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Wednesday, 20 July 2005
WAR OF THE WORLDS(2005)
Wow!It'z been an actual good summer for moviez!I dug "Revenge Of The Sith","Batman Begins","Fantastic Four" AND "Land Of The Dead"!
But I haveta say,"War Of The Worlds" has purbly topped them all!!
Now,I've alwayz loved the classic story,in pretty much all it's incarnations-radio play,the original 1954 movie,the 70's Marvel comic,the War Of The Worlds musical.It's pretty much somethin' that would be hard to fuck up.
Course,"Independance Day",which is basically WOTW's,started out promising,then whimped out by becoming one of those blockbuster,hee haww hoopla,America Fuck Yeah kinda movies.I wanted to see the Earth freekin' destroyed,people bein' rounded up and slaughtered and feel some actual fear n' dread,not ultra corny patriotism and "look how tough we are"histrionics.
Spielberg's War Of The Worlds delivers exactly what I wanted!Shit,the first time the Tripods pop out of the ground I'm reminded of the first 10 minutes of "Saving Private Ryan".It's intense!It's brutal and it engulfs you in utter terror and hopelessness.
We see and learn everything that happening thru the characters point of view,so the only information we are given is from the ground level.Not alot of overhead wide angled visuals of aliens invading the earth,or armys battleing the tripods,what we see iz made more intense by what we DON'T see.something that most filmakers have completely forgotten in the realm of horror & sci-fi..
We are smack dab in the middle of the chaos,the despair,the hopelesness,and the worst and best of the human race.Speilberg doesn't wimp out,except for one moment towards the end of the film,which iz my only dissapointment with it.
But it's a freekin' masterpiece,stands up side by side with the original movie that I loved so much.It actually feels like it could be events that are taking place right along side the original,instead of a remake of it.
I didn't want the movie to end.I wanted to see what waz happening in other parts of the destroyed world,how the humans delt with the ramifications of it all,and,I wonder,like after the events of 9/11 if we really learned anything at all about each other.
And,oddly enough,it all comes at the same time az the video game "Destroy All Humans",where you act az the alien,zapping humans and sucking out thier minds.
War Of The Worlds finally showed a film about humans,but humans that ultimately have no such delusions of granduer az thinking they are the chosen masters of this world.
We're just fertilizer til something bigger n' badder,or in this case,smaller and microscopic,comes along.
Let's go zap some humans!!
Ragz Rates It A:9.75
Posted by ragzdandelion
at 12:08 PM PDT
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