War of the Worlds
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I enjoyed the movie, but certainly preferred the 'old school' version of it (and indeed the album 
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Talking of the original novel, I wonder why nobody has ever dared to make a faithful recreation of it in movie form - Personally, I think the idea of advanced alien machines invading the Earth in Victorian times (minus all the modern technology etc) far more terrifying.
)Talking of the original novel, I wonder why nobody has ever dared to make a faithful recreation of it in movie form - Personally, I think the idea of advanced alien machines invading the Earth in Victorian times (minus all the modern technology etc) far more terrifying.
The_Wolf_Who_Cried_Boy
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Hanners said:I enjoyed the movie, but certainly preferred the 'old school' version of it (and indeed the album
Talking of the original novel, I wonder why nobody has ever dared to make a faithful recreation of it in movie form - Personally, I think the idea of advanced alien machines invading the Earth in Victorian times (minus all the modern technology etc) far more terrifying.
They did but it was god awefull.
http://www.war-ofthe-worlds.co.uk/war of the worlds pendragon 2005.htm
Hanners said:
I agree, OK remake, moderate movie.
I wonder when Spielberg or someone else at Hollywood spots out the John Christopher's Time of the Tripods trilogy. When handled with care, it could make a good movie series. (and then again, I fear seing it being "raped" to Hollywood shape: moving happening places to U.S., changing critical parts to make humans always win, etc...)
You apparently missed Minority Report, didn't you.Andy said:
I'm not sure how you can call 'technicalities', on a movie of all things, especially one about martians invading the earth. It's a work of fiction, things won't add up as they should do in the real world and shouldn't be expected to.
Sit bax, relax and immerse yourself in the film and stop worrying about how it'd all actually pan out were it real
I really enjoyed it, was fantastic to watch. Great stuff!
Sit bax, relax and immerse yourself in the film and stop worrying about how it'd all actually pan out were it real
I really enjoyed it, was fantastic to watch. Great stuff!
The Baron said:
Did I? I said "such as"
, I didnt list a lot of his movies where he plays an arrogant prick, such as:Vanilla Sky
Mission Impossible 1 and 2
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and the list goes on!
Oh and about Minority Report, funnily enough my dad won 2 copies of it on DVD, and I also won a copy of it in some skill tester machine. That copy I gave to my friend who was with me at the time who hadnt seen it.
Unknown Soldier said:
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SPOILERS WARNING FOR LAST SAMURAI (even though its quite old now)
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For the record, I thought the last samurai was a good film, however the thing that pissed me off was that Tom Cruise's character got to live, while Ken Watanabe's character didn't.
Seen the movie last night... it was a solid 2 hours of "meh". I was only mildly bored, i.e. it did a better job than most movies these days. It was a whole hell of a lot better than the gawd-awful "Batman Begins" where I fell asleep during the 2nd half of the film.
The film started out OK'ish, the middle part was pure tedium, especially the long and boring basement scene and the end was too fast and unsatisfying. I also wonder what the fuck they spent $ 130 million on.
One of my major pet peeves with disaster flicks is the lack of corpses. In Independence Day we had global destruction but not one dead body. Disaster flicks usually completely blot out the human misery element and instead serve us the typical Hollywood survival adventure crap, enriched with bad dialogue and stupid one-liners. Godzilla, Day After Tomorrow... death is treated like in some sort of video game. People die and they leave no traces.
WotW has corpses and that's IMO the films one saving grace. The global Armageddon becomes believable, despite the absurd plot.
The film started out OK'ish, the middle part was pure tedium, especially the long and boring basement scene and the end was too fast and unsatisfying. I also wonder what the fuck they spent $ 130 million on.
One of my major pet peeves with disaster flicks is the lack of corpses. In Independence Day we had global destruction but not one dead body. Disaster flicks usually completely blot out the human misery element and instead serve us the typical Hollywood survival adventure crap, enriched with bad dialogue and stupid one-liners. Godzilla, Day After Tomorrow... death is treated like in some sort of video game. People die and they leave no traces.
WotW has corpses and that's IMO the films one saving grace. The global Armageddon becomes believable, despite the absurd plot.
What was the significance of the birds at the end? I didn't catch what Tom Cruise was yelling, so I was left scratching my head at the importance of the birds.
Oh. Hrm. I guess that could be it, though it seems odd given the other items that passed through the shields (human bodies, etc).
digitalwanderer
Legend
Ugh. Saw it and was very disapointed in it. Too many plot holes, too many missed opportunities, and waaaay too much over-the-top sappy.
The only real bright spot for me was Dakota Fanning, that lil kid can act! I actually spent some time in the movie feeling bad for the poor kid and how much she must have had to scream for the movie. :?
The only real bright spot for me was Dakota Fanning, that lil kid can act! I actually spent some time in the movie feeling bad for the poor kid and how much she must have had to scream for the movie. :?
That was my thought, too. The whole carrion bird thing. Of course, the 'shields down' makes more realistic sense (ignoring that other things conveniently pass through)
Saw it and left pretty dissapointed with it. Ignoring plot holes the whole end of the movie was horribly rushed. You get lots of fairly good action and build up and then they must have realised that they ran out of time... so they completely rushed the end and spoiled the whole movie in doing so.
All IMHO.
K-
All IMHO.
K-
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Blade said:
But the longer the movie, the less showings you can get per day in a movie theatre. It's all about the money.
As Gene Wilder recently said, they used to try and make good movies that made money. Now they just try and make money.
