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    I saw war of the worlds. What is this? I'm insulted. I wasted 2 hours of my life, completely unnecessarily. I would like to ask mr Spielberg how he thinks he can make up those 2 hours of my life back to me.

    *SPOILEEEEEEERS!*





    OK so.. how many of you seen it? Me thinks this prolly was the worst movie of the year so far. The ONLY weird thing was that I think Tom Cruise didn't suck. Everything else did. Including Tim Robbins, which I thought was impossible.

    I don't expect realism or logics in movies, if I wanted that, I'd watch only documentaries. But it's cases like this when the makers of the movie thinks you just don't have brains at all that makes you feel robbed, angry and insulted.

    First of all.. the machines come here, balls to the wall, no explanations except 'they've been watching us'. OK.. I guess that can go by, but what about the 'beams'? How stupid were those anyway? And why did they have the bug type of feel to them, so that us, audience, could go 'oooh I hate those bastards with bug like features!'. INSECTS INSECTS!

    Then they start blasting everything that seems like a battle from .. I don't know, some UN infested place. For so advanced machines, it seemed quite ineffective, blasting with small beams, taking one person out per time. Hey, we got nukes, why don't they have anything but stupid beams? And for intelligent creatures, they sure started it wisely, from small towns. Yeah, let's kill all and start from farms, see, it'll take only few months until we get to big cities, and that's just a good thing to do. Oh yeah.. what ever.

    OK!! FINE BY ME IT'S HOLLYWOOD.

    But then.... when Tom and the girl got sucked into the 'gasoline tank', and the thing that was able to deflect all rockets and everything, got few small granades in, totally exploded and got owned? What is this?

    Then it 'died'. And what happened to the others? Did they get so sad that one crashed, that they got all tears up and wimped out too? Then the soldiers rocketed one baby more, and suddenly they don't got shields? How did that happen? ONe got 'irrational, going on circles'.. wtf?

    It's ID4 all over again. OMG THEY ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US! Heyyyy wait a minute, I came up with the most stupid plan ever how to fight these and *WHAM* game over we win, bring out the champagne and all that.

    I can't even remember all the stupidities in this movie, well the end was my favourite where EVERYONE survived. What is this? If you go to a theater to see this, and the crowd cheers at the end, sneak out right away, nothing happens after that in the movie, close the doors and jam them so no one can get out and torch the place. These are the kind of people that are the reason why this kind of **** makes it to the screen. This competes up there with the Day After Tomorrow... just horrible.
    In da butt.
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  • #2
    Hey Pekka did you get hiccups and wake up? I just mentioned you at the chat. Join in if you can!

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    • #3
      Haven't seen ther movie, but have you read the book ?
      With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

      Steven Weinberg

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      • #4
        Have you ever read the book, Pekka? It was written 100 years ago.
        Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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        • #5
          I bet most of you thought at first that was gonna be the shortest pekka op, then you scrolled down. I know I did
          When you find yourself arguing with an idiot, you might want to rethink who the idiot really is.
          "It can't rain all the time"-Eric Draven
          Being dyslexic is hard work. I don't even try anymore.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
            I bet most of you thought at first that was gonna be the shortest pekka op, then you scrolled down. I know I did
            Ehrm, no. First of all I never expect a Pekka to be short - that is an impossibility - would you expect apples to drop up into the air instead of down ?
            With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

            Steven Weinberg

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            • #7
              I guess you guys know him better then I do so I now will take your word for it
              When you find yourself arguing with an idiot, you might want to rethink who the idiot really is.
              "It can't rain all the time"-Eric Draven
              Being dyslexic is hard work. I don't even try anymore.

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              • #8
                Re: what is this?

                Originally posted by Pekka
                I saw war of the worlds. What is this? I'm insulted. I wasted 2 hours of my life, completely unnecessarily. I would like to ask mr Spielberg how he thinks he can make up those 2 hours of my life back to me.

                *SPOILEEEEEEERS!*





                OK so.. how many of you seen it? Me thinks this prolly was the worst movie of the year so far. The ONLY weird thing was that I think Tom Cruise didn't suck. Everything else did. Including Tim Robbins, which I thought was impossible.

                I don't expect realism or logics in movies, if I wanted that, I'd watch only documentaries. But it's cases like this when the makers of the movie thinks you just don't have brains at all that makes you feel robbed, angry and insulted.

                First of all.. the machines come here, balls to the wall, no explanations except 'they've been watching us'. OK.. I guess that can go by, but what about the 'beams'? How stupid were those anyway? And why did they have the bug type of feel to them, so that us, audience, could go 'oooh I hate those bastards with bug like features!'. INSECTS INSECTS!

                Then they start blasting everything that seems like a battle from .. I don't know, some UN infested place. For so advanced machines, it seemed quite ineffective, blasting with small beams, taking one person out per time. Hey, we got nukes, why don't they have anything but stupid beams? And for intelligent creatures, they sure started it wisely, from small towns. Yeah, let's kill all and start from farms, see, it'll take only few months until we get to big cities, and that's just a good thing to do. Oh yeah.. what ever.

                OK!! FINE BY ME IT'S HOLLYWOOD.

                But then.... when Tom and the girl got sucked into the 'gasoline tank', and the thing that was able to deflect all rockets and everything, got few small granades in, totally exploded and got owned? What is this?

                Then it 'died'. And what happened to the others? Did they get so sad that one crashed, that they got all tears up and wimped out too? Then the soldiers rocketed one baby more, and suddenly they don't got shields? How did that happen? ONe got 'irrational, going on circles'.. wtf?

                It's ID4 all over again. OMG THEY ARE COMING RIGHT FOR US! Heyyyy wait a minute, I came up with the most stupid plan ever how to fight these and *WHAM* game over we win, bring out the champagne and all that.

                I can't even remember all the stupidities in this movie, well the end was my favourite where EVERYONE survived. What is this? If you go to a theater to see this, and the crowd cheers at the end, sneak out right away, nothing happens after that in the movie, close the doors and jam them so no one can get out and torch the place. These are the kind of people that are the reason why this kind of **** makes it to the screen. This competes up there with the Day After Tomorrow... just horrible.
                ID4 copied off the first war of the worlds, so of course it seems like the movies are similar.

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                • #9
                  good thing i didnt see it then!

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                  • #10
                    yeah, the thing is they died from virusses alien to them but native to our planet. cool. very feasable explanation.

                    now, if they were so smart, why didn't they think of this before comming here ?
                    "Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."

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                    • #11
                      Because immunology was in its infancy and H.G. Wells didnt know about vaccines or antibiotics. Given when War of the Worlds was written, its amazing that Wells had the imagination to use the idea that bacteria cause disease.
                      We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
                      If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
                      Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.

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                      • #12
                        What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?

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                        • #13
                          War of the Worlds was a good movie. They used single beams because they were out to hunt us down as a sport, not just to extinct us. If that would have been their aim, they'd hardly have their tripos buried long ago.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Blake
                            What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?
                            nothing, it worked great as a comedy movie .

                            The stereotypes were just horrible. The sick kid, the cute dog. All that stuff wants to make me puke. Cheap emotionaly manipulation.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Blake
                              What was wrong with The Day after Tommorrow?
                              Nothing, except for being the definition of bad.
                              Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                              It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                              The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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