WAR OF WORLDS MOVIE.

*looks askance*

So how much does it clone Signs anyway?

how can it be a clone of signs if signs itself was a war of the worlds rip-off?

i really liked signs in its own cheesy way.

no doubt it will be better than independence day, but that's not difficult.

still i am anticipating this movie.

im looking forward to it! even tom cruise can't ruin my love of malevolent extraterrestrials!

-- Mr. Vas Djifrens (THEWARLOCK8...), June 28th, 2005.

what he said.

and actually i thought signs DID have some stuff going for it (though it was, as pointed out, a war of the worlds ripoff--AND an owen meany ripoff!)

How so?

It's all like

TRIPOD: "BAM, BAM, TAKE THIS MOTHAFUCKAS, AIN'T NO PARTY LIKE A MARTIAN PARTY!"

*blasts of heat ray, destruction of London*

TRIPOD 2: "THIS IS HOW WE MOTHERFUCKING RO...HEY, XBALU'AHNTH, I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD. I'M A LIE DOWN."

* tripod 2 crashes to the ground*

TRIPOD 1: "WHAT THE...*SNEEZE*...AW HELL NAW!"

*tripod 1 crashes to the ground*

NARRATOR: "Ahah, DO YOU SEE, the tiny micro-organisms destroyed the GIGANTIC WAR MACHINES, DO YOU SEE?

FIN.

so they aren't reminiscent of the critters in Wells' novel (basically giant octopi)?

well i guess the poster gives part of it away:

http://www.cinemasavvy.com/w/images/waroftheworlds.jpg

but the 1953 War of the Worlds had humanoid martians:

http://www.chokingonpopcorn.com/popcorn/wp-uploaded/WOTW-4.jpg

slocki are they similar to the 1953 critters?

-- Mike Stuchbery (michael.stuchber...), June 28th, 2005.

yeah i'm interested in that angle too! is it done well?

it's definitely more about survival and alien-avoidance than alien-fighting. which is pretty cool although it definitely has its own dramatic disadvantages.

but fuck!! there's some seriously dark, scary stuff. spielberg definitely impressed me on that count.

but damn i cant wait. i love me science fiction movies.

ew

Bet she's got the xenu playing cards though.

Depends on your perspective!

yeah, kinda. not as intense, not as strobey though. but it's very subjective camerawork, shakey, not a lot of nice shots of the aliens.

bahahaha. "Yo, CH'UXTHANLGSE, let's go blastin' on some fools!"

"how come we don't have touchscreen tech??"

they might grow lots of animals on different planets and just wait until there is a ripe harvest.

they were waiting for us to build up a civilization so they could knock it down, for fun

and then they have their ships there ready to go. what they didn't count on was...earth gumption!

and deadly bacteria...

and tome cruises lameo son

they came looking for Earth gumbo; the found Earth gumption

^^^ copyrighted by me

and 9/11

i'm still trying to figure out last episode of battlestar logic...i should stop trying.

aliens found out america was no lay-down sally

of course in those SAME stories its always the earthling who saves the day/tricks the aliens and they're all like HUH??? how that savage backwater dude do that? with his primitive earth mind? and on that day the Q'euebgjea learned about...earth courage.

Reminds me of the Niven/Pournelle book Footfall, where we beat the alien invasion because the bad guys couldn't get their heads around the concept of lying. When some people said "we surrender" it didn't occur to them that we'd unsurrender when we saw an opening.

they got jealous of our apps

― am0n, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:38 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

planet of the apps

i'm still trying to figure out last episode of battlestar logic...i should stop trying.

― scott seward, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:41 AM

pls don't. not here. too painful

i know.

Did I really come back from a 15-minute walk to find more than 100 new messages wtf is wrong with all of you?

earthlings always gotta get involved. would kill for a space wars movie or show set far far FAR away from earth. somewhere where they've never even heard of earth!

― scott seward, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:32 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.border7.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/starwars-a_long_time_ago.jpg

what abt in a place where they have heard of earth but are totally dismissive of earth like 'ew earth w/e who would ever want to go there'

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:33 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This movie is called Alien: Resurrection. "Earth? That shithole?!"

Maybe the aliens had the ships buried as some sort of failsafe, for when they needed to conquer a new planet. And maybe they had to wait for their "crop" to mature to a population of, say, 6 billions before it was worth their while to wake up. And maybe the aliens were too dumb to realize that such a huge number of people meant previously minimal levels of bacteria were suddenly lethal. Regardless, still smarter than having the aliens in "Signs" susceptible to fucking water.

BTW, the staring at scary stuff is what I retroactively term the Harry Potter Effect. That is, if you're a fucking wizard and you're surrounded by fucking wizards and you go to fucking wizard school, there should be nothing on this earth that makes your jaw drop as you stare in awe. Like, once you see giant alien attack ships emerge from the ground and start vaporizing people, really nothing after that should be beyond the pale.

(Harry Potter in the movies, at least)

Worst Belle and Sebastian song.

harry potter was in this?

Man, I hate the kids in this movie, but I concede they act pretty kid-like.

If you pause the film around the 88 minute mark, you can clearly see Harry Potter vaporized in the background. A predator, too.

Regardless, still smarter than having the aliens in "Signs" susceptible to fucking water.

we should have a poll on who the dumbest aliens are

The aliens from independance day failing to secure their wifi network (or whatever happened there) should be up there

Keanu in "Day the Earth Stood Still" = easily swayed from his mission by lady and kid, and John Cleese (who leaves his TV on standby despite being environmentalist type professor). Aliens shoulda done better psychometrics before sending him on blow up the earth mission.

I remember seeing War of the Worlds, it was okay.

keanu's mission is to observe though, he was observing the lady and kid and john cleese

the aliens buried their ships on earth via time machine and descended via lightning bolts as a simple shock-and-awe tactic

I remember seeing War of the Worlds, it was okay.

wrong thread. this one's for WAR OF WORLDS MOVIE.

Technically a marvel but utterly embarrassing from Tim Robbins appearance on, and you have to put up with Cruise for the duration

how hated is Janusz Kaminski generally? cos most of his work with Spielberg makes me feel ill

cruise is the man, jankam is the man

There are at least five threads for this movie. Hope this is the one to use.

I watched this for a second time this weekend and it just edified my feelings from the first time I saw it. The first half is very strong and I would put it up there with Spielberg's best work. The moment when Robbins welcomes Cruise and Fanning into his basement is when Spielberg welcomes the audience into a much lesser movie where the creators don't try as hard and where the unstoppable and ruthless aliens become decreasingly ruthless and increasingly stoppable for reasons that aren't made at all clear within the world of the movie and everything is wrapped up with an INCREDIBLY lazy 'tell, don't show' Morgan Freeman voiceover (which is the only blemish on the first hour). It's a real shame.

THE MAN IS RIGHT

A troll opinion I’m thinking of developing is that The Steven Spielberg war of the worlds is better than children of men

— Max Read (@max_read) November 4, 2019

this is so wrong, and I like the speilberg WOTW

CoM went down a couple notches on second viewing

too much of a videogame aesthetic

max is 100% right that it’s a troll opinion

I have to admit that I agree with the hot take that war of worlds movie is better than children men movie imho

Per my previous post, I might be willing to concede that hour one of WotW is on equal footing with CoM.

Thought his revive would be about this... coming soon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yas0yPbLU

enh, it's no tripods

That's what I thought when I first saw the trailer, why are they setting Tripods in the Edwardian era?

Cool, it's about time someone adapted the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. The wait is over!

Hey, you know what's actually really good? The '50s adaptation. I think it tends to get overlooked in the midst of the '50s sci-fi shuffle but it's solid.

Both great movies, would date them both simultaneously.

(re: Morbs-bait)

Cool, it's about time someone adapted the H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds. The wait is over!

Actually, the Peter Harness version has been waiting so long to TX that a) both Canada and New Zealand have been able to air it already despite presumable BBC holdback provisions, and b) a Howard Overman version has since been written, shot, post-produced & released in full in France, and started airing in other European countries & Africa, with TX in the US and fifty Fox territories to come.

OL you should watch alternating episodes of each & threadblog ‘em

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WO69YKeiL._SY445_.jpg

lol, anyone remember this shite?

Hey, you know what's actually really good? The '50s adaptation. I think it tends to get overlooked in the midst of the '50s sci-fi shuffle but it's solid.

― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:02 PM (three hours ago)

yeah i agree w/ this, it's excellent

the actual novel is good too, fwiw

I kid, but as adapted properties go, WotW has had an surprisingly-high hit rate. Although I need to revisit the late-'80s series and see how much it drags down the average.

the 1950s movie is a fav of mine, was very young when i saw it and had nightmares for years about alien camera eyes chasing me through my house. the scene where the priest gets vaporized was an early "i didnt know you could do that in a movie" moment for me.

Yeah, that movie is shockingly untimid about reducing its bit players to ash.

trailer for the Overman version fwiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYeqzI-EZe0

Liked that the new BBC version actually went with the early-20th-Century setting, disliked that it fucked up almost everything else