The aliens don't work as well as they did in the summer of 1996.
"War of the Worlds" falls SO SHORT of the original, and of "Independence Day" that I feel like a fool for sitting through the entire thing.
Now, if you haven't seen the film, you might not want to read this. I'm sure I'll make a couple comments some would consider "spoilers". So, stop now, until you've seen the film. Unless you don't care.
Still here? Okay. Good. SLOW, painfully SLOW. And even worse, NOTHING happens. Tom Cruise's character doesn't change. Some characters in the flick are so flat and poorly performed that I almost lost my mind. I can buy people doing things out of the ordinary, because they're all in a panic, and so forth. Okay, that's fine. And, after I sat through two hours of torture, I witnessed the worst pay-off to any film. The resolution is just so weak, I almost felt cheated for watching this film. It's not good. It's not worth ten bucks a ticket. Thank God, I see things for free.
No good DVDs or CDs coming out this week, so I might take advantage and pick up a couple of older flicks I've been wanting.
GREAT NEWS: I'm getting back my JVC El Kameleon KD-LX111 CD Player that was destroyed the last time my car was broken into. I found one on Ebay with a Buy-It-Now price, and my buddy Jonathan picked it up for me. So, hopefully by the end fo the week I'll be able to roll over to his place and pick it up and pay him off.
"No One Dies" is coming along great. We're rounding out the cast with a good group of local actors, so I'm looking forward to getting this production started, in less than two weeks!!! Zach and I have a great deal of last minute details we need to get worked out, mostly involving the location, but everything else seems to be going great.
