War of the World Teaser Trailer. Your Opinion?

[Knightfall]

So, based on the teaser, do you think this movie will be excellent or blow chunks?

For those that haven't seen it yet, here's the link.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/

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[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Oooh, I'm liking it. Though I really would like to see the ships.

 

[Andre La Roche]

Given Spielberg's recent penchant for saccharine endings, I find myself fearing that

Spoiler

instead of killing the aliens, Earth's bacteria will alter their brain chemistry and make them nice and friendly new allies of the human race!

 

[Wombat]

I dunno. I see the possibilities for both real good war scenes (Private Ryan) and overt schmaltz (most everything he directs). The trailer doesn't really catch me either way.

Guess I'll have to wait a couple months to see if anything more telling (or interesting) comes up. So far I am neutral-to-potentially-snoozing.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

My favorite bit in the trailer is when the principles's names are flashing by, and it just says "Cruise ... Spielberg". Men so big they have no need of first names!

Although, if it'd just said "Tom ... Steve" we would have known who they were talking about.

 

[KenM]

My problem with the trailer is the tag line "They have always been here". In the classic War of the Worlds story, they aliens come down and attack. It's the fact the alien's immune system does not work well on earth, and they all end up getting sick from earth born disese and dieing. If they have always been here, then if Spelberg is being faithful to the orginal story, they should have been killed off awhile ago.

 

[Allanon]

My problem with the trailer is the tag line "They have always been here". In the classic War of the Worlds story, they aliens come down and attack. It's the fact the alien's immune system does not work well on earth, and they all end up getting sick from earth born disese and dieing. If they have always been here, then if Spelberg is being faithful to the orginal story, they should have been killed off awhile ago.

The exact quote would be 'They're already here', which could just mean that they've already landed and are about to begin their assault. Or otherwise they're already in our solar system and about to attack. Then again this could just end up a costly multi million dollar hack-o'-movie in which the novel is completely disregarded in favor of K3WL battle scenes and (a) heroic HUMAN hero(es)... god I hope not, Independance Day made me cringe enough in that department.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

The trailer didn't do much for me. I'm going to wait until I see more on this one before I can form an opinion. I am disappointed that they are setting it in the present, instead of sticking to the time of the original novel. It could have been very powerful set in the time period in which it was written, IMHO.

 

[Umbran]

Trailers are incredibly unreliable sources of information. So, I'm not taking the trailer as anything indicative (positive or negative) about the quality of the movie.

In the classic War of the Worlds story, they aliens come down and attack. It's the fact the alien's immune system does not work well on earth, and they all end up getting sick from earth born disese and dieing. If they have always been here, then if Spelberg is being faithful to the orginal story, they should have been killed off awhile ago.

That's okay, because that ending is the thing that makes the original Wells story implausible in the extreme. Aside from the fact that most terrestrial microbes have problems crossing lines between earthly species, much less hopping across to infect something not on our evolutionary tree...

A species has technology to cross interpanetary (or interstellar) distances with enough forces to capture a planet, but they can't figure out to protect themselves from germs? In Wells' time, when little was known about space travel, that was excuseable. But not now.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Trailers are incredibly unreliable sources of information. So, I'm not taking the trailer as anything indicative (positive or negative) about the quality of the movie.

Point...

A species has technology to cross interpanetary (or interstellar) distances with enough forces to capture a planet, but they can't figure out to protect themselves from germs? In Wells' time, when little was known about space travel, that was excuseable. But not now.

...and Point.

That trailer lacked useful info, IMO, but that didn't bother me. As Umbran pointed out, most do. For some reason, however, I REALLY disliked the voice of the announcer. His diction was indistinct to my ear, or something.

Weird nit to pick, perhaps, but there you go.