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War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds (2005)

June. 29,2005
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6.5
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PG-13
| Adventure Thriller Science Fiction

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

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WasAnnon
2005/06/29

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

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CommentsXp
2005/06/30

Best movie ever!

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Invaderbank
2005/07/01

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Logan
2005/07/02

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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ethanbyrd
2005/07/03

This is the second collaboration between Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg after Minority Report. I think most of you would be aware of the source- HG Well's famous book and this is a worthy addition to the many adaptations the famed book has had. Featuring typical Spielberg traits War of the World is a big budget adaptation with enough scenes to whet your alien appetite. If there is one thing I wish they'd have done is they'd tone Dakota Fanning down a few notches. The pacing is excellent as are the special effects. This is a great science fiction film by a master filmmaker. A must watch.

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riyadhalbashiri
2005/07/04

First of all I saw this movie according to my wife's opinion. tbh I didn't think much of it, I thought it's gonna be like any movie that talks about aliens' invasion but I was wrong!! To give u a head up, I'm not the kinda guy that u can simply surprise!! but eventually I was surprised, wow is the only word I can describe my feelings after I saw the movie, is it even a word? Idk and idc. I should've guessd that its gonna be a legendary movie since it was recommended by the most beautiful girl on the planet, from the very first second of the movie I noticed a resemblance between the movie and my wife, In the movie alliens have invaded the earth using an ugly tripod machine, While my wife has invaded my heart and filled it with so much love and cuteness, really I cant imagine my life without her. Everything she touches turnes into flowers and gardens what a magnificent girl !! wait, I think I just came up with a story that is a movie material, she's latterly like what Adele's said "she looks like a movie she sounds like a song" again woowNow lets talk some side stuff I mean the movie.It starts with the amazing and well known tom cruise being a father who has separated from his wife and two kids. apparently his ex wife -the mother of his daughter and son- is a gold digger who has left him for a big fish in the city who owns a basement as the size of a Boston's football stadium. Now everything is ok till shit hits the ceiling .imagine one day your enjoying a cold one on your porch -for me a soda- and thinking about your dark ugly and terrifying future, you are just sitting there chilling and playing with your... phone till out of the blue you hear something, you go to check that shit out and you find an alien!! what!! An alien for real not a mother's made ugly halloween costume. Now tom cruise took on his shoulder the burden of taking care of his offsprings and taking them safely to their mother in Boston. The movie talks about survival, greed for living, sacrifice, and what human could do to just stay alive.It talks about how selfish human could get in order to survive. It talks about a father who feels that his being pushed away and substituted by a new guy who's playing the new father, it talks about simple human feelings needs and actions.Eventually I was really entertained and I would recommend this movie to anyone but most importantly I would like to thank my gorgeous wife, THANK YOU!! And I LOVE YOU SO MUCH .

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adonis98-743-186503
2005/07/05

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. War of the Worlds is definitely not as good as some other movies of Steven Spielberg but it works thanks to a terrific perfomance by Tom Cruise but also outstanding special effects and lots of suspense that builts quite well. The kids were a bit annoying i'll admit that but they weren't also completely awful especially Dakota Fanning. It's different from it's source material from what i know but it's still pretty good plus Tim Robbins also did a very good job as well. (8/10)

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uise
2005/07/06

The film starts with the image of a disintegrated American family and ends with a reunified one. To get this result, 2 hours of non stop fighting against aliens were needed. The aliens are using huge robots which walk pretty clumsy the earth, XIX - Jules Verne style, with snake like tubes which get people like a monster. In order to make them powerful, the humans use the classical machine guns like in a SF of the 60's. Only once we see fighters and helicopters. And they are useless due to a shield. So the cheap Troy horse trick is obvious, the hero after being abducted into the belly of the robot, places a hand grenade, and all the huge machinery suffers a magnetic shock. One merit of the movie is to see no oil explosion. It's a movie from a different era, even if it starts in NY, I cannot remember seeing any minority. Only once, in countryside there is an Afro-American robbing a crashed airplane. Which is the opportunity of a hilarious moment when Tom Cruise asks the guy if he is a survivor, and 20 seconds later his tour comes to be asked the same question. In an America wrecked by earthquakes stormed by Alien machine getting out of the ground, where the streets are filled by destroyed houses, people, wrecked cars, even airplanes, there is all the time a clear way for someone with a car. The car represents the freedom. And is amazing that our hero, and the army are the only working cars. Only once, the street is crammed by people, but they still are driving through. The people attack the car. Tom Cruise gets out, and only when he sees that someone would pick the car not leaving out his daughter, he takes out his gun. This is a second powerful symbol. Tom Cruise is a responsible family guardian, when he had left the house, he took his gun out of a cipher secured box. And now, only in an extreme situation, he threats the others to keep the distance. He is like an European hero of XIX with savages because it looks like there is nobody with a gun, in US at countryside ... good joke In a such a dramatic situation, the statistic on interactions with the strangers of our hero is pretty bad, they are so few that I can describe all of them: 1. he discovers with the other people in the street the weird holes in the ground -> there is some common feeling, but then he runs by himself, like everyone else 2. he steals the car of a friend who repaired a car according to his advice 3. the tv crew shows him the news at a global level, but then they shut the door of the van in his nose 4. before taking the boat, he discovers an ex-girlfriend with her daughter, he doesn't help her to get on the boat 5. the only positive is when the Christian couple try to get his daughter out of the battlefield, when she is waiting alone for him 6. the crippy one is their lonely host who has food deposits for months, and the hero asks the host to talk to him never to his child 7. the second positive is the soldier who helps him to get out of the belly of the monster 8. the third positive is when the hero shows the birds on the head of the allien robot to a soldier who discovers from this the method to win against the alliens These are all interactions! conclusions: the isolation of people, the only support is from the army and a little from the Church. This movie has so many clichees, and use so much makeup, that it might be a parody, a trick to deceive the censorship. If this is the case, bravo, if not ... it's very said for its public.

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