War of the Worlds
Why, oh why, did I not listen to the reviews on this movie before we spent $20 going to the theatre to see it last night?
Actually, we saw it by accident. The night before we’d talked about going to see The Fantastic Four, but come Friday when we went online to buy tickets, didn’t War of the Worlds pop up at us and we thought that was the one we wanted to see.
Well we did want to see it before we heard the reviews, and then changed our minds.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the original movie, I haven’t, but this was really bad acting. Some of the effects were pretty good, but pretty much the whole movie was just that – effects.
And the effects weren’t so spectacular that you’d leave the theatre awed by them, pretty much freaky looking skies, and the big monsters from different angles.
I was thinking that it was the music that ruined the movie – the music didn’t make the film freaky and real enough (neither did the acting). They could have had something scary here, but they didn’t really.
I just didn’t get Tim Robbins’ character (very small part). Dakota Fanning’s acting seemed fairly limited to screaming, and Tom Cruise just wasn’t believable as the part-time dad (who his son hates, of course).
Even the happy ending wasn’t overly happy or even overly depressing.
If you have to see it, wait til it’s at the video store. The effects are nothing to bother going to the theatre about.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
The Tim Robbins character was taken out of the book, and it did not work in the American setting, it was supposed to be the idea of digging a tunnel to connect to the underground in the UK.
There were a couple of things like that, in the movie that were out of context, but without them the whole thing would have been even worse. I
did think the idea of the tripods was quite good, but that little green man bit was just stupid.
However I looked at it as just a bit of slightly scary fun, with bad acting and effects thrown in. Who knows it may turn out to be a classic
cult movie in the future like Godzilla.