Canetoad
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Post by Canetoad on Mar 8, 2007 7:20:57 GMT -5
I'm with jen on this one, and would add that ID didn't have the pretensions... the delusions of grandeur, that War of the Worlds did.
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Post by CK on Mar 8, 2007 7:27:32 GMT -5
I agree but I just hope she isnt referring to Tom Cruise as "talent".
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Post by Jen on Mar 8, 2007 13:45:35 GMT -5
I agree but I just hope she isnt referring to Tom Cruise as "talent". I was actually referring to the director, what's his name again? haha....
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Post by HNT on Mar 8, 2007 16:14:01 GMT -5
I think Tom Cise is a great actor. MAgnolia and Born n the 4th of July both prove that much. He has definitely made some crappy movies, but when he has good material to work with I think he is one of the best actors of that generation. (Behind only Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon)
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Post by Jen on Mar 8, 2007 17:25:15 GMT -5
I don't personally see him as a great actor, I think on occasion he has given great performances, but he seems to play himself a little bit too much for me. But I don't mind him. He's certainly not a bad actor. The fact that he seems to have lost his mind ;)has no bearing on how I feel about him as an actor, and he has surprised me a couple of times, but still, he has given as many just okay performances as he has really strong ones, and that's being generous, I think it has probably been more.
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Post by CT on Mar 10, 2007 23:39:51 GMT -5
Just watched WotW again. I find it odd, that the aliens would bury their war machines, hundreds or even thousands of years earlier, just for the sole intention of conquest. That was a deviation from the novel i didn't agree with. Surely, in the years that had past since then, alien technology would have advanced to a point where those tri-pods would be classed as 'obsolete'?
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Post by Conan on Mar 12, 2007 3:15:38 GMT -5
War of the Worlds!
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Post by razors on Jun 2, 2007 16:27:16 GMT -5
Ahh. So I'm not the only one who noticed that.
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Post by CK on Jun 24, 2007 5:41:04 GMT -5
Even the original WOTW had hovering machines.
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Post by GP on Jun 27, 2007 10:45:49 GMT -5
I'd struggle to watch either again but I have to fall on the side of ID4 for reasons mentioned previously. It's unashamedly a popcorn flick, WOTW was a vanity project and about as subtle as Tom Cruise's descent into bizarroworld.
I seem to recall that after the success of ID4 Emmerich and Devlin stated that the sequel would be released to coincide with the millenium. Wonder what happened there.
Incidentally has anyone (silly question I suppose Phantom) got the ID4 extended special edish? Are the extra bits just padding?
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Canetoad
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Post by Canetoad on Jun 27, 2007 17:06:25 GMT -5
Yair I've been wondering that too and debating an upgrade
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Post by cat on Jun 28, 2007 3:50:16 GMT -5
Even the original WOTW had hovering machines. But they came from space not the ground ,so they would have been new alien technology unlike the remake
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Post by Razor! on Dec 28, 2009 21:12:06 GMT -5
Both are good movies imo, however they also both came over (in places) as very cheesy. In the case of independance day, this isn't a problem as the movie is pretty liht-hearted. However, the twist of having Robbie survive in WOTW is out of place in the movie as until then it had been a much darker movie, but was then ruined by the cheesey hollywood ending. Hail Satan!
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Post by CT on Dec 28, 2009 21:27:46 GMT -5
Independence Day, while very cheesy, is a favorite of mine. I'll be getting it on Blu Ray soon. I couldn't even finish wotw to be honest.
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Post by abraxas on Dec 29, 2009 8:52:41 GMT -5
See the original.
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