i agree with you on that!
the kid could of easily died on that explosion!

stupid kid why didnt you DIE!! #-o :razz:

Spielberg follow the book where the guy's family is reunited at the end.

I think the general consensus is great first bit, crappy ending. Like I said before if you are going to follow the book, follow the book. That ending worked in 1898 London, it certainly doesn't work in 2005 earth. Not if you then swap certain other points like they've been here for 1000's of years, waiting, watching and all that.

The more I've thought about it there were so many plot holes that the entire movie was a slab of swiss cheese. Sure the ride was good while it lasted but then the ending and after thought does end up ruining the movie. This film had so much potential and blew it.

I am beginning to think more and more that Universal and Spielberg new it. They have test audiances they new what the consensus would be. They hatched the plan.

Ban the early reviews, give no reason just ban them.
Buy some early reviews, any reviewer who puts on paper that Cruise and Fanning give Oscar worthy performances is clearly on crack or has been paid to say it. That 100% at RT was a fix, now its low 70's probably end up in 60's, mostly due to 30 or 40 paid reviews.
Hide the disappointing opening numbers

if all else fails Blame Canada.

As was mentioned, why bother even searching? Why not just level the house and search through the debri for any survivors?

So back ont he topic of WoTW ...

Someone want to attempt to explain to me what in the hell all the red vines were? Why they were spraying blood, or why they were harvesting humans?

I understand and can accept that maybe were simply not supposed to know, I am just curious.

Spielberg follow the book where the guy's family is reunited at the end.

You won't believe this!! I turned to my friend next to me and said the exact same thing? Either that dude inside it has to keep that button pressed at all times or the machine dies with its master ... freak.


More story plot holes coming soon.

no wait ... they're coming right now.

a) All electrical devices, mechanical devices stopped working. Battery powered watch stopped working. yet a point and shoot camera plus video cam are fully operational.

b) When cars across a 100 kms all stop working, they convieniently move out to open enough of a room for 1 van to easily pass by eithout slowiing down across the entire 100 kms.

c) When a plane lands and destroys everything around a house and some other houses, our hero's car remains unscratched

d) when our hero attacks one little part of our huge mechanical friend with an axe, the alien inside the machine decides to retract that little part and not do anything .. hell .. it decides to just walk away after its thing is chopped off. Put me in there and i'd step on the bloody house.

e) The ending right? okay. I've looked at this from every conceivable angle. I don't buy it. we got a specie that seems more intelligent than us. they didn't realize that immunization against everything is required? Ok so lets say from where they come from, they don't need to worry about it. They studied us for sooooooooo long .. they didn't notice how life on planet earth evolves and certain people become immune while others die of a common cold? okay .. i guess they didnt catch on to it. What about the fact that in the last tens of years, every expidition requires immunity shots ... if they've observed us for so long, have they not learnt from what us humans always do? so much for planning.

f) there is always a possibility of failure. the aliens failed ... so what? the end? no second wave of attack after rectifing a problem?

g) the shields .... the shields!!!! that pissed me off soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad!!!!

h) so in their entire planning, they managed to hide these machines from us yet couldn't send 1 individual of their own to feed off the blood and see if everything is cool? even in a war, we send someone in first!!! if its a surprise attack, we get some dudes in there before hand ...


arrghhhhhh

Since when has Spielberg have a faithful adaptation? :razz: Most of his adaptations (namely Jurassic Park and The Lost World) have almost nothing to do with the book except the concept and some characters.

To be fair, Michael Crichton wrote the screenplay, not Steven Spielburg.

Your bias is unbelievable.

And plus it's not the first time Spielberg did an adaptation that had nothing to do with the book except for concept and characters!

That doesn't mean anything considering he didn't write the script. Spielburg agreed to do a movie based on War of the Worlds, a script in this case was written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp.

And you are correct, David Koepp did assist with the screenplay on Jurassic Park along with Michael Crichton. Remember though, since Crichton was involved with the writing it is certain he gave his approval to the script. He also sold the rights to the second novel and allowed for his characters to be used for a third film. There is no way he would have done that if he did not like the films.

Oh I am not saying they are bad films as a fact (I hate them though). I am saying they are bad adaptations in the fact they are almost nothing like the book. For example *JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS* *JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS* *JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS* wasn't it Tim who was the hacker? Didn't John Hammond die? Didn't the T-Rex chase Alan through the river? Didn't IAN die (and suddenly came back in the next book?) Didn't the hero's go into a pterodactyl cage? etc * END OF JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS* *END OF JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS* * END OF JURASSIC PARK BOOK SPOILERS*

Know what I mean now?

Yes but that book is not as summer and pg friendly as the Spielberg version. If all that happened, you'd haev more of a horror film, not the 900 mill grosser that it was.

I've actually never read the books but I have heard from friends they are poor adaptions. My only point was don't pin everything on Spielburg. We all know you strongly dislike his movies and that is your choice. I'm just saying the Jurassic Park and Lost World: Jurassic Park adaption issues are not his fault.

Good point but I'd rather not say what I have to say about that (because people would call me biased, Spielberg-hater, etc)

We all know you dislike his films and that is fine. I've found that actually I prefer to not dislike a director but rather individual films. There have been director's whose films I've not liked but then they release another film and I find it to be good. Only thing I'm saying is, don't judge every film a director releases just because you didn't like one.

Remember though, that without Spielburg, Indiana Jones would never have come to fruition. And isn't that a film you liked due to Lucas' involvement?