War of the Worlds

Goid

I loved this movie so much. It was different from the book but still such a good movie.

Ever since Risky Business, I love Tom Cruise movies. But this one gets me on a very different level. If you don't want to read a lot, but want an opinion on whether to watch: Yes, watch it. It's got great special effects and keeps you on the edge of your seat. For a deeper interpretation, keep reading. In my humble opinion, although the theme of this movie is sci-fi, it's a much better remake of the original version. It's not so much about aliens taking over as it is about family... Those of us who may not be the best example of love and concern for others can relate to how his character as a selfish, not-so-concerned father develops throughout the film. It's so telling how, due to this catastrophic event, he realizes how he has failed as a father and husband. He sees how much he misses his children, how he hasn't been there for key moments in their lives. The ordeal demonstrates to him how much he wants to be there for them; how much he has missed - how much his children feel abandoned. And not only does he see this, but his children, who don't believe he cares for them much, see how much he does: He cares immensely. It is an exercise in severe crisis that some of us need to snap us out of the coma of obliviousness. By the end of the film, he has realized what his role is supposed to be, and his children see that he does love them and would give his life for them. It is an exercise in healing. I have watched this movie multiple times. Each time, I see something I hadn't seen; perhaps a facial expression, or a not-so-obvious body language movement like an expression of the eyes. You may have to watch multiple times to see what I see.

Inspired (not based) by H. G. Wells "War of the Worlds", the film follows a divorced father who is out of touch with his kids, looking over them over the weekend after not seeing them for a while. After a strange weather phenomena, weird machines rise from the ground and start attacking. The father (Tom Cruise), manages to get a hold of a working car and escapes the city with his kids. I very much enjoyed the movie. It is realistic in a sense that the father (Tom Cruise) does not know what to do, is in a panic mode sometimes, and has to contend with a screaming little girl and a disobedient teenage son. It also depicts mob mentality when it is every man for himself. Overall, very much worth a watch.

4k video is astounding. The use of grain makes it feel like I'm watching it for the first time in the theater. Intense and suspense filled take on a classic story. Tom Cruise is great in the film. Special effects/ cgi still holds up quite well even by today's standards and Spielberg's direction is unmatched.

What an interesting movie, plus there are a lot of take aways about surviving is difficult times.

I don’t like Tom Cruz

Apart from the bodacious special effects, perhaps the best thing in this film is Tom Cruise’s excellent performance as Ray: well-modulated and always believable, a likeable everyman. And the most annoying elements are Ray’s unbearably horrible children. The son is a snarky impertinent and callow spoiled egotist, whose anger is largely posturing (he spends half the movie with a curl in his lip or a grimace). And the daughter is even worse: a quintessential snowflake some years before the term became prevalent, who has panic attacks at the drop of a hat, during which she screeches and makes godawful scenes, having to be coddled at every step of the way, always having meltdowns at the most perilous moments, when any child of ordinary intelligence should know that this is NOT an ordinary state of things, and that making a ruckus might well result in death… again, a function of the narcissism and being so lily-livered one faints at the merest breeze. I short, I cringed through most of her scenes. I was reminded of the horribly bratty little girl in ROBOT MONSTER, and how relieved I was when Ro-Man finally did us all a favor by shutting her up permanently. There were some problems with the premise of the tripod machines being buried -- that many, buried all over the globe, and they were never detected? That strains an already quite strained credulity almost to the breaking point. I did like the homages, though. Setting the initial attack in New Jersey was a nod to the legendary Orson Welles broadcast. (Though in Jersey City, not Grover’s Mill—it has been pointed out that the fateful intersection where the tripod emerges has a street name, Van Buren, which is the surname of Ann Robinson’s character in the George Pal 1953 film. It is, however, also an actual street name in Jersey City.) They also quote the 1953 film, where General Mann says, “Once the tripods start moving, no more news comes out of that area.” There are a number of things harkening back to the original novel: the red weed, the scene where the train engulfed in flames passes, and the aliens harvesting people (to drink their blood). And a fine visual nod to INVADERS FROM MARS: when Ray’s daughter flees the farmhouse basement and Ray goes after her, he approaches a hillside down which a line of split-rail fencing snakes, and beyond which is a reddened swamp or fen, just like the swamp in the earlier film where the aliens were buried. The aliens seem to have only one, not two, rays; and it’s a bit beyond credulity how the heat ray works: any ray which would reduce the body to ash would almost certainly do the same to any clothing. But the explosion of ash and empty clothes IS an impressive effect. Unlike the 1953 movie, not a single landmark building is destroyed. I’m sure this was to avoid “the cliché” of such scenes, but then, in disaster porn, they’re part of the whole aesthetic. On the whole, a fun film, with some exciting and engrossing attack sequences, especially if you can wink at the illogical parts, and mute or fast-forward through the scenes with those flesh-crawlingly awful kids.

everything looks good.

Ótimo filme recomendo, tanto o bluray comum e o 4k estão em pt-br.

Far fetched, but very entertaining to watch. I love the effects. 5 stars from me.

film molto bello ,spedizione ok ,non do 5 stelle x la qualità video e audio non da bluray!x scelta del regista è stata usata un pellicola con una grana molto evidente ..che nn va a vantaggio della definizione ..anke audio non all altezza

Que puedo decir, la película es excelente, el formato físico muy muy superior al streaming (porque así esta pensado) muchos comentan que el streaming es bueno, pero las tasas de transferencia son muy superiores en el disco, y por as velocidad que tengas de internet, el contenido transmitido es diferente, lo malo, la presentación de la caja, para el costo siguen siendo demasiado simples, pero es lo que hay.