Comments on: War of the Worlds Video Review

By: Mecho

Mecho — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:06:59 +0000

Sorry guys, but the movie is terrible. The acting was half ways decent and the effects were cool at first, but all in all the movie sucked balls. Nothing will ever beat the original. And someone explain to me how the son lives…no way in hell…that was one of the dumbest endings i have ever seen in a movie.

By: Richard Brunton

Richard Brunton — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:36:49 +0000

Hey all. I did think of posting my review as I saw it just the other day, but I think it’s too late for the Movie Blog to be of interest.

If you are interested in seeing my review, head on over to my site.

http://weblog.brunton.org.uk/reviews/archives/2005/08/war_of_the_worl.html

By: Simone

Simone — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:39:10 +0000

Just came back from watching it actually, I let the hype die down first before deciding to get sucked into it.

I enjoyed it tremendously. My only gripe was Miranda Otto being under-utilised in the film. All in all, well done on this one Steven and Tommy boy! ;-)

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:24:24 +0000

John,

Audio and video reviews are a great idea.

Although, you could have reviewed this film in one line of text.

Pile of piss aimed at the not so bright!

Come on hollywood, we DARE you to make an interesting movie!!

By: John Campea

John Campea — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:38:13 +0000

Hey there Kev.

The Narrator pretty much spells it out at the ending of the movie. The Bacteria in the earths water and air killed them.

Cheers!

By: Kev

Kev — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:18:35 +0000

Hi,

comment/question about “WAR of the worlds”….

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED AT THE END? WHY DID THE DAMN THINGS DIE? i really didn’t get the ending….

anyone can put it in perspective for me?

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:49:48 +0000

It’s not only the player, the codec is also crapy and realy very closed source. It would be of course perfect to record the video in vorbis and suggest VLC as player, but that would be probably to much to ask. ;)

Anyway, maybe VLC get its chance soon enough, since Google is using the open source player. They took the code and converted it for their GoogleVideo stuff. We’ll see how it works very soon.

By: mediamelt

mediamelt — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:09:49 +0000

Awesome John. Color me impressed.

For those of you that *hate* Real player as much as I do, I recommend Real Alternative. It plays Real files without all the bloat-ware.

http://www.free-codecs.com/Real_Alternative_download.htm

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:34:45 +0000

I’m not sure why so many people complain about RealVideo, but as an acceptable alternative I’ve found Windows XP’s built-in Windows Movie Maker program to be very useful for converting to Windows Media format. That might be worth looking into.

I thought the video review was pretty well done John, bring on the full blown video edition!

On a side note, I thought War of the Worlds was fantastic though. I don’t know why I’m the only one I know who seemed to be completely floored by it, I gave it a 4 out of 4 in my own review.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:33:08 +0000

I thought the video review was pretty well done John, bring on the full blown video edition!