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In Reply to: Judging from your misguided critique of WoTW, this must be your favorite Hollywood picture: posted by Audiophilander on July 8, 2005 at 10:59:48:
I quite liked Clueless. I hated War of the Worlds."First of all, the "twenty minutes scene who broke the pace of this film" was a similar to a scene in the earlier 1953 WoTW film in that the main characters are trapped for a time and searched out by the aliens, but this goes further by revealing the invader's intent behind invading the Earth and what motivates them to kill humans."
It was similar at first with the alien eye tracking them. However when all was said and done it was one of the stupidest parts of a painfully stupid movie. Spielberg couldn't resist using cliches for sheap effect. Hide and seak with an alien probe while the two guys wrestle isn't bad enough, Spielberg had to do the old ridiculus misdirection, Uh oh the alien caught them, TC made noise while hiding behind the mirror and we can see his shoe, what!? no! it's a boot that he happened to find when he was almost caught. Yeah I believe three people could get away from behind a wall mirror while an alien probe is looking right at them without getting caught. All cheap tricks done with camera angles and editing cheats. It was just stupid. Then when you think it couldn't get any more stupid the aliens come out and stroll through the wreckage start naked. One of them even takes a drink of gutter water. Yeah, I buy that. NOT. Could Spielberg have been any more heavy handed in setting up the aliens' demise? You'd think alins with superior technology would build probes with motion dtectors and infra red scanning but no, just near sighted optics."Secondly, Tim Robbins had become a threat to himself and the survival of Tom Cruise's character and that of his daughter, and as a matter of survival (i.e., remaining undiscovered and escaping from the aliens) his motivations are quite sound."
The guy went from rational to bent on self destruction in minutes for no apparent reason.
Spielberg owes me ten bucks.
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Follow Ups
- Re: Judging from your misguided critique of WoTW, this must be your favorite Hollywood picture: - Analog Scott 22:04:59 07/08/05 (2)
- I see some of your points, but only in regard to stylistic issues & not at all with your second assessment. - Audiophilander 23:10:12 07/08/05 (1)
- Re: I see some of your points, but only in regard to stylistic issues & not at all with your second assessment. - Analog Scott 15:11:38 07/09/05 (0)
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