War of the Worlds.

July 2, 2005 at 11:59 pm · Filed under Movies

James, Jessica, Chie and I all went out for supper and then to watch War of the Worlds. It was pretty fucking awesome. I had flashbacks of playing Half Life 2 when the tripod/striders were stomping around though :-)

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  1. derek said,

    July 3, 2005 @ 1:56 pm

    I heard that it wasn’t that great, but.. from a questionable source. I’ll definitely have to check it out.

  2. Luke said,

    July 3, 2005 @ 3:32 pm

    It’s not perfect, but we all rather enjoyed it. I’d see it again in a heartbeat. Some of the imagery was just fucking incredible (haunting if you will :-).

  3. Robin said,

    July 3, 2005 @ 4:05 pm

    Yeah, the reviews are oddly mixed, but I think with Luke’s review the people I know are leaning on positive :)

    I’ll probably check it out in a week or two.

  4. Ron said,

    July 3, 2005 @ 11:42 pm

    The 1953 version left a lasting impression on me when I first saw it as a youngster, so if this one is even half as good as the original, then it ought to be okay.

  5. James said,

    July 4, 2005 @ 5:47 pm

    Yeah, it was pretty damn good– The sad thing is I had the same half life 2 thoughts while watching the movie from seeing you play the bloody game! (Even though HL 2 ripped their walkers from the original ‘War of the Worlds’, even if they probably didn’t know they did). There wasn’t a of of intellectual meat there, but there was a bit of social commentary and it was a fun ride… More or less worth the 9.95… The moral lesson, “Never put a grenade in a Sphincter.” Erm, no, not really…

  6. Robin said,

    July 4, 2005 @ 7:26 pm

    So Luke and I went to see it this afternoon with our office instead of working, and I liked it.

    I liked the movie best when shit was being destroyed and less when people were talking or being scared (Tom Cruise giving a Lullaby — BARF). Still, it had a couple of awesome scenes, so it gets my thumbs up.

  7. jessiemay said,

    July 4, 2005 @ 11:22 pm

    I thought the moral of the story was to not use anti-bacterial soap?

  8. ROb Shamas said,

    July 6, 2005 @ 6:36 am

    The moral of the story was actaully “don’t buy real estate in new jersey”

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