Hello, as the title says, this is my critique of the movie War Of The Worlds.
Pros:
-DTS.
-Lots of Bass.
Cons:
-Everything Else.
Here it is, Spielberg's master piece movie. Staring none other then Captin Scientology. I wasn't expecting to be blown away by acting, I was on the other hand, expecting a good story.
I'm going to say this now. I am talking about stuff in the movie. So if you havent seen it, and for some reason, want to for another reason other then one of my Pro's, click the X and move on.
What attacks earth
The aliens are present in the first 20 mintues. I like this. No stupid devolpment of characters, just straight into killing and monsters. Although, Ray (Tom) drives really fast, and power slides around a corner, so we get the jist of his character. There is a series of lightning storms around the world and they strike the same spot several times. Whats happening is the alien is traveling down the bolt, into his killing machine walker, thats buried below the earths crust. These walkers look like some of the bad guys in Half Life 2, the three legged things. They shoot these lasers at people and blow them up into dust(in the movie, not the game). Before these walkers start killing people, they let loose this trombone like note. It's how they communicate in the movie. Hot dang, I know how we can screw them up, get a marching band full of trombones to tell them we come in piece. That or use trombones to shoot missiles at them.
This is where the first issue is. Near the end of the movie, the walkers take the humans captive in these cages under their butts. The walker uses the blood as fuel. So why were they killing people at first?
How we beat them
Not guns, not missiles, not nukes(never showed one, but nothing else worked). What kills these walkers is earth itself. One walker was being attacked by a bunch of crows.... apparently aliens are tasty, along with garabage. Yes thats right, our air, water, and earth killed them. We're safe. Everyone just hide and let our waste save us. Screw saving the earth, we would have been goners if we did.
The middle
This is the middle of the movie, as in the part between the walker frying people, and are collective-turds killing the walkers. This whole part is full of Ray having fits with his 2 kids. He is their father, while their mother is in boston. Ray is divorced from the mother, who's name I can't remember. The son is always lashing out at Ray for only looking out for himself, even though he's trying his damndest to get his stupid ungrateful A$$ to safety. The daughter, also can't remember name, I think its Rachel, is going to be called claptrap. Why? Simple. She doesn't shut her claptrap for the whole movie. Theres alien's and were hiding? BETTER SCREAM. This is so typical, and I for one am sick of this stereo-typical person in movies. They don't exist in real life, like a 3 legged walking killing machine.
I'm not going to go on any further, as I think I have gotten my point across.
It's a great test movie for surround and bass, but the plot is worse then Half-Life, and they had 3 legged walking killing machines...
SheepStar
Edit: Do you think I wrote this review to impress anyone? Take a walk you sissy.(for the person giving me a "negative" comment)
