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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 29 June, 2005 DVD Release : 22 November, 2005 |
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War of the Worlds (Full Screen Edition) description Despite super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this take on H.G. Wells's novel is basically a horror film packaged as a sci-fi thrill ride. Instead of a mad slasher, however, Spielberg (along with writers Josh Friedman & David Koepp) utilizes aliens hell-bent on quickly destroying humanity, and the terrifying results that prey upon adult fears, especially in the post-9/11 world. The realistic results could be a new genre, the grim popcorn thriller; often you feel like you're watching Schindler's List more than Spielberg's other thrill-machine movies (Jaws, Jurassic Park). The film centers on Ray Ferrier, a divorced father (Tom Cruise, oh so comfortable) who witnesses one giant craft destroy his New Jersey town and soon is on the road with his teen son (Justin Chatwin) and preteen daughter (Dakota Fanning) in tow, trying to keep ahead of the invasion. The film is, of course, impeccably designed and produced by Spielberg's usual crew of A-class talent. The aliens are genuinely scary, even when the film--like the novel--spends a good chunk of time in a basement. Readers of the book (or viewers of the deft 1953 adaptation) will note the variation of whom and how the aliens come to Earth, which poses some logistical problems. The film opens and closes with narration from the novel read by Morgan Freeman, but Spielberg could have adapted Orson Welles's words from the famous Halloween Eve 1938 radio broadcast: "We couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the best next thing: we annihilated the world." --Doug Thomas |
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| This of course is a remake of the Sci Fi classic staring Gene Barry, frankly a much better movie than this mess. When Speilberg is good, he's one of the best, films like Shindler's List and Jaws are classics, but then he does films like this and A.I., films that just are not well made, it's not so much the content of the production value, it's just poor pacing and bad narrative and story movement. This movie has some cool special effects and I like Cruise in the title role, but the story ends so abruptly you think that maybe you got a defective DVD, the film get summed up in like half a minute, you're left to just sit there in amazement and wonder, did Speilberg see this last cut, did he screen this at all? Frankly, I have never been a fan of Dakota Fanning, I find her a really odd little girl, in all her movies she acts and talks like an insolant forty year old. Saturday Night Live used to do a dead on impression of her, that got the crux of her totally annoyance, really she was just the limit in this, one minute doing her patentent forty year old know it all, then the next screaming like a five year old throwing a fit, it's all so bizarre, I really felt for Cruise having to act with this strange creature. Like I said the speical effects were top notch as with all of Speilbergs films, but it all sort of came to nothing, because the ending was so obtuse, this film should have gone on at least another thirty minutes, if for no other reason as to explain so many unanswered questions. | |
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