War of the Worlds

[M-Bizon]

I liked the movie. And was for me the best performance Cruise has ever had. He was not using a cheesy accent or the uber kool guy, did not come across as arrogant like 99% of his flicks.

This is the one movie that he seems to act as his roll with out over acting. This movie was also closer to the book IMO than any previously and they did a good job updating to modern times.

Also it was from the avarge John Doe point of view, not some bigwig expert or hotshot, just an every day guy with his kids for the weekend.

Yes I think it will best the other movies this summer. This is everything starwars was not, good acting, good plot, good flow of action(not the too quick to tell whats going on clips of CGI), and even the dialog was better, not great mind you, I do not think any one is going to recite Shakespeare while getting chased by giant robots, but it fits the scene and does not detract from the over all effect of the film. Is a good movie, worth seeing at the theater.

And way beter than revenge of the sux, loss of will to live? More like total loss of 7 bucks.

[ThomasMore]

***SPOILERS FOLLOW***

The movie was pretty good through the first Tripod attack.

The rest of it, IMHO, was patent nonsense. It wouldn't have been that hard to make the story at least somewhat plausible, but Spielberg didn't even make that effort.

1. The aliens physically rode on lightning bolts (or something similar) through solid pavement to enter their Tripod machines? How does THAT work?

2. Thousands of Tripods had actually been placed here before mankind existed (so the story says)? How is it that throughout all of recorded history we never stumbled into one? How is it that they were installed underground throughout New York and other cities and towns as well as rural areas without someone digging into one, or picking it up on a magnetometer or sonar? Even "Five Million Years To Earth" (a/k/a "Quartermass and the Pit") handled that idea better, 38 years ago.

3. If the aliens wanted to take us, why didn't they do it when we were more vulnerable even than we are (according to the story) now?

4. The aliens wanted to use our blood to fertilize their plant roots. Why? What is so special about human blood? Why not animals, too? There just isn't anywhere near enough human blood, by volume, to go about fertilizing an entire planet. Looks like that was inserted just for the gore and to make the aliens frightening and hated.

5. 100 years ago, germ theory was still fairly new, so HG Wells's story made some sense. It is possible, too, that aliens who didn't have equivalent microbes (unlikely, but I suppose it is possible), might not have been on the lookout for that issue if it was not understood here. But if technologically superior aliens have been observing us for thousands of years and attack in 2005, having them die off simply because they didn't know anything about everyday germs stretches credibility far beyond the breaking point. Spielberg either had to do something new here, or explain it further.

[nene]

IMO, the movie was a disaster. Like TM stated, it had a promising start but faded shortly after the first attack. My family liked it, too many loose ends for me to be satisfied.

[DesertFox]

Spielberg excels are creating fantasy and schmaltz. Science is beyond his ken.

[Conservative Brit]

I did't like the film at all, it borrowed all the worst parts of the book and left out all the best parts. Although I agree with the original poster in that it was one of the best performances from Tom Cruise I've seen.

[Wolfcounsel]

"Although I agree with the original poster in that it was one of the best performances from Tom Cruise I've seen." --Conservative Brit

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I already know Tom is going to f*ck it up for me, the same way he did The Last Samurai.

[DesertFox]

Why, Wolfie, how can you say that about The Perfect Idiot. :rolleyes:

[Wolfcounsel]

The Perfect Idiot was given honorable mention on C-SPAN last night, for making it clear that scientology did not derive from the word 'science'. I just wish I could get the transcript.:laugh: