Sorry, Sir, but you are no War of the Worlds

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 1999)

If this movie is a remake of War of the Worlds, then I must agree with the old saw that "remakes are seldom as good as the originals." I had to take the batteries out of my hearing aid, put in my foam earplugs, then cover my ears with my hands, and open my mouth, just to survive the ground-zero sound pressure. Was it 20 dB above a jet engine at 10 meters? The scientists have said that you can tell how close to the bomb blast people were at Hiroshima by whether their eardrums are intact. The plot and lines were hardly better than the junk I wrote at age 9, but (then) I wrote as poorly as this now. Why can't this level of dollars go to more thinkers' movies (like Contact) than...(bleep)...movies?...it rhymes with thinkers.