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War of the Worlds Superbowl Spot!

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Manabanana

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Dammit, I want more! That little girl is great, especially considering she's responding to CG. I'll never be a child star :(
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Well I've liked the last 10 movies Tom Cruise has done...so this will most likely be my cup of tea.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Very nice to finally see some footage from the actual movie done by Spielberg and the main crew.
 
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psycho_snake

I went to WAGs boutique and all I got was a sniff
When was the last time Cruise has made a bad film? man, that trailer is great, cant wait to see it.
 
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Mairu

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psycho_snake said:
When was the last time Cruise has made a bad film? man, that trailer is great, cant wait to see it.
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Mission Impossible 2

BUT seriously, I can't wait for this. Downloading now, thanks Manabanana for mirroring
 
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Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
Damn,cant wait....looks hot.
 
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Mike Works

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Tom Cruise is probably the only guy in the world that sometimes wishes he wasn't incredibly attractive, as way too many people consider him a popular actor just because of his looks. He's certainly used his looks to aid him in some movies, mainly his earlier ones, but he's just such a fucking good actor. That and his agent knows how to pick roles.

That was a fucked up teaser. I know teasers are supposed to be short, and superbowl commercials cost money, but that seems like it's part of a longer trailer and they just stopped it half or a quarter way through.

edit: And even though it completely contradicts what is said in the trailer, I'm going to predict that there won't be aliens, and it'll turn out to all be an elaborate ruse... by the government! To scare the public! And even though that makes no sense and has a 99.9% chance of being wrong, I am calling it!
 
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Flynn

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Mike Works said:
That was a fucked up teaser. I know teasers are supposed to be short, and superbowl commercials cost money, but that seems like it's part of a longer trailer and they just stopped it half or a quarter way through.
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There's an emerging philosophy for advertising, particular with movie studios, that their ad money is better spent on 15 second spots and using the enormous amounts of money they save and putting it toward web, print, billboard and other promotions.
 
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Mike Works

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Flynn said:
There's an emerging philosophy for advertising, particular with movie studios, that their ad money is better spent on 15 second spots and using the enormous amounts of money they save and putting it toward web, print, billboard and other promotions.
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Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with the amount of time they used on it, it's more along the lines of the way it was edited. It's sort of tough to explain, but the trailer kind of went like this:

The first 13 seconds are so are calm music, Tom Cruise acting a little strange, then comes the tagline that it will be the last war on earth, Cruise warns the guy that he will die if he doesn't get in the car, then the girl slowly turns around.

She suddenly scream/cries, the opera type music fires up, the bridge explodes, there's destruction everywhere, quick cuts of the minivan dodging fire, and.. that's it. It just felt weird, because they spent (comparitively) a lot of time setting things up with an unnerving calm, then it's suddenly chaos, which is normal for a trailer, but the chaos just kind of ended abruptly along with the commercial. I think it would've been wiser to cut out the footage of him looking for a car to use/steal, considering they had so little time to use.
 
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Scrow

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wasn't this meant to be set in the 50's or something?

and if this is a movie where tom cruise turns into some big shot hero who is soley responsible for the downfall of the aliens this movie will suck. i want to see the bad aliens win for once. i want to see a sad ending damn it.
 
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DaMan121

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edit: And even though it completely contradicts what is said in the trailer, I'm going to predict that there won't be aliens, and it'll turn out to all be an elaborate ruse... by the government! To scare the public! And even though that makes no sense and has a 99.9% chance of being wrong, I am calling it!
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Actually, concidering how the story originated, it makes perfect sense... Also, it would be rather apt in todays political climate. Although, dont know how they would stretch it over a trillogy.
 
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Mike Works

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Trilogy?! They're making this into a franchise??? I'd never heard that, do you have a link for it?

As for my theory, it just kind of hit me when I watched the bridge get destroyed in slow mo. It reminded me of a building getting demolished, what the with small blinks of bright light where the explosions occur (and the lack of, you know, aliens or ufos or anything).

But seriously, trilogy??
 
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8bit

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Is this even pretending to be based on HG Wells story, or have they just appropriated the title?
 
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DaMan121

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Havent really followed the production closely, but I remember the initial word was that they were going to do the whole book trilogy as seperate movies.. Dunno if they changed their minds, although they might not be following the books closely anyway.. Doing a search for it now.

As for my theory, it just kind of hit me when I watched the bridge get destroyed in slow mo. It reminded me of a building getting demolished, what the with small blinks of bright light where the explosions occur (and the lack of, you know, aliens or ufos or anything).
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Yeah, noticed that too.. But I think Speilberg knows not to give away the money shots too early. It will be interesting to see how it ends, hopefully it can satisfy both the shallow popy culture, and the 'geek' types ala Minority Report.
 
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8bit

Knows the Score
War of the Worlds by HG Wells is a single novel, split into two books.
Quite how that translates to three distinct parts I can't really imagine, but then I don't understand setting it in the USA during modern times so close after Independence Day.
 
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Saki

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Scrow said:
wasn't this meant to be set in the 50's or something?

and if this is a movie where tom cruise turns into some big shot hero who is soley responsible for the downfall of the aliens this movie will suck. i want to see the bad aliens win for once. i want to see a sad ending damn it.
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It ends like mars attacks and independance day ;P
 
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Mike Works

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Yeah, that's why I'm banking on my prediction probably being wrong, because it wouldn't make sense to give away what the aliens or their craft look like for a teaser. But I'm still calling it!!!
 
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Andy787

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That looked pretty fucking slick. Both Cruise and Spielberg have been on a roll with their recent stuff, as far as I'm concerned, so I'm definitely looking forward to this.
 
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DaMan121

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Your right.. I was thinking og the Tripods trilogy doh.. But the first reports of War of the Worlds were definetly mentioning it being a trilogy:

lazy google search: http://archives.gophercentral.com/index.php?op=news&id=4079 (scroll down a bit)

Edit: Oh, and my money is on Dakota Fanning being one of the very few child actresses that doesnt turn into a bumb / junky by the time they are 20, and still be in the business.. shes amazing... Hate to be her parents though.. wouldnt know if she was acting or not.
 
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COCKLES

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8bit said:
Is this even pretending to be based on HG Wells story, or have they just appropriated the title?
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I certainly don't like the way Steven Speilberg and Cruise are before the title, but no mention of H.G Wells. Show some respect Speilberg, espcially after Dreamworks fucked up The time Machine
 
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sefskillz

shitting in the alley outside your window
Doth Togo said:
Too bad they won't put it as a news broadcast and cause massive rioting again.
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When is the last time they did that? Mid 90s? I remember it being on a major news channel and everyone freaking out, but I haven't been able to google any decent info.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
H.G. Wells name isn't going to be very prominent in the title because they've reworked the story, it's not quite 2004 but it's closer to modern times than the book and the earlier movie(one of my favorites), based on a book by HG Wells is in the credits of the movie on the original trailer still at www.waroftheworlds.com. I'm VERY happy with what I've seen so far.
 
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jett

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Eh, that was kind of boring, they didn't show jacksquat. The original teaser was much better. :p
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
jett said:
Eh, that was kind of boring, they didn't show jacksquat. The original teaser was much better. :p
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Uh the teaser that spends 3/4s of our time looking at people coming out of their houses to look at flashing lights in the distance? Riiiight... at least in the new teaser some shit blows up.
 
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Manics

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DarienA said:
Uh the teaser that spends 3/4s of our time looking at people coming out of their houses to look at flashing lights in the distance? Riiiight... at least in the new teaser some shit blows up.
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I never saw the original teaser, but that trailer really didn't do much for me.
 
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