War of the Worlds - Is the reason the majority dislike this movie because...

the son surviving completely ruined the movie

Yeah the sappy ending sucked too... But even then it didn't ruin it too bad for me. Dakota Fanning's character did. I can understand that we are supposed to sympathize with Robby's wanting to fight back and all that shite, but it was awful hard when half the time I was hoping for Fanning to get fricking trampled by a mob or even for those detestable aliens to just zap her

But for shits and gigs re: Robby:

Why the frick did Robby just absolutely have to see the US military get its shite pushed in on that hill? What was Spieldberg's thought behind that? I mean I, as an audience member, saw all I really needed/cared to see with the jets and helicopters swooping in over the hill. I wasn't sitting there like "Yeah, Tom Cruise, I gotta see what's on the other side, I gotta see war even though I don't have a gun and have been nothing more than a punk arse all film." He was starting to kind of redeem himself and develop as a character with helping people on the ferry, and then all of a sudden he fricking disappears for the stupidest reason. It's like Spieldberg sat there sand said "Hmm... I guess it might be difficult to keep up this single father and two kids on the run routine, so i should lose one..." WHY NOT LOSE FANNING'S CHARACTER YOU DICK! Robby, Cruise, and Tim Robbins in that basement could've been fricking awesome. Instead we get the most awkward rendition of a beach boy's song ever

I thought the main reason was the stupid son walking over the hill of death and miraculously out of the blue not only surviving but beating Cruise home.

I also think the Cruise Haters are hard on the film.

I've always liked it right up until the last scene.

Heck, I would imagine most kids the age of Fanning would be non-stop shrieking until they were beaten senseless to shut up or given the Hawkeye chicken treatment for Mash fans.

I'm fine with most aspects of the movie.

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Male teenagers usually ruin any movie

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Or TV show.

To be honest, the ending for this film doesn't work whatsoever anymore. I think just about everyone knows that there could be viruses and bacteria on other planets that could kill us and that virus protection would be on the very top of our list when invading a planet. Seriously, next to food, water, and oxygen, I'd say virus protection would be the next most important thing. Its really as if the guys from Idiocracy somehow invaded a planet. The aliens are absolutely retarded.

I really like the movie and the point of view the story telling took. It predated and was the inpiration for films like Cloverfield if you look at it.

Follow characters. Learn what they learn.

Robby was horrible.


@ TigerMyth: Bacteria has to be everywhere. But yes we don't know everything about the aliens. They made an error. The reason doesn't matter. I could come up with a reasonable explanation though. The point is: Humanity survives and the movie stayed true to the original.

II think it's a good portrayal of the S hitting the F. I woulkd like to see more battles and less of Robbie miraculously surviving, but that doesn't kill the movie.

The viruses killing the aliens thing is straight from the book, and I like it. It alludes to the fact our species came up hard and we have benefitted from it. A few ST:TNG episodes explore this idea.

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TigerMyth: Bacteria has to be everywhere.

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Once again, as I said, you are viewing life as we see it. In other parts of the universe it simply may have evolved in ways we would find impossible.

I also have no problem with the Aliens from Signs coming to a planet so dangerous to them. Many people hate the movie because of that yet if we were the only planet they could get to and they needed new resources they would certainly brave our dangerous water planet.

The mechanic scene in the very beginning, after the initial tripod unearths, really soured the movie for me.