War of the Worlds

[Evil]

I saw this today, and as good as it was, I was still disapointed.

Spoiler

All of the main characters survive. WTF. The movie could have ended right after Cruse put the grenades in the Tripod. It was all too predictable. I thought the scene where Cruse's friend and daughter couldn't get on the boat was great. It showed the "truth" behind if something like this would really happen. Should have been more scenes like that one.

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All in all it was good, mostly due to the seamless CG. Definatly worth the $20 I spent going to see it.

[fovmester]

I found it really great, though it ended too abruptly.

Spoiler

I mean at one moment Cruise and his daughter was captured by the tripod and managed to escape by blowing it up from within, and then just afterwards the tripods were getting strange and falling onto buildings and so forth. At first I thought it had something to do with Cruise's grenade (which would've been a really crappy solution). But thankfully it wasn't that. But I would have love to see something else happening in between, so the failure of the aliens wouldn't feel as sudden.

That it was bacteria that screwed them up, was pretty nice. Was that what happened in the original?

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[Las Naranjas]

It is what happened in the book, and it was just as sudden.