I saw War Of The Worlds today. Thought it was quite good but I won't be seeing it again in a hurry, as I think that once you know when things are going to happen it takes away the excitment, which was the only really good thing about this movie. I found it quite stressful at times, not nearly as much as Sin City however. What did you think of it? And I didn't really get the ending.... what was it about the water?

I saw it last night. It was pretty good. I never read the book or saw the movie, but I liked it somewhat. I wouldn't have gone to see it on my own, but a friend wanted to see it.

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What it was about the water was the microbes and stuff that was in it. The alien's immune system couldn't cope with it and they died because of that. So when they drank the water on Earth, they got sick and died.

To those who are wondering, "What was up with Dakota Fanning's teeth?", I think this might explain it.

Is it jsut me, or are there simialarities between War of the Worlds and The White Mountains?

I saw it, liked it. It ended a little all too happy for the family in focus, though.

It was a good movie, some of the CGI was amazing, which you come to expect from Speilberg movies really. There were some bits I didn't like, the basement scene went on a little too long for my liking. They hid form the aliens TWICE! That's a little OTT. I liked the way they dealt with Cruise's character killing Tim Robbins' character. The scenery in blood was again a nice visual, but it seemed a little tacked on, or it wasn't explained properly (I've not read the book), and yes, the way his son almost magically appeared at the end was a little frustrating. Good movie, but a little Speilberg-y in places.

How the fricken hell did that kid survive the huge explosion?! And the Martian war machine?! It's not gonna happen!

Meh. It was ok. It was not like the book. I jumped a lot.

I agree. It was a good movie enjoyed the story line. However the idea of the boy surviving I felt wasn't quite right it would be cold to say but I feel it would of made more since if the boy didn't make it was all to perfect at the end after something like that happening that the whole family survived. I liked the basement scene when they hid form the aliens. I don't understand why the blood was being sprayed every where or was there a particular reason for that?

*Warning, possibly slightly spoily*

I thought the film was okay but it had some gaping plotholes from where they'd changed it from the book, especially due to being set in the modern day.

EMP pulses, everything electronic gets fried. 5 minutes later we see a guy filming with a camcorder then, even worse they actually make a setpiece of zooming in onto the screen of the (now dropped) camcorder to show the Tripod stomping around killing people. Okay, I would forgive them the minor glitch of the camcorder but they went and focused on it.

Likewise, cars working again.

Okay, in the book the big machines come down at the same time as the aliens in big pods, so I could understand the ending (trying not to give the plot away) not being obvious to the aliens. In the film the machines had been down there for "millions of years", if the aliens got them down there then surely they would know they couldn't survive on earth. Surely something would have happened to the aliens that put them down there, or they could have taken samples with the (semi) dormant machines they put down there.

Lastly, the family the film focused on annoyed the hell out of me. Not a plot hole, just something that made me want to throttle whoever wrote the script.

*Could be spoiler-ful*

I saw the movie a few weeks back. There were only six people in the cinema (3 of which were me and two mates)

Why a giant eye? If the aliens have the technology to capture people and kill them for seemingly no apparent reason in big robot machine things, surely they'd at least have the technology for a heat sensor, or maybe a giant ear to go with it or something.

I'm not too sure what I think of Spielberg's directing. I mean, he's much better than me, but I reckon he shows the aliens too much. Someone like, say, Stanley Kubrick wouldn't show the aliens at all, but whatever.

I also thought the ending was too happy happy with the boy miraculously surviving.

But then again, anything beats the War of the Worlds with cheesy 80s synths and vocal harmonies... *shudders*

On this score, EMP's don't work that way at all. Check the link for more info, If an item is turned off the chances are they might just damn well work.

http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/classe...35-2/19/emp.htm

Secondly, the movie is not really like the book. As in it is told from the perspective of Tom's character only. Hence we don't see what is happening in the rest of the world, just his.

As SPS says about the blood, that was the martians trying to terraform the world, into their world.

BTW, if i was in that car with a gun and that little cow started screaming like that, i would have shot her in the face, damn annoying little child!!!!!.