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Post by Scott on Jul 24, 2005 8:27:17 GMT -5
Saw this last night. Major disappointment. I was expecting an alien invasion movie, instead I got a 'dead-beat dad bonds with kids' movie, and it just happens to occur during an alien invasion. The effects are OK. Parts of the script and dialogue are just bad.
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Post by geneweigel on Jul 24, 2005 9:20:47 GMT -5
Big stereo kabooms and awkward social commentary... These are are the hallmarks of the Spielbergian era of film... Me and Dorothy hated the ending. The weird thing is that everyone that we have remarked to assumes what we mean by ending is that we're talking about the resolve with the aliens. The resolve with the son was ridiculous. (And the Tim Robbins resolve as well.) Like I said if you're not in the mood for Spielberg it'll blow your weekend. But if you stay dumb and enjoy the ride with kids then its pretty good.
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Post by Scott on Jul 24, 2005 9:43:19 GMT -5
The resolve with the son was ridiculous. (And the Tim Robbins resolve as well.) The resolve with the son was an all-time low for Senior Spielbergo. Pathetic. The whole Tim Robbins bit was ridiculous. It seemed like Spielberg didn't really know what he wanted to do with the scene.
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Post by dcas on Jul 26, 2005 10:25:34 GMT -5
Given my opinion of the last Spielberg/Cruise effort (Minority Report), I can't see that I would have any reason to see this one.
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Post by foster1941 on Jul 26, 2005 11:00:02 GMT -5
There was a very good French movie last year or the year before called Time of the Wolf that I bet Spielberg (or at least his screenwriters) saw while working on this, because it deals a lot of the same themes -- a parent and children wandering through a collapsed society trying to cope and adapt -- only Spielberg deals with them much more shallowly (and the "family reunion" final scene was about as thoroughly cringeworthy a cop out as I've ever seen). All of the sfx/action sequences, and for that matter the entire alien invasion plot, felt completely tacked on, like they belonged in an entirely different movie. Alas, that's the movie people wanted/expected to see, and the one that probably would've been better suited to Spielberg's actual talents (as opposed to the talents he wishes he had -- Spielberg clearly really wants to be a Big Serious Filmmaker, but he's just really bad at it, and his attempts at Profundity invariably come off as embarrassingly trite and shallow (except for A.I., which is IMO not only head and shoulders above any of Spielberg's other "serious" movies, but in fact one of the very best movies of the last few years, but I give all the credit for that to Stanley Kubrick -- Steven just had good enough sense not to screw up what Kubrick had already devised)).
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Post by geneweigel on Jul 26, 2005 11:26:35 GMT -5
There was a very good French movie last year or the year before called Time of the Wolf It sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out. Ever see Panic At Ground Zero with Ray Milland? Its a 50's era "nuclear family" dealing with "nuclear fallout" and it has the themes of the above mentioned films... Aww shit, I just think Ray Milland rules everything. "RYE! The cheapest!"
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Post by clangador on Aug 30, 2005 0:56:53 GMT -5
Saw this last night. Major disappointment. I was expecting an alien invasion movie, instead I got a 'dead-beat dad bonds with kids' movie, and it just happens to occur during an alien invasion. The effects are OK. Parts of the script and dialogue are just bad. What? You didn't like the martian tripods? I thought they were awsome.
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