Hey..
Last night got to watch the latest movie offering from Amblin Entertainment - War of the Worlds. Boasting bigger names like Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise and a story by HG Wells, the movie generated too much of great expectations.
Millions of years ago, the jobless aliens had apparently buried some tripods with hi-fi vaporizing weapons. They suddenly start sprouting up in the early 21st century triggering a massive extermination. The so-called hero of the movie, divorcee Tom Cruise, strives to save his children from these merciless murders and this is what War of the Worlds is all about.
Some guy sharing the same name of the world famous director Steven Spielberg has been on the rampage in the recent years defaming the great director who once released movies like ET, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Lost World. This namesake first surfaced with a movie called A.I. in 2001. Then came low-profile movies like Catch me if you can and The Terminal. And now this. Definitely this movie didnt need a Spielberg to direct...
The storyline is too weak. One cannot blame HG Wells for this because he wrote this story about a hundred years back. HG Wells was the Michael Crichton of his times. Underline the "of his times". One needs to travel in the time machine that HG Wells himself wrote about and watch is movie to enjoy it at its fullest.
The movie has too many useless characters -
* like the son Robbie who easily reaches his mom's house in Boston and didnt have to undergo the troubles his dad & sister had to;
* the mother who also seems to survive the extermination alongwith her parents;
* the daughter Rachel who is of course cute but then is the usual irritating one with her shrieks and questions;
* Tim Robbins, who is killed by Tom Cruise after giving them shelter to stay and being a nuisance
* Tom Cruise - who manages to drive the only running car across hundreds of miles and goes through hellish trouble to save his daughter, when his son is able to reach the destination with utmost ease;
* and finally, the Aliens who could have taken over the earth millions of years ago instead of planting thousands of tripods and waiting for so long to take over - and by doing this, making us go through the pain of sitting through this entire movie.
War of the Worlds - sama bore machi...
Chao..
Last night got to watch the latest movie offering from Amblin Entertainment - War of the Worlds. Boasting bigger names like Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise and a story by HG Wells, the movie generated too much of great expectations.
Millions of years ago, the jobless aliens had apparently buried some tripods with hi-fi vaporizing weapons. They suddenly start sprouting up in the early 21st century triggering a massive extermination. The so-called hero of the movie, divorcee Tom Cruise, strives to save his children from these merciless murders and this is what War of the Worlds is all about.
Some guy sharing the same name of the world famous director Steven Spielberg has been on the rampage in the recent years defaming the great director who once released movies like ET, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Lost World. This namesake first surfaced with a movie called A.I. in 2001. Then came low-profile movies like Catch me if you can and The Terminal. And now this. Definitely this movie didnt need a Spielberg to direct...
The storyline is too weak. One cannot blame HG Wells for this because he wrote this story about a hundred years back. HG Wells was the Michael Crichton of his times. Underline the "of his times". One needs to travel in the time machine that HG Wells himself wrote about and watch is movie to enjoy it at its fullest.
The movie has too many useless characters -
* like the son Robbie who easily reaches his mom's house in Boston and didnt have to undergo the troubles his dad & sister had to;
* the mother who also seems to survive the extermination alongwith her parents;
* the daughter Rachel who is of course cute but then is the usual irritating one with her shrieks and questions;
* Tim Robbins, who is killed by Tom Cruise after giving them shelter to stay and being a nuisance
* Tom Cruise - who manages to drive the only running car across hundreds of miles and goes through hellish trouble to save his daughter, when his son is able to reach the destination with utmost ease;
* and finally, the Aliens who could have taken over the earth millions of years ago instead of planting thousands of tripods and waiting for so long to take over - and by doing this, making us go through the pain of sitting through this entire movie.
War of the Worlds - sama bore machi...
Chao..
5 comments:
"Some guy sharing the same name of the world famous director Steven Spielberg has been on the rampage in the recent years defaming the great director"
Too funny : D
Guess Steven did not have a choice. Blame it on H.G Wells !!!
H.G. Wells' book has such an amazing narrative. It is a pity that by focussing too much on special effects, Shankar. Oops! Sorry .. Spielberg seems to have missed the bus.
I thought Jurassic Park and especially The Lost World had too much focus on special effects too. But, they were amazing to watch when they were released. I think E.T. is his best Sci Fi movie as the human angle in it was superbly exploited. Minority Report also was well taken and appealed to my taste.
But, I love the Spielberg who makes movies like Schindler's list, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad and Catch Me If you can. So, am eagerly waiting for his movie about the 1972 munich games. I dunno what the name is though.
I guess alien invasions need to end with a bang...atleast thats what the audience expects. Movies like Signs though well taken, did not appeal much because they focused on the Human/family angle too much. Which I guess was not too interesting. Same here in this one. For a book it may be good...but for a movie, that too present days, spielberg would have had to make some modifications to make it more attractive.
And that would have led him outside the book.
I feel most of the alien movies are 'predictable', we always know how its gonna end. I went to watch that movie only for spl effects but it wasnt very impressive though. Its funny to watch people breaking into a song when they are facing terror, call it 'stress management'??. Also how the son reached Boston is still a mystery, did the army gave him a free ride home?
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