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Posted 29 June 2005 - 11:54 AM

Just to see if anyone's interested. Reviews are linked at the Matt Drudge website.
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Posted 29 June 2005 - 12:51 PM

This actually looks like a great movie. It looks really scary too.
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Posted 29 June 2005 - 01:34 PM

It's Spielberg. I think "Minority Report" proved it for me that he's past his prime. Plus Tom Cruise gets on my nerves.
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Posted 29 June 2005 - 02:54 PM

And there is little or no connection to the book/musical/radioplay, propably, beyond the opening words.

Tom Cruise propably bombs the bejeezus out of the Martians in the end too.

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Posted 29 June 2005 - 03:27 PM

Tom Cruise is the only thing that makes me not want to watch the movie. They should have casted another actor...
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Posted 29 June 2005 - 05:16 PM

Funny, that's what my mother's been saying about it. I don't really care, but she's excited about it because she used the War of the Worlds radio broadcast in her English class (she's a teacher). Her only problem is that she's pissed off with Tom Cruise because he's been such an ass-hole.
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Posted 29 June 2005 - 10:24 PM

I was actually indifferent to Cruise until the other day. Hes in Japan promoting War of the Worlds (translated as Uchu Sensou- `War in Space’. Yeah, good job fellas), and he was walking down the red carpet to the (world) premiere in Tokyo. There was a show on TV which chose one high school student to interview Fanning, Speilberg and Cruise, and the kid who won was understandably nervous as hell (he coundnt speak English). But Cruise was really good to him, encouraging him to ask his own questions, and giving him a lot more time than he gave to the other stooges lined up to question him. He just came off as an all round good egg, not as a faceless publicity stunt.
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Posted 30 June 2005 - 11:39 AM

yah but tom cruise looks good in this.
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Posted 30 June 2005 - 12:26 PM

QUOTE (Revan-47 @ Jun 30 2005, 11:39 AM)
yah but tom cruise looks good in this.


OK, Tom Cruise has suceeded in making himself the focal point of the film. Now, the film itself? Cruise is Cruise, like him or not, but the movie itself is an amalgamation of everything wrong in the movie business today: stars instead of characters, lazy fat-cat directors, redundancy of script, plot and design, unoriginality...on and on.

Cruise is neither the good nor the bad element in this total piece of crap being served up by Spielberg.
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 01:15 AM

QUOTE (jariten @ Jun 29 2005, 10:24 PM)
I was actually indifferent to Cruise until the other day. Hes in Japan promoting War of the Worlds (translated as Uchu Sensou- `War in Space’. Yeah, good job fellas), and he was walking down the red carpet to the (world) premiere in Tokyo. There was a show on TV which chose one high school student to interview Fanning, Speilberg and Cruise, and the kid who won was understandably nervous as hell (he coundnt speak English). But Cruise was really good to him, encouraging him to ask his own questions, and giving him a lot more time than he gave to the other stooges lined up to question him. He just came off as an all round good egg, not as a faceless publicity stunt.


are you still in japan?
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 01:44 AM

QUOTE (barend @ Jul 4 2005, 01:15 AM)
are you still in japan?


I cant explain it. I bought a ticket back to England, boarded the plane and fell asleep. but when I woke up...I found myself back in Japan again...
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 08:39 AM

QUOTE (jariten @ Jun 29 2005, 10:24 PM)
I was actually indifferent to Cruise until the other day. Hes in Japan promoting War of the Worlds (translated as Uchu Sensou- `War in Space’. Yeah, good job fellas), and he was walking down the red carpet to the (world) premiere in Tokyo. There was a show on TV which chose one high school student to interview Fanning, Speilberg and Cruise, and the kid who won was understandably nervous as hell (he coundnt speak English). But Cruise was really good to him, encouraging him to ask his own questions, and giving him a lot more time than he gave to the other stooges lined up to question him. He just came off as an all round good egg, not as a faceless publicity stunt.


I used to like Cruise alot until recently, I think the cruise that berated Matt Laurer and came off as a narcassistic, condescending ass is closer to the real man than the one that was overly nice on camera to a kid who did not speak english.

I have a friend here in NYC that worked as an extra on War of the Worlds, and he said Cruise was surrounded by 20 handlers non-stop and no one was allowed to speak to him. This man has been a white hot, ridiculously rich celebrity for the better part of 20 years now. Reality has long left this man's consciousness.
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 10:15 AM

I don't know what to think. But if you ask me, I would rather listen to the radiocast from the thirties. I heard it once, and liked it. And no, I did not hear it in the thirties.
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Posted 04 July 2005 - 04:40 PM

QUOTE (Private Zod @ Jul 4 2005, 08:39 AM)
I used to like Cruise alot until recently, I think the cruise that berated Matt Laurer and came off as a narcassistic, condescending ass is closer to the real man than the one that was overly nice on camera to a kid who did not speak english.



I can't feel sorry for Lauer. It's great to see a talking head posing as a journalist get taken to task by an actor who is not playing his role. Lauer, and all these tv buffoons who just spew the lines force fed them, need to be held responsible for their misinforming of the masses.
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