What are your thoughts on Steven Spielberg's War of the

>>85290827
>Is it a good movie?
no

>>85291894
what's bad about it?

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Wish Spielberg didn't stay adhered to the pg13 rating. He really could've made it that much more terrifying if he actually showed what happened to people.

Also the ferry scene always gets my butthole clenched.

>>85292447
The train scene fucks me up

>>85292492
I don't understand why people think that's scary.
To me, it was just a train on fire, nothing more than that really.

>>85290827
it pisses me off severley, why wasnt it in 19th Century England? Spielberg is usually good at authenticity so why did he decide to just shit in HG Wells mouth?
Fuck you Spielberg

>>85292537
Because he wanted to make a 9/11 movie and make the story contemporary?

>>85292537
He was basically trying to cash in on the post 9/11 hysteria about America being attacked by an unknown force. He said in an interview that he wanted to show the average "American refugee".

>>85292576
so that would be like him taking Peter Pan and setting it in modern day New York

fuck off Spielburger with your rape of literature. I guarantee if HG Wells was alive today he'd smack him in his fucking mouth.

>>85292780
Wells would probably be like "Holy shit that's terrifying"
Welles however would be drunk and disorderly

I liked it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBS7J3KHWhQ

>stuck in a bunker with a crazed /pol/ user

The basement scene ruins the movie. You have to sit there and watch them hide and do nothing with no plan and no idea of what's going on outside for what feels like 40 minutes. This is bad in part because it gets rid of the cool set pieces, which were the main draw up to that point because even though the characters were just stumbling around barely escaping attacks with no clear goal to work towards there were at least cool scenes happening. Then it all comes grinding to a halt and you have to deal with Tim Robbins being fat and annoying

>>85290827
good movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlGcqKZ6BBA

>>85293789
This
First half of the movie is fantastic, but then it just gets boring as all hell.

>NOT MY BLOOD
>NOT MY BLOOD
>NOT MY BLOOD

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>>85290827
I really want a War of the Worlds movie set in the early years of the 20th century. With the Martian design from the Jeff Wayne album.

>>85294196
This, but I still think that Spielberg's tripod design is the best.

I thought it was ok but one thing that really annoyed me. Where the hell did Tom Cruise's son come from at the end???

>>85294497
He drove home in a tripod
:^)

It's a great movie

Whoosh THUMP
*WOO woo*
Whoosh THUMP
*WOO woo*
Whoosh THUMP
*WOO woo"

>>85292326
>Muhh son returns from the dead scene
>Muhh tripods underground for millions of years
>Muhh "I'll make a 9/11 allegory so I don't have to even try to make a decent movie"
It's a shit movie mate

>>85290827
>Did it need to be more adherent to the book?

It is incredibly faithful to the book. In fact most of the major criticisms of it are straight out of the book, like the son surviving at the end.

>>85290827
The little girl was so fucking terrible. If she had been removed and it focused on the son and father, it would've been way better.

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the miles of ground covered in human blood/alien junk fucked me up
fucked me up good

>>85299273
I watched when I was fairly young and it absolutely fucked me and I never finished the whole film for ears because I got so scared
It wasn't until my 4th or 5th watch that I actually made it the whole way through

>>85292532
Yeah really. The scene where they see all the bodies floating downriver to me is more terrifying.

>>85292447
The ferry scene is one of the only parts I remember well

>>85290827
>>85299048

It has barely any relation to the book. As a movie it's okay, nothing special.

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1953 version is superior.

To a 10 year old me the sounds these fuckers made was utterly horrifying. In fact a lot of sound effects from this film are burned into my brain

https://youtu.be/WM3PX_GiYHo

>>85299605
The ULLAAAAA!!! sound from the Jeff Wayne album always freaked me out as a kid.

https://youtu.be/4CbGKsjQ09I

>>85299605
Even tho this version doesn't have tripods (I don't think they could even do the effect in 53) I always liked it the most

>>85299759
Unexpected ear rape

>>85299048
>like the son surviving at the end.
Lousy bait mate

>>85300450
They are tripods (technically), if you look at those three green holes at the bottom of them they're supposed to be where "electromagnetic legs" are according to one character. In a few early scenes you scan see where they used a high voltage generator to show where they were, but this kept setting the models on fire, so they stopped using it for later scenes.

I just want a proper adaption.

1900's in Britain, artillery actually taking out tripods, black smoke and HMS Thunderchild.