Wotw...

[big screen satellite]

thought i'd start a thread for this...i trust no ones seen it yet...I'm going on Saturday...very much looking forward to it...the dream team is back in action

so i'll be back when i've seen it...

[Leon]

Seems to me like a bit of a standard Hollywood production. Unless I've missed something.

[big screen satellite]

Seems to me like a bit of a standard Hollywood production. Unless I've missed something.


SPEILBERG!!!! CRUISE!!!!

wait and see...i might be wrong but this could be good....

[dubman]

now, i never let anybody's personal shit get in the way when deciding to see a movie.
but tht tragedy on the today show just canned any motivation to blow $10 on it.

i know now that every time i see his mug that i wont think of an actor or character but a pompous shit who put his co-stars and crew through a lot of cultist crap and believes that psychology is a belief system rather than a science.

i thought i was better than that but i'm not.

[Raz]

I'm seeing it on Saturday too, trailers look cool.

[adam]

I think it's going to be crap, but I'll still see it.

The funny thing is, after Magnolia, I started to really respect Tom Cruise. Boy, has that gone flush.

[b.miller]

you don't know the history of psychiatry, I do.

just knowing people on ritalin isn't enough!


All that scientology-fueled madness aside, this was a pretty good hollywood summer action flick. I'd say it was almost early-days Spielberg instead of lately-Spielberg until the very end. i was pleasantly surprised!

[grady]

Here HERE B. Miller!

I too was surprised. I'd read a few reviews today and was a bit skeptical at first, but the film won me over.

Granted it's not without it's pitfalls and trappings that seem to be the undoing of most spielberg films as of late. Some of the 9/11-esque imagery was getting a bit out of hand at times for me, but that is Spielbergo for you.

By the end it made me wish I had a copy of Mars Attacks! and Independence Day at home so I could watch either of those as I fall asleep this evening.

Anyone else think the film would have perhaps been better if Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins switched characters?


Adderall and Ritalin are street drugs! I know that vitamins and exercise can help people in a far more effective way!

[gambit]

It was terrible. I put Cruise's recent craziness aside before watching this, and I still didn't like Cruise's character or his kids. No one was likable, so I didn't care what happened to anyone throughout the movie. A waste of money, if you ask me.

[hivewax]

Yup, alot of annoying characters... especially the 2 kids. Tim Robbins played his part well. And, I wish they were driving in Ray's car, instead of that p.o.s. minivan... I just recently got me one.:D

[Scott Warner]

I thought it was pretty good but it was basically full of unlikeable, forgettable characters. At any point the Aliens could have vaporized the whole cast and the film would have rumbled right along.

If you haven't seen Batman Begins yet see that instead - it's much better as far as summer blockbusters are concerned.

[Jam0]

I thought it was pretty good but it was basically full of unlikeable, forgettable characters. At any point the Aliens could have vaporized the whole cast and the film would have rumbled right along.

If you haven't seen Batman Begins yet see that instead - it's much better as far as summer blockbusters are concerned.

Sounds about right. It was OK as far as a pointless blockbuster.. found it hard to care for the characters though more than a passing 'meh'.

meh

Roll on Fantastic 4.

[adam]

Apparently I either don't remember how to do the spoiler thing, or it doesn't work anymore. Either way, if you haven't seen it, I guess you shouldn't read this.

SPOILERS AHOY!

I didn't care for this too much.

One, I can't stand whiny characters and this movie is all whiny characters.

Two, I thought the whole thing with him having to kill Tim Robbins was lame. It didn't seem justified, to me, but they acted like it was wholly justified. The guy took you in. If you think he's crazy, freakin' leave. Or you know, kill him. Whatever. That scene bugged me. I know the arguments against what I'm saying, I mean, I understand why it might have been practically impossible for them to leave, I'm just trying to say that whole sequence didn't work for me, and it bugged me.

Three, the scene with the tentacle searching for them, and then the aliens searching for them, were too similar, especially since they were right after one another.

I also wanted to shout out, "Give him some Reese's Pieces!"

OH! And also: I thought that ending was fucking lame. And....they're dead now! Because, apparently, they're fucking stupid!

Scott's right, Batman is better.
Land of the Dead is better.
Crash is far, far better.

[Raz]

I thought it was a great film until the end which was totally rushed and didn't make much sense. Tom Cruise was good although not at his best, the little girl was amazing considering her age. Some really ugly scenes and dark moments along with some surprising comedy which got quite a few laughs from the audience. I liked how it got straight into the action too.

8/10

[big screen satellite]

well i was going on Saturday Night...but seeing as i was at Live 8...my review isn't here...

i will go sometime soon and report back...:)

[gambit]

I thought it was pretty good but it was basically full of unlikeable, forgettable characters. At any point the Aliens could have vaporized the whole cast and the film would have rumbled right along.

If you haven't seen Batman Begins yet see that instead - it's much better as far as summer blockbusters are concerned.
That sums it up right there.

[stimpee]

Was very impressed with Batman. Seen the trailers to WotW and heard personal opinions of those who have seen it and it seems to rate about 6/10, whereas Batman is about a 9/10 and "best one yet" seems to pop up a lot.

[Raz]

...whereas Batman is about a 9/10 and "best one yet" seems to pop up a lot.

That's not difficult though ;):)

[big screen satellite]

That's not difficult though ;):)


what?!?!?!

I Love Batman and Robin


well, the bit with Moaner in it....

[Tiger]

the film just didn't go anywhere for me, just rumbled along, and the end was a rushed cop out :( the only thing that impressed me was the sound during the lightning

[gambit]

Well, in the novel by H. G. Wells, the aliens did succumb to the common cold.

[Animal Boything]

I was surprised at how much I liked this movie. It's the best thing Spielberg's done in years, for sure. It managed to be truly disturbing without a lot of cheap scares... it's a better horror movie than most horror movies.

Not the best film of the year, for sure, but it's quite a ride. It's true that the characters are forgettable, but in a way I thought that made the aliens more interesting.

[myrrh]

I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, the ending was a bit rushed, but I totally loved the way the alien ships looked. And the sound was awesome. I love how they used the old ray gun sound for the alien ships ray guns.

One thing I didn't like, and this is a somewhat of a spoiler, is that there seems to have been a scene cut out when Tom Cruises son tell's him he is going to meet him in Boston. When Cruise was telling Robbins about how his son was going to meet him in Boston, I thought it was because he was delusional and trying to cope with the fact that he just saw his son get napalmed. Then when you see the son at the end, I was like WTF? I thought it was kind of a lame Spielberg everyone lives happily ever after type of crap ending.

Other than that, I liked it more than I thought I would.

[Animal Boything]

That bugged me too, but it's far from the worst tacked-on happy ending I've endured from Spielberg. I don't know what madness drives him to do these things. I think he's just a cowardly storyteller.

[votingfloater]

Don't read on if you don't know how it ends...





... but the ending is rushed. It could have been really tense if there were more scenes dealing with the demise of the invaders, and how the characters wouldn't be sure if that was really happening - sneaking about not knowing whether they were in danger or not. That's got to be better than <cough> <cough> <splat> <whoopee>.

[Emmet]

the ending was very rushed...I've never read the book but I think the ending could have been somewhat improved from the original...why not some sort of blood based infection seeing as though thats what the aliens seemed to be after?

[ffolkes]

I absolutely loved WOTW, but i can see if it ain't everybody's cup of tea.

People had a problem with the ending, but from what i've understood it's quite faithful to the Wells' book.