War of the World-complex!

Rating: 2/10 (30 January 2006)

War of the worlds should have been made in it's original context and not been set in modern times. A few electrical storms and a couple of hundreds military inferior, walkers are not a match to any army on this planet. How to beat the tripods; just let a soldier get caught in their harvest nets and throw in a handgrenade, repeat this process a few times and the war would've been won in a few days. Tripod deflector shields work against artillery and such but not against a bayonett charge (sarcastic).
The plot holes in the presentation of the martian invasion force are of such great numbers I actually could write a novel about it, but here are few of the larger once (included the one mentioned above):
1. Could huge war machines be buried beneath the earth in major cities and not be detected even once by construction workers, archeologists, geologists and such?
2. If I were an alien commander in chief I would have sent scout troops to Earth to check out the atmosphere, check for viruses and stuff rather than charge in head wall with some unorganized, mechanized assault.
3. If you harvest and capture humans it might be a good idea to do this in an organized fashion rather than messing about in the countryside just doing what ever each alien unit feel like.
4. Wouldn't the tripods be ancient weaponry in the alien eyes since they've been buried here for such a long time? It seems to me, in comparison, that it would be like invading Mars with catapults with todays human standard, should the tables be turned.
What I meant in the beginning of this post is that the horror and the excitement would be of a much greater attitude should it be set in the late 19th century like H.G. Wells intended. It's much tougher to fight aliens with horsedrawn carriages and bolt action rifles. Human science would be so much more inferior and you would understand the surprise attack more. In modern times we would've communicated via the net and cellphones and the aliens wouldn't be out of the ground before they themselves would get a surprise.
Spielberg is no doubt a man of detail and some scenes work really well. As for a matiné adventure for the younger kids this work quite well but as for a "realistic" alien invasion it does not. Instead fire up the old VCR and watch episodes of V instead.
The acting has been critized a lot; I do not agree completely. I actually found the repetitive, bland acting a cool spice up which made the aliens seem so much present.
Since I saw this movie I've invented a phrase called: War of the Worlds-complex" A movie that wants to be so realistic and heavily serious it falls flat on it's ass due to, too much CGI and to little plot and story.