Why was this shit?

Why was this shit?

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>hating dad kino

Consider watching it now that you're over the age of 18

It wasn't, the only shitty part was the ending. Fix that and it's a great alien invasion flick.

that was a great movie what the fuck

what the fuck it was the cannon ending wtf how can you even say that

>no thunderchild

>most surreal alien invasion film
>shit

>best 9/11 movie
>Spielberg's best movie of the 21st century outside of Munich
>shit

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Unironically one of the best child performances ever
She actually got terror/helplessness

People who just thought she was annoying are robots

>what the fuck it was the cannon ending wtf how can you even say that

I think he's talking about how his son magically appears alive again even though he should have clearly been vaporized with the rest of the army.

it wasnt shit

>that train scene

The first half was absolutely kino. It went to shit once the part with Tim Robbins ended.

>modern Spielberg
>starred Tom Cruise
>retarded glorification of U.S. Armed Forces
>Insults the audience's intelligence

>U.S. Armed Forces can't do shit to stop the aliens
>"retarded glorification"

>based cruise
>spielberg not jewing out
>prime fanning
>BBWWWWWWURRRRRRRM
>god tier effects all over the place

>canon ending

In the ending of the novel, the Aliens all contract human germs and die, despite humiliating every military might the humans can throw at them.

In this movie, the virus makes the aliens weakened, thus allowing the U.S. military (who was only pretending to be dead), to rush in and save the day.

So that's not the canon ending to War of the Worlds. That's the canon ending to Independence Day.

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The scene with tom and the kid playing football with the wind whipping up was also kino

>gives accurate and convincing portrayal of confusion and terror
>get called annoying for the next 10 years

I haven't seen it for ten years, might watch it again. Trying to get my Cruise-kino going.

>retarded glorification of U.S. Armed Forces
they're barely featured in the movie at all
>Insults the audience's intelligence
go on

Because

BRRRWWWWWWWWMMMMMMMM

MMMMMMMMMHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

yea yea samefag, we know you enjoy posting in cunny threads all day, we get it

They want to steal our resources, so they come here millions of years ago, before we've evolved, and then plant their giant robots directly under the sites of where we're going to build our cities millions of years later, once we've evolved, so they can kill us all and steal our resources that they could have just taken at any time before we evolved.

Imagine being stuck taking a shit when aliens invade. Do you stop mid turd and run around with shit in your pants or do you try and force the rest out as quick as you can so you can run around with a comfy butt?

>Dakota Fanning is 23 now

Wtf? She wasn't supposed to age

Wasn't an adaptation of the book

I detect someone watched an old Siskel review from Siskel & Ebert!

Then 12,417 times it has been cloned as a successful troll outrage.

Sorry, 12,418.

Sorry, 12,419...

And thank fuck for that

I thought it was ok, I was just really confused by the scene where the son charges into the middle of a battle between the martians and the earth military. Seemed like it was supposed to mean something but it just seemed stupid.

>millions of years
probably less
>where we're going to build our cities
having them pop up in truly random locations doesn't lend itself well to an action movie, but sure
>taken at any time
you don't go for a full run at the grocery store if your cupboards are already full.

spielberg has never explained shit when it comes to his alien movies (or any major worldbuilding, honestly) because he's focusing on other things (famalam bonds! generational differences! etc!).

think of it this way ("signs" too): the aliens are either overwhelmingly arrogant ("dumb species, we'll just take it", hubris defeats them) or desperate enough ("can we work fast enough before their climate kills us?") - oorr bootthhh - to come get what they need.

Movie was 90% running around while CG blows up around our heroes. The only good scene was the one in the basement with the crazy guy but it has no pay off and doesn't justify the rest of the boring garbage.

It's a proto 2010+ blockbuster basically. If you like this movie but also hate all of the modern big budget garbage hollywood's been shoveling down our throats you're a hypocrite.

>signs
>aliens

No thunderchild scene, nor any ability for humans to fight back at all for that matter. In the novel they at least put up a fight, albeit an insufficient one. Everyone who even tried to fight them in the movie was basically shown to be a retard, instead of brave. So much for the spirit of man.

Also, Morgan Freeman's voice is disgusting. Actually put me off the whole movie when they opened his awful rasping instead of just ripping Richard Burton's performance, which was about a billion times better, straight out of the musical.

>demons

>director famous for christian iconography
>movie is about a priest that lost his faith and must conquer his demons
>literally all plotholes are filled by replacing aliens with demons
>"nah it was aliens"

Probably one of my favorite "apocalypse/disaster" movies. It has a nice mixture of hope, desperation, and horror.

Did anyone else not care about the teen drama? Just make it a father daughter movie and it would've been automatically >dad kino

This movie was probably the worst movie I ever watched. Nothing much happened, they hid in a house and the aliens died due to human aids, which somehow intelligent aliens didn't think of.

>This movie was probably the worst movie I ever watched.

then you haven't seen many movies

kys my man

I agree, the son was a cunt. But then again most teenagers are cunts.

Its pretty brazy cuz It is just an giant octopus in the city and likes fucking with them to scare them so they taste better and they can overpower them (since It is actually really weak unless they're afraid).

Like It just goes up to their house and like reaches into their bedrooms and trolls them all day. Like in that scene he has his buddy aliens and then he floods the basement with red shit and makes Tom go into the basement and then he sock puppets the vacuum cleaner and then jumps out like OOOGA BOOGA BOOGA STOOPID DOG and then Tom runs away all scare and thats the whole point. sick sadistic childish shit to scare a child that the aliens actually enjoy doing. they're like that tails gets trolled comic where bugs bunny acts all gay and retarded

> No real "Thunderchild" moment
> The concept of the aliens creating technology on the fly and adapting is dropped in favour of "they was under da ground!"
> Fusing the Parson and the Artilleryman into one character was a mistake.
> Great opening act followed by shit second and third acts saved only by set-pieces.

Orson Welles and Jeff Wayne's adaptations are still the best by a huge margin.

> tfw best War of the World's adaptations are audio.

It was propaganda urging young men to throw themselves into the quagmire that was Iraq. If you go back and watch it you'll find that WotW mirrored a lot of the feelings of fear, anxiety, and bloodlust of the years immediately following 9/11.

It actually has good pacing you twat.

shut up fag

I'm right tho.

The army did not save the day in the movie

The thing that made the aliens scary in the novel was how they adapted so fast to every human attempt to fight them.

> Heat Ray
> Tripod
> Chemical Weaponry
> Aircraft

Because at any point we felt that people in the Middle East were on the verge of conquering us and destroying our way of life.

You need a better thought machine.

The latter. If you're likely to die anyway, may as well not shit yourself post-mortem.

The only shitty part was that the ending was too happy and the son who ran into the battlefield with the aliens and army somehow survived despite being engulfed by flames.

>watched it more than 10 years ago
>still have nightmares of those aliens, thousand-meters tripods with their sound coming from nearby, their FUCKING BOTS or whatever, tentacles which search all fucking places and there's nowhere to hide

Say what you will, but the tripods were beautiful.
And the fucking noise they made as they walked too, shit was haunting.

The Brown trousering honk was indeed great.

The musical version's tripod sound still rules in terms of creepiness, though.

Except he was most likely in the army vehicle that drives past Cruise while the front is on fire so the son most likely wouldn't have seen his dad as the truck drove by.

No the army was thoroughly wrecked in the movie, you may be misremembering.
This movie was kino honestly, it's just one proof of many that critics are bandwagoners and totally unfit to critique anything.

>spielberg has never explained shit when it comes to his alien movies (or any major worldbuilding, honestly)
And this is why he's one of the great directors of his generation. """Worldbuilding""" is just another word for spoonfeeding and it only belongs in cheap fantasy novels/flicks. True kinography focuses on the human element of a story

how many times has this happened?

advanced alien race, capable of interstellar travel attempt to invade earth, yet they are killed by the most basic things that even a retarded human could predict and safeguard against.

what are helmets? what are vaccines? what are spacesuits?

the stupidest aliens i can think of are the ones from signs. water is deadly to them yet they invade a planet which is like 90% water

I forget, was there ever a scene in the movie that shows what was happening inside of a Tripod, you know, Aliens drinking our blood?

If he wanted the machines to arise from underground because it would be a magnificent reveal (which it was) then just have the incoming meteorites punch deep down into the ground.

"They were buried" was stupid.

first thirty minutes were great.

lmao the point is it doesn't matter where they come from from a story perspective. Besides, with meteorites you still lose that full reveal from below. He only chose this way becuase it looked better

Lets be real, it does some things very well but its pretty shit.

was this film the first use of BWWWWWWWURRRMMM?

Only one character said they were 'probably' buried millions of years ago which is ridiculous as we would've found one at some point when digging for foundations and the like.

In the 100 year old book the narrator consisders whether they had completely annihilated disease centuries earlier on their planet so had completely forgotten about them - or that disease had never evolved alone side them so they didn't even know it could exist

The ending could have been spiced up.
It was a decent movie though overall.

the daughter was 10X more annoying. shitty performance all around. except for cruise

>performance
you faggots realize that children can cry on cue, right? crying and throwing a big tantrum is as easy for a child as breathing. theres nothing convincing about a kid crying because they cry all the fucking time. they also look confused all the fucking time because theyre retarded. so of course, a crying and screaming child looking confused all the time is annoying

no it was shit. the humans were dumb to believe they won. all that happened in the end was the scouts or "first wave" of aliens to die off from disease. their are still billions of aliens remaining in orbit or in their homeworld...
once they aliens figure out what went wrong they will adapt and try again and succeed in taking over earth.

(also did they seriously expect us to believe that the tripods communicated with eachother by honking their horns? LMAO. come on dude, even humans have radios n shit)

Has there ever been a logical, sensible reason in any alien-invasion movie as to why aliens would bother invading/attacking Earth?

>or that disease had never evolved alone side them so they didn't even know it could exist
oh yeah, an alien species capable of space travel was too fucking stupid to monitor the planet they were going to. sure, i buy that shit. also, nevermind the fact that the earth has had bacterias and viruses since life evolved.

wow, pacing. makes for a great movie, its all i look for in a movie kek

usually the adrenaline will prevent you from having to take a shit in the first place

>watching this for the first time
>alien sound hits

Maybe Battle LA where the aliens need water

Another good motive could be the aliens hunting for some separatists/terrorists/rebels and mistaking Earth for their hiding place and invading in error.

why would remaking a sci fi novel from over 100 years ago work?

can't you think of the scientific advancements and cultural implications that would make this story a bit dull?

fuck Spielberg

>watch alien invasion movie
>it's about family drama and people fighting against each other

Why was this shit?

The solar system and, presumably, the rest of the galaxy is littered with ice/water. Why bother trying to get it from a populated world that's gonna give you grief for trying to take it?

> move the plot along

The family drama was stupid.
But the sci-fi and action were superb, Speilberg could've had a classic if he'd just tidied the script up more.

did everyone forget that the aliens literally buried their ships in the ground? like right under the streets too? they had been to earth and left their technology there, surely they would have discovered what bacteria and viruses are before hand.

>littered

You mean asteroids and shit? That's miniscule compared to the amount Earth has. Maybe they wanted to turn Earth into an outpost/refueling station

the ending is the exact same you utter autist

It had an effect on me as well. It was legit creepy and freaky. Going to watch it again tonight.

Maybe they buried them in the ice age so all the water was frozen.

>having to make excuses for magic son

this

nerds are incapable of understand this though

>Why was this shit?

Mew didn't get eaten.

literally no likeable characters

Europa has way more water than Earth and it's uninhabited (apart from the potential oceanic life under the ice).

well they managed to bury them right underneath major cities.
either way they used our own blood in combination with other alien chemicals to teraform the land so they could breathe without assistance, yet they had no knowledge about bacteria? its illogical

yea, this shit worked back in the 50's but current audiences dont buy that spacefaring ancient aliens dont know what biosecurity is.

you mean current pedantic redditors who cant suspend their disbelief

its not a documentary. people dont want to sit around and watch the aliens take biological samples and discuss the best way to breathe and design enviro suits. idiot

and?

what does that have to do with a movie being good or not?

you dont have to sit around and watch any of that happen because anyone with a fully developed brain would automatically assume that alien invaders would have done all this shit already...

Was this the film where CGI came of age?

no