War of the Worlds

[Chris Blount]

Just saw it. Not bad. Steven Speilberg is still good at making suspense thrillers. A lot of the critics didn't like the last 10 minutes of the movie but I thought it was fine.

I would give it a 4 1/2 stars out of 5.

[JM Anthony]

I'm headed to check it out later this afternoon. Oldest daughter saw it and thought it was pretty good, except for the ending which she said sucked.

[Mike D-CO5]

The movie started and ended exactly like the origional "War of the Worlds." I thought that was cool that they stayed true to the origional. The action looked super cool. I couldn't even tell that they were using computer generated imaging. Unlike the "Star Wars "movies of late. That was what made it real for me. It scared the hell out of my 5 year old when the lighting started and the Martians came out of the ground in their 20 story walking robots. The sound effects were right on the mark. The only thing I didn't understand was when the death ray hit the fleeing humans , they disentegrated and turned to powder, but their clothes stayed intact and went sailing through the air.

[ibglowin]

They wrapped it up just a little too perfect.....

There was some incredible intense scenes that made it very worth while!!!

3 out of 5 stars!

[jrjcd]

it was.....ok...did anyone catch gene barry and ann robinson's silent cameo as grampa and gramma????

if you cut out the tim robbins nonsense, the movie goes from a ** to a ***1/2...

[BobMurdoch]

I agree... the movie ground to a halt when they went into his basement.

Creepiest part for me was the baskets strapped to the side of the walkers that the martians used for human travel snacks...... liked the grenade chaser Tommy gave 'em....

I actually liked the new movies ending better than the original. In the new version, the Martians are dying and we get a few minutes of the army being able to take 'em out, vs. the original where they just dropped to the ground with no warning.

Plus, Morgan Freeman's voiceovers tied it up nicely for the people who didn't know what was happening.......

[Phil T]

I saw it last night. Good movie.
I would like to see the original again, but I can't find it in the listings anywhere.
I would consider buying the DVD at a decent price. It is going for $150.00 at Amazon. :(

[Richard King]

My brother gave it a 7 of 10 which says alot for it. I will have to go see it I guess.

gene barry Wow... I haven't seen him since "Burke's Law"

[jrjcd]

go to ebay...there are several auctions that may yield a better price on this item...

[jrjcd]

btw, anyone notice the nifty article in this weeks entertainment weekly about the all new "war of the worlds" DTV dvd that came out(coincidently)the same week spielberg's movie was released????stars C. thomas howell as a single father trying to rescue his daughter from marauding aliens on a $3.99 budget...

[Danny R]

Oldest daughter saw it and thought it was pretty good, except for the ending which she said sucked.

Ask her if she's seen the original movie or read the book.

Most folks who dislike the ending don't realized that is how Wells wrote it. Changing it to something more exciting (or perhaps paying homage as Independence Day did with a computer virus) would make it a different movie:An insane resolve possessed me. I would die and end it. And I would save myself even the trouble of killing myself. I marched on recklessly towards this Titan, and then, as I drew nearer and the light grew, I saw that a multitude of black birds was circling and clustering about the hood. At that my heart gave a bound, and I began running along the road.

I hurried through the red weed that choked St. Edmund's Terrace (I waded breast-high across a torrent of water that was rushing down from the waterworks towards the Albert Road), and emerged upon the grass before the rising of the sun. Great mounds had been heaped about the crest of the hill, making a huge redoubt of it--it was the final and largest place the Martians had made--and from behind these heaps there rose a thin smoke against the sky. Against the sky line an eager dog ran and disappeared. The thought that had flashed into my mind grew real, grew credible. I felt no fear, only a wild, trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster. Out of the hood hung lank shreds of brown, at which the hungry birds pecked and tore.

In another moment I had scrambled up the earthen rampart and stood upon its crest, and the interior of the redoubt was below me. A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter places. And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--dead!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

For so it had come about, as indeed I and many men might have foreseen had not terror and disaster blinded our minds. These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things--taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many--those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance--our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.