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| ACTORS: | Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Steven Spielberg |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 29 June, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Umvd/Dreamworks |
| MPAA RATING: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 678149456226 |
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Customer Reviews of War of the Worlds (2-Disc Limited Edition)
Brilliant, intense, and all kinds of other really cool stuff that can be said! Absolute sci-fi masterpiece! Tom Cruise: As usual, an awesome, riveting performance, Dakota Fanning: An acting talent beyond belief, Justin Chatwin: You ROCK! And The "Berg": Well, goes without saying ... Thank you Steven! I will be purchasing TWO DVDs ... one to watch, and one to keep buried, unopened, waiting deep below the streets.
One Questionable Deviation; Otherwise Great Job
Let me stress that over all, I liked the movie for all the reasons that appear in other reviews (so I won't go into them).
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>I can live with most of Spielberg's deviations from the original story, but there is one that bothered me to the point of distraction throughout the rest of the movie.
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>In every version of this story: in the original book, in the Welles radio play and in the first movie, the aliens came to earth in cylinders. Simple, clean. You crash land, you screw off one end, you deploy and destroy. Easy to understand; easy to recreate on film.
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>Spielberg decides to deviate here and worse, does so in a way that makes no sense. Aliens riding lightning bolts down to tripods buried under ground millions of years ago?
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>Let's consider this for a minute: you're an alien race capable of space travel that wants to take the resources of a neighboring planet that has life but no civilization. You can:
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>A) Build a bunch of tripods, transport them to the planet, devise a way to hide them that will keep them functional for millions of years and devise a way to get to them when you need them, all on the off chance that a couple of million years from now there may be some resistance to your harvesting efforts.
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>B) GO TAKE CONTROL OF THE PLANET NOW AND MAKE SURE RESISTANCE NEVER DEVELOPS!!
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>From the moment they explained the lightning bolt, all I could think about was the above and why the heck Spielberg would take such a silly departure in such a no-brainer part of the story. It was a real distraction from an otherwise well executed film.
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War of the Worlds
Super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this takes on H.G. Wells's novel is basically a horror film packaged as a sci-fi thrill ride. Spielberg utilizes aliens hell-bent on quickly destroying humanity, and the terrifying results that prey upon adult fears, especially in the post-9/11 world. The realistic results could be a new genre, the grim popcorn thriller; often you feel like you're watching Schindler's List more than Spielberg's other thrill-machine movies (Jaws, Jurassic Park). The film centers on Ray Ferrier, a divorced father (Tom Cruise, oh so comfortable) who witnesses one giant craft destroy his New Jersey town and soon is on the road with his teen son (Justin Chatwin) and preteen daughter (Dakota Fanning) in tow, trying to keep ahead of the invasion. The film is, of course, impeccably designed and produced by Spielberg's usual crew of A-class talent. The aliens are genuinely scary, even when the film--like the novel--spends a good chunk of time in a basement where the aliens are seen in person for the first time. The movie includes Tim Robbins and narration by Morgan Freeman.