War of the Worlds [Spoilers]

[SizzelChest330]

I saw it last night...
I really enjoyed it!

I thought the Lightning was awesome
Tripods coming out of the ground
Their weapons were awesome
I liked the basement part
and a bunch of others

I still didn't get some things though

Planting Blood vessels? and Beaming humans down?
Why birds helped stop the tripods?
And if they were planning this for a million years
Wouldn't they have Completely different machinery?

But overall the effects and movie was Awesome

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by SizzelChest330

Why birds helped stop the tripods?

I saw it twice on the first day, yah i was bored. I must say its a great movie, one of the best ive seen in a while. There just seems to be no closure at the end though, its just bleh.

And the birds were just showing that their shields were down and able to be attacked.

[Madison]

Originally Posted by Corey Balint

I saw it twice on the first day, yah i was bored. I must say its a great movie, one of the best ive seen in a while. There just seems to be no closure at the end though, its just bleh.

And the birds were just showing that their shields were down and able to be attacked.

The birds fly toward the Tripods at Athens, NY and can't get as close. When Ray sees them land on them at Boston, he knows the shields are down.

[sanddrag]

Just saw it. While it was an edge of your seat type of movie (and it made me feel like it was really hot in that theatre) I wouldn't say it was terrifying. The put a lot into the sound effects. The movie would be nothing without them.

Overall, I thought it was just so so. The effects were good, but the story I thought was lacking. For pretty much the whole movie, it is just a guy and a little girl running from laser beams and stuff like that. There wasn't a whole lot of dialog either. Mostly just sounds of stuff blowing up, falling over, etc. And then every now and then a loud too loud imho fog horn blast type sound every time one of those darned things got ready to strike.

The end was wrapped up way to fast. I mean, one minute these things are on their way to destroying mankind (and everything mankind has built) and are unstoppable the next they are being brought down by a canon sitting on a soldiers shoulder? And the whole reason is some microbes or something like that?

That just doesn't do it for me. I know the makers of the film didn't write the story, but I thought there would be more to it. I'd call it a good exhibition of special effects capabilities, nothing more.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

The end was wrapped up way to fast. I mean, one minute these things are on their way to destroying mankind (and everything mankind has built) and are unstoppable the next they are being brought down by a canon sitting on a soldiers shoulder? And the whole reason is some microbes or something like that?

That just doesn't do it for me. I know the makers of the film didn't write the story, but I thought there would be more to it. I'd call it a good exhibition of special effects capabilities, nothing more.

I think the point of the story was to illustrate just how powerless humans were against these things and just how lucky we were that something so simple as the common cold could bring the entire thing to a halt when the combined power of the earth's military forces could do nothing. The only reason we were spared was we were lucky enough to have inhabited this world for thousands of years and had therefore "earned" the right to live here (although the armed fight over the minivan makes you wonder - naturalistic survival tendencies aside, humans like to revel in violent arguments over such petty things on a daily basis - can't we all just get along?).

You'd certainly think, however, that a technologically-advanced Martian (or whatever) species would have taken indigenous pathogens and diseases into account during their lengthy study of the earth and its people prior to the attack. I'm sure they had to deal with their own strains of sicknesses back on their homeworld. But that's not the way H.G. Wells laid it out.

[Adam Y.]

The end was wrapped up way to fast. I mean, one minute these things are on their way to destroying mankind (and everything mankind has built) and are unstoppable the next they are being brought down by a canon sitting on a soldiers shoulder? And the whole reason is some microbes or something like that?

Yeah but that's how the story ended in the original. The aliens die of the common cold. The end.

I was a little bothered how the family was completely unharmed at the end. The neighborhood was perfect, the people looked perfect, everything. Didn't make much sense to me.

Another part of the story. I need to read the whole story again but the family does survive intact their too.

[Andy A.]

I thought the movie was an example of fantastic sound effects.

But that was about it.

Oh, and it really made me want to play half life 2 through again.

-Andy A.

[Ryan Dognaux]

Originally Posted by Andy A.

Oh, and it really made me want to play half life 2 through again.

Agreed, Combine = Tripods.

[Ian Curtis]

I saw the first showing at my movie theatre (though it was rather inadvertant) and I thought the movie was great. However annoying Racheal was, the acting was really superb. I really enjoyed the grenade scene because it showed how something so small could bring down something so big.

[xzvrw2]

I loved the movie. Now it wasn't the scariest movie I have ever seen, but there was some times were I did jump a little bit. As for the ending, I was confuzed a little bit but then i realized how they were able to kill them. I thought that was awesome. And for those that think that this movie only has good sound effects....go watch Barney because this movie had it all. I give it two thumbs way up.

Stevie

[Koko Ed]

I love the everyman perspective of the movie and the intensity is great but the ending feels tacked on. My wife complained bitterly about it.

[Denman]

It was a good movie inderpendantly but it doesn't follow the original to anything.... i dont remember bazookas and modern cars in the 1920s

[tribotec_ca88]

The ending was a bit disappointing, although I do understand that that was not up to spielberg... but being a fan of tom cruise i thoroughly enjoyed the movie!!! (although i don't think i'll be watching it again for a while) lol...i would recommend it to any sci-fi lover!

[Dorienne]

I enjoyed this movie very much. I saw this about a month ago with some of my family (me being the only chick...Oye) The parts that needed to be suspenseful were suspenseful to the max, and the way it was put together was great.

Sure, some parts were unrealistic, like when Ray and his family got away from the water attack without being noticed, and how Robbie survived. But it was extremely well done. One of the most action- and suspense-filled movies I've seen.

I saw it with by friends a while ago and it was pretty thought provoking, like, what was the deal with those blood-root things? were they trying to terraform the earth? But I can see how the aliens could overlook the microbes etc, We humans can only see them with the help of microscopes and the like ourselves, If they're observing us from space, it'd be even harder for them to see 'em, on account of how far away they are. but anyway, The movie was awesome, and I can't wait to see it again...

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