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OK, finally saw this remake for the first time....SAD, VERY SAD......

Is this film a joke on the original classic by chance.....for the first part I thought I was watching "another" Spielberg Holacaust flick with the people as usual "marching down the long road"..... give it a break Steven....IT'S OVER!!

WOW...the only part I could accept, and it was hard, was the ole snake eye in the basement scene...other than that, what a waste of time....a true classic is ruined IMHO anyway.....thanks Spielberg.....even Cruise and Robbins roles sucked IMO.....

did anyone actually see a "FLYING MACHINE" by chance, or just the Empire State building CREATURES walking around like I did.....just curious.....

PS....would love to have seen what Lucas could have done....oh yes......[;)]

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Actually was a Radio broadcast( have a original copy) of a si-fi show that went wrong....very wrong.....and people took it seriously in the 50\60's on air that thought was actually happening....a true story......

Later in the 70's a movie was released....a cult classic.....WAR OF THE WORLDS......

sorry if I'm critical, just my opinion on the flick.....SUCKED........

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boomer,

The original film was inspired by the radio broadcast, but in most part

based on the H.G Wells novel that was written in 1898. (not to be

confused with Orson Wells, who read the famous radio broadcast in

1938). All three adaptations (both movies and the broadcast) were

interpretations of the book, not of each other. To get an idea on

which was more accurate, here's the original novel in it's entirety:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/warworlds/warw.html

BTW, I haven't seen the new Spielberg movie, but the 1958 version, in

my opinion, is horrible, and hardly a classic. But to each his

own! ;)

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Definately no award winner, but I thought it had decent entertainment value. It worked my system over pretty damn good for sure!

Pretty much a Special Effects extravaganza, doesn't top Episode III by any means though.

It certainly did not follow the 50's story line much at all except for the scene mentioned already.

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Wow, I don't think I ever heard my sub hit that loud and that low.

Definitely a great movie to show off your system!

I agree... my dang wife, who continues to use the sub as a end table quickly found herself cleaning her wine up off the carpet [;)]

LOL Nice! Are you going to get your way now? Her keeping drinks off your sub?

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This version followed the book closer than any other film done. The alien craft were "walkers" in the book and the terra-forming was in the book as well. I'm not a big T. Cruise fan but he did alright in this sci fi arena. Gene Barry who starred in the 50's version does a cameo in this one as the ex-father-n-law. The end of the book was anti-climactic and so are all the film versions. On the edge of the end of the world when the aliens literally lie down an die. But, historically the end is as logical as any, just not action packed. That's what I think bugs people about this version of this movie. It's so damn intense then just sputters to a close. As they say....."alls Well(s) that ends Well(s)"....sorry couldn't help myself....

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Wow, I don't think I ever heard my sub hit that loud and that low.

Definitely a great movie to show off your system!

I

agree... my dang wife, who continues to use the sub as a end table

quickly found herself cleaning her wine up off the carpet [;)]

lol, what sub are you running?!? sounds like you need to add some extra

dampening (turn that cabinet virbration into sound instead)

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There's a bunch of plot holes in that movie you can drive a truck

through, but I tried not to think about it and just took it strictly

from the point of view of the survivors. I think it's a truly scary

film in that sense. Especially the scene where the Tom Cruise and his

family get overtaken in their car by that panic stricken mob, very

scary stuff.

Just overlook the fact that I think giant war machines buried deep

underground, million of years ago would have been brought to the

surface somewhere by erosion and the shifting of the earth.

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