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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2370070" data-attributes="member: 22622">SPOILER ALERT THROUGHOUT:::What the heck was that?I"m reading the reviews and, in all honesty wondering what you guys saw.  It was horrible.  The special effects was great but STeven Spielberg dropped the ball.  The dialogue felt as if George LUcas was doing guest director parts.  I really am disappointed in Dakota.  She essentially whined, cried and made dumb decisions during half of the movie.  During the other half she was poised and smart.  The problem with that is it made an inconsistant character.  She's smart enough to watch the news, eat humas and give advice but she cries and whines during every other interval in the movie.  "Aliens are destroying the world" "I want my mommy" "An alien ship has discovered us""Let me run up the stairs right to where I last saw 20 to 30 of them. Then let me stand there completely still like an idiot so they can grab me.  As a matter of fact let me run in the forest, hide, wait for them to grab my daddy then go back to my daddy and let him know i was just playing"    The dialogue was corny and over the top.  Especially the scene where the son for some dumb reason wants to go up the hill.  Why does he want to go up the hill?  He doesn't havea  gun or weaponry?  Because he says he wants to "see". But the worst part about this movie.  There were SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO many inconsistencies.  Spoiler Alert : The movie started off great, even up until the tripods, then the idoitic inconsistencies happened. 0. A random police officer is able to tell to tell everyone that there is nothing underneath the street and everyone believes him.  1.  The man's camera worked but it was explained that nothing worked in the storm 2.  When they go to the other house, and the next morning happens everything is blown up.  Essentially a plane landed on the house.  The van is not only completely undamaged but in good working order.  HEy theres even a path/road created so they can get away. 3.  The van of endless gas.  Man I"m going to get one of those for my modern campaign.  It just kept going and going and going and going. 4.  The camera crews camara and electrical equipment worked great .   5.  The overzealous mob attacking the van.  It was just silly.  They are all heading toward a river and their killng each other over a car.  6.  A car lands on the family and all are in complete working order.  7.    The national guard did not move the vehilces off the ferry.  What idiot commander was in charge of this operation 8.  Everyone travels in packs in this movie.  Despite the fact that it seems the aliens always attack the packs.  And the cruise family alwaysgoes back to the pack 8a.  The burning train was a great scene.  Now how the heck the train was traveling without either derailing or exploding is beyond my knowledge of physics.  9.  Cruise kills an innocent man, because in the next scene they get caught anyway/??? 10.  Dakota runs up the stairs to the aliens.  Also no one set up any kind of watch.11.  The force field protects from bullets, missles, rockets, possibly even nukes, but there is nothing like a trusty axe 12  Why did hte aliens get out of the ship13  So they make it ot boston and find out everythings hunky dorry there.   Apparently the large 100s of alien pods didnt make it there. 14 Millions of years of planning and no one remembered to bring the Off!! Man.  Seriously these were the smartest dumbest aliens I"ve ever seen (and i saw Mars ATtack)  They are smart enough to know all the major cities in the world millions of years previously, they are smart enough to hide these monsterous weapons deep into the core,  They are smart enough to have weaponary that would destory beings that havnt even evolved yet, but they didn't bring ANY bio suits.  Even us humans are smart enough to do that. 15  How the heck did the boy survive?   Everyone on that hill was burned.  16.  NO explanation to answer any of the inconsistincies.  There was no payoff.  It was so bad that MOrgan Freeman opted out this movie and only wanted to do the voiceover.  The no explanation works in a movie like Signs (ten times better)because the movie is focused on one family and how the aliens effect theone family.  So in the end you want to know about the one family.  This movie introduced too much stuff for them just to end the movie as they did.  This movie had a lot of good idea, some of the best special effects of the summer but the plot, story and acting were horrid.</blockquote>

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