War of the Worlds

This is another one of those movies that's been adapted from a classic novel from back in the day. I heard a lot of people complaining about this one on how it's different from the book or this wasn't right or it was borring, etc, etc. I thought it wasn't too bad. It wasn't an 'awesome gotta see it again tomorrow' movie, but I also wasn't too dissapointed with it. Liz even said that she forgot it was Tom Cruise acting about half-way through and thinking back on it I'd have to say the exact same thing. Sometimes certain actors, even though they do a good job, can almost get a bit distracting in the fact that so-and-so is on the screen. Along with Tom we got to see Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), and Tim Robbins. At one point I thought I spotted one of the Army/National Guard guys as being Damien (Daniel Franzese) from Mean Girls. As you can tell by the links I put up, good ol IMDB was able to confirm my suspicions. I think they did a decent job with the aliens in here. It was also kind of interesting what Spielberg's take was on how the aliens got to Earth and how they got their machines and started wrecking havoc all over the world. There were a lot of similarities between the movie and the book but not everything was quite the same. It was more like listening to a familiar piece of music re-arranged by a different composer than just a bad adaptation. It's the same song/story, it's just different. So to wrap up I'd say this was a good movie and something worth watching. I would also venture to say this movie is safe for old ladies.