"War of the Worlds" thoughts
Jul. 26th, 2005 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeI just got my birthday present in the mail from my brother. He sent me Alton Brown's book "I'm Just Here for More Food" and a CD of Leonard Bernstein music that I'd had on my wish list for a while. Thanks, Phil!
I went to see "War of the Worlds" last night at the Senator, mostly because it's closing Thursday night and everyone said to see it in a theater. I'm not going to write a full movie review, but I thought it was OK. Sure, the effects are awesome, Dakota Fanning is wonderful as usual, but the ending is a complete cop-out because very little is explained. I found the whole movie to be too much like "Signs", that Shyamalan piece of dreck all about a man coming to terms with his faith, with an alien invasion as a backdrop. In "WotW", Tom Cruise gets to redeem himself as a father figure, also with an alien invasion backdrop. I'm thinking that the whole point of this re-make was Spielberg redeeming himself for the way he ended "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" almost thirty years ago with Richard Dreyfuss' character abandoning his family and climbing aboard the mothership. I'd heard that Spielberg said in an interview not too long ago that if he'd made that movie today, it wouldn't have ended that way.
Finally, the scenes with the train, the ferry, and Fanning standing by the river creeped me the fuck out.
I went to see "War of the Worlds" last night at the Senator, mostly because it's closing Thursday night and everyone said to see it in a theater. I'm not going to write a full movie review, but I thought it was OK. Sure, the effects are awesome, Dakota Fanning is wonderful as usual, but the ending is a complete cop-out because very little is explained. I found the whole movie to be too much like "Signs", that Shyamalan piece of dreck all about a man coming to terms with his faith, with an alien invasion as a backdrop. In "WotW", Tom Cruise gets to redeem himself as a father figure, also with an alien invasion backdrop. I'm thinking that the whole point of this re-make was Spielberg redeeming himself for the way he ended "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" almost thirty years ago with Richard Dreyfuss' character abandoning his family and climbing aboard the mothership. I'd heard that Spielberg said in an interview not too long ago that if he'd made that movie today, it wouldn't have ended that way.
Finally, the scenes with the train, the ferry, and Fanning standing by the river creeped me the fuck out.
