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Post by jasonx on Nov 14, 2006 6:31:32 GMT -5
[glow=orange,2,300]WOTW WHOOPS ARSE!!![/glow]
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Post by Canetoad on Nov 18, 2006 20:12:18 GMT -5
You mean the original 1953 George Pal version I hope?  ? The Tom Cruise remake sucked dingo poop. |
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Post by jasonx on Nov 18, 2006 20:15:22 GMT -5
No, I mean the remake. Sucks? I am appalled. The only thing that sucked was the fact that Robbie lived. Other than that, this is the best movie since Beranda O' Toole.
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Post by CT on Nov 22, 2006 1:09:58 GMT -5
Independence Day. Tom Cruise is a loser, hehehe.
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Post by jasonx on Nov 24, 2006 16:09:08 GMT -5
I pray to God that you are joking.
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Post by CT on Nov 24, 2006 17:05:05 GMT -5
LOL. Well as an actor he's alright. I did like ID much better though. Probably because I saw it as a kid.
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Post by jasonx on Nov 24, 2006 17:52:57 GMT -5
I can see why some people would prefere ID. It's more action-packed. I prefere War Of The Worlds cuz it really effected me (touched a nerve) which is hard for a film to do to me.
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Post by CT on Nov 24, 2006 21:59:48 GMT -5
Tell us why it touched a nerve.
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Post by Canetoad on Nov 26, 2006 7:15:14 GMT -5
War of the worlds remake touched a nerve? Razor have you joined the Scientologists?
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Post by jasonx on Nov 26, 2006 17:14:23 GMT -5
It just felt so real and frightening. They could have made it a movie with explosions and planes crashing to the ground all the way through it. But the whole film is so real. Nobody makes any jokes about the invasion as they did in Independance Day (which I really like too). War Of The World's seems so errie and real that it's frightening. The CGI is the best I've ever seen and the whole feeling of no hope adds to the depressive feeling of the film. The scariest movie ever made, in my opinion.
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Post by Canetoad on Nov 26, 2006 23:00:57 GMT -5
Articulately expressed. We'll agree to disagree on this one.
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Post by jasonx on Nov 27, 2006 6:33:21 GMT -5
Well, I'll agree to agree to disagree.
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Post by CK on Mar 7, 2007 10:54:44 GMT -5
ID4 all the way, unless it was the original WOTW and not the remake.
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Post by HNT on Mar 7, 2007 11:34:20 GMT -5
I went with War of the Worlds. It is by no means a great film, but Speilberg lends it more credibility than it deserves and actually has a couple of genuinely intersting moments. I think the parallells drawn to terrorism post 9/11 were interesting and well handled.
There are definitely some major problems with WOTW, but I can't stand ID4 so this is an easy choice for me
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Post by Jen on Mar 7, 2007 12:10:20 GMT -5
I prefer Independence Day, its fluff, but it is entertaining fluff and doesn't really pretend to be anything else. I think its fun. The War of the Worlds remake just didn't do the story justice, it had a reputation to live up to and it didn't. The feel good, happy family ending was just too much. But there were a couple of things I liked about it, it wasn't awful, I just wasn't impressed; and with the talent that was there, and the quality story it had backing it, it should have been a far better film.
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