| | Well for the first time in a long time, I saw a movie in it's first weekend of release.
And yes, that movie was 'Rebound,' starring Martin Lawrence. It's
the story of Coach Roy, who once was college basketball's top
mastermind. But lately his attentions have been on his next
endorsements, not on his next game... Ok, enough of that.
I saw 'War of the Worlds.'
Well, unlike most people, I did not think it was awesome, amazing, a must see, or a definite own when it hits DVD.
I would say it's like The Lost World: Jurassic Park in terms of
quality. Lots of nice effect. Lots of people dying. Plot sucks.
Ok, the plot didn't suck all the way. Just over the last half. Up
about the time when the argument happened, it was good. After that, so
much was left unanswered. I really enjoyed the movie up until
then. Also, the ending leaves you with a nasty taste in your mouth,
unless you are a sucker for sappy endings.
Jurassic Park and Independence Day were so much more fun. JP is what
WotW should have been more modeled after. WotW tried to be too serious.
It had some humor, but none of it was in the 2nd have of the
movie. If you're gonna try to be a serious movie, you better have
a good plot. And it doesn't. It gets a B-. I debating whether I liked Episode 3 or WotW less.
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*Spoilers below. That means don't read this if you haven't seen War of the Worlds yet."
Positives:
Nice effects.
Dakota Fanning, when she doesn't scream.
That first night after the aliens attack. Peanut Butter sandwich, any one?
Heck, the entire time from when the Tripod starting blazing away until
the next day with the news crew was excellent. A- material.
The blazing runaway train was nice. 
Negatives:
1. The only time that Cruise's skills as a dock worker came into play
was how they got on the boat. That's dumb. There should have been
more use of his skills.
2. Why didn't people run?! The freaking street is caving in! Buildings
are collapsing. No, I think we'll just stand around. Oh look, an
alien. Hmm. Wow. Oh no! it's shooting us! Ok, now we can run!
3. As Janna reminded, me... How the heck did the stupid video camera work???? Plot hole!
4. Those aliens sure were technologically advanced. Shields, lasers,
and more. But yet, the can't devise heat sensors to tell where
people are. There attack are based on sight only.
5. It's not clear why the aliens were even invading. Were they exterminating us or harvesting us? Or both? Or what?
6. The aliens battle strategy sucked! Why not just zap people on the
boat, instead of capsizing it? Why not zap the people in the city
streets in the ferry town? If you say, oh they were gonna harvest
them, then why did they vaporize people on the hills?! And why did the
first tripod vaporize all those people at the beginning if they are
planning on sucking our blood?
7. No clear reason for the red gunk plant stuff. Is it blood? Is it alien food? Is it alien reproductive stuff.?
11. "I have to go kill Tim Robbins, honey. He's making noise, and we don't want the aliens to hear us. Now, sing a song for me."
8. How did Robby survive? How? "Don't know, don't care." Bad plot point! Boo!
9. How did the mom and grandparents survive? Boston got ravaged, but yet they survived in their own house?
10. Sappy ending. They want it to be happy. It's not. It's sappy.
Some reviews that agree with me that WotW is decent, but has serious flaws. Including Roger Ebert.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050628/REVIEWS/50606007/1023
http://www.oneguysopinion.com/review.asp?ID=1619
http://www.reeltalkreviews.com/browse/viewitem.asp?type=review&id=1304
http://www.detnews.com/2005/screens/0506/29/C01-231033.htm
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Aargh.
So anyways...
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