"War of the Worlds"

[tdst51]

Been saving my free "pay per view" coupon for about 6 months now, and finally decided to try "War Of The Worlds". What a crappy crappy movie! That Tom Cruise has to be one of the worst actors I've ever seen, and the movie just seemed totally low budget to me. Did I read right? Was it directed by Steven Steilberg or Ed Wood?

[junkaudio]

it´s a spielberg movie. didn´t like it either in fact i turned it off after one hour

[Cleve]

It's what happens, I guess, when you try and mix H.G. Wells and Scientology.

Whatever the reason for the movie's failings, it's yet another forgettable remake of a movie that didn't need remaking.

[Sandy G]

Amen to that, Cleve. Anybody in Hollywood ever heard the old saying-"Leave well enough alone ?"

[Celt]

I thought it was called "Wart On The World"...

[Crotalus]

I too found it lacking. It felt like the aliens were only attacking Jersey and not the entire earth. The focus was to specific.

It seems to me that some directors lately want to take the "big budget movie with a specific human story" theme a little to far. You can see it in the movies Pearl Harbor, War of the Worlds, The Thin Red Line, Independence Day, etc. These movies are about huge world changing events in history, yet they focus in like a (friggin) laser beam on one human story and thus the story about the events around them suffer.

Sometimes it is OK just to focus on the world changing event with just a little humanity thrown in and it still be a good movie. Why does everything have to be a love story....ugh.

[Cleve]

Pearl Harbor - that one was hard to take. Especially in comparison to the masterpiece "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

All movies that you already know the ending of before you see it tend to stinko i.e. Titanic = boat hits iceberg, boat sinks, people drown. Or in this case WotW = Creatures come to earth, kill humans wholesale, creatures die from common cold.

I tend to like films that have unexpected endings but what do I know.

sdz

I found it really bad, esp. that the human race didnt get extinct. They had absolutly no chance to win the war against the aliens but only survive because the alien gets a cold

Well i found the sound effects pretty cool in the cinema, but thats pretty much it. Also the translation into german was pretty bad

[packratt]

I haven't watched the entire movie but what I saw follows the general plot of the original book reasonably well, including the ending. It's been 20 years and thousands of books since I read it but I think the biggest difference was in the location. For some reason I'm thinking HG Wells set it in England.

This is one of the rare movies that I hear is bad, and I dont watch it because of what I heard. Reading the comments here I am glad I didnt waste a couple hours of my life watching this piece of garbage.

[goldear]

Originally Posted by wesley1959

This is one of the rare movies that I hear is bad, and I dont watch it because of what I heard. Reading the comments here I am glad I didnt waste a couple hours of my life watching this piece of garbage.

Here here!! I almost rented it the other day when there was simply nothing else on the shelf. But I could not bring myself to do it, because I thought that the original story was just so lame, and I couldn't imagine how it could ever be anything but lame...

Thanks for saving me a couple of hours of my life.

[RussinOhio]

No doubt the movie could've been a lot better, but c'mon! The tripod coming up from the ground was pretty cool. I liked the way it just kinda stood there a moment looking down on everyone.....Lets out that fog-horn-attack-siginal......then Whamo! It starts "laser-blasting" everyone into dust!


Uh...everyone except Tom Cruise, of course.

I hated the ending. Just lame.

Russ

[RussinOhio]

Originally Posted by Cleve

Pearl Harbor - that one was hard to take. Especially in comparison to the masterpiece "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

Yes. "Pearl Harbour" was crap!

Some of the technical goofs were a real hoot! How about the moderen day aircraft carrier "dressed-up" to look like a WW2 ship!!(The Hornet) I mean for goodness sake you can even see the catapult runs on the deck! The "Belknap" anti-collision pole too!

You also see some 1960's vintage ships getting blown up!

The money they spent on that movie there is no excuse for such mistakes.


BAD movie Mr. Bay.....REAL BAD.

Russ

[cubdog]

I just can't bring myself to watch anything Tom Cruise is in. What a pantload he is! BTW concerning Pearl, I have a fondness for it since the ship I served on for four years was used in the filming. DE-1062 is seen in a number of scenes.

cubdog