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Ok, so, I am not a big fan of Tom Cruise or hollywood style sci fi usually...but War of the Worlds is a good movie.

that is all.

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Alarik

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I really enjoyed the Alien Tripod units, especially all details like the noises they made and their heat rays.

The movie itself was quite exciting and for the most part I had no qualms about it.

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I thought it was good, however though the ending is true to the story, I had some difficulty with it.

SPOILER

Ok, when HG Wells wrote it the ending was revolutionary, but these days you'd expect highly advanced aliens to consider such things.

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i didn't read the book, and yes the movie was great but i expected another ending.... as Randallw said "you'd expect highly advanced aliens to consider such things", but yes the movie was great

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I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did see the 1950's version, and read the original. I say it usually enhances the experience of seeing movies based such classics if you've done the reading first. That is, unless the movie version stinks, in which case there is no help.

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I was talking to my father today about this movie, he was very suprised and disappointed by the ending of the movie. I read it when i was a kid and im glad they kept the ending. I have kids myself now so i cant wait till it comes out on DVD.

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Well, I kinda like keeping things the same in conversions. (Read the book)

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Well it's not really a sci-fi blockbuster, it's really supposed to be more of a character study of the man and what happens around him. Even with the original book the aliens really just exist as a force of nature to change the lives of the characters so we can see how they cope, so really at the end they just need a quick and easy way to finish it off. Still it makes more sense as a Deus Ex Machina than uploading a pc virus to a totally alien computer system (coughID4 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif)

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Yeah - But ID4 wasn't serious anyway.

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Yeah, the ending of ID4 was silly and not very believable. Nevertheless, it was a good movie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif