War of the Worlds.

[chrono]

I actually liked it! Thought on the whole it avoided any rah rah Americanism, and thankfully Speilberg stayed diciplined and there was none of the flab that sometimes blight his movies. Instead it went almost straight into the action and stayed totally focused on that one family for the whole film.

I also thought it was shot beautifully and the grainy, colour-drained shots of surburban America towered over by the huge Tripods were very striking. A solid, tense and effective Hollywood film!

[DissolveD_JameS]

Originally Posted by chrono

I actually liked it! Thought on the whole it avoided any rah rah Americanism, and thankfully Speilberg stayed diciplined and there was none of the flab that sometimes blight his movies. Instead it went almost straight into the action and stayed totally focused on that one family for the whole film.

I also thought it was shot beautifully and the grainy, colour-drained shots of surburban America towered over by the huge Tripods were very striking. A solid, tense and effective Hollywood film!

Indeed.

I liked that it was less about lots of people. It was more just centred around one person (Cruise's character) rather than a family. It means that the audience feel more connected to that one character, fearing for their safety, their family's safety and seeing the world being destroyed from one perspective. Gives a better idea of what it would be like if it happened to you.

When Cruise's character is in the basement with Robbins' and theres that exact point where he realises the guy is a nutter and will probably be the death of him and his daughter, everything sorta grays out as Cruise puts his hands up to his face and the camera slowly zooms in. I totally empathised - very cool.

[evilheartedyou]

How did emo Robbie not die?! did his emo glove have magical powers that saved him?

the aliens were cute

[morven]

hmm wasnt to sur eof this film.
as everyone is saying - robbie not dying - bit silly!
also that bloody blonde brat and her screaming.

[Downie]

Originally Posted by tallicafreak

hmm wasnt to sur eof this film.
as everyone is saying - robbie not dying - bit silly!
also that bloody blonde brat and her screaming.

the bonde girl was in taken too, she must really dislike aliens now. does it explain how robbie survived the huge ocean of fire which destroyed an army or is everyone as puzzled as me? and yes, that girls screaming is so fucking annoying, but it's supposed to be, it's annoying cos you are trying to think with the character and the scream puts you off, hence you feel the same as the character, a great technique.

i thought the film was great and some ppl are judging it on tom cruise, so fucking what, he's playing a character, no point judging a film just because you don't like an actor.
i thought it showed great realism in how humans would react in desperation to survive. some scenes of this are extremly horrific. eg. the car scene, still gives me shivers. ending wasn't as bad as i thought it'd be. i actually liked the ending, well apart from robbie's miraculous unexplained survival