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[harSon]

Hey Spielberg, I have a book idea called "Viruspocalypse" where a normal American family has to survive a post-apocalyptic world after a virus kills 95% of humanity.

I anxiously await your phone call.

Distilling a novel/film's plot to its most basic aspects is a pretty shitty way to judge its potential merits...

 

[Mike Works]

I can only communicate in high pitched screams

The fuck are you talking about, she had tons of lines.

War of the Worlds was awesome, and if Goku had stayed dead, it would've been even better.

 

[A Link to the Past]

This is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw the title

 

[MetalAlien]

His other movies lined up.

Blast-o-rama
Tit-a-saurus
Carpocalypse
Monster Movie
Drama
You will laugh
You will Cry
Explosions


I approve of simple movie titles.

 

[Furret]

A lot of it was quite good, yeah - it was sloppy as hell, but in a way that made it effectively nightmarish. But good GOD do the last ten minutes ever kill it.

I agree the whole film was sloppy but apart from being abrupt and the inexplicable return of the kid I don't remember the ending being particularly poor.

Unless you're complaining about how the aliens died, but what would be the point of making a War of the Worlds film where that wasn't the reason?

The moronic idea about the tripods already being buried (why? when?) was far more illogical.

 

[badcrumble]

That his son didn't die was only a part of what was awful about the ending. It got bad as soon as the film felt an obligatory need to have Cruise "beat" one of the tripods, and got worse when it showed the military kicking the crap out of the tripods (it should have just been terrestrial diseases doing it - the military should've been wiped out to a man, like in the original story), and got worse still when it turned out that a pair of octogenarians and a pregnant woman managed to survive because apparently the aliens didn't bother to attack Boston at all. That his son survived too is just the turd cherry on the shit sundae that is the end of the film.

 

[SolsticeZero]

I can only communicate in high pitched screams

She annoyed the fuck out of you, right? Guess what? That was her task. She was supposed to be a bratty little shit. It was to show how good of a dad the man really was. Any other father would have left that turd to rot in a fucking hole or some shit.

 

[Furret]

That his son didn't die was only a part of what was awful about the ending. It got bad as soon as the film felt an obligatory need to have Cruise "beat" one of the tripods, and got worse when it showed the military kicking the crap out of the tripods (it should have just been terrestrial diseases doing it - the military should've been wiped out to a man, like in the original story), and got worse still when it turned out that a pair of octogenarians and a pregnant woman managed to survive because apparently the aliens didn't bother to attack Boston at all. That his son survived too is just the turd cherry on the shit sundae that is the end of the film.

Well, I can't really argue with any of that but it's Spielberg, he couldn't make an unhappy ending if his life depended on it.

I don't think the military destroying the tripods once their shields were down was particularly problematic though. In the original novel the military destroys quite a few tripods before being wiped out - and so presumably would've mopped them up in a similar way to how it was portrayed in the film.

It's the burying the tripods in the ground hundreds of years earlier that boggles my mind. It may be the only alien invasion plot that rivals Signs for sheer inanity.

 

[Anerythristic]

War of the Worlds was pretty good. I don't like impenetrable shields though. Its ok for some of the aliens to die even in combat. They could still eradicate us with there ray guns.

Oh and I have no interest in a robot takeover movie Spielberg should do zombies, do World War Z even.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Something's gotta be done about that name.

 

[MYE]

War of the Worlds is a good movie.

that is all

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Well, I can't really argue with any of that but it's Spielberg, he couldn't make an unhappy ending if his life depended on it.
I don't think the military destroying the tripods once their shields were down was particularly problematic though. In the original novel the military destroys quite a few tripods before being wiped out - and so presumably would've mopped them up in a similar way to how it was portrayed in the film.

It's the burying the tripods in the ground hundreds of years earlier that boggles my mind. It may be the only alien invasion plot that rivals Signs for sheer inanity.

 

[Battersea Power Station]

Scullibundo is like Crispen Glover's antithesis.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Cloverfield was amazing, so I'm down.

:lol :lol

 

[jett]

War of the Worlds was awesome, and if Goku had stayed dead, it would've been even better.

:lol I hadn't realized that until now. Now that movie has become unwatchable.

 

[Mike Works]

War of the Worlds was pretty good. I don't like impenetrable shields though. Its ok for some of the aliens to die even in combat. They could still eradicate us with there ray guns.

I think you might have missed the point of the movie.

 

[Furret]

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/133c/133CwImages/pagedesign/MunichPoster.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Oq2lW3g5Qc8/THw0hv2sncI/AAAAAAAAEW0/m8-R5ze7_to/s1600/AIprogram.jpg

I haven't seen Munich but A.I. had a pathetically inappropriate happy ending.

And do you really have to make your points by posting giant pictures? Your spelling can't be that bad.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

I think you might have missed the point of the movie.

cough. cough.

 

[MisterAnderson]

I hadn't realized that Interstellar was canned :/

 

[jett]

I haven't seen Munich but A.I. had a pathetically inappropriate happy ending.

And do you really have to make your points by posting giant pictures? Your spelling can't be that bad.

Giant pictures? What do yo use your Wii to browse the web or something?

Here's A.I.'s ending:

Spoiler

Main character dies, his mother dies, the entirety of humanity is extinct.

happy happy joy joy indeed.

 

[StuBurns]

Munich is his best film, everyone should see it.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I haven't seen Munich but A.I. had a pathetically inappropriate happy ending.

And do you really have to make your points by posting giant pictures? Your spelling can't be that bad.

I always find it odd that people see the ending of A.I as happy. And go do yourself a favour and see Munich. Not only one of the best films of the last decade, but perhaps Spielberg's most mature film.

 

[MoFuzz]

I haven't seen Munich but A.I. had a pathetically inappropriate happy ending.

And do you really have to make your points by posting giant pictures? Your spelling can't be that bad.

A.I. ending was bittersweet at best. Let's not get carried away here.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

A.I.'s ending was depressing as fuck. Jett pretty much summed it up.

 

[GhaleonEB]

All I know is back when I gave a shit about how the Terminator's future war would be portrayed, Spielberg was at the top of my list of directors who I thought could pull it off after Cameron.

This story is close enough to make my balls swell.

Also, with WotW, Spielberg proved that he's one of the only ones that can make a truly terrifying huge budget PG13 flick.

WotW was great to experience, and annoying to think about because it made no sense; it was an intense, utterly empty movie. As long as the Spielberg who made that movie shows up here and the script is up to snuff, it will rock.

(Dakota Fanning was excellent in WotW.)

 

[SolsticeZero]

I hadn't realized that Interstellar was canned :/

Neither had I. Now I am extremely sad....

 

[Furret]

I always find it odd that people see the ending of A.I as happy. And go do yourself a favour and see Munich. Not only one of the best films of the last decade, but perhaps Spielberg's most mature film.

I don't know why I haven't seen Munich, it did look good.

I don't see how A.I. could be viewed as anything other a happy ending though. The whole last act was a ridiculously contrived effort to give David back his mother and let him have his "perfect day".

But once again we're getting away from the question of why and how the aliens in War of the Worlds buried their tripods before attacking.

From Nazis to paedophiles there's a defence force for absolutely everything on GAF and I'm fascinated to hear from someone that didn't think that plot point was pigshit stupid.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

I don't know why I haven't seen Munich, it did look good.

I don't see how A.I. could be viewed as anything other a happy ending though. The whole last act was a ridiculously contrived effort to give David back his mother and let him have his "perfect day".

But once again we're getting away from the question of why and how the aliens in War of the Worlds buried their tripods before attacking.

From Nazis to paedophiles there's a defence force for absolutely everything on GAF and I'm fascinated to hear from someone that didn't think that plot point was pigshit stupid.

The last, brief act was David finally recognising and coming to terms with mortality and getting past the unwillful ignorance of his everlasting hope to be with a mother that loved him.

But yes, see Munich asap.

 

[antonz]

Glad to hear all those other projects you confirmed working on got done there Steve. Still waiting on fucking Lincoln you dick :/

 

[Furret]

The last, brief act was David finally recognising and coming to terms with mortality and getting past the unwillful ignorance of his everlasting hope to be with a mother that loved him.

But yes, see Munich asap.

Was that in the novelisation or something because in the film he seemed to fall for all that hippy crap about his mother's life force hook, line and sinker.

If what you're saying is what Spielberg was trying to show the film was an even bigger failure than it appeared.

 

[Expendable.]

:lol :lol

:lol :lol

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Was that in the novelisation or something because in the film he seemed to fall for all that hippy crap about his mother's life force hook, line and sinker.

If what you're saying is what Spielberg was trying to show the film was an even bigger failure than it appeared.

Ignorance is bliss I guess. It was showed pretty clearly.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

:lol :lol

Cloverfield was awful, dude. Didn't really care for the characters in the movie.

 

[Furret]

Ignorance is bliss I guess. It was showed pretty clearly.

You're just seeing what you want to see, none of that happened or was even implied.

 

[WyndhamPrice]

Cloverfield was awful, dude. Didn't really care for the characters in the movie.

So you didn't feel like Rob was your main dude?

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

What made it worse was the neverending party in the beginning of the movie, and the shaky cam was like, take Paul Greengrass and times it by 100.

Only movie to ever make me feel sick.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

DON'T READ IF YOU DONT WANT A.I spoiled for you.

You're just seeing what you want to see, none of that happened or was even implied.

No, not at all.

DAVID
Maybe…maybe she will be special, maybe she will stay.

SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)
I thought this might be hard for you to understand. You were
created to be so young.

DAVID
Maybe the one day will be like that one day inside the
amphibicopter, maybe it will last forever.

NARRATOR
David had never had a birthday party, because David had
never been born. So they baked a cake, and lit some candles.

*Which - if you watch, he blows the candles out and we hold on his stare at the last, single candle.*

NARRATOR
By now indeed the windows were beginning to dim. David drew
the shades without even needing to be asked.

All this before David's mother dies - which he doesn't try to stop 'Should he shake her, she would never rouse'. Then he dies. Fun for everyone.

 

[Expendable.]

Cloverfield was awful, dude. Didn't really care for the characters in the movie.

I can see why someone would hate the characters, but every other thing in the film I loved. Disappointed Matt Reeves had to waste his time with Let Me In after

 

[Furret]

DON'T READ IF YOU DONT WANT A.I spoiled for you.




No, not at all.





All this before David's mother dies - which he doesn't try to stop 'Should he shake her, she would never rouse'. Then he dies. Fun for everyone.

None of that comes close to proving your point.

He knew he was going to die because he'd been told he only had one day with her and he now believed she loved him.

He believed everything he was told, whether it was from humans or robots, from the beginning to the end of the film.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

None of that comes close to proving your point.

He knew he was going to die because he'd been told he only had one day with her and he now believed she loved him.

He believed everything he was told, whether it was from humans or robots, from the beginning to the end of the film.

Yes, but he got passed his initial hope that maybe it would last an eternity - which is why they have his line about the everlasting day in the amphibicopter. 'Maybe she will be special'. He was still being ignorant, which is something he is shown to move on from given his actions at the end - before she dies.

How can you say it didn't even seem like it was implied? Any more than that and you'd lamenting Spielberg from bashing you over the head with the message. Does he need to spell it out for you?

 

[Dan]

...

Are there any details on this outside of it involving a robot uprising? So many of the superficial bits about this make it seem like a cheap joke.

 

[GDGF]

Oh my god the title :lol

 

[Huevos de Oro]

Will wait for Señor Spielbergo's version.

 

[wayward archer]

Sounds like a bad syfy original movie title.

 

[Expendable.]

Are there any details on this outside of it involving a robot uprising? So many of the superficial bits about this make it seem like a cheap joke.

The book doesn't come out until June 2011 so we can all read and laugh at it then.

 

[Karram]

War of the worlds was awesome. Looking forward to this movie.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Yeah the title is pretty terrible. That doesn't make me any less hyped for the potential of this film in Spielberg's hands though.

 

[jett]

That title is in such bad taste that I can't believe the author is anything other than a hack of the highest order.

 

[Lakitu]

Sounds pretty interesting, I'm glad he's returning to sci-fi:

Robopocalypse won’t be a hugely fantastical tale of the robot uprising, but aims to be more realistic. Wilson has a background in robotics and artificial intelligence which Doubleday Executive Editor and Vice President Jason Kaufman claims “grounds his story with a frightening level of realism and he has created an exhilarating story that we think audiences will really respond to.” Wilson has a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a contributing editor to “Popular Mechanics,” and hosted a show on the History Channel called “The Works.” So yeah, expect something a lot more realistic than Transformers or Terminator Salvation.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/22/steven-spielberg-robopocalypse/

I want to see this and his Lincoln biopic in the same year. I guess this is the next big thing next to Interstellar.

Oh, and Munich is his best film. That's right.

 

[Expendable.]

Oh, and Munich is his best film. That's right.

If it wasn't for that damn crosscutting sex scene, it would be up there.

...and wasn't Lincoln shelved? After Robert Redford's (very) mediocre The Conspirator I'd love to see Spielberg's take.