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[Matrix]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/theatrical_large.html


I cant f-ing wait!

This is the new Theatrical trailer,was just posted online now.

 

[olimario]

We got these in the other day. Fucking awesome.

 

[silver]

"You don't, you don't" sounded cheesy.

Overall, awesome trailer. But that music reminds me of TTT too much.

 

[teiresias]

AAAAAAAAAAMAZING!!!!!

Star Wars what?

 

[olimario]

Dakota was the best choice ever. Her screams in the old trailer send chills up my spine EVERY SINGLE TIME.

 

[Matrix]

"You don't, you don't" sounded cheesy.

Overall, awesome trailer. But that music reminds me of TTT too much.

That music was used in the trailers for Fellowship of the Ring I believe.

 

[Dead]

That music was used in the trailers for [insert movie name here] I believe.

That's more like it.

That's a pretty awesome trailer, but I liked the one before Ep III a bit more, regardless easily my most anticipated movie of the summer....

 

[Scrow]

i hope humans don't win this time...

 

[demon]

That music was used in the trailers for every movie from the past four years.

fixed

 

[ManaByte]

Uh, that music has only been used in two other trailers in the last five years.

It was last used in the INTERNET PREVIEW of Lord of the Rings from 2000. It's titled Gothic Power. It was also used in the very first theatrical LOTR teaser.

 

[Phoenix]

My frothing demand for this movie increases....

 

[Crow]

i hope humans don't win this time...

Nah, bacteria wins.

 

[ManaByte]

Nah, bacteria wins.

Uh, this isn't a remake...

 

[Scrow]

i'll be especially pissed if tom cruise flies to their mother ship and uploads a computer virus to the alien's mainframe which spells their doom.

but seriously, this better not be a movie where tom cruise becomes the hero who saves humanity or some shit. i just want to see a disaster movie that ends really badly for humans.

 

[Matrix]

Uh, that music has only been used in two other trailers in the last five years.

It was last used in the INTERNET PREVIEW of Lord of the Rings from 2000. It's titled Gothic Power. It was also used in the very first theatrical LOTR teaser.

I think it also might have been used in one of the Terminator 3 Trailers,I'm not 100% sure.

 

[J2 Cool]

Someone help me check out War of the Worlds.

I don't get it, but I recently updated my firefox to version 1.0.4. Anyway, so I got one of those green puzzle pieces saying, Click Here to download plug-in. I get the plug-in finder service then, and I get flash player 7 with the check in the box for download come up, under "the following plug-ins are available:". So I click next, and it says "Firefox finished installing the missing plug-ins:" and under that, Flash Player 7/Not Available/Manual Install. I choose manual install. The .exe comes up on my desktop. From there I install it and it says it did so successfully. The flash player's website comes up and all the successful stuff, etc.

Then, I use Firefox, go back to whatever site I was just at, and the green puzzle piece, missing plug-ins thing is there all over again. Not only that, but other plug-ins have the same problem. I tried to check out the new War of the Worlds quicktime, puzzle piece over where the quicktime should be! Also, it happens with java at other times as well. All of them the same way. Look for plug-in, install 'not available' or 'failed'. Manual install. Successful. Same problem exists in Firefox.

Has anyone had this problem before?? Oh, and I know IE should be a temporary solution.. but it's not, for it's own reasons.

 

[Crow]

Uh, this isn't a remake...

obviously

 

[pnjtony]

i hope humans don't win this time...

Spoiler

you may get your wish..I've heard it's not really that happy of an ending.

I can't remember exactly how it was worded where I read it, but that was what I took from the article.

 

[Timbuktu]

Won't it just have the same ending as the book?

 

[ManaByte]

Won't it just have the same ending as the book?

No.

 

[Akira]

The music brings back good memories of the LOTR days.

 

[Drozmight]

I want to know why they had to plan this for a million years.

 

[Mike Works]

Tom Cruise's son in this movie, who's virtually a no name actor, is my best friend's good friend. Every time the trailer comes up when we're at a movie he grits his teeth and mutters, "Good for him". It's very entertaining.

 

[mrklaw]

direct download anywhere (even small)? I can't access this at work for some reason.

 

[Simo]

Direct Link, Hi-Res version:
http://images.apple.com/movies/paramount/waroftheworlds/waroftheworlds-tlr4_m480.mov

 

[ToyMachine228]

Can't wait to see it. Even if it ends in the traditional way, at least it seems to be a movie worth seeing.

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

I must be the only person who isn't excited about this movie. The only thing that has me interested is that Spielberg directed it, and he always gets the benefit of the doubt. I'm sure this will be more realistic, gritty, and serious than Independence Day, but I still can't help but get the ID vibe from these trailers. Plus, we've seen the world destroyed a million times over the past few years in movies like this one. (Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, etc.) This doesn't look like it adds much new to the theme. At least from what I've seen so far. I'd like to be wrong, but right now, I've seen nothing to get me excited about War of the Worlds.

 

[themadcowtipper]

[M. Night Shyamalan]The aliens are not aliens at all but

Spoiler

humans from under the ground from the future

....[/M. Night Shyamalan]

 

[SteveMeister]

Incredibly (because it looked fantastic from the very beginning), it's looking better and better with every trailer that's been released. Can't wait.

 

[Crow]

[M. Night Shyamalan]The aliens are not aliens at all but

Spoiler

humans from under the ground from the future

....[/M. Night Shyamalan]

is this true, or a running joke? Someone else told me this very thing but I didn't believe them.

 

[Phoenix]

I want to know why they had to plan this for a million years.

Maybe in this story they aren't from Mars and it took them that long to get here.

 

[SteveMeister]

Maybe in this story they aren't from Mars and it took them that long to get here.

Or maybe it's just some yokel's guesstimate? Why would any human being know the exact length of time they'd been planning it?

 

[borghe]

on a related not, dakota fanning and my daughter look VERY similar.. just think that is always kind of funny. when she was younger (3ish) she saw the DVD case for Uptown Girls and asked why her picture was on there.

 

[Wendo]

I love that split second shot of the fighter jets flying overhead. That's always the fun of these movies- seeing the best of our military technology versus theirs.

 

[Phoenix]

Or maybe it's just some yokel's guesstimate? Why would any human being know the exact length of time they'd been planning it?

Because maybe in this story they aren't from Mars and it took them that long to get here.

:lol

 

[Nameless]

WOW....It looks like the human race takes a beating in that movie...There is only one who can save us.........

"Welcome to Earth"

 

[Wendo]

WOW....It looks like the human race takes a beating in that movie...There is only one who can save us.........

"Welcome to Earth"

He's helpless without his....APPLE POWERBOOK COMPUTER!

 

[SteveMeister]

He's helpless without his....APPLE POWERBOOK COMPUTER!

No, he's helpless without JEFF GOLDBLUM and HIS Apple PowerBook.

 

[ManaByte]

is this true, or a running joke? Someone else told me this very thing but I didn't believe them.

It's close.

They are aliens but

Spoiler

they are survivors from the original invasion (the one from the radio) who have adapted to our bacteria and have been living underground ever since.

 

[J2 Cool]

Fucking Yankee fan. I hope he dies.

 

[teiresias]

I was told

Spoiler

they are aliens not from another planet, but from another dimension, hence they travel here through the lightning.

 

[FoneBone]

It's close.

They are aliens but

Spoiler

they are survivors from the original invasion (the one from the radio) who have adapted to our bacteria and have been living underground ever since.

Yeah, when you explain to me how that doesn't contradict what the producers have said (because it does) I'll believe it. I call bullshit. (I am prepared to eat crow whenever the reviews appear, but I don't buy it.)

 

[ManaByte]

Yeah, when you explain to me how that doesn't contradict what the producers have said (because it does) I'll believe it. I call bullshit. (I am prepared to eat crow whenever the reviews appear, but I don't buy it.)

No, the producers just said the aliens in this movie weren't from Mars, and that is technically correct. They were very careful with their wording.

 

[demon]

It's close.

They are aliens but

Spoiler

they are survivors from the original invasion (the one from the radio) who have adapted to our bacteria and have been living underground ever since.

Spoiler

so....wait.......is this technically a sequel then?

 

[Dan]

Spoiler

How can there be survivors of an invasion that never happened? Oh crap, is there going to be a government conspiracy involved here? Damnit.

 

[ManaByte]

Spoiler

How can there be survivors of an invasion that never happened? Oh crap, is there going to be a government conspiracy involved here? Damnit.

Spoiler

The movie puts forth that the radio panic wasn't fake and there was a small invasion, but everyone thought it was fake. The reason why the tagline for the movie is "They're already here" is because it refers to them being underground.

 

[Dan]

Spoiler

The movie puts forth that the radio panic wasn't fake and there was a small invasion, but everyone thought it was fake. The reason why the tagline for the movie is "They're already here" is because it refers to them being underground.

Spoiler

Hmm. They're going to have to do some real explaining to convince me that these gigantic tripods actually invaded my hometown 70 years ago and that people were somehow convinced it never happened. I'll admit it's an interesting proposition, but I can imagine all kinds of inconsistencies involved in using a radio play believed by some to be real but was actually false but later found to actually be true.

I'll have to see how it plays out.

 

[Willco]

Because the world was completely different back then.

Spoiler

We didn't have instant messaging, television or any of that crap. I mean, people thought it was fucking REAL back then. People committed suicide over the '40s broadcast.

Did you seemingly forget that?

 

[Dan]

Spoiler

Spoiler

Because the world was completely different back then. We didn't have instant messaging, television or any of that crap. I mean, people thought it was fucking REAL back then. People committed suicide over the '40s broadcast. Did you seemingly forget that?

Much of that is urban legend or highly exaggerated. The government did a study and found 12 million people heard the broadcast and of those only 2 million thought it was real. Besides, if it were real, you think the people who lived there might have noticed or do these aliens erase memories too? Not to mention the needed government conspiracy to hide the effects of such an attack. You sure didn't hear of anyone being convinced there was an attack during the following days, weeks and years.

Also, let's not forget that the broadcast opened with a declaration that it was a radio dramatization.

It just seems rife with problems unless it's creating some kind of alternate history version of the broadcast and its circumstances, at least if you're concerned with such plot details.

 

[Father_Brain]

No, the producers just said the aliens in this movie weren't from Mars, and that is technically correct. They were very careful with their wording.

No, they said that current science makes Martians too implausible. Which would rule out them being originally from Mars, either.