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Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 5:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I loved it :-)

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
...OMG...an intense story about survival!!!!

I'm not giving a movie review, however I'll share with you that after all the trailers were shown and the movie was going to start, about half the audience started clapping out of anticipation.

As soon as the clapping died down, there was a bit of a silent lull and someone yelled out "Scientology rules!"...and every one started laughing. LOL, it was a very funny moment!


Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 12:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
LOL That hilarious, Eggie! I can't wait to see this movie. I love a good Sci-Fi flick.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 5:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Went see it last night. I enjoyed it. After the movie, a few parents were commenting that they regretted bringing their younger children to see it.

Right after the first startling surprise on screen, a youngster in the back of the theater yelled "I don't want to see this anymore!". As sorry as I felt for the little kid, the whole audience laughed, myself included.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
My ds, 15 almost 16, saw it last night, and all he said was 'it was intense!'

Marebear
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09-27-2002

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 5:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marebear a private message Print Post    
Does this film have a lot of swirling action? Like things flying and swirling around? I would love to see this on the big screen but I get motion sickness so easily that it limits what I can see. (it sucks to be me lol) Thanks for any info!

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 5:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Mare, most of the shots are from the ground from what I remember. Hope this helps!

Bbfanatic
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08-14-2000

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 9:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bbfanatic a private message Print Post    
I feel like I have seen these special effects over and over. I think it was more on the level of a tv movie of the week. I wasnt going to see it because of Tom overload, but I was ask to go with someone. The scenery seems so fake. Tom is not a very good actor. I think it would have been better with an unknown.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 6:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I got my $5.50 worth even though I'm no Cruise fan by any stretch of the imagination.

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
I just got back from seeing.

WARNING-Don't have caffinated beverages beforehand! You don't need it, believe me!

I'm not a big Tom Cruise fan but if you want a movie that will have you holding your hand in front of your mouth, you got it!!! Also you'll enjoy it if you like sci-fi

There's more action than dialogue. One part of the ending was a bit 'cheesy'. lol

Someone told me this movie was based on a novel written over a 100 years ago?? Anyone know? I think that's why they made the special effects the way they did. I was having flashbacks of another movie with the big anaconda or something that lived in the desert....anyone know what I'm talking about?? lol

Sorry didn't mean to go on so long. sigh

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 6:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Mizinvancouver, are you thinking about "Tremors," the campy sci-fi spoof with Kevin Bacon and Reba McIntire? It was giant worms attacking a little town out in the desert. It was actually pretty funny.

Bbfanatic, I agree with you whole-heartedly on the TC as an actor thing. I used to think he was cute, but he just plays Tom Cruise in every movie he's in. A nice smile can only take you so far . . . but then again, look how long it's taken him!

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 6:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
Yes H.G. Wells wrote "War of the Worlds" some time before 1900 I believe but I'm not sure.

In 1938 Orson Welles did a famous/infamous radio broadcast of it. A lot of people thought the invasion was real.

Anaconda in the desert? ohhhhhhhhhkayyyyyyyy

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
Ya Babyjax...I think Tremor's is the one it reminded me of in certain parts. I liked that movie, was campy.

Thanks Ketchuplover, I would be interested in reading the book.

All in all the movie was TOTAL escapism, it wraps you up so tight and then spits you when it's done. lol It's just you, the movie and other movie goers. lol

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 7:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Wasn't there also an old black and white movie done of War of the Worlds? I think I remember seeing it as a kid.

Azriel
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08-01-2000

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Azriel a private message Print Post    
Mizinvanccouver you can read the book on the web.

War of the Worlds - HG Wells 1898

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Friday, July 01, 2005 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
Thanks Azriel...but the link didn't work. Hmmmm

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 4:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
Twinkie, there is a 1950's version of this movie, I remember watching it on TV in the 60's as a little girl with my dad. Well, watching it with my eyes closed hiding underneath his arm, lol.

Azriel
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08-01-2000

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 5:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Azriel a private message Print Post    
Sorry let me try it again

HG Wells The War of the Worlds

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I saw the original in a theater. That 'head' sneaking around looking for people scared the bejabbers out of me then...and in the new version too.

Ddr
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08-19-2001

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ddr a private message Print Post    
That was the exact part I was hiding underneath my dad's arm, lol.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I particularly remember the eerie 'hum' that it made...I think that was what made it so scary. Sometimes a slight noise is much more effective than the loud ones.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Oh Yeah! I loved that part! That movie stuck with me since childhood just like Heidi (with Shirley Temple) did.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I thought it was a really good movie, only setback were the tables across the street from the movie theatre set up for scientology folks. They had these signs saying free stress test and then once someone sat down they started doing the hard sell. They had these L. Ron Hubbard books on the tables. kind of strange.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 5:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
I'm going to see it today. Reading all the posts here has made me even more excited...

I love a good SciFi flick...'specially if it scares the "bejabbers" outta me!!!

Scout
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01-20-2005

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
I thought the movie was much better than I expected it to be. If you don't question much of the plot, it is an intense and sometimes pretty scary movie.

I got pretty sick of them in the cellar, though. That's the only part I was bored with. Why the aliens would waste that much time looking for a few people in an isolated farmhouse when there were millions in the city, was a little silly, but wait, now I'm questioning the plot, so...
That part also felt like I was watching "Signs" again when they were in the basement for so long.

The first time they played that loud tone, it sounded like the first noise the ship made in Close Encounters when it was so loud it blew out the lights. I kept waiting for them to play the rest of the sequence.