himself said it would beat Titanic(not sure the source was trustworthy though).

I really believe that even though its done well at the box office, Paramount was hoping for much more.

This is an interesting article if you scroll down a bitwww.hollywood-elsewhere.com/

That $113.3 million that War of the Worlds earned over the last six days since opening last Wednesday (6.29) may sound good in the trade stories, but believe me, Paramount distribution execs are disappointed. "They're crying about this,"

A survey of moviegoer response to War of the Worlds done last week (or weekend) is coming up "fair," which is roughly equivalent to a CinemaScore rating of about 70. This means it's going to see a fairly steep drop in business next weekend -- not catastrophic but precipitous.

The people I know who've seen it said it was a big dissapointment. But the teen fanboys out there have, of course, hailed it.

[mardigras]

Regarding the floating clothes:

>>>>>Another thing that bothered me was Ok the aliens have cool lazers that desintegrate people right but it leaves the clothes completely unharmed to float neatly through the air? I guess its a cool visual but come on?<<<<<

ElleDriver,

Actually, I think >>>>> the clothes falling down through the air weren't from the people they zapped, but from the people whose blood they sucked. After they were in that basket thing and then sucked into the ship through the reverse vagina (which made me cackle, everyone in the theater was looking at me -- but, all I could think was that Spielberg must have some SERIOUS female issues), the aliens must have stripped them.<<<<<

[Deleted]

Saw it last night. I was very underwhelmed to say the least. I actually took a bathroom break <<right when they got to Boston>>, about ten minutes before the end of the movie, thinking we had a good thirty minutes or so to go. I come back and it was the end, and the explanation of what had happened sucked.

It seemed like everyone but Dakota Fanning was phoning it in, right down to the Tom Cruise intense stare at the end. The whole thing just flat out did not make much sense and the movie was not exciting enough in other ways for me to write that off.

However, the scene where Cruise goes <<out of Tim Robbins' farmhouse and all the red weed is everywhere was awesome. Like the Land of Oz on crack.>>