War of the worlds
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Well I don't see many movies so I liked it. But, eh.
Anything with Tom Cruise in it can't be very good for science fiction moviies especially. I will rent it probably when it does come out as a rental just to see just what it is about.
Janus58
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I think it did a better job of intepreting the original novel than the 1950 version did. Not an easy task considering the fact that they were transposing a story written and placed in 1898 UK to 2005 USA. (though I still wish that they had bitten the bullet and gone all the way; setting the story in its original time and place.) The director also wanted to play homage to the 1950 version, so he included some aspects from it as well. (the protective screens, the general "look" of the aliens and the scene with the alien hand coming out of the hatch of the downed machine were taken from the earlier movie.)
I agree that Cruise was not the best choice for the part. They should have picked someone more capable of playing just an everyday type of guy.
I agree that Cruise was not the best choice for the part. They should have picked someone more capable of playing just an everyday type of guy.
Yes…ever since “Saving Private Ryan,” directors seem to think it’s “edgy” and “cool” to have really bad camera work in these sorts of movies. I think it’s supposed to give the audience the feeling that they’re really there, or something. In reality, it just annoys me that I can’t see what’s going on very well. I think it’s sort of a cheap trick, trying to create suspense with dark/shaky/poorly positioned camera work rather than simply letting what’s happening on the screen speak for itself.zion said:
I for one love the handheld cameras. But they only seem to work with war movies where the action is laid down fast and thick i.e. Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. Added that extra dimension that gets the blood pumping. I don't think it would work for War of the Worlds.
Anyway, I've heard nothing but bad things about this movie. Enough plotholes to make a schoolkid cry. I'm waiting for the other 3 movies to come out. The true-to-the-book version looks quite tasty. Set in Victorian England. The HG Wells CGI version should be stunning, I've grown up listening to the musical. And there's the straight to video US modern day version that didn't get Tom Cruise but got most of the cast from Starship Troopers.
Also, there's plans in the works for creating sequels to the original HG Wells book. Yes, they're going to go ahead and butcher a classic. It's going to be set after the events of the war between the then world superpower, Great Britain and her Royal Empire and the Martians. This means that those cunning victorian scientists will have reversed engineered the captured martian technology and use it to maintain and expand the Empire. Ker-ra-zy.
Then there's also the comic book planned. The world has gone WotW mad.
Anyway, I've heard nothing but bad things about this movie. Enough plotholes to make a schoolkid cry. I'm waiting for the other 3 movies to come out. The true-to-the-book version looks quite tasty. Set in Victorian England. The HG Wells CGI version should be stunning, I've grown up listening to the musical. And there's the straight to video US modern day version that didn't get Tom Cruise but got most of the cast from Starship Troopers.
Also, there's plans in the works for creating sequels to the original HG Wells book. Yes, they're going to go ahead and butcher a classic. It's going to be set after the events of the war between the then world superpower, Great Britain and her Royal Empire and the Martians. This means that those cunning victorian scientists will have reversed engineered the captured martian technology and use it to maintain and expand the Empire. Ker-ra-zy.
Then there's also the comic book planned. The world has gone WotW mad.
Janus58
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Thor said:
The one plot device that made me cringe was how they ended up with the only working car. Okay, an EMP knocks out all the cars. I could buy this as it could fry the computer module. But he tells the mechanic to change the solenoid (actually I think he says solenoids, plural, but the mechanic is holding up a starter and a starter has only one solenoid). Now the solenoid is only used when you start a car, it engages the starter with the flywheel so the starter can crank the engine. Thus when a car is running, the solenoid has no electricity running through it. If the EMP was strong enough to burn out an inactive solenoid, the entire electrical and ignition system would have been toast and would have had to be replaced, just changing the solenoid would have done nothing for you. Also if the EMP fried an inactive solenoid sitting in a car, what do you think it would have done to any replacements?
A better device would have been for him to have used his own car, which I believe was an older model Mustang. . The explanation being that his car did not have electronic ignition and thus no electronic module to be fried.
I love how two people have already commented on this movie without seeing it first. Personally, I thought the movie was pretty good.
I also read the book. I don't know what others have to say, but the speech and just the way it was written stopped me from enjoying it that much. English has pretty much stayed the same, but it's definitely changed a lot since then. It's pretty funny, because I'm a huge fan of modern science fiction.
I also read the book. I don't know what others have to say, but the speech and just the way it was written stopped me from enjoying it that much. English has pretty much stayed the same, but it's definitely changed a lot since then. It's pretty funny, because I'm a huge fan of modern science fiction.
Do think it's possible to get decenitised to plots holes in the same way as violence,
I just accepted that car bit because it sounded as if a solenoid wasn't actually a car part but just somthing the writers made up I was watching a science fiction movie after-all.
In my opinion WotWs seemed to give an urealistic ammount of luck to the main charater, although with that many people dieing the whole time someone could potentually get away by said luck since someone would have some given that the extras didn't have any.
All the alien ship design was top notch but perhaps under used throughout the film for the sake of it being literally dark.
I just accepted that car bit because it sounded as if a solenoid wasn't actually a car part but just somthing the writers made up I was watching a science fiction movie after-all.
In my opinion WotWs seemed to give an urealistic ammount of luck to the main charater, although with that many people dieing the whole time someone could potentually get away by said luck since someone would have some given that the extras didn't have any.
All the alien ship design was top notch but perhaps under used throughout the film for the sake of it being literally dark.