Okay, the movie didn’t exactly suck, but I won’t be going out of my way to see it again. Dakota Fanning, who plays the daughter, delivers a very believable performance. The graphics are fine. The pacing was a little slow for my tastes. My biggest problem (and no, it wasn’t with Tom Cruise) was that the crowds rarely acted like a typical crowd. I’ll give an example. Big hole in ground, something moving beneath ground, ground starts to shake, people take two steps back and wait, big alien bursts from ground, people take three steps back. Is anyone running? No! They stand there until the alien starts firing on them.
Now, I can understand being in shock. Goodness knows I would be if something popped up out of the ground in front of me. BUT, to be honest, I’m not sure I would’ve stuck around long enough to see the aliens pop up out of the ground. My guess is I would have pulled a Shaggy and Scooby. Keep in mind, during this scene buildings were splitting, the earth was shifting, and cars were flipping through the air. NO ONE RAN. I didn’t expect everyone to run, but no one??? Huh? I would’ve forgiven the movie if that would have occurred once in the beginning before anyone knew what was really happening, but it occurred EVERY time. Hell, even cows will stampede if they’re spooked. All I have to say is Fantastic Four better be more entertaining.
July 2nd, 2005
I loved this post! Made me LOL! I haven’t seen the movie, and though I wanted to because I’m a fan of H.G. Wells anyway, this makes it almost a have to see just to make fun of the crowd. Kinda like in a horror flick when someone opens the door when they KNOW a homicidal psycho is waiting for them on the other side. Who would do that?
by Eve Jameson July 2nd, 2005 at 8:55 pmLMAO@NOT running!!!! OH NOOOOO I wanna see it too!
by Cece July 2nd, 2005 at 8:56 pmLUV the review!!
(although I suspect H.G. Wells has very little to do with this film…)
Your little insight reminds me of the great old scary movies…go to a haunted house, people start dropping like flies, but everybody stays anyway…or the zombie/mummy/rotting corpse is barely shuffling along, but they manage to catch & kill people anyway…
And my favorite–my very favorite one of all–is when the beautiful but helpless heroine is running from the bad guy/monster/alien, and she always, ALWAYS trips and falls in the process.
And I was always sitting there yelling, “kick off those stiletto-heeled shoes, girlfriend! Geez, no wonder you can’t run!!”
Ohhh, I gotta go see it too!
by Raine July 2nd, 2005 at 9:26 pmEve, That’s exactly how it is, I swear.
by Jordan July 3rd, 2005 at 12:04 amCece, Ya’ll have to see it.
by Jordan July 3rd, 2005 at 12:05 amRaine, You’re going to laugh your a$$ off.
by Jordan July 3rd, 2005 at 12:05 amWe’re going to see it tonigh, and I sort of had my hopes up because of all the rave reviews. *sigh* This is just the sort of thing I’d pick apart.
LOL, Raine. It’s Jason! The victim runs to the car, ::Jason walking:: drives to the airport and jump on a plane ::Jason walking:: parachutes of plane on the Navy tanker in middle of ocean, ::Jason walking underwater:: hits land and take an ATV through the desert ::Jason walking:: find an oasis that even the Berbers forgot existed, and stops for a drink of water ::Jason comes out from behind palm tree and hacks them to death:: LOL. Sometimes ya just gotta love improbabilities.
by Jaq July 3rd, 2005 at 6:47 amJaq~~~bwaa-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa!!!!!!!
by Raine July 3rd, 2005 at 9:52 amJaq, I went into it with high hopes too. I really love Mr. Spielberg’s movies. I will go see just about anything with his name on it. He has the ability to transport me to other worlds. (pardon the pun) That’s why I was a tad disappointed, but I still think the picture is worth seeing. You just have to ignore the fact that no one runs until fired upon or chased.
by Jordan July 3rd, 2005 at 10:33 amI saw it and liked it, mainly for the chills and thrills. But you’re right, those suckers stood around when I’d be praying that my feet not fail me now. But then my attention was diverted by the neat machine thingies blowing people up and all the crashing and falling. Boom! Bam!
(some of us are immature like that, I guess)
by Monica July 3rd, 2005 at 1:15 pmMonica, Not at all. I liked it too when the machines started disintegrating people. (Mainly because they were too stupid to run. LOL!;)
by Jordan July 3rd, 2005 at 3:15 pmOh, man, I’m so glad we went to see Batman Begins instead! I absolutely loved it.
by Joely July 3rd, 2005 at 10:20 pmJoely, Batman was good. I think WOTW is decent enough, just not what I’ve come to expect from Mr. Spielberg.
by Jordan July 4th, 2005 at 12:38 amI SO wanna see this movie. I had a feeling it would be a little lame, though. Thanks for the heads up!
by Larissa July 4th, 2005 at 8:54 amJaq *HOWLING*
*raises hand* I’m another Speilberg fan. He had me at ET
by Cece July 4th, 2005 at 9:10 amThank you, I just wanted to give a greeting and tell you I like your website.
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