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[Leslie Cheswyck]

[Bulsajo]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[yesterday's child]

[stumptown]

That movie sucked sausage. Plain and simple. A rape of the original story

[matthews_world]

Gotta love the hand grenades!

Where were the friggin animals in this movie! Can't make a good movie without PETA gettin' involved. When was the last time any movie was made where any animals were mamed and killed.

Not sure if it was part of the book, but a few horses or cows slaughtered by aliens would have made the movie more realistic.

[joe_doufu]

I liked everything except the aliens. First of all, their faces looked exactly like the aliens in "independence day". Second of all, I seem to recall that the aliens in the first movie (though I was very young when I last saw it) were supposed to be "weird" somehow... not human-shaped and human-sized with a taste for peanut butter.

PS: was the soldier in the cage Boba Fett? i couldn't tell, i might have to watch it again

[eamo]

Bit of a let down. I don't mean the ending only, just all of it.

Dakota Fanning playing her usual neurotic child-adult was consistantly annoying.

My rating...... Watchable.

[Dan The Chainsawman]

Everything about my War of The Worlds experience was annoying. As a claustraphode I just about went looney being jammed into an elevator with 30 or so Koreans. Not only did it turn out my timing was off I had to leave the building come back again later, because I realized that when I brought the ticket it was for 4:50, and not 3:40.

Back down the jam packed elevator I went. Spending a bit of time at a pc bahn playing video games was annoying. The counter, girls while impressively endowed in the chest regions, seemed to insist I go sit in the smoking section. Getting up and simply walking over to the non smoking section took care of that bother.

Going back to the move in another jam packed elevator I found out I was 10 minutes late due to stopping on every single floor from the 3rd Basement all they way to the theater on the tenth floor, all in a jam packed elevator.

Hopefully the first ten minutes were pointless like the rest of the movie so I can feel that I did not miss squat. Having two girls running in and out of the row I was sitting in three or four times for some oddball reason involving a soft drink nearly made me pile drive one of them. The same could be said for the two brats behind me jabbering away the whole time. That was until I turned around glared at them for about a minute, and told them to shut up.

Now on to the movie, one can clearly see my mood was lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut. The movie itself sucked. The only scene I liked was when they were running through the forest and it was raining clothes. That was just freaky.

Oh btw when I tried to zip out the fire exit to avoid the crowd it was locked, and I was plastered against the door by a crowd of girls who found out the same thing, but seemed to thing if they shoved against the door with all their might it would pop open, with little consideration for the fact that I was pinned to the door.

BTW I really do like Koreans, but I think I am gonna avoid the theater in the future. Or at least one that I have to take an elevator up ten floors.

PS> WAr of the worlds while sucky was much better than Assault of Precint 1. That was a horrible movie.

[Derrek]

I enjoyed the movie a ton. Was the first movie in a while to scare me. I liked it much more than Batman, which was incredibly cheesy at times (the whole monk/cult thing).

Very well done. I agree totally with Bulsajo about the horn sound and people freaking with nowhere to go.

Definately worth seeing in a theater -- better without a bunch of Koreans who can't stop playing with their handphones during the flick!

One nice thing though, one of my former students was working at coffee store in the theater. She gave me and my date free coffee!!

[Manner of Speaking]

I've never read the book The War of the Worlds, but I did once listen to the 1937 (?) radio play by Orson Welles. I found the movie was very similar to the radio play, in that midway through the story you get the sense of someone living in a time of complete collapse of all civilization. (In the radio play the lead character is holed up in the basement of a burned-out house as well.) The opening scenes when the aliens first arrive are interesting as well. Not the typical buildup you would normally expect; almost the plot of Independence Day set in the opening scenes of Mystic River.

War of the Worlds almost seems like a mixture of horror movie and SF. Perhaps the original story is like that, I don't know. That scene where Dakota Fanning is down by the river, and sees a body go by...and a few seconds later, several dozen bodies float by, is terrific/horrific. That scene at the train crossing, where the bell begins to ring and the crossing guard comes down...only to have a train completely on fire, racing past, was so surreal. That and the plane wreckage, all seem to contribute to this sense of a total collapse of everything, all civilization, into chaos. In retrospect I'm a little surprised that Steven Spielberg included the plane wreckage shots in the movie; they seem to cut a little close to 911. All in all I thought it was a well-done movie, that seemed to stick pretty close to the original story. It was not your run-of-the-mill summer disaster flick.