War of the Worlds...

[Guest Vitamin X]

Biggest budget ever= Biggest disappointment ever.

 

Just wait and see.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

The original War of the Worlds movie is pretty great. Disintegration rays that look like shower heads'll always have a little place in my heart.

[Art Sandusky]

Keep the ships looking like the old film (except looking more refined via CGI, don't change how they look one bit) and I'm there.

[Richard]

Too bad they're not remaking Whore of the Worlds.

 

smutty, 3 February 2003

Author: illustriousgeorge from Pennsylvania

 

this movie was absolutely terrible. there was absolutely no redeeming value in it. i brought this film home for my children so i could show them the orson welles masterpiece and instead the video store had switched tapes on me. i hate them. a lot.

 

my children are in therapy. 10 minutes of yinny has completely broken down their innocence.

 

don't watch this film. it will ruin you. and your children.

[CBright7831]

Keep the ships looking like the old film (except looking more refined via CGI, don't change how they look one bit) and I'm there.

 

There are also brief glimpses of it on http://www.waroftheworldsfilm.com/

[TheBigSwigg]

Also, the problem I have with Spielberg's happy endings in recent movies (AI and Minority Report, mostly) is that they seem tacked on just to please some people. AI would have been a stellar film if not for the final 20 minutes, which ruined the ENTIRE flow of the movie.

 

Not to mention that AI was a Kubrick movie that he asked Speilberg to do. Kubrick probably had a much darker ending for it.

[Guest TheLastBoyscout]

The last Spielberg movie that I liked was 1941. The last Cruise movie that I liked was Risky Business.

 

I don't foresee this big budget debacle knocking either of those off their top-spot.

 

Survey says: nl5 will never see it.

1941?

 

So, you didn't like RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, but you DID like 1941?

 

You're fired from the band, dude.

[The Mandarin]

Many Sad/Angry/Depressing endings to hollywood films have been cut and/or modified after being screened for the movie studios because they are afraid the masses will trash an entire movie because they didn't walk out all gushy in happy. I know in Fatal Attraction, the original ending was Glen Close not being dead and I believe killing the wife. Pretty Woman featured Richard Gere DUMPING Julia Roberts after all that lovy dovy bullshit, because quite frankly it FIT with his character. I take issue with movie studios altering works of art like that in order to potentially sell more tickets.

What was the original ending to Kubrick's Shining?

 

Wikipedia claims it was changed after test audiences panned it, but I've never heard what the original ending actually was.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Yeah, that's certainly one thing that never sat right with me about The Shining was the ending. I wish the child would have been chopped up into little bitty pieces.

[Guest BDC]

Yeah, I'm putting great stock into this. Like my buddy said: "it'll be as big as the remake of the time machine!"

 

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[CBright7831]

Shouldn't this be about War Or The Worlds and not about any other Spielberg movies?

 

[NoCalMike]

Many Sad/Angry/Depressing endings to hollywood films have been cut and/or modified after being screened for the movie studios because they are afraid the masses will trash an entire movie because they didn't walk out all gushy in happy.  I know in Fatal Attraction, the original ending was Glen Close not being dead and I believe killing the wife.  Pretty Woman featured Richard Gere DUMPING Julia Roberts after all that lovy dovy bullshit, because quite frankly it FIT with his character.  I take issue with movie studios altering works of art like that in order to potentially sell more tickets.

What was the original ending to Kubrick's Shining?

 

Wikipedia claims it was changed after test audiences panned it, but I've never heard what the original ending actually was.

This is the only thing IMDB had listed..........

 

 

Director Stanley Kubrick edited the ending on the third day after release, removing about 10 minutes at the end: starting after the closeup of 'frozen Jack in daylight' it goes to a pullback shot with part of a state troopers car and the legs of troopers walking around in the foreground with jack in the background, then cuts to the hotel manager (Barry Nelson) Stuart Ullman walking down a hospital hallway to the nurse's station to inquire about Danny and Wendy, he's told they're both doing well and proceeds to Wendy's (Shelley Duvall) room, where after some gentle conversation he tells Wendy that searchers have been unable to locate any evidence of the apparitions she saw. Then it cuts to the camera silently roaming the halls of the Overlook hotel for about a minute until it comes up to the wall with the photographs, where it [back to the ending as it is now known] finally closes in on the photo of Jack in the 1921 pic.

[CBright7831]

Hell, since we're talking about the Shining now...

 

http://angryalien.com/0504/shiningbunnies.html

[JasonX]

Fatal Attraction's original ending was that Glenn Close kills herself in a manner to make Michael Douglas murdered her. The wife finds in her husband's possessions a tape where she admits to her plan while looking for a number of a lawyer for her husband and the film ends with her debating whether or not she should save her husband/clear his name or let him rot in jail....

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I've been pretty cynical with new releases/trailers lately, but I've gotta say I's seen the light of that trailer. And that teaser poster is the best in years. Unless they change the look of the ships, I'm all over this one.