War Of The Worlds

The review's a lot more entertaining than the film sounds. The only way to do WOTW now is to camp it up in the vein of 'Rocky Horror Show'.

Thank goodness there's actually a review site which toadies to no-one, and saves us a lot of money in the process. And his point about being near-deafened: yeah, WHY do we have to be nearly blown out of seats by the reverbs? I hate going to the cinema nowadays, and I HATE music all over dialogue. And don't you think that by now, those soon-to-be serial killers' victims would LEARN that that creepy, spooky music always means they're about to get whacked if they don't get off the screen? I'd love someone to do a really good send-up of all of the awful film cliches, in the manner of 'Airplane!' - the best disaster movie ever.
 
After the events of this week, something tells me it won't be making much money in London. Saw it last week myself, it's certainly spectacular and it has it's moments, but the review is mostly right - the Tim Robbins sequence all but kills the film stone dead, the kid is just annoying (you can almost hear Spielberg exhorting her to open her eyes wider, WIDER!), and the ending is just another horrible deus ex machina (almost literally!). Basically, half way through, I realised I wanted the aliens to win.
 
I've heard that the film is not worth going to see on the cinema but those critics can't blame Spielberg for the plot's denouement - that's what H G Wells wrote in 1898.

Browsing the site, I see that they certainly got the right man for "Cocksucker of the Month" - the main problem in their country today is the plethora of these extreme right-wing bible-thumping hypocrites and the influence they yield.
 
Went to watch this tonight, as usual with Speilburg the special effects are good but honestly couldn't recommend anyone to go and see it and be intellectually challenged.

I must be naive, I didnt read any reviews and thought the soundtrack was the Jeff Wayne version so rather disappointed.
 
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