War of the Worlds: Concept Meeting
Steven Spielberg (sitting in a pile of $100 bills): I want to make War of the Worlds.
Josh Friedman and David Koepp: Sure. We’ll write it for you.
Steven Spielberg: And I want the beginning to be really good, but I want the ending to suck us much as possible.
Josh Friedman and David Koepp (Think for a moment): Yeah. No problem.
In short, this movie was excellent. The visualization was superb and the acting by the main characters went above and beyond the necessity of any apocalypse movie.
That being said, you should know that the ending was shit. Go see it and you’ll know. You should probably just leave the theatre when Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise fall asleep on Tim Robbins Sofa. You’ll only miss the crappiest half hour of movie history (when compared to the good stuff that came before it)
Some facts about the film:
The graphics are haunting and amazing. A+
John Williams amazes yet again with an eerie neotonal soundtrack A+
Using a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: extra credit
The only black person in the movie being the unseen narrator (Morgan Freeman) F+
Amazing camera shots: A+
Amazingly lame ending: F---
you do the math.
finally, a
The joke is that this whole movie is just a pro-scientology stunt. As many scifi nerds are aware, the aliens all die because they get sick from human diseases. Obviously, if they were normal aliens, they would have taken medicine or immunized themselves. Except, these were Scientologist aliens! So they didn’t use chemicals to save themselves from disease because obviously God wanted them to die it’s his way don’t question it. So Tom Cruise and his freaky religion have saved the world. Go dance on an Oprah Sofa why don’tcha.