Not bad. His car was working because the guy changed the solenoids. Something that has to do with the battery? I don't really know. The ending sucked, should have spent more than 2 minutes on the ending. Other than that, pretty good movie I guess. Does give you a bad feeling about humanity's future though.

 

By the way... If the aliens had 1 million years to research humanity, with their advanced technologies, they would have immuned their bodies against earth's diseases really easily. Just think about it. What, they just missed millions of people dying from diseases? I mean cmon, they're supposed to be light years away with their technology, they should be smarter than to die from some little germs. That in itself was some pure bullshit, and the only bad part of the movie.

 

That's exactly what I meant - keeping the simple ending to Spielberg's updated and elaborated vision. My girlfriend has never known the story, seen the originals nor the TV versions, so she was also disappointed by the quickie ending. My teeth clenched, heart thumped, and fidgeted more than once in my seat, but at the end, we both muttered, "that's it?"

 

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I agree that the ending was a little too happy and short. I keep trying to think about what exactly killed the aliens/brought them to their demise. After some looking around on the net (I never read the book, or was familiar with anything else about it), I found that in the original that the aliens were from Mars. And according to the original, the book was an allegory for HG Wells' England--in the book, supposedly the Martians were representative of an oppressive race such as how England was an imperialistic country who only thought of expansion rapidly at other's expense of life. So, its really more of a sociopolotical commentary where England was the alien and the conquered lands were the 'earth inhabitants'. And the reason the Aliens failed was because they were too greedy and quick and in the destruction of the societies they left in their wake disease, a lack of resources, etc which they looked over. This caused their imperialistic decline. So in this light, I feel that the new movie is probably pointing the finger at the US for what is going on in Iraq. Americans are the aliens, etc etc. But as far as what happened in the movie, I believe it wasnt just germs that killed the aliens. And besides it says in the beginning of the movie that they studied humans under the microscope, which leads me to believe that they probably ignored the rest of life on Earth which has a niche and without everything else in the world, even humans would not fuction/survive. The aliens were too greedy and overlooked the fact that there were other aspects of Earth that needed conquering as well as the humans.

Again, I dont know if this makes sense, but I kept thinking about it after I got done with the movie last night.

 

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it does make sense what you said.. that is kinda true.. i mean, humans arnt perfect, why should aliens be? who knows.. still a fun movie to watch.

 

I thought it kicked ass eventhough it's a remake which ripps off both "Signs" and ID4... I'll prolly buy it.

 

I really liked it. For those of you that did not like the microbial plotline, it is how the aliens are defeated in the original HG Wells story. My only problem was the little happy "surprise" at the very end.

I will get it on DVD. I can not understand how anyone could compare this unfavorably to Independance Day (ID4) that was one of the worst movies ever.

 

It is kinda hard to say this was a ripoff of ID4 or Signs because it was based on a book that was written in the early 1900's. Now - the aliens, as depicted in the movie, were very ID4ish - but I still think this was an interpretation of H.G.'s description in the book, and maybe ID4 borrowed that.

I haven't read the book in over 10 years, but the most vivid parts I recall come from the suspense of wondering "what would I do in this situation?". I think the movie did a great job of capturing that aspect (for me).

We are disappointed by this movie because here we are almost 100 years later (than when the original story was written), having seen all these Hollywood creations and all sorts of other things, making it tough for us to appreciate what imagination was 100 years ago. We can argue that imagination from Homer, Verne, or Tolkein was greater but this is Wells' story. It is a great fiction that comes from a time when disease was a super nasty killer in the civilized world, and it drives a point that it is a necessary evil.

I guess what I'm saying is fault Hollywood for the movie, don't fault Wells for the story.

 

What, so no one noticed those teeth??? I mean come on, that was the scariest part of the whole movie. Cheers.

 

me and my gf liked it! she was attached to me most of the movie, i guess she doesn't usually like the sci fi stuff, so she thought it was scary. of course the ending was not good, the son just 'appeared along with the unscathed rest of family. cmon... cmon... that last little bit was horrid. but we thoroughly enjoyed the rest!