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Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:25 pm
by Arginald Valleywater
Watched this last night. Need to know who stole the script? Has to be his worst film ever. Even the SFX were poor by modern standards. Looked like he lost interest half way through. Wonder if the post 9/11 meant he couldn't show any large American cities been wiped out?
Only scary-ish bit was when the crowd waited for a train to pass the crossing and it went past totally ablaze.
1950s origianl is a masterpiece, up there with Forbidden Planet as all time great SciFI movies.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:04 pm
by Cactus Jack
The son should have died.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 4:44 pm
by spider
So should have Tom Cruise - and I don't mean the character he was playing !
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:12 pm
by tommy dickfingers
if you watch the extras on the dvd spielberg says that the film was to be centred on the main character's experiences through out the attack or what happens through his eyes.i don't think the intention was to make it like independence day.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:54 pm
by one eyed jack
Somehow I just knew reading this thread that it was going to be knocking the movie. Does anyone around here like any movies at all? Good Fellas got a kicking...Die Hard 4 did too...What a miserable bunch of gits on this forum.
It seems no one likes anything around here.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:04 am
by Arginald Valleywater
Goodfellas is one of the greatest, if not the greatest film of all time. Pizzas aren't too clever though.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:41 am
by one eyed jack
Hmmm...Ok...But it did get a kicking a while back as if it was cool to diss good movies. Wjhat is a good movie anyway? its all subjective to the individiual right?
I loved War of The Worlds and certainly dont think Spielberg would ever make a half arsed movie EVER! The guy loves making movies. I know he wouldnt stop talking about it when I met him many years ago.
I was beginning to feel is it supposed to be the new cool thing to hate everything around here.
Re: Spielberg's War of the Worlds
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 7:04 am
by Deuce Bigolo
Negative threads have been around for ever in a day on this forum
About 9 to 1 by my account
Its much easier to slag something off in a over-generalised way than make any meaningful statement based on something other than a feeling
Takes less brains/effort I guess
As for what makes a good film...a great story
Character development versus Special Effects about sums it up for me
Many films over use SFX as a trade off for lack of character development IMHO