Damn Martians
I totally expected to see Martian tripods rising over the landscape when I walked out of the movie theater tonight. Everybody should go see that movie. You know, the one about aliens attacking us and what-not. I'm still pretty tensed up.
The lack of any real musical "score" to speak of was a really nice touch, I think. It seemed to make the film more realistic. Spieldberg is pretty good at making movies. However, there is one problem I have with the film that I will not share if people haven't already seen it. I guess Steven has to have at least one crappy cop-out hollywood-type cliche in everything he does...
It didn't ruin it for me, though. Go see it. For real.
posted by sauce at 10:48 PM
6 Comments:
saucy, i think i'm going to vomit. war of the worlds sucked --more schlock from a director well-known for it. i can't believe you only noticed one (which one?) hollywood cliche in the movie. how about the shameless scene of the missing people signs (seen that before anywhere on a certain date in sept.?) or the sorry ass "my dad is a slacker" theme or the same old dark death and destruction we see in every Hollywood action flick movie or the violent reaction it seemed EVERYONE had of the alien attack (where were the pacifists --i guess they were all dead). The list goes on and on. Now, I have to confess that I'm a sucker for sentimentality in movies when done well, but when I'm beat over the head with it, it makes we want to barf (how about that lullaby crap with dakota and tom, geez?!). man, i need to go watch another movie to redeem my faith in the medium...or maybe read a book.
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7:33 PM
kev, I think you need to take some prozac or something. Let something make you happy every now and again without talking a bunch of crap about stuff that doesn't matter.
5:08 PM
when something is a pile of horseshit, people with small brains (i.e. Saucy) start calling it "entertainment." what a shame. at any rate, i thought "talking a bunch of crap about stuff that doesn't matter" is what you're suppose to do with a blog. i guess i was mistaken.
i'm dying here, which cliche did you notice in the movie?
9:46 AM
i just thought it was lame when his kid survived and it was like the grandparents weren't even effected by the aliens. It looked like they were welcoming them to Christmas Dinner. The rest of the world is totally fucked, but they're having tea and biscuits wearing freshly pressed clothes...I still enjoyed the movie, though.
10:14 AM
yeah, that was weird. that's a good way to put it --"but they're having tea and biscuits wearing freshly pressed clothes." now, that would have made for a good scene in the movie. they could've even talked in fake Boston accents. i just think Spielberg manipulates his audience into caring for his characters with contrived, hollow conflicts. then, at the end you realize you've been hoodwinked --you say to yourself fuck that teenage kid and ray the lazy dad. sauce, i'm not saying i didn't "enjoy" the movie and its typical action, drama, and suspense. i'm just saying it sucked --if that makes any sense.
11:23 AM
fair enough, kev.
7:52 PM
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