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I'm asking because an IMDb rating cutoff above 6.5+-5 seems to generally do a good job making sure I don't regret watching something. But what am I missing among the sub-6? I know they exist, but it is hard to select among seas of...bad movies.

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I actually like the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds good sound mixing too.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a horror movie masquerading as science fiction. Straight up horrifying.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Kinda like coraline masquerading as a kids movie.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That had a bad rating? I thought it was a decent movie, decent acting, decent story, decent special effects, like most of Cruise's movies.

Hate the person love the actor, he had a long string of good movies

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

I think with a few changes it would be a better movie. Less screaming, a bit of a different ending and who survives. There's some good parts though. I've seen people complain that the one scene with the birds is convenient and forced to make Cruise's character important, but the soldiers were busy trying to get people out of the place and wouldn't have necessarily noticed what he did. Note that once they understood, they took action. Also RIP the one guy who almost made it.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I think pretty low for what it is

6.6 imdb

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

The one with the alien tube and the red webbing across the floor?
One of my childhood movies lol

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The brother’s storyline is ridiculous and ruins the movie.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

He' plays a type of person that happens in real life and unfortunately they're usually annoying. His opposational defiance was developed earlier.