by watching the trailer i had expected it to be a lousy disaster movie and it is a lousy disaster movie ... i enjoyed watching the old mini-series more than this .. at least that has more plot

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I liked it... it was truly a Spielperg movie. I bought pop corn and a Coke and wasn?t able to eat or drink any of it.

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i saw it the other day, i think is very original, who the fuck think that the aliens in someway were in the earth like 1 million years ago.....and that shit that they did with humans, something like drinking and dropout..damn that was scary......and the final is the original, who the fuck thinks that the.........haha just jooking, i will recommend this movie.....

also the aliens are like the ones on the independece day or something like that....i mean the head, the body i think they grab it from matrix.... :P

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Last 10 minutes were a bit of a cop out.

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I saw it yesterday. I like it very much. I recommend this movie. :P

i honestly thought this movie explained absolutely nothing to me.... it had no meaning and was really unbelievable in terms of REASONING... why the end happened the way it did and how it got to that point was never explained and the characters were pretty bad... for a Spielberg movie i was greatly disappointed, overall the movie was o.k., not even close to the mainstream hype it was given during the NBA playoffs... some cool ideas and special effects in the movie, but it lacked a good substance.... rent it, not worth the ticket price... cheers :Cheerz:

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well i understand that, human had millions of years on earth so we with time create some mechanism of defense for the virus of the planet......we and the planet are constantly changing or body for better resistence, the machines were here millions years ago before humans, but aliens no, so when they came, their body couldnt defense of the virus on our planet, EVOLUTION, i think....of im wrong explain me better :S :)

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this movie had be so tense the entire time, I thought it was very creative and also kinda scary.

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is it just me or they totally reused the alien props from independence day? also what is up with aliens and tripods that look like the head of a penis??

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The first 45 minutes were enthralling...the rest of it was okay...the ending was a big disappointment...I know it's a remake but Spielberg should have changed the ending...hey, I know, they could've gotten Jeff Goldblum to upload a virus into the mother ship's mainframe with an Apple laptop computer...oh wait, I think it's been done....on a scale of 1 to 10, I give it a 7...

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Saw this last night and for the most part enjoyed it. Was pretty intense and kind of scary at times which I enjoyed. Was disappointed by ending being so abrupt but all in all it was an entertaining film. At first I thought I had walked into the wrong theatre as the opening scene with the water droplet and the Morgan Freeman Voice Over was pretty similar to the IMAX film COSMIC VOYAGE. Didn't he narrate that too?

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i have about the same opinion as most on the board here, liked the beginning, middle wasn't bad at all, but disliked the ending, too sudden ending and

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why and how did his sun survive: that was lame.. i actually would of loved it if every human died, or only some survived and got inslaved or something.

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i was waiting for along time to see this film and when i saw was disapointed about the story.

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The worst movie I ever seen. And I can tell you that I saw a lot of movies. Can?t believe it?s a Spielberg movie. E.T. is far better than this. Why did aliens came 1 millon years ago? for what reason. Why didn?t they took the earth at that time?. Why to wait?. I can?t believe that Aliens are so stupid to invade a planet without considering the fact of the virus? It?s like we travel to Mars without O2. I spected another kind of story...must be that.

Omm

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special effects were pretty good.

everything else was mega gay. I'll give one example... the alien sensory technology was all visual!? So if they stayed out of sight they were safe (Ex. the snake thingy in the basement) So lame...

more to follow.. I have yet to fill my beer quota for the night.

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Worst movie in a long time. First you can?t get a grip on the story because the story is about screams. Screams here and there, non stop. Then tom cruise being a low life wannabe dad is truly not believable. The kid character has a personality of about a 25 year old but has a face about 15, the girl with claustrophobia? typical. Not to mention the tripod which collects humans, what for?And the people inside the tripod cage, all with mint clothing.

If you really want to see it don?t keep on reading. :!:

And Of course the aliens, obviously, black skin, black big eyes, 4 legs, no clothing, and obviously bread air, and can stand the earth?s atmosphere pressure, solar radiation, and gravity. But of course bacteria and virus are taken into account.

What really is the thing is how they are vanquished. . . . Could someone think of something else please ? water. Yeah the good old water that saved us in ?signs? movie, saved us again, only this time it had bacteria in it, just as it has always had.

Well, black skin, big eyes ,naked, water vulnerable aliens ? the modern man?s fear.

I really think Spielberg?s edge has been completely lost, 100% predictable, no new ideas, no new concepts, old school media bull****.

they had 3 legs and they were grey i thought, no braids either...

anyway i agree with you for the most part.. special effects were sick, but it did seem like th emovie lacked a real plot or reason for what was happening .... i would've been a way better movie if they led up to the end.. all the sudden the indestructable machines are beat.. :roll: .. i even thought that by killing one of the machines they threw of their sync and thats why they started dying...

overall entertaining, but very disapointing...you walk out of the theater feeling cheated

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Good just for effects. But then i didnt expect any thing more then that.

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The movie just ends. You keep thinking something will happen and it doesn't. It also has too many unexplained pts, which adds to its utter stupidity. How does the son get home... Who the hell knows. We are just suppose to believe the mother and stepfather and alive and well and no worse for the wear? a few positives moments - the effects are good, but really nothing special. The story sucks and therefore the whole movie sucks. that`s my opinion :)

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and i thought i was alone hating this movie when i saw it :twisted:

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I think war of the worlds should have been left as audio! The imagination is a far more powerful tool than Spielberg!!

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It was a big, dumb hollywood chase film with really great special effects and a fairly simple & porous plot. Enjoyable (if you can suspend disbelief), but little substance to be found. I thought the cop-out with the son turning up at the end was just stupid and uncalled for (yeah, he somehow escaped the inferno :roll: ). And why the hell did the aliens leave Boston pretty much untouched even after destroying pretty much everything else? Sox fans?

I may be alone here, but I thought the reason why the aliens died at the end was a pretty cool idea and didn't need to be changed from the original (probably the biologist in me :wink: ). Just goes to show that if we ever get invaded by a superior race of aliens with bigger guns than us, we are pretty much fucked unless we get really lucky. :P

Oh, and if that little girl had let out one more fucking annoying scream, I swear I would have thrown my beer bottle through the damn screen. :evil:

This movie was indeed a let down. I never saw Tom Cruise acting so weak.

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[quote]Enjoyable (if you can suspend disbelief)[/quote]

Why not; suspend judgement too, and later suspend reason. Then you are set to go :Bingo:

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this movie was shit. anyone can make shit with special effects and call it an entertaining film. at least have the courtesy of writing a better script. but i will say the most believable part of the movie was when cruise and kids get manhandled by the angry mob trying to get in their minivan.

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i had more fun watching the old war of the worlds mini-series from the 80s than this. at least i was entertained by the mini-series rather than feeling like part of the the angry mob after watching the movie