ATTN: Netphoria

[Axis of Action]

for those of you who have not seen War of the Worlds... it's not as great as all the faggots on here have said. the first 30-45 minutes are cool, after that the storyline degrades into pure blubber and becomes entirely gay. further more they explain roughly nothing and assume you have studied the book.

[alisonmonster]

Originally posted by Axis of Action
for those of you who have not seen War of the Worlds... it's not as great as all the faggots on here have said. the first 30-45 minutes are cool, after that the storyline degrades into pure blubber and becomes entirely gay. further more they explain roughly nothing and assume you have studied the book.

you could have replaced 'war of the worlds' there with A.I as well.

i like spielberg, he is one of the few directors besides kubrick i generally like enough to just go see a movie because of direction alone. Though i dont know about this one- he does have a tendancy to go a little too sentimental sometimes.

[Axis of Action]

Originally posted by alisonmonster


you could have replaced 'war of the worlds' there with A.I as well.

i like spielberg, he is one of the few directors besides kubrick i generally like enough to just go see a movie because of direction alone. Though i dont know about this one- he does have a tendancy to go a little too sentimental sometimes.

the journey in A.I. is so much more interesting and developed than in War of the Worlds though. like it suffers from the same sentimentality that this does but it feels like that's a lot more of the point of A.I. than this movie. A.I. is a pinocchio-esque story about a boy loving his mother. War of the Worlds is family feud with a disaster backdrop.

A.I. is a masterpiece

[Ugly]

yer leaving out the intensity, man. First Tripod reveal. Freakin genius.

[Fattening Ass]

Lord Xenu

[Axis of Action]

Originally posted by Ugly
yer leaving out the intensity, man. First Tripod reveal. Freakin genius.

you're leaving out the second sentence I typed. I liked the opening half hour or so. but after that it's pure shit. it loses all intensity and becomes entirely predictable and boring.

A.I. is easily one of the ten best movies of this decade so far

[neopryn]

how can you say the mob scene wasn't intense. wtf.

[Fattening Ass]

yeah man how can you

[Sepiae]

The interesting parts of it were the examinations of human desperation and the lengths we will go to hurt each other in order to survive.

I found it pretty dull, to be honest. It seemed very repetitive. There was some amazingly beautiful shots and it was really cool to look at, but I just felt like the same thing was happening over and over again.

Cruise's character was also a fucking cunt.

[Axis of Action]

Originally posted by Sepiae
The interesting parts of it were the examinations of human desperation and the lengths we will go to hurt each other in order to survive.

oh clearly this is the most interesting part, but Spielberg is a sucker for the family holiday flick and therefore only infers it and never shows it, nevermind taking it to the logical extreme. the worst we get is that guy shooting the driver of the van, which is perhaps the best scene in the film.

[Ugly]

even if you don't dig the later half of the movie, its worth it for the first chunk. Hell, the first tripod scene is worth the ticket price alone. Screw that, the single unbroken shot when Cruise is running is worth it.

[Fattening Ass]

i seriously doubt it you movie nut

[Mayfuck]

what so bad about the end of the movie?

[Ugly]

Originally posted by Mayfuck
what so bad about the end of the movie?

people take umbrage with this bit:

http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/worlds/2-8.html

And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians -- DEAD! -- slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

For so it had come about, as indeed I and many men might have foreseen had not terror and disaster blinded our minds. These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things -- taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many -- those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance -- our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

Its in the voice over at the end. Its not word for word, but that's basically the ending you get in the flick.

[netphoria]

thanks, but you know....i'm not that much into movies anyway

[daydreamer999]

i was shocked that people liked it so much here, even considering netphorian bad taste. i saw the trailer and it looked abysmal, i'll probably check it out sometime though

[kiwi]

Originally posted by daydreamer999
i was shocked that people liked it so much here, even considering netphorian bad taste. i saw the trailer and it looked abysmal, i'll probably check it out sometime though

we should all like TOTALLY get REALLY HIGH and go see it

like RIGHT NOW

[Axis of Action]

Originally posted by Ugly
even if you don't dig the later half of the movie, its worth it for the first chunk. Hell, the first tripod scene is worth the ticket price alone. Screw that, the single unbroken shot when Cruise is running is worth it.

hardly. it's worth renting. it's not worth $8 - $9 for about 10 minutes of quality entertainment.

furthermore, I don't care about the stupid ending staying true to HG Wells' stupid original ending. my argument is they should never have adapted it in the first place. it's entirely ridiculous that aliens would massively attack like that. it makes absolutely no sense. furthermore, it makes no sense that they wouldn't be prepared for the biological differences in our air and water. so much of it is just not thought out. god. like I'm sure it was cool and scary back in the day, but it does not work anymore.

[Ugly]

Originally posted by Axis of Action

furthermore, it makes no sense that they wouldn't be prepared for the biological differences in our air and water. so much of it is just not thought out. god. like I'm sure it was cool and scary back in the day, but it does not work anymore.

one of the things that bugs the hell out of me about Signs is kind of the same complaint: the aliens are fucking stupid to not know that water (and Earth is, like, what % water?) could destory them.

HOWEVER - the difference is in Signs, the alien is like "ARGH! WATER!! IT BURNS!!!" immediately. That's silly - you stupid alien, you should have known that before you came round mah house.

In War of the Worlds - its a gradual process. It sneaks up on them. They didn't see it commin'. Thats why I think it works better. Its still kind of a Dues Ex Machina, but its earned instead of just given as an easy out.

Besides, you're attacking this movie from too much of a writerly / plotting perspective - killing any fun to be had. The best thing about the flick is how Spielberg works the camera, can set mood, using imagery and feelings from 9/11 throughout the movie, and his workin' of set pieces. Its a very visceral and visual experience - just seeing Spielberg setting up sequences and knocking them down. And it definitely benefits from a big ass honkin' screen with a huge loud sound system.