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WARNING MOVIE SPOILERS yaddayadda (quit reading now if you don't want to see spoilers) Might be some book spoilers (if you haven't read it, shame on you :-) )

Ok like I said in my non-spoiler entry I liked it. I liked that they kept the tripod shape of the walkers, as well as the general feel (cellar/soldier scene adapted, red plant, cages on the walkers, germs save us ending, etc). I was suprised they didn't have the aliens use toxic gas however. I thought about it, and I am glad they set it in the modern day; setting it in 19th century England would have been too distracting. The tension between Cruise and his "kids" was interesting. But there are a few things that bugged me: tended to drag a bit near the end (probably because of the frenetic pace of the earlier part of the movie); very end was too tidy, and why oh why would the aliens bother to bury their war machines? Why not just mow down whatever damn people were on the planet, instead of waiting? The only plausible explanation I could think of was they wanted us to develop our industrial base before taking over, thus the "flesh-eating death rays" that were obviously targeting people more than anything else. The movie aliens being so active kinda bugged me too (compared to the sluggish book aliens) but then again I have a hard time with aliens in general; they never look alien enough.

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  • Since this is the spoiler-filled JE, I guess I can comment on the ending.

    People are calling it cheesy, and I think they're sorta right. I have no problem with who lives, but I have a major problem with the fact that that little corner of Boston is completely untouched. It's the biggest city we see in the movie, and there's this whole little neighborhood where the aliens never bothered to look? Yet farmhouses in the middle of nowhere get searched thoroughly?

    Other than that, it was a great movie.

    • Well, if they had arrived to a burned-out building, with the corpses of his ex wife and family (and son) strewn about, it wouldn't have been a speilberg ending would it? :-)
      • I have no problem with everyone surviving, I just have a problem with their cozy little neighborhood looking like nothing had happened. At least show them alive but cowering in the basement below a destroyed house or something.
    • Untouched Boston
    • Why didn't people, in modern America, realize earlier the correlation of the storms and EMPs, and warn authorities just a bit earlier? It was all over the news, yet when it hit NY, no one seemed to know what to expect.
    • How is it that all the cars died with the 1st EMP, yet the truck with the repair miraculously is unscathed when another set of lightning strikes occurs right outside the house they hole up in?
    • Why are there never any traffic blockades from cars that were close to each o
    • I can answer a few of these :-)
      1. I dunno, maybe they were liberal aliens? Maybe they were too busy wrecking NYC and DC?
      2. I got the impression it happened so quickly and whacked communications so fast no one could communicate easily when they finally found out the real cause, especially with the aliens toasting everything in sight right after landing.
      3. When they were holed up in the house, the explosions they heard was caused by the plane crashing, not another alien coming down.
      4. Luckily everyone pulled

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