War of the Worlds
Jun. 30th, 2005 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
njordsifusansooJust saw War of the Worlds. Plot-holes and Tom Cruise aside, was an okay movie.
Tom Cruise's acting in there was just terrible. When your playing someone in a panic, your not supposed to be playing an actor pretending to be in a panic. It was bad enough it affected how good some of the other actor's acting was (his character's son would of come out a lot better if Tom was playing the bachelor father out of touch with his kids instead of the wannabe badass). Ugh.
As for plot-holes...
-notice how after anything electronic stops working (after the lighting bolts that caused "emps"), people were using digital cameras and camcorders.
-the whole they must of been planning this for a million years bit (because they buried the machines in the ground) yet we never accidentally came across one of the machines before.
-then there is the whole we won because they ALL died to our diseases. If they had been observing us for all that time, wouldn't they of figured out about diseases whenever one of those killer epidemics came around. Besides that, wouldn't there be a fleet or something still watching from space that can figure out what went wrong and either wipe out the human survivors from orbit or figure out a defense against disease.
O well, was still a decent remake of the movie based on a book. They even had the anti-climatic death by disease ending (well after having Tom Cruise "save the day" by getting captured with a bandoleer of grenades and take out one of the machines). Would of been better if he blew up with the grenades.
Tom Cruise's acting in there was just terrible. When your playing someone in a panic, your not supposed to be playing an actor pretending to be in a panic. It was bad enough it affected how good some of the other actor's acting was (his character's son would of come out a lot better if Tom was playing the bachelor father out of touch with his kids instead of the wannabe badass). Ugh.
As for plot-holes...
-notice how after anything electronic stops working (after the lighting bolts that caused "emps"), people were using digital cameras and camcorders.
-the whole they must of been planning this for a million years bit (because they buried the machines in the ground) yet we never accidentally came across one of the machines before.
-then there is the whole we won because they ALL died to our diseases. If they had been observing us for all that time, wouldn't they of figured out about diseases whenever one of those killer epidemics came around. Besides that, wouldn't there be a fleet or something still watching from space that can figure out what went wrong and either wipe out the human survivors from orbit or figure out a defense against disease.
O well, was still a decent remake of the movie based on a book. They even had the anti-climatic death by disease ending (well after having Tom Cruise "save the day" by getting captured with a bandoleer of grenades and take out one of the machines). Would of been better if he blew up with the grenades.