06-08-2005 06:34									#1
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I saw war of the worlds. What is this? I'm insulted. I wasted 2 hours of my life, completely unnecessarily. I would like to ask mr Spielberg how he thinks he can make up those 2 hours of my life back to me.

*SPOILEEEEEEERS!*





OK so.. how many of you seen it? Me thinks this prolly was the worst movie of the year so far. The ONLY weird thing was that I think Tom Cruise didn't suck. Everything else did. Including Tim Robbins, which I thought was impossible.

I don't expect realism or logics in movies, if I wanted that, I'd watch only documentaries. But it's cases like this when the makers of the movie thinks you just don't have brains at all that makes you feel robbed, angry and insulted.

First of all.. the machines come here, balls to the wall, no explanations except 'they've been watching us'. OK.. I guess that can go by, but what about the 'beams'? How stupid were those anyway? And why did they have the bug type of feel to them, so that us, audience, could go 'oooh I hate those bastards with bug like features!'. INSECTS INSECTS!

Then they start blasting everything that seems like a battle from .. I don't know, some UN infested place. For so advanced machines, it seemed quite ineffective, blasting with small beams, taking one person out per time. Hey, we got nukes, why don't they have anything but stupid beams? And for intelligent creatures, they sure started it wisely, from small towns. Yeah, let's kill all and start from farms, see, it'll take only few months until we get to big cities, and that's just a good thing to do. Oh yeah.. what ever.

OK!! FINE BY ME IT'S HOLLYWOOD.

But then.... when Tom and the girl got sucked into the 'gasoline tank', and the thing that was able to deflect all rockets and everything, got few small granades in, totally exploded and got owned? What is this?

Then it 'died'. And what happened to the others? Did they get so sad that one crashed, that they got all tears up and wimped out too? Then the soldiers rocketed one baby more, and suddenly they don't got shields? How did that happen? ONe got 'irrational, going on circles'.. wtf?

It's ID4 all over again. OMG THEY ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US! Heyyyy wait a minute, I came up with the most stupid plan ever how to fight these and *WHAM* game over we win, bring out the champagne and all that.

I can't even remember all the stupidities in this movie, well the end was my favourite where EVERYONE survived. What is this? If you go to a theater to see this, and the crowd cheers at the end, sneak out right away, nothing happens after that in the movie, close the doors and jam them so no one can get out and torch the place. These are the kind of people that are the reason why this kind of **** makes it to the screen. This competes up there with the Day After Tomorrow... just horrible.

	06-08-2005 06:42									#2
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Hey Pekka did you get hiccups and wake up? I just mentioned you at the chat. Join in if you can!

	06-08-2005 06:44									#3
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Haven't seen ther movie, but have you read the book ?

	06-08-2005 06:45									#4
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Have you ever read the book, Pekka? It was written 100 years ago.

	06-08-2005 06:47									#5
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I bet most of you thought at first that was gonna be the shortest pekka op, then you scrolled down. I know I did

	06-08-2005 07:01									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski I bet most of you thought at first that was gonna be the shortest pekka op, then you scrolled down. I know I did

Ehrm, no. First of all I never expect a Pekka to be short - that is an impossibility - would you expect apples to drop up into the air instead of down ?

	06-08-2005 07:08									#7
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I guess you guys know him better then I do so I now will take your word for it

	06-08-2005 12:39									#8
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quote: Originally posted by Pekka I saw war of the worlds. What is this? I'm insulted. I wasted 2 hours of my life, completely unnecessarily. I would like to ask mr Spielberg how he thinks he can make up those 2 hours of my life back to me. *SPOILEEEEEEERS!* OK so.. how many of you seen it? Me thinks this prolly was the worst movie of the year so far. The ONLY weird thing was that I think Tom Cruise didn't suck. Everything else did. Including Tim Robbins, which I thought was impossible. I don't expect realism or logics in movies, if I wanted that, I'd watch only documentaries. But it's cases like this when the makers of the movie thinks you just don't have brains at all that makes you feel robbed, angry and insulted. First of all.. the machines come here, balls to the wall, no explanations except 'they've been watching us'. OK.. I guess that can go by, but what about the 'beams'? How stupid were those anyway? And why did they have the bug type of feel to them, so that us, audience, could go 'oooh I hate those bastards with bug like features!'. INSECTS INSECTS! Then they start blasting everything that seems like a battle from .. I don't know, some UN infested place. For so advanced machines, it seemed quite ineffective, blasting with small beams, taking one person out per time. Hey, we got nukes, why don't they have anything but stupid beams? And for intelligent creatures, they sure started it wisely, from small towns. Yeah, let's kill all and start from farms, see, it'll take only few months until we get to big cities, and that's just a good thing to do. Oh yeah.. what ever. OK!! FINE BY ME IT'S HOLLYWOOD. But then.... when Tom and the girl got sucked into the 'gasoline tank', and the thing that was able to deflect all rockets and everything, got few small granades in, totally exploded and got owned? What is this? Then it 'died'. And what happened to the others? Did they get so sad that one crashed, that they got all tears up and wimped out too? Then the soldiers rocketed one baby more, and suddenly they don't got shields? How did that happen? ONe got 'irrational, going on circles'.. wtf? It's ID4 all over again. OMG THEY ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US! Heyyyy wait a minute, I came up with the most stupid plan ever how to fight these and *WHAM* game over we win, bring out the champagne and all that. I can't even remember all the stupidities in this movie, well the end was my favourite where EVERYONE survived. What is this? If you go to a theater to see this, and the crowd cheers at the end, sneak out right away, nothing happens after that in the movie, close the doors and jam them so no one can get out and torch the place. These are the kind of people that are the reason why this kind of **** makes it to the screen. This competes up there with the Day After Tomorrow... just horrible.

ID4 copied off the first war of the worlds, so of course it seems like the movies are similar.

	06-08-2005 15:19									#9
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good thing i didnt see it then!

	06-08-2005 16:47									#10
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yeah, the thing is they died from virusses alien to them but native to our planet. cool. very feasable explanation.

now, if they were so smart, why didn't they think of this before comming here ?

	06-08-2005 17:30									#11
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Because immunology was in its infancy and H.G. Wells didnt know about vaccines or antibiotics. Given when War of the Worlds was written, its amazing that Wells had the imagination to use the idea that bacteria cause disease.

	06-08-2005 18:20									#12
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What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?

	06-08-2005 18:21									#13
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War of the Worlds was a good movie. They used single beams because they were out to hunt us down as a sport, not just to extinct us. If that would have been their aim, they'd hardly have their tripos buried long ago.

	07-08-2005 12:09									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Blake What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?

nothing, it worked great as a comedy movie .

The stereotypes were just horrible. The sick kid, the cute dog. All that stuff wants to make me puke. Cheap emotionaly manipulation.

	07-08-2005 12:15									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Blake What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?

Nothing, except for being the definition of bad.

	07-08-2005 13:31									#16
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Ever have an intense curiousity to see a movie hardly anyone likes?

	07-08-2005 13:32									#17
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You people just don't know how to appreciate a movie for it's badness. It's movies that try to be serious but fail due to plot holes the size of godzilla that suck [War of the Worlds might fit in here, but it's excusable], or movies that try to be serious and succeed a bit too well. The Day after Tommorow isn't the kind of movie that can be taken entirely seriously which makes it more enjoyable for me. I can just enjoy the northern hemisphere being totally pwned and kids being hunted by hungry wolves. I was hoping to see comical frozen wolf statues tho... really hoping

I actually listened to the radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, the radio station I listen to decided to play it (well I think the 2nd version of it played in '49 or something) because of the movie coming out. I stopped paying attention after a bit but I remember something about a crazy guy who wanted to live underground and all the martians dying to microbes. Maybe I'll watch it on TV. Does the movie feature boobies?

	07-08-2005 13:34									#18
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HG Wells is a punk. What do I care if it's an old book. No excuses. If Tolkien farts, it's still a fart and it smells bad. The fact is, the movie was horrible, I was mostly criticizing the movie and not the book. The book might be good but I haven't read it, and it doesn't matter because the movie truly sucked.

	07-08-2005 14:02									#19
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I agree the movie probably does suck. I haven't actually seen it. But I just don't like too many modern hollywood movies. I'm sick of CGI. It doesn't look realistic at all.

Give me great movies like Invasion U.S.A. They just don't make them like that anymore.