I agree with JR on this one. The film is quite good.
Of course, I didn't go in with an anti-Spielberg or anti-Cruise
bias, as some people seem to have.
Craig.
At 08:53 AM 7/4/05 -0500, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
>What hyperbolic drugs did you take? Did we see the same picture?
>It's an OK sci-fi pic with exceptional special effects, and a terrific
>performance by a child actor. Cruise soldiers thru capably and assures
>the producers they will get their money back. Tim Robbin's sequence
>almost pointless. Suspension of disbelief issues aside, these three are
>the ONLY guys with a car? And where are all these people walking to
>and why?
>Visual effects, yes. Emotional effects, no. As I said in my little
>review, it
>is successful at finding the DREAD note in the beginning parts of the
>picture.
>The tripod snout snooping around bit in Robbin's house is tedious,
>however. The
>sentiment at the end feels false to me. Cruise does not do male bonding
>well, that we know of, and I thought the whole father/son turf wars
>typical of Spielberg.
>When they arrive at the grandmother's house, it's practically
>thanksgiving day.
>
>Spielberg is better at setting things up than playing them out, in my
>opinion. Both
>physically (blocking actors, using locales) and dramatically. The
>endings are usually
>disappointing. The ending of this film is typical: Gene Barry walks
>out of the house
>like some avuncular presence.
>
>Special effects in films are so omnipresent today than when truly vivid
>ones appear,
>it stands out. It is true that this whole picture looks terrific.
>Spielberg's films
>usually do. And arguably he has done this old war-horse justice.
>
>But films start with a script. And while this is not the worst script,
>if the producers had cared
>as much about the words these actors should say and the actions they
>should make as they did
>about the tripods, then your statement below might not require so much
>suspension of disbelief.
>
>Just about everyone over 11 years old will see it, but should they?
>Really?
>
>Kirby
>
>On Jul 4, 2005, at 2:52 AM, JR wrote:
>
>> I thought the first two-thirds of the picture a flamin' masterpiece.
>> Just about everyone over 11 years old should see it. It is dynamite
>> film-making and creates visual and emotional effects I don't think any
>> other film has ever achieved to this extent.
>
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