War of the Worlds

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Jason1

Yea, I kept thinking HL2, HL2, all through the movie. The similarities were rather striking. Even the way the Tripods/Striders vaporize people...Great movie, but you've gotta wonder why the monsters are so damn similar...

Thats because HL2 borrowed the design. feel and basically the friggin' plot from War of the Worlds. Half Life 2 is what it might have been like if the aliens had won. Notice all the gear that the aliens wore? Those weren't scuba tanks filled with whatever gas they breath, if you look closely they were gas masks for filtering bad stuff, like pathogens, out...

This isn't a shot on HL2, even though I thought it was a tad overrated, its just that pretty much every theme and idea has been done already and most plots are rehashes with a twist. HL2's twist was the "what is the aliens survived from War of the Worlds", and its quite a good one. Being completely original is nearly impossible anymore, so it comes down to how well you rip off someone else