I hope this one dies an ignomineous death. If the story about one reviewer being able to see this movie is an indication, Spielberg might have a real turkey on his hands here.
There was a preview for War of the Worlds before Cindarella Man.
In one part Tom Cruise grabs his teenage sons arm and says, "I know you feel like you have to fight, but you don't!" while the kid yells something like, "I have to do something!"
That coupled with things like this made me decide to wait for the cable release to see this one.
Lame stretch. Sith is making more than the last Star Wars and will end up being the #2 moneymaker in the series. Its falloff after the first week was because it made so much damned money in the opening week it could only go south. And I wish MY income were "losing pace" the way this one has.
WOTW is from Spielberg, so it should be no surprise to anyone it has a liberal point of view. So what? This boycotting due to political beliefs of people in a non-political context is silly. I want to see a movie, doesn't mean it's going to make me ever vote Democrat again. If you don't want to watch the products of liberals, throw out your TV and DVD player.
I guess I'm a sucker.. Tom Cruise or not, I've been a WOTW fan since I heard the original broadcast by Orson Wells. I still have a copy of it.
I'll go sit in the theater and watch it and then form my own opinion as to whether it was a boondoggle or not. :)
Movies by liberals provide excellent incite into their faulty thinking. They think they are exposing conservatives faults in their films, they just don't realise they are exposing their own faults. The problem is that the way they see things and interpret them is so backwards that conservatives don't see it the way they do.
Case in point with Cruise telling the son he doesn't have to fight. It should go without saying, conservatives always teach that fighting is a possible first response but let's make sure its what we need to do first. If facts reveal that a fight is necessary, do it right, get it done. The liberals may think they have exposed conservatives as fight first, think later because of the scene in the movie - conservatives see a father asking a son to think first, get a better weapon and then kick b*tt.
Who cares what some liberal claims it means, that is his opinion and doesn't necessarily even portray that thought.
Mr. "Chill Wind" Robbins is in this movie as well. No Tim Robbins movies for me, ever again.
Wells' original novel was a metaphor for anti colonialist attitudes. It was such a crackling good story that the message was overwhelmed. If this flick is as poorly done as Spielberg's Into the West series then all we'll have to talk about is the message. I think that's what they are afraid of. Unless you are Michael Moore, movies whose whole purpose is propaganda tank big time.