"War of the Worlds" for Stupid Newbies - FAQ *Spoilers*
 

I've read some reviews on this board and some were extremely hilarious.

You fucking newbies act like if "War of the Worlds" was something new.

The "War of the Worlds" book from H.G. Wells came out in 1898. Spielberg didn't invent the scenario. It was based on the book.

Questions :

Question Number 1 from the newbies :

"Why did they wait millions of years before attacking us? They burried the tripod under the earth for nothing. Are the aliens fucking stupid or what?!?!".

Answer Number 1 for the newbies :

The Aliens studied the human kind for millions of years and knew the human blood was a perfect fertilizer. They waited that long because earth was not populated enough. Their plan was to exterminate us and use us as a fertilizer to terraform the earth with red weed. 6 billion people was enough for that plan. Before that, it was useless.

Question Number 2 from the newbies :

"That fucking movie sucked, there is no plot".

Yes there is one. It's about a father with serious relationship problems with his kids trying to save their lives from an alien invasion. What the fuck do you expect? Do you expect Tom Cruise falling in love with another chick running away? Did you expect Tom Cruise using a plane, committing suicide like in the lame ID4 movie?

Tom Cruise managed to save their lives. But he will still be alone after all.

Question Number 3 from the newbies :

"I dont understand, why did the bird kill the aliens? That's so fucking lame. The ending sucks."

The bird didn't kill the aliens. Earth killed the aliens. Earth created another virus/bacteria to kill the aliens. The aliens were "insect" like species with an intelligence. They had powerful war machines but could not predict a retaliation from earth/god itself. Their plan was terraforming earth with Red Weed and Earth retaliated with a virus killing them.

It's exactly like in the book.

Now why did the birds attack the Tripods? That's because they were crows waiting for their prey to die. The tripods are Half/Mechanic Half/Biologic. The aliens controlling the tripods were too sick to keep the shields up.

The ending is exactly like in the book and the 1952 movie.

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I still think that Spielberg did a fantastic job with this remake. If you newbies actually read the book, you would understand why this is not a "Hollywood Remake" but a faithful adaptation with some 9/11 references to it.

"Who's attacking? Is it terrorists?"

As soon as the kid said that I got pissed off.
Other than that it was a good movie.

Why?! I think that reply was fucking hilarious and actual.

I would propably ask the same thing to my dad. Right now, terrorists = threat. (Well, this is the propaganda from the U.S. Government). I wouldn't ask : "Hmm...Dad, are aliens attacking us?!!?" first.

But the most hilarious part whas then the "Emergency broadcast signal" failed. The "Emergency broadcast signal" was broadcasting the "Test signal" instead. Not that, was fucking hilarious.

yeah.. i'm hearing bad reviews about it too. but i personally liked it too.. but you make me want to check out the book.. you have interesting points.

Bad reviews = on GFY only.

RottenTomatoes, the Internet and everyone else = Good reviews.

Don't trust everything your read on GFY :)

I am asking the same questions.

I thought this movie rocked! and was very true to the original storyline.....just goes to show you how many "sheep" are out there for hollywood steal the money out of their pockets.....if everyone does not die....the movie sucks......if there is not tits...the movie sucks......if they don't blow shit up...the mo...wait they blew up tons of shit....oh well 1 out of 3 anyways.....i loved it!

Fifty-two years ago, when director Byron Haskin's acclaimed "War of the Worlds" was released, nuclear annihilation was the big fear, but the H.G. Wells classic could not quite be shaped to evoke that anxiety. The terrorism connection, however, is made plain almost from the beginning of the new film, when Tom Cruise -- as Ray, a divorced father of two -- has his first alien encounter. He comes home covered in fine, white dust, like a bystander at ground zero.

The white powder, in this case, is pulverized flesh and blood, the result of an alien death ray, which apparently annihilates living cells but leaves clothing intact. People explode into nothing as their clothes go flying. It's a startling effect and a horrible sight, but not only horrible -- horrible is easy. It's eerie, as well. It's also, in a way, insulting, in that it violates our sense of a human being's importance.

This is what makes Spielberg so good: The spectacle of those bodies instantly vaporizing is horrible, eerie and insulting not just in the eyes of the audience but in the eyes of the panicked people, as they're running for their lives. Though grand in scale, "War of the Worlds" does not feature generic monster-movie-style fleeing. The bit players and extras, as well as the principals, are at all times thinking and reacting in specific and human ways. Thus, the spectacle is rendered not poignant exactly (it all happens too fast to be poignant), but always personal.

Easily, "War of the Worlds" could have been a crude movie. Instead, it's graceful. How does Ray find out something is amiss in his world? He walks out his door and sees a crowd of people taking photos of something above his house. He looks up and sees the sky swirling and flashing light. The details make the movie: The wind blows in the wrong direction. There's lightning without thunder. A father and daughter cower under the kitchen table -- the father fearing that he can't protect his kids, and the daughter reading that fear and beginning to panic.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...TL&type=movies

"Humans" weren't around millions of years ago. :2 cents:

They must have saw us coming, heh?

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You are kidding me? Right? Go read some books and stop acting like a clueless dumbass. OMFG. Please say you were drunk/drugged when you replied to this thread. This will help you.

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/l...s/timeline.jpg

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/l.../timeline.html

I liked it damnit

There's nothing to be ashamed of. The majority of people loved it. :thumbsup

Homo Sapiens aka "Humans" didn't come around until roughly 350 - 450,000 years ago. I believe in human evolution but there still is a missing link. So therefore "humans" whose blood is a perfect fertilizer for use in teraforming by the tri-pods did not appear until a MAXIMUM of 500,000 years ago.

ZZZZZZZZZzzzzz.. The Human Kind "Homo Abilis" appeared 2 million years ago. Stop acting like a dumbass.

Homo habilis: The first human species

Homo habilis is the earliest known species of the genus Homo; that is, the first human species. It existed from approximately 2.2 to 1.6 million years ago in east Africa.

Only a few fossil remains have been discovered so far, but these specimens exhibit a clear trend toward larger brain size. H. habilis brains are about 30% larger than those of A. africanus. Males were much larger than females, as shown by the two skulls at far right. The male is pictured on the left. Sexual dimorphism in early Hominid species expressed itself in significant size differences.

The reconstructed skull pictured above was found in 1972 on the shores of Lake Turkana and represents the oldest individual human yet discovered. The background of the photo shows the kind of environment in which this earliest-known human species lived--open bush and savannah country in east Africa. This must must have been a very challenging environment, filled with large predators.

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/l...habilis-a.html


You = OWNED.

man. this is a nice read! thanks! i love the movie. i should watch it again on dvd.

Yeah.. I can't wait for the DVD. And especially for the "Tripod Horn Call". Holy Shit, that sound was so fucking scary. It scared the living shit out of me.

Tripod Call Sound

I know it doesn't scary on a monitor screen, but when you see the 1st tripod rise from the ground and then start attacking after the call, you understand why the sound is fucking scary.

http://www.wsu.edu - and I'm owned? You should find a REAL school to research. :winkwink:

Yes you = Fucking Owned

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis

"Homo habilis ("handy man", "skillful person") is a species of the genus Homo, which lived from approximately 2 million to 1.5 million years ago at the beginning of the Pleistocene".

"Homo Abilis" were the 1st humans on this planet.

Who the fuck are you? HighOnAcid or HighOnBeingOwned? :pimp

yeah the sound of the tripod horn calling is fucking scary. argh. it gives me some weird feeling.

me and my girlfriend loved the movie... i didn't even know about the book and still thought it was a great movie

Nocarrier.. you are such a huge nerd... :1orglaugh

Why do you defend the movie wich such passion.. and call people newbies?

Look.. NEWS FLASH MOst of us coudnt care less about the book and how it was "just like" in the book.. lol

I didnt read the book and I judged the movie for what it was.. and it SUCKED!!

Dont be sad.. :winkwink:

A tripod that gets the flu... :1orglaugh

NOw I am enlightened. I've watched it but find it really hard to understand the ending.

OMFG? You're kidding me. Right? :helpme

:1orglaugh What makes you think I was talking about you? So you feel like a newbie? Your life must really, really suck. :winkwink:

the only thing i didn't like about the movie was tom cruise, he fucked up mission impossible, and he fucked up this movie.

Just saw it and thought it was really damn cool. Funny thing about these remakes however is that i would like to see them take the main concept as a whole and try to put a new spin on it, i.e. perhaps changing the ending or adjusting some of the events to make it more of a modern update or a new way of viewing the story rather than a straight on event for event copy remake. It still was enjoyable however. Good stuff.

I must take back my post about the movie sucking. After you explained it so well I now grasp what the fuck was going on. However not everyone can be expected to read the book, the movie should have been able to explain itself that's why I had originally posted my thoughts.

Go waste your fucking money. I did. But, here's the catch. I WON'T do it again with Tommy boy. He's snookered his last buck from me.

jesus christ that movie suckkked man

1 out of 10 if u ask me fuck :disgust

OMFG? You're kidding me. Right?

You were referring to anyone that hasnt read the book... dont deny..

Hey NoCarrier, great explanation! good job :thumbsup

i liked the basment part 2 with the snake thing.
some of the best acting was in teh basment part 2

OMFG? You're kidding me. Right?

You thought I was talking about you when I was talking about the newbies... dont deny..

I didn't even read the book. Only some parts of it. It's a remake, newbie. :1orglaugh

good post. it explains a lot. i liked the movie. thought it was good but not great. if i had to go see one again, it'd be Batman Begins, which was incredible. in fact, gonna go next week again to BB.

one question for you, Nocarrier.......

if they needed us all for fertilizer, why the mass incinerations at the beginning then? and the wasted corpses flowing down the river?

NoCarrier vs. The Newbies. Part 87.

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I don't think they needed every human body on the planet to terraform it. But the best way to destabilize us and was to attack us and destroy everything in it's path, including people running away. The tripods were picking up the people when they couldn't run away. Like in the water.. etc..

And about the corpses flowing down the river, I think those people drowned or died from an accident and the tripods had nothing to do with their death.

At least I enjoyed the popcorn

thanks man. when i see it again, i'll have a new perspective on it as i haven't read the book.

my favorite part, easily, was when the aliens arrived and started incinerating all humans in their path, played to the fantastic bombastic music of John Williams.

My favorite part was getting a free refill on my popcorn.. kept me busy during this non-sense movie :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

awesome movie that does justice to the story, I was expecting hollywood bullshit but it was enjoyable from start to finish!

I disagree with you on the movie but your above one-liner had me laughing.

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