The Nostalgia Critic was supposed to do this! You stole his idea! :P

Woo new one !

Oh Matt, filmed when you were still so deliciously optimistic about Skyline. 
 
I'm interested which is better in your eyes!

Don't worry, I agree with you Rorie!

i wished the Spielberg one was good at all, but it was not.

Rorie, are you aware that you pronounce palatable incorrectly?  It's something I've been noticing, since it's a word you use quite often. 
 
Aside from that, I haven't actually seen the remake due to all the yang I've heard talked about it.  I guess I'll actually go give it a shot after watching this, then.

Posts on how good Speed Racer and Spielberg's War of the Worlds are in the same week? I'm either not as crazy as everyone thinks I am or Rorie is just as crazy me. I'm comfortable with either of those outcomes.

YOUR A HORRIBLE PERSON!!!! not really.  Didn't see the original but the remake I thought was pretty good..

the cars not working is not a goof because cars didn't use computers back then, like they do now.

@Dagbiker: Incorrect. Unless if they were cars from the 1920-30s, cars have been using batteries for electric start. Which would require an electrical system. On the other hand a mechanical watch not working makes no sense.

Dakota screamed at the highest pitch she could muster for more than an hour, annoyed the hell outta me. edge goes to the original

I can't disagree with you Rorie, the remake is easier to go back and watch than the original, but the original is still pretty iconic. Now I need to go get Thunderchild back out of my head.

Going in cold to the remake the only thing that struck me was "Oh and now the aliens all of a sudden are dying and tom cruise is reunited with his son at the last moment" and then the explaination was basically in a voice over before the credits.  Any good will through the cool moments instantly dissapated.  And that's coming from a dude who loves the movie Signs, despite its ending.
 
@Dagbiker:
I don't think dudes watch has a computer but that stopped too.

I guess I'm not the only one who thought the remake was actually pretty decent.

Having come in to the Spielberg version after having seen the original film, listened to Orson Welles classic radio play, and having read the book, I have to say that I liked the Spielberg version over the 50s version. The Alien Walker designs felt truer to the book, and they included elements that didn't make it into either of the previous adaptations (such as the attempt to escape from the walkers by boat). 
 
Additionally, what Spielberg added to the film were some excellent pieces of imagery to really help capture the desperation of the whole thing - which the Radio Play also did very well, but I feel that the movie didn't. In particular, the flaming train at the railroad crossing and the "snowing clothes" in the forest are two sequences that on paper sound completely laughable, but to me, even knowing that H.G. Welles poorly executed* anti-colonial message would have the aliens die because of our diseases, those sequences helped send a great "Humanity is fucked" message right to my head. 
 
*To address my sacrilege, the better anti-colonial message would have been to have humanity's defenses crippled by Martian diseases and biological warfare, leading to Humanity becoming enslaved by Martian might, and to wait and watch for some hope of liberation at some point in the future. This would then set up a scenario where humanity and, in the original book, the British Empire, is finding itself in the same shoes as all the earlier nations that they'd conquered in the past.

I was enjoying the remake all through the first act, but Spielberg's' film came to a dead stop the second they went into that basement. "Cover your ears honey, I'm going to savagely murder Tim Robbins now"...
 
Oh well, I guess he can just blame it on those slave labor CGI minions.

I really like you and your movie taste. I have yet to disagree. And does this make me a suck up? Perhaps.