Today I learned people actually hated War of the Worlds (2005) starring Tom Cruise. I thought it was universally liked.

>>213429498 (OP)
scared the absolute shit out of me

Iirc, I think it was the ending that people mocked. Planet full of water and the allergic to water Aliens invade it. Was dumb.

>>213429498 (OP)
i didnt like it because it was very plain all the way through. just sort of generic.

>>213429610
No, that's Independence Day.

BWOMMMMMMMP

>>213429498 (OP)
some nice scenes with a bit of suspense, but his family in this movie are fucking unbearable. You can't have a movie where you are willing his children to be vapourised at every opportunity

>>213429723
How do you respond without sounding mad?

>>213429725
>>213429498 (OP)
the girl is the most annoying kid in movie history and the son is strongly in honorable mention tier

>waaaaaah some rigged polls on a website full of mentally ill people changes my perception of this work of art

Social media was such a huge mistake

it's garbage

like anything Spielberg has done

>>213429498 (OP)
It peaked before you saw the aliens. It's the reason the war of the world's radio play is best. same reason cloverfield falls off. once you see the invading force, it stops being scary

>>213429498 (OP)
This movie was review bombed heavily due to Tom cruise being affiliated with scientology. It definitely is an 9/10 movie. Nowadays people have moved on and don't review bomb anymore.

>>213430155
I had the same experience with NOPE. First half was great. Then it got boring with the flying dumpling.

>>213430246
Yeah anyone claiming it’s as bad as modern films needs to explain why this looks so good

https://youtu.be/eZlF-r3uLs8

How often do we get that level of CGI…

>>213429498 (OP)
Nobody liked it, though

Good visuals but mid story scary movie 4 did it better

>>213431098
>the cage falling from that height and everyone surviving
Lmao.

>>213429498 (OP)
>I thought
Well stop, it's clearly not your forte.

They've been preparing us with these movies for the upcoming real alien invasion.

Family is annoying, son does stupid shit, incredibly disjointed pacing in the second half. Great visuals in general, good practical effects blended with CG, good suspense at the start, but then it really loses steam and the flaws make it frustrating to sit through. I'd give a 6.5/10. It's certainly not terrible, but god damn do the problems weigh it down and rather quickly at that.

>>213429498 (OP)
Normies couldn’t deal with a movie that depicted humans as helpless

It was divisive at the time. Not enough action and too much Dakota Fanning screaming.

>>213429498 (OP)
Maybe stop browsing RT shit and read actual critics. Cahiers has it as the best American film of the decade

>>213429886
This scene haunted my dreams for a while, kino

>>213429498 (OP)
Tom Cruise sucked back then and still sucks

>>213429886
That shot alone proves the contrary of what you said

>>213431384
And armond white has it as the worst movie in a century century

>>213429701
no, that's the one where the aliens randomly die from a cold. In War of the Worlds the little girl hacks the aliens using Unix

>>213429498 (OP)
If you removed his kids and Tim Robbins character it would've been fantastic. Those three absolutely ruin the movie.

>>213429498 (OP)
Did you think it was universally liked or did you watch it when you were 10, liked it as a child and now have some weird vendetta that not everyone likes the same things you did?

From what i remember people HATED daktoa fanning in this

>>213431434
>he can't see that it's a poorly made chroma key

just wipe the cow shit from your eyes, saar

This movie was such an important part of my childhood that I don't know if I'd be able to view it objectively as as an adult.

>>213429886
That's bigoted.

Can't watch this shit now because of the poorly aged cgi (and the kid)

Also i remeber this movie was visiualy much darker back then
Now with all those shity OLED monitors everything will be overexposed

Fuck your progress

>>213429498 (OP)

The main criticism at the time, if it wasn't related to anti-Scientology stuff, was the ending was stupid because the aliens being taken down by bloodborn diseases didnt "make sense" because of how powerful they were. I never understood this and it is the kind of mindset that led to MCU domination - a very powerful bad guy needs an equally powerful good guy for them to get defeated.

>>213431457
>In War of the Worlds the little girl hacks the aliens using Unix
You might be thinking of Battle: Los Angeles

It had good parts and bad parts. The screaming and crying bad child actor was a huge negative.

>>213429498 (OP)
it's not perfect (it's close to it)
but it's one of my return films
>I don't know what to watch but I want something entertaining
>Let's watch cruise War of The Worlds, Minority Report, 2012, Alita, Blade Runner, Edge of Tomorrow, Mad Max, Casino Royale...
>>213429820
>>213432213
nope, dakota was chaos in the film and I like it
>>213429886
Not a single current film can match this one
>>213432115
people enjoy old godzilla

Some of the opening scenes were people got zapped were uniquely spooky to me as a kid. I generally liked it.

>>213432115
Is this supposed to look bad? That cgi looks amazing for 2005.

>>213432145
it made some sense I guess, the aliens machinery in the movie essentially was planted on earth millions of years ago? and they grew from those seeds using earth materials, maybe they didn't expect bacteria that could kill them to evolve in that time, they thought earth would be more sterile and in their hubris were using a plan that worked on hundreds of other planets with no incident

>>213429498 (OP)
The ending was shit but first half is kino

>>213429498 (OP)
And also at the time of the movie there were substantial amount of controversy surrounding Cruise.

First the Matt Lauer interview that went sideways (he was there to push the movie) and then the infamous Oprah interview. Imagine being PR people for that movie KEK I would have jumped off a roof

>>213429725
>>213429820
You guys hate children.

>>213429498 (OP)
Film critics are not people

>>213429498 (OP)
Redditors think they are smarter than they are.

>>213429498 (OP)
it's very watchable

>>213434539
Critics liked it just fine, look at the audience score.

>adaptation of the most famous alien invasion story of all time
>it's actually about a divorced dad trying the reconnect with his two annoying children

>>213429610
No, thats the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Watch more movies, idiot.

The girl screaming every 6 seconds annoyed the fuck out of me. I wish this was a Guillermo Del Toro film because he has no qualms about monsters killing kids.

>>213429498 (OP)
I always thought it was slop with some cool ideas.
>take story formed in a specific time period, displace it in modern day
slop, hate it almost inherently and in this case I do think alien invasions taking place absolutely any time other than contemporary with the movie's release is something we ought to have more of
>all the audiovisual design of the tripods and red weed and stuff
cool

>>213429498 (OP)
this movie is true kinography

>>213429610
You mixed that up with Gay Niggers from Outer Space.

>>213429610
>>213429701
You're confusing Independance Day with Avartar The Way Of Water.

I remember seeing the original 1950s film in a middle school class back in the 90s.

>>213429498 (OP)
Dakota Fanning made it unwatchable with all her obnoxious screaming. She nearly did the same to Man on Fire

>>213429820
This is the dumbest opinion frequently levied at this film. The whole point is that they're supposed to be a handful for the bachelor dad. The dynamic between these characters allows Cruise to give an amazing performance.

>>213429498 (OP)
scary movie 4 is the best War of the worlds version

>>213429820
You clearly haven't seen The Babadook.

It's my favourite Cruise film. Are there any other films about alien attack / end of the world with similar action set pieces where people are just massacred?

>>213429498 (OP)
Aside from the kids being annoying the ending where they all get to the fancy house and its all completely unscaved was retarded.

>>213429498 (OP)
The annoying kids ruined the movie, if it was just Cruise surviving an alien invasion it would've been KINO

>>213429515
>scared the absolute shit out of me

>>213437675
If the internet was removed, what sector of society would suffer? Each day I'm less concerned.

>>213437675
is that supposed to be a joke? well, I'm not laughing.

This miniseries is great but hasn't been a lot of news since february
https://www.youtube.com/@waroftheworlds1934/videos
Apparently it's still being worked on

>>213431154
>This is detroit
>And this is detroit AFTER the alien attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F48MyBnJo4s

I had a dream of war of the worlds. Where the humans slowly mixed their DNA with the Martains and became this abomination and opened up a portals to other Earths and invaded them and became these absolute abominations until the point where they became these worm like creatures that absorbed biological material into them and the last humans in one universe was hiding in caves on the moon before eventually being absorbed. It was interesting watching them in the dreams becoming less and less human and more monsterous

>>213429610
That's waterworld with kevin costner and they were allergic to making good films but close

>big catastrophe happens
>protag is at ground zero
>somehow makes it out alive
love this shit
other movies than war of the worlds and world war z doing it?

>>213437978
Happens like 8 times in 2012

>>213437978

>>213429498 (OP)
It would have been great if it had been about Tom Cruise trying to get to his kids in Boston, not trying to be a cuck and take his kids to his more successful ex’s place in Boston. The kids are nightmarishly annoying little cunts, and I was so pissed when it was revealed that the son had somehow survived and beaten them to Boston.

Also, the climax looked like someone just showed Spielberg a clip from the Strider battle in Half-Life 2, and they copy/pasted it.

>>213437340
Their job as a storyteller was to make me want to see those characters survive the journey and live happily ever after, and they failed miserably. I hated his children before the aliens even showed up, and I wanted them dead by the time it got to the peanut butter sandwich scene.

>>213437978
>>protag is at ground zero
what ground zero?
they invaded everywhere

>>213438249
Major cities where hit first

>>213438182
Probably the most mouth breathing appraisal of storytelling you could make. It's frustrating that people like you contribute to larger films becoming risk averse.

>>213437675
8/10 bait.

Made me rage

Dakota Fanning yelling didn't help much.

I saw the movie on TV in 2007 and I thought she was loud, I can't imagine how annoying would have been for the people in film theaters

>>213429498 (OP)
Beginning of the movie is absolute comfy kino. Slowly takes a nosedive later on when Goku runs off to actually not join the army

>Tom Cruise destroying a tripod with a single grenade
How original

>>213438372
We’re talking about a schmaltzy Spielberg popcorn movie about aliens invading, dickhead. It’s clear that they wanted you to come to like those kids (or anyone, really) because the desire to see them succeed is what drives your investment in the story, and they failed at that.

Rotten Tomatoes doesn't really work for movies that came out before the site.

>>213429498 (OP)
weird film. a PG movie with a couple of scenes that are horror kino of the highest order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr10zBblEw0

>>213429498 (OP)
Its pure kino and the best War of the Worlds adaption

>>213429820
She screamed way too much. They other anons responding to you are faggots.

>>213429886
I remember watching this in theaters and I remember people coming out feeling it was exhaustive to watch. 2000's era Spielberg films all had this feel of introducing new areas and characters not for the plot, but to enrich and flesh out the world. Some people hate that and just want films to get to the point.
Thankfully for them we have discordflicks that take place in bedrooms that look just like our own.

>>213440111
It was pg-13

>>213429610
I thought it was cool when the alien attacked Mel with its inner mouth and he just catches it and says "I thought your species look semitic"

>>213429886
Why didn't the Nazis use tripods to exterminate the jews?

>>213429610
it was the pathogens hidden in water that they couldn't handle. Signs is the film that had the aliens that were hurt directly by water

>>213440133
THIS
I've only watched cruise's,
the french one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FqABRhwWCE
and the bongland one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yas0yPbLU
and I rate the cruise film over those two shows

>>213429498 (OP)
its probably people thinking Dakota's character was too annoying

>>213429498 (OP)
this anon right here gets it >>213431295

it's a good movie to see in theaters. the tripods look awesome, some great GREAT action scenes, score, sound design. spielberg knows how to make a polished movie. but the writing and most of the performances are pretty bad. the plot barely exists. you give zero fucks about the fate of any character the whole movie. running tom cruise runs, but is otherwise just doing mission impossible face most of the movie. the kids suck.

>>213432145
that's right from the book, but I kinda agree with the criticism. we take precautions against infection when we send astronauts to places we think are sterile. and the guys invading a known life-filled planet in hermetically sealed space mechs don't? it's not as dumb as "allergic to water", but it's up there.

>>213429764
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuullaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

>>213441714
It was aids. Gays being mulched saved the world

>>213429723
VRRRRRRrrrrrrrrRRRRR

>>213429498 (OP)
The family was annoying and there is no chance they all survive, especially the son, and yet they do. Watching it again, the girl becomes more tolerable because it makes sense for someone that age to be like that i guess. I do like this movie for the most part though

>>213429498 (OP)
this film got shown a lot on tv here in the uk for years and years often late night on channel 4 and it would always terrify me when i was younger and saw bits of it when it was on. so my opinion is skewed by nostalgia but i still think it's a really good film if you aren't expecting perfection

>>213429498 (OP)
Hate is a strong word.
People thought that it was mediocre.

>>213429498 (OP)
Dakota Fannings acting makes it borderline unwatchable

>>213437340
>allows Cruise to give an amazing performance.
Which he failed to do. The movie sucks. Especially because of him

>>213429498 (OP)
i liked it more so probably because lot of it was filmed in jew jersey and i grew up there in 90s
so i get nolstagia when watching it

Pretty sure it's because of the ending, I mean who even liked it?

It just felt a bit dull.
Like it pulled its punches.

Plus I have the same issue with Cruise that I have with Natalie Portman. They never seem like they're doing "adult" acting. They both come off as child actors playing an adult role.
They have youthful features (most of their careers) but it's also the way they carry themselves. They don't convey "adult" in some intrinsic way.

>>213429498 (OP)
Its a bad film with some 10/10 unforgettable scenes sprinkled in

>>213442595
Which are those? I've seen it and don't remember anything about it.

>>213436240
Kek

What's with Spielberg's obsession about aliens going öööööööööööööööööööööööö

>>213429498 (OP)
Was this during that peak of anti -cruise hysteria ? (Jumping on the couch / today show anti drugs interview)

>>213442883
When the monsters first appeared. If those scenes didn't have an impact on you, I guess you are too young to remember 9/11.

>>213444085
it's cool

>>213429498 (OP)
Dakota Fanning screams the entire movie and there's this big pointless subplot with Tim Robbins that takes up 45 minutes and leads nowhere.

>>213441446
the fuck are you talking about

>>213437978
cloverfield?

>>213432624
He's a moron who doesn't know what good CG is. Many such cases.

>>213429886
That shot alone is LITERALLY more kino than 99% of stuff that gets released today.

>>213431098
>How often do we get that level of CGI…
You forget how 20 years ago most Hollywood CGI was still made in the USA.

>>213429610
you're think of Waterboy (1998)

>>213429498 (OP)
The children were insufferable.
t. child when it was released

>>213442494
>They don't convey "adult" in some intrinsic way.
It’s because they’re energetic. FNGs are depicted in Vietnam War movies the same way. They’re not fatigued, jaded, coldly calculating, or weathered like the seasoned vets. They’re lively, optimistic, passionate, and fresh faced.

>>213445762
especially since it's stupid easy to do. Foreground is the actors on a set and background is the CGI plate. These days, there has to be a thousand cuts: we gotta see the actor's face up close, then the face of the victims, then the face of the aliens, then the face of more actors far away watching the scene unfold, before finally coming back to the face of the actors.

>>213429498 (OP)
Yeah cause it was shit.

>>213431041
Hey, you leave Jean Jacket alone. He's a good flying dumpling.

>>213445806
And it was so much better. I complained about the shit CGI in MM furiousa and that it looked like a shit videogame, /tv/ coped and defended it. I checked the website that credited the developers of the CGI and they all literally had Indian names. Why would an industry that cares so much about money get worse CGI and practical effects over the past 20 years that ruin the movie? Just to save a couple bucks during production?

>>213429498 (OP)
>Martians buried war machines in the earth millions of years ago in case an intelligent civilisation arose, so they could ride lightning bolts into the cockpits and fight them
Let's just say the premise was ... questionable.

>>213431275
Rama.

>>213437727
Don't remove the internet; remove idiots' access to it. If you can't figure out how to work/assemble a computer, you get no access.

>>213429820
>>213440169
>Aliens invade Earth
>How fucking DARE the child be scared

Never have kids.

>>213429820
Dakota Fanning has always been weirdly overrated by people on the forum who grow up with her (lower scale version of Emma Watson)--maybe they had their first fap to her in Hide and Seek or something. Dakota Fanning is the worst Fanning, and the worst Dakota.

>>213431041
NOPE should have ended with lil Jupe sacrificing himself in the giant characture of lil jupe for a redemption arc

>>213432527
Minority report is a movie i always rewatch every 3 to 5 years.

The ending is always so fucking satisfying

>>213429886
kino
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