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A note at the end contains Uwe's gripes about the War of the Worlds which I mostly agreeded with(He wanted the son and the house dead and destroyed respectivly)

I agree, infact while we are on the subject the first time the little girl started screaming I wanted her to die right then not survive to scream pointlessly for the rest of the movie. In that we agree Mr Boll.

Mr Bean wrote:A note at the end contains Uwe's gripes about the War of the Worlds which I mostly agreeded with(He wanted the son and the house dead and destroyed respectivly)

I agree, infact while we are on the subject the first time the little girl started screaming I wanted her to die right then not survive to scream pointlessly for the rest of the movie. In that we agree Mr Boll.

WotW seemed to completly jump the shark at the end with the machines just malfunctioning for no aparent reason which is conviently wrapped up by the narator blabbering about how the aliens were doomed because of germs WHEN THERE WAS NO FUCKING REASON FOR THEM TO LEAVE THEIR BATTLEBOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The damned things were invulnerable and allowed the aliens to harvest humans without exposing themselves to the environment.

But NO! They HAD to go exploring and didn't even consider the possiblility of dangerous organisms.

I can't fault Uwe for attacking other shitty movies, as shit destroying shit is a good thing in my opinion.

Well bacteria was how they died in the origional.Then again they were the size of a bear and were outside the meteorites constructing their war machines.

Star-Blighter wrote: WotW seemed to completly jump the shark at the end with the machines just malfunctioning for no aparent reason which is conviently wrapped up by the narator blabbering about how the aliens were doomed because of germs WHEN THERE WAS NO FUCKING REASON FOR THEM TO LEAVE THEIR BATTLEBOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The damned things were invulnerable and allowed the aliens to harvest humans without exposing themselves to the environment.

But NO! They HAD to go exploring and didn't even consider the possiblility of dangerous organisms.

Um, I don't recall the tripods being airtight. Besides despite the concept of intelligent aliens being unaware of bacterial contamination being silly to us in the 21st century, this was a headnod to the original book.

It wasn't a headnod, it was the whole damn ending for both the book and the movie.

Anyway, I didn't have a problem with Dakota Fanning at all, but agree that the son should have died.

Not that any of this has much to do with Boll, or video games, for that matter.

Spanky The Dolphin wrote: Anyway, I didn't have a problem with Dakota Fanning at all, but agree that the son should have died.

Not that any of this has much to do with Boll, or video games, for that matter.

And the daughter, the son living was idiotic, he was kicking his dad so as to leave hih sister alone so that he could run off and get killed, I was almost shouting to the father to let the idiot go, although the daughter was extremely annoying (EEEEEEE, this and Wahhh that )

Well for Christ's sake, she's just a ten-year-old girl.

I don't know, I just didn't have a problem with Fanning at all...

Tatterdemalion wrote:

Star-Blighter wrote: WotW seemed to completly jump the shark at the end with the machines just malfunctioning for no aparent reason which is conviently wrapped up by the narator blabbering about how the aliens were doomed because of germs WHEN THERE WAS NO FUCKING REASON FOR THEM TO LEAVE THEIR BATTLEBOTS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The damned things were invulnerable and allowed the aliens to harvest humans without exposing themselves to the environment.

But NO! They HAD to go exploring and didn't even consider the possiblility of dangerous organisms.

Um, I don't recall the tripods being airtight. Besides despite the concept of intelligent aliens being unaware of bacterial contamination being silly to us in the 21st century, this was a headnod to the original book.

[Hint]Your not helping.[/hint]

The Tripods were failing becuase the pilots were practically dead. I'd like to see someone five minutes from keeling over controlling a fighter jet or tank with any degree of ability (trust me, you do not want to get into the "Tripods are biomechanical" bullshit I've had to deal with). And Robbie should have died, but Koepp says he scrambled through the brush. The brush that got incinerated along with a company of mechanised infantry.

As for Boll, he can go take a long walk off a short pier.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The Tripods were failing becuase the pilots were practically dead. I'd like to see someone five minutes from keeling over controlling a fighter jet or tank with any degree of ability (trust me, you do not want to get into the "Tripods are biomechanical" bullshit I've had to deal with). And Robbie should have died, but Koepp says he scrambled through the brush. The brush that got incinerated along with a company of mechanised infantry.

As for Boll, he can go take a long walk off a short pier.

I agree. However I will not by any bullshit about the Tripods not being airtight
when they were built by a spacefaring race.

And that just makes the ending to WoTW seem more contrived.

They were airtight. What makes you think they weren't when we clearly see one walking underwater? The thing is, I think you'll also find the aliens tended to go outside their machines now and then. There's also the whole drinking human blood aspect too. Bacteria are definition of ubiquitous.

You need only to look at Typhonis 1's post above to understand where I got "not airtight from" although in his defense he only made light speculation that the tripods might not be airtight.

That's only for the original. And they didn't use meteorites, they had cylinders that were 30 yards across and many longer that acted as landing craft. A hunk of rock would not survive re-entry and allow the occupants to remain in anything but paté form.

If they had kept the story in Victorian England I could have bought the whole "death by germs" angle more easily, somehow. I don't know, I just seem to get absorbed in the era, and can suspend disbelief more easily.

I was pining for a new War of the Worlds for years, but when I first heard it was being set in the modern era, I lost all interest.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The Tripods were failing becuase the pilots were practically dead. I'd like to see someone five minutes from keeling over controlling a fighter jet or tank with any degree of ability (trust me, you do not want to get into the "Tripods are biomechanical" bullshit I've had to deal with). And Robbie should have died, but Koepp says he scrambled through the brush. The brush that got incinerated along with a company of mechanised infantry.

Well no need to worry about that now since the 'Designing the Enemy' short on the DVD has IIRC the designer saying that they're mechanical.

That was my view too until I saw the Superbowl teaser and read more about it. Bar the ending, I enjoyed it. I, too, feel the ending works better with the original book and the Jeff Wayne musical more than the modern takes on it such as Pal and Spielberg's. Sadly, the Pendragon one sucked majorly (not seen it) and there was another modern based one straight-to-video though and the Tripods had, uh, six legs. Though there is a Wayne animated one on the way.

I find it odd that in a thread were the topic was origional about Boll hiring acutal whores to play whores in his movies would generate a much stronger response than the mans aurgments about the War of the World's movie.

Probably because Boll is just about the worst person on the planet to comment about what is and is not good Cinema?

Boll isn't worth my time, simple as.

SylasGaunt wrote:
Well no need to worry about that now since the 'Designing the Enemy' short on the DVD has IIRC the designer saying that they're mechanical.

True, though these debates were on another board just after the movie was released globally and everyone was throwing questions around about the EMP to Robbie living. The biomechanical Tripod idea was retarded and based only on faulty machines at the end and the electroluminescence of the outer hood which looks organic.

I saw part of it on video recently. It looked like nothing but Tom Cruise running through a crowd of refugees dragging his kids with him for two hours, until the enemy just spontaneously falls over dead. He may as well have been running from a hurricane or something. Didn't bother to watch it all.

That's pretty much the book summed up still. But, if you must know, the best part of the first half. The eve of the war and when the first Tripod appears onscreen in Bayonne is amazing. If you have to catch any of it, watch the first half then do what you will.