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So, just saw this. A couple people here seemed interested back when the trailers popped up, so I thought I might as well post my thoughts. First off, the story didn't seem very speiburgian at all, untill the end. It was very dark and bleak, and there were plenty of scenes of people disolving under the alien heat guns and having their blood drained and shit. Tom Cruise didn't even ruin it. Anyways, if you were considering going and seeing it, you don't have to worry about it getting too harmless.. |
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What is the sound track like, I was particularly drawn to the JMJesque synths. Should I buy it? |
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I didn't really take too much to it... it got a bit too epic at times... Well, in all honesty, I didn't notice it untill times when it got epic. Usually, I am drawn to the more ambient stuff... |
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ok, i'm not really a great fan of ambience myself, a little too slow paced and relaxed for me. Actually I think i'm talking about the wrong thing, I was talking about the musical, sorry about that, should have read your post *embarrassed*. I relly want to see the film it sounds good, even by Tom Cruise's standards :) |
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People hate Tom Cruise these days. He's in season. |
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Because he's a gullible prick, scientology... really |
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Does anyone have the original radio broadcast from the beginning of the 20th century? |
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cool sound effects not much else people getting zapped was awesome |
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Did you participate in that scientology thread? |
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Hmmm, i am going to see it i think. i am not sure though. i thought the book and musical versions are incredible. |
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what scientology thread? |
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Yeah man, I share it on slsk. The special effects are amazing, but the story is bit long-winded. Average movie. |
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Cool! What's your username? |
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[Aesthetics] I won't be online today, drop me a line and we will sort it out! |
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I'll see this on the basis that a lot of shit gets destroyed :D |
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wasn't really anything amazing, but I enjoyed it, plenty of cool shit went down. |
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I also want to see Cruise get his midget ass kicked. |
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the thing i dislike most about spielberg is the way he deals with human emotion. he really tries to forcefeed it to the audience. does WoTW do that? |
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Is there any of the Jeff Wayne score used in the film?? |
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things move a little too quickly for it on the most part, it's definitely THERE but it's pretty well hidden by the sheer pace of the thing, plus the main character is an unsentimental dick for hte most part, which actually made it better (IMO) |
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The only thing that is used in the movie is the intro of the journalist as the voice over in the beginning of the movie. "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that sworm and multiply in a drop of water........" I guess it's exactly the same as the H.G. Wells novel. |
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i saw it the other day. it was a good theatre movie.. because of the vibrations and what not. but.. i'd never ever rent this or recomend it or even say it was good. |
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the story was lame... apparently, everything is extremely convenient for Tom cruise and life is a bitch for everyone else. *SPOILERS* hey, all the cars are dead, waht will we do? oh, I somehow guessed what part would need replacing, lets just take this one and drive as far as we can. Lucky for us every car on the road will be pulled off to the side to allow us a clear lane down the middle for miles. ...later... hey lets get aboard this ferry, oh wait the guards are saying theres no more room. NO PROBLEM! *shitty camera angle closeup from waist height makes it impossible to tell how Tom and friends are able to instantly bypass the same roadblock that dozens (hundreds?) of crazed rednecks have been trying to get through* well we're on this boat now, things should be clear sailing from here on. Wait, the boat just capsized, we stayed together AND got hit in the face with a car and we're still unscathed. lets just swim to safety while the robots exterminate ALL OTHER traces of life. ...later... hey they've got my daughter, I suppose that, in throwing this one grenade at them, even though doing so has been completely ineffective thus far and will identify me as a threat, the aliens will most likely want to capture me, allowing me to take explosives past their defenses, rather than annihilate me instantly. still later... hey, we'll we made it to grandma's house, somehow and against all odds. miraculously it is completely untouched by war, even though the surrounding city is in ruins, oh and look, everyone's here, including Robby, who we last saw being swallowed up in a BALL OF FUCKING FIRE. the special effects were amazing, the acting was pretty decent, the plot was horrible. I don't think I even need to mention how idiotic it is that the machines were buried underground, it's just too stupid for words. |
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i dont understand why anyone hasent maked a thread about Batmen Begins ? |
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I should maked another one. I thought BB was good. |
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I like your new avatar hehe |
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WTF where was Richard Burton when U need him. Wales in a coffin to be precise. Cruise, Yeh about time he took several. (Cruises) Not from the Gay sense of Cruise or the max power "Look at my alloys" chav styley. |
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I have it too. I bought a reissue on cd a few years back. I used to listen to the original on vinyl when I was young and especially the first 15 minutes would scare the shit out of me. the reissue I have consists of 2 cds, one with the "War of the Worlds" radioplay, the other with Orson Welles radioplay of "Dracula". I never listened to the last one, you just reminded me. |
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what? |
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richard burton's voice was made for war of the worlds! the original broadcast/soundtrack was so scary! loved it... not sure if i'll like this american/glamourised version |
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but it has one of the Spielberg Toms in it! and Tim Robbins (Tim almost sounds like Tom)! |
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tim robbin was an aged, pudgy manbeast in this film, which is exactly why I made love to my him (my hand) in the theatre |
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GAH! robbins**** |
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so am I the only one who found it too easy for Tom and friends to survive in this movie? |
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fuck yeah, he should have died right when the first giant robot thingy started frying. |
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haven't seen the film, but a review I read in a Dutch newspaper did mention that everything seemed to go his way much too much - the critic especially mentioned how cars were getting blown away all over the place and Cruise steps out and finds a completely unblemished car waiting for him, he even hinted at possible product placement. |
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Heh... yeah. Its unrealistic. I am suprised people haven't brought up that aliens came to earth and started killing everybody in the movie. Talk about plotholes. |
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why did the aliens lose again? |
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bacteria killed them all |
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I have some questions about this film. How is it that the tripods were burried underground millions of years ago but remain undedected despite a massive civilization being built upon them complete with tunnels, subways, and drilling? How does a clearly more technologically advanced species somehow not realize they lack the biology to survive on earth? A plot weakness simular to the one that emerges in the climax of 'Signs', where the invading aliens are detered with... water. Why tripods that walk instead of aircraft? I understand this is a remake of a classic sci-fi movie, however, when the movie was made the expectations of the audience were obiously much lower. To see these amazingly well crafted cgi images of walking tripods and ray blasts, make me feel as though they were symbols of another reality far lost, and unable to incorporate itself in to this present one very well. |
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The answer: It's a movie. |
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Its not as though i was critiquing the thing while i was watching it, but these issues made the film feel cheezy and started to fuck with me during the movie. I almost expected a dude in a spacesuit made of aluminum foil to come out of the space ship. |
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"How is it that the tripods were burried underground millions of years ago but remain undedected despite a massive civilization being built upon them complete with tunnels, subways, and drilling?" good point, and more importantly, if the aliens planted the robots underground thousands or even millions of years before that, how did they know EXACTLY where to plant them so that they would emerge in the middle of populated cities?? it makes absolutely no sense. Further, where was the mothership that somehoh 'lightning beamed' the aliens down? If it was far a way, then we're meant to believe they can lighning-beam things from great distances (hard to believe) or, if it was in orbit around earth, then we're led to believe that NONE of the earth's observatories or missile defense systems picked it up (also hard to believe, unless it was 'cloaked' somehow). |
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somehoh = somehow* |
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OMG!!! SEAN! How is going!? |
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"How does a clearly more technologically advanced species somehow not realize they lack the biology to survive on earth?" yeah, especially since they were planning the damn thing for millions of years. the only thing I like about the downfall of the aliens of WotW was that, in the end, the humans did barely anything to them, and still never found a legit way past their shields. I like to think that the aliens will pack up their shit, take it back to the drawing board, and come back to finish us off in another 10,000 years or something. I hated the conclusion to signs, because there is water in the atmosphere and as humidity in the air... how did that not effect those, but a glass of water spilling off a table does? |
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Hey people. Stop bitching about the plot and just enjoy the carnage and human misery. Seeing people get vaporized is worth the price of admission alone. |
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just watch the news then. |
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Heh... word. Seriously, did anybody else notice the aliens that were trying to kill everything? that shit doesn't happen in real life. I mean, everyones talking shit about the little things... but aliens? |
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