War of the Worlds Page #4

Synopsis: Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller.
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 44 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG-13
Year:
2005
116 min
$234,141,872
Website
2,487 Views


I'm not going in front of you guys.

- Just go where I can see you.

- Are you crazy?

- Don't look!

- I'm not gonna look.

- Just stay in sight!

- That's looking!

Okay, well, listen, every time

you guys don't listen to me,

I'm telling your mother, okay?

I'm making a list.

Making a list.

- I told you to stay where I could see you.

- Sorry. I'm sorry.

Stop! Stop!

Wait! Stop! Let me on!

Let me on! Give me a hand!

Wait! Stop!

- Stop! Give me a hand!

- Kid, you're gonna get run over!

- Give me a hand! You have room!

- Robbie!

- You wanna go in that direction?

- Stop! Stop!

There's nothing living

in that direction, Robbie.

What do you care?

You never gave a sh*t before.

- You never gave a sh*t!

- Okay, hard-ass,

what's your plan, huh?

You're in charge now!

- Tell me what we're doing.

- Catch up with these soldiers!

Hook up with whoever else isn't dead,

and we get back at them.

We get back at them.

That's what we do.

Let's try one that doesn't involve your

- You have anything like that?

- Just tell us the truth.

- Wanna try that?

- You have no idea which way to go.

You wanna come off all wise and sh*t!

You only chose Boston

because you hope Mom is there.

And if she's there,

you can dump us on her.

You can dump us on her, then you'll

only have to care about yourself,

which is exactly the way you like it.

Robbie!

Where are you trying to go?

What are you trying to do?

Who's gonna take care of me

if you go?

This is a test of

the Emergency Alert System.

If this had been an actual emergency,

official messages

from federal, state or local authorities

would've followed the alert tone.

This concludes the test

of the Emergency Alert...

I'll close my eyes.

Why don't you drive for a bit.

I don't have a license.

Since when has that stopped you?

Ray.

Ray! Dad!

Ray! Dad!

You think you could...?

You think you could...?

Do you think you could...?

Don't stop.

Don't take your foot off. Okay?

I got it, but keep your foot on.

Okay, I got it. I got it.

- Where is everybody going?

- I don't know, Rach.

But we do, right?

Yeah, we do.

Why did he do that?

- Why is he doing that?

- He wants a ride, Rach.

- Everybody just wants a ride.

- Can we give him one?

Sit back and put on your seat belt.

Robbie, put on your seat belt.

Put on your seat belt, Rachel.

- Be careful.

- How'd you fix this?

- How'd you fix the car?

- Please! Why won't you help us?

I'm sorry, I can't. I can't.

Please, get away from the car.

Hey! Stop the car.

- Stop the car!

- Get off the car!

You could carry 20 people in there!

- Stop the car!

- Get off the car!

Stop the car!

Hold on.

Look out!

Watch out! Hold on!

Are you okay?

No, wait! Wait!

No! Just wait! Okay! Wait! Stop!

- Just stop!

- Daddy!

Rachel!

Get out of there!

Robbie!

Robbie!

- Ray!

- Get in the car!

- Help!

- Rachel! Get out of the car!

Rachel, get...

Get out of the car.

- Get out!

- Daddy!

- Take it easy!

- Get off the car!

Get off!

Get off the car! Move!

Move!

- Where's my son?

- You don't need that, man.

- Where's my son? Robbie!

- Cool down, man.

- Put the gun down, man.

- Robbie!

Dad!

Okay, now, listen.

- Put down the gun. I'm taking the car.

- My daughter's in the car.

- I'm taking the car, man.

- Please. All I want...

- Put down the goddamn gun!

- All I want is my daughter.

- I'm taking the car, man.

- Please, I just want my daughter.

Let me just take my daughter.

Can I...?

- All I want is my daughter.

- Yeah. Okay, go ahead, man.

Robbie.

Take me with you!

Have you seen this girl?

This is my daughter.

He needs his medicine.

We've got it the worst,

that's what I heard.

The U.S., mostly.

South America and Asia, some.

There's nothing going on in Europe.

Europe got the worst of it,

that's what everybody's saying.

- Completely wiped out some of it.

- I don't give a sh*t who it is.

I got up close to one of those things

in Stanfordville.

If they're all over the place,

we're dead.

- Looks like the power's still on here.

- Yeah.

Yeah, power's still on.

Because nothing bad's come up

from the ground.

- Hold on. Hold on, move back!

- Watch out there, lady!

I said, move back!

Unless you are O-positive

and RH-negative,

thank you very much, but we already

have more blood than we can use.

Again, if you are O-positive,

RH-negative, identify yourselves.

If you are not, thank you very much.

We already have more blood

than we can use for the transfusions.

Let's go, folks.

This way. This way.

Keep it moving.

Keep it moving. This way.

Let's go, folks. Keep it moving.

Please move forward calmly.

The boat can make more than one trip.

Please move forward calmly.

Take your time. Don't rush.

Ray! Ray! Ray!

- Sheryl?

- Yeah. Hey.

Oh, my gosh, is this your...?

- Are these your kids?

- Rachel.

Hi, I'm Sheryl.

This is my daughter, Nora.

- Nora. I've heard about you, Nora.

- Hi.

- This is my son, Robbie.

- Just like Dad.

- It's good to see you as well.

- Trees are funny.

We're gonna move a few cars out

of the way to make some more space.

You're gonna have to give us

a few minutes.

But don't worry,

there'll be plenty of room for everybody.

We got sick people here.

Let us on.

Cast off. Get that ramp up.

Cast off now. Get that ramp up.

Cast off.

No more people. No more people.

We're taking the ramp up.

Stay close. Stay close.

Everybody stop. Everybody stop.

- Wait, wait, wait. Just...

- Back up. Back up.

- There's room.

- Just stay back.

No more room.

There's no more room.

Just listen to me.

There's three of us.

- Five. There's only five of us.

- There's no room.

Okay, man, just don't push me.

- Sir, there's no more room.

- There's plenty of room.

- There's room for hundreds more.

- Sir...

- Everybody, wait.

- Hold on.

- You just stay with me.

- Okay.

Grab my jacket.

Everybody back up.

Back up.

I got you, Ferrier.

- Oh, Jesus.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

- Come on.

- Okay, Jesus. Oh, my God.

- Come on.

Watch out.

Come on.

Oh, Ray.

Ray!

Come on. Come on.

Go. I can go with him.

Sheryl?

Go with them. Go.

- Ray.

- Sheryl?

- Everybody...

- Sheryl?

- There's room on the boat.

- Let us through, goddamn it.

- There's still room on the boat.

- She's a child.

- Robbie.

- There's room on the...

There's still room on the boat.

There's room on the boat.

- Robbie.

- Just stay with me.

Stay with me, Robbie.

Robbie!

- Robbie, Robbie.

- Robbie!

Robbie!

- Robbie.

- Come on.

Here. Grab my hand.

Here. Hold on.

I got you. Hold on.

Take my hand.

Take it. Take my hand.

Here!

Oh, my God.

Robbie!

Swim. Swim this way!

- Robbie, help me with her.

- Here, Rach.

Don't stop. Don't stop.

Don't stop.

Oh, my God.

Robbie, slow down.

Robbie, slow down.

- Robbie.

- We gotta stay together, Robbie.

Robbie?

Stay together.

Robbie!

Get back here!

Robbie!

No, Robbie!

Come back!

Robbie.

Don't move. Don't move.

Now for God's sake, stay right here.

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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as writer of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Friedman also publishes the blog "I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing". After being offered an opportunity to work on a script titled Snakes on a Plane, Friedman posted a blog entry that sparked interest in the film on the Internet before the movie entered production. The same entry introduced a profane line that was added to the film when the cast reconvened in March 2006 to shoot additional footage. On August 1, 2013 he was announced as co-screenwriter of Avatar 2 with James Cameron. He is a kidney cancer survivor. more…

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