Lary Crews ©
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I will be 80 8-27-26. Retired writer and broadcast journalist with 43 years of computer expertise. Actor in theater, TV episodes and the movie Insidious (2011). Content provider for Bluesky. Living alone in Reno NV. Don’t drink. Don’t gamble. No DMs.
Love the 1953 film, but as a Brit I'm still wanting a true adaptation of the novel, set in England in Victorian times. The cost of doing a period piece with lots of FX was too expensive for many years, but now? The most faithful version so far is Jeff Wayne's musical masterpiece. ❤️ #WarOfTheWorlds
And the sound engineering! To this day when I watch I love the cool sounds their weapons made.
Lary Crews ©@larycrews.bsky.social · 5h agoThe War of the Worlds owes its greatest debt to producer George Pal. He knew how to put films like this together and was a driving force in the film's innovative and unique special effects. Who could forget those bright green Martian ships? It won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
There are some wonderful special effect moments, but they don’t involve the pods. A scene where Ray wanders through the remains of an airplane crash is somber and impressive, and there is an unforgettable image of a train, every coach on fire, roaring through a station.
A planet that harbors intelligent and subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ungainly Erector set. And the required happy ending involves a three-second shot of the 1953 original cast, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
The movie has its faults, and the marquee casting of Cruise doesn't help, but it does have a tangible atmosphere of dread and foreboding. If we weren't so familiar with the ending of the story, then the ultimate human victory seems unlikely.
War of the Worlds (2005) is a big movie remake containing some sensational sights but totally lacking the joyous energy we would expect from Steven Spielberg. What happened to the sense of wonder Spielberg celebrated in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the imagination of Minority Report?
Why balance these machines on such ill-designed supports? If evolution has taught us anything, it is that limbs of living things come in numbers divisible by two. Three legs are inherently not stable such as when one leg of a giant tripod is damaged, and it falls helplessly to the ground.
A planet that harbors intelligent and subtle ideas for science fiction movies is invaded in this film by an ungainly Erector set. And the required happy ending involves a three-second shot of the 1953 original cast, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
There are some wonderful special effect moments, but they don’t involve the pods. A scene where Ray wanders through the remains of an airplane crash is somber and impressive, and there is an unforgettable image of a train, every coach on fire, roaring through a station.
Why balance these machines on such ill-designed supports? If evolution has taught us anything, it is that limbs of living things come in numbers divisible by two. Three legs are inherently not stable such as when one leg of a giant tripod is damaged, and it falls helplessly to the ground.
There are the typical crowds of terrified citizens looking up at ominous threats looming above them. But despite the movie’s $135 million budget, it seems curiously undeveloped in its action. The problem may be with the alien invasion itself. It is not very interesting.
The movie adopts the sensible formula of viewing a catastrophe through the eyes of a few foreground characters. Martians have journeyed millions of miles to attack a crane operator and his neighbors. The hero, Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise), defends his children.
War of the Worlds (2005) is a big movie remake containing some sensational sights but totally lacking the joyous energy we would expect from Steven Spielberg. What happened to the sense of wonder Spielberg celebrated in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the imagination of Minority Report?
The War of the Worlds owes its greatest debt to producer George Pal. He knew how to put films like this together and was a driving force in the film's innovative and unique special effects. Who could forget those bright green Martian ships? It won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
The army fights the Martian spaceship, while a man of God tries to make friends, and the alien’s attack Los Angeles. Gene Barry plays a scientist who just happens to be nearby. Ann Robinson convincingly portrays what life might be like in a world with such horrific news.
Somewhere in the American West, a huge meteor-like projectile crashes in the soil. Everyone initially believes it to be a meteor, but soon we learn it is really an investigative ship from the planet Mars out to destroy anything and everything in its path.
War of the Worlds (1953) is one of the quintessential science fiction films from the Fifties. This film keeps the spirit of the book intact and makes the film an innovative, intelligent, and evocative film that tries to get one thinking about alien invaders and their intentions.
Today's movies are (8-5-26) two editions of The War of the Worlds. The 1953 original and the 2005 remake by Spielberg.
Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. Was Regina George in Mean Girls and Allie in The Notebook, released in 2004. She played Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes (2009 in the 2011 sequel.) Spotlight (2015) Earned an Academy Award nomination for playing real-life journalist Sacha Pfeiffer.
Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress. Was Regina George in Mean Girls and Allie in The Notebook, released in 2004. She played Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes (2009 in the 2011 sequel.) Spotlight (2015) Earned an Academy Award nomination for playing real-life journalist Sacha Pfeiffer.
She practiced hours on end with her cat and the swiffer.
I would watch a reality show where professional womens hockey players hunted down J6 chuds who reoffend! 👍
I thought she was excellent in "Spotlight" (as real-life journalist Sasha Pfeiffer), but I don't know if I've see her in anything else.
Thrillers are invitations to overact, but McAdams remains credible even when the action ratchets up around her. When she’s stalking a terrorist with a hockey stick, she seems like a real woman stalking a real terrorist with a real hockey stick. It’s not as easy as it sounds.
