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For 106 minutes, Steven Spielberg’s 116-minute adaptation of The War of the Worlds is scary, exciting, depressing… captivating, even. The film effectively deals with a post-September 11th world and never feels as hokey as disaster films (and Spielberg films, for that matter) can. Before it reached its conclusion, I was envisioning a 3½-star rating appearing on this site. By the time I left the theatre, I was formulating my 2-star review.
I had read of concerns about the film’s ending on the internet. But, I knew that the source material has a somewhat anti-climactic ending which serves to further one of the novel’s main themes. My hope was that Spielberg’s (and David Koepp’s) faithfulness to Wells’s novel (and its central theme) was what was frustrating a number of moviegoers. In truth, Spielberg and Koepp use H.G. Wells’s words to make their own pompous, saccharin, shallow point. And their bastardization of those words is plainly offensive.
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You have to read what Fox News had to say about the London bombings…
0 Comments Published by grey July 9th, 2005 in postsfrom Guardian Unlimited:
Fox News slammed over ‘callous’ line
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Guardian
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bombs.
Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the channel’s Washington managing editor, said: “Just on a […]