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THIS VERSION IS BETTER THAN SPIELBERGS!

posted 19 years ago by terrytom1894
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Tom Cruise = one dimension, boring acting, blah. C-
Spielberg = too glossy, too much popcorn, not any substance B
Script = one dimension, didn't follow the book, created unlikable characters, with uncaring goals. D
Effects = B+ (not an A because they spent too much money and I still saw the damn matte lines in some of the effects! They should have been perfect)

Overall = C+

C. Thomas Howell = Great character actor, lots of dimension, control. A-
Latt = Gritty, in your face storytelling. B+
Script = Compelling, great characters, moves along at a great pace. The ending works! B+
Effects = Some great, some not so great. B-

Overall = B+

Plus Latt spent a LOT LESS MONEY. Spielberg should be ashamed of himself for spending a quarter billion dollars (after marketing) with that money. Tsk, tsk.

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[–] Mad_Monkey 16 years ago

I wasn't crazy about Spielberg's version but this one sucked majorly!!

I hated every minute of this movie except the first scene where his wife is topless.

C. Tommy Howl was incredibly bad in this movie. Did anyone else notice how he looked at the camera while he was rolling around on the ground crying because he lost his wife's picture? This guy has been making films for quite a while, you'd think he'd know better than to look at the camera while acting.

[–] stumpmee77 15 years ago

Sorry, I rate this film among Speilberg's worst. Tripods is kept but is anything else in his adaption of HGW's classic? Too many needless changes & add-ons. Screaming kid--and she's a blonde screaming kid; anyone think about Gertie 1st meeting ET watching this? There is no lousy dad trying to get closer to his kids--or who in frustration throws peanut butter sandwich at a window. The fashion the end of it was put together awed me for its lack of detail. Devastation? Oh wait, there wasn't so much as a broken tree. Couldn't Stevie found anyone to play the part awarded to Cruise?

The "tripods" in Latt's movie sucked but I can put that aside as his WOTW captures the HWG's nameless central character, devastation left in the wake of the invasion from the time the badguys arrive to the end--and it had some religous person the guy's stuck in a confined space with.

[–] NataBrat 15 years ago

Were you drunk when you watched it???
This was the WORST movie in history!

I could not believe any director or script write would allow that priest to go on and on and on and on and on.... get my point.

When the movie first started, I made the comment of "Now WHY do they feel the need to throw some tits in this movie"...

after 15 minutes, I was begging for the tits to come back.

[–] Mad_Monkey 15 years ago

Were you drunk when you watched it???
When the movie first started, I made the comment of "Now WHY do they feel the need to throw some tits in this movie"...

after 15 minutes, I was begging for the tits to come back.

Hahahahahahaha!!

I totally agree!

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[–] SinisterCreep 15 years ago

This is just a cheap rip off of Wells book.

Journey To The Centre of the Earth 3D is a complete insult to Jules Verne!

[–] EricVierthaler92 15 years ago

who ever thinks this peace of *beep* movie is better then spielbergs 2005 version is a *beep* moron with a brain as the size of a baby's testicle!!

[–] zephyr-123 12 years ago

I wouldn't say it's better but the writing and dialogue were suprisingly good considering it's an Asylum film. I thought it was very well put together and certainly deserves a much higher rating than 3.3. At least a 6 or 6.5.

"You think you know, what you are, what's to come--You haven't even begun." BtVS

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