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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Review

So this weekend I went to see War of the Worlds. Yeah that new movie with that guy who's all over the place talking about his love life with a girl half his age... Yeah his relationship got more press than his movie, and the movie is the reason he was getting all those interviews in the first place.

Well...the movie was OK. Fairly intense at times. TC plays a dick of a Dad... divorced and he's got the kids for the weekend. He has no parenting skills at all. The daughter, Rachael (Dakota Fanning) is overly smart for her age, the teen brother, who's character name and actor name I forget, is all full of teenage angst and "I'm shit upon by my loser dad" attitude. Then the big stuff goes down...and suddenly they've gotta just totally DEAL with their issues to survive.

The main issues I have with the film are this:

1. There's this EM pulse that hits the city or country, which leaves everything eletronic (including wristwatches) dead....so how are these two guys in the film able to A) take pictures with a camera that is so obviously battery operated and B) use a video camera to take pictures of the Tripods coming out of the ground? Dude...don't show me TC's watch is dead then show me operating cameras....cuz that's just WRONG.

2. At the end...like...HUH? I don't wanna give it away but...seriously....What's up with Boston? What did I miss? Something feels just WAAAAY too fairytale there at the end.

Dude, I got paid $4.50 to see this movie (due to a cashier who doesn't understand the nature of the fabulous JC DECAUX movie passes I got. I know it was dishonest to not say anything, but it would have seriously taken me longer to explain the pass to the dude than it would have been worth to be honest.) Overall I'd say wait and rent it. The effects aren't that fabulous that you need to see it on a big screen and honestly, can anyone stand to see anymore of TC? Especially a larger than life TC who's playing a dick? yeah, didn't think so....

That's what I said at 4:21 PM


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