User blog:Angel Emfrbl/War of the Worlds a Bad ending?

Weird, but I don't watch Mojo.coms videos often but I watched their top 10 bad endings.

Amongst them was the classic tale of War of the Worlds... As in the 2004(?) version. Because it kept the books original ending.

Whoa...

Whoa...

Whoa...

Since when was the books ending "bad". Okay its not much of a spoiler but you've been warned don't read furtehr if you don't want to know the ending.

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The martians...

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They died of disease.

Mojo.coms excuse for labeling it a bad ending was how can a race who knows interstellar technology just die from illnesses that humanity was immune to. While its arguable how good or well conceptualized the original text was about this, its actually a plausible ending to defeating something powerful. And while you can compensate for the things you see (humans) on the surface of the planet, you can't take in things you can't see. You might know their "there", but you don't know what is "there". And if what is "there" not even be the same the same as whats "there" on your world.

Basically, they complaint is the martians did something that Human error would do and dos do every day of the week... Yeah because something from another world might be not prone to mistakes of judgement either. Good grief. I don't know how to take things like this.

Maybe its because some feel its anti-climatic? =_=

I guess it always was, in the musical version of the tale the protagonist just decides to give himself over to the martians and rushes towards a ship to meet his fate only to find the martian inside is dead.

I don't know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzAgktRXlPY

Here is the video, I'm sure others don't like some of the picks. Star Wars, the last episode is on there... I think its becuase they CG replaced the original actor of Darth Vader with that of the one they had for the newer episodes... Or WM doesn't like happy ever after endings??? ¬_¬