2005 Directed by Steven Spielberg
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Tom Cruise Dakota Fanning Miranda Otto Justin Chatwin Tim Robbins Rick Gonzalez Yul Vazquez Lenny Venito Lisa Ann Walter Ann Robinson Gene Barry David Alan Basche Roz Abrams Michael Brownlee Camillia Sanes Marlon Young John Eddins Peter Gerety David Harbour Miguel Antonio Ferrer January LaVoy Stephen Gevedon Julie White Marianne Ebert Rafael Sardina Amy Ryan Ed Vassallo Michael Arthur Danny Hoch Show All…
Matthew Gratzner Pablo Helman Jim Milton Christian Alzmann Jenn Emberly Randy Dutra Tim Harrington Ryan Church Sandra Scott Bridget Maria Goodman
Richard Hymns Randy Thom R.J. Kizer Andy Nelson Richard King Hamilton Sterling Addison Teague Piero Mura Michael W. Mitchell Anna Behlmer Aaron Glascock Craig Heath Michael Babcock Derek Casari
Samkarota omi, Rat svetova, Planetary War, 우주 전쟁, Война миров, 強戰世界
When 9/11 happened, I was in middle school. I was 13. When the first plane hit, I was just getting settled into second period. At about 9:15, the principal turned on the speaker and delivered the news. But we didn't hear about the planes, because at that point, there wasn't enough information to know about the planes in the first place. All we heard were the buzzwords: "Terrorists" "Attack" "Explosion" So the school was to be evacuated for safety precautions, of course.
It was one of the scariest moments of my life. I saw no explosions that day. I didn't see any death. I just saw the people in my life and strangers completely freaking out, and it wasn't until…
one of the medium's foremost masters of screen space has a panic attack, a full-blown psychotic breakdown when confronted with the post-9/11 horror and confusion and paranoia that comes with the realization that our space no longer feels safe. some of the straight up cleanest and scariest monster/disaster suspense sequences ever put to film. watched this on the new 4K blu-ray and felt like i was seeing a number of its gruesome images i've never been able to get out of my head for the first time again; the stylish shadows, light blooms, muted colors and grain textures all look incredible and only serve to heighten the ground-scale vaporizing, rivers of corpses and fertilized roots of human blood. someone should scare the shit out of spielberg again so we can get more movies like this and Munich.
so close to being “pretty good!” this was one of the first sci-fi horrors i was ever allowed to watch and as a 10 year old with a panic disorder i loved it — it really hit home to see a girl my age struggling with the same thing.
i do maintain that the first half is as good as i remember, but around the midpoint the story slows way tf down and it dissolves into some Casual Propaganda. clearly a post-9/11 piece and in a bad way — military portrayed as heroic good guys instead of the foot soldiers of oppression they are — no thank you! the national guard trucks were real and clearly loaned in exchange for…
Much of Spielberg's enduring power as an artist lies in his ability to create popular, powerful myths about the past, present and future of America that all in one way or another deal with World War II as the crucible that defines our identity and justifies our role as masters of the world. Here, in one of his best movies imo, he hauntingly channels virtually every disaster and atrocity of our two plus centuries from the Civil War to 9/11 and Iraq with even a little holocaust thrown in, to project all of it back onto the American homeland in this vivid nightmare of all the wars we've ever fought happening to us. What if America wasn't safe anymore? What…
steven spielberg: i guess i’ll do this alien movie now
john williams: i have to go as hard as possible in every scene or i’ll die
The first two-thirds are among Spielberg’s most effective works, and one of the scariest things anyone has made in the last 20 years. (It’s basically all of my anxieties condensed into 70 minutes — thanks Spielberg, I didn’t want to sleep tonight anyway.) The pace and intensity of absolutely nightmarish images seems unsustainable — and apparently it was, because the final act shifts to something that’s much less frightening and then much less bleak. Even if that material has its roots in H.G. Wells’ original story, it still doesn’t quite fit the magnificent freakout that precedes it.
Scary alien shit! This shit is awesome. Tom Cruise rocks it and Dakota Fanning rocks it. Camera is rocking it. John Williams score is good but not transcendent, and I just read he only had a few reels of the film to score bc it was turned around so quickly so that adds up; the most phenomenal parts about it might be where they decided to not have score, a lot of the terror plays out in hyper-real quiet. A lot of this death feels real and it is horrifying. So much so that Mike and I could only play one round of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2004) after watching before we had to turn it off bc it…
I guess Spielberg focused too much on capturing that chaotic end-of-the-world atmosphere that he forgot to present a cohesive narrative and likable characters.
Surprisingly dark and twisted so unlike your typical Steven Spielberg film and I love it! Spectacular Special Effects! As far as acting goes the young upstart Dakota Fanning stole the show!
I could have done without the whole bad dad, teenage angst thang but other than that I truly enjoyed the film and it has become my favorite film adaptation of H.G. Well's Novel!
An equal parts thrilling-and-terrifying masterpiece on the utter destruction of humanity from the sick genius Steven Spielberg
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"Steven Spielberg’s filmography is often so encompassing and ambitious that it tends to lose certain works in its wake. For every BFG or Ready Player One, films that offer his stylistic traits but tend to suffer from intrinsic elements of the source material, there’s a Lost World or The Post: movies that linger in the conversation simply by being a Spielberg movie, and in watching them, you’re perplexed as to why they’re so frequently ignored or lost in the shuffle. To be fair, in the grand scheme of things, anything lesser than Jaws, Close Encounters, E.T, Indiana Jones, Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan and all of his other smash pop culture phenomenon, would of course find trouble…
