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Thursday, June 30, 2005
War of the Worlds
Sometimes I'm thankful for being ignorant. You all should know this movie, this summer blockbuster of 2005, adapted from a book. Which I totally have no idea of of course.
If you know me I wouldn't say anything much about the plot because I hate spoilers but for the super duper paranoid people like me, here you go... And with the warning I'll talk abit about the plot, nothing you wouldn't know if you went to the official site or watch some promo features..
If you intend to watch it, just skip this entry altogether, or as a guide scroll down to after the 2nd picture, where it says end of spoilers. But if you don't intend to watch this scifi horror film (as speilberg labels), then you may go on and bore yourself further..
WARNING: SPOILERS
As we all watched the trailers a few months back, we only knew that there was gonna be a war of the worlds. Spielberg and gang's trailer obviously wanted to touch on your taste buds but not give a single clue away. And on tuesday night I thought, hey, let's watch this movie right when it opens (wednesday).
We were 10minutes late! Because Princess P's best friend was late and also we kinda misplaced the tickets at a shop and the shopkeeper returned it to us just as I was trying to plead with the salesgirl behind the ticket counter to let us in. So we missed a bit of the initial narration.
And the movie started proper, with Tom Cruise's character Ray meeting his ex-wife to babysit his 2 children, Robbie and Rachel (Dakota Fanning). That's when all the thunderstorms arrived. And about 20minutes into the show, the aliens emerged! I never expected to see the aliens so quickly. And I never thought they would be tripods ie big tall oval flat shaped with 3 long legs. But when I searched images with the said title I found that they're all over the place. Haha. And I'm thankful that whenever I watch a film, I don't know what's gonna happen (except that HG2G show).
Each scene is either emotionally or psychologically packed with goodies that will keep you at the edge of your seat, although Princess P yawned once and I immediately turned to stare at her. HAHA. I love this kinda armageddon oh no the world is coming to an end let me save my teddy bears sorta movies mah. And Dakota Fanning is at her Hide and Seek self portraying a very scared little girl.
So everything was top notch so far, but here comes the bomber. The ending, blatantly, sucks.
Unless you already know the story, the ending's a total anti-climax of what has been a high octane ride throughout the ~2hour movie.
In conclusion:
Eye-candy: 8/10. There's Tom cruise fine. But where's the female hottie?? Dakota is seriously underaged.
Pace: 9/10. Good. Never felt that it was draggy or too much dialogue, or too much fighting, or too much anything.
Soundtrack: 8/10. What sounds do you expect from such a movie anyway.
Plot: Minus the ending, it deserved a 8/10, because sometimes I feel that the aliens are too stupid, and I wouldn't say them here cos they are super spoilers.
Aliens: As mentioned above. And appearance wise they do look kinda gremlin-ish at times. Definitely not those type in the Sigourney Weaver episodes.
Plot as a whole: 7/10 The ending arghghg the ending!
To watch: during the $7-$8 price range. At $9.50 per pax I'm sure you'll rip off the cinema seats and throw them at the screen.
People who know the story will probably go "You mean you didn't know the story meh?" But I'm glad I didn't. I enjoyed it overall. Yeah!
~End of spoilers~
If you really scrolled down just to miss the spoilers,
good determination!
But... Nothing to read liao lah!
triggering Mr Ng HS |
Sometimes I'm thankful for being ignorant. You all should know this movie, this summer blockbuster of 2005, adapted from a book. Which I totally have no idea of of course.
If you know me I wouldn't say anything much about the plot because I hate spoilers but for the super duper paranoid people like me, here you go... And with the warning I'll talk abit about the plot, nothing you wouldn't know if you went to the official site or watch some promo features..
If you intend to watch it, just skip this entry altogether, or as a guide scroll down to after the 2nd picture, where it says end of spoilers. But if you don't intend to watch this scifi horror film (as speilberg labels), then you may go on and bore yourself further..
WARNING: SPOILERS
As we all watched the trailers a few months back, we only knew that there was gonna be a war of the worlds. Spielberg and gang's trailer obviously wanted to touch on your taste buds but not give a single clue away. And on tuesday night I thought, hey, let's watch this movie right when it opens (wednesday).
We were 10minutes late! Because Princess P's best friend was late and also we kinda misplaced the tickets at a shop and the shopkeeper returned it to us just as I was trying to plead with the salesgirl behind the ticket counter to let us in. So we missed a bit of the initial narration.
And the movie started proper, with Tom Cruise's character Ray meeting his ex-wife to babysit his 2 children, Robbie and Rachel (Dakota Fanning). That's when all the thunderstorms arrived. And about 20minutes into the show, the aliens emerged! I never expected to see the aliens so quickly. And I never thought they would be tripods ie big tall oval flat shaped with 3 long legs. But when I searched images with the said title I found that they're all over the place. Haha. And I'm thankful that whenever I watch a film, I don't know what's gonna happen (except that HG2G show).
Each scene is either emotionally or psychologically packed with goodies that will keep you at the edge of your seat, although Princess P yawned once and I immediately turned to stare at her. HAHA. I love this kinda armageddon oh no the world is coming to an end let me save my teddy bears sorta movies mah. And Dakota Fanning is at her Hide and Seek self portraying a very scared little girl.
So everything was top notch so far, but here comes the bomber. The ending, blatantly, sucks.
Unless you already know the story, the ending's a total anti-climax of what has been a high octane ride throughout the ~2hour movie.
In conclusion:
Eye-candy: 8/10. There's Tom cruise fine. But where's the female hottie?? Dakota is seriously underaged.
Pace: 9/10. Good. Never felt that it was draggy or too much dialogue, or too much fighting, or too much anything.
Soundtrack: 8/10. What sounds do you expect from such a movie anyway.
Plot: Minus the ending, it deserved a 8/10, because sometimes I feel that the aliens are too stupid, and I wouldn't say them here cos they are super spoilers.
Aliens: As mentioned above. And appearance wise they do look kinda gremlin-ish at times. Definitely not those type in the Sigourney Weaver episodes.
Plot as a whole: 7/10 The ending arghghg the ending!
To watch: during the $7-$8 price range. At $9.50 per pax I'm sure you'll rip off the cinema seats and throw them at the screen.
People who know the story will probably go "You mean you didn't know the story meh?" But I'm glad I didn't. I enjoyed it overall. Yeah!
~End of spoilers~
If you really scrolled down just to miss the spoilers,
good determination!
But... Nothing to read liao lah!
triggering Mr Ng HS |