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In Reply to: The fiasco of " War of the Worlds "----------------- posted by patrickU on June 3, 2005 at 09:41:55:
But to be fair, none of the individual complaints are that significant to someone who went in to the movie wanting to see it. You clearly went in NOT wanting to see it.
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Tired of the same scheme of shiting movies, yes. But Hollywood is the most professional of all and with a past that won´t compare to anything else.
I hope that some day they will retieve their tradition of making money and trying to do art at the same time.
The only thing that bothered me was the little girl doing stupid things and screaming. So we can agree on that. Anything else?
The same girl as in " ET ". But maybe not with the same genes...
Positively? I said some " paintings " where almost surealisic in a Dali way. The river sequence as you wrote had some fine moment.
At the begining of the film when some people are been pulverized are well made, reminding of the first " Indiana " and "Scanners " this David Cromberg film, but made in 2005.
Well a few others too that elude me at the moment.
But more time passes and more I see this being a real fiasco.
But I wrote it already....
Kind of surprises me since we usually agree on such things. I agreed with you on LoTR, and said so at length. I usually agree with you on Hollywood action movies, Spider Man and the like. They do nothing for me at all.But I enjoy both SF and Horror when done well. So there we part. I particularly enjoy them when they have very dark themes, well developed flawed characters, or on the flip side, humor.
There are also some points like, why did the " Martians " invades us? What were their goal( s )
It was only loud thinking. As I do not need logig to have fun.
BTW the most horrific film ever remain, for me, The Night of the Living Dead, that was the Vietnam nightmare, pure.
At first, in the book as well as the movie, I was bothered by the idea that such a scientifically advanced race would not have taken earth bound disease into account. But even that problem has a work around.Someone else mentioned that they didn't like the power going out in the city and not in the country. That presumes the viewer knows the pattern of landings and the accompanying EMP ... which they don't.
No glaring scientific flaws that you could not work around.
'Someone else mentioned that they didn't like the power going out in the city and not in the country. That presumes the viewer knows the pattern of landings and the accompanying EMP ... which they don't."
no, it assumes that power grids fail on a larger scale when mass interuptions hit all the major cities. Amazing that the aliens let our military facilities go. Maybe they thought people in SUVs with ipods were a greater threat? If you want to rationalize things you could say that it was an unintentional byproduct of their landing. But I cannot think of any scientifically legitimate explination that would suggest burrowing into the ground in small vessels riding on lighting would be the best means of transportation. Again, I think it was a case of story being convoluted to suit cool effects. Dog wags tail."No glaring scientific flaws that you could not work around."
I quite disagree. How smart are the aliens that they walk around naked in wreckage drinking gutter water? was I the only one who that that was a painfully heavy handed setup? Sorry but even dumb ole us would wear space suits in an alien envirement. you'd think they would have known about the problem back when they were planting the tripods all those eons ago. but at least they didn't catch a computer virus.
In the movie? I have no remembering of it.
I guess the movie presumes you kind of know the story, perhaps that is a bad assumption, the movie certainly could have been done better if I had directed it! ;-)--------------
In The War Of The Worlds (1898), Wells conceived just such a species. Forced to flee their own dying world, his Martians attempt to make a home on earth by force of arms, landing in an ill-prepared Victorian England, where they begin a devastating reign of terror. Sweeping aside all resistance in their tripod legged war machines, the Martians lay waste to the snug Victorian way of life. It is in fact the way that Wells creates a feeling of the calm before the storm, describing an idyllic England in the opening chapter, that makes the subsequent carnage so arresting.
So I did not misse it! I mean if you think that the teenage public read the book....
I am. I went into this movie wanting to see the imagination of H.G. Wells come to life ... I got that.I don't "like" Tom Cruise either, but that did not keep me from enjoying both this film and Minority Report.
Not only of Science Fiction but also of so call " Horror movies "...
You would have not guess would you?
"The Day the Earth Caught Fire ", have you seen this one?
I'm not sure I've seen "The Day the Earth Caught Fire". What about it?Did you ever see the "Horror" movie Evil Dead II? That was a great movie, lots of fun and very funny.
No, I stopped to watch them a long time ago. Just having the classics in my collection ( a lot of ) as Frankenstein which is a masterpiece.
Try this one, it is so much stronger than so many of them, because it is so near to us....
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054790/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9MXxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT10aGUgZGF5IHRoZSBlYXJ0aCBjYXVnaHQgZmlyZXxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20 (Open in New Window)
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