Watched War of the Worlds this weekend. You can watch the trailer here. The movie was pretty bad in my opinion. The whole movie starts out by telling us aliens were jealous of us and wants to exterminate us. That was the point when I knew the movie was going to be pretty stupid. Then there were those two kids I found utmostly annoying…
Spoilers:
The movie starts off showing Tom Cruise as a crane operator. He drives a pretty sweet ride and seems to have an easy going life. Then you find out he’s divorced, his ex-wife is dating some guy named Tim and she’s pregnant and that Tom Cruise has 2 kids, a teenager son and a elementary school daughter. The son’s a rebel and the daughter has some problems with dettaching with reality. All over the news were reports of lightning strikes and that’s when it hits Tom’s hometown. Welp, they made a play on the “lightning never strikes the same place twice” and lightning actually stroke the same place 20+ times. Suddenly these mechanized robots came from below the ground and started disintegrating everyone by shooting laser beams. Tom Cruise runs home and gets his kids and drives away as quick as possible, however these robots are appearing everywhere. The son continues to rebel, wanting to join the army to help, and not following his father’s instructions. The daughter on the other hand is losing her grip and screaming and going crazy. Apparently these robots have some sort of force field around them. Also, it appears the aliens are traveling along these lightning bolts into the ground where these robots have been stored for thousands or even millions of years. Pretty absurd I must say. Later on, you find that these aliens are eating humans and are actually drinking our water supply. Tom Cruise gets caught, but when he’s about to be eating alive, he throws a grenade into it’s mouth (or whatever you call it) and it explodes freeing him and the other captives. Later on, you find that all the alien robots are slowly dying one by one and the narrator tells us because the human body has adapted to our world, we’ve had antibodies to fight off common germs and diseases, however an alien race has never build up any immune system to combot earthly germs and fell victim to them. What a pretty shitty way for aliens so powerful to die… It was truly a crappy ending and I don’t really mind spoiling it for anyone. It wasn’t really worth it. Plus guess what, the son that went off alone BECAUSE HE JUST NEEDED TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH HIS OWN EYES, ended up living. Sigh… He was suppose to be DEAD! One thing I never got was the purpose of those veins lying everywhere. What were the aliens planning to do with those veins lying everywhere.
If you didn’t see Surviving An Alien Attack, there was a little parody plug regarding this movie, which I found hilarious.