Finally A Movie Remake Worth It

Just got back from seeing the remake of <b>War of the Worlds</b>, I still cannot believe what I just saw, probably the best acting Tom Cruise has done his entire movie career, the most spectacular special effects I've ever seen, it was like a rollercoaster you couldn't get off of, shortly after the action starts you're literally in a state of shock until the end of the movie, there were a couple of times/// Well I'm not going to tell you, go see the movie, I promise you won't regret it!

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Have you seen it?

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No, read the book years ago, and saw the original movie.

This one is on my list to see next, was to go last night, but wife was not feeling well, so we just went out for shrimp poorboys and went back home

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Hmmm, I heard it did follow closely to original...

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The special effects on the preview is what has me biting at the bit to see it...
An yeah, Tom is a hippie bs scientologist, and obviously a closet gay seeing him on Oprah jumping at excitement over his new love, but he still is a good actor. Remember Risky Bizness and Top Gun and Mission Improbable...

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Some movies the previews special effects, are the best parts of the movie, you have no idea what you're going to be seeing, the preview special effects are maybe 1 100th or even less than that of whats in the movie, its been a long time since I went to a movie and left the theatre in a combination of shock and awe.



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I try to please!

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George Orwell hated the first movie....This one is truer to the book. Cruise is at his best here. Not a scientist, he's a blue collar crane operator. You're wrong this time DH...by the way he (Orwell) did like the radio play with orson welles

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Total agreement with you, My favorite movie with cruise in it was "the Outsiders" up until this one...LOL. Scientology what a big piece of shizz, you have to buy your way to peace, another lol here.

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The Last Samurai was excellent. Check that out.

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Since you aren't going to see the thing I will tell you this.

He actually really is an actor, not just a paid monkey, when he's trying to hold it together and things are going bad faster than the mind can even comprehend, and you're watching the movie trying to figure what the heck you would do if you were in his shoes, he really does some good acting, way better than The Last Samauri.

The previews they showed were nothing I was about half way through the movie wondering why they didn't show more action in the previews, people would have been lining up to see the thing.

IMO its the best movie I've seen this year, including Star Wars 3, there were previews for the remake of King Kong, I don't know if he's into scientology or not, but his movie looks pretty good also.

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"War of the Worlds" was good acting, was his best I think. He played an ordinary guy...he was scared the whole time...think about it if that were real...you wouldn't be a super hero you be just like he was, running for your very exsistance...The opening and closing speech were right form Orwell's book. another tidbit when Cruise reaches boston and meets her parents that is Gene Barry and
Ann Robinson the original two leads from the 1953 movie...

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Yeah that was it...not bad although it was a stretch to picture Tom Cruise as a blue chip linebacker...

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have you seen collateral? it was excellent. he actually did alot of study of guns and tactical weapon usage for the part and you can tell.

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My missus hates going to watch an action movie with me because I rip that stuff to pieces. Always cracks me up when some tough guy picks up 2 Uzi's and starts spraying without any recoil whatsoever, and even more amazingly, his arms stay in his sockets.

Watched Lethal Weapon 3 again a while back, and there a scene where Mel and Rene are being chased by the scumbags. In the open street, they all cap off on full-auto from waist height, and with their targets no more that 50ft, the bullets are hitting the ground! Commonly known in our house as Bad Guy Bullets. Makes me laugh and scream with equal measure.

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I'd settle for vaguely sccurate when it comes to gunplay. I mean, who the f*ck believes that a bullet drops to the floor after 50 feet? Just a peeve of mine, and PF's too. Comes of being in the services I suppose.

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Here, have a bastage, on the house!

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Andy McNab, do you mean Andy McGrab?

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ROFLMAO

Reminds me of the A-Team, they'd shoot for 10 straight minutes and not hit a thing they were shooting at but accidentally blow out a tire or something.

Or movies with 6 shot revolvers that never have to be reloaded, they just keep right on shooting.

Hollywood should at least have weapons consultants, guns will run out of amunition and have to be reloaded people!

Or he started the movie with a 45Auto, now he's holding a 9mm Beretta, but he only has one gun??? Oh crap he's holding a 45 again, that kind of incompetence totally ruins a movie for me.

Sure movies are an illusion its a little part of our lives that we allow our imaginations to play and wander, but for adults to enjoy a movie that have any military background at all, you have to get the basics on the money, you just cannot use 45cal ammo in a 9mm pistol, good try dude but CUT, redo that scene please or just don't do the movie!

My wife is clueless to that kind of thing and cannot understand why it bugs me, but for me it destroys the believability of the movie, and then I start looking for screwups and the movie becomes a waste of money to me.





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well they commonly use 9mm in movies because the way they cap the barrell so the powderflash can be seen(even in daylight; yeah right, regardless) they bore the barrel down and put a cap on it to maximize the flash, the problem with .45 they cant get it to rechamber a bullet after the shot, so often then will use mockups 45's(made from a 9mm shell) or if they shoot with the .45 youll see the slide stay back like they are out of ammo.[/over analytical]


heheh.

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Thanks for the education, Professor Cameron!

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I love that too...One plane has the star in it...then cut to a close-up of the guns firing...P-51 star's plane, Close-up 8 50's firing from a P-47 LOL


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lol

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