Why did a lot of people hate this movie? Genuinely interested?
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bohar06-1 — 11 years ago(April 27, 2014 03:01 PM)
really?dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb do you not have any other words in your vocabulary?personally I find people who have to use the adjectives "dumb" and "stupid" to describe something,as fairly uneducated themselves
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hurleycompanies — 10 years ago(May 26, 2015 09:05 PM)
Yes. This. And referring to someone as a child simply because they disagree with you is the most childish thing I can imagine. Archeoterrex: your own words betray you and expose your insecurities.
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virgiltx — 13 years ago(August 30, 2012 05:13 AM)
I think it fails because:
-The Robby subplot was just dead weight.
-The farmhouse scene went on too long, and the threatening situation with Tim Robbins's character was extraneous to the plot.
-The story ending from the book is only semi-credible and anti-climactic. Both films suffer as a result.
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Sergeant343 — 13 years ago(September 12, 2012 03:31 PM)
No it wasn't extraneous, it was a metaphor between the two types of personalites. Those who want to live(cruise) and those who have basically given up(Tim robbin's character) or something along those lines.
I rather them keep the book ending, because there is no way in hell you destroy alien technology with our technology right now. Unless you want to upload a virus via mac.
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LookielouE1705 — 13 years ago(February 02, 2013 10:51 PM)
TR's character did not give up - quite the opposite, he was ranting about how they had to dig a tunnel to connect up with the resistance because it's a fact of history that occupiers can never hold territory against insurgencies. You are projecting your ideology into your memory of the film.
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bladou20 — 13 years ago(September 17, 2012 04:01 PM)
I always got the impression that this film was not well regarded by most. I was shocked to see the Metascore was so high. I like the film quite a bit, but I can understand some of the criticisms.
The idea of plot holes and annoying performances seems valid, but this is a movie about aliens invading. I can't say I care about those plot holes in light of that.
This is also a lot darker than I would expect from Spielberg. He cuts the violent scene from "Jaws," yet in this film aliens vaporize people left and right, and spray blood all over the place. I would not have guessed he made this if I did not know any better. -
Archeoterrex — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 06:13 PM)
There was no blood spraying all over the place unless you are talking about the red weeds.
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degree7 — 13 years ago(October 14, 2012 10:14 PM)
"There was no blood spraying all over the place unless you are talking about the red weeds."
There was blood spraying all over the place, are you blind?
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degree7 — 12 years ago(June 21, 2013 03:21 PM)
Troll.
There is a scene in the film that clearly shows the Martians sucking the blood out of a captured human and fertilizing the red weed with it.
Nitwit.
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