<p>ok so i just saw it today. a little late but i saw it for free. anyway, i didn’t get a few things. i was a little out of it so bear with me and my possible idiotic questions…</p>
<li><p>it’s called war of the worlds. but it really wasn’t a war. earth was getting destroyed until the aliens caught a cold, right?</p></li>
<li><p>what gave the aliens this “illness” that made them die or whatever? was it the amoebas in water? and even if it made the aliens sick, why did their machinery get affected by it and lose that force field it had? i mean machines didn’t “breathe” the air or drink the water like the aliens did, right? </p></li>
<li><p>at the beginning when the first storm hits tom cruises block and all the electricity and elecrical devices go dead (cars, cell phones, etc), why is it there was that one dude who could take pictures of the robot and that other dude that had a video recorder working while taping the robot? how were their devices working? also how did people get footage so close to the robots if all the electrical stuff wasn’t suposed to work?</p></li>
<li><p>how did that mechanic dude make that one minivan tom cruise steals work? why was that minivan the only one working?</p></li>
<li><p>what exactly were the aliens using the blood for? was it for fuel or fertilizer or what?</p></li>
<li><p>and why did the aliens take so long in coming back to earth? i mean the original ones that put the machines underground were probably dead by the time thier race came back, right? unless the aliens could live for 1 billion years. but i doubt that seeing how an amoeba killed them.</p></li>
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<p>anyway the movie could have been better. the son coming back at the end was really cheesy. the ending sucked. and like i said, i was kind of tired while i saw the movie, so i probably missed some stuff, but i doubt it would’ve answered my questions anyway. and no i didn’t read the book, nor do i plan to. so feel free to explain…</p>
<p>The movie was good, until we(humans) began winning the war, there was really no transition into humans being destroyed to humans destroying(the aliens). The ending was absolutely horrible, but the acting pretty good.</p>
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<li><p>It was a war, we were using all our military technology to fight the aliens. The only thing is that the way ended in an unexpected way.</p></li>
<li><p>The aliens got sick from the bacteria/micro-organisms that live on the earth. I actually liked it, it's kind of ingenius that they would die in such a way considering how technologically advanced they were.</p></li>
<li><p>Don't Know</p></li>
<li><p>That one was simple. I think they were changing the starter? And that's the only computer piece in the whole car. so when the whole electromagnetic pulse or whatever went off, it didnt even have a starter in its car b/c they were switching it out with a new one.</p></li>
<li><p>Prolly fuel.</p></li>
<li><p>They were probably planning, observing -- or waiting for an optimal time to attack us. They could live for 1 billion years, it doesn't matter. Because they dont live on earth they naturally did not have the resistance. </p></li>
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<p>I heard the movie was fairly in line with the book.</p>
<p>dcfca,
thanks. notice how 3 of your answers were "probably" or "i dont know".
haha. this is how i felt during the movie</p>
<p>couple more questions</p>
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<li><p>what exactly was the purpose of the red vines of blood or whatever?</p></li>
<li><p>and why would the "optimal time" for the aliens to attack be when techonology was so advanced, for us humans anyway?</p></li>
<li><p>and why did the machines' defense or force field thingy fail exactly?</p></li>
<li><p>how'd the son survive? did he go with the military?</p></li>
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<li><p>Hell if I know.</p></li>
<li><p>Because our population was so big and they like our blood.</p></li>
<li><p>I'm thinking that the aliens' life and the machines are tied together. Weak alien -- weak machine, so the force fields would falter.</p></li>
<li><p>Pretty sure he was with the military, at least for a while.</p></li>
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<p>I liked it. I think if you go into it expecting a strong, Independence Day plot, then you aren't going to like it. However, if aliens were to attack, there probably wouldn't be a whole big dramatic plot, so I think this one was a bit more realistic. It also stays true to the book, at least the basic concept of the book.</p>
<p>Yeah it has quite a few holes and flaws (why is the video camera working after an electro magnetic pulse?) but I think Spielberg directs around them rather well. Until THE END. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? I'm not even talking about the poorly-paced, alien's-got-sick-(about the machinery argument, you're telling me that if you had disentery or malaria you'd be operating complicated machinery at the top of your capacity, c'mon they're dying give em a break?)-all-fall-down-climax. I'm talking about the resolution where the son comes BACK FROM THE DEAD. Come on Spielberg, what you did to AI was bad but that at least was way depressing the whole way through. This is a popcorn thriller. No need to sap it up with incredulity. It would be nice to show that main characters don't always make it.</p>
<p>I also wished he wouldn't have shown the alien's in the basement, quick glimpses of parts and shadows would have worked fine until the end where the dying one (which was actually a little creepy) would ahve freaked some out.</p>
<p>I think I'm more disappointed at some of the missteps taken b/c it had the chance to be great (like AI) but were ruined due to Spielbergs condescending to the audience.</p>
<p>P.S. Don't be disappointed in Spielberg for the script. B/c disappointed in bad directing decisions. Being mad at the director for the script is like being mad at a contractor for poor plumbing in a new home. Yeah they hired em but they really aren't to blame.</p>
<p>I kinda didn't like the movie in that... it's the only movie I've seen where if the main character, Tom Cruise, died like three seconds into the movie, it would have been the exact same story (maybe the Dakota Fanning character would have not lived as long). But I guess it kinda had to have been that way for it to follow the original storyline... it just didn't "find my remote" for me...</p>
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<p>Oh and the part where Tom Cruise finally realizes that the shields are gone... he screams something at the soldier and at that exact second the peripheral sounds are so loud that nobody in my theater heard what he said (and obviously it was one of the more critical lines in the movie), so alot of people left confused as well... And the movie ended alittle too quickly.</p>
<p>yeah, but these holes were REALLY obvious and completely discredited the plot of the movie. i just set a really skeptical mood from the beginning about how good the movie could possibly be. i think the worst part was how at the end tom asks "how'd you beat the aliens" or something like that and the soldier said "i dont know" and then thats it. the narrator said something about amoebas which was not shocking, surprising, or interesting. the movie sucked and the "holes" didn't help.</p>
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Oh and the part where Tom Cruise finally realizes that the shields are gone... he screams something at the soldier and at that exact second the peripheral sounds are so loud that nobody in my theater heard what he said (and obviously it was one of the more critical lines in the movie), so alot of people left confused as well... And the movie ended alittle too quickly.
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<p>I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to, but he yells "LOOK AT THE BIRDS!" to the soldier (they were on top of the machine, meaning the field was gone.)</p>
<p>The ending SUCKED. Robbie alive? Family all nice and clean and well??</p>
<p>and i agree the ending was weak. i also thought it was funny how tom cruises ex wife and her husband didnt even care enough or anything to leave a note at their house in case cruise and the 2 kids arrived, which they did. and another small detail...why didn't they look for food in the wife's house when all they had was a box of dressings and stuff. they didnt even open the fridge or pantry. </p>
<p>this movie just sucked. nothing interesting about it and too many "holes". i can stand "holes" in a movie, as long as they aren't obvious, don't discredit the movie, and as long as their is an actual plot to divert your attention to the stupid mess ups. </p>
<p>i maybe give the movie one point for special effects.</p>
<p>but i heard him. or at least i thought i did. i might have not realized i just read his lips and saw the birds and made the connection. whatever. the movie blowed, or would it be blew.</p>
<p>I liked the movie it had some nice cinematography (some masterful shots, including the cameras continuous swing around the car while driving on the highway [which btw is another plot hole, how could they can down the highway so easily?]), good acting (I'll give it to Cruise, his acted his heart out, not that someone else couldn't have done it), the most incredible special effects of recent times, some very well choreographed crowd sequences (which I never think are done well in movies of this type, like in Independence Day everybody is staring and no one running away c'mon let's get some different reactions here, Thanks Spielberg for some realism even if it involved some electronics that shouldn't work), and finally a disaster movie that isn't just Slam-Bang-Crash but actually cares about the victims (is there anything more stupid in Independence Day than when the dog jumps past the fireball while thousands perish in the background).</p>
<p>So the movie wasn't perfect and I think so many here are more disappointed than they should be b/c the movie could have been so much more. It could have been masterful but instead was so-so.</p>
<p>A last point about the food. Maybe Tom didn't want to resort to using the wife's things b/c he wanted to show his independence (that he could take care of them) in front of the kids (which by the way are a little ungrateful for him saving their asses at the beginning but truama and past issues maybe so I'll let that one slip) but the movie proves that he is still failing at being a good dad b/c he had no food and amongst other things.</p>
<p>Awesome movie, until the ending. How the hell did his son survive? I don't mind a happy ending, in fact that's very refreshing these days, but some explanation would help. It really goes downhill once Tim Robbins arrives, although I was still into it. The first half is unbelievable. Cruise is good as usual and Dakota Fanning really surprised me. I completely believed her.</p>
<p>I agree with you completely aim78, althougth for the message he was trying to send about caring for the random victims falls apart a little if he separates his characters from the rest of the world.</p>