War of the Worlds (Spielberg/Cruise)

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Bada0Bing said:
I thought it was a good movie and I really liked the ending. I was hoping that Cruise or the military wouldn’t just find some way to kill them. It was a clever concept.


You must never have read the books...or saw the original :)

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I recently re-watched this with my son. This is a pretty good movie for kids with low movie standards. A bit scary, but not nightmare producing. If I were to remake this movie I would cut the plot line of the kids and instead focus on how the military/world dealt with these things. More like Armageddon.

Ha. I didn't know the "couch jumping" was during this film's promotion.
Due to Steven Spielberg's last minute post-production work, he had to drop out of a scheduled appearance with Tom Cruise to promote the film on The Oprah Winfrey Show. This was the episode of Cruise's highly publicized "couch jumping" incident.
 

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I recently re-watched this with my son. This is a pretty good movie for kids with low movie standards. A bit scary, but not nightmare producing. If I were to remake this movie I would cut the plot line of the kids and instead focus on how the military/world dealt with these things. More like Armageddon.

Ha. I didn't know the "couch jumping" was during this film's promotion.
Then you might want to watch the original 50's version.
 

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I would like to reiterate how godawful this movie was. I am ashamed to have even been an extra in it.

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Did Stout just say he didn't like my movie?

I'm pretty sure that's what he said Steve....

Mother ****er!
 
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Did Stout just say he didn't like my movie?

I'm pretty sure that's what he said Steve....

Mother ****er!

And I learned, by him chewing out a camera man about ten feet away, that good ol' Steve can REALLY swear ;)
 

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And I learned, by him chewing out a camera man about ten feet away, that good ol' Steve can REALLY swear ;)

lol really? He always seems so calm which is why I thought the caption was funny.
 

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I liked this film. I thought it was pretty cool. Having said that it didn't have the charm of the original movies although those are seriously dated.
 

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Geesh. I guess it isn't hard to please some folks. I mean, sure, it's absolutely believable that you can drive 65 mph down a highway choked with abandoned and burned-out cars. This was an AWFUL sci-fi movie. And I had reason to really want to like it!
 

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Geesh. I guess it isn't hard to please some folks. I mean, sure, it's absolutely believable that you can drive 65 mph down a highway choked with abandoned and burned-out cars. This was an AWFUL sci-fi movie. And I had reason to really want to like it!

LOL. It's a movie based on the concept of an Alien invasion and you are having problems with that?
 

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LOL. It's a movie based on the concept of an Alien invasion and you are having problems with that?

Yep. Because the ENTIRE movie felt the same way. It was all eye-rolling ridiculous. Not as in 'I had a problem because it didn't feel real'--like you said, it is an alien invasion--but because almost everything that was done was stupid and idiotic.
 

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Yep. Because the ENTIRE movie felt the same way. It was all eye-rolling ridiculous. Not as in 'I had a problem because it didn't feel real'--like you said, it is an alien invasion--but because almost everything that was done was stupid and idiotic.

I don't know man...I liked it.

It was also cool to tell people "Hey! I know that guy...no, not that one, that one!"
 

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