Very best movie i ever watch

As Good As It Gets

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is a great movie based on the famed HG Wells novel of the same name. A list actor teams up with A list director to make a good entertaining film that needs to be appreciated. The effects of the alien tripods are amazing especially the sound design- they evoke fear. The plotting and pacing is efficient which should be expected from Spielberg and the acting is good. You know how the film ends and yet this film keeps you engrossed. If you haven't read the famous novel I suggest you read it before seeing this film.

First of all I saw this movie according to my wife's opinion. tbh I didn't think much of it, I thought it's gonna be like any movie that talks about aliens' invasion but I was wrong!! To give u a head up, I'm not the kinda guy that u can simply surprise!! but eventually I was surprised, wow is the only word I can describe my feelings after I saw the movie, is it even a word? Idk and idc. I should've guessd that its gonna be a legendary movie since it was recommended by the most beautiful girl on the planet, from the very first second of the movie I noticed a resemblance between the movie and my wife, In the movie alliens have invaded the earth using an ugly tripod machine, While my wife has invaded my heart and filled it with so much love and cuteness, really I cant imagine my life without her. Everything she touches turnes into flowers and gardens what a magnificent girl !! wait, I think I just came up with a story that is a movie material, she's latterly like what Adele's said "she looks like a movie she sounds like a song" again woowNow lets talk some side stuff I mean the movie.It starts with the amazing and well known tom cruise being a father who has separated from his wife and two kids. apparently his ex wife -the mother of his daughter and son- is a gold digger who has left him for a big fish in the city who owns a basement as the size of a Boston's football stadium. Now everything is ok till shit hits the ceiling .imagine one day your enjoying a cold one on your porch -for me a soda- and thinking about your dark ugly and terrifying future, you are just sitting there chilling and playing with your... phone till out of the blue you hear something, you go to check that shit out and you find an alien!! what!! An alien for real not a mother's made ugly halloween costume. Now tom cruise took on his shoulder the burden of taking care of his offsprings and taking them safely to their mother in Boston. The movie talks about survival, greed for living, sacrifice, and what human could do to just stay alive.It talks about how selfish human could get in order to survive. It talks about a father who feels that his being pushed away and substituted by a new guy who's playing the new father, it talks about simple human feelings needs and actions.Eventually I was really entertained and I would recommend this movie to anyone but most importantly I would like to thank my gorgeous wife, THANK YOU!! And I LOVE YOU SO MUCH .

First; this isn't a rethinking (a word I'm totally sick of) of the original film, nor is it a true adaptation (even updated) of the classic novel. What it is, honestly, is a post 9/11 mish-mosh that plays on peoples fears as well as lifting the best parts from the book and the 1953 film, while adding a silly and contrived sub-plot.So where do we start? Like this: The Good: The SFX was spectacular. The scenes of destruction were absolutely beautiful. The War machines were awesome (and a bit of a nod to the old Classics Illustrated version); the aliens were somewhat original, but reminded me of the creatures from ID4 for some reason, and they had the hands of the Martians from the 1953 version. One of the end scenes is an homage to the end of the original film.Other good: The ferry being flipped by the Tripod as it crosses the Hudson was right out of the novel. Of course in the Novel the Steamram, Thunderchild destroys that Tripod by ramming it. Also earlier in the book artillery fire destroys a Martian capsule before they can build their tripod. (See the bad for more on this).The Bad: David Koepp and Steven Spielberg should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this crappy story to see daylight. The 9/11 references are way too plentiful. As someone who watched it unfold from my home and had to wash the ash of the burning Towers off my car, I found this irresponsible and unnecessary. Can't one simply make a great SF movie (see original War of the Worlds for an example) without beating the audience over the head with symbolism reminding us of a real event? Another thing, the whole Tom Cruise as divorced dad was so damned contrived as to be silly. What, a single person isn't going to want to survive this kind of horror as much as a married person? Also the kids had no personality. The son was a bland, anti-Dad kind of guy, all Dakota Fanning did was stare and scream. This whole aspect of the plot just bored me. If Koepp was adapting/updating the book, then why did the aliens have shields, ala the 1953 version? In the book the Tripods are tough, but 19th century weapons bring two down. Also the scene where Gene Barry chops off one of the aliens spy devices (on a long neck) is lifted for this film. Hey dudes, that didn't happen in the book, ok? Finally, if these aliens had been here for millions of years, having planted their war machines, why the hell didn't they think to test our air and water? Yes, the ending is right out of the book with the aliens dying of Terran bacteria, but it makes no sense. In the original film and book, there was no preparation time, the aliens landed and started blasting us out of existence. So these aliens, who have some kind of Transporter technology, didn't have the brains to check things out first? Were these cousins to the morons from Signs, who came to a planet 70 percent water (which they were ALLERGIC to) so they could die?The Ugly; At the beginning, when the aliens are riding lightning down to Earth, all electrical power shuts off. How was this one guy able to freaking take pictures with his camcorder? Also, can someone explain the physics of a heat ray that dissolves human beings but doesn't destroy their clothing? This was a very heavy handed parallel to the deaths on 9/11, which was unnecessary. A further point, Cruises son goes to watch the military take on the aliens, the entire brigade is wiped out - yet his son survives to make it to an untouched (mostly Boston). In fact at the very laughable end, Cruise and his daughter make it to Boston, see the machines start to topple and fall. Cruise notices birds sitting on the one machine (another homage to the book, where the astronomer sees the birds feeding on the dead Martians), yet trained military men don't? He notices the shield is down? And when he gets to his ex-wife's parents home, the block is untouched. Looks like a Sunday morning. And his son is there, it looks like they've all been wakened from breakfast! (And this isn't Boston, its Carroll Gardens, in Brooklyn, New York. A total nitpick, but they spent 100 million plus and couldn't afford to film in Boston?). This was just a silly excuse for a 'message' film, that failed to give me any message at all, other than Steven Spielberg shouldn't be allowed to do SF. A.I. stunk, Minority Report was a joke and if I never see this again, well I'll be pretty damn content. The original film was much better and probably had 1/100th of the budget. The difference is the original film and book both entertain without beating a reader/watcher over the head, while this ham-handed mistake of a film doesn't.

Cant even get 30 minutes in before "OMFG WHY IT IS SO LOUD!" to 5 minutes late "WTF DID THEY SAY?"(better pause rewind and turn the volume up), and "OMFG ITS LOUD AF AGAIN!". Seriously I had a decent memory of seeing this in the theater but trying to watch it at home its ridiculous. Other than that its trying to cram in some family story that you don't really have enough time to care about despite how good looking the actors are. Don't forget dad's dumb, and the little girl knows more than everyone else except when it comes to mechanics. Really hope the famiy turns out okay but to be honest I'd prefer more shots of the aliens and their technology. Just need to have the remote handy to turn it the volume down by 75% the next time they have a quiet talk again.