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Velsharoon	Posted - 2005.07.03 16:18:00 - [31] They cant handle earth viruses etc so they became ill, he was talking about the birds as the kinetic shields went down (the birds were on the hull) so they could open fire on it and actually kill it.
garishwinner	Posted - 2005.07.03 16:44:00 - [32] saw it yesterday had some of the funniest pro-Bush one liners ive ever heard Originally by: dakota fanning daddy is it the terrorits? had the entire audiance laughing outloud
Kaeten	Posted - 2005.07.03 17:14:00 - [33] the ending is abit crap, all of a sudden birds start to pwn them . Nah ending was abit lame though, I was expecting something bigger.
Kaeten	Posted - 2005.07.03 17:15:00 - [34] Originally by: garishwinner saw it yesterday had some of the funniest pro-Bush one liners ive ever heard Originally by: dakota fanning daddy is it the terrorits? had the entire audiance laughing outloud hahaha
Aitrus	Posted - 2005.07.04 02:06:00 - [35] Originally by: MooKids Also, I can't help but feel that the machines were a combination of the Mauler from Battlezone II and the Striders from Half-Life 2. Heh, when the thing first stood up, I turned to my buddy and said: "Where's Gordon Freeman when you need him?" Personally, I thought it was an excellent movie. Not too keen on Tom Cruise's acting, but the cinematography was absolutely stunning.
Slithereen	Posted - 2005.07.04 06:38:00 - [36] Quote: How the hell did the aliens die, i couldn't hear wtf he was saying about the birds. That whole part was bull**** anyway, same crap happened in independance day and signs. They find some retarded weakness the aliens have and then they all magically go away. That is the original ending written by H.G. Wells in the original turn of the century War of the Worlds. Note the movie also quotes the first and last lines of the book. You cannot change this ending, also faithfully observed in the 1930's Orson Welles radio broadcast and the 1950's movie, without changing the original story altogether and that would be unacceptable revisionism. As such, for people have read the book, this isn't much about the ending which is already known and inevitable. So we just watch it to see how Spielberg would reinterpret, add his own unique material, and how much he would stay faithful to the original story. When the birds alighted on the Tripod, it meant the shields were down. It actually accents the the eco-Gaia-biological how nature self corrects itself theme of the original story. That scene where the dead alien plops out of the dead mech happens to be a copy of the 1950's movie (not in the book or radio play). The probe peering into the house is also a homage to the 1950s movie. _______________________________________________ "Is it me or the bad guys just getting totally pathetic?"---Clover, Totally Spies, "Hope is wasted on the Hopeless."---Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. "Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the Infinite shine through."---Confucius.
Slithereen	Posted - 2005.07.04 06:52:00 - [37] Quote: Also, I can't help but feel that the machines were a combination of the Mauler from Battlezone II and the Striders from Half-Life 2. There is nothing wrong with that. When H.G. Wells wrote this book in 1898...yes more than a century ago, he also conceptually invented the idea of giant walking war machines. The giant Martian Tripods are the original Striders and Walkers of Sci-Fi. Everything else invented after that copied from H.G. Wells. The tripods in the movie is much like I would imagine it when I read the book. But there are unique touches. The loud blaring blatty sound they make is a throwback to the sound the alien mothershipm made in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The sound of the death rays is also a familiar one, another gesture to the 1950's movie. Quote: i still prefer the ships from the old movie, the half-saucer ones with the periscope thing on the top. The saucer ships were resurrected in the 1980s War of the Worlds TV series. However, everyone would point out, the saucer ships were canonically incorrect, as the original book describes giant walking tripods, not saucer ships. The 1950s movie used saucers because it was much more simpler to animate given the technology available. With today's special effects technology, there is no excuse for Spielberg not to follow the original book, where the Martian tripods is a landmark. Anything but the tripods would have been creatively unacceptable. _______________________________________________ "Is it me or the bad guys just getting totally pathetic?"---Clover, Totally Spies, "Hope is wasted on the Hopeless."---Mandy, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. "Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the Infinite shine through."---Confucius.
Matanga	Posted - 2005.07.04 08:53:00 - [38] Originally by: garishwinner saw it yesterday had some of the funniest pro-Bush one liners ive ever heard Originally by: dakota fanning daddy is it the terrorits? had the entire audiance laughing outloud I don't think they were pro-bush Actually another one-liner was.... "ocupation never works,thats and history fact" "ÆIn accordance with the principles of double-think it does not matter if the war is not real. For when it is, victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, but it is meant to be continuous.Æö George Orwell ô1984ö
MAXSuicide	Posted - 2005.07.04 09:20:00 - [39] Originally by: Slithereen Quote: Also, I can't help but feel that the machines were a combination of the Mauler from Battlezone II and the Striders from Half-Life 2. There is nothing wrong with that. When H.G. Wells wrote this book in 1898...yes more than a century ago, he also conceptually invented the idea of giant walking war machines. The giant Martian Tripods are the original Striders and Walkers of Sci-Fi. Everything else invented after that copied from H.G. Wells. The tripods in the movie is much like I would imagine it when I read the book. But there are unique touches. The loud blaring blatty sound they make is a throwback to the sound the alien mothershipm made in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The sound of the death rays is also a familiar one, another gesture to the 1950's movie. Quote: i still prefer the ships from the old movie, the half-saucer ones with the periscope thing on the top. The saucer ships were resurrected in the 1980s War of the Worlds TV series. However, everyone would point out, the saucer ships were canonically incorrect, as the original book describes giant walking tripods, not saucer ships. The 1950s movie used saucers because it was much more simpler to animate given the technology available. With today's special effects technology, there is no excuse for Spielberg not to follow the original book, where the Martian tripods is a landmark. Anything but the tripods would have been creatively unacceptable. its all true... My vids and random stuff
Darkside101	Posted - 2005.07.04 11:14:00 - [40] Let me get this right, the martians attack and the yanks dont nuke it?????? well it was lucky that they just die then wasnt it 4/10 when will they make a movie where the aliens come down and start fighting and we can actualy fight back???????? honestly its like all the aliens out there are like TOMB and the other mods, and you can EVEN shoot them, sometimes! save your money for ANYTHING but this movie yarr DS101

Angelus X	Posted - 2005.07.04 11:23:00 - [41] Edited by: Angelus X on 04/07/2005 11:23:05 Originally by: Starwolfer Haven't seen a good Spielberg movie in ages . "Taken" series seem to be really good though ? Originally by: hired goon Tekken is cool. I haven't played tag, 4, or 5 yet though - don't know if there are any ps2 emulators that work. But 3 is class. That made me laugh so hard before I read the first quote
Ombey	Posted - 2005.07.04 12:17:00 - [42] Was Jeff Wayne's "The War of the Worlds" album as big in the States as it was in the UK? There's a whole generation of Brits who remember being damn scared as a kid listening to WotW with their Dad's headphones on, lol


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