>I saw this film today (I admit that I have never read
>the book, I have only seen the 1953 film and played
> the game) The only things I liked were:
What game?
>Tripods didn't get enough screen time
Yea I figured this was to add some mystery to their behavior. Otherwise they would look over posed. But some times the disconnect between the cast and the visual effects did leave the scenes feeling empty. The SFX should have been more seemlessly shot so that we could see where the beasts were in relation to the case. We would see cruise looking out into a field apparently at a tripod then poof a big foot comes down right next to him which is unexpected as we didn't realize how close cruise was to the thing.
>Where is the WAR in war of the worlds, there wasn't enough fighting
>between the martians and miltary infact there wasn't much at all
Yea I can understand speilberg not wanting to emphasize the war cause it would take the camera off the family but geez the family was right in the middle of a battle field and all we got was over the hill suprise.
>tom cruise's character killing Tim Robins character just because he was
>making a bit of noise was a bit naff and how did cruise win the fight when
>Tim Robbins who was clearly bigger and stronger then him as
>demostraited when he managed to
>take the gun from Cruse in their
>earlier struggle. This is not even
>considering the fact that Tim was
>wielding a Shovel and I believe a knife
Maby we can chalk it up to alcohal or something.
>The bit in the house where the the
>Alien eye comes down and wakes
>up the girl, she screams and runs
>outside. Tom hacks the eye thingy
>and runs after her. he finds grenades!
>He then sees his daughter standing
>screaming at the top of a hill. She is
>taken by a tripod, and with Tom is put
> into a metal basket hanging from the
>head of the Tripod Tom then throwss a
>grenade into the head of the tripod
> (Skywalker styleee), the Tripod
>splodes dropping the wicker basket,
>approx a Kilometre towards the
>ground. everyone survives. A
>load of hollywood crap
Good thing that spikey tree was their to break their fall.
>the bit with the son surving was sh*t.
>It would of been so much cooler if he
>had died. There is no excuse for him
>suriving, that was just lame hollywood shite.
Yea he should have died. After the "Dad let me go I have to see this" spill that went on for like 5 minutes he needed to die. Now it feels like that
scene was for nothing.
>The martians themselves looked like the
>ones from independance only
>with monkey faces
Or myra from Farscape.
>I'm very disapointed with Steven spielberg
I thought the film was ok. But no summer event movie though.