[Coleman]

Originally Posted by Hollywood

Some very minor spoilers in the first paragraph.

The problem is some people want everything laid out for you on screen with an ending that ties everything together in a nice neat little package. A good director will let you see what you need to see, and let your imagination fill in what happens behind the scenes. You don't need to know what happens all the time with the military, you don't need to know the scientific reasoning behind the bacteria and red grass. You don't need to see every country duking it out with these aliens.

If I wanted to use my imagination to fill in all of the gaps, I would read a book. I go to the movies to be visually entertained. In the scene where Robert goes to the top of the hill where the military is: I would have loved to see the a shot of the robots being hit by bombs and shit. It was a big disappointment just to look at the army shooting. The red weed/plant...wtf is that all about? Is it for changing the atmosphere to the alien's home planet?


Yeah, I didn't read the book and that's probably where I have alot of my complaints. But I do think when they base a movie off of a book or fairy tale, they should add/change things to make clearer sense. I'm not telling them to put in a billion and one different scenes. I'm talkinga bout adding 1 dialogue line to clear up an idea. It just would have taken 1 line.