Ok, having just wasted $10 and two hours, I thought I would try to spare everyone else from this monstrosity. Instead of giving Spielberg money by watching yet another twisted remake which simply recycles recent movies, watch these movies instead: Original "War of the Worlds": It's a classic and tells the tale the way it was meant to be told. "Independence Day": The movie that Spielberg tried to make. "A Nightmare on Elm Street" & "Hellraiser": If you've seen the remake, you know what I mean. If you haven't, let's just say that these two movies together are less "red"... The entire works of Ellen DeGeneres: The brain damage suffered by this act is a suitable substitute for the whining of that Dakota Fanning brat. Actually, I take that back; you should probably also throw in at least 4 seasons of "The Nanny" with Fran Drescher. Any "disaster" movie made in the last 10 years: Typical sappy, fan-hated, oh-my-god-we-can't-end-the-movie-with-anyone-in-the-family-dying-or-even-being-injured-by-more-than-a-splinter ending.
My girlfriend loved the movie and had me take her again (I didn't see it with her the first time). She was somewhat upset that I didn't like it... but then again, I had already read the book, and there was stuff about the radio broadcast in one of my textbooks at least every year. I have the original movie in Super-8 format, Boxed. Is it worth anything now?
Women like this one cause Mr. Cruise (no offense XerdoPwerko) is da big hero, ohters like it just cause of the special effects and say "what a great movie". I think is pretty good, but its enough to go rent it and watch it at home.
the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they said, but still they came. damn great LP to smoke to , and great it is now even on CD.
None taken. I myself find Mr. Cruise incredibly sexy, even if he's 157 centimetres tall. He's SO much the man in Collateral, if I were a chick, I'd SO jump him.
sure he's 157 cm? my brother-in-law saw him about ten years ago when he was at NY and reckon he looked shorter than his friend who was only 153+... ???
they weren't from mars in the new one? Anyway it was a so so movie that had great special effects. It's what you expect in a summer "blockbuster". I enjoyed the effects and ignored the annoying Dakota Fanning and here crying and yelling and crying and yelling and....
Well, the book is about Martains that invade in these big tripod walkers and attack with heat beams and poison gas. Thing is it was written in the 1890's, years before anything like that ever existed. So you have late 18th century soldiers trying to fight back with cannons, mortars, and rifles, and totally getting thier asses kicked. The second half of the book is more about the social breakdown of human society as the Martains take over. People go insane (like this preacher thinks they're demons and tries to exorcise them, then gets fried,) basically the utter hopelessness that mankind seems to be in as they're hunted down like rats, kept like cattle and eaten, etc. From the way this movie is described it sounds like they didn't put any of that in there. Sounds more like a disaster flick with aliens in it. Do they use the walkers in this version, or are they flying saucers? Wish someone would make a literal adaptation of the book that took place in the original time period (1890s that is.) That would be cool.
the tripod walkers are there. actually did a pretty good job of staying faithful to the ships of the original story. It shows the breakdown of society during the event as well.
It is basically a disaster flick. I went to see it last night and it didn't do much for me barring the effects and the fact that it is nice and tense all the way through. "it shows the breakdown of society [in the book] " ---- it shows some people fighting over a car "people go insane [in the book]" ----- a guy decides to dig a hole so Tom Cruise decides it necessary to kill him %-|
