quick comment

Rating: 3/10 (25 October 2005)

I'm currently writing a paper comparing this movie to the 1953 version, and while I could list all the reasons why this one is SO unoriginal and so TEXTBOOK Spielberg, I'd like to quietly point out that this version is ruined from the get-go. Does anyone recall Tim Robbins saying something like "they've been here a million years... we're done." So the aliens were in parts of the world before humans were huh? Aliens been preparing for this and studying us and the earth for millenia? Funny how they completely missed the microbiology on this planet. Guess a million years wasn't long enough to figure that one out.