The Crazy Night

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2006)

While reading "War of the Worlds" my outlook on this story was that it was horrifying if you literally put yourself in the characters' shoes. I personally thought that Spielberg's movie was a very visual and imaginative film. The H.G. Wells book of "War of the Worlds" has more of a political message. A theme for Spielberg's movie could be "make the right choices" and "don't take life for granted" because, as the characters experienced, you never can imagine what will happen to you or the ones you love from day to day. For some people a good situation has to turn into a bad one to realize what they had in life. Sometimes it's too late and you can't take back what went on in the past. In the movie Ray's, who is Tom Cruise, whole personality changes.
In "War of the Worlds" there are plenty of things happening that show human nature. For example, say that someone is in a life or death situation and they are trying to escape; the person isn't going to think about what is the right thing to do or think of the possible consequences. That person is just going to do what they have to, to save themselves and their family no matter how crazy it may be.
When I was reading H.G. Wells' book I thought it was really dull and sounded pretty unrealistic to me. Then when I saw the movie my whole perspective changed. I thought it was extremely believable at the beginning because the horrible facial expressions and nerves in people's faces were very realistic! Concerning the characters I thought Robbie was an original character. Throughout the movie Robbie and Ray are interesting because they make major changes throughout the movie. Rachel was brave in my opinion, but she was freaky to me at times. The crazy old man was beyond wacko.
I also think other people who saw "War of the Worlds" would agree with me on this that the film improved the industry more than you would have thought. At first I thought it would be lame, but I was actually surprised to find out it was really interesting.