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Did ya' see that spiffy new WAR OF THE WORLDS tv spot' No' Click here!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with another little peek at Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS which includes the very first teeny-tiny itsy bitsy glimpse of an alien. There's also a new shot that has Tom Cruise looking at camera and screaming "Robbie!" which is one of the 3 scenes I saw shot during my visit to the set. You'll read more about that with my second and final WAR OF THE WORLDS set report early next week, but to hold you over you can click at either of the two links below to find the spot! Enjoy!
CLICK IT HERE TO GO TO THEMOVIEBOX.NET... IT'S TV SPOT #2!
OR YOU CAN CLICK HERE TO GO TO EVEOFWAR.COM!!
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I want to see some mutherfuckin Aliens Boy
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How many different ways can they show the same goddamn thing? The next commerical or trailer better have a space ship, an alien or an alien war machine in it or SOMETHING. We got it, shit blows up and people run away it in this movie. Are there any godforsaken aliens in this movie or what?
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Sweet, better than squat.
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End of story.
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There's a big thingy coming out of the fire. Badass! Big thingys!!
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May 14, 2005 6:01:20 AM CDT
PAVEMENT!!! The aliens hate PAVEMENT!!!! Everyone off the PAVE
by inspectordoppler
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May 14, 2005 6:03:50 AM CDT
Spielberg + Sci Fi + big fiery thingys + Tom Cruise's hot body =
by rearden
Screw you for judging me.
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This just seems waaay too standard. Looking at these TV spots and trailers one could easily mistake War of The Worlds for a Michael Bay film... Sorry but I don't think this is going to be anything special.
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i think its pretty obvious that we will finally see the full trailer next week
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Or stop talking about it so much until closer to the release date?
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I was watching the last episode of Enterprise on my Tivo, When this TV spot came on by surprise, It was a great spot with at least a tiny glimps of the aliens via a tenticle.
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May 14, 2005 6:49:19 AM CDT
You guys might as well stop bitching about being teased
by gheorghe zamfir
Chances are we're not gonna get any of the money shots before the movie comes out, probably be easier to just save your time and come to grips with their ad campaign instead of bitching about it every time a commercial comes out.
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And it was quite offensive back then too.
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With all the people coming out of their houses, etc. It was more moody and hopefully this stuff is in the movie. This one is more like a quick re-hash of the last ones.
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What posts I was referring to just got deleted. Carry on ...
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Damn these enter buttons
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What goddamn Tentacle where please explain. Love the teasers tease me more you bad girl, oh too late i have made a mess. Ten minutes and we will be off again.
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Well - I rmember the last time Hollywood decided they could make a film about this book. Oh dear. Spielberg is an excellent directory when he's given the right material. But I just don't think he's good with traditional Sci-Fi. Not since Close Encounters. Ai, Minority Report - good grief they were pedentry beauties. Pretty, but slow going and lacked any 'fizz'. But if he treats this film like Schindlers List, Private Ryan and even 'Catch Me if You Can'. Well then we are in for a treat.
My money is on a film that bears little resembloance to the book but captures the human element. That's something the book touches on and he may take it further. On the other hand it could be a pile of CGI and bigname mush. No. Please don't do another Minority Report. I beg you. I just hope that he's read the book and other Wells books such as 'The Shape of things to come' 'The First Men in the Moon' 'Island of Doctor Moreau' There more social commentaries' And WOTW is the same.
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Found it, thats great this film will do for Pavements what Jaws did for the Sea. And the poster who claims that Spielberg is a DIRECTORY is wrong he is a DIRECTOR,gosh that made me chuckle HEE HAW.
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HEE HEE HAW.
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May 14, 2005 8:30:22 AM CDT
Saw a longer trailer last night before Kingdom of Heaven
by minderbinder
Just more running and screaming. Meh.
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At the very end, you see two legs behind the people running away. Looks rounder than the previous visualisations ...
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Just behind the toppling church spire. Go look...
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COME ON. Frankly, I don't care to sit around hitting the pause button twenty times during a trailer. It was practically a strobe effect. PLEASE. Show me a trailer, or don't. I suppose it was a love letter to you tweener geeks.
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Shit, no more Mimosas.
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May 14, 2005 11:20:45 AM CDT
Why does there have to be a cute kid in every.single.spielberg.m
by i dunno
..except Indy 1 and 3, there always has to be some precocious kid in danger. I just hope that girl doesn't do any gymnastic kicks on a tripod.
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May 14, 2005 11:23:46 AM CDT
"The next commerical or trailer better have a space ship, an ali
by adambalm
It won't have a spaceship, as Mr. Spielberg has decided to adapt the most famous space invasion story of all time, and take out the whole 'they came from space' part. To me, ina morbidly fascinating way, this represents perfectly the schizoid nature of hollywood these days. Spielberg: 'Oh, we took out the core of the book, the whole stuff about them coming from Mars. But we added in the red weed from the book! Yeah, I know that stuff only made sense because they were from the red planet, but it proves that we're fans, right? Right??!' All film makers have to do these days is wax poetic about what huge fans they are, while completely disregarding the spirit of the source material, and throwing in little easter eggs for the fans. 'OMFG tehy used the opening from the book in the first trailer!!!11' Fans are the battered wives of hollywood. They keep smacking us around and we keep coming back again. Oh, they raped us with the Batman movies, but they say they love us again. Goyer said it himself. They say they can change. -
spielberg + war of the worlds= big enough already, why spunk away so much money on casting Cruise? there are loads of quality male actors who can, you know, like, act. seen the trailers a few times now and it looks shit to be honest. he should have made ET2.
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May 14, 2005 11:59:23 AM CDT
You ADD sufferers who keep whining about not seeing aliens would
by i dunno
The shark!! Where's the Goddamned SHARK!!! Spielberg, you teasing prick! Sigh.
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you've really confused them by using 'anneurism', good work fella!
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May 14, 2005 12:06:36 PM CDT
What's this I hear about people wanting to see camera-equipment
by forestal
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May 14, 2005 12:13:25 PM CDT
netrix, you might have a point., if only "pedentry" was a word.
by some dude
Christ, it doesn't even sound like an adjective. Does it have something to do with foot-fucking?
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is still my favourite film title ever, never seen it, or ever going to. the punctuation makes it
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May 14, 2005 12:33:18 PM CDT
Cruise is always cool and the Spielmeister is sometimes good but
by filmrage
WOTW is a story about the collapse and subjugation of civilization.
Spielberg, Cruise and Hollywood are trying it seems to give the movie the indy flick look with the dad playing catch in the crappy working class back yard that all but needs a knackered fridge to complete the picture.
I can only guess at the story line but in the original the main character is just along for the ride and does nothing to influence events.
So Cruise will run from here to there saving his kid then the monsters get interplanetary aids and die.
I'll cough up the dough and watch it but despite liking Cruise and loving the original WOTW story (but not the 50's movie) I'm most worried about Spielberg -
May 14, 2005 12:37:58 PM CDT
I wonder if these are the same people who complained about not s
by ribbons
Granted, that movie sucked, but you know what I'm sayin'. Anyway, neat teaser, I guess. The tentacle was pretty unexpected.
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...but I hope the aliens turn out to be E.T.s.
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http://www.cgchannel.com/gallery/viewimage.jsp?imgID=8596 this guy is better then Jeff Darrow
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May 14, 2005 1:31:35 PM CDT
Can't see the alien tentacle, could someone screencap it?
by monkey butler
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I'm guessing it's the scene right after "Won't be started by humans." There's a big tentacle-looking thing coming through the door like the water alien from abyss. Nothing terribly special though, it looks like a huge rubber tube suspended in the air. Can't fucking wait for this movie though and I hope Speilberg does it justice. WotW has been my dream movie since I was a little kid, and I doubt it can be done properly without an R rating. It's supposed to be like a modern Holocaust with aliens and giant tripod death machines.
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May 14, 2005 1:57:18 PM CDT
Yeah, if the Berg had any balls it would be R-rated.
by performingmonkey
If he wants to make it like Private Ryan he should go the whole hog.
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I'm not saying it should be like Saving Private Ryan - it's not really that kind of movie. I'm saying it should be more like Shindlers List and not at all like Independance Day.
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"Steve, let me pitch this to you. your biggest commercial success was ET. Your biggest critical success was Schindler's List. So I got it. Schindler's List...wait for it...with aliens! Hello? Steve?"
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If they really had balls that would make a film about a class II civilization encountering our solar system to some DJ Kristoff music .... that would be some fucking shit... the only plausible way an alien civilization would be a scary earth shattering encounter would be when they were just passing by and absorbed our planet , converted it into some bizarre technological structure. An alien civilization that has passed its technological spike and has become a permanent comic resident would have no interest in war with us HAHAahahahahaha
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May 14, 2005 3:01:44 PM CDT
DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINK: http://media.themoviebox.net/qt/1256368-02
by alexandra.dupont
Has anyone found a more direct link than this? http://media.themoviebox.net/qt/1256368-025632-38/wotwtvspot2.mov
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THAT was f'ing funny.
I love the teaser angle, part of me is tired of knowing every frame of a movie by heart by the time I see the whole thing. -
to for instance the last kingdom of heaven trailer, which pretty much gave away everything but the end credits. the trailer was much better than the movie too...
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I know its pretty unlikely, but I'd love it if Spielberg decided to give NOTHING away about the look of the aliens/tripods before WOTW's release; it'd make going to see the film far more exciting. I've already seen and heard too much of Revenge of the Sith to be looking forward to seeing it-Word to the wise Steve, lay off the published screenplays and art of...books until after June 29...
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It gave you nothing. You had no idea what it was about. It was like, "Watch this, don't watch this. I give a fuck".
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May 14, 2005 4:51:54 PM CDT
I'm only here to say this is bullshit - please AICN stop hyping
by flipster
This will suck so bad because it will be just a soap opera about Tom Cruise emoting.
A great sci-fi movie it won't be. Spielberg has gone insanely soft (vs Jaws) and we will not see the grittiness necessary to suspend disbelief for such a world changing event.
And Tom Cruise will have to be onscreen so much that it will be grating - kinda like those horribly gratuitous shots of Frodo at ther end of ROTK. It'll take viewers out of the fantasy.
C'mon those trailers suck ass. The aliens I am betting will be on screen for about 5% of the time with alien tech only see maybe 10 -15% of the rest of the movie. It's gonna be a snoozer. A soap opera starring Tom Cruise - oh joy.
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But its only mine that really matters. If you dont wanna be teased, dont fucken watch bitches. No one is putting a gun to your craniums to click on the link;you little sluts.
Think this movie is gonna suck? Well, I respect your choice NOT TO SEE it. Other than that STFU and let others enjoy the summer hype. Regardless of how crappy or good these turn out to be.
PS: And unless you have more talent than Spielberg (and proof of such) STFU you ugly-ass whiny malcontents. Thank you. -
SomeDude - please write this one down: Pedantry: noun, Plural-ries. The practice of being a pedant, esp. in the minute observance of petty rules or details.
Now you know read my post again.
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Interesting that you think 'Jaws' is Spielberg's "grittiest" movie. It makes it that much easier for me to disregard your opinion.
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I'm pretty sure he was talking about your spelling.
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I hope so. But is that not a bit pedantic?
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I agree with Ribbons in part. Jaw is not the most 'grittiest' of his films. But then again - shit this one won't be either. Will it????
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You don't get it. This is a serious piece of Science Fiction and a 'serious' director. We care about what is being produced and want to see quality film making.
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An early, gritty (but not THAT gritty) Spielberg opus called JAW? OK, I know, I'm being pedentic.
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Jesus, why don't you crybaby cocksuckers reserve judgement until you actually see the goddamn thing??? so flipster, Cruise will just emote for 2 hours, the aliens will be nearly nonexistent and the whole thing will be a snoozer.....thous hast spoken, Nostradamus. While you're at it could you please tell me the winning Powerball numbers in D.C. next week? You fucking douchbag, why don't you and the rest of your ilk on these boards retrieve your ballsack from your wife or gf's purse and quit your bitching for once. As for those complaining about no shots of any aliens or ships......it's called keeping the designs a surprise for the audience you brainless twats. Similar to the trailer for Spielberg's 'Jurassic Park', sure we saw a split shot or three of dinos in that one but the total amount of dino footage equalled LESS THAN ONE SECOND. Ever see the trailer for Ridley Scott's 'Alien'? How about 'Jaws'? No glimpse of the creature there. And those two are considered some of the best previews ever.
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Shit man, it's late here in the UK. But think of it! The sequel - Jaw. It's half the shark it used to be! ;-)
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Harsh words. But you've got a point. At the same time. Shit, what is the guy up to? We're just nervous that he will do another AI: a film that you sit though and forget about once you walk out the cinema. Still it's just a film. Right?
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These are the same ass monkeys that will be whining when Petey Jackson doesn't show da big ape in the King Kong trailer later this summer.
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What do people think about this one then???
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He does it in every movie he makes and it pisses me off. He has gotten worse about it the older he's gotten, too. Still going to see this, though, it's WotW (notice the 't' in that acronoym... does WoW make anyone else automatically think "World of Warcraft"?)
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Damn my spelling issues with his name
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that kid looks like Courtney Love! YUCK!!!!!!!
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No no - I agree Jaws wasn't the grittiest, but just wanted to highlight how he makes more and more "family" fare - I might be still pissed at the removal of the gun from ET -yeah I'm still pissed and have zero faith Spielberg is capable of making a film that caters to the adult segment of the genre.
If you had to, I would rip apart my post by pointing out that showing tech/aliens isn't what sci fi is all about.. (galacta is a fave sci fi film)
[This is not the place to whine about someone's spelling. Get a clue]
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look buddy you wouldn't have the balls to say that stuff to my face in the real world so don't be calling me names here, alright.
If you want to come up to Vancouver sometime leave me your hotel number and I'll come over and beat the shit of you cuz that sounds like what you want. -
May 14, 2005 7:47:06 PM CDT
Well good or bad, Minority Report wasn't really a kid's movie.
by i dunno
And Saving Private Ryan was just 5 films back. Granted, The Terminal and Catch Me if You Can made him lose some credibility but he can still do it if he wants to. The question is, does he want to. I'd feel better about WotW if there wasn't the requisite cute kid. I think Spielberg clones them at his ranch.
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May 14, 2005 8:19:18 PM CDT
One reason to skip this: You just KNOW the bratty-cute kid (Dako
by hanfiredfirst
Spielberg = schmaltz.
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May 14, 2005 8:31:19 PM CDT
Scientology tent on set of 'War of the Worlds' per Cruise's dema
by hanfiredfirst
Kinda weird... "Cruise was asked specifically why he had a tent set up promoting his religion on the Paramount set of his new film with Spielberg titled War of the Worlds. 'I felt honored to have volunteer Scientology ministers on the set,' he said. Steven Spielberg tacitly admitted it was 'an information tent' promoting a 'belief system,' but then claimed that 'no one was compelled to frequent it.' " http://tinyurl.com/baoah
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shots of people looking stupidly at something they're supposed to be awed over are there going to be in this Spielberg film?
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Suck my taint, L. Ron Hubbard!
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created by a science-fiction author, where you're told that the spirits of evil aliens live in volcanoes and do bad things to people. I'd buy that for a dollar!
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I thought that was Day After Tomorrow? Who the hell knows; all these disaster movies are the same. We can only hope to see the Statue of Liberty destroyed in some way.
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Alright, I'll catch some flack for this perhaps but if you skip ahead to Chapter 11 of the Dreamcatcher DVD, you can see what is meant when we say WOTW will suffer because Spielberg is unwilling to make adult level sci fi, only safe and stale with happy endings.
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...As long as it is earned and not cheated too. Unfortunately, Spielberg often cheats his way to a happy ending (see: the completely unnecessary opening and concluding sequences of Saving Private Ryan).
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It's an amusing conceit, showing Tom Cruise as a blue-collar Joe who loves his wife and kid. Riiiiggghhtt. I hope the poster consists of a huge shot of his head as usual.
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No shit you were grasping for the word "pedantry." It is really too bad then that had you spelled the word correctly, your usage would still have been wrong. The word you should have used (and spelled correctly) was pedantic. Better luck next time. PS- If English is your second language, then all is forgiven.
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Why do people always cry about this? It isn't going to change anytime soon. Either you have the budget to make a big sci-fi film with the effects it deserves, or you forfeit your budget for an R rating which will limit your audience and sales. If it was rated R you'd be crying about how crappy the effects are.
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a limited budget with a better, more mature story than a big-budget blockbuster that is ultimately forgettable. I think that CG can be a crutch as much as it can be a benefit in movies.
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I think that is a tenticle from a tripod or another machine like the one you can make out in those 2 frames at the end. It looks way to big and metally for a creature.
The teaser poster already shows a hand much like e.t. or the original movie alien, and niether of them had tenticles.
I remember in the book that a tenticle touched his boot as he was hiding out in the house but did a machine tenticle come in first? it certainly did in the original movie anyway, so maybe this will feature the same sort of scene.
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Rated R is unnecessary for a more mature story. It can produce a more intense, visceral experience, but just because you can't directly SHOW horrific things that doesn't mean you can't make it just as clear that they're occurring. Some of the most intense/emotional moments from movies I've loved have occurred off screen for precisely this reason. Nothing wrong with a little blood 'n guts though
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However, when you try to pigeonhole a concept that is better-suited for an R-rating into a PG-13, you lose something that can't be translated properly. I'm not saying that this particular movie is better-suited to an R-rating, but the original point was that you would lose budget with an R-rating, and my point was that I would rather have a smaller budget and less effects while retaining the original story, rather than forcing it into a PG-13 rating in order to make it into a blockbuster.
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Alien vs Predator, Elektra, WAR OF THE WORLDS!
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That seems pretty gratuitous if you ask me. Would you prefer that robots gored the Flesh Fair faculty? Or are you just saying it was "R-rated material" because it was generated by Stanley Kubrick?
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Yeah, I agree: it is a little on the pedantic side.
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Actually (and this may make it easier for people to ignore MY opinion), but 'A.I.' is one of the few recent movies that stayed with me after I left the theater. Now that might have more to do with where I was then (and now) than the movie itself, but I specifically remember the sensation of thinking about it days afterward.
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Isn't that the movie where the aliens come out of people's asses?
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Some movies are pre-disposed to being R-rated. Aliens vs Predator was bad for a lot of reasons, but hamstringing two R-rated premises into one and then trying to lighten it to a PG-13 was a terrible idea, and weakened an already weak movie. I'm not saying that gratuitous gore and violence would have saved it, but it wouldn've have hurt. Also, an R-rating doesn't always necessarily mean sex and violence. That's not to say that all movies should be made to fit an R-rating, but my point is that it would be stupid to take an R-rated movie premise and try to shoehorn it into a PG-13 just to make sure you kept a big budget. If AvP proved anything, it's that a big budget does not equal a good movie. Hell, TONS of movies have proven that.
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...so, wait... ...are we talking about the same movie here?
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tom cruise saves the day.
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because I never mentioned AI. You brought it up, and I thought maybe as an example of a movie that wouldn't really work as an R-rated movie. I wasn't trying to say that it should've been R-rated, or that it would've been better as such. Not all movies, nor most movies, should be R-rated. My point, again, was that those premises which lend themselves to an R-rating, such as for example horror movies, should be made as R-rated movies, and not cut-up to make a PG-13 rating just to increase their budget. AI's premise didn't necessitate any of the things that would cause an R-rating, and so there would be no good reason to make it that way. But Aliens vs Predator most certainly should have been R-rated, with all the blood, gore, and cursing that took place in their predecessors.
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Sorry for the mix-up
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The aliens are this movie's ace in the hole. If their picture is all over the place before it comes out, it takes away some of the effect that seeing them for the first time onscreen would have. If you don't want to see it because the marketing department ISN'T ruining that experience for you, be my guest, but I don't think many people will feel compelled to stay away from the theaters for the same reason.
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May 15, 2005 1:12:29 PM CDT
Right now I'm guessing BroncoFan to be about 11 or 12 years old.
by forestal
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The sad thing is, I remember right after 'A.I.' came out he said something like "I'm done making films for the lowest common denominator, I'm turning over a new leaf, etc.," when clearly none of that is true. Whether or not this (or 'Terminal'...) is any good, it's Spielberg at his most populist.
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yeah - lots not so good in that flick, but those are some scary fucking aliens rendered on screen.
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'A.I.' is fairly polarizing for a Spielberg movie; also, those were robots, not aliens. I was referring to 'Terminal' and now this, 'War of the Worlds.' Personally I don't give a shit whether or not Tom Cruise's character is divorced; what the fuck does that have to do with aliens taking over the world? But it adds "domestic drama" to a movie that oughtn't need it.
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May 15, 2005 4:15:12 PM CDT
Re: BroncoFan "I am sick and damn tired of these trailers"
by john-locke
You are Trolling aren't ya? That has really made me laugh, seriously dude thats some funny shit to say.
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May 15, 2005 7:57:29 PM CDT
Sin City you sure said it! *Sigh* Tired of Speilberg, Tired of
by oompa_radar
I can't in good conscience do anything but boycott this unholy union, especially as it's become yet another of the countless cruddy remake films that the inane new Hollywood machine is churning out.
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I'm not a fan of either personally, so when they get together I don't get excited. I think that Cruise is overrated as an actor, personally. I also don't really get them as people, which hurts my enjoyment of their films when they're trying to relate to me (the everyman). Anyway, it's going to be a blockbuster, it's probably going to make a lot of money, and some of us will like it and some of us will hate it, and ultimately it's going to be one of those movies that you'll probably buy regardless and these two will continue making movies.
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I can understand why people dislike him so much; there are actors who deserve the work that he gets because of his looks and his star power. I don't admire him so much for his acting prowess (although contrary to popular belief, or so it seems, he's given good performances before), but he has a resume to die for, so whatever you think of the man, his bizarre romantic flings, whatever, at least he knows how to pick 'em.
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May 15, 2005 11:10:23 PM CDT
It's not that Spielberg can't get a movie made off his name alon
by jedistryker
It's that he's an elitist who chooses to work exclusively with his inner-circle of A-list "friends".
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What brought that on?
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a new WOTW TV spot aired durring the final episode of Everybody Loves Ramond, From What some of the people who posted on the war of the worlds film site, It featured a bunch of new footage, And possibly of a tripod, I hope someone recorded this.
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Not a bad money-making idea, but nothing groundbreaking. The teasers, though, are not very impressive. Two major upcoming films that really look promising are Batman Begins and Narnia.
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