War of the Worlds = Independence Day = Battlefield Earth

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2007)

WAR OF THE WORLDS = INDEPENDENCE DAY = BATTLEFIELD EARTH
Well not exactly. But Yes....well, sort of.....let me explain
I am well aware that this is a remake of an old movie from the 1950's...and I am also aware that the concept/Inspiration behind INDEPENDENCE DAY was borrowed from the L.Ron Hubbard's classic sci-fi novel "BattleField Earth" (then John Travolta filmed "Batlefield Earth" as its own movie 4 years after Indepenence Day came out...my god this is all getting confusing isn't it
.and it gets more confusing if you've seen the movie "BATTLEFIELD EARTH", John Travolta produced the movie himself, and totally left out the entire Alien Invasion of Earth, and elected instead to just pick the story up 1000 years in the future(1000years of Alien occupation of Earth, and man is an endangered species) Travolta did it that way only because he didn't want his BATTLEFIELD EARTH movie to appear to the public like it was a clone of INDEPENDENCE DAY.......However Dean Devlin's idea for the movie script for INDEPENDENCE DAY was inspired by reading the novel "BattleField Earth",,,,,,,,are you Confused now?--
-if you still confused, let me give you the short version....the idea for the movie Independence Day was actually stolen from L.Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth novel. Independence Day made a ton of money at the box office....which provoked John Travolta who is a scientologist to make a movie based on the real "BattleField Earth", only to have Battlefield Earth fail at the box office(big time failure) SIDE-NOTE: Scientology is a religion that was started & founded by science fiction novelist L.Ron Hubbard. John Travolta is a dedicated member to that religious sect...........and guess who else is a member of this sect....you guessed it...Tom Cruise.
so this time it's Tom Cruise doing his version of an Alien Invasion movie...Hmmmmmmm ---i've spent too much time giving the unique history these 3 movies share..now I'll talk about the movie itself Now enter in.....2005 and renowed Film Maker Steven Spielberg spearheads the remake "War of the Worlds" Now having said that... I didn't bother going to see this movie when it was showing in theaters...because I just assumed that it was going to be a repeat of INDEPENDENCE DAY.
War of the Worlds turned out to be a pleasant surprise...it was nothing like Independence Day or Battlefield Earth. Awesome special effects, great story, good stunts, plenty of action. It has a great music score. I was prepared for this movie to be so good...it blew me away.
watch it, you are gonna love it, its great