MOVIE REVIEW: War of the Worlds

NOTE: before i begin this entry...... my prayers and condolences to australians on the loss of thier women's national cycling team, who suffered a great loss and were pretty much taken out by a driver in germany...

MOVIE REVIEW on "WAR OF THE WORLDS":

i am not a big tom cruise fan, but the movie *is* based on a story from HG Wells, who was a bit of a visionary, predicting a decent amount of modern stuff we take for granted today. interestingly, orson wells, no relation (that i know of) scared the bejesus out of america (now we have no bejesus) back in the day, when everyone was still a bunch of gullible rubes who believed in any crackpot story. sure, we still are still a bunch of gullible rubes, but now it's more high tech, modern, or cool crackpot stories we believe in.

i like orson wells a lot actually. as trite as it may be, if you watch "citizen kane" with a critical eye, it is a genius movie all around. also, orson wells was an accomplished "amateur" magician, which is pretty cool, and he even used that when he was in the movie "casino royale", the james bond spoof, where orson played a bad guy who was doing magic tricks while he gambled at the casino. (note: casino royale was the first "james bond" book written by ian flemming, who also wrote "chitty chitty bang bang" but the first bond movie made was "dr. no". of course, the book was serious, but i liked the way they made it into a spoof, with david niven and woody allen, who i think is brilliant really.

i think one of my favoirite woody allen movies is "love and death" which takes place during the russian war against napolean, absolutely hilarious, excellent dialogue, well worth checking out. a lot better than his more well known movies like "sleeper" which is a pretty funny look at the future.

speaking of the future, why the hell aren't i wearning a jumpsuit and driving around in a flying car, just like all the movies of the future told me i was gonna do? in a way i'm kind of glad, i am not a big fan of the jumpsuit, but they do seem pretty damn simple. imagine everyone walking around with the same gay ass jumpsuit? and an annoying robot like Twiki going "bitty-bitty-bitty." remeber Twiki from the old "buck rogers" tv show? i had a thing for erin gray, the hot chick in that show. i really like brunettes. then again, i like blondes, red heads, bald chicks....pretty much if it's female, i like it.

anyway, getting back to the review.... war of the worlds: it sucked.