Adjay77’s Memories…

Mans time for extermination has come. They have planned it for millions of years,
spying, preparing, for the day when they would descend to earth in a hail of
lighting and engulf the earth in green and crimson death. They come up from
the very depths of earth in their machine of destruction, to claim a world they
have envied from a far. To conquer. We don’t know what they call themselves,
but we only call them ‘Tripods’.
What am I talking about? Its the remake of a movie that I have watched and remembered
since my childhood. I’ve seen the movie, I’ve seen TV episodes and now Steven
Spielberg, with the help of Tom Cruise with his million dollar grin, has turned
it into a blockbuster movie with no expenses spared. War of the
Worlds has come to invade our cinema’s.

We meet Ferrier (Cruise), a man who who has no responsibilities and lives only
for himself. There’s just one problem. He was married once and has two kids.
A teenage son and a 10 year-old girl. And today, he has them for the weekend
while his ex-wife goes to Boston to visit the parents. Simple right? Just take
care of the kids for a few days then they’re back with mommy… NOT! Today of
all day, a strange meteorological phenomenon decides to befell earth spreading
EMP waves through some major cities and rendering everything that requires electricity
dead. Lighting strikes multitudes of times onto the ground striking fear into
the hearts of the citizens of earth. But something more sinister lies within
the lightning strikes. The invaders uses the lightning to reclaim back their
buried weapons of destruction. War has begun.

Now, I’m not going to elaborate too much on the movie. All I’m going to say
is that watching War of the Worlds keep reminding me of Independence
Day. We got the Alien Invaders stuck up to their nostrils in dirt
and wanting a new world to populate. So they chose earth. The special effects
were spectacularly done by Speilbergs team that one could almost believe that
the earth was being invaded by extra-terrestrial menace. But the movie doesn’t
actually on the invasion but mostly of the growth of one man in particular in
midst of the mayhem and carnage around him. Beginning as a complete selfish
person, Ferrier (Cruise) slowly grows out of his behaviors when he has to take
care and guard his two kids and somehow safely take them back to their mother
and along the way dodging and running away from the invading aliens in their
tripod legged machines of death. Quite an elaborate description of the tripods
don’t you think?
Where was I? Oh yes, getting zapped left right and center, seeing friends and
fellow homo sapiens turned to dust, some blended into red fertilizer and sprayed
back onto the ground. Gives new meaning to ‘ashes to ashes, dust to dust’.

Starring:
Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim
Robbins

Director: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Colin Wilson, Kathleen Kennedy
Executive Producer: Paula Wagner
Screenwriter: Josh Friedman, David Koepp
Source Writer: H.G. Wells
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Composer: John Williams