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 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 4:42 AM   
 By:   Zooba   (Member)

What a bleak yet somewhat effective score. Wish there was at least a glimmer of a Love Theme however. The escape music was great but all the rest had little varience. I never bought it and don't think I will.

The film itself looked great, but Cruise was hardely sympathetic. What a waste of the ravishing Miranda Otto. Did she barely speak 3 lines? The visuals were very imaginative but I don't buy the Aliens not being able to find Cruise and Family in the basement. Tim Robbins was also wasted and probably at a big cost. Loved Morgan Freeman's credit right after "Background Casting". Well it seemed so.

Please share your thoughts. My sisters friend lent me her dvd copy and it wasn't a Special Edition. Was looking for a Williams featurette but nothing but a short Tripod design few minutes was on it. Somewhat dissappointing effort. Wonder if Dakota Fanning will mature into a fine actress or will she continue to be on the borderline over acting "I want to puke" plain?


Would love to see a scene where Cruise is on the basement sofa jumping up and down and proclaiming his love for Katie and then a Tripod just comes down hard and makes jelly of him.


Zoob

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 4:59 AM   
 By:   Michael Arlidge   (Member)

Tom Cruise movies frustrate the hell out of me. I think the guy is a wanker, but his movies are consistently entertaining. It's just a shame that I have to look at his mug while trying to not think of it/him and enjoy the film. As for WOTW, the score is an example of something that works in the film, but not on CD. In the latter context each action cue sounds the same, and it gets quite repetitive. However, watching the music documentary on the DVD gave me an idea of what was happening (for example a female choral voice accentuating some deaths on screen). I still think it is the weakest of Williams' 2005 scores, though. It was, however, a good idea to include Morgan Freeman's narration on the soundtrack CD.

Regarding Dakota Fanning, I can't see what all the fuss is about. Spielberg's oration about her on the DVD makes one believe that she's going to be one of our greatest child actors, and then progress to same in adulthood. Unfortunately, I'm of the opinion that she over-acts, and that quite frankly is easier to do than give a studies, and far more subtle performance (says he who failed drama, LOL!).

All of this is just my opinion, however, and doesn't necessarily reflect that of anyone else on the planet!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 1:41 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Here is the be-all, end-all thread on WAR OF THE WORLDS (a whopping 5 pages):

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.asp?threadID=28130&forumID=1

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 1:49 PM   
 By:   Paul MacLean   (Member)

Here's a better thread...

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.asp?threadID=28192&forumID=7


Paul

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:04 PM   
 By:   Alexcremers   (Member)

It's everything what's wrong with movies today.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:15 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Don't listen to Alex. It's a great film. Alex is wrong and I am right.

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:30 PM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

Don't listen to Alex. It's a great film. Alex is wrong and I am right.

Yes, you are.

I agree with you 1,000%, Thor!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:32 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Cool. Because you know my word is Gospel.

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:39 PM   
 By:   Bond1965   (Member)

I found this one of Speilberg's weakest films. Mainly because the script was so weak. There are plot holes galore and character motivations that make absolutely no sense. Also, there wasn't one sympathetic person in the entire film.

I wanted the aliens to kill Tom and his family.

Dakota Fanning is a marvelous little actress. Just see the unbearable I AM SAM to prove what I mean. That film was annoying and full of overacting and yet she was the ONLY good thing in it. She was also quite good in DREAMER last year.

While the effects were quite good, that isn't enough to hang a movie on.

James

By the way, the 2 disc DVD was better as the extras almost made the feature bearable.

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:39 PM   
 By:   Jeff Bond   (Member)

I like the film, Dakota Fanning in the film (although not in other movies I've seen her in), and Williams' score in the movie and on CD--I'd rather listen to WOTW than Memoirs of a Geisha. Probably the biggest problem with the CD is the lengthy "Escape from the Basket" cue which has some great moments but at 8 minutes or so is just too long for something that's mostly textural. Williams scoring of the Tripod reveal scene is brilliant though, and I love the way they go into the credits with the freeway flight music--angry, no-nonsense stuff.

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:42 PM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

Cool. Because you know my word is Gospel.

Over here in the U.S., gospels are pretty much open to interpretation by anyone espousing an agenda of one kind or another...often taken out of context.

Gosh! Just like stuff on the Internet!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:46 PM   
 By:   Alexcremers   (Member)

Don't listen to Alex. It's a great film. Alex is wrong and I am right.

I'm never wrong. You're just 20 years behind me.

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 2:56 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Sherrif Joe, I demand that you lock this thread and force further comments on WOTW to the previous threads underlined!

I refuse to repeat myself!

brm

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 3:04 PM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

Bruce:

LOL!

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   CindyLover   (Member)

Short and to the point:
Film - good.
Music - good (maybe too harsh for some, and works better in the film than on disc, but big themes wouldn't work in this one).
Dakota Fanning - excellent (the poster who said she overacts hasn't seen Maria Lark and to a lesser extent Sofia Vassilieva on Medium).

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 4:35 PM   
 By:   Jeff Bond   (Member)

...and the person who said this represents everything that's wrong with contemporary movies hasn't seen Ultraviolet...

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 5:59 PM   
 By:   zippy   (Member)

Sorry for you Jeff. frown

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 6:34 PM   
 By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member)

Short and to the point:
Film - good.
Music - good (maybe too harsh for some, and works better in the film than on disc, but big themes wouldn't work in this one).
Dakota Fanning - excellent (the poster who said she overacts hasn't seen Maria Lark and to a lesser extent Sofia Vassilieva on Medium).


I LOVE MARIA LARK as Bridget on "Medium". She is PHENOMENAL!

smile

I also think Fanning is wonderful

 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 8:49 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Bruce:

LOL!


Ron, do you realize that WOTW is probably the only thing we've ever agreed on?!

 
 
 Posted:   Apr 26, 2006 - 8:51 PM   
 By:   dashrr   (Member)

The movie was great...the intersection scene one of the best sequences in film...acting fine..one of the best films of 2005...got the 2 DVD set and watch it all the time...great fun and a lot better than the other garbage churned out in Hollywood.

 
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