War of the Worlds

[Gurm]

haha, why didn't this ever hit me?

ALso, where did they get the "millions of years" estimate in the movie? It's like they just made it up.

Well of COURSE they just made it up.

I actually like the "unmanned probes sent to scout planet" idea... and that the invaders were less interested in wiping us out, and more interested in just... terraforming the planet to meet their ideals. Not that they wanted to keep us alive, we just didn't matter to them at all.

[Topha]

Saw it a couple of days ago. Neglecting the plot and the ending, it was a nice movie to watch and forget. Nothing I'm gonna see again, but keeping you interested the whole time. I didn't really care how it ended, or who would survive an who wouldn't.
It is just a well done movie, with interesting ideas, images and pretty good acting. Some german reviewer wrote it was a movie about genocide, which might be true, but personally I think it was just a movie for the movies sake, and that was well done.

[schmosef]

I'm watching it now. Dakota Fanning is hilarious when she freaks out.

[Wombat]

I'm watching it now. Dakota Fanning is hilarious when she freaks out.

Hilarious in a "I'm not one to hit kids, but I sure wish somebody was" kinda way.

[schmosef]

lol!

[schmosef]

Ok, I finished it. It was totally worth watching... and then forgetting.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

I enjoyed the part in the first 20 minutes of movie where it wiped out all electronics in the area yet a guy was able to videotape the action on his camcorder.

[Gurm]

I enjoyed the part in the first 20 minutes of movie where it wiped out all electronics in the area yet a guy was able to videotape the action on his camcorder.

Yeah, and all the cars were knocked out, but a REPLACEMENT solenoid, sitting on the shelf... THAT wasn't melted, huh?

Pfffffffffft.

Of course, one of these days I need to look into the ACTUAL effect of EMP's. It's not really like the movies make it out to be.

[Jon P. Inghram]

I always love how mechanical clocks are suceptible to EMP in movies and TV. At our old house we had a old grandfather clock, and the only way EMP could disable the sucker would be if it was so absurdly intense that the induced currents welded parts together. Of course at that point people are gonna be falling over dead too...

[Lizzard[MPE]]

i thought the ending sucked. and i wanted to kill Tim Robbins from the moment they got into the room with him.

[bsdgeek]

Tim Robbins' facial expression when they first met him was so funny; I was laughing for a couple of minutes.

[Gurm]

i thought the ending sucked. and i wanted to kill Tim Robbins from the moment they got into the room with him.

I'm told that many people feel that way about Tim Robbins ALL the time.