War of the Worlds Page #5

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 coming right back.

- Robbie!

- Stop those people.

- Turn around. Turn around.

- Robbie.

Robbie.

Robbie.

What the hell?

Why are you doing this?

Pull back.

Five hundred meters to my 10 o'clock.

Jekyll, no effect on target.

No effect.

Roger. No effect.

Our mission, lieutenant,

is to delay their advance

till those refugees get to safety.

Now, keep firing.

You've gotta listen. Turn around!

I want you to listen to me.

Listen to me.

Go back down the hill!

All of you, just turn around!

- Don't do this. I know you wanna fight.

- I wanna be here.

I need to see this.

It seems like you have to,

but you don't.

- Please, let me go.

- You don't.

Okay. Wait. Wait.

What are you doing here

all by yourself?

Sweetie, you gotta come with us,

please.

No. My dad's getting my brother.

I have to stay here.

- You can't stay here.

- Gotta go.

- I'm not gonna leave her alone.

- Leave.

I'm not letting you do this.

You can hate me.

- You can hate me.

- Let me go.

- But I love you.

- Please.

- I'm not letting you do this.

- Dad.

I can't. No. Please.

Please don't pull me.

It's gonna be okay. You need

to come with us. It is not safe...

Please. I can't go with you.

- My dad's right there.

- Please, come.

- Please, my dad's right there.

- Listen to me...

I need to be here. I want to see this.

Wait. Wait... Just stay for Rachel.

Stay for your sister.

Please, let me go.

You need to let me go.

All right. Okay. All right.

- You're coming with us.

- Dad.

- We're going now.

- I can't.

Dad!

Dad.

Dad!

Let me go! Dad!

Guide on. Guide on.

Black Six. Attack. Attack. Attack.

Stop.

- That's my dad.

- I'm her father. I'm her father.

- We're so sorry.

- We thought she was alone.

- She was standing by the tree...

- She's fine. Let's go! Let's go!

Robbie.

Robbie!

Over here.

Over here!

Hurry.

Are you all right?

Hey.

What about you, huh?

There you go.

Is that comfortable?

I need you to close

your eyes now, okay?

You need some sleep.

Dad?

He's gonna meet us.

Hey. Robbie's gonna meet us, Rach.

In Boston, at your grandma's.

What do you think

Mom's doing right this minute?

Mom?

Boston. She's waiting.

And I know she's not sleeping,

because she is so worried about you.

And she's in Grandma's kitchen,

and she's...

She's making that awful tea

she makes.

And they're all just...

They're all just counting the minutes

until they see you again.

What is this?

What is this?

I won.

You won?

The walk, trot and canter.

Third place.

Sing me "Lullaby and Goodnight. "

I don't know that one.

Sing me "Hushabye Mountain. "

I'm sorry, Rach. I don't...

I don't know that one either.

I'm not bragging, babe

So don't put me down

'Cause I got the fastest

Set of wheels in town

Something comes up to me

They don't even try

'Cause if I had a set of wings

Man, you know she could fly

She's my little deuce coupe

You don't know what I got

Just my little deuce coupe

You don't know what I got

Peach schnapps.

Disgusting, I know it.

Found a whole case of this sh*t.

Thank you.

I'm sorry about your son.

We got separated. He's...

He's gonna meet us in Boston.

Did you...?

Did you lose anybody?

All of them.

Harlan Ogilvy.

Ray Ferrier.

I got water.

Food enough for weeks.

You're welcome to stay. Both of youse.

I'm sorry.

I'm gonna get some sleep.

Those machines, those...

...Tripods they got?

They buried them.

Right under our feet.

Since before there...

There were even people here.

They've been planning this

for a million years.

We're beat to sh*t.

Please.

- My daughter...

- Think about it.

They defeated the greatest power

in the world in a couple days.

Walked right over us.

And these are only the first.

They'll keep coming.

This is not a war

any more than there's

a war between men and maggots.

This is an extermination.

Are you afraid?

Of course I am.

I been around death plenty.

I drive an ambulance in the city...

Drove an ambulance in the city.

That's all over now, huh?

You know the people

that make it, Ray?

The ones that don't flatline

before the hospital?

It's the ones

that keep their eyes open.

That keep looking at you.

Keep thinking.

They're the ones that survive.

We can't lose our heads, Ray.

Running.

That's what'll kill you.

And I'm dead set on living.

Dead set on living...

Thank you for taking us in.

Not gonna be exterminated.

It's okay. Come on.

I wanna show you something.

We're gonna fight them, Ray.

They gotta have a weakness.

Come on. Take a look.

Somehow they killed

a few of these things in Osaka.

That's what I heard.

You telling me the Japanese

can figure it out, but we can't?

We can do this, Ray.

We can do it. We can get them.

We can figure it out.

Stay right there.

I have a daughter.

Why did you bring us here?

To fight them together, Ray.

Now we'll be the ones coming up

from underground.

When the time is right...

...take them by surprise,

the way they took us.

Take them by surprise.

We're right under their feet, Ray.

Right here. Under their feet.

You miss your mommy?

I had a little girl.

Nearly your age.

You know, if anything happens

to your daddy,

I'll take care of you.

Rachel.

You don't have

anything to say to her.

Do you understand?

If you wanna talk to somebody,

if you wanna ask a question,

you ask me.

What exactly is your plan, Ray?

I know what I'm gonna do.

How about you?

You gonna sit here?

Wait for them to come get you?

Is that your plan?

Maybe you wanna get caught.

Couple days hiding in a basement

too much for you, I bet.

You'll probably turn yourself right in.

Listen.

It stopped.

Maybe you'll be okay.

Maybe you'll get lucky,

and they'll train you as their pet.

You know, feed you,

train you how to do tricks.

Will you shut up and listen?

No.

No. No.

No.

Give me that.

You and me...

...I don't think

we're on the same page.

Ray. Ray.

Ray. Ray. Ray!

Ray!

Keep your voice down. Quiet!

Not my blood. Not my blood.

Not my blood.

Not my...

Not...

...my...

Not my blood.

Not my blood.

Not my blood.

Not my blood.

Not my blood.

- Not my blood.

- Stop it.

- Stop it.

- Not my blood.

- Stop it.

- Not my blood.

You gotta be quiet.

- You want them to hear you?

- They drink us.

- Please, they'll hear you.

- They drink us.

Then they spray us, like fertilizer.

You gotta be quiet.

- Drink us, and...

- They're gonna come back down here.

Then they spit us out all over

the goddamn red weeds.

Do you understand

what I'm gonna have to do?

I can't let my daughter die

because of you.

This tunnel will get us to the city.

We'll have tunnels there.

Ready-made.

- Stop it.

- Subway. See what I'm saying?

- Hide an army down there.

- Stop it.

We'll go underground.

Sneak attacks at night.

You stop it!

We're the resistance, Ray.

They can't occupy this country.

Occupations always fail. History's

taught us that a thousand times.

This is our land.

We eat it, we breathe it,

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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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