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In Reply to: War of the Worlds------After thoughts. posted by patrickU on July 8, 2005 at 01:44:36:
You obviously were not paying attention. The long eyeball thingy could hear sounds. Robbins was making lots of noise. The tripod thingy stopped and Cruise put two and two together that the alien obviously heard Robbins ranting away. Cruis to save his daughter and himself shut Robbins up. So this is NOT a good reason to knoc this film.
However, this film was utterly pointless, devoid of any real emotion, long, boring, lacking any wonder that Spielberg used to muster. Even the effects are uninspired and I agree with Ebert on the stupid tripod things. It's a badly done alien (following the novella or not). Even the ending was lame. Sorry, but aliens this advanced which supposedly have been plotting against us don;t take the time to analyze airborn toxins and viruses? This is almost, though not quite as stupid as the laptop saving the world in Independence Day. Making a film on par with Independence Day is bad enough but at least that film had a bit of fun.It's IMO one of the worst Spielberg films I give it
*1/2 / *****
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Follow Ups
- Re: War of the Worlds------After thoughts. - RGA 20:54:07 07/08/05 (18)
- Those airborne toxins came straight from H.G. Wells. Be fair. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:54:20 07/09/05 (12)
- That may be - RGA 17:58:58 07/10/05 (11)
- You may be right -- I rarely go to such type movies... nt - clarkjohnsen 10:45:07 07/11/05 (7)
- Typical, ... - Audiophilander 10:57:12 07/11/05 (6)
- I was being conciliatory. You OTOH are your usual stodgy self. Desist. nt - clarkjohnsen 11:11:15 07/11/05 (5)
- I believe that, in your case, "being conciliatory" is a euphemism for flip-flopping. - Audiophilander 23:04:11 07/11/05 (4)
- Well at least you're not calling me a "chickensh*t" like in your original message. - clarkjohnsen 10:41:56 07/12/05 (3)
- Too close to bat guano, and we know for whom that's reserved. - Audiophilander 15:26:42 07/12/05 (2)
- NOTE BENE: This is the writer's fourth version of this particular post. Would someone please inform him... - clarkjohnsen 08:08:35 07/13/05 (1)
- "I hate reading drafts." - Don't worry about it, you're too old to be concerned about conscription. - Audiophilander 08:56:19 07/13/05 (0)
- Ummmm... - Audiophilander 22:56:58 07/10/05 (2)
- A film should stand ENTIRELY on its own merit! - RGA 11:44:44 07/11/05 (1)
- "If I read the book I would not need to see the film..." - It's a classic! I thought that everyone had read WoTW... - Audiophilander 17:01:02 07/11/05 (0)
- Re: War of the Worlds------After thoughts. - patrickU 01:20:28 07/09/05 (0)
- A fair assessment, but I differ with your conclusions. - Audiophilander 00:11:41 07/09/05 (3)
- Re: A fair assessment, but I differ with your conclusions. - RGA 01:27:28 07/09/05 (2)
- Again, with all due respect, you are dead-wrong. - Audiophilander 09:34:22 07/09/05 (1)
- Re: Again, with all due respect, you are dead-wrong. - RGA 10:12:09 07/09/05 (0)
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