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War of the Worlds (2005)
and all the fuss was for what?
OK, I FINALLY got around to watching this movie last weekend and need some help with it. Can we start with this....what in the name of all that is holy was all the fuss about with this film?! The special effects, while good were NOT as ground breaking (apart from the ground breaking in the literal sense of the term) as people made them out to be. ALL the pre-release footage I saw at the time of release was the total sum of any action in the movie. So besides the first 25 minutes or so, which did show some promise, you could have changed Tom Cruise for a dog/cat/hamster and called it "long way home part 75" because it eventually turned into another irritating Disney-esquire return-to-master film.
The one real high point of this movie has to be Dakota Fanning. She is such a natural in every piece of work I have seen from her, none more so than "Man on Fire."
As much as I have given this film a slating, I must point out that I really didn't hate it, I just thought there was potential for so much more. Even as a B movie remake/remodelling it falls just a little short of what I expected
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
Coolest characters in movies
I am of the generation that grew up with all the characters in the "vintage" John Hughes films, and sadly, shared more in common with Anthony Michael Hall's characters (especially Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club)than I cared to admit at the time.
The main point of this post though is to react to something I came across through another link on IMDb.com - the coolest film characters of all time. This is a debate I have had many times when drunk with fellow film nuts and I can honestly say, hand on heart, that I do not think anyone has ever created a better character than that of Duncan, so wonderfully played by Elias Koteas.
The scene where he etches a carving into the desktop then proclaims to Keith "this is what my girlfriend would look like without skin" still kills me, even after nearly 20 years of knowing that line is coming.
Just wondered what you lot think? I think none so cool as Elias!!!!