War of the worlds

[damian 0]

Guys, it;'s only a movie, its hollywood, nothing else! Regardless of whether it is good or not, it remains still only a movie. Just one of the hundreds that get churned out each year. Knowing the results of early reviews should be irrelevant. Or is the decision whether to pay $10 to visit the cinema of such life importance that you need to carefully decide if the reviews merit the cost?

 

I saw someone reading a cheapo paper here called the Metro. They have one section called 'MetroLife'. I thought to myself, how odd for a news paper to purport to lend the reader some experience of a 'life', and how lifeless a face hath all these commuters. Then I saw the content of the 'life' section: movie reviews and a tv timetable. Think about it.

 

I really live on the wrong planet.

 

(dont mistake this post for a bad mood, it isn't).

[Ocean11 0]

I'm not seeing this film because it's an American product. I'm boycotting American products until America joins the world community again.

[69 5]

 

Back to the topic, I'm avoiding reviews myself just looking forward to seeing it on Sunday.

 

soubriquet, who is Megan Spencer?

[2pints-mate 0]

Well you should be more grateful, 69.

 

You should accept their comments as Words of Great Wisdom and be thankful that these Greater Voices have deemed to speak down to peasants such as us, 69.

 

As for the movie, I saw it. I thought it was pretty good actually but thought the ending let it down.

[sanjo 2]

I'm going Friday night, really looking forward to it.

 

Megan Spencer

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/people/megan_spencer.htm

[damian 0]

Yes, do feel sorry for me 69. I am stuck in a world of typical people. Now go and enjoy a coke an fries with your burger.

 

I boycott anything with violence in it.

[orinoco 0]

Seen this?

 

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Here is a petition boycotting war of the worlds, because of tom cruise, interesting and funny .....check it out

 

http://www.petitiononline.com/Tomkat/

 

To: Steven Spielberg

Dear Mr. Spielberg,

 

We, the undersigned, wish to inform you that we are compelled to boycott your movie “War of the Worlds”. Our decision is based solely on the abhorrent behavior of Mr. Tom Cruise. We will not be spending our good money to support the ridiculous and potentially dangerous antics of this raving narcissist. Mr. Cruise’s actions and comments have been offensive and insulting when not downright laughable.

 

-We do not want to hear Mr. Cruise’s uneducated and unsubstantiated opinions on medicine and Psychiatry. His mean-spirited decision to use Brooke Shields as an example was unforgivable. The potential impact on those in need of treatment, who might heed the advice of a ‘celebrity’ over a trained professional, is dangerous. If Mr. Cruise believes that vitamins can cure mental illness, then perhaps he should consider increasing his dosage.

 

-We do not want to be enlightened about Mr. Cruise's ‘religion’ of Scientology. If he is so concerned about mind control, he should not be part of an organization that seems to use this tactic as its Modus Operandi. Mr. Spielberg, was the fully staffed Scientology tent you allowed Mr. Cruise to have on the movie set placed right next to the Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim tents? Didn’t think so.

 

-We are sick of being force-fed his relationship with Katie Holmes which, if it isn’t the publicity hoax it appears to be, is a pathetic, juvenile, attention mongering display. Tom’s obvious control of his Stepford-Wife-To-Be is frightening.

 

-We do not want to watch his ‘out of control’ yet suspiciously manipulative antics nor listen to his condescending, holier-than-thou judgments. This man cannot even articulate a coherent sentence. He should stick to reading movie scripts.

 

It is revealing that the most compelling character Tom Cruise has ever portrayed is “Frank TJ Mackay” from Magnolia, a control-freak with a pathological need to assert his obsession over not just those around him, but the public as well, by exploiting his access to public media. Apparently Mr. Cruise was playing himself.

 

Perhaps he views the aliens he battles in War of the worlds as a metaphor for the aliens he and his Scientology friends believe inhabit we humans. Relax Tom, it’s just a movie. A movie we will not be paying to see.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

The Undersigned

[Dims 0]

Ha ha ha Classic orinoco! Very well said.

 

Potato-head, you boycotting life? It's full of nasty violence and it's real as well. Dismount that high horse man!

[housewife 0]

I saw it last night, I thought it was really good. Quite scary like horror type movie.

[tsondaboy 0]

Just watched it. Not as good as I expected. Good thing today was the first of the month and paid only 1000 yen. I would have been really sorry had I paid more for this movie.

[DumbStick 13]

How high were your expectations of it?

 

I'm probably going tomorrow.

[Dims 0]

Saw it on friday, not bad but Tom Cruise gives his usually shit performance. Martian tripods look great, the martians themselves look a bit silly. All up not as bad as I thought it was going to be, and the ending was as it should be. Go see it on half-price day or something.

[Ocean11 0]

If you want to see real dead people floating in rivers, real hurt and alarmed children, and real Americans fighting real wars, check out ogrish.com. It's free. Tom Cruise isn't there either.

 

You can have high expectations of it because it's really gross, but you won't feel you've indulged in pointless escapism when you've finished.

[Plucky 0]

 Quote:

Originally posted by Ocean11:
I'm not seeing this film because it's an American product.

I wonder if Bollywood has a version of War of the Worlds........

Haven't seen the movie. I'll rent it in 4 months.

[TheOrange 0]

Well I enjoyed it, had a good time.

 

A friend also mailed me about this

http://www.tomcruiseisnuts.com

[NoFakie 45]

I'm reading the ebook for nothing. The copyright has expired. It's pretty good so far. If the movie doesn't have the Victorian setting, I won't bother with it. They should have got David Lynch to do it "Elephant Man" style.

 

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/36

 

Lots of other books on there.

[Error404 0]

Cheers for that link Mr W, good stuff I wouldn't have known.

 

I went to see the movie last night and enjoyed it I didn't think Tom Cruise gave his "usual" performance, though I've got nothing against him anyway. Nice tripods.

[mina2 6]

It's not doing too badly either

 

Sci-fi thriller War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise, was the highest earning global film last weekend, with takings exceeding $200m (£114m).

Steven Spielberg's blockbuster took $113.3m (£64.4m) in North America and $102.5m (£58.3m) elsewhere between Wednesday and Sunday.

 

The latter figure includes $15.7m (£8.9m) in the UK, $15.1m (£8.6m) in Japan and $7.8m (£4.4m) in Spain.

[egglesby 1]

Last night, really enjoyed it.

 

Then came back and put the news on...

[69 5]

I didn't see it when I thought I would but managed to this afternoon. I really enjoyed it thought it was good. The tripods were cool, liked the aliens too.

 

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Tom Cruise gives his usually shit performance

Got something against the Cruiser? He put in a good performance I thought.

 

Did everyone who saw it here in Japan get the "Hello Japan...." bit at the beginning by Peter Jackson. Basically when the lights went down for the "feature presentation" up comes PJ saying "Hello Japan, I'm making King Kong check out the trailer" and then they showed the trailer for KK.

 

(Was that Morgan Freeman doing the beginning and end voiceovers?)

[klingon 10]

 Quote:

Morgan Freeman's opening and closing narration is perfect. Freeman doing Welles reading Wells. Freeman's the man.

Yep, MF it sure was...

[69 5]

Cheers klingon.

[Dims 0]

No, got nothing against him personally (except the fact that is a mouthpiece for a psuedo-science cult based on bad science ficton and believes all mental illness can be cured with vitamins and exercise, yep.....good one Tom ).

 

I just think he is a shit actor who is massively overated and gives performances so wooden he puts totem poles to shame. Only sightly less crap than Keanu Reeves. My opinion.

 

The movie was a pretty good watch, but had holes in the plot you could walk a tripod through.

[Zaoman 0]

I really liked it, even the ending. The worst part for me was the little kid screaming. I suppose she would given the circumstances but it grates. The theater was still jam packed full as well.