So basically Crow bot clones come out from hibernation in the Earth's crust to spray paint the planet a nice hue of blood. Later birds peck the bots to death and save the day
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No the ending is not a copout, if you understood the very last paragraph of the book, it's meant to show that even the TINIEST of "God's creatures" can work to bring down a huge invasion, etc... Irony and nature at it's BEST. What would be the point if the military or fucking Rambo came out and took down all the martians with all might?? For that we have Independence Day. Tom Cruise was great, I've NEVER seen him in the father role before, he's finally cme of age. And what questions were left unanswered?
The ONLY complaint I had about the movie, is how they changed the method of the martians arriving on Earth. Originally they came down in huge cylinders, tripod, alien and all. For some reason now, the tripods have been underground for millions of years, and the martians are "injected" via lightning in the tripods. It wasn't broke, why fix it?
Paul Giamatti? He's good for mild pseudo-intellectual comedies like "Sideways", not riveting sci-fi action drama like this.
Yes if anything also, I wanted to see more of the son and how he escaped all that bullshit.
I understood it well and loved the idea. That was about as far as I got with enjoying the ending of the book. I'm not looking for big explosions, I never stated that a movie's ending is only good when you go out with a big bang. I don't deny that Cruise did his best and is improving but improvement in my eyes from a very low stoop. I find no interest in his usual jaw-clenching macho persona. I have more of an interest in an actor that makes me forget Tom Cruise is on the screen and actually there's a divorced man not yet prepared to be a father.
Also, the script goes a bit far in making the human seem unhuman, mustn’t let the aliens hear us!) right from telling his daughter to sing to searching through a box of condiments for food instead of looking in a refrigerator. Am I nit picking? Oh yeah. In a movie filled with giant tripods zapping everyone and everything they can see, is it too much to expect the humans to act like real people?
Your typical happens where most the time our problem family survives by dumb luck one too many times. I tried to focus more on the explosions than Dakota having her timed panic attacks. There neeeded to be a bit more focus on other characters rather than just this particular family. We have world destruction in our hands - I do understand that the focus is SUPPOSE to be focused on Cruise's perspective but since at the start we grow to have such a large distaste for the man throughtout the movie I really didn't have much of an interest in how he felt.
Basically I loved the effects, destruction and the scenes that were priceless such as Cruise carrying Dakota through the forest area with clothing and ash raining down upon them.
When put into situations of dire stress, humans AS A GROUP don't act like humans, they act like the monsters that are perpetuating their annhilation, which was another point HG Wells made in the book (pretty much foreshadowing World War 1). And even as solitary units, that family handled it pretty well. They should've killed the son, he was annoying as fuck.
The ONLY complaint I had about the movie, is how they changed the method of the martians arriving on Earth. Originally they came down in huge cylinders, tripod, alien and all. For some reason now, the tripods have been underground for millions of years, and the martians are "injected" via lightning in the tripods. It wasn't broke, why fix it?
Paul Giamatti? He's good for mild pseudo-intellectual comedies like "Sideways", not riveting sci-fi action drama like this.
Yes if anything also, I wanted to see more of the son and how he escaped all that bullshit.
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Also, the script goes a bit far in making the human seem unhuman, mustn’t let the aliens hear us!) right from telling his daughter to sing to searching through a box of condiments for food instead of looking in a refrigerator. Am I nit picking? Oh yeah. In a movie filled with giant tripods zapping everyone and everything they can see, is it too much to expect the humans to act like real people?
Your typical happens where most the time our problem family survives by dumb luck one too many times. I tried to focus more on the explosions than Dakota having her timed panic attacks. There neeeded to be a bit more focus on other characters rather than just this particular family. We have world destruction in our hands - I do understand that the focus is SUPPOSE to be focused on Cruise's perspective but since at the start we grow to have such a large distaste for the man throughtout the movie I really didn't have much of an interest in how he felt.
Basically I loved the effects, destruction and the scenes that were priceless such as Cruise carrying Dakota through the forest area with clothing and ash raining down upon them.
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