War Of The Worlds

[slavetotheWALL]

A very bad use of fluency :rolleyes:

That whole Rob appearing in the ending thing was gay I MEAN HOW IN THE F****
DID HE SURVIVE THAT BLAST HE WENT STRAIGHT INTO IT :wacko:


And the thing that kills me is how stupid the people were in the movie


"OOOOH LOOK AN EARTHQUAKE BETTER STAY AND SEE WHATS UP"


And there what these huge massive machines covered in titanium and what does tom do HE GETS A FLIPPIN PISTOL YEAH THATS GONNA HELP

Ohh and remember when all electricity wasnt working well that one guys camcorder seemed to be working quite nicely

[PhunkYMunkY]

I already said about the camcorder.

They're a news crew so maybe they're all riding around really fast. The initial blast wiped out the electrics but it didn't continue. If anything was say.. fixed after that surge then it would work. The news people must have been out of range of the blast and then come in to record them.

Robbie got away by car. No doubt.

Yeah he got a pistol. Better that than nothing, surely? Anyway he could have taken out them aliens with it.. the cute little ones walkin' in the basement. But then more would have come down.

Yeah I'd probably stand around looking at an Earthquake. It'd be interesting. Yeah I might die but you know.. to make an ommellette ya gotta kill a few chickens. Or something.

I don't think director dude wanted people worrying too much about the chick we just met. Or her daughter.. "Oh I have heard about you.." he says to the girl. Ah well.. shame.

We guards..

[slavetotheWALL]

I know about the news crew I was talking about that one guy that was first to get blasted you know the that was just standing there recording then the camcorder hit the ground etc........




















Myat Daymoon

[PhunkYMunkY]

Oh haha that guy.

...Good question.

[fallenangel]

Yes! All the people in the beginning, what the hell? If the street is breaking apart, I'm running the fuck out of there, not stepping back slowly. And that guy with the camcorder was lame. Let's make a big deal about all power not working, then highlight a dude with a working video camera.

They may not have [i]wanted[/i] people to pay attention to the woman, but they missed the mark on that one. If the intended effect was to show dumb luck, it would have been just as easy to make it a random woman. If it was to show loved ones being killed, make her important and not the equivalent of a stranger.

"Robbie got away by car. No doubt." The fuck he did. He ran straight for it, then boom, flaming trucks rolling down the hill. He was in one of those and you know it.
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[PhunkYMunkY]

:(

I won't believe it.

I WON'T!

Nah. He so got in a truck.

It was the next minute, wasn't it? How long does it take to dive into a car?

[fallenangel]

It was nowhere near a minute. Tom runs back, grabs his girl, then boom. In that amount of time, little Robbie ran right over the hill. No time to get in a truck [i]and[/i] get far enough away.
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[VR_Jay]

[quote="fallenangel (fallen)"] How smart can they be if they don't understand the concept of bacteria? The ending screamed "f**k, we have these invincible aliens but have to get rid of them so Tom can live. Um..um...they all die! Yeah! They die by....bacteria! They get a bad case of the sniffles and die!". We're not advanced enough to fly around space and build super killing machines, but we understand microscopic organisms. [/quote]
Um, you do realize that this movie is based on a book right? The War of the Worlds? I was highly impressed at how true to the book the movie was. Aside from the tripods popping out of the ground (in the book they slammed into earth in giant drop pods) and grinding up people to fertilize the red weed (in the book a green gas poured over the land which cause the plants to grow, but I like the other idea better) the movie played out just as the book, if not modernized, of course. So yeah, in the end the most powerful force in the galaxy is killed off by disease. I like it, its called "irony".

[quote]When the first tripod pops up, it looks like it's pissing on the street. Kinda killed the threatening mood when me and my friends can't stop laughing at it.[/quote]

Once again, this is staying true to the book and how the weapons in the book worked. In the book it is a solid beam of energy that causes everything it touches to burst into flame. I liked the movie interpretation of the energy beam, disintegrating everything into ashes.
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[slavetotheWALL]

Youll probably like it

[fallenangel]

[quote]Um, you do realize that this movie is based on a book right?[/quote]

Why yes, yes I do. In some cases, things are better off altered for the screen. They cut out entire scenes in other cases, a few touches here and there wouldn't kill it.

[quote]Aside from the tripods popping out of the ground (in the book they slammed into earth in giant drop pods) and grinding up people to fertilize the red weed (in the book a green gas poured over the land which cause the plants to grow, [/quote]

See, quite large changes, but you admit that they didn't hurt the story. You can't have it both ways. Either they're entirely true to the book, or they change things to be better in film. If you're only referring to Robbie surviving, then it's the original book that sucked in that aspect, OR the movie did not do it properly and made it appear that he couldn't possibly have survived. There's also a lot more room for explanation in print. [i]"OMG HI!" said so-n-so, a woman ____ knew for years.[/i] It's much harder to work that into a movie, and just having two characters act like they know each other doesn't cut it.

And if that little encounter was all there was to that part in the book, poorly written as well.

[quote]So yeah, in the end the most powerful force in the galaxy is killed off by disease. I like it, its called "irony". [/quote]

Yes it is, but it's not called "logic". A race that advanced should logically be aware of diseases.

[quote]Once again, this is staying true to the book and how the weapons in the book worked.[/quote]

Good for it, but that's still what it looked like. It's the visual aspect of it. In print, I'm sure it works fine, but to [i]see[/i] it in that way is much funnier. If they can change the gas, they could have altered that as well.

But then surely that would have been too much and book lovers would be whining because the tripods didn't piss on the ground that they just popped out of, even though them popping out of it is a much bigger change.
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[JHanna]

I've just seen it two days ago and it was AWESOME!
Though I dont like Tom Cruise! <_<

Now I cant wait to read the book! ^_^


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[yugiohfreak]

Ive seen War of the Worlds twice its soooooooo cool!

[CrazyBoi]

Never seen war of thw world but it sounds cool from all thease compliments and also never read the book^^
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[Talin]

This was almost my favorite movie. I really liked it. it was actually intense to me. I've never gotten so nerved up during a movie.
Now I'm even more scared when there's thunder storms.

[VR_Jay]

[quote="fallenangel (fallen)"] Yes it is, but it's not called "logic".  A race that advanced should logically be aware of diseases. [/quote]
Please, for the love of holy God, would you just suspend your disbelief for once in your f**king life? This was a book written in the early 1900's. It is a classic of literature, and WAS logical back then. They can make little changes here and there, I don't care. But to not stay true to the main twist of thye novel, sacralige, as far as I (and apparently the screenwriters) are concerned. It's ok to strech your imagination every once in a while. Lose yourself. I'm sure your little bad-ass-take-no-crap-from-nobody self will still be there when you get back.

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[quote]But then surely that would have been too much and book lovers would be whining because the tripods didn't piss on the ground that they just popped out of, even though them popping out of it is a much bigger change. [/quote]
Its funny how she thinks she's so much smarter than everyone else. The popping up out of the ground was a big change. This change was made to play on our nation's current fears of terrorism. The anger to our lives is right under our very noses. Like a suicide bomber, we don't know it's their untill it's too late. We aren't aware of the infiltration until nothing can be done to stop it. THAT is why the desision was made for the tripods to emerge from the ground. THAT is why it was revealed that they had been there all along. The movie reflects the time.
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[fallenangel]

[quote]Please, for the love of holy God, would you just suspend your disbelief for once in your f**king life? This was a book written in the early 1900's. It is a classic of literature, and WAS logical back then. They can make little changes here and there, I don't care. But to not stay true to the main twist of thye novel, sacralige, as far as I (and apparently the screenwriters) are concerned. It's ok to strech your imagination every once in a while. Lose yourself. I'm sure your little bad-ass-take-no-crap-from-nobody self will still be there when you get back.
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Did I say it [b]had[/b] to be changed? No, I said I didn't [b]like it[/b]. There's a big difference. Something can be fine the way it is without me liking it. I don't [b]like[/b] the new Willy Wonka, but it's fine the way it is because it's closer to the book. See how that works? I would [b]prefer[/b] they change it, but I'm not going to slit my wrists if they don't.

So there in lies the issue. Ok, so it's how the book was written. Good for the book. That means I don't like the book's story, either. Just because it follows the book, does that make it a good movie? No! You could make a movie version of the Bible moment for moment, exactly accurate, and just because people literally worship the book doesn't mean the movie would be good. There would be continuity errors, big gaps of boredom, and in the end...maybe it's a boring story! Maybe some people don't like it. Maybe some people aren't as entertained by Tom Cruise running away from an alien for two bloody hours as you are. Just maybe.

So before you go jizz all over a first edition copy of that lovely book again, consider for a moment that whether or not it follows the original, people can just simply not enjoy parts of the movie regardless. ;)

And by the way, get a new job because you're a royal fucktard with this one.
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[VR_Jay]

You completely missed my point. You were pointing out all the movie's illogical flaws as to your reason for your disapproval. All I was asking you to do was suspend your disbelief and just it at face value. Not everything has to be dead on accurate and true to life to be enjoyable. I suggest you go back to talking about hair bands and ignoring people as usual, because you're a royal fucktard at listening to anyone else.

The imagination is fun.
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[fallenangel]

I'm perfectly capable of enjoying imaginative movies, thank you very much. My list of favorite movies contains a lot of them. Rocky Horror, Labyrinth, The Crow, Edward Scissorhands, etc etc etc. [i]However[/i], my point was that those things in this movie ruined it for me because that's all it had going for itself. I don't like action movies, things blowing up, running from creepy crawlies from another world. Boring. So when all that is aside, it's the plot I look at, and in this case, I didn't like the plot. That's all. When you take away the eye candy of people being zapped and buildings blowing up, the story didn't do it for me. Most of the movie was spent watching eye candy, you can't deny that. As I'm sure the book spends a lot of time describing those scenes.

So no, I won't "suspend my disbelief" for this because then all that's left is Tom Cruise's ass shots and cars on fire. Nothing left. [i]Aside[/i] from your little love of the irony and parallel to terrorism. That's all well and good for you, but I still find the whole thing tedious. People who hate Rocky Horror don't care that it's a metaphor for the changing morals and behavioral standards of the 70s compared to the 50s, do they? Nope.

[quote]I suggest you go back to talking about hair bands and ignoring people as usual, because you're a royal fucktard at listening to anyone else.[/quote]

I was just about to, darling. Not so innocent when people nitpick something [i]you[/i] care about, is it?
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[VR_Jay]

It was the "fucktard" that got to me. I can debate until the universe implodes, and enjoy doing it. No harm, no foul, no (real) personnal offense taken. But leave childish language where it belongs.
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[fallenangel]

[quote]But leave childish language where it belongs.[/quote]

And if I feel is belongs here....?

I never saw any point in debating this particular issue because neither side will ever concede, so there is no point. I don't like wasting my time (or rather, wasting it more, I suppose). As it stands, I think we were barely arguing the same thing. Me the reasons I don't like the movie, and you its technical merits that don't mean anything to me. It may be the best movie in the world, doesn't matter. I don't like Citizen Kane either.

One would think you'd be used to my childish language by now. It's nothing new.
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