Good Scary Movie
Added 11/20/2009
This is a very good scary movie with good acting and directing all around. I believe this is how people would really react in such a disaster.
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Dear Steven Spielberg...
Added 11/7/2009
When you take H.G. Wells massively influential satire on the brutality of Victorian Britain's imperialist rule and transform it into yet another loud, noisy, badly acted vehicle through which to examine your own divorce trauma for the umpteenth time, you can no longer call it "War Of The Worlds" in any way, shape or form.
This is a bad movie. An absolute stinker.
It doesn't stand up to close - or indeed, any - examination and adheres to absolutely no sense of internal logic.
If anyone can anyone explain to me where the guy got the working DV camera from when we'd just spent the previous five minutes establishing that all the electronics in Tom Cruise's NJ neighbourhood had just been wiped out by the Martian/alien "lightning strikes", I'd be most appreciative.
Also, it was most considerate of the crashing plane to leave a nice little debris-free path for Cruise's people carrier to drive along.
If you're idea of a good time is spending two hours watching Tom Cruise alternating between his two default facial expressions whilst listening to Dakota Fanning screaming her lungs out and being inflicted with enough sugary schmaltz to precipitate the onset of pre-diabetes, then by all means knock yourself out and rent this.
Myself, I'd rather watch paint dry than sit through this execrable bucket of bilge again, and apparently I wasn't the only one who felt this way - as this movie's almost instantaneous appearance in the stock clearance bins of DVD stores across the land, soon after it's release, attested.
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Surprised how good it was
Added 11/6/2009
I am a huge fan of the original War of the Worlds and didn't bother checking this movie version out when it came out because I don't like Tom all that much and I thought nothing could come close to the original; but it was on tele tonight so I happened to watch it.
It was actually very good and I was quite scared watching it (something that doesn't hit me all that often). Tom played his part well. His acting role was very believable as the frightened father.
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Lousy DVD transfer
Added 11/3/2009
At the cinema this was an enjoyable experience, but on DVD not so much. The video quality is grainy & the sound really needs the true HD audio treatment. As for the actual movie, I don't see why it's getting so many bad reviews. It conveyed the story of an alien invasion of earth rather well. Apart from Tom's children, which I found to be annoying, I recommend this film to anyone who enjoys this genre of film. It was also nice to see a movie go against the trend, & attribute all creation to God, as opposed to the theory of evolution (Morgan Freeman's end narration).
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On Step Further
Added 11/1/2009
I thought it was a good remake until Spielburg decided to show the "aliens" in the barn scene. Destroyed all credibility and lowered the movie to Roland/ Emmerich status for me. Also, the scene that had Cruise and family stealing the van was laughable. Giant alien killing machines are coming down the street vaporizing everybody in sight, but the mechanic is more worried about getting the van back to it's owner. Please!
Audio was superb, and the special effects were good, IMO.
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Good Scary Movie
Added 11/20/2009
This is a very good scary movie with good acting and directing all around. I believe this is how people would really react in such a disaster.
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Dear Steven Spielberg...
Added 11/7/2009
When you take H.G. Wells massively influential satire on the brutality of Victorian Britain's imperialist rule and transform it into yet another loud, noisy, badly acted vehicle through which to examine your own divorce trauma for the umpteenth time, you can no longer call it "War Of The Worlds" in any way, shape or form.
This is a bad movie. An absolute stinker.
It doesn't stand up to close - or indeed, any - examination and adheres to absolutely no sense of internal logic.
If anyone can anyone explain to me where the guy got the working DV camera from when we'd just spent the previous five minutes establishing that all the electronics in Tom Cruise's NJ neighbourhood had just been wiped out by the Martian/alien "lightning strikes", I'd be most appreciative.
Also, it was most considerate of the crashing plane to leave a nice little debris-free path for Cruise's people carrier to drive along.
If you're idea of a good time is spending two hours watching Tom Cruise alternating between his two default facial expressions whilst listening to Dakota Fanning screaming her lungs out and being inflicted with enough sugary schmaltz to precipitate the onset of pre-diabetes, then by all means knock yourself out and rent this.
Myself, I'd rather watch paint dry than sit through this execrable bucket of bilge again, and apparently I wasn't the only one who felt this way - as this movie's almost instantaneous appearance in the stock clearance bins of DVD stores across the land, soon after it's release, attested.
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Surprised how good it was
Added 11/6/2009
I am a huge fan of the original War of the Worlds and didn't bother checking this movie version out when it came out because I don't like Tom all that much and I thought nothing could come close to the original; but it was on tele tonight so I happened to watch it.
It was actually very good and I was quite scared watching it (something that doesn't hit me all that often). Tom played his part well. His acting role was very believable as the frightened father.
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