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Harry survives Spielberg's Brutal WAR OF THE WORLDS And Loves It!
SPOILER ALERT !!
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Looking foward to this flick. Starting to dig the ad campaign now that it is slowly revealing more.
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Why are theaters slumping so badly? Batman was great, this looks sweet, Land of the Dead - what more do people want?
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I was there reading a freaking dvd review and at the bottom of the page a window was playing some sort of video, of course it caught my eye and it was a goddamned tripod walking down a street. I wanted to goto that flick without seeing anything. DMAN YOU CHUD!!!
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I don't care if short-stuff Cruise has gone a bit crazy... I'll be there opening night. Spielberg + Aliens = Genius
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Harry listen Harry, Harry listen to me Harry let me finish Harry Harry Ritalin ritalin it's a street drug Harry Harry let me talk let me talk Harry Harry Harry I know about this. You are uneducated Harry Harry listen to me Boo Harry Boo.
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ya beothches!
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They've kept the spoiler images of this movie wrapped up pretty tight, I don't think that they would allow a major spoiler to play on a banner add on a website devoted to internet movie rumors. All I saw was a one second shot of some kind of posts crashing into the street. I hardly call that a spoiler
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I don't care if Cruise is nuts, and talking smack to Matt Laurer, Laurer is a self-serving news whore anyways.
Cruise is about entertainment and he has more than entertained me with how he has been acting the past 3 months. He is a total self-serving nutjob...Thanks for the laughs Cruise!!!The crazier the better Cruise!! -
Here you go folks!
http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/screenreviews/waroftheworlds.htm
What Harry tried to mask (and this is the general feeling of the film) is that it is a masterpiece until...you guessed it...Spielberg throws in yet ANOTHER happy ending for no reason whatsoever! Why does this guy keep doing it?
I swear, If you switch off AI and MR 15 minutes before the actual ending then they're masterpieces, it just seems the guy hasn't got the balls to take his dark films through to their logical conclusion.
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What's Harry's big deal with Speilberg? So far he's the only one even liking it.
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the whole Tom Cruise debacle makes me want to just wait for the dvd. I've had enough of his mugging for a good while. The trailers are pretty impressive though.
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david koepp, david koepp, you're glib. dissappoiting cop-out ending, great action, but these movies never answer WHY. WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS? and the great morgan freeman saying they were 'envious' is not a suitable answer, nor is the cop-out, extremely convineint ending, for shame!!
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Okay, so what's the problem with movies ending on an up beat? If you'd sit down and watch the film, you'd be like I was, and wanting the poor slob, ray ferrier to get at least a little bit of a happy ending, after all the things he's had to endure, not to mention drag his children through over those few days (weeks maybe, the passage of time isn't that clear). Maybe that's just me.
So, just to rant a little bit, it's time to separate reality from fantasy, in movies, things are allowed to end happily, even if that's not how they would end if freaky aliens with tripods destroyed the world. But just on occasion, similar things have happened, just to drag 9/11 into it for a little while, some people survived it, and went home that night.
And well, complain to spielberg about his unwillingness to be 'edgy' or 'hip' by having the aliens kill every character in the movie, then stop off at an underground music store, pick up some vinyls, and eat sushi. I could go on, but I'll save some for the inevitable attacks on my character and lineage that are about to occur. -
You must be out of your mind.
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There will be some spilers here if you guys even care... After the initial awe has faded the film is just really bland. I was never really affraid for these characters and quite frankly I found the aliens kinda cute... I think the clencher was that the son survives (after we've all come to terms with his "death") I don't mind Ray and his daughter surviving.... but the son? the ex? the ex's husband and parents? Fuck that!
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Jun 30, 2005 1:50:44 PM CDT
I agree, this movie, while having awesome visuals at times, and
by iamnicksaicnsn
SPOILERS!: The aliens are too cute, we should have never seen them, they acted like they were little ETs. When the alien has the bike fall on him, i was thinking "aww, he's curious about people..." not, "OH MY GOD THEY ARE KILLING MACHINES." The Pods were freaky enough by themselves, and showing the aliens took away from what we thought was a cold and uncaring species. Who the hell was that woman and her daughter when they were trying to get on the barge, and what was the point of having us introduced to her, and then her disappearing 5 minutes later? WHY THE HELL did the son survive??? When I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, "well, ok... so they meet up with the family... i guess i can accept that since it looks like the son's died, that shows a little balls from Spielberg..." AND THEN THE FUCKER POPS UP AGAIN!!! It was so quick! We don't even really get to see any evidence of Tom Cruise's true redemption! WHAT I LIKED: Tim Robbins, 9/11 Imagery, Iraq War references, the fact that i was stuck in my seat, unable to move for the first 95% of the movie, the blood-fertilizer.
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I think I liked it considerably more than some people here, but I hated the son popping back up again, too. It undermines a lot of the movie having the son miraculously survive when thousands of others had been vaporized for much less than walking directly into a fireball. Other than that, though... I was dreading seeing the aliens (thinking they'd screw it up), but I liked the design a lot. It's good that were intentionally not "scary" looking, just completely ALIEN. I'd heard a lot of criticisms about the basement sequence with Tim Robbins, about it being overlong, but there was just as much action down there as there was throughout the rest of the movie. Ten minutes of talking, then the rest is hiding from a tentacle and the invading aliens. Anyway, good movie. BATMAN BEGINS is still the king of the summer to me, but I was never completely awed like I was throughout WAR.
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The film was well done, but I have a few quibbles.
1. Where were all of the people walking to? Throughout the film people were walking and walking and walking... where in the world were they going??? No place was safe!!!
2. Tim Robbin's character was 'okay.' But I grew tired of him quickly. I was glad when Tom got rid of him.
3. How the heck did Tom's son survive the firey battle??? Spielburg just couldn't resist a feel good ending by having that kid pop up again. They should have left him toast.
4. Tom having the only working vehicle in town was a little quirky, but the van ride was filmed so uniquely that I can't complain too much..
The first alien sequence will go down in history as one of the most memorable ever!!!!!!!!!
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yeah...at times effective in this movie. but, similar images of "memorial walls" and so on in the first couple of eps of BSG were more effective since the characters were actually more real.
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movie sucked. i dont care how great the first 90 mins were, those last 30 mins killed it for me. utter crap.
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I resisted seeing this. I hate current movie marketing where you're urged to see a movie opening weekend. But I decided to go with my brothers, action and sci-fi fans all, when they wanted to see this. It was a very well done movie, I'll have to say.
Of course, until the last 5 minutes in Boston with that Hallmark moment.
But Spielberg had to wrap up the main plotline somehow, and he did, but it was too on the nose.
And what was the main plotline?
*******SPOILERS BELOW, STOP NOW IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS ******
The main story line you hear in the first 5-10 minutes of the movie; Miranda Otto's character tells Ray/Cruise: "Ray, take care of our kids."
Also, this flick is not so much anti-war as some have said; in fact it glorifies self-sacrifice and courage in the face of overwhelming odds and certain doom. It is also 'anti-occupation'.
First hint: Robbie's report is on the French occupation in Algeria.
Second: Tim Robbin's Ogilvy says, "Occupations never work. History teaches us that. We can be the resistance."
I was impressed with the layers of storylines. The journey of Ray to take his children to safety is story 1. The alien invasion and wether they will succeed in their conquest is story 2. Story 3 is Ray's character 'arc' (I hate that phrase), where he goes from irresponsible and self-absorbed to learning about self-sacrifice, responsibility for one's fellow man and courage.
Overall, this was a damn good movie, made up of great set piece moments. To all aspiring filmmakers, when the DVD arrives, buy it and study all the set-ups and payoffs; there are many and are done extremely well.
An odd thing I noticed: the characters' first names all start with an 'R'---Ray, Rachel, Robbie.
Does that mean anything?
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Very fun film, despite the gigantic plot hole. I admit, I enjoyed the shit out of the movie. It was fun to watch, and the family interaction made it even more so. However, I need to point out something that was bugging me much like a jagged pebble in my shoe. No matter how much I tried to shift or move it, I just ended up getting poked. It was implied that the tripods were buried here for ages, possibly millions of years, in a plan for apparent 'long-term' harvesting. Now, since such effort would prove horendously wasteful if employed soley planet by planet, waiting for each to reach fruition before moving on to the next, it's FAR more likely that hundreds, perhaps even THOUSANDS of worlds would be processed at the same time. Now, if a race or species organised and advanced enough to have survived MILLIONS of years and yet still retain the same goals and agendas as before... isn't it a bit shortsighted to not consider alien or incompatible contagions in the environment as the intended terraforming plan aproached maturity? The idea is almost laughable. I mean, next thing you're going to tell me is aliens who's only weakness is water arent going to notice that 3/5ths of the surface of the planet they are invading is covered in the stuff..??? um.. I mean. heh.. never mind.. nobody would be THAT stupid... would they?
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http://agentarc.blogspot.com/2005/07/sound-fury.html
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Wow, looks like Mr. Sound & Fury spent so much time being full of his own superiority, he forgot to have a good time at the movie. Pity.
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What the AP calls anything is irrelevant. Come back when you can form an opinion that isn't tainted by the media.
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I am sooooo fucking sick and tired of people just creating laundry lists of things that they consider illogical, posting them on some blog, and sitting back with a smug smirk and calling it criticism. It's not criticism, it's nitpicking (his pathetic defense at the end doesn't change that -- what, there's a quota of nitpickiness and once you reach it, it fails to be nitpicking, but valid critiques? Nope, sorry, try again). BATMAN BEGINS and now this have both had the whirlwind attacks on it by self-appointed internet "critics" who would be feel art should be completely mimetic, with little or no creative license. These people would be completely helpless to explain why a Godard, Bresson, Kubrick, Brakhage or Tarkovsky film is good, because their view of what makes a "good movie" is so narrow, that anything that steps out of synch with "reality" is immediately thrown out the window. You have to accept to filmmaker's vision at their own terms, or you can't accept anything at all unless it neatly (and only coincidentally) fits within your own view -- a Picasso synthetic cubist piece is just as good as a Degas, yet these folks wouldn't be able to discern why -- basic concepts like themes, iconography or structure are either completely ignored, or given the backseat to important, critical issues like, "How come the highway has enough gaps for Cruise to drive through?" Seriously, get out of the critic business. You're just embarassing yourselves.
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Fuck you, Harry.
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Jul 05, 2005 9:37:10 PM CDT
I could write a book about everything that is wrong with Cruise/
by dregmobile
I guess it's all because of the intense fastracking, but that's no excuse. Harry, your words - they're too much. Really - they're too much.
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Alright, enough with the naked aliens. E.T., Signs, Close Encounters,Mars Attacks (although they were smart enough to wear helmets!), War of the worlds, I could list more. Isn't some kind of environmental suit in order when travelling through space and going onto alien planets?
When war of the worlds was written 100 years ago, I'm sure the idea of germs saving us was inspired, nowadays it just seems stupid considering what an everyday concept environmental protection is. -
Jul 29, 2005 1:18:02 PM CDT
WOTW's Credit letters are made of mirrors: want to know why
by kalvinkoolidge
http://www.mstrmnd.com/wotw.swf
read it to see why
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