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Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
WARNING-IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE YET AND PLAN ON SEEING IT, DON'T READ BELOW!

Scout--I think they spent time showing us the aliens in the basement to show their curiousity, they were looking at pictures and one was drinking the water. It was their curiousity that killed their species. At least this is my theory. I'm going to read the book to find out if my theory is correct that something in the water killed them.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Spoiler Alert...

Lalalalalalalalala.....


Miz, go back to the beginning and the ending of the film. What did you see?

Microscopic bacteria, germs.

Plus our narrator (Mr. Morgan Freeman) closes the movie with the fact that the aliens breathed our air, drank our water, and were awashed in our earthly pollutants, etc.


Maris
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03-28-2002

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
to discuss the plot further
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It to me was just too ridiculous, that the son survived a firestorm, his pregnant mother looked like she just got through a day at the spa, the grandparents didnt look the least bit put out and their house was the only townhouse on the block with lights on.

I really liked the movie,but the end was just too much ET slipping in. It was a spielberg ending.

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
Egbok-Yes, the beginning and end is exactly why I thought it was prevelant that they showed us the aliens in the basement looking at the pics and drinking the water.

Tim Robin's was rather creepy wasn't he?

Maris-Yes I agree, the ending was cheese, total 'Spielberg' ending as you put it.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
What killed them is microbes we are totally used to, but look what happens to us when we try to eat like the locals in Mexico. Good old Montezuma's Revenge doesn't kill us (usually), it just make us wish we were dead.

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Have to agree with Maris about the ending but most especially about the Grandparent's house and street They lived in Boston, correct - a major city? And every other area including tiny farm towns were destroyed and yet here was this street, completely left alone.

It's not a great movie but it's a good summer movie. Kind of like the difference between reading a quick fun book at the beach as opposed to reading something more substantial. So if you take it in that vain, it's entertaining.

Scientology is definitely into "hard sell". If you ever make the mistake of giving them your phone number (as I did once 25 years ago), it will not be easy getting rid of them. They like to play alot of psychological mind games which is why I find it ironic that Cruise puts psychiatry down.

Kappy
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06-29-2002

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Mars Attacks was on tv early this morning. After having seen WOTW, I found this movie so much more entertaining this time around.

Egbok
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07-13-2000

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Egbok a private message Print Post    
Kappy,.....

about the cheesy ending. When I saw that scene of Ray carrying his daughter towards the ex-inlaws' house, something immediately clicked into my brain. My immediate thought was "this was filmed in the Universal Studio backlot"! I recognized the "Boston/New York" section that I've seen so many times during my visits with out-of-towners.

And then a day or so later, one of our local newscasters did a piece on how Speilberg used the Universal studios backlots...and the plane scene is still sitting there for the tram tours of the back lot.


Azriel
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08-01-2000

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 5:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Azriel a private message Print Post    
I saw the movie yesterday and I absolutely hated it. I wish I had my time and money back because it was wasted on this movie. I don't understand how anyone liked it. It went beyond cheesy and was just plain annoying. I wanted the aliens to suck up the whole family and be done with it.

****SPOILER****


The scene that totally did it in for me was when the crazy man won't shut the hell up and Ray tells his daughter to sing the most annoying lullaby I've every heard in her shrill breathy voice LOUD enough for him to hear while he bashes the man's skull in. PLEASE, Mr Aliens, they are down in the basement! GO GET THEM, PLEASE!!



Kappy
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06-29-2002

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 9:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kappy a private message Print Post    
Lol, Azriel! Not everyone is going to like it, that's for sure.

Egbok, it's funny what goes through your head when the movie hasn't totally captivated you otherwise. I kept thinking 'Where's Et? That looks like the hill where ET came from. No wait, that looks like the mountain in Close Encounters of a 3rd kind!' 'Was that the plane from Lost?' 'Why would anyone drive their car into a mob that is ready to kill?' 'Aren't ferries slow? Wouldn't that make you a sitting duck?'

But at the same time, I admit that I had my hands up to my mouth for quite a bit of the movie.

Mizinvanccouver
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02-22-2003

Sunday, July 03, 2005 - 9:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mizinvanccouver a private message Print Post    
Kappy-When I saw the aliens hands it made me think of E.T. too!

Azriel-That little girls scream and singing was ear piercing. I flinched everytime I thought she would scream, which was most of the time. lol

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Monday, July 04, 2005 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Did you ever notice that so many of the aliens have spectacular, intracate machinery?

Did you also ever notice they usually have hands that couldn't thread a needle on a bet, but have managed the dexterity it takes to put together vehicles to traverse the universe?

I don't get it!

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, July 04, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I saw "Made in China" on one of the tripods :-)

Vsmart
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02-10-2003

Monday, July 04, 2005 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vsmart a private message Print Post    
It would have been a better movie without Tom Cruise. He wasn't believable as a dock operator. Richard Dryfuss was perfect as the Everyman suddenly thrust into a horrible situation like in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind".

Maris
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03-28-2002

Monday, July 04, 2005 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I agree, he needed at least another six inches on him and fifty pounds and some muscles.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, July 04, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I'm going to bed

Kiso1983
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03-08-2005

Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kiso1983 a private message Print Post    
I hate sci-fi movies like this, but my friend dragged me to see it....turns out it wasnt that bad until the end. The ending sucked! I was wondering how the heck these idiots started just dying out of nowhere; I thought it was because Tom Cruise let the bomb off when it tried to suck him up into the machine. I wouldn't have thought it was because of bacteria or anything, that's a really dumb ending...Well fine, Okay, I just ate yogurt, and now I have the hiccups. Damn bacteria, huh???

That guy in the basement was ANNOYING he was hurting my ears when he wouldn't stop talking!!!!! I'm glad Tom Cruise put an end to that...

And the son. How did he survive not being blown into dust when he ran straight to that huge machine? I swear, everytime it blew that loud horn, I jumped out of my seat. I kept thinking it was the music making people more scared, but it turns out it's the "aliens" screaming because they're ready to take a dump or something. I dont understand how these weird things are planted in the ground, a machine, growing right below your feet...a piece of metal...NOT possible. Ya, it's just a movie, and it was pretty cool because it kept me on the edge of my seat, but I'm not buying how the inlaw's house wasn't touched and why they weren't running away with everyone else. Where was the president of the U.S. in all of this...haha.

Kep421
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08-11-2001

Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kep421 a private message Print Post    
Haha Kiso... Your take is hilarious!!

I knew the ending from the previous version. But I enjoyed the flick immensely... They changed just enough from the older version to keep it interesting... although the blood spray was a bit much for me...

and yes...it scared me quite a bit too...

Hummingbird
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08-21-2002

Sunday, July 10, 2005 - 5:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hummingbird a private message Print Post    
If those beings were so superior to us in intelligence, how come they were so messy! Wherever they had been looked like a toxic dump. Hadn't they figured out waste disposal with their superior intellect?


Hummingbird
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08-21-2002

Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hummingbird a private message Print Post    
I had not read the book this movie was based on and wondered about the red vines sprouting after the alien invasion. I hought the movie neglected to explain them well. Someone who read the book told me that the aliens were draining blood from the humans to fertilze the red vines which were to be harvested for their food source. This made sense of part of the plot that I found lacking without this explanation.

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 10:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
Is the book called War of the worlds also? I am debating on seeing this film as I saw the first one. I am not to keen on movies that are re makes.

Hummingbird
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08-21-2002

Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hummingbird a private message Print Post    
I don't know about the book title as I haven't read it either. I assumed that was the name of it and I think it was written by H.G. Wells. I saw the original also. This one, of course, has much better special effects. There are a few plot holes but, for the most part, I enjoyed this one. Someone on the site who reads this can tell us for sure.

Saggkl
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07-17-2002

Thursday, August 04, 2005 - 2:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saggkl a private message Print Post    
I remember now. I think it was one of H.G. Wells works. I had forgotten that. I thought of seeing the new one just for the special effects. The first one had really good effects for the time period.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Friday, August 05, 2005 - 4:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
You can go to www.online-literature.com/wellshg and read W of the W for yourself, along with his other novels.