War of the Worlds
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Sunday, July 3. 2005  We had ordered our tickets to War of the Worlds a week in advance already. We had watched the original and we had seen the trailer for the remake about a thousand times already. Hendrik, Sandra and me left Kiel early to leave for Hamburg, we collected our tickets at first, met with Micha and headed on into the city to grab a bite. It was nice not to just hurry into Hamburg, watch a movie and leave again but instead spent some nice hours there. Once we finished with the food, we went back to the car and headed of to the theatre, which in the end surprisingly turned out to be far from sold out.The curtains open and there they are the titles I have seen so often throughout the last times I visited a theatre - but this time it's the real deal, the whole movie, THE (at least attention-wise) movie happening of 2005 (so far) begins. I've been thinking a lot of about what could director Steven Spielberg might have done to this remake, maybe change major parts, e.g. the ending, or the fight against the Aliens but right then, just one minute after the movie started to roll he already gave it all away - at least to all of those who have seen the original. This took a lot of thoughts off of me and left me with the awareness that I wouldn't see any major changes in the storyline. Yup, it is true 'War of the Worlds' (2005) is not that much more than the 1953 original. To be quite frank it in fact is nothing more at all than the original than just a major refurbishment. Sure it is daunting, Tom Cruise is great and the Alien-Flagships have no visible strings attached but if you look below the bottom-line there is nothing new to find and if you're looking close enough it's even less. Surprising? Very much, even deflating if you ask me. There is no doubt that Spielberg did things which 'we' have been avoiding and stopped doing for quite a while. Planes crash into houses, people are covered with the dust of others (after the aliens vaporized them), torched trains that still travel the rails and a lot of more things that certainly remind of 9/11 and similar, which shows that we are still processing previous happenings. The pictures are (as said) dounting and a whole different level than what we have seen previousely but there is nothing new about it and if you're aware of the original (what you should) there is not much new coming along. It was great to watch 'The War of the Worlds' and I wouldn't want to have missed it, but it bears nothing new. I disliked seeing Spielberg refurbish instead of coming up with something new. When we walked out of the theatre we were all sobered up, wondering about what we just had seen, that it was given away right from the start and that there is so less to it, in despite of our high(est) expectations. Update: Typo corrected.   |
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