"war of the worlds" was great... for me to poop on!
ok - so i actually went to the movie theater (a total no-no for me) and saw "war of the worlds." am i the only one who thought this was a piece of crap? wtf? there was absolutely no story, no character development, no "meaning." ugh!!!!
i LOVE sci-fi, and this was one of the worst sci-fi movies i have ever seen. yes, things explode, but come on... where is the deeper meaning? the social commentary???
in addition, tom cruise is awful. i hate him and i hate his ass face.
of course - i'm particularly biased since the big theory project i worked on in college was about apocalyptic sci-fi cinema. the idea is that themes of the apocalypse caused by alien invasion tend to pop up in post-war times. so i looked at flicks like "the day the earth stood still" (early 50s, post WWII) vs films like "independence day" (late 90s, post gulf war) and compared them. sci-fi films dealing with alien invasion are often a reflection of how we as americans feel threatened by those we are at war against. "war of the worlds" is particularly offensive to me because it doesn't even deal with the aliens. usually you'd have some kind of exploration of the aliens' culture and why they are here. in this case, there is nothing. you don't even get a personality from the aliens for the brief period they appear in their natural form on screen.
i don't know about you, but i'd say this is pretty indicative of americans' attitudes towards "terrorists" and basically the entire middle east. we don't care WHO they are. we don't care what their interests are. all we know is that they hate us for apparently no reason.
let us also examine the TONS of blood in the film. um... i'm sorry, but in the dark those huge pools of blood look a lot like oil. and isn't it interesting how the aliens RUN THEIR SPACESHIPS on blood. come on mr. spielberg, could you be any more obvious?
furthermore, it's totally coincidental that the alien spaceships have been stored under the ground, "right under our feet," for years just waiting for the terrori...i mean aliens to strike. i mean, think of all the PLANNING those aliens must have gone to for this attack. it probably took YEARS.
anyway - i just find the whole "war of the worlds" machine to be grotesquely hilarious. i mean, here you have tom cruise, poster child for us "crazy" americans, spreading his idiotic propaganda over every airwave, stomping childishly on every couch he can find and charging his fists in some kind of perceived victory... never once conceding a millimeter of that shit eating grin. all to promote a film that is built on fear, lack of information and the sheer spectacle of blowing shit up.
i'd say that's pretty fucking unbelievable.
posted by Keeta @ 9:52 AM
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Holy smokes - I don't think you understood the movie.
The first thing that I think is worth mentioning is that this film is based on a book - a book written in 1898, and aside from some updating and character tweaking, the film closely follows the plot laid out in the classic piece of literature. I mention this because this isn't supposed to be Independence Day. The book was intended to be a realistic story about an alien invasion. Obviously, no one knows what that might be like, but I would imagine that if you're waiting for Goerge Bush to suit up and lead a fighter jet squadron, or for Randy Quaid to kamakazi into the mothership, you might be disappointed. The story (book and movie) isn't really concerned with the motivations of the aliens. It's simply about the terror of being invaded/exterminated.
While I get that a lot of people will be drawing Iraq analogies because it's the hip thing to do, I don't understand your comments about TONS of blood, oil, etc. This is a PG-13 film and is largely blood-free. Aside from a few minor head wounds, the only blood I remember seeing was when the guy tried to rip out the windshield with his palms, and when the aliens siphoned blood out a victim. Lacking actual blood, the oil connection seems pretty weak, although I guess it's possible our troops in Iraq keel over as a result of lethal Iraq-based bacteria and complete the connection.
Speaking of blood from a hapless victim, the aliens did not run their ships on blood. They pulled the blood out of humans and sprayed it back onto the ground to fertilize their red vines. How do I know this? The movie explicitly told us. Why where they pulling people up inside from the cage/pod things? I don't know, but they seemed to be running fine when coming up from the ground. What's more, if you're going to run your machines on humans, it seems pretty short-sighted to vaporize most of them.
In conclusion, I'm not entirely we saw the same movie. Your's had Tom Cruise in it, right?
I had three problems with this film:
1. Tom Cruise doesn’t know the capital of Australia, but he knows the proper direction wind should blow during a freak electrical storm.
2. Tom Cruise has never heard of Hummus and does not consider it food, but apparently the way you eat Hummus (dipping flat bread into it) is instinctual for him.
3. Tom Cruise says and/or screams “Rachel” four hundred six-seven thousand* times in two hours.
*rough estimate
p.s. regardless of the above, I liked the film.
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