film review: war of the worlds
CRAP!
really, really bad. do not pay money to see this film. if someone offers you a free ticket - refuse it - or better - accept it, then burn it so noone else has to go and see it.
steven spielberg should have his directing license taken away. he should be banned from coming within 100 metres of a camera.
what could have, should have been a good movie - basically a human drama set against an amazing backdrop of interplanetary invasion by invincible, faceless aliens - turns into a two-hour weep session as the poor audience is reduced to tears begging "please, PLEASE aliens - kill tom cruise quickly so we can go home". but of course, they don't.
so we sit in the theatre, not walking out, thinking - well, it may be a crap movie, but there's gotta be some good actions scenes coming up - they spent a hundred million or so on this movie, there's gotta be some better action than just tom cruise running away...but no. they sem to have spent the entire action budget in the film on destoying the center of tom's town in the first scene where the aliens are revealed - leaving nothing for a climactic action scene later. in fact - most of the fighting of the aliens takes place "over a hill" so we can't see it. in any good film, this would be an interesting and clever cinematic technique - increase the mystique and power of the bad guys by NOT showing the good guys getting clobbered trying to fight them. but the human characters in this film are so annoying - the audience is begging for some good cg fight scenes to justify the money spent on the ticket.
'cos when it comes down to it, in a human drama, you have to like - or at least be able to relate to - the main characters, right? i thought tom's character was an annoying asshole from the first scene. and it doesnt get better. he stays annoying all thru the film -in fact - he gets worse.
*here's a spoiler for anybody who is still gonna go and see the film:
and then in the end, when he finally does arrive at his ex wife's parents' house in boston with his kid (you know he's gonna - i haven't spoiled anyhting by telling you) - his stupid wife's family come to the door (unbroken glass in a clean door in a clean perfect house after the aliens have pretty much destroyed everything else in the world) they are clean and nicely dressed as if they've just finished the wine and were about to move on to coffee and port!
There are 6 billion interesting stories that could have been told to the backdrop of the martian invasion of the war of the worlds - spielberg doesn't give us even a taste of any of them except the poorly-scripted and badly acted (unless tom's choice was to be an annoying asshole with no redeeming qualities - if so he did it well) story that is his movie.
i can't believe that anybody likes this movie - i can't believe the reviewers didn't warn me to stay away.
rating:
because speilberg was true to the original images of the tripods and they look kinda cool
really, really bad. do not pay money to see this film. if someone offers you a free ticket - refuse it - or better - accept it, then burn it so noone else has to go and see it.
steven spielberg should have his directing license taken away. he should be banned from coming within 100 metres of a camera.
what could have, should have been a good movie - basically a human drama set against an amazing backdrop of interplanetary invasion by invincible, faceless aliens - turns into a two-hour weep session as the poor audience is reduced to tears begging "please, PLEASE aliens - kill tom cruise quickly so we can go home". but of course, they don't.
so we sit in the theatre, not walking out, thinking - well, it may be a crap movie, but there's gotta be some good actions scenes coming up - they spent a hundred million or so on this movie, there's gotta be some better action than just tom cruise running away...but no. they sem to have spent the entire action budget in the film on destoying the center of tom's town in the first scene where the aliens are revealed - leaving nothing for a climactic action scene later. in fact - most of the fighting of the aliens takes place "over a hill" so we can't see it. in any good film, this would be an interesting and clever cinematic technique - increase the mystique and power of the bad guys by NOT showing the good guys getting clobbered trying to fight them. but the human characters in this film are so annoying - the audience is begging for some good cg fight scenes to justify the money spent on the ticket.
'cos when it comes down to it, in a human drama, you have to like - or at least be able to relate to - the main characters, right? i thought tom's character was an annoying asshole from the first scene. and it doesnt get better. he stays annoying all thru the film -in fact - he gets worse.
*here's a spoiler for anybody who is still gonna go and see the film:
and then in the end, when he finally does arrive at his ex wife's parents' house in boston with his kid (you know he's gonna - i haven't spoiled anyhting by telling you) - his stupid wife's family come to the door (unbroken glass in a clean door in a clean perfect house after the aliens have pretty much destroyed everything else in the world) they are clean and nicely dressed as if they've just finished the wine and were about to move on to coffee and port!
There are 6 billion interesting stories that could have been told to the backdrop of the martian invasion of the war of the worlds - spielberg doesn't give us even a taste of any of them except the poorly-scripted and badly acted (unless tom's choice was to be an annoying asshole with no redeeming qualities - if so he did it well) story that is his movie.
i can't believe that anybody likes this movie - i can't believe the reviewers didn't warn me to stay away.
rating:
because speilberg was true to the original images of the tripods and they look kinda cool
aimlessly scribbled by Shadyswamp at 7:28 am
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