War of the Worlds
Re: War of the Worlds
Ah well come 2008 we'll have the Musical version on the big screen! According to the man behind the album is making the album into a big screen version (set in 1897). Lets hope he keeps all the original voices and music!
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The Last Word
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Re: War of the Worlds: Review.
Been a while since we had one of these. Giddy-up?
Briefly: Lousy dad Cruise tries deputising his tetchy kids for the weekend. Fares badly. Aliens unhelpful.
Good: The staging is frequently masterful and the pace impresses. A lot of the imagery has a grotesque surrealism (the eerie, insect-like tripods, a speeding train on fire, a river of corpses). Technically flawless and fabulously shot by J. Kaminski. Fanning wins the acting cigar.
Bad: Real 9/11 horrorshow, folks, and it smacks of opportunism at the expense of Well?s more intriguing themes on nature & humanity. Cruise?s usual character arc (i.e. I?m a good guy really) is never in doubt, and, of course, Spielberg sugars the pill come the abrupt end, though the film?s subtle, dark fairytale coda is well implemented.
Comment: Weirdly, this is both the film AI wanted to be (the journey-fable) and the film Jurassic Park should?ve been (the science-disaster). A nice twist for Spielberg: once aliens brought hope and surrogacy, now they separate and decimate. True, it does seem faintly depressing that something this relentlessly mordant is being wrapped up as summer entertainment. Spielberg really needs a hit mind, and here it is (over $200m already).
Verdict: A perverse but imperfect marvel in itself, and nowhere near what it could've been. 7.5/10.
Briefly: Lousy dad Cruise tries deputising his tetchy kids for the weekend. Fares badly. Aliens unhelpful.
Good: The staging is frequently masterful and the pace impresses. A lot of the imagery has a grotesque surrealism (the eerie, insect-like tripods, a speeding train on fire, a river of corpses). Technically flawless and fabulously shot by J. Kaminski. Fanning wins the acting cigar.
Bad: Real 9/11 horrorshow, folks, and it smacks of opportunism at the expense of Well?s more intriguing themes on nature & humanity. Cruise?s usual character arc (i.e. I?m a good guy really) is never in doubt, and, of course, Spielberg sugars the pill come the abrupt end, though the film?s subtle, dark fairytale coda is well implemented.
Comment: Weirdly, this is both the film AI wanted to be (the journey-fable) and the film Jurassic Park should?ve been (the science-disaster). A nice twist for Spielberg: once aliens brought hope and surrogacy, now they separate and decimate. True, it does seem faintly depressing that something this relentlessly mordant is being wrapped up as summer entertainment. Spielberg really needs a hit mind, and here it is (over $200m already).
Verdict: A perverse but imperfect marvel in itself, and nowhere near what it could've been. 7.5/10.
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Marie-Louise
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Re: 2005 VERSION
Fab film & tom cruise looks horny as always 
love & kisses Marie-Louisexxx
love & kisses Marie-Louisexxx
you only got one life so live it & be happy!!
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Love 'n' Kisses Marie-Louisexxxx (36gg boobies)
im like marmite you either love me or you hate me lols
Love 'n' Kisses Marie-Louisexxxx (36gg boobies)
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Dr Volospion
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Re: War of the Worlds: Review.
My review: Saw it in Stockholm last week.....
Plot: More loopholes than crocheted sweater. Who were the aliens? Why did they wait millions of years to invade, as they had already buried their war machines millennia earlier? Surely it would have been easier in the 14th Century....oh, hang on, they might have caught the plague.
Acting: None. If you can call a little girl screaming at top volume for an hour and half and Tom doing his Lee Strasberg method of wearing his baseball cap at a "stressed" angle acting...bring on Traci Lords.
Nudity: None. And I was hoping to see the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6 too.....fans of the late Douglas Adams will get that one.
Plot: More loopholes than crocheted sweater. Who were the aliens? Why did they wait millions of years to invade, as they had already buried their war machines millennia earlier? Surely it would have been easier in the 14th Century....oh, hang on, they might have caught the plague.
Acting: None. If you can call a little girl screaming at top volume for an hour and half and Tom doing his Lee Strasberg method of wearing his baseball cap at a "stressed" angle acting...bring on Traci Lords.
Nudity: None. And I was hoping to see the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6 too.....fans of the late Douglas Adams will get that one.
Re: War of the Worlds: Review.
>And I was hoping to see the triple breasted whore of Eroticon 6 too
Tom Cruise does ask the barman for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
at one point in the film.
Tom Cruise does ask the barman for a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
at one point in the film.
Re: War of the Worlds: Review.
No.
If you want a War of the Worlds film set in Woking then try and get your hands on the Pendragon Films version called "H.G Wells War of the Worlds". Apparently it's a fairthful adaptation of the book but it's a bit "B" movie. It was made last year and has been released before the Spielberg one to "cash in".
Then again wait until 2008 when Jeff Waynes CGI film adaptation of his best selling album The War of the Worlds is released
If you want a War of the Worlds film set in Woking then try and get your hands on the Pendragon Films version called "H.G Wells War of the Worlds". Apparently it's a fairthful adaptation of the book but it's a bit "B" movie. It was made last year and has been released before the Spielberg one to "cash in".
Then again wait until 2008 when Jeff Waynes CGI film adaptation of his best selling album The War of the Worlds is released
Re: War of the Worlds
>is that the one with gene barry[burkes law] in where hes standing in the road looking anxious?
Saw the film today.
Gene Barry is in the film, he plays the 'grandfather' at the
very end.
Mind you, blink and you miss him, he is only on screen for
about two seconds.
Saw the film today.
Gene Barry is in the film, he plays the 'grandfather' at the
very end.
Mind you, blink and you miss him, he is only on screen for
about two seconds.
Re: War of the Worlds: Review.
Saw the film today.
Have to say it was only average, Speilberg seemed to be
just going throught the motions.
Dreamworks, the company he part owns, made the film and
I get the impression that he just thought, "oh well, lets just
rush off another 'blockbuster' and make another 300 million
dollars".
It has a scene very like Titanic, almost as though he was jealous
of the success of the Titanic film, and the 'cellar' scene was just
like the scene in Jurrasic Park with the kids in the kitchen chased
by the raptors.
And the whole film has an 'Independance day' feel about it.
I did wonder if the film was some sort of metaphor of the 9/11
disaster, with the plane crashing into the house (spookily like
the twin towers), and the posters everywhere looking for loved
ones, and of course the "we will not be defeated" mentality.
Have to say it was only average, Speilberg seemed to be
just going throught the motions.
Dreamworks, the company he part owns, made the film and
I get the impression that he just thought, "oh well, lets just
rush off another 'blockbuster' and make another 300 million
dollars".
It has a scene very like Titanic, almost as though he was jealous
of the success of the Titanic film, and the 'cellar' scene was just
like the scene in Jurrasic Park with the kids in the kitchen chased
by the raptors.
And the whole film has an 'Independance day' feel about it.
I did wonder if the film was some sort of metaphor of the 9/11
disaster, with the plane crashing into the house (spookily like
the twin towers), and the posters everywhere looking for loved
ones, and of course the "we will not be defeated" mentality.