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This is where you stick random tidbits of information about yourself.
Age 23, living in sin in Twickenham with Cheesy
Likes
Movies
Books
Writing
Theatre
Hugs
Kittens
Chess
Scrabble (mostly beating Cheesy's butt)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Dislikes
Vegetables
Arguments
Cleaning
Trashy TV
Pretensions
Public Transport
Pets
Rabbits-Bambi, Fern, Sooty, Pippa-all deceased
Dog-Sammy-deceased :(
Fish-CatFlap-recently (and finally!) deceased
Cat-Tiggy-still scratching
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Technically Rachel
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Monday, July 04, 2005
War of the Worlds
Hmmm, still trying to decide whether or not I actually enjoyed this film. It certainly has its moments. The acting is good enough (excuse me while I choke out that Tom Cruise was passable - uck, something must have warped my mind), particular the ever creepy Dakota Fanning-the alien child. The older son as well was very good - being young and angry and never bordering on just annoying. So all good there. Some of the visuals were also beautifully stunning - the front of the church building moving and the way it catches the light, the stunningly vicious way the lasers incinerate humans and the way their remains scatter over the terrified survivors, the burning train whipping past (pointless and non-sensical as its existence may be), the eerie beauty of clothes falling from the sky, and the disturbing vision of red blood plants choking fields as far as the eye can see.
But... there are too many plot holes. While I've always loved the way the aliens are defeated, if they've been planning this attack for millions of years, and studying the human race, surely SURELY they would have tested the water, the food, hell even a human itself. It would all make more sense if they were just an alien race that came across the planet and thought: "Fuck it, let's take this place" in a New World kinda way. Also - the space ships buried underground millions of years ago. First off - we've been digging around our planet for centuries and the idea that not a single one had been found is ridiculous. Also - if these things were trundling around our planet and burying stuff a million years ago - why the hell didn't they just move in then?! When we were silly ape men still beating ourselves over the head with clubs! Why wait a million years for us to bugger up most of the planet first. Pff. Stupid aliens - deserved to die for their stupidity.
The crashed airplane is a little too "Ooh, we're referencing 09/11", though the references to terrorism were amusing, particularly the "Europe?" line. And the plot does run out of steam - we spend WAY too long in a basement. The escape of detection seems only to be cause the things creeping around have crappy vision, hearing, and smell. And then comes the big commentary-on-the-human-condition-in-pursuit-of-survival moment, which either just isn't built up properly, or just doesn't fit. And then the movie ends. Really quickly.
So. Mixed bag then. Worth seeing for the visuals, but all in all just an excuse to blow things up.
9:07 am
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