An industry producing crap

Rating: 1/10 (2 July 2005)

CONTAINS SPOILER
WOTW really sucked! My expectations were high, you know, 'cause of Spielberg, the summer blockbusters, the HG Wells novel.
As soon as i saw the main title "WAR OF THE WORLDS" appear on screen, i was caught up instantly, that added with the fill-of-suspense-trailer, the directors career, and the famed novel, produced me a sensation not felt before by summer blockbusters. In a matter of seconds i pictured the epic battles taking place on earth between humans and aliens, i pictured a whole story to be developed, i pictured really innovator alien designs, and all those details that make Spielberg such a great storyteller.
But i was really deceived. I was upset as soon as i saw Cruise's irresponsible character, telling his boss to not count on him for some job, as soon as minute 10 or so. Then the denigrating relations with his family. I think the actor that should have been chosen to play Ray Ferrier should have been one we hated from minute one and then get to love by minute 90, after suffering a metamorphosis we see on screen, as i think it was supposed to be. But using Cruise's "trademark" to caught the audience produced disgusting results, as we are more familiar with seeing him as a hero or something.
I think that the alien designs were not that cool and the FX were boring and obvious. I hated the alien ships shields, because they kind of took out all the probable action scenes that would have taken place. I mean, it would have been cool to see some epic battles and just leaving the novel's finale as it was supposed to be, but only after seeing some gigantic explosions and battles. What i see is a real superpower (aliens) fighting insects (humans) and then just, out of the blue, getting sick and dying. Come on, i mean, all those stupid Hollywood coincidences about the hero getting almost there, in the verge of dying, and then by some stupid intervention, leaving safe. Jezz, i think we are all more mature as and audience and want something more real, besides Tom Cruise's character making stupid choices all of the time, he, with his wife and kids, and Sancho and grandpa and grandma, survive another adventure. That was so stupid! I think it was one of the worst movies ever, which would have passed unnoticed have not been directed by Spielberg, and played by Cruise, of course, that's the whole point of the Hollywood industry, to raise the expectations as high as you can, no matter what the cost, and then produce a really crappy product. From the economic point of view i understand it perfectly, is like putting your label on some crappy product and then making out a fortune, because of people's ignorance. But from Spielberg's point of view, that i think on the bottom is an artistic view, i felt really disappointed, like throwing my money directly at the garbage.