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Originally Posted by Nimbletoe
I thought it was absolutley awful. I've never read the book, buuuut...
Spoiler: Are you telling me a civilization that buried those things millions of years ago aren't aware that we have bacteria? Are you kidding me? Is this in the book too?
There is no way in HELL his son could have survived. That was absolute bullshit.
The scene where the son should have died was absolutley retarded. "I HAVE TO SEE THIS!!" What in the world? Why? You already know you can't hit them retard.
EDIT: Oh man, the alien heads and the shield CGI was straight out of independence day. What crap.
Save your money, rent it if you must. Ugh.
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--That threw me too. It just doesn't make sense. Spoiler:
Bury advanced fighting machines in the ground for millenia, if not eons, then wait until humans have an advanced society, then move in. Right.
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Somehow they have this super advanced tech, but no biology. Okay...I can't blame Steve S. for that though, it's an old book.
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Son surviving. Given the movie's overall tone of realism, that was a distinct knock against that theme. Why bother to be (overall) a realistic view of an alien invasion, then throw in straight BS happy ending? The kid ran into a firestorm per some unexplained shmarmy internal thing "he had to do." Well, that was just a cheap plot device to put big Tom in the position of choosing his young daughter or his estranged son. It was poor form, especially from Speilburg. Generally speaking, when people run into a battle line that is completely decimated by an overwhelming force, they don't live.
True realizm would be an orbital bombardment or a virus engineered to attack humans. War against technology high enough to travel the stars does not need to include anything landing on earth, period. If you want our land, but not us, at all, there's no reason not to nuke a planet senseless from orbit. Or, use kenetic projectiles big enough to destroy cites but not leave radiation. If one has to fly by a asteroid belt to get to earth, why not snag one or two? Or, you problably have biology skills sufficient enough to exterminate us via disease. Either way, there's simply no reason to come mop us up personally. That whole concept is driven by the need to make a movie where humans have a chance. If you can fly the stars, it's likely you can destroy us from orbit, but that would make a shitty movie.
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Originally Posted by mexicanonabike
is it similar to Independent day?
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--This was Independance Day part II, without the plot. Which says a lot. It was more realistic, but I don't generally go see my "Aliens invade the world" movies for a heavy dose of realism.
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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger
I was supremely disappointed with this movie. I don't think Cruise acted the entire movie, the plot fell apart repeatedly, the ending was so abrupt I actually leaned forward in my seat at the end, and there was a couple making out in the seat next to me and I was getting jealous.
The special effects were good, I'll give you that. But I really felt like that's the only thing this movie had going for it, save a few moments that struggled to redeem, though they failed, the movie as a whole.
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I'm just going to 2nd that, and move on.
It was not a "bad" movie, but it was far from "good." I think this makes the first time I went to see a Spielburg movie and left it feeling truely let down.