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Post by Zecristo on Jul 20, 2005 14:02:28 GMT 1
www.waroftheworlds.com/From seeing the film I think I can say that although there are some things that are too much typical of american movies it is not a bad idea to go and see it. The biggest snag for me is that the heroes all die in the end...
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Post by agentorange4 on Jul 20, 2005 14:19:21 GMT 1
I have yet to see this remake. The original remains one of my fav films of all time and, to me the remakes are always a lot worse than the originals (with a few eceptions)..........that and Tom Cruise, cant say im a big fan of his. shallow shallow actor  Will defo have to check it out somtime |
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Post by xxx on Jul 20, 2005 16:47:42 GMT 1
yeah i saw it too its a good movi . but the end sux  but its wort of buying a cinema ticket  |
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Post by SilentVoice on Jul 20, 2005 19:10:49 GMT 1
yea i planed to go to the cinema and see it with some friends
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Post by Zecristo on Jul 21, 2005 13:57:38 GMT 1
yeah i saw it too its a good movi . but the end sux but its wort of buying a cinema ticket I quite agree with not liking the end but I'm not sure we have the same motives. I just find that any aliens trying to exterminate the human plague deserve the status of heroes and it's not right that (we; aarrmm) they always loose confrontation, although on this case they are not directly defeated by humans. On the other hand it is not scientifically accurate to state that martians could die by breathing bacteria lethal for them as we ear at the end of the movie. Bacteria wouldn't most probably have time to act because Earth's atmosphere would do them first. Mars' atmosphere has only 1/90 of Earth's atmosphere density. Martians breathing on Earth would surely drown in so much gas unless they came from some hypothetical martian ocean much denser than the atmosphere. And all this not considering that the major components of the two atmospheres are not the same. Nitrogen on Earth and Carbon Dioxide on Mars. As to catching lethal bacteria by eating the filthy human scum that is completely feasible. Of course we have to discard all this scientific talk if we bear in mind that the original War of the Worlds book was written by H. G. Wells at the end of the XIX th century when very little was known about the Red Planet. Anyway just take notice of the movie's sound... |
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Post by Esau on Jul 21, 2005 14:06:16 GMT 1
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Post by ironman on Jul 21, 2005 15:49:05 GMT 1
www.waroftheworlds.com/From seeing the film I think I can say that although there are some things that are too much typical of american movies it is not a bad idea to go and see it. The biggest snag for me is that the heroes all die in the end... seen it, sucked donkey balls a fat waist of money, and no they dont die, there is a terrible happy hollywood ending... special effects were ok, not great but ok, story line was shit, acting was shit, and someone really need to shoot that lil girl cause boy she is freaking annoying... |
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Post by Ricardus on Jul 21, 2005 18:38:09 GMT 1
Hmmm.. I am a great fan of 'The War of the Worlds' - the book that is. I have read it many times. I am a great fan of HG Wells in fact. I will go and see this film but I am not holding my breath.
You see the book is excellent because it is a social polemic. It is throughougly (and shockingly for the 1890s) extremely critical of Christianity (Wells was an atheistic socialist) In fact he goes to great pains in the book to show that Christianity is a useless anachronism once other 'social fabrics' have disappeared. It is also throughougly critical of the arrogant British Imperialism of the time. It also has quite a lot of Darwinistic content (written at a time when this was still controversial)
I do not think that a modern American film will have the guts to be anti-Christian and anti-Imperialist since these are 'leftist' ideas so I fully expect it to betray the true spirit of HG Wells and his excellent writings (I urge you all to check out 'The Time Machine', 'The Island of Dr. Moreau' and 'The Shape of things to come')
Ricardus
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Post by ironman on Jul 22, 2005 3:03:52 GMT 1
I do not think that a modern American film will have the guts to be anti-Christian and anti-Imperialist since these are 'leftist' ideas so I fully expect it to betray the true spirit of HG Wells and his excellent writings lol hell no dude, not one word in tht whole movie about any of that.... it is a typical hollywood movie.. here is a movie quote: they just defeated the greatest power on earth in 4 days (meaning america)...... |
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Post by Zecristo on Jul 22, 2005 10:32:54 GMT 1
Quite right!
Quoting myself on the subject "there are some things that are too much typical of american movies".
It is primarily a special effects american catastrophe movie and I advise you particularly to take notice of sound effects.
Sadly I never read the book and so I can only say about Ricardus' doubt that it doesn't seem to me more than it did to Ironman that those social analysis elements passed from the book on to the film.
I can only remember a strange ironic moment when people of both america and europe are shown complaining that they alone are standing the worst part of martian invasion. And I'm yet to figure out what they meant by that. Is it a generic joke about human nature or something of more specific content relating to the times we are living in?
From the book itself only quotes from the very beginning and the very end (I think). All the in between has probably not much to do with the book.
Ironman, I think you got me wrong on my saying the film has a sad ending with all the heroes dying.
Don't forget that I am an alien, alright not a martian, but nevertheless alien...
P.S. will someone put a cut of tape on that girl's mouth...
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Post by agentorange4 on Jul 23, 2005 13:25:43 GMT 1
Still as yet to see it, but from the feedback from yous guys i dont think i will bother. not if its nothing on the original  |
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Post by Fibremat on Jul 23, 2005 16:05:30 GMT 1
If you go to see it as a stand alone movie it ok only 3-4
good bits and as you have all said the ending is so
sickly it gave me worms just seeing it.
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Post by cheesecake on Jul 25, 2005 19:25:50 GMT 1
I have seen this film twice, its a typical steven spielberg ending, happy !! Make the son die and dad die saving the daughter, now that would be a good ending.... Or if they get to boston, and the mothers dead, that would be a good end, either one would of made me happy  |
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Post by Fibremat on Aug 1, 2005 16:21:49 GMT 1
A better twist everyone dies and the Aliens take over
the Earth
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Post by cheesecake on Aug 1, 2005 21:59:08 GMT 1
A better twist everyone dies and the Aliens take over the Earth Yes that would be a good ending !! oooo...could re-write this, and get a tom cruise look alike to star in it !! think were onto something here !! |
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Post by Zecristo on Aug 2, 2005 22:58:45 GMT 1
A better twist everyone dies and the Aliens take over the Earth Finally someone with a very clear view of the big picture. I'm beginning to suspect you are one of the other agents sent on mission from planet errmm..., to monitor the evolution of human danger... |
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Post by ironman on Sept 17, 2005 14:21:26 GMT 1
Ironman, I think you got me wrong on my saying the film has a sad ending with all the heroes dying. Don't forget that I am an alien, alright not a martian, but nevertheless alien... aaah ok.. lol lo... P.S. will someone put a cut of tape on that girl's mouth... yeah plse cause she was annoying the freaking ......... outta me. Darn !!!!!! ..... |
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Post by ironman on Sept 17, 2005 14:23:48 GMT 1
I have seen this film twice, its a typical steven spielberg ending, happy !! Make the son die and dad die saving the daughter, now that would be a good ending.... Or if they get to boston, and the mothers dead, that would be a good end, either one would of made me happy exactly the son walks up the mountain after the soldiers, then the whole mountain gets blown to bits, people and tanks fly through the air and when he gets home grandma and granddad are waiting and so is hes son (now i need my puke smiley)  |
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Post by cheesecake on Sept 17, 2005 14:25:58 GMT 1
I have seen this film twice, its a typical steven spielberg ending, happy !! Make the son die and dad die saving the daughter, now that would be a good ending.... Or if they get to boston, and the mothers dead, that would be a good end, either one would of made me happy exactly the son walks up the mountain after the soldiers, then the whole mountain gets blown to bits, people and tanks fly through the air and when he gets home grandma and granddad are waiting and so is hes son (now i need my puke smiley) lol....maybe he is 'super boy'...can survive any alien explosions...yeah was a bit cheesy how the whole family survived, and most other people were dead !! |
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Post by ironman on Sept 17, 2005 14:28:30 GMT 1
exactly the son walks up the mountain after the soldiers, then the whole mountain gets blown to bits, people and tanks fly through the air and when he gets home grandma and granddad are waiting and so is hes son (now i need my puke smiley) lol....maybe he is 'super boy'...can survive any alien explosions...yeah was a bit cheesy how the whole family survived, and most other people were dead !! and not only how they survived but the fact that the whole city was empty every one was plant food or had run away and then they are standing infront of there house in harmony waiting for there son and grand daughter to return, if i didnt know better it was a freaking disney movie!! |
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