after watching War of the Worlds
This post may contain some spoiling features, but whatever. I don't think that anybody would care about that since the movie is a half year old, which means someone who love to watch movies would seen this one already.
I haven't read the original book written by H.G. Wells, but I already read about the cause of aliens' death by reading scinece articles ever since more than 10 years ago. I didn't notice that the book and the film were related until the end though.
I'll just get straight to my impressions toward the film. Well, I liked it. Just like any other Dreamworks films, this film used lots of computer graphics. The production team did good job on the cloudy skies and the details of the machines that aliens controlled. Those were realistics. Also those machines reminded me Stripes from Half-life 2.
There are some negative sides of this film.
First, at the beginning of the film when the mother brought her children at Ray's home, there are news of Ukraine's unusual EMP incident and the city Ray lives, I do not recall it back clearly, got under attacked by aliens. But how the heck Boston didn't seem to get attacked in most places? I don't think aliens were dropped only on certain spot at this time and another place at next time.
Secondly, how did Robby got back to Boston? Even Ray and Rachel had hard time to deal with machines. Aliens delivered Robby in front of his grandparents' house nice and softly? He flew from the hill to Boston as the result of the explosion?
Finally, why did the shield of the machines turned off after aliens were infected by virus? I really don't get this part. Did the shield were related to the controllers' brainwaves somehow? Did aliens took pills and they were too sleepy to turn on the shield? Because the shield was the ultimate defensive system of the machine from human weapons, therefore they should increase the defense harder and working on vaccines or something like that. That is what I think the proper way. They were just jerks from outer space? I don't know.
I felt like that Director Spielberg just didn't give enough information through out the film and dumped everything at the end.
I was only focused on the bad parts, but it was still enjoyable. Nice act, Tom and Dakota.
I haven't read the original book written by H.G. Wells, but I already read about the cause of aliens' death by reading scinece articles ever since more than 10 years ago. I didn't notice that the book and the film were related until the end though.
I'll just get straight to my impressions toward the film. Well, I liked it. Just like any other Dreamworks films, this film used lots of computer graphics. The production team did good job on the cloudy skies and the details of the machines that aliens controlled. Those were realistics. Also those machines reminded me Stripes from Half-life 2.
There are some negative sides of this film.
First, at the beginning of the film when the mother brought her children at Ray's home, there are news of Ukraine's unusual EMP incident and the city Ray lives, I do not recall it back clearly, got under attacked by aliens. But how the heck Boston didn't seem to get attacked in most places? I don't think aliens were dropped only on certain spot at this time and another place at next time.
Secondly, how did Robby got back to Boston? Even Ray and Rachel had hard time to deal with machines. Aliens delivered Robby in front of his grandparents' house nice and softly? He flew from the hill to Boston as the result of the explosion?
Finally, why did the shield of the machines turned off after aliens were infected by virus? I really don't get this part. Did the shield were related to the controllers' brainwaves somehow? Did aliens took pills and they were too sleepy to turn on the shield? Because the shield was the ultimate defensive system of the machine from human weapons, therefore they should increase the defense harder and working on vaccines or something like that. That is what I think the proper way. They were just jerks from outer space? I don't know.
I felt like that Director Spielberg just didn't give enough information through out the film and dumped everything at the end.
I was only focused on the bad parts, but it was still enjoyable. Nice act, Tom and Dakota.
posted by t.s. at 10:02 PM
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