Why was this shit?

>"Oh so everyone dies BUT Tom Cruise. Yeah thats believable."

If Tom Cruise passes by you running thats when you know you are fucked

I liked it.

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no one asked, retard
should've been a period piece then. Calling it dated feels like an understatement because the soviets or nazis invading America in 2005 would be far more believable than what we got.

Dakota Fanning screaming for the entire movie and being an absolutely useless burden
I think she walks ONE TIME in the entire movie, and it's offscreen directly into the path of a tripod in an open field. The entire rest of the movie she's being carried and screaming.

It was one of the last good ayyy films we had in a while. That foghorn is scary.

This is true. If a 5 foot 7 man is able to dodge lazer beams and out run me think I some serious issues going on.

Yeah my favorite scene is the ferry scene. When the tripods slowly move out from the trees then the foghorn hits and everyone in the crowd looks stunned and starts rushing to the ferry. I could actually see that happening in a mass panic.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=WVe7EoRKoXY

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>should've been a period piece then
I agree. I'm a fan of H.G. Welles' original story and think it may very well be his best. It's definitely worth checking out. The fact that it doesn't work well in the modern age doesn't bother me at all. It's a product of its time. But if a movie is going to stick to the details of the original, then it should probably be set in that time.

Absolute audio kino

I enjoyed it.

Spielberg can build worlds well and is great at special effects, but it's too predictable and formulaic, after the 1st act, it's just another HollywoodCGIshit film

That was my favorite scene too. Imagine being apart of the crowd and seeing the tripod stand on the hill behind you then suddenly you hear it. That fucking horn. Fantastic scene.

I recognize that guy from OLD SCHOOL to the left of cruise.

I feel like the 50s version was great in everything besides the actual Martians. The effects are goofy as fuck but the desperation and fear is great.

10/10 album.

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my aunt is an extra in this movie

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Basedddd

That fucking kid screaming is why it was shit. Also Tom cruise just isn’t likeable and his retard son should have died.

This, but surprisingly I feel like this was Spielberg's last good movie.

He should have hit her more.
Like that I want to go home part that little bitch would have been taking a nap.

Gittamn!! That scene is a masterclass in film making. All the little nuances and build up really help sell it.

Too bad the rest of the movie Amber Heard’s the bed.

In which scene?

absolute kino

when they get pulled up into that thing that looks like an anus

He had a cinderblock tied to the end of his penis.

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>You'd carry and make me scream wouldn't you user?

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No I’m leaving you behind in that fat guy’s basement while your brother and I escape.

Who /thunderchild/ here?

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it was prime kino. how come so many people didn't like it?

It's eye candy disaster kino. No different from Independence Day or Mars Attacks.

At least they didn't die from water or something ridiculous like that. Imagine what kind of pathetic species that would be.

Never understood the logic behind statements like this. If he died, the movie wouldn't be about him, it would be about the guy who didn't die

everyone did.
"woonzie" or whatever his name got the block dropped though.

the best adaptation

Poor Thunder Child ;_;

because it falls off

Understandable but I just thought It was funny and it would actually be nice to see a movie that doesn't have a main character. Just a bunch of supporting characters that are never really the prime focus. That way you could just focus on the action and suspense. I think it would be a refreshing take on movies.

it doesn't really fall off. all the arcs are good.

I would

Scary Movie 4 did it better

Well, they did understand it. Hence why they were trying to terraform the planet with blood. I think they were doing a good job of it just not fast enough and eventually our bacteria killed them. Like fighting off a infection.

The basement scene is the worst scene in the movie and one of the worst ever because of how thoroughly it disrupts the flow of the story. It's not bad on a vacuum, in fact the intensity of the scene and Tim Robbins' performance are part of the problem. He comes out of nowhere to seemingly join the main cast, and the central plot screeches to a halt in his basement. This could only happen because it's important to the overall story, right? Wrong. As soon as the viewer starts to accept Robbins as a character, he dies off screen. Then they just walk out of the basement and continue their journey.

I believe this scene killed wotw. If they wrote just one more interesting apocalyptic journey set piece instead, it would be a classic. This one scene worked so hard to invest people in a meaningless subplot that it undermined and muddled the central plot.
>b-but it was a reference to the book!
Irrelevant
>bbut he rambles about insane shit, it's kino!!
No, it's not kino. Kino actor, the scene would make a nice short film, but it's supremely damaging to the overall story.

Kek

I disagree. the basement arc was very good and loaded with tension. what made it good was the fact the homeowner was insane and had delusions about fighting back. it would've been very boring otherwise.
>as soon as the viewer accepts Robbins, he dies offscreen
and the bad thing about this is? he served his role as a character and now died. he didn't really join the main cast. he was encapsulated by the basement arc.

If the movie was as good as the Ferry arc the whole way through it would unironically be one of the greatest films of all time.
youtube.com/watch?v=-av6JX3_n7Q
A lot of the other parts of the movie just don't do justice to the Myth of the aliens.
Also it's completely retarded that Cruise's family is so close to the machines all the time

Are you american?

it was pointless and the story went nowhere, only rehashing the incomparably superior previous basement scene from twenty minutes earlier.

I can agree with that, but I think they wanted to diverge to give the audience a glimpse of the alien's real form and how they are curious about our technology almost humanizing them in a way, as well as how they are terraforming the earth. Also, the shotgun wrestling scene was pretty tense but overall, they could of done it better.

Yeah, if they solely focused on Cruise's journey and left the kids out of it, focused more on the action and suspense. It could have been pretty epic. The ferry scene and the first arrival scene are pretty kino though.

Because they tried to "fix" a classic story so it would appeal to modern audiences.
Also why the fuck would you set it in America? The country is fuck huge, you're never going to achieve a feeling that humanity is lost. Just that you need to get to the other coast or hide in the middle of bumfuck nowhere

Seeing the aliens was fine, but tim robbins character is so blatantly a plot vehicle, no matter how hard the actor worked it was still obvious.

also the basement scene is basically just
>Jurrasic Park scene but with probe and crazy guy

They had eradicated bacteria on mars so long ago they forgot it existed.
I guess the author didn't really understand microbiology that well himself.

Only some of the aliens ever got out of their tripods though, how did they ALL die to bacteria?

They were collecting people and juicing them or something

But the humans got juiced, how did they infect the martians

Why the fuck would you set a movie geared towards American anywhere else but America? Also, our military was still kickass back then so it makes it more appealing. What your going to have the French waving some banquets at the fucking Martians to try and stop them from lazer beaming their ass.