Just damn.
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Hate to say this, but it's just being true to the book in this case.
What an insipid statement. One can only conclude that he never read the book by H. G. Wells.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
That's pretty much how Hitler was defeated, right? No need to actually read a history book or view the History Channel. Spielberg has the answers regarding human nature. Or at least some nice production values. And it is nice to be nice.
For a significant part of the movie, Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) and his daughter are holed up in an old basement with Ogilvy (Tim Robbins). Robbins' character wants to fight the outer-space invaders or at least die trying. Ray doesn't want to. He just wants to be silent and wait it out. Because he and Ogilvy are at odds over the strategy to fight the alien terrorists, Ray murders Ogilvy. And magically, the invaders eventually die and go away at the end of the film because, as narrator Morgan Freeman says, they could not handle the bad things in our air, our environment, our culture. Our "spirit" won out over them.
Barf.`
Great, sounds like another hollywood blockbuster film I won`t/don`t want to see. One day maybe they will get me back, but if they keep pumping out these horrid , agenda laden films, I will keep my money and stay away.
But the last 20-30 minutes were a disaster. I'm assuming this is the part that Debbie is talking about.
I can't wait for this one, supposed to be very good and intense. The political handwringing by Debbie here is laughable. Get a grip lady.
Strangely enough, for Tom Cruise this movie fits in the category of "non-fiction".
I'll trust a FReeper's interpretation of this movie before Ebert or any other critic.
"Spielberg said "War of the Worlds" is a parallel for 9/11 and serves as a "prism" through which to view 9/11, the War on Terror, and our presence in Iraq."
So he's saying we should fight the Iraqi terrorists with germ warfare? Wow!
Just damn.
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Generally speaking, I am not all that interested in what a Scientologist has to say about war, peace, God, sci-fi or aliens.
I've got one major problem here. In the novel, that existed for 100 years before 9/11, man was powerless to fight the Martians, and it was good ol' nature that got them in the end. Sounds like the movie has stayed true the book, and the author doesn't like it.
In case anyone's interested, WOTW was a Victorian novel about a Western, Victorian society (Great Britain) getting its just desserts after centuries of oppressing little brown and yellow people (the Empire).
Wells was a liberal--for his time--and his book shocked the people of his time for even suggesting that:
1. Great Britain couldn't conquer all, and
2. That her conquering all wasn't for the greater good.
A hell of a good read, and the fifties' version and the television series (first season, anyway) are neat.
I think Speilburg is saying to let smallpox take care of it.
It sounds like the ending of this movie has the same ending as the book and its previous radio and screen adaptations.
Schlussel means "key." I wonder what the significance of that might be...
Moral of the story, bury your head in the sand, ignore the bear tearing away at your leg, and hope for the best.
And if the Islamonazis demand that you worship Allah as a slave or else face beheading, well at least you'll have your (new) faith...
In the 1960s their slogan was "Better Red Than Dead".
They claimed we could never defeat the Soviet Union and would do best to co-exist. Some said the same of Hitler's Germany.
We can DO it if we TRY. The whole world is better for it. Our existence is not threatened and millions upon millions are safer. We DO NOT conquor other nations for territorial gain.