Why was this shit?

>hating dad kino

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

>>83500817
It wasn't, the only shitty part was the ending. Fix that and it's a great alien invasion flick.

>>83500817
that was a great movie what the fuck

>>83500936
what the fuck it was the cannon ending wtf how can you even say that

>no thunderchild

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>>83500817
>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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>>83500936

>>83501067
Unironically one of the best child performances ever
She actually got terror/helplessness

People who just thought she was annoying are robots

>>83500953
>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.

>>83500817
it wasnt shit

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>that train scene

>>83500817
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

>>83502984
>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

>>83500953
>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.

>>83503011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzY099ihULs

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

>>83501067
>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.

>>83502984
>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

>>83501998
>>83503089
yea yea samefag, we know you enjoy posting in cunny threads all day, we get it

>>83503105
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?

>>83501067
>Dakota Fanning is 23 now

Wtf? She wasn't supposed to age

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Wasn't an adaptation of the book

>>83500817
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...

>>83503361
And thank fuck for that

>>83500817
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.

>>83503207
>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.

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>>83503874
>signs
>aliens

>>83500817
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.

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>>83504073
>demons

>>83504316
>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 >>83500859 >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.

>>83504738
>This movie was probably the worst movie I ever watched.

then you haven't seen many movies

kys my man

>>83504701
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

>>83500817
> 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.

>>83503822
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.

>>83504004
It actually has good pacing you twat.

>>83506217
shut up fag

>>83506246
I'm right tho.

>>83503040
The army did not save the day in the movie

>>83504272
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

>>83506308

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.

>>83503294
The latter. If you're likely to die anyway, may as well not shit yourself post-mortem.

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>>83500817
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.

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>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.

>>83506904
The Brown trousering honk was indeed great.

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

>>83502103
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.

>>83503040
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.

>>83503874
>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

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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?

>>83508315
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.

>>83500817

first thirty minutes were great.

>>83508708
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

>>83500982

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.

>>83508402
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

>>83500817
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

>>83501998
>>83503089
>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

>>83508873
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)

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

>>83508837
>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.

>>83506231
wow, pacing. makes for a great movie, its all i look for in a movie kek

>>83503294
usually the adrenaline will prevent you from having to take a shit in the first place

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>>83500817
>watching this for the first time
>alien sound hits

>>83508993
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

>>83500817

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

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>>83500817
Why was this shit?

>>83509134
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?

>>83508993
> move the plot along

>>83500817
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.

>>83509287
>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

>>83503040
the ending is the exact same you utter autist

>>83506899
It had an effect on me as well. It was legit creepy and freaky. Going to watch it again tonight.

>>83509600
Maybe they buried them in the ice age so all the water was frozen.

>>83507760
>having to make excuses for magic son

>>83508315
this

nerds are incapable of understand this though

>>83509162
>Why was this shit?

Mew didn't get eaten.

>>83500817
literally no likeable characters

>>83509649
Europa has way more water than Earth and it's uninhabited (apart from the potential oceanic life under the ice).

>>83509690
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

>>83508402
yea, this shit worked back in the 50's but current audiences dont buy that spacefaring ancient aliens dont know what biosecurity is.

>>83509980
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

>>83509859
and?

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

>>83510041
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?

>>83510227
no

>>83509901
Maybe they need the water liquid and don't have the energy/tools to drill through miles of ice.

>>83508402
they're not aliens in signs they're demons

>>83510397
Which subreddit did you read that from?

>>83510337
>maybe they dont have the energy/tools to drill through miles of ice
yet they buried their tripods miles into the earth and fucking teleported inside them through lighting

they didnt need fucking water or liquid, they needed humans. they needed their biomatter in order to fertilize the planet so they could breathe the atmosphere.

>>83510572
>they needed humans. they needed their biomatter in order to fertilize the planet so they could breathe the atmosphere
creepy desu

>>83510452
/r/yourmomwilldieinhersleepifyoudontreplytothispost

>>83510572
I was talking about Battle LA.

>>83509710
Yep, it figures. These are the same people that complain about (((((historical accuracy))))) in a film like Braveheart, or really any film. This is the lowest form of criticism and only proves that you're a pleb who has had no exposure to good film or good taste. Of course this is also the sort of pleb that thinks they aren't.

>>83510659
so according to you its ok for a braveheart reboot where william wallace is played by a black guy, becuase using/including colored people is "tasteful"??

>>83510054
a lot

Are there any alien invasion movies where they win?

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>there will never be alien-kino where there are countries who ally with aliens to destabilize their enemies
WHY?

>>83508708
lol bruh

>>83510760
why?

serious question

>>83510764
Starship Troopers

>>83510783
Because aliens are not supposed to be that stupid?

>>83510735
What? Please, elaborate on your point. I made no mention of race at all. Is this your way of defending tasteless plebs who complain about (historical accuracy), (worldbuilding), and other useless trivia? It's not working

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>>83510764
mib if youre not gullible.

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>>83510842
>aliens are not stupid
>europeans come to the Americas and form alliances with certain tribes
>aliens wouldn't use basic diplomacy like said europeans and just go in like niggers with guns blazing
explain yourself

>>83510764
look at the news, the aliens are already invading, theyre called muslims mexicans and africans and theyre winning

>>83503438

Eat shit mate. The Thunderchild deserves a great scene

>>83508402
>how many times has this happened?

It doesn't matter since War of the Worlds was the first to do it

>>83500817
The movie or the alien vehicle?

>>83500817
Nothing came close to matching this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4BWSUV8mM

>>83510936
Because for aliens capable of coming to earth in the first place, war with humans would be like stepping on ants. There's absolutely no reason they'd need to use diplomacy

Why was Tom's character a cuck? His ex wife comes to visit him with her new husband who got her pregnant and Tom was totally okay and miserable. I don't know if it's a Spielberg's fantasy but presenting the main character as a neutered loser in his first scenes isn't the best way to make him likeable

>>83511106
He wasn't supposed to be likable at the start, that's the whole fucking point of his character development to a caring and responsible father. Are you retarded?

>>83503040
Army in the book actually did more you retard. The Thunderchild took down two tripods, Army doesn't take down any until the end. Actually read the book if you're gonna spout off you retard.

>>83511004
No it wasn't.

>>83511130
It would have been ok if he was just divorced but they made a point as showing as a total loser that is not redeemable. Besides, there was no change between the begining and the end of the movie. If his wifer came back with her new husband, he would still act like a bitch

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I just didn't like it as a War of the Worlds movie.

War of the Worlds is one of my favorite novels, but this movie completely threw out the plot of the book and just used the setting.

This film is just typical Spielberg really. It has some really fantastic moments, really tense and memorable stuff. But then it gets kind of let down by some wanky drama, in particular the teenage son who just shouldn't have been in the film at all.

That said I don't think it is shit because the tripod scenes are just so good. Best scene right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ8kTwoTu8o

>>83509649
Why not just ask then ? Im positive the kikes who own this planet wouldnt kill to sell off water to Aliens

>>83508979
So you're agreeing it was a great performance?

>>83500817
Why would you make robots with 3 legs?
With 4 you could move 1 limb without instantly falling over.

>>83511730
I guess they forgot their wallet on Melmek

>>83508993
in Torchwood they wanted our children so they could grind them into powder and snort it to get high

>>83506899
same lad, whenever i hear anything similar to the alien fog horns i get vietnam flashbacks

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>>83500817
because of this faggot

>>83502984
>the US army gets its shit kicked in when the aliens attack and it's only when the virus kills the aliens running the tripods that they are able to do anything
>glorification

>>83500817
>kid goes missing in an ultra dangerous situation and is presumed dead
>somehow ends up getting home before his dad, completely safe
>this is never explained

What did they mean by this?

>>83513223
Steven Spielberg doesn't know how to end a movie.

Fucking amazing cinematography here start to finish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3Muu-K3I0

>>83500817
it wasn't. plebs just can't appreciate it

>>83500817
>Put their tech on our planet gorillion years ago
>Doesn't know to protect themselves against our bacteria

This destroys the entire premise. A race as advanced as them would know to watch out for that shit.

>>83513407
>gorillion years
Hell, we don't even know how to get back to the Moon anymore, everything has to be designed from scratch again. I'd assume after a few million years they'd forget about one or two things too.

>>83500817

It's a masterpiece

One of the best movies about the 00s and probably the greatest American movie to so explicitly deal with 9/11

>>83501017

This guy gets it

A.I. is better than both though. All 3 are masterpieces.

>>83513223
>>83513295

It's almost like it's a metaphor

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>>83508837
>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
>>83509060

it was actually necrotic skin bacteria, the kind that festers on even an inch of our skin tissue at all times. the kind that our bodies are completely resistant to due to our immune system, and only takes over when we die.

the martians have no immune system. they have no antibodies. they literally began to rot where they stood

>>83513343
literally what was robbies problem

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>>83508993
in the original WOTW novel & the musical's game adaptation it's because Mars is dying and running out of resources, and earth is young and plentiful compared to their gagazillion year old planet

>>83513849
>>83506217

>>83504701
the angsty teenaged boy adds to it too, dad kino is about more than just the father-daughter relationships

>>83513456
...? Can't tell if you're serious, friend

>>83514798
Not that guy, but it's true, we don't even remember how to make spacecraft able to get to the moon anymore. Can't remember why, but for some reason or another we just forgot or lost the information on how to build efficient rockets and spacecraft since the 60s. Think it had something to do with not writing the shit down or something lmao

Anyway, I think his point is that sometimes things get lost and people forget about really really important shit. Not entirely out of the question, but when it's something as simple and fundamental as bacteria, I don't think that's an adequate explanation for when an advanced alien race just seemed to forget or not know about it.

>>83514798
It's true doe, most of the manufacturing capability for the Apollo technology is gone, the very obsolete stuff like the Apollo Guidance Computer can't be built anymore. You have to design a whole new rocket, lunar ferry, lander, spacesuit and anything related to that from scratch.

NASA is doing that right now with the SLS and the Orion.

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>>83500962
This.

When they had the ferry scene I got so hyped for the USS Thunderchild to appear but nope, nuffin.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOWJJGvZ1SY&t=161s

>>83501067
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0HPyg0GHI

>>83508993
They were using us as cattle. I think that's a pretty valid reason. Any other reason would just lead to >NUKE THEM FROM ORBIT

>>83515299
>>83500962

I finally realise why I liked that scene where they get the old ship ready in Battleship so goddamn much. It's what Thunderchild deserved to get in WotW.

>>83514919
>lost information
>Saturn V was efficient!

Just Kys nigger

>>83513849
He was young and seeing a whole bunch of people die would fuck you up. His heart was in the right place see ferry scene where he helped people. He was young and naive, there are shots of him so angry at the machines and wanting to fight back. Suicidal or not sometimes you just want to fight back or whatever.

So chalk it up to him being pissed, naive, young, maybe scared and terrified. There were fucking machines killing 100s of people infront of you, god knows how many in the world. I would be shitting myself and I can't even imagine how I'd cope. Do you expect some kid to think straight and make logical decisions in extreme high stress situations?

>>83512062
>spacechinks

Truly the most terrifyingly realistic approach. Only good thing to have come out of Torchwood, as well.

>>83503874
This guy still thinks those were ayys in signs. Sad!

>>83515501
There should have been some shit about a permanent EM disruptive field around the tripods, then they could have used cool old military ships and had an excuse for the Thunderchild.

>>83511202
Please point me to the book that did it before War of The Worlds.

>>83515596
Honestly, I would have been fine if we'd gotten a Thunderchild moment with a modern ship. You don't strictly need it to be an old ironclad for the triumph and despair of that moment to work.

>>83515699
That's true, but modern military ships don't have to get in close anymore.

>>83515798
You could show them unloading fucking everything on the martians until they're completely out of any long-range ordinance and then as a last-ditch thing to save civilians some more time to evacuate they just ram the closest martian, taking it by surprise.

Or have a Martian walk up to the ship until it's too close to safely fire missiles at it, but they decide to just fire their nuclear ordinance at it rather than let it tear the ship apart without any retaliation, knowing they'll blow themselves up as well. That'd be a bit too jihadi though, probably.

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>tfw the set with the downed 747 plane was all practical and they still have it set up at Universal Studios
It's actually pretty amazing just how much detail they put into this movie, watching it in theaters was pretty terrifying.

>>83516135
>picnic table right next to dogshit bin

Well now I just can't believe it.

>>83504409
>>"nah it was aliens"
If it wasn't aliens it was an absolute shit show.

Also the behind the scenes really feels like he was aiming for aliens. Since he mentions aliens so much.

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NOT MY BLOOD

NOT MY BLOOD

NOT MY *horrific sounds of Tom Cruise brutally beating Tim Robbins to death to keep him quiet*

>>83506899
>going on ferry in Mexico
>start feeling sick because I keep thinking those fucking tripods are going to rise from the ocean and drown us

>>83510764
only b movies
>darkest hour
>skyline
in both these movies the aliens are basically unkillable godlike beings

>>83501067
Worst part of the movie. Every time she opened her mouth to screech I wished she was dead

Guys.

To me it was one of scariest moviest of my childhood. I still get flashbacks to tripid's horns sometimes. To me 10 years old this movie was super scary and super impactful.

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>>83514919
>we don't even remember how to make spacecraft able to get to the moon anymore.

Fucking private sector can build them, we have no way 'lost the technology' or 'forgotten how' it's a question of money, rockets powerful enough to get out of LEO with a human/mission cargo large enough are expensive as fuck, the Saturn V program ate $$$ like an kid in a candy store.

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>>83516206
He's a big guy.

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>>83513295
>Steven Spielberg doesn't know how to end a movie.
Easy now anon.

>>83507624
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CbGKsjQ09I

>>83510081
>...
He's right about you being from reddit
That said, we have a lot of situations where we think we're in the clear and we're not. Same could happen for them.

>>83508993
Independence Day because Earth was just one of the countless ravaged worlds, it didn't really have singnificance
Also Resistance games where aliens used humans for their genetic material to bolster their armies against another alien race

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>no kino where the ayys come to earth as tourists wanting to fuck

>book is set in the comfy english countryside in the early 20th century
>movie is set in america in modern times

>>83516558

Earth Girls are Easy, you're welcome

>>83516622
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rYYzKo6S9g
opening song to the cowboy bebop movie references it

>>83516589
Even in the 60s they realized no one wanted to see a period movie with aliens.

Nuke scene was great too.

>>83516357
Well they can build another moon rocket just not specifically the Saturn V/Apollo CSM/LM combo.

>>83516672
I'm certain that we'll get a hollywood period adaptation of WotW soon.

It'll be an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, because Hollywood knows that Sherlock sells.

>>83500859
Spot on, I thought it was meh while my dad loved it (although he's a massive fan of those campy 50's sci fi films, including the original).

Watched it a few years later and absolutely loved it and it's probably one of the best alien invasion films out there. Kind of sad to see it classed as a disaster film, but it's probably the best one of those as well, although that's a low bar.

That shot where Tom Cruise looks at the distance with bloody mist all over the place is a fucking kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ckXQoBw2M

>this isn't his favourite musical

Certified pleb filter

>>83504272
>>83506132
Thunderchild is the best part of the book. The MC is caught up in a mass exodus with 6 million people from England trying to escape to the continent. He's trying to get on a ship to cross the channel, and just as the ramp is closing before he can get on he sees his wife he's been searching for already onboard. The ship pulls away and three alien tripods stride into the mouth of the bay to block its exit. Just before the ship is blasted by the Martians, the HMS Thunderchild, an ironclad torpedo-ram comes out of the fog. It rams one of the tripods, destroying it with the explosive prow. The other two tripods try to gas the thunder child but it has no effect. Then the Thunderchild unleashes its cannons on the tripods, destroying a second. Finally, the Martians blast the Thunderchild with their heat rays and destroy it, but the Thunderchild's sacrifice allows the civilian ships to escape the bay. It's the only military response of humanity that can destroy a tripod and is a great moment showing the valiant sacrifice of the military. Damn shame it wasn't in the movie.

That's why the Jeff Wayne musical is by far the definitive version.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cROemjs8YD4

>>83511071
Absolutely based beyond belief.

>>83517174
>>83517345
The musical sucks
Specially this song

>>83515501
They even played thunderstruck

>>83510644

Nice dubs

>>83517467
You suck

>>83516558
I have news for you anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsfU0I2Mqfs

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>>83517535
I can't believe it didn't click before.

>>83517345
I'm not usually one to get chills, but this fucking does it. Thunderchild is a fucking fantastic literary moment and it's a travesty that it's so often omitted or reworked too heavily in adaptations.

>>83517345
It's a smart scene too, that hints at the inherent weakness of the Martians, despite their advanced technology, the HMS Thunderchild is successful mainly because the Martians have no experience with warships, since Mars has no oceans, and treat pretty much everything on Earth as inferior by default.

First they don't recognise it as a threat, then they try to kill it with chemical weapons, the most effective weapon they've had against all other human forces, then they finally realise it's a human version of their own fighting machines and melt it with their energy weaponry. They had the technology to overcome it easily all along, but their arrogance and lack of foresight meant that by the time they did apply their technology to the problem, it was too late.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH LLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>83516135
>watching it in theaters was pretty terrifying
I was 13 at the time and it was the only time I've ever had to leave for a "bathroom break" because a scene was too intense.

It was almost perfect, if it was not for the shitty last part and ending.

>>83517990
>>83517814
One of the most powerful moments ever written

>>83506384
Fucking this, I'm glad someone else has finally said it. Aliens (or any malevolent force) that just curb stomp you aren't nearly as scary as something that learns from your weaknesses

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>>83506384
>post yfw you realize the best video game adaptation of WOTW is the original X-COM because of this

>>83500817
People consider this shit but rate Avengers etc. 8+ stars... we're really hopeless at this point.
I loved it and watched it several times at the theater. That and Collateral were bright spots around that time.

>>83500982
nothing about it was surreal

>>83500817
Why did the televison lady show the main character their footage? Was it only to show us, the viewers, how the machines became controlled?

Seemed pretty unlikely she would take her time to show him the alien entering the machine and the footage of the other machines as well just before hurrily driving away

>>83500817
Quality quality movie. Except the son was annoying as fuck.

If you complain about black people being forced into historical roles but you like this movie that steals the original concept but sets it in modern day USA then you're a hypocrite. Actually this is worse because it's not just one character but the entire setting.

>>83506904
This all the way senpai

>>83508402
>alien empire so advanced they can travel between stars
>supremely cocky
>decide to shit on some weird pink things on Sol-3 real quick since it will be fun
>don't realize Sol-3 is a death world

>>83500817
no actual characters

>>83503175
>>83508979
>no proper argument
>being this jaded and generalization all kids

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>That moment I realized his face wasn't full of dust because of the buildings falling around him, but it actually was the ashes of the people that got pulverized in front of him.

>Your face is full of dead people

>>83506217
>tfw you find out the initial tripod reveal scene where everyone gets zapped into dust that Tom Cruise ends up covered in was literally based on 9/11 images

The children were the worse part of the film.
The daughter is annoying and the son was just a plain dick, really wished he died.

>>83509114
>>83503294

The adrenaline will cut your shit for you.

>>83503822

Just cutting some scenes like this and Dakota screaming would make this movie perfect.

>>83523781
>people getting pulverized as fast as possible in the start
>every human must be collected, none must wiped off the earth later

was this explained?

>>83523781
Whoa, deep.

>>83508993
>colonization
Earth is prime real estate biologically speaking. It wouldn't be any different than human colonists clearing out the wildlife in a new land.

>>83500817
Why were the birds attacking the tripods actually? In the middle of the movie the birds were flying away from them, and it the end they were attacking them?

>>83510936
Because in your analogy, it would be more like Europeans coming to America and making alliances with coyotes against the deer. Most invasion movies set the aliens as overwhelmingly advanced, they shouldn't consider humans worth dealing with in the first place.

>>83511228
>he's not the specific type of ex-husband that I like

How could Spielberg possibly let this happen.

>>83524026
You put your prey into a state of terror early on to make them easy to pick off one by one afterwards when they're all disorganised and terrified of you wiping them out the same way. Like Gorilla-poachers trying to catch some young ones. They make a huge ruckus causing the gorillas to flee, shoot the silverbacks to further the panic of the pack and then they isolate some of the fleeing gorillas and capture them.

Also because it happened in the book. Except in the book the Martians were actually vulnerable at that point and were just defending themselves as efficiently as possible from humans.

>>83524450
>make them easy to pick off one by one afterwards when they're all disorganised
Wouldn't it be easier to pick them as they're packed and close by? It's not like the humans could do any damage to it as they're of solid (alien?) metal

>>83524672
You're thinking small-scale. It wasn't about terrorising the people at ground zero. It was about terrorising humanity at large as they either see the aliens just disintegrate humans or hear the tales of it happening as the people left alive spread the tale.

A terrorised populace is less efficient at fighting back as they just want to run from the menace with a disintegration-ray, meaning that any armed uprising is less likely to work. I'm of course working under the assumption that the aliens were expecting humanity to fight back, like they did in the book.

There's only 2 things wrong with this movie:

a) The cellar scene is a rehash of the kitchen scene from Jurassic Park, and the aliens look like ET

b) Jack Reacher takes down a Tripod with a grenade - Cloverfield Lane had a similar ending scene.

>>83524819
I see now

>>83524871
That grenade seemed to take forever to explode

>>83508402
>Aliens
Demons

>>83511180
>the Army doesn't take down any until the end

Right, like I said you mong, the germs weaken the aleums and then the Army saves the day at the end. God bless America. Remember 9-11.

>>83506899
Had this same feeling from watching that older version as a kid. This cruise version was fine imorofl

>>83508993
Perhaps highly advanced ogan material, genetics, dna are of value for some aliens