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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Gorilla Denied! Wednesday, June 29, 2005 Gorilla Denied! Just back from War of the Worlds, and my first comment is... where the hell was my promised King Kong trailer? We saw several trailers before the film, along with like the 17th Fantastic Four trailer, and the give-away-absolute-the-entire-plot trailer for The Island, but no King Kong! As for Speilberg's latest... eh. The destruction porn was glorious, and probably worth the price of admission (at least at $6.25 matinee prices) but the rest of the film was pretty blah. Good performances, for the most part, but in service of what? A recycled plot with no real surprises, suspense, or characters we cared about. It's basically Jurassic Park with robots, with the awkward-around-children, responsibility-shunning male dodging death and learning to be a better man/father while saving his brood from destruction at the hands of inhuman monstrosities. As for the space invaders and their strategy and technology... unplug your brain, because there are so many plot implausibilities and silly things that you can easily ruin the movie for yourself by getting hung up on them (Ebert mentions a few of the major ones in his spoilery, two-star review.) I managed not to, but it was a near thing. I'll throw up a more complete review tonight, time permitting, but just for now, here's my top of the head scoring chart: War of the Worlds, 2005 Script/Story: 4 Acting/Casting: 5 Action: 9 Humor: 4 Horror: 4 Eye Candy: 9 Fun Factor: 6 Replayability: 3 Overall: 5.5 If you're trying to decide, go see Batman Begins over this; there's really no contest. I'd even recommend Mr. & Mrs. Smith over it, unless you're solely motivated by seeing things blow up real good and people overact in every possible disaster situation. Posted by: Flux # 7:38 PM Comments: Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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