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Brillant. Loved it. A modern day 50's SF movie on a big budget.
Everything I wanted it to be. The tripods were perfect and beatifully designed in both looks and sounds. Plot was a very close copy of the book, but modernised.
The only thing I'd like to see more of is them trashing cities, but to be honest, if the movie was 2 hours of just that, I'd still want to see more.
Excellent. A bleak, humourless, downbeat summer blockbuster. Did me peachy.
People complaining about the ending? Waddya want? Will and Jeff writing a computer virus and uploading it into a mothership? I'll take this ending thakyouverymuch.
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Everything I wanted it to be. The tripods were perfect and beatifully designed in both looks and sounds. Plot was a very close copy of the book, but modernised.
The only thing I'd like to see more of is them trashing cities, but to be honest, if the movie was 2 hours of just that, I'd still want to see more.
Excellent. A bleak, humourless, downbeat summer blockbuster. Did me peachy.
People complaining about the ending? Waddya want? Will and Jeff writing a computer virus and uploading it into a mothership? I'll take this ending thakyouverymuch.
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Spoilers in this link regarding alien machines.
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Total waste of time. It's like they thought "Well, Indpendence Day showed aliens wrecking stuff; we won't bother"
In fact the scene with the reporter reeked of "Here's some exposition for you, because we can't be bothered to show it properly"
Sure, sure, it's all about the family, but even that was crap. Was Cruise meant to be the caring father, or the useless father who learned to love his kids by the end? He seemed to switch from one role to the other. That, and he was like every other character Cruise plays.
I expected so much... it could've at least been as good as the original.
War of the Worlds? Scrap of the little girls if you ask me.
"Let's spend half the film in a basement, purposefully not showing the huge battle raging on. Oops, the film is over, better show them dying of a cold* in the last five minutes"
I had to explain why the aliens died to my friends (though I couldn't explain why the shields went off) They thought ol' Tom had done something with those grenades that affected them all.
So, yeah, ID4 is a better film and that ain't saying too much. It wasn't terrible, it was certainly watchable, but a bit of a let down considering every review gave it 4 to 5 stars and one said it was one of the best film ever made.
And did anyone else get flashbacks of Close Encounters when he was driving through the fields?
*if that spoiled something for you, then you deserve it for not seeing the original
In fact the scene with the reporter reeked of "Here's some exposition for you, because we can't be bothered to show it properly"
Sure, sure, it's all about the family, but even that was crap. Was Cruise meant to be the caring father, or the useless father who learned to love his kids by the end? He seemed to switch from one role to the other. That, and he was like every other character Cruise plays.
I expected so much... it could've at least been as good as the original.
War of the Worlds? Scrap of the little girls if you ask me.
"Let's spend half the film in a basement, purposefully not showing the huge battle raging on. Oops, the film is over, better show them dying of a cold* in the last five minutes"
I had to explain why the aliens died to my friends (though I couldn't explain why the shields went off) They thought ol' Tom had done something with those grenades that affected them all.
So, yeah, ID4 is a better film and that ain't saying too much. It wasn't terrible, it was certainly watchable, but a bit of a let down considering every review gave it 4 to 5 stars and one said it was one of the best film ever made.
And did anyone else get flashbacks of Close Encounters when he was driving through the fields?
*if that spoiled something for you, then you deserve it for not seeing the original
I dunno why Tim Robbins thinks he can solve all his problems by digging...
... or chewing gum.
Goatboy wrote:
> So this is Mars Attacks with a gay midget pretending to be a
> blue-collar worker?
Yeah, but without any of the laughs.
> So this is Mars Attacks with a gay midget pretending to be a
> blue-collar worker?
Yeah, but without any of the laughs.
So this is Mars Attacks with a gay midget pretending to be a blue-collar worker?
im off too see the fisrt showing in my small town at noon today.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Would it really be that great set in the 19th century though? In this
> version we have aliens blasting the crap of out a freeway, tossing
> hundreds of cars into the air, and an attack on a ferry. What would
> the 19th century version have? Someone falling off their Penny
> Farthing?
Lots of English gents tipping their hats before getting zapped, a horse and cart chase sequence, Jack the Ripper subplot, and the Elephant Man gets taken back to his home planet.
Dramatisation, may not have happened
> Would it really be that great set in the 19th century though? In this
> version we have aliens blasting the crap of out a freeway, tossing
> hundreds of cars into the air, and an attack on a ferry. What would
> the 19th century version have? Someone falling off their Penny
> Farthing?
Lots of English gents tipping their hats before getting zapped, a horse and cart chase sequence, Jack the Ripper subplot, and the Elephant Man gets taken back to his home planet.
Dramatisation, may not have happened
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
Tomm wrote:
> Well Tom Cruise was a Dock Worker so nay to that one.
Yeah, and it's also set in the current day.
Jesus. I didn't mean every element was lifted exact, but superficial similarities (he's travelling to find his wife, he survives the initial heat ray attack, he meets an artillery convoy, he's sort of trapped in a celler with a guy slowly loosing it), there's the tentacle exploration, ending) are everywhere.
The kids exist so he has someone to talk to too, so we avoid a Sin City monologue.
Reefer wrote:
> I was gonna make a topic, but I thought that the one already made was
> sufficient.
Didn't see it. I don't post around here too often now, with having a new job where I have to actually work for a living.
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
SLIGHT SPOLIERS FOR THOSE UNFAMILURE WITH THE NOVEL!
Tomm wrote:
> Well Tom Cruise was a Dock Worker so nay to that one.
Yeah, and it's also set in the current day.
Jesus. I didn't mean every element was lifted exact, but superficial similarities (he's travelling to find his wife, he survives the initial heat ray attack, he meets an artillery convoy, he's sort of trapped in a celler with a guy slowly loosing it), there's the tentacle exploration, ending) are everywhere.
The kids exist so he has someone to talk to too, so we avoid a Sin City monologue.
Reefer wrote:
> I was gonna make a topic, but I thought that the one already made was
> sufficient.
Didn't see it. I don't post around here too often now, with having a new job where I have to actually work for a living.
I was gonna make a topic, but I thought that the one already made was sufficient.
Anyways, yeah, it was pretty damn superb, but I wasn't a big fan of the ending. It seemed kinda rushed. Shame, as up to that, the film was very, very entertaining.
Anyways, yeah, it was pretty damn superb, but I wasn't a big fan of the ending. It seemed kinda rushed. Shame, as up to that, the film was very, very entertaining.
Would it really be that great set in the 19th century though? In this version we have aliens blasting the crap of out a freeway, tossing hundreds of cars into the air, and an attack on a ferry. What would the 19th century version have? Someone falling off their Penny Farthing?
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