Bore Of The Worlds
This summers epic blockbuster "War of The Worlds" directed by Steven Spielberg and starring tom cruise had me on the edge of my seat twiddling my thumbs. The 16 min. Of trailers were the most exciting part because just when you thought it was over BAM! there was another one. The movie itself (based on the award winning novel) failed to conjure up such excitement.
I tried real hard to enter in to that mind state where every thing is believable and six shot revolvers never run out of ammo, really I did. But C'mon it was just one thing after another; The miracle van, the camera snake with no thermal sensors, the magic son, on and on the list goes. It all had this "Flight of the Navigator" feel where even though it was dark and death was every where you almost liked the aliens, with those big eyes. I was seriously waiting for an E.T. cameo.
Cruise spent more time in front of a green screen then he did learning his lines seeing as 80% of the script was made up of "we have got to get out of here" or "... Boston." The special effects should have been amazing, but it's hard to be in awe when it looks like a cross between "mars attacks" and" storm ship troopers." As far as I am concerned the only thumbs up this movie is getting is for Dakota Fanning (the little girl) who did a great Drew Barrymore (E.T.) like, scared of the alien thing when they were trapped in the basement (the second time). And the only Gold Star it is getting is from my first grade teacher for spelling the title right.
Which by the way has nothing to do with the movie, there was no war it was more like a big ol' alien smack down on planet earth, they kicked our butts for the first 90 min. and then all of a sudden cruise gets ahold of a grenade and you think to your self, "ok he is going to take over the ship and fight back." no he just blows it up. There is no McGuiver style alien ship dismantling just rabid bacteria and deadly cilia.
j.
I tried real hard to enter in to that mind state where every thing is believable and six shot revolvers never run out of ammo, really I did. But C'mon it was just one thing after another; The miracle van, the camera snake with no thermal sensors, the magic son, on and on the list goes. It all had this "Flight of the Navigator" feel where even though it was dark and death was every where you almost liked the aliens, with those big eyes. I was seriously waiting for an E.T. cameo.
Cruise spent more time in front of a green screen then he did learning his lines seeing as 80% of the script was made up of "we have got to get out of here" or "... Boston." The special effects should have been amazing, but it's hard to be in awe when it looks like a cross between "mars attacks" and" storm ship troopers." As far as I am concerned the only thumbs up this movie is getting is for Dakota Fanning (the little girl) who did a great Drew Barrymore (E.T.) like, scared of the alien thing when they were trapped in the basement (the second time). And the only Gold Star it is getting is from my first grade teacher for spelling the title right.
Which by the way has nothing to do with the movie, there was no war it was more like a big ol' alien smack down on planet earth, they kicked our butts for the first 90 min. and then all of a sudden cruise gets ahold of a grenade and you think to your self, "ok he is going to take over the ship and fight back." no he just blows it up. There is no McGuiver style alien ship dismantling just rabid bacteria and deadly cilia.
j.
posted by j. at
9:51 AM
1 Comments:
I would have to agree. I thought the special effects were fairly decent and miraculous occurings were completely ridiculous. Tom Cruise brushing the ashes of dead people off of himself after being the only survivor in massive crowd was absurd. I must say that Dakota Fanning is an amazing actress and almost made this movie worth $6.50 of my hard earned cash. It could've been so much better without all the incomprehensible "miracles" that occured to Tom and family. The son totally should've died. I give it six stars out of ten.
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