worst. movie. ever.

[HoyaSaxa03]

i've come to save you ...
 
 do not waste your money on 'war of the worlds', please ... by the time tom cruise made it to the paul revere statue, i almost vomited ... actually, i laughed out loud, but it didn't seem like most other people found it as funny as i did

[Bags]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   ... by the time tom cruise made it to the paul revere statue, i almost vomited ...  

I read in Premiere magazine that Steven Spielberg was specifically avoiding such alien invasion cliches as the "famous monument in ruins" scene...  Hmmm, guess Paul Revere isn't quite Washington Monument or Statue of Liberty caliber.
 
 I have no desire to see this flick.  Probably influenced by loopy scientologist Cruise out on the stump to call psychiatry a pseudo science while Scientology is....
 
 Blech.

[SPARX]

Tom Cruise has a screw loose.Maybe more than one.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by Bags:
       

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
   ... by the time tom cruise made it to the paul revere statue, i almost vomited ...  

I read in Premiere magazine that Steven Spielberg was specifically avoiding such alien invasion cliches as the "famous monument in ruins" scene...  Hmmm, guess Paul Revere isn't quite Washington Monument or Statue of Liberty caliber.
 [/b]

Hoya, did they have any idiots, specifically Cruise, running by the Paul Revere statue shouting, "The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!"? Seems like a tacky enough film to pull some idiot scene like that.
 
 When I first heard the film was going to be made, I was really excited about it. Then I heard that Tom Cruise was staring in it and it ruined the whole thing for me. I'm much more interested in the story line than the star factor. Besides, in my opinion, Tom Cruise gets way too many films. I've never really disliked him but I'm not nuts over him either. Lately, it's just been overkill with he and several other stars who get so many rolls that could be performed just as well by many other actors without the 'star power' draw. It gets to the point that the celebrity factor seems to detract from the story at times. Just my take.

[shoot ur shot]

I actually like a few of Spielberg's recent movies for legitimate reasons other than "mindless popcorn fun." But I didnt really go in expecting much from this but maybe a few minutes of good 'ol big-budgeted human extermination. I was just kind of curious where Hollywood is at now with the special fx too.. I can just appreciate crap like that. There's probably about 10-15 minutes in this flick really worth seeing on the big screen. Spielberg usually gives you at least 30. The sound dept did a kickass job.. those tripod made some pretty gnarly drones too!
 
 As far as Tom Cruise in this film, he's best in my opinion when playing an asshole like in Magnolia, Collateral or even Eyes Wide Shut. He plays this bad father role in the first 20 min or so of the film which is cool to watch but then he goes back to playing the usual Tom.
 
 Hoya, did you really think Spielberg was gonna grow some balls all of a sudden and make an unforgiving, nihilistic bloodbath alien pic with a PG-13 rating? So in what way(s) could you have been dissappointed?

[grotty]

Getting good reviews overall tho:
 
  72 on MetaCritic
 
 Slate
 David Edelstein
 It's the human struggle that makes this a sci-fi masterpiece.
 
 Washington Post
 Stephen Hunter
 The audience is treated to one extraordinary vision after another; the sense of a world literally being destroyed around the principal actors, the sense of their flight through panic and destruction, the sense of concussion, collapse, rubble and ruin.
 
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 Carrie Rickey
 For the first 100 minutes of his 117-minute film Spielberg holds the audience in a grip of fear. When Ray and Rachel take refuge in the storm cellar of a survivalist (a miscast Tim Robbins), the director's grip relaxes only a bit, but the film never recovers from this excursion into the Gothic.
 
 Village Voice
 Michael Atkinson
 Although it's thoroughly retooled, H.G. Wells's scenario doesn't allow for many soft landings, and the extreme respect for havoc on view quite properly keeps the Spielbergian cutesies to a minimum.

The main reason that Tom Cruise made this film was so he could finance a big-budget remake of Battlefield Earth.
 
 And what about the indie version of WAR OF THE WORLDS?  Does anyone know the release date?

Originally posted by shoot ur shot:
  those tripod made some pretty gnarly drones too!

It was such an obvious ripoff of The Tripods.

[kosmo vinyl]

no interest in seeing this movie at all... the brief glimpse of the american flag fluttering in the back of a pickup truck was all i needed to know about this flick.  of course imagery like that is going to fill the seats with those ribbon people.  besides "the terminal" sucked ass

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by shoot ur shot:
  Hoya, did you really think Spielberg was gonna grow some balls all of a sudden and make an unforgiving, nihilistic bloodbath alien pic with a PG-13 rating? So in what way(s) could you have been dissappointed?

(warning, spoilers)
 
 well, first off, this was a pretty nihilistic movie, it was a straight-up horror flick, the scene with the van and the handgun was pretty freaky ... and i liked the sci-fi elements of the premise, the CGI and sound were great, but they didn't focus on the premise or ever really explain what was going on, other than the vapid spielberg bookend narrations ... the movie wasn't about the premise, it was a character study and focused on the human element, which was COMPLETELY pointless ...
 
 where were tom cruise and fam going? what was their motivation? ... the whole point of the movie is following tom cruise and family, and this storyline is so weak and so pointless, it just completely sank the movie ...
    a) why the fuck did they shack up with a half-drunk tim robbins for 45 mins??  did they just run out of ideas?
    b) who was that woman they ran into on the ferry? what was the point of her? why were they going on the ferry??
    c) he said he was going to see their mom in boston, but it seemed sarcastic, to calm down the girl ... was that really their whole motivation throughout the movie?  why wasn't boston burned like everything else?
    d) the ending was so unrealistic and stupid, just like the rest of the plot
 
 and the heartstring-pulling scenes whacking you over the head with 9/11 references were just way, way, way over the top
 
 i really love apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic flicks, but this one just sucked
 
 the great part about independence day was that it was winking at you the entire time, 'war of the worlds' wasn't, and the plot just absolutely blew, it could have been interesting if they took more of a macro look at the situation

[sonickteam2]

those movies are all bad. all of them. every last one.  yes, even the one with that Will Smith character.....

[HoyaSaxa03]

oh, and to top it all off ... cruise's kid is emo!!

[markie]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
 

other than the vapid spielberg bookend narrations  [/b]

I have not seen the movie, but the reviews I have read said the Morgan Freeman narrated and that it was lifted almost directly from the Wells original....

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by canker-blossom:
   

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
 

other than the vapid spielberg bookend narrations  [/b]

I have not seen the movie, but the reviews I have read said the Morgan Freeman narrated and that it was lifted almost directly from the Wells original.... [/b]

yes, it was lifted directly from the book, but the stupid-ass spielberg bookends ala saving private ryan and just stupid ... and it's even stupider that the bookends are the biggest source of info on the details behind the invasion

[flawd101]

i'm going to see it...i dont know why but others want to...tom cruise is alright but an unknown actor will always be better.
 
 indepenence day owned!