War of the Worlds
Tom from InsaneTom wrote about his take on WOW movie with Tom Cruise.
Now, I am not a huge fan of his, when I was a teenager however, I needed to show some teenage behaviour so my friends when they were over wouldn’t think I was a freak. So I collected pictures of Tom Cruise and celebrated when he got divorced from Mimi Rogers and got into Nicole Kidman, I think at the time I was in year 12, so faking it still counted as my friends still visited. When I started uni, I ripped the posters off my walls and cupboards and put up maps of the world since I wanted to travel.
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Now I watched the movie tonight, the real thing on DVD not a backup copy. It wasn’t huge on special effects, It didn’t follow the book exactly, but what it did do, for me, was recreate the fear I had, and the horror when I first picked up the novel by HG Wells.
I felt fear, despair, horror and I was on the edge of seat for most of the movie. The scene in the basement of that farmhouse was truly shocking and so raw, not for what it showed, but for what it didn’t show. You knew what he was doing was to save his daughter.
I will have to watch that movie again. In the day. After the movie the wind picked up alot, there was a smell of smoke in the air. There was alot of booming noises and people screaming, and then I looked outside and there were fireworks somewhere close to the city, and a couple fighting in the carpark. Phew. Because for a brief second, I honestly thought “they” were here.