War Of The Worlds
January 23rd 2009 23:25
OK, so on Wednesday I watched the Tom Cruise remake of War Of The Worlds on BBC3. I think I'd be given to believe that it was a bad film but I didn't think that I found it any worse than any other Tom Cruise film. ( I think I once saw Tom Cruise in East Grinstead which is where I work and also nearby to the european headqurters for scientology. There was a fairly short chap and he was weariing a baseball cap, dark glasses and a beard and I remember thinking he looked as though it was in disguise and later in the week there were reports that Tom Cruise had been in the town and I put two and two together, probably made five but I count it as a sighting).
Anyway in the film he plays Ray who is an excellent dock-worker - this is established at the beginning of the film for no apparent reason - but a lousy father and a cowardly man. His two children who live with his estranged wife have no respect for him and this isn't suprising as he forgets what time the children are arriving to stay with him and has made no provision for them foodwise. When alien visitors arrive and start attacking he manages to drive the children away from the area back to their mother's house and it is down to the teenage son Bobby to save both his sister and his father when this house comes under attack. The main interest in the film is watching to see what parts of the plot and characters occur from the original versions. There are parallels, and there are differences but of course we all know that ultimately the earth survives the alien attack. No mention of martians and the pods that become the fighting machines are said to already be buried beneath the earth and the aliens are transported down into them. If they're not martians are they thetans?
Anyway in the film he plays Ray who is an excellent dock-worker - this is established at the beginning of the film for no apparent reason - but a lousy father and a cowardly man. His two children who live with his estranged wife have no respect for him and this isn't suprising as he forgets what time the children are arriving to stay with him and has made no provision for them foodwise. When alien visitors arrive and start attacking he manages to drive the children away from the area back to their mother's house and it is down to the teenage son Bobby to save both his sister and his father when this house comes under attack. The main interest in the film is watching to see what parts of the plot and characters occur from the original versions. There are parallels, and there are differences but of course we all know that ultimately the earth survives the alien attack. No mention of martians and the pods that become the fighting machines are said to already be buried beneath the earth and the aliens are transported down into them. If they're not martians are they thetans?
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