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         |  isnieZot
             from pooptown (Belgium) on 2005-08-04 04:05 [#01682803] Points: 4949 Status: Lurker
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 | so I saw this yesterday. it was amusing to watch but raised quite some questions once
 the movie was done. the ending was a bit...I
 dunno....stupid?
 the only thing that really bugged was the constant screaming
 of that little girl. *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH* that
 really pissed me off at times. but she acted pretty good
 though.
 it's just a movie I guess.
 
 
 
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         |  mrgypsum
             on 2005-08-04 04:06 [#01682804] Points: 5112 Status: Regular
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 | the ending? what was it, let me know, i am not going to see this anway
 
 
 
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         |  penexpers
             from Toronto (Canada) on 2005-08-04 04:07 [#01682805] Points: 4030 Status: Regular
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 | the film is good but speilberg dug too big a hole for himself and therefore the ending is extremely far fetched.
 An whole army couldn't kill 1 alien thing but 1 grenade from
 tom cruise killed all of them.
 
 
 
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         |  nacmat
             on 2005-08-04 04:12 [#01682808] Points: 31275 Status: Lurker | Followup to penexpers: #01682805
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 | not quite that really 
 
 
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         |  Aesthetics
             from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-08-04 04:14 [#01682809] Points: 6796 Status: Lurker | Followup to isnieZot: #01682803
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 | Why was the ending stupid? 
 I didn't really like this movie.
 
 
 
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         |  Jarworski
             from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-04 04:17 [#01682814] Points: 10836 Status: Lurker
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 | I fort it was great 
 HOOOONK
 
 
 
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         |  nacmat
             on 2005-08-04 04:19 [#01682816] Points: 31275 Status: Lurker | Followup to Jarworski: #01682814
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 | hello 
 
 
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         |  Jarworski
             from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-04 04:19 [#01682818] Points: 10836 Status: Lurker | Followup to nacmat: #01682816
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 | Sup Nacho :) 
 
 
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         |  isnieZot
             from pooptown (Belgium) on 2005-08-04 04:27 [#01682825] Points: 4949 Status: Lurker | Followup to Aesthetics: #01682809
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 | I dunno, it just seems a bit unlikely. 
 
 
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         |  isnieZot
             from pooptown (Belgium) on 2005-08-04 04:28 [#01682826] Points: 4949 Status: Lurker | Followup to isnieZot: #01682825
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 | it also didn't fit with the rest of the movie I believe. 
 
 
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         |  Aesthetics
             from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-08-04 04:29 [#01682828] Points: 6796 Status: Lurker | Followup to isnieZot: #01682825
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 | The whole movie is kind of unlikely but the ending makes sence imo.
 
 
 
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         |  leonid_olusegun
             from outside your window on 2005-08-04 05:13 [#01682875] Points: 858 Status: Lurker
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 | the noise those tripods made was dirty.  reminded me of a track off 26 mixes for cash...
 
 
 
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         |  penexpers
             from Toronto (Canada) on 2005-08-04 05:36 [#01682886] Points: 4030 Status: Regular | Followup to leonid_olusegun: #01682875
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 | At The Heart of it All 
 
 
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         |  Ophecks
             from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2005-08-04 06:45 [#01682901] Points: 19190 Status: Moderator | Show recordbag
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 | The ending didn't seem unlikely to me at all, seemed very logical... and that was the problem, it didn't make for an
 exciting resolution at all!
 
 I liked the movie, it was well made but pretty underwhelming
 stuff for a Spielberg blockbuster. Had some cool set pieces
 and images (the city panic/slaughter, the tripods in the
 field) but I didn't really get immersed and the bad guys
 weren't all that impressive, they lost steam after the first
 vaporization scene. Tom Cruise is still a stud though.
 
 
 
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         |  mylittlesister
             from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-04 06:49 [#01682902] Points: 8472 Status: Regular
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 | hopefully i'll be seeing this tonight! 
 
 
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         |  Jarworski
             from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-04 06:54 [#01682905] Points: 10836 Status: Lurker
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 | I was laughing at the people on IMDB who didn't understand the ending and (SPOILER) thought the birds did it. I went
 down for a cigarette break and was chatting to my mate about
 it and a dumb-as-fuck bint said exactly the same thing. I
 mean, the end narrative explains what happens, it's obvious
 as fuck anyway, I'd love to see what they made of Mulholland
 Drive or summat.
 
 
 
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         |  furoi
             from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2005-08-04 07:02 [#01682916] Points: 1706 Status: Lurker
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 | poor spielberg 
 
 
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         |  Phresch
             from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2005-08-04 07:23 [#01682930] Points: 9989 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | i enjoyed the slicing of the bridge. 
 
 
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         |  epohs
             from )C: on 2005-08-04 07:54 [#01682952] Points: 17620 Status: Lurker
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 | I didn't like it.  Speilberg's style does nothing for me... actually, it does do something for me, it aggrivates the
 piss out of me.
 
 
 
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         |  goDel
             from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2005-08-04 11:26 [#01683293] Points: 10240 Status: Regular
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 | although i think it's an ok movie (just like pop music can be ok....CAN), i've got one big complaint about the story.
 the story would have been much more convincing if the aliens
 would have had an actual strategy (instead of just chasing
 random humans). a supposedly superior race of aliens
 wouldn't just chase every human it sees. cooomooonnnnn
 
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         |  Aesthetics
             from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-08-04 11:44 [#01683310] Points: 6796 Status: Lurker | Followup to goDel: #01683293
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 | It's based on H.G.Wells novel "The War of the Worlds" 
 This is how they thought about it way back.
 
 He was a visionary, but always a practical visionary. He
 viewed every problem in it's universal aspect, yet
 ultimately from the standpoint of the plain untethered man
 whose champion he was. Abroad as well as at home, he was
 recognised as one of the greatest minds of the century, or
 as Anatole France styled him, "the greatest intellectual
 force in the English-speaking world".
 
 Spielberg misquote the author imo.
 
 
 
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         |  goDel
             from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2005-08-04 11:47 [#01683315] Points: 10240 Status: Regular
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 | thx for the info, Aesthetics 
 but still, Spielberg should have updated the story a bit
 
 
 
 
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         |  Aesthetics
             from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-08-04 11:49 [#01683318] Points: 6796 Status: Lurker | Followup to goDel: #01683315
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 | Indeed. 
 Have you heard the musical version of it?
 
 
 
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         |  Raz0rBlade_uk
             on 2005-08-04 11:50 [#01683319] Points: 12540 Status: Addict | Show recordbag
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 | good film 
 
 
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         |  goDel
             from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2005-08-04 11:53 [#01683324] Points: 10240 Status: Regular | Followup to Aesthetics: #01683318
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 | nope. 
 are you talking about the original radio-transmission, or
 the soundtrack?
 
 
 
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         |  epohs
             from )C: on 2005-08-04 11:53 [#01683325] Points: 17620 Status: Lurker
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 | my favorite part was when tom cruise stuck grenades into the alien's protruding butthole.
 
 
 
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         |  Aesthetics
             from the IDM Kiosk on 2005-08-04 11:56 [#01683330] Points: 6796 Status: Lurker | Followup to goDel: #01683324
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 | I'm talking about Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War of the Worlds.
 
 I have it on vinyl and I love it!
 
 
 
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         |  EVOL
             from a long time ago on 2005-08-04 14:09 [#01683463] Points: 4921 Status: Lurker
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 | i thought it was cool as fuck but the reason the ending doesn't fit or make sense is because of the rest of the
 movie being about aliens and machines and destroying the
 world it was awesome almost the entire planet is gone but
 not her mom in boston... wtf?!  and here comes johnny at the
 same time... right.
 
 and they got force fields so the reason we were able to win
 was cuz he grabbed the grenades before they caught him and
 so it was smart he let that thing grab him cuz now he was
 past the force fields.  that and like disease and sickness
 and virus' infected the aliens.
 
 
 
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         |  staz
             on 2005-08-04 15:07 [#01683543] Points: 9844 Status: Regular
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 | Decent movie, but it should have been M rated with more gore and gruesomeness. Also, Ogilvy should have been a manic,
 narcoleptic pedophile with a drug problem. Would've made the
 whole basement thing a lot more interesting. Yes.
 
 
 
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         |  scup_bucket
             from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2005-08-04 16:11 [#01683623] Points: 4540 Status: Regular
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 | the plot didn't hold together at all...a tiny bit better than "the aliens are allergic to water" but not by much.
 
 
 
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         |  rudster
             from the glasgow on 2005-08-04 17:15 [#01683680] Points: 3169 Status: Lurker
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 | the tripod scenes reminded me of half life 2, ok! 
 
 
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         |  pachi
             from yo momma (United States) on 2005-08-04 17:52 [#01683727] Points: 8984 Status: Lurker | Followup to rudster: #01683680
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 | Striders!!! 
 
 
 
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         |  mylittlesister
             from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2005-08-04 17:59 [#01683731] Points: 8472 Status: Regular
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 | i quite enjoyed this film, well the first half of it. 
 it started it gentle down hill stroll down the proverbial
 hill when the audience was privy to the actual aliens
 interacting.
 
 
 
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         |  asymmhead
             from south pasadena (United States) on 2005-08-05 02:52 [#01684111] Points: 232 Status: Regular
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 | i didn't enjoy this film at all... the tripods were cool though... and seeing them from a distance causing havoc was
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         |  mrgypsum
             on 2005-08-05 02:55 [#01684113] Points: 5112 Status: Regular | Followup to asymmhead: #01684111
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 | one of the basic rules of new releases is, if tom cruise is the star - its a stinker.
 
 
 
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