*** spoiler alert *** My review of War of the Worlds

POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 2, 2005 11:28
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I guess my biggest problem with all of these remakes is what someone else mentioned. They try to make them bigger and better while usually sacrificing story to get it done.

There are so many people out there with excellent movie ideas who don't get a chance to make them because these big names are too damn busy trying to improve and recreate movies which were essentially classics and fine to begin with. Very few of these remakes have lived up to their original. There are few movies that have balanced effects and story, Independance Day, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Matrix are only a few of these, but a vast majority are just big damn effects masturbation hours.

I argue that you got more of a human story and more character development when you didn't have the CGI department around to make everything look 'better' and to create monsters and explosions that they couldn't otherwise do. Look at Star Wars, I argue in Episodes 1-3 that the story suffered because someone was too busy jerking off the special effects. The first 3 were good because it was about the story not where it was being told, that aspect was secondary. I still think animatronics often look far better than CGI cos they are tangible and offer actors something to interact with other than a blue screen.

I love special effects but to me it seems like movies are moving the way of TV, which is find a formula, if it sells then reproduce the exact same formula over and over again until we have beaten it to death and no one wants to see it any more. They wonder why people aren't going to the movies, its simple it's all the same shit they've seen before, regurgitated yet again.

There are some stories that couldn't have been well made without all the fancy effects, Hitchikers Guide comes to mind (if you've ever seen the original movie you'll understand why I say that), but I think that there are some classic movies that should be left well enough alone. War of the Worlds has been done enough, Spielberg must have some other ideas in that gigantic noggin of his. If he is half the filmatic genius we all think he is can't he find something else? I mean Catch Me If You Can was a damn remake. I think it's sad that there are so many excellent writers out there (like Joss) who have to create lowest common denominator shit (not like Joss) to get to the point where they can actually be creative and come up with an original story. People are bored with the same old crap. The only reason why Batman is doing so well is cos they cleaned the slate and started over (and I have to say this is a definate improvement), but also they didn't hire the biggest names in hollywood to write and direct the thing.

Sorry I'm just ranty cos I think the public keeps getting jipped out of quality movies for the sake of letting the good old boys make what ever they want. Look at the Passion of the Christ, NO ONE wanted to make that movie cos they thought it was a bad idea, and it ended up being the top grossing film of that year. yeah it was a common story but no one had bothered bringing it to life, and its one of the oldest stories in human history! Temptation of Christ was a excellent movie as well. But I mean there are all these stories out there waiting to be told and instead we get movies that have already been made cos it's in a sense easier to try to out do an original than be an original.

Rant done, sorry.


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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."

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I hated that movie, I walked out halfway through. Absolutely horrible. And I intend to tell everyone I meet. Somebody's gotta get the truth out there.

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You mean they don't have the cylinder-unscrewing scene, with classic creepifying sound effects ??!!!

I'm sorry, but imop that's an utterly integral part of the story lead-in cause of the mood it sets, and how that scene develops!



Speilberg's a moron.

-F

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Spoilers....kinda










My only major qualm is that the aliens spend an entire day investigating a cabin in the middle of nowhere, but don't touch the pretty buildings in Boston?

At the end, when those people came out, I think they were just shocked to see something had been happening outside: "Wait a second....when did this...How long were we playing Boggle?"

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I am amused by the amount of people here slating the movie WHO HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN IT.

I am also amused by the people slating the plot holes, ending etc - a majority of which are in the original book.

Bejesus. Can you imagine the kind of reviews Serenity is going to get from the general public if they are this closed minded?

"But why didn't they have lazers?!!!?!!?!?!"

TheInside.org - Firefly Producers NEW TV series

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Originally posted by MainlyMe:
Spoilers....kinda










My only major qualm is that the aliens spend an entire day investigating a cabin in the middle of nowhere, but don't touch the pretty buildings in Boston?

At the end, when those people came out, I think they were just shocked to see something had been happening outside: "Wait a second....when did this...How long were we playing Boggle?"

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*laugh* Good one. 'Boggle' hee hee!

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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I would be looking forward to seeing it if it didnt have that @$$hat Tom Cruise in it.

The reviews mean nothing when it comes to him- I wont pay to see it.

"My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

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Actually, Tom Cruise did a pretty good acting job in this, and I'm NOT a Tom Cruise fan. But I have to agree with AURAPTOR. This was a horrible movie. I was really looking forward to the movie, but after I saw it last night, I wish I could have gotten my money back. I know it is billed as a sci-fi action movie, but I saw it as more of a horror movie the way Spielberg made it. I was hoping for something along the lines of Independence Day but this wasn't even close. There was no humor except for a line very early in the movie. The characters seemed to know, somehow, that the machines had been buried on Earth for a million years. Why would you bury machines that long ago, when there was no human life? Were the aliens psychic and knew that the conditions would come to pass that would create human life on Earth?
And of course the perfect Hollywood ending where all the main characters live, despite it being EXTREMELY unlikely that Robbie would have lived. The ending just seemed very weak considering the blockbuster this was supposed to be. I'm one of those people that at least like most movies I see, but this one was an exception. Hopefully Fantastic Four is better than this, it would be hard not to be.

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I haven't seen it yet, and I'm not entirely sure I will.


Hell's Kitten (are you a Hell's Kitchen Fan?),
I totally agree with Ellison! Tom Cruise is a total media whore (or should I say media "companion" ) Why do most of these Hollywood types think that they are God's gift to the silver screen?
If I see another magazine cover with Tom Cruise and his love-de-jour....

NUF SAID!

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