War of the Worlds (Widescreen Edition) DVD (Region 1)

War of the Worlds (Widescreen Edition) pictures

6.9	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Dreamworks Video
Release date : 22 November 2005
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 9781417057849
UPC : 678149439229

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Product DescriptionBASED ON THE H.G. WELLS STORY. AT FIRST THE MARTIANS SEEM LAUGHABLE, HARDLY ABLE TO MOVE IN EARTH'S COMPARATIVELY HEAVY GRAVITY. BUT SOON THE MARTIANS REVEAL THEIR TRUE NATURE AS DEATH MACHINES. AS THE MARTIANS PROCEED WITH THEIR DEADLY INVASION, ONE FAMILY FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL.Despite super effects, a huge Product Description
BASED ON THE H.G. WELLS STORY. AT FIRST THE MARTIANS SEEM LAUGHABLE, HARDLY ABLE TO MOVE IN EARTH'S COMPARATIVELY HEAVY GRAVITY. BUT SOON THE MARTIANS REVEAL THEIR TRUE NATURE AS DEATH MACHINES. AS THE MARTIANS PROCEED WITH THEIR DEADLY INVASION, ONE FAMILY FIGHTS FOR SURVIVAL.

Despite super effects, a huge budget, and the cinematic pedigree of alien-happy Steven Spielberg, this take on H.G. Wells's novel is basically a horror film packaged as a sci-fi thrill ride. Instead of a mad slasher, however, Spielberg (along with writers Josh Friedman & David Koepp) utilizes aliens hell-bent on quickly destroying humanity, and the terrifying results that prey upon adult fears, especially in the post-9/11 world. The realistic results could be a new genre, the grim popcorn thriller; often you feel like you're watching Schindler's List more than Spielberg's other thrill-machine movies (Jaws, Jurassic Park). The film centers on Ray Ferrier, a divorced father (Tom Cruise, oh so comfortable) who witnesses one giant craft destroy his New Jersey town and soon is on the road with his teen son (Justin Chatwin) and preteen daughter (Dakota Fanning) in tow, trying to keep ahead of the invasion. The film is, of course, impeccably designed and produced by Spielberg's usual crew of A-class talent. The aliens are genuinely scary, even when the film--like the novel--spends a good chunk of time in a basement. Readers of the book (or viewers of the deft 1953 adaptation) will note the variation of whom and how the aliens come to Earth, which poses some logistical problems. The film opens and closes with narration from the novel read by Morgan Freeman, but Spielberg could have adapted Orson Welles's words from the famous Halloween Eve 1938 radio broadcast: "We couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night, so we did the best next thing: we annihilated the world." --Doug Thomas

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