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War of the Worlds [Blu-ray]
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41%War of the Worlds (Widescreen Edition) (2005)-Good sci-fi flick.
20%hilarious.......
20%Why Bother?
10%War of the Worlds 2005 Cruise / Spielberg version
30%I PREFER THE ORIGINAL
20%A War Of Clichés and Annoying Screaming Girls
10%Another Movie That Should Never Have Been Made
41%Better than expected.
30%Too cheezy
41%3 stars out of 4
31%No paddle steamers(sadly) but the ending is a bit of a "Cleveland Steamer"!
4Terrifying Aliens, Mundane Family.
4Good Movie
21%Fine movie except for the people in it. Great FX!
41%Not nearly as bad as some reviews claim
30%Entertaining movie, but not true to the book
10%Poorly told story.
51%fatherhood
10%Creepshow
21%A Screaming Nightmare
50%Better than the Original
40%very good invasion of the monsters flick
41%Too little "War", Too much Real "World".
41%Good alien invasion movie (some scene spoilers included)
31%Good parts hampered by others that insult the viewer's intelligence
20%Vague and Disappointing
5War of The Worlds
50%excellent movie...scary
50%GREAT MOVIE FOR HOME THEATER FANS!!
11%Terrible Ending. Spoiler Alert!
41%Great acting + a degree of realism = excellent movie!
3The original alien invasion of Earth.
4THEY'RE HERE!
21%WHO EDITED THIS MESS
50%great movie
50%A mixture of many invasions...
50%Intense, to say the least
50%This movie would look STUNNING on HD DVD!
10%YUK!!!!
41%that's entertainment!
41%A good remake
4Not Perfect, But Very Enjoyable
41%Great movie for this genre
21%How long were they waiting down there?
41%Pretty decent. One of his better action-packed movies.
31%War of the Worlds DVD with Tom Cruise
51%alien attack
31%War Of The Worlds
41%Two Disc SE features review
31%INTERESTING, BUT FAILS ON HUMAN LEVEL
4The movie was all Dakota Flanning.......
51%Does honor to great book
11%SHOULD BE CALLED WAR OF THE DISASTERS
21%Two stars for the excellent Tripods.
11%I was torn....
40%Another Delight From Steven Spielberg
51%Dakota Fanning really made this film special
41%An excellent re-visioning of Wells, and all that implies
11%Big bark, no bite
31%War of the Worlds (2005) - 24 scenes, 1h 55 min , mixed feelings,
31%Relive the terror of 9/11 again and again!
31%Well balanced film
31%Good, but doesn't come close to the 50's version...
51%War of the Worlds
51% Great Movie
41%Wow, great remake
41%EXCELLENT REMAKE OF A CLASSIC!
20%Not enough alien images, good graphics, poor direction.
51%Great Movie!
41%Imperfect, yet still epical
51%A worthy successor to the original.
41%Well made Sci-fi movie
10%Spielberg's Worst Film
21%Expected more
10%My Tom Cruise Collection is complete
50%War of the Worlds....
50%War of the Worlds
51%Great sci-fi/horror!
21%Literary study only
51%WOW!!!!!
3Definitely Not The Original
20%Scientology
30%TC is a f-freak...good special effects
11%SHUT THE KID UP!!!!
41%Great!!
31%No more cruise control, please
20%Big time dissapointment
10%What a piece of garbage!!!
40%GREAT EFFECTS
10%War of the Worlds
40%good entertainment
41%Why do people not like this movie?
50%War of the Worlds 2-disc limited edition
51%what the heck, guys
30%War of the Worlds
31%This DVD has been released with a reduced video quality. This may be a marketing strategy to push Blu Ray DVD's
30%A Run-Of-The-Mill Spielberg/Cruise Formula Movie
50%spielberg has scored again, big time!
20%it's a shame
11%If I didn't have to give it one star, I wouldn't have!
20%Wow, another steamy pile from spielberg and cruise
10%nothing new to offer
21%Another Bad Remake Of A Good Story
21%Excessive gore spoiled this one for me
40%Don't expect a great ending!
10%Horrible
41%Worthy remake
40%I'm not sure what I was expecting...
21%Another promo for Tommy...
20%Somewhere in this film there was, allegedly, a war taking place...
30%War of the Worlds (with Tom Cruise)
21%Horrible Dialogue Ruin This Movie!!
30%Some changes are necessary from Wells' story, but not handled all that well here
10%Punch Delickey: Quote Your Momma!! Senior Drama!! It's Hard to Replace but You Like It!!
21%War of the What, now?
30%Solid "C" SiFi Movie
40%War Of The Worlds
11%The Biggest Dissapointment in Cinema History.
40%Okay, Tom IS a Freak, But...
20%Wow that was...gay.
11%War Of The Remakes
41%"It's not a war - it's an extermination."
30%Could have been the Greatest
31%Pretty cool...
31%from Wow! to what?
2Great potential, but fell far too short.
40%Cool
50%This movie will scare your socks off!
21%Not worth the purchase or a rental, watch it on HBO
20%Great special effects, good remake, not Tom's best performance
10%Very poor
20%It's the End of the World As We Know It
51%engrossing remake
40%Surprisingly good
41%Will humanity survive?
30%Enjoyable Film
10%Spielberg Should Stop Making Movies
11%A Spectacle-ular Waste of Time
10%One of the worst movies I have seen.
41%Impressive sci-fi/action/horror film
40%Surprisingly good movie.
10%Useless on a laptop
31%H.G. Wells, where are you?
41%ET, go home!
31%Good and bad
40%"WAR OF THE WORLDS" HAS A VISCERAL - IN YOUR FACE REALNESS THAT RAISES THE BAR AGAIN
31%Well...
10%Dissapointment
21%Great special effects -- thin on story = mediocre movie.
5Cruise meets his match ...
10%Could It Get Any Worse???
40%A great, underrated film! Gets better with each viewing!
30%The Original is Much Better
51%Will Scare The Daylights Out Of You!
40%The Hoard Cometh.
11%Spielberg the dream killer
51%Captivating. A Speilberg masterpeice
30%pretty good
11%Shame on you Hollywood (once again)!
21%Obnoxious kids are much scarier than aliens!
21%"The littlest things on God's green earth."
31%This was just so-so.
41%War of the Worlds : 2005
11%Stick with the original version
31%An update on the original with lots of technique but little brain power
11%Not horrible, but certainly not good either
41%O. K.
41%Near Miss but Worthwhile
31%War of the special effects
31%Interesting but could have been better
11%Simply Dreadful - Poor Acting, Poor Direction... Thank Goodness for the Visual Effects Team
40%The worlds are at war ..... again
31%Speilburg - just can't bring himself to make a great movie.
10%i didnt like it
41%NOMINATED FOR BEST 'EDITING' - 'MIXING' & 'SPECIAL EFFECTS' + A VISCERAL ALLEGORY FOR VIEWERS
11%i would have given it 0 stars
40%Special effects well done!
11%Don't waste your time
31%Great Rental option...
50%One of the greatest re-made movies in a long time.
41%Good retelling of the classic tale
11%Almost as good as Battlefield Earth
21%Beautiful to look at, empty of character
20%And then this happened and then that happened and then...
4Not half bad, but not brilliant
11%Awful!
31%Great Potential but Plot / Character Issues
50%War of the Worlds
40%Good movie
11%People act stupid and so do the aliens
51%Action Packed Scifi Thriller!
51%War of The Worlds - an incredible Dark Film
21%Yawner effort from some of Hollywood's best
21%Starts of well, then kind of fizzles
11%Needs a story line
50%Awesome
31%It's so so ok
21%what a DUD...
40%Class Presentation
41%War of The Worlds - I had my doubts
30%cool special effects
10%Wooden Acting
21%Some very good special effects
51%Movie Genius
31%War of the Words
41%A small movie with a lot of effects
41%An Understanding of Wells' Novel Helps
10%Spielberg Lays Another Egg
10%Worst movie i've ever seen..this was bad..very bad
10%the most stupid movie I have ever seen
51%War of the Worlds
51%Don't know why some people didn't like it...
10%I agree with the bad reviews
51%Great Entertainment
10%Another example of when good movies are needlessly re-made for box-office success and not substance or originality.
50%Flawless (except for one big logical error)
41%"It's an extermination."
10%One of the WORST movies ever
10%The people I watched it with liked it.
20%War of the Worlds - A Comparison
51%War of the Worlds
21%Disappointing
10%Exploitive cash cow movie. An embarrassment to all involved.
10%Simply awful .... a croad of lap
11%Poor Remake and Tom Cruise is not a good Sci Fi Actor
21%The special effects are believable the plot is not
40%Recasting the New Jersey Martians
40%Very spectacular
10%Completely missed the point.
3Great Action, Science Fantasy
10%This movie is so bad...
51%"This machine....it crawled out of the ground and started torching EVERYTHING!"
50%Great
40%Best of Wells and Spielberg Mixed Together
11%Big dissapointment.
20%Truly a Waste
20%Just read the H.G. Wells novel
21%Too many poorly done remakes fomr Hollywood and this is no exception!
20%Not Spielberg's Best - Not Even Close
30%just o.k.
20%Horrible acting
10%BIG disappointment!
51%Forget the 1952 version for now
51%You cant beat the story line and special effects!!!
41%True to the Original
51%It rocked . . .
10%Stink-o
21%Lots of Special Effects, little meaning or plot
10%Shabby Human Characters - Scary Good Special Effect Aliens
41%Good special effects film.
31%Great Special Effects Poor Story and Ending
41%Exciting, modern rendition of the original story
41%Entertainment!
30%So-so
20%Could have been...
10%Wow, what a waste.
51%Entertaining!
41%H.G. WELLS LIVES!
10%Terrible! Something unexpected from Spielberg.
11%One of the worst movies I've ever seen
51%Great film, great actors, great director, great soundtrack, GREAT!
30%One big tension build-up without the finish
41%Good old-fashioned sci-fi
51%Great Film
11%Unnecessary, unentertaining gory
41%Much, much better than I had any reason to expect
41%---Riveting---
10%I Can't Believe The Good Reviews!
41%Not what I expected -- better.
50%Deserve to watch!!!!
40%War of the Worlds
41%Really really good but the ending was a a little too quick
10%Disappointing
41%War of the Worlds - Review
5beaus review
20%Ah, the screaming sent me screaming out the door.
20%it's not what i expected!!!
30%Good movie about a frightening event
31%50% Greatness, 40% Formula, 10% Cop-Out
30%Great action as expected, nothing much more
10%See the 1953 version of "War Of The Worlds" instead.
10%A waste of my time and yours!
50%Overwhelmed to watch this moive
41%Spielberg mashes up everything in sight
30%Just because it's a classic doesn't mean it couldn't use an update
30%Wait to buy
20%Eye Candy on Shakey Legs
10%I want my time back.
51%The ending is what happens in the book!
50%A great dark film!
20%Bad DVD Video Quality for a film like this.
30%Disappointing.
30%Not great, but worth seeing?
51%THIS is how you make an invasion from space movie
50%Awesome Movie
31%The Greatest SCI-FI Movie Ever....Nearly!
10%Good Movie, Lame DVD Bonuses are a Rip-Off!
21%The trend in "devoid of new ideas" Hollywood continues.
11%Horrid movie, mangles the book and isn't good even on its own merit
4It's a great movie...until the last 10 minutes!
51%A different kind of "E.T."
20%Special affects will only go so far.
11%Doesn't make sense
21%Big Disappointment
20%Not so good
20%Just like the 1950's version...
10%can somebody PLEASE explain the whole thing to me!!!
50%Awesome action/sci-fi flick
21%Spielberg's Worst
11%Schizo Movie
40%Aliens Invade the Earth
50%Awesome movie!
21%Glad I waited to rent the DVD
51%Did not see the original !!!
21%Lots of Hype but Little Substance
51%this movie is good
10%Worst film Ive seen in years
10%A disappointing movie with a stupid ending
11%Don't waste your time and money on this loser
21%Don't waste your money buying this movie!
51%Give this movie a break people
51%Fantastic blockbuster that is as good as the original
21%Cruisin' on
11%Major Dud
10%Dakota fanny
40%What's the capital of Australia?
40%mostly entertaining
20%Rent dont buy
40%This movie succeeds where "Signs" failed.
50%"This Is An Extermination..."
11%Stupidest movie of the year...
30%Remake, nothing new
31%Spielberg Phones One In
11%Boring and worst Spielberg movie yet!
21%Too much special effects; too little screenplay or plot
31%entertaining, but bittersweet...
50%Very Scary Movie!
30%Si Fi Porn
10%Unsettling
50%Not just a "remake!"
40%Exciting, Apocalyptic SFX-fest
40%If E.T. Would Have Been A Psycho-Mass Serial Killer !!!
30%If you are not too critical, it's worth a watch.
11%I wish.....
21%The War of the Worlds (2005)
31%Just Another Invasion
30%Passable but no more.
30%Special Effects rule the day.....................
50%A LOT HAS BEEN SAID - SO
31%Well I guess it's worth watching
31%Oh, stop it!
3A Fun Sci-Fi Monster Movie, but Lacking Thematically.
21%Plot holes big enough to walk Alien Ships Through
40%Steven Spielberg, How I Love and Loathe Thee...
11%Pathetic
31%Solid SciFi Thrills
21%Special Effects Top Notch, But It Ends There
31%Shut That Little Girl Up
40%They are all ready here
40%Good, exciting movie
21%Good Special Effects - Maudlin Story
21%Too much Cruise
50%Great Sound!!
21%Dakota Fanning sure has a pair of lungs...
50%Good Tom Cruise Movie
21%Nothing Ventured,Nothing Gained 2 1/2 average at best
11%Psychotic melodrama
11%EXECRABLE
50%LOVED IT!
30%not quite what i expected, but still pretty good
11%terrible
11%a real stinker...
50%Entertaining....Intense!
21%Poor ending that left you feeling like Jurrasaic Park
31%The problem is the original WOTW had so much CLASS
11%Not War of the Worlds
11%What's The First Thing You Would Do?
10%War of the Worlds flop
31%Purely Special Effects
50%Haven't seen such a superb action/drama movie in a long time
10%What is it about? A horrible mish-mash!
40%War of the Worlds: The Toll of a Billion Deaths
30%Is Something Missing?
20%Hollywood Drizzle
40%It's big and it's bold!
21%What A Letdown!!!
4Spielberg Could Have Done Better
10%:( pooh
4Enjoyable and meaningful
51%Way to go Spielberg!!
50%really good
31%War of the Worlds VS War of the Worlds VS War of the Worlds
30%ENGROSSING... but the build up was for not...
51%Cool, Scary, Great!
5Lets Get Disintegrated!
10%Highly Overrated!
40%Fair production of the Martian invasion
51%This Is Why Movies Are Made
21%Much as I hate to say it
40%Plot holes and continuity issues aside this is a sci-fi great
50%H.G. Wells still rocks.
20%Not What I Expected
40%Wonderful tribute to the novel and to both Pal's movie and Welles' radio show
51%This Is A Friggin SCARRY Movie!
21%Dreamworks does it again.
41%Still better than most garbage these days...
11%Awful, awful, awful....
41%One of the best novel adaptations I have seen in a while
11%Possibly the Worst Movie Ever Made
40%Scary
10%OH SO CRAPPY
11%Tripods?
30%O man....O man.......What can I say
11%Bore of the Worlds or How I Wished the Aliens Had Won Just To Shut Up Cruise's Kids.
11%What?
20%Dysfunctional Family Flim
41%Riveting Remake
50%different from first
50%Excellent Treatment of the Classic. Far better than Pal's Version
21%LAME!
11%Almost as bad as Eyes wide shut........
11%What a Mess
11%No story
31%Frustratingly disappointing
40%Great Action, but Speilberg Feel Short
30%Get out of the basement Tom, your movie just got boring
21%Steven are you high???
40%Edge of the seat thriller keeps the chills coming
21%the radio play was better and it's ~70 years old
30%decent special FX, bad acting, uninspired premise
21%If you have a brain, this film won't interest you ...
51%Impressed
20%See Gene Barry's version!
40%Fun movie
40%Nice remake of an old classic.
31%Two species. Too dumb to survive!
40%near return to form, by a once genre defining scifi director
41%CRUISIN FOR A BRUISIN
31%Mindless Escape!
51%Big Budget Effects and a Stellar Cast!
30%so-so
21%no sale.
11%Best with the sound turned off
20%Good special effects but irritating movie
31%Family Feud Meets the Martians
11%Terribly Disappointing
50%War of the Worlds 2005 - A Sensory Experience
11%waste of time
50%Great Movie!
20%Technically brilliant, but unsuccessful on all other fronts
31%Less than the sum of its parts
40%Wow!
20%good effects popcorn sci-fi on a grainy DVD
40%Much Better than Expected
20%Extremely Disappointed
50%Great movie with a lot of excitement
10%Wait for this DVD to Drop to 5 bucks or less!
10%is there any other movie could be this bad?
50%Great Movie, Terrible DVD
40%War of the Critics
10%You gotta be kidding...
10%one of the stupidest movies ever seen
5This is an underrated close encounter of the best kind
11%Shut up, Dakota! And someone thump that brother!
50%Another Classic Spielberg!!!!!!!!
11%Screamingly awful !
11%I'll be honest
40%Great movie
11%Energizer Bunny Killed By Top Gun
50%Fantastic DVD
10%0 STAR
50%Saving Our Nation
40%Intense enjoyable sci-fi movie from Spielberg
21%Big, Loud, Boring, and Stupid....
11%One star for special effects...
21%Sadly Disappointing -- Original is Better.
41%A haunting nightmare
11%What a Dissapointment!!
50%Great- but Speilberg just HAD to add the kid again.....
21%Tom Cruise's Worst Film...
20%Was Spielberg smoking crack...
40%EXCITING FILM, BUT WITH SLOW PARTS AND LAPSES IN COMMON SENSE
30%epic proportions
40%Average Joe - Tom Cruise??? Right
11%Worst Remake I have seen
11%Spielberg, what happened?
10%I just do not understaned.
20%Mediocre and contrived! Cruise is BORING!
51%Spielberg and aliens.... nothing better!
30%Mankind: Space Aliens: Microorganisms: war of these worlds
30%Not one of Speilberg's Best
21%Proof that good special effects cannot save a movie
11%boggles the mindless .......
41%Reason to Recall the Impact of H.G. Well's Apocalyptic Book
41%Pretty Good Movie
40%A 'war' that's worth viewing.
10%Family drama with some aliens in the background
30%Great movie, but sorely lacking.
41%Hard to Nail a Known Classic and Satisfy Everybody
21%And the point was?
11%I don't know what DVD you who liked this were watching, but...
2Not so good..
41%The man behind Jurassic Park is back...sort of
40%An Embarassment of Riches!
20%Sickening nightmare with no redeeming value
40%Great film, but a bit to intense for PG-13
51%Action, Suspense, Thrills, Depth...what more could you want?
40%awsome movie wish they wouldnt of made a 2 disc
40%War of the Worlds is WOW
3DISSAPOINTING
31%Great production, but the script and acting bring it down
41%Visually Amazing All the Way, Except the Weak Ending.
20%Good CGI, so it gets 2 stars
30%Do Not Waste your Time
51%Hopeless
10%Just Awful!
50%WAR OF THE WORLDS ...
31%Spielberg's Version of H.G. Wells Classic Story
41%Great movie for all intense purposes!!!
11%no words to describe how bad this movie is
31%It Has Its Problems, But It Gets Away With Them With Awesome Visuals
10%Tom Cruise at his worst.
10%Boring script and bad acting
11%Tom Cruise in a film with something else happening around him...
30%Less Is More
51%Stunning
31%Effects fail to carry the day
11%Impressive!
11%What do you get with $135 million dollars? This Movie
51%Great Movie
40%A great film but could have better better
51%Brilliant DVD!!
40%Great
51%Hell Yeah!
50%Excellent Film
50%A Great Sci-Fi Masterpiece...Spielberg and Cruise Deliver...
3Another Spielberg failure made only to generate revenue...
21%This May Be A Spoiler, But You Definitely Must Read This
50%"A VERY FRIGHTENING 2005 VERSION OF THE CLASSIC MARTIAN INVASION....THIS IS SCIENCE FICTION AT ITS BEST!"
30%Not bad at all
30%Nothing I'd see twice... but entertaining!
4Entertaining movie...
50%Excellent movie, few mistakes more than made up for
40%Good not great
31%War of the Worlds, Not As Impressive As Its Title Implies
21%Didn't I see this already
11%Too much talking, not enough aliens!
21%Pointless
11%Bad Bad stupid Movie. Almost laughable
21%War of the Worlds
40%Great movie from a great classic story
50%Speilberg at his BEST!
10%I JUST DO NOT BELIEVE THIS!
31%great effects, crappy story
50%Truly terrifying. . .
4Ride the Lightning
11%Horrible!
40%Gripping for Children, Annoying for Adults
11%This movie is frickin' horrible
11%Hollywood throw up.
31%As "Mr. Spock" would say ... "ILLOGICAL"
20%IS SOOOO OVERPRICED!!!!!!!!
50%Best Movie I've Seen Tis Year
50%SPIELBERG AT HIS BEST (ALMOST)
11%TAKE TWO PILLS, I DON'T CARE WHAT TOM SAYS!
50%The Bestest Movie of the year
21%This movie was boring
50%A masterpiece
11%Disappointment!
31%Good, But Not Good Enough.
50%War of the Worlds
21%Not the War of the Worlds
51%Better than Independance Day
50%Sci Fi Thriller to the Max
20%Okaaaay! for Speilberg flick
30%Latest in a long line?
30%Meh,mmmmmmmmmmmmm its alright
41%Cut the ending some slack
50%Hey kramer , you don't anything about ths movie!
41%Beautiful Destruction!
41%War of the Worlds
41%Faithful yet disturbing
41%Scared the heck out of me
50%Excellent Movie
21%Ridiculous, Even for Sci-Fi
51%A terrifying, tense and entertaining remake....
31%great film dispite plot holes.
40%fascinating adaption!
40%Someone Else Thought of it First . . .
50%Brilliant, intense, and all kinds of other really cool stuff that can be said!
31%One Questionable Deviation; Otherwise Great Job
41%War of the Worlds
10%How Illiterate Has this Nation Become
50%A study in powerlessness and terror
40%Don't See Spielberg's "War of the World's" Alone
10%after a century goes bye and spielberg couldn't of done better
10%HAD high expectations...
20%Discouraging
10%I can't believe so many people LIKED this movie
10%Not all the hype made it to be
41%A great modern Sci-fi film.
30%Spoiler ahead, don't read this if you haven't seen the movie
40%"Suspenseful"
41%Different
31%Not very good for all its hype
3 The War of the 3,5 Stars on the Earth
40%buen remake
20%What happened here?
50%Spielberg's version up there with the 1953 classic.
10%This isn't the Spielberg we know
10%This movie was junk!
40%A must see this year!!
21%I dont know what movie YOU were watching, but.......
21%One Of The Biggest Disappointments Of 2005
10%A huge disapointment
4Good and Scary
41%7.
50%It's all about action!!
40%My wife and I disagree.
31%Tom Cruise, Some Special Effects and More Tom Cruise
51%Amazing...
10%What the [...] is this [...]!
51%A Few Items
50%Steven Spielberg has done it again
30%What's All the Hype ???
41%Spieldbergs a BEAST
51%Way underated
50%AWESOME!
10%Feed the Martians
30%Steven Spielberg's vision of War Of The Worlds......
51%What a movie . . . !!!!
50%All we are is Dust in the Wind
50%One of he best movies of 2005
50%A great movie
41%A Big Surprise
10%War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise
40%Cruise helps to carry a great movie
20%Light Years Away from Being a Good Movie
41%Another "Worlds"
51%This is why movies were invented!
50%Tension, Tension, and More Tension
50%Well worth admission price
20%Great Special Effects, But...
50%War of the Worlds is wonderful! The 3 W's!
20%pretty SFX but not much else
11%In short...
50%there are no words to describe this unbelievable movie...
21%Flawed aliens, flawed humans, flawed plot...
21%The Sound and the Fury, Signifying Nothing
21%Special effects nothing more...
31%Shut up "Dakota Fanning"
50%Riveting. 88 out of 100.
31%The earth opened up...
40%A New Visual Nightmare
31%Mixed Feelings ...
10%bore of the worlds
51%Fine Cinematic Adaptation of H. G. Wells's Novel
50%pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller
50%Great sci-fi movie
11%Such A Disappointment
40%War of the worlds
21%More Hollywood filmmaking. Yawn.
31%Steven Spielberg At His Average
50%5 stars! Big time!
51%I was delighted
21%Brings back feelings of September 11th
40%Day after Tomorrow, with aliens not the weather
51%The Worlds go to War again
40%question
11%just goes to show you......
40%Better Than Expected
31%A Somwhat Flawed Version of the Wells Classic
21%Forgettable
40%Pretty close to the original novel
41%Pleasantly surprised, but the ending could have been stronger
40%Great Overall Summer Movie
50%War of the worlds
31%An Ernest Attempt at Melodrama...
41%a chilling 21st century update to the 19th century visionary novel
31%Hokey, Cheesy Summer Flick
31%Flawed summer 'thriller'
31%ACTION MAN
20%Lacks Plot but reflects the Horrors of the Holocaust.
5The movie is great
31%"Vast, cool, and unsympathetic..."
51%AN ALIEN INVASION MASTERPIECE...
31%War of the Worlds
5TRULY A MASTERPIECE
21%One Big Special Effect
50%how this movie rocks
51% A great thrill ride even if a bit overblown.
21%No Science in Science Fiction
31%Of course it's not a bad movie...
50%War of the Worlds is a mirror-identity masterpiece
21%war of the idiots!
4Flawless Fun Alien Flick
21%Hmmm
10%The worst
41%I loved it despite the bad ending.
50%Awesome Spielberg Work!
11%forced to give it one star
51%Great Movie
10%Spielberg, You're Better Than This.
41%An excellent updating of George Pal's film
51%Spielberg's WOTW raises the sci-fi bar several notches higher.
31%ordinary people with aliens
41%SFX and acting make this a good film, but not a great one
10%SOMEBODY PLAESE SHOOT THE HOG OF CRUISE.
41%See It Before All those Other Special EFX Movies Come Out...
31%Great packaging of a tale half told
41%Capture's Well's point to the letter.
31%Too much Tom Cruise.........no enough aliens.
31%A waste of what could have been a good movie.
4The spirit of HG Wells, with Modern Special Effects
21%Spectacularly underwhelming
51%Read the book...then complain!
11%"Brave, brave, brave, brave, Sir Robin!"
50%Think outside the box!!
51%WAR OF THE WORLDS BEST MOVIE OF SUMMER 2005
40%Pretty Good
11%War of the Words - Could have been so much better
40%War of the Worlds (2005)
11%Steven Spielberg goes berserk!
50%This movie is now my FAVORITE
41%"Hey, Rachel, wanna see something cool?"
50%One of Spielberg's Best
31%War of the Worst.....
40%Not bad, not great
31%War of can i borrow that.
41%The Martians invade, again
50%WAR OF THE WORLDS delievers on its promise and dazzles the senses
40%Not a bad effort
31%Tries to make a weak story seem interesting by adding good special effects
40%A True Classic
21%I'm Not The One To Call A Movie Horrible but....
3Piling On SFX, Editing Out the Irony
31%Entertaining for adults; nightmarish for kids
40%Good outweighs the bad
50%Almost flawless...
31%"War"-torn
21%It's The End of The "Worlds" As We Know It
41%War of the worlds : an excellent movie with some flaws
50%i saw this today and thought it was EXCELLENT
31%Tripods: 5 stars / Plot:: 1 star
21%Bore of the Worlds
31%Illogical and poor ending.
41%Culturally relevant fright-fest
40%Not bad afterall!
31%Sterling Effort but Falls Short
21%No panick will come out of it!
41%Not very profound, but very entertaining
50%A must-see Cruise film
21%Very dissapointed.
51%ONE OF THE SUMMERS BEST!!
51%An amazing movie
40%The Moose Hole - Independence Day Redux?
31%Impressive post-Schindler sci-fi hamstrung by thin plotting (includes spoilers)
50%A Tribute to Humanity
10%wtf did i just see?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
11%BEE ESS
50%Oh my god this movie is so good!!!
41%THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
20%BORE OF A WAR!!!!
41%An Sci-fi/Action flick! Nothing more, nothing less.
40%War of the Worlds
31%It wil be compared to ID4
11%A blantant INSULT to the viewers intelligence
11%Sorry Steven, you missed - you missed big!
50%A great modern day re-make!
45+ star movie suddenly ended.
11%Big disappointment!
11%The Spielburg-era is over.
51%Off the hook!
21%The original film was better.
50%Best Movie I've Seen In a Long Time
11%Substance?
31%War of duh Woilds: Steven, dear Steven, how could you?
40%Succeeds in intensity
50%Spectacular
11%Awful
21%a poor ending makes for a bad movie!
20%the ABSOLUTE WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
41%Good homage to both Wells' novel and Pal's movie!
51%Why are the aliens here? To harvest their crop -- of humans!.
41%Great cinematic entertainment, but the ending could use some work
50%TOM AND DAKOTA ARE AMAZING AND THIS IS A GREAT SCFI MOVIE!!!!!!
40%One of Spielberg's best films
31%Reaction: "Wow!...... do what now?
50%A great summer popcorn flick!
40%Flawed, but its strengths overcome its weaknesses
51%Great sci fi disaster movie
31%Spielbergo ruins what could have been
31%It's great until you start to think.
50%A fun movie.......one of this years best.
41%"Is it the terrorists?"
31%Visually Stunning, But The Contents Are Dismal and Empty
41%War of the Worlds has `meaner', `rougher' aliens
41%Summer Sizzler-It Just Keeps Going, and Going and Going
50%The best Alien invasion movie - Pure Horror!!
11%oh
31%Scary, great special effects, annoying characters, no lasting emotional impact
21%Lazy Film Making Taken to the Extreme
50%AWESOME Adaptation Of A Classic Novel (Which I Haven't Read).
51%Surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
21%Utterly disappointing...Spielberg can do better than this
10%Spielberg missteps in a post 9/11 world
21%War of the Worlds
10%Just Dreadful
40%Pleasant Surprise
11%Where's the war, and where's the world?
31%Another Overhyped Summer Blockbuster.But Watchable.
41%More Movie Magic From Spielberg
51%Saving Private Ryan Meets Close Encounters of the Third Kind
41%Less Flaws and more entertaining than the Average Summer Blockbuster
51%spielberg back in form
10%brain damage
31%Twisted, Hollywoodized, PC perversion of a timeless classic.
30%Warts Of The World
3There's nothing new about War Of The Worlds
30%up and down ride
50%A review from someone who has actually seen it (and liked it)
50%Way way better than expected!
50%Great remake but with a few reservations
3The more I think about it, the less I liked it.
11%Could have improved
30%War of the Worlds: Full of Sound & Fury
30%A surprising disappointment
50%Spielberg Revives A Timeless Sci-Fi Classic
3Good but could have been great
50%An instant classic!
30%Steven Spielberg's vision of War Of The Worlds......
31%"Oh come on!"
20%Made for Hollywood
41%Moments of Genius? Maybe Not, But Still Mind Over Matter
31%The Best Restaurant In Town
41%Balancing some misconceptions
41%"Get in the Car or You're Gonna Die!"
21%War of the silly...
30%Good but not great -
31%*yawn* For This We Endure Cruises Rants? NOT!
50%An outstanding masterpiece by Steven Spielberg!!!
10%Worst Movie I've see in many years
31%Getting it right ...and wrong
41%Even Better When Seen A Second Time
31%Probably not fair to compare with Orson Welles....
51%Terrrifying and Mesmerizing.
30%Where is the original War of the Worlds or something close
4It will take your breath away
20%The film just doesn't do it!
41%Great Summer Fun!
41%War of the Modern Worlds
20%YAWN
21%A few things to consider before the next war:
51%Disturbing in its Reality
41%Ending maybe contrived, but non-stop tension saves the movie!!
41%DISTURBING & TRUE to the text...MOSTLY
51%"When Worlds Collide!"
11%How Not to Make a Movie
41%Spielberg Spoilers!
20%Leaves a lot to desire
50%"The War Of The Worlds" is intriguing!
20%One star for Spielberg, One star for effects
51%Powerful moviegoing experience
41%Instead of Batman, I saw this...
51%Spielberg's Summer Blockbuster Is A Darn Good Film
51%Very surprising.
40%dang, what else do you want?
20%War
50%Wow... just larger than life!
51%Flavorable prelude to Tchikavoslky's "Mein en Fruese" (1923).
41%A Dark and Intense "War"
41%Excellent Special Effects Save A Movie With Little Substance
41%Spielberg Delivers As Usual, But Koepp Falls Short With The Script
51%5 Star Sci-Fi
31%Waterworld ver. 2.0
41%Strong Beginning Weak Finish
51%4.5, but it doesn't hurt to round
20%Movie missed the mark. Could have been a "classic".
20%Too much publicity
40%If Poseidon Adventure floats your boat and Towering Inferno lights your fire...
31%NOT AS GOOD AS THE 50s MOVIE.
51%The Best Movie I'll Never See Again
51%As real as thrills get in the movies.
10%Typical Spielberg Just Special Effects
41%Remember the "fiction" in Science Fiction
41%Better than I expected
30%Entertaining Summer Movie and nothing more...
30%What just happened? Where did 2 hours of my life go?
31%Fear, chaos, terror, paranoia - with an Oprah ending on top!
41%Fantastic Motion Picture....Not for Children
10%YAWN
21%Not what I was expecting...
50%best of aliens
31%We are not alone in the universe...
30%climax failed
4AIIIIIIIIE Watch out for that Heat Ray
10%So disappointingly BAD
41%Very Good, but Not as Great as I Expected
31%A little too Close of an Encounter
31%Hey, it's only a movie.
51%Don't Listen to the Naysayers - This is a Great Movie
30%Good popcorn movie, on a par with the original
30%War of the Cruzism
10%Whata heck?
41%Terrific special f/x brings sure terror
31%Spielberg submits to the Hollywood remake circus...
41%"Yep--Jurassic Park meets Independence Day!"
30%Great start, but a letdown at the end...
50%Spielberg's Not So Nice Aliens
50%It Wasn't A War It Was An Extermination
41%Another science fiction classic from Steven Spielberg
51%A deeply dark film that once again raises the question, "What if?"
31%Where is the motivation?
10%War of the Wor(l)ds
51%Great Special Effects and some suspense too!!
30%Good movie...but story could have been better
5Wells+Spielberg+EOW (End of World) = Awesome show!
31%Exceeded my VERY low expectations
21%Don't waste your money!
51%The best fun I ever had....watching people get vaporized
30%Visually Stunning, Yet Nostalgic Absence in H.G. Wells Adaptation...
31%Excellent in some ways, magnificently BAd in others
51%No freindly E.Ts here, this is seriously scary Spielberg
51%Spielberg puts us on the edge of an alien invasion
4Human beings do make GREAT fertilizer
20%Full of sound and fury ... (Where have I heard that before?)
51%It Ain't Dull!
50%Surprisingly "Original"
10%Can't come close to the originial.
41%Great movie, not so great ending.
41%Good for what it is: a popcorn flick.
10%Disappointing
50%Witty Dialogue with great chemistry
41%This movie should have been 5 stars...
10%REVIEW OF STEVEN SPIELBERG'S REMAKE OF WAR OF THE WORLDS BY JOHN CHUCKMAN
41%Lost in Spielberg's World
31%Excellent opening but gradually grows less and less compelling
40%Looks good but lacks originality
50%Looks great!
50%I am absolutley excited!
50%The War Of The Worlds
50%update of an h.g. wells classic
51%cool website with more info
40%A Little Pre-Movie History
3Can somebody inform me?
50%It will be great !!!
51%Gonna Be Great!
50%Saw them film the Movie. Looks Great!!!
50%Spielberg's War of the Worlds Opinion
50%Cant Wait to See this One
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