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Re: The fiasco of " War of the Worlds "-----------------

I think you are being generous. I just saw this movie today. To quote Victor. Kaka. This was one of the most stupid movies I hve ever seen. I love a good scifi movie but scifi isn't an excuse for stupid. I'll accept a premise, just about any premise but not stupidity. One could drive a space ship through the holes in this movie. Starts off with the aliens wiping out all the electrical. This worked in the cities but out in the country the laws of physics are different. Of course the power grid works in the country too but not the city. Tom Cruises's son for no apparent reason wants to get an up close look at the bad guys and is engulfed in a ball of fire. Don't worry though, he was OK. There were more ridiculous escapes from falling airplanes falling bridges and flying cars and balls of fire than the usual crappy action movies. Amoung all the stupid characters doing stupid things and the inconsistancies for the sake of convenience and cheap revelations (my favorite is that they use human blood as fertilizer but they like to fry people when they first come out of the ground) there is amoungst this stupidity a story. Er um well... maybe not. They come, people get slaughtered and TC and family have a long string of idiotic improbable escapes from situations that only an idiot would put themselves into to begin with. I've seen better story arcs at monster truck rallies. Then there is the premise, perhaps the most stupid part of the movie. The alien ships have been there planted in the ground since before man walked the earth. That is anticipation on steroids. "Hey lets plant these mchines in the ground so we can invade this place at a later date just in case inteligent beings evolve and present an obsticle." Why didn't they just stay in the first place when they planted all those machines of destruction? Why ask? Oh and the hour long game of hide and seek with the alien eye while Tom wrestles with a guy bent on getting caught by the aliens. So bad. Kaka.

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