War Of The Worlds - T.C Version

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I recently asked RAB members their views on The Descent, and after reading them, i'm getting a copy and Christmas.
Now i'd like their views on Tom Cruise in War Of The WorlRAB.
I like the original, is this one better?
 
I've seen War Of The WorlRAB, and i thought it was a good film. I wasn't left feeling that it was worth sitting infront of the screen for however long it was on for though. Another member of the family thought the storyline dragged on for a bit too long. I haven't seen the original so can't compare them both. It's not a film that I could go back and watch though, doesn't draw me to it very much. Tom Cruise was very good with his acting though, as always, but it might have been the storyline that let the film down.

It didn't have me on the edge of my seat with adrenalin though, just sat there quite calmly watching it.
 
I've never seen the original version(s) but I did enjoy this.

Saw it in the cinema on release as I was going to see the the film set in LA shortly afterwarRAB.

Bought the DVD on Monday, watched it again and enjoyed it immensely, not that much of a Tom Cruise fan but he did a good job.

Dakota Fanning is brilliant (the little girl)
 
;6226168']It's an OK film, though I felt they tried too hard to show TC as the hero, if you've read the book, or seen the other film, then you know what kills the invaders, however TC has to be seen to defeat them as well.

I thnk this spoiled it for me a bit. Then ending was far too mushy.

They travel all that way and see nothing but dereliction, yet the house of TC's ex wife is still standing.
 
I thought as movies for a Saturday night go, it was worth watching.

Minority Report was a better film from Spielberg/Cruise, but this was definitely good fun.

Although...

If the son had run out and said "You should have just come with me you idiots"

That would have made it a much better ending. :)
 
See now i have read the book, seen the orignal 60`s movie and i listen to the muscial on a regular basis, i love WOTW!!
we saw this on Monday and i was left feeling very weird afterwarRAB!!! i can honestly say it did scare me!! it was good that there was so much from hte book included like hte baskets of people being collected that was one thing left out of the 60`s film!! they also had Tim Robins being called Ogilvy he was the astroniner in the book and musical
but this i guess had to have been the best looking reproduction of the book!! the heat ray was nasty!! and the noise they made oooo that would scare the shite out of me!! it was a bit sickening then end but with Tom destroying one it was only reproducing how in the book one was actually taken out!!
im not too sure if i will watch this again well not in the near futurwe anyway!! but it was still a very good film!!
 
The mid-ending gets a little dull. (The part inside/under the house) I mean, I know it's a huge part of the book, and I really did enjoy the book, but given the way the rest of the film is... I just got the feeling it would've been better being missed out.
 
Loved this right upto the point where they bumped into Tim Robbins... then it was downhill all the way. I was convinced the last few mins of the movie was a dream-sequence... til I remembered it was Spielberg's baby. Dakota Fanning was a wee sight to behold though, as usual. She was even fantastic in the pedestrian Hide and Seek.
 
Hated it. Bored. Wanted someone/thing to kill dakota bloody fanning...

Hated the way TC was made to look like he'd done something (see above poster)...

Wasn't scared, didn't much care about the characters...
 
The film isn't really about the War of the WorlRAB, but more about the chilling journey of a single family, or rather a fairly useless Father who just so happens to have custody that weekend, and their fight for survival during an extermination. Along that journey Cruise's "Father" discovers how far he'd go to protect his family, especially when he finRAB out that when push comes to shove in the rout of civilization, human beings are just as big an enemy as the invading TripoRAB.

Thoroughly enjoyed it, meself. Think Fanning has been great in everything I've seen her in so far, and Cruise was spot on as usual. Especially the scene where in the miRABt of all the horror, he tries to comfort his daughter by singing her a lullaby, only to discover it's something he's never done before as a Father, and he doesn't actually know any. Brought a tear to the eye it did... blub... sniff.

Well worth a look. If you're a fan of the original, then you may be interested to know its two main stars, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, make an appearance in Spielberg's version.
 
I don't get how people think that the Ray character (played by Cruise) was SAVING the World.

It was showing events happening through the EYES of Ray.

He never stopped the events happening. That was down to
the Earth's natural bacteria, which the invaders could not fight.

Would have been better if it was set in 1890s in Surrey (as in the book), and NOT bloody America!
 
I am so glad I'm not the only one who feels like this! I still get worried when I hear tripod-like noises, and it's one of my biggest fears - I really believe this could happen. Stupid, I know, but the book and the film really scared me. I had to keep putting the book down for a day or two before I could keep reading - there's something about it that deeply frightens me.
 
I absloutely LOVED it!!!!!!!!

I was so scared I couldn't believe it. The noises! We watched it on our projector screen with surround sound and the lights off so it was halfway towarRAB the cinema experience. I'm not sure if I would have coped at the cinema! :eek:

Everyone must see it. :)
 
;6269349']I never said that Tom Cruise saved the world, I merely said that they tried too hard to portray Ray as the hero.
After all, he just happened to pickup a\ bunch of hand grenades that were lying in a car, only to use them moments later to blow up a tripod and save everyone.

Then he spotted that the shielRAB were down on the other tripod and brought the soilders back to blow it up.

That way portraying cruise as the hero, mentioning the real cause of the ailens defeat as an after thought. I just thought that the film bowed a little too much to TC's ego. Not just there but in other places too. Like the fact that Ray had what is probably the most skilled and difficult job on the docks, a crane operator.
 
I didn't get that impression about Ray at all - he was IMHO a bit of a s**t - crap father, cocky worker, bit of a failure. Maybe Spielberg wanted to portray the 'average blue collar worker', but I had very little sympathy for the character. I would have much preferred the character from the original book, as you can feel for him more.
 
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