07-13-2005, 04:46 PM
As I said in my post... it kinda frustrates me that people for some reason think this is like an original screenplay written a few years ago or something. If they had made the ending any different, I would have been pissed... as relinquish said, it would not separate it from other aliens attack movies, and it would cease to be War of the Worlds... they would need another title. It's kind of like a rock band... you can change round the non vocal guys, like drums and bass and guitarists (assuming he's not the lead vocal) and you can keep the band name the same... but you take out the lead vocals and the band is completely different. Same with the ending of this movie.
It makes me wonder... some of the excuses you'll hear about not knowing the original movie/book/broadcast ending is that it's before their time and therefore they shouldn't have known. I'm only 20, and I know this stuff... I remember being like 14, Paul McCartney was doing something at an awards show and my friend next to me was like "Who is that?" When I went nuts on him for not knowing and explaining he was from The Beatles he just shrugged it off as an old ass band that he doesn't need to know anything about. What made it worse was that another friend next to him hadn't heard of him either, and had barely known who The Beatles were. They were making it seem weird that anyone would know about them at all. I don't even like The Beatles... I thought the original War of the Worlds movie sucked... but come on young people! Ya'll have to know SOMETHING. Play some old trivia games if you must, at least to learn something. What's funny is that all of my current friends know plenty about pretty much pre-80's stuff as well and better than I do... yet I know all of the 80's and early 90's stuff, and I get frustrated when none of them have heard of the show Knightrider and I try to explain the joke in shows with talking cars and the theme music... GAH! But then Bob Dylan plays on the radio and I'm like "what's this crap?" and I get reamed.
Anyway, enough of my ranting... really think I'm just trying to kill time before work so I got a little keyboard crazy. Think I had a little too much coffee too.
It makes me wonder... some of the excuses you'll hear about not knowing the original movie/book/broadcast ending is that it's before their time and therefore they shouldn't have known. I'm only 20, and I know this stuff... I remember being like 14, Paul McCartney was doing something at an awards show and my friend next to me was like "Who is that?" When I went nuts on him for not knowing and explaining he was from The Beatles he just shrugged it off as an old ass band that he doesn't need to know anything about. What made it worse was that another friend next to him hadn't heard of him either, and had barely known who The Beatles were. They were making it seem weird that anyone would know about them at all. I don't even like The Beatles... I thought the original War of the Worlds movie sucked... but come on young people! Ya'll have to know SOMETHING. Play some old trivia games if you must, at least to learn something. What's funny is that all of my current friends know plenty about pretty much pre-80's stuff as well and better than I do... yet I know all of the 80's and early 90's stuff, and I get frustrated when none of them have heard of the show Knightrider and I try to explain the joke in shows with talking cars and the theme music... GAH! But then Bob Dylan plays on the radio and I'm like "what's this crap?" and I get reamed.
Anyway, enough of my ranting... really think I'm just trying to kill time before work so I got a little keyboard crazy. Think I had a little too much coffee too.