War Of The Worlds – The Extinctive Cut

Review by CasmirRadon — November 1, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

This is one of the most personally important fan edits I’ve seen. Sometimes I feel like I must have been the only person to love the original cut of this film, and endured a lot of flack from my friends because of this opinion. Still, the happy ending in Boston was one of the worst possible plot developments I have ever seen. I would be hard pressed to think of a more disappointing movie experience than seeing Tom’s son still alive and happy with his mom in Boston. Makes me angry just thinking about it. Your removal of Tim Robbins was so ambitious I never would have even contemplated it, but was a great touch. Other small edits were much appreciated.

Hard to know how to give a particular star rating to an edit with two drastically different endings. I thought the Extinctive cut was… good, I couldn’t have hoped for it to be done much better, but of course nobody would expect it to be perfect. In the end I’m rounding up to 9 stars, due to my immense happiness at Tom’s son dying.

Review by flyboy707 — December 14, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

An exceelent edit. Makes this somewhat disappointing movie much more fast-paced and exciting.

Review by brauventura1 — December 16, 2009 @ 11:29 pm

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Review by vanderbreen — January 10, 2010 @ 1:51 pm

Finally this is a good science fiction movie. Beats the original so easily. I love the new ending and the cellar scene without Robbins. The final sentence “Are we still alive?” is a perfect ending. That president sounded like an actor from another movie, but I don’t remember it. Care to share the information?

Review by 20Emp05 — February 4, 2010 @ 10:44 am

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