I expected Spielberg would give us something to hope in

Rating: 3/10 (29 June 2005)

we just saw it in the first showing at our local theater. it's really gruesome. all negativity, nothing funny or positive about it. no relief. some people clapped at the end, we felt ripped off and disappointed.
in these days of terror i expected Spielberg to give us something to look up and feel good about in the end. instead we get boring people in a perfect house in Boston, when the rest of the world is screwed and suffering, they are perfectly happy together. huh? didn't you notice the world is suffering? but you look like you're dressed for Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
and i resented the 9/11 implications. the NY scenes with the walls of photos and signs HELP ME FIND THIS PERSON plastered on the sides of buildings. we already lived through that terror and the movie's NY scenes are a total rip off of the real human suffering that happened there on 9/11. we don't need space invaders to do that to us.
we actually got bored after the first initial shocking scenes of the invasion. it's the same thing over and over with the alien machines and violence, blood and gore.
Dakota Fanning is very good in it. amazing to see a child with such talent. Cruise is a bore. why do we care about him and his kids? he never showed any interest in them before, and yet he comes out the hero. i liked his car better then him. he lives like a pig, never sees his kid, and when he does expect them to visit he doesn't even buy them dinner.
it'll be interesting to see what people think of it tho cause some in the theater clapped at the end. but most people are easily entertained with war.
Tim Robbins has the best line when he says...
"we're the insurgence, occupation never works." quoting the Iraq war philosophy from the Iraqi point of view!
i did like that Spielberg used real Gulf war and Iraq soldiers in it. that was nice of Spielberg to give veterans some work. and there are a lot of soldiers in it.
but both of the kids in it are pains in the =butt! never doing what their father tells them to do and only causing havoc when they don't. and why get on the boat? why does Robbie survive the fire storm? why is the mother in law's house normal when the streets are full of non working cars?
this movie sucks.