Duck and Cover

Spazmo wrote:Independence Day was awful. It's probably a cultural thing (i.e. mine isn't CRAP), but I hated all those "listen guys it's JULY FOURTH okay we will fight the aliens with American spirit just like we kicked those Nazis ASSES! HUAH!" speeches.

The presidents speech made me want to get up and salute. Most people who can enjoy world of wars and not Independence Day are a bunch of swell guy flaming from heaven.

I don't know what to think. I enjoyed some of the values in it, and most of them I really didn't like..

Like it was said before, what's up with the videocam working when nothing else does?
The explanation Spazmo came up with doesn't make sense to me, when you see Tom pulling out new batteries, which doesn't work either.

Not to mention the ferry which worked perfectly...
(And you'd think some cars were working there when the ferry was also??)

The whole EMP thing too farfetched.

The girl was a disaster imo.. and the teen-angsty-boy was way over the top..

Like it was said, too much focus on the kids, too little on the cool tripods which were about 50% of the movie.

Ending = beyond lame.. If you've read the book, and expected the outcome, you could say "Oh.. ok. They did a decent job of what we expected", like with LOTR etc.. but to me and my girlfriend in the cinema.. we were completely baffled and were all "That's it?!?"..

I liked the fact that we didn't know what was going to happen before the movie, kudos for "keeping the plot secret".

Labelled: Could have been good.


Is it me, or are movies today more about "The best that we could do it, because we blew half our money on tommy-boy", and less about actually making a good movie?

I should've seen batman begins instead..

Yes, the presidential speech really ignited my sense of human pride and imparted new spirit to my awareness of the value of life. The sense of euforia in conjunction with vastly accumulated sexual frustration swiftly proliferated through my system, culminating in the contraction of the muscles involved in the stretching of my right arm.

The Spielbergo name-tag is enough to frighten me away. (I keep remembering AI). Also I would not like to overwrite my fond memories of the 1953 B-movie.

P.S. B-movies own Spielbergo, except ET, that still gives me nightmares.

MadBill wrote:Spielbergo

You must mistake him for his Mexican cousin, Señior El Spielbergo.
It says Spielberg.

Jews have mexican relatives?

Smiley wrote:

MadBill wrote:Spielbergo

You must mistake him for his Mexican cousin, Señior El Spielbergo.
It says Spielberg.

Simpsons rip-off

The movie was relatively true to the book, which is all I wanted to see.
Must have been entertaining trying to institute the idea into modern America but what the hell do I know.

Everyone knows a movie does 6 times better in the theatre if it has a happy ending. Its the way the general populace likes it.

S4ur0n27 wrote:Simpsons rip-off

Sometimes Simpsons needs to be referenced. In Spielbergo's case I tend to remove most blocks.

i think it was good but the kid was such a fucken retard trying 2 jump on tanks 2 fight trypods

another point that was stupid if they had there trypods underground for so long I think they would have allready known about the bactirea and germs that killed them

Maybe the bacteria and virii have mutated?

Virii ? You prat.

What language would make "virii" a word, anyway?

I have suspicions that only ApTyp (or a similarly . . . minded fellow) could answer such, and secondly, that the language would be 'prat'.

That would be Latin, you ignorant sluts.

English motherfucker, do you speak it?

Badly.
Besides, "virus" is a Latin word.

Engrish.
''Virii'' sounds Finnish by the way.

Lynxer wrote:''Virii'' sounds Finnish by the way.

Only in your wet dreams.