jimbow8 Wrote:The convenient way that there are areas to drive a van through tons of carnage and destruction.
I forgot about that! That was one of the things that kept driving me crazy as I was watching the film! Even the plane was apparently kind enough to break up in such a way as to leave a convenient car-width path.
Blake
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Blake Wrote:I forgot about that! That was one of the things that kept driving me crazy as I was watching the film! Even the plane was apparently kind enough to break up in such away as to leave a convenient car-width path.And the way everyone on the highway pulled off to the side of the road before their car died. LOL!
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Much as I enjoyed the movie, and I did, the coinky-dinks of having the only car running on the east coast and finding all roads opened just for them were annoying, and as I said earlier, at the end, finding that one patch of Boston that was untouched was just too much.
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Hello, new to the boards but I'm a big time FPW fan. Anyways I had to throw in my two cents about WOTW, which I saw the other day. I thought it was fantastic. Without a doubt one of the most exiting movies I have ever seen. Tom Cruise and Speilberg are just a great combo, and I think they pulled it off.
The first hour alone is nonstop action. Spielberg almost makes you feel like you are right there with this family. And what I love about it is it never really slows down. You just can feel the impending doom to the superiority of this alien race. Oh yeah, and those robots where friggen awesome.
I also don't see how him being able to drive a car down a road is such a horrible movie killing moment. it's a MOVIE. Not to mention the cars lost power before everyone knew it was doomsday. So you didn't have everyone out on the road trying to escape. If it happened afterword then sure, the car backup would be impossible to drive through.
I just thought it was intense sci fi flick that you just don't see any more. No modern sci fi movie has captured the tension of WOTW. It's nice to watch a summer bockbuster sci fi movie without cheesy Will Smith one liners.
I just felt I had to give props to my man Spielberg.
The first hour alone is nonstop action. Spielberg almost makes you feel like you are right there with this family. And what I love about it is it never really slows down. You just can feel the impending doom to the superiority of this alien race. Oh yeah, and those robots where friggen awesome.
I also don't see how him being able to drive a car down a road is such a horrible movie killing moment. it's a MOVIE. Not to mention the cars lost power before everyone knew it was doomsday. So you didn't have everyone out on the road trying to escape. If it happened afterword then sure, the car backup would be impossible to drive through.
I just thought it was intense sci fi flick that you just don't see any more. No modern sci fi movie has captured the tension of WOTW. It's nice to watch a summer bockbuster sci fi movie without cheesy Will Smith one liners.
I just felt I had to give props to my man Spielberg.
neotank Wrote:Hello, new to the boards but I'm a big time FPW fan. Anyways I had to throw in my two cents about WOTW, which I saw the other day. I thought it was fantastic. Without a doubt one of the most exiting movies I have ever seen. Tom Cruise and Speilberg are just a great combo, and I think they pulled it off.
The first hour alone is nonstop action. Spielberg almost makes you feel like you are right there with this family. And what I love about it is it never really slows down. You just can feel the impending doom to the superiority of this alien race. Oh yeah, and those robots where friggen awesome.
I also don't see how him being able to drive a car down a road is such a horrible movie killing moment. it's a MOVIE. Not to mention the cars lost power before everyone knew it was doomsday. So you didn't have everyone out on the road trying to escape. If it happened afterword then sure, the car backup would be impossible to drive through.
I just thought it was intense sci fi flick that you just don't see any more. No modern sci fi movie has captured the tension of WOTW. It's nice to watch a summer bockbuster sci fi movie without cheesy Will Smith one liners.
I just felt I had to give props to my man Spielberg.
Welcome to the board, neotank!
Yeah, I agree with you. "It's a MOVIE". I just simply enjoyed it.
Finally saw this last night. What a waste. I knew the film was doomed within the first fifteen minutes of the movie when, after all the cars, watches, cell phones, etc. stop working, some guy is videotaping the carnage at ground zero. Strange how everyone elses electronics stopped working but hey... we had to have a creepy shot looking at the death and destruction through the cameras LCD screen. I want to know how this guy protected his camera so well.
The 9/11 stuff was just too much for me. Several audience members actually broke out laughing when Fanning asks, "What's happening? Is it the terrorists?" Now I'm a bit torn. I hate the line but then again if something like this happened today a kid probably would say it. But, in the end, I still didn't like it. Plus some of the shots of people running from the ash of people was taken directly from footage of 9/11.
I thought the voice over introduction and conclusion was an easy way of explaining things off without having to be creative and show anything.
The last movie Spielberg did I actually liked was Saving Private Ryan. This pretty much is the final nail in the coffin for me. I'm pretty much swearing off Spielberg from this point forward. This was a movie that could (and should) have been good but failed on pretty much every level.
Except special effects. They looked good.
The 9/11 stuff was just too much for me. Several audience members actually broke out laughing when Fanning asks, "What's happening? Is it the terrorists?" Now I'm a bit torn. I hate the line but then again if something like this happened today a kid probably would say it. But, in the end, I still didn't like it. Plus some of the shots of people running from the ash of people was taken directly from footage of 9/11.
I thought the voice over introduction and conclusion was an easy way of explaining things off without having to be creative and show anything.
The last movie Spielberg did I actually liked was Saving Private Ryan. This pretty much is the final nail in the coffin for me. I'm pretty much swearing off Spielberg from this point forward. This was a movie that could (and should) have been good but failed on pretty much every level.
Except special effects. They looked good.
I agree with you for the most part, but I still somewhat enjoyed it for what it was: a summer action movie - that's a whole different category for me and I shut off the logic receptors in my brain when I watch them. 
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:I agree with you for the most part, but I still somewhat enjoyed it for what it was: a summer action movie - that's a whole different category for me and I shut off the logic receptors in my brain when I watch them.
When a film sets out to be a summer movie I can enjoy it (any Michael Bay film such as Armageddon) but when it takes itself seriously, such as War of the Worlds, it loses me.
Marc B. Wrote:When a film sets out to be a summer movie I can enjoy it (any Michael Bay film such as Armageddon) but when it takes itself seriously, such as War of the Worlds, it loses me.Oh, it did?!? Well, I didn't, so I was fine.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft