While navigating a course past all the truely original movies, such as Bewtiched, Star Wars, Herby the lovebug, King Kong, The Bad News Bears, Willy Wonka, and The Longest Yard, I plopped myself down to see yet another original movie.
The movie had this really bad soft focus crap going on, particularly in the begining. I think this was to subdue to CGI vs live action parts. The film did no homage to the original movie which is a classic, a great SCI-FI film, and more interesting and terryfying than this movie. The remake is boring. It strips out all of the good parts of the first film and leave nothing but a bug-eyed Cruise, his screaming kids, and that is about it. It is really thin.
I really hate these remakes or sequals. You already know what is going to happen. All the loud Dolby Digital, and silly special effects can't hide the end. War of the Worlds is aptly named. It is the most recent view of the battle between filmakers who want to make films that have not yet been done to death, and studios that cannot gamble on anytyhing but a tried and true formula.
If this continues I see the extermination of hollywood-based American cinema. Like the overblown spectaculars Cleopatra, these films are condeming modern cinema. More than likely things will contract and we may get back to something more akin to Hollywood of the late 60's and early 70's. Not creating the same pictures but a new breed of films going in different directions than the current corpratocracy can create.
I am not looking to Asia with any more hope than looking at Hollywood. Asia has been cranking out formula pictures for at least as long as Hollywood. How man variations on Crouching Tiger can we watch? I am sick of seeing movies that contain thousands of people and gigantic battle scenes. They get boring. Narnia may be a good story but the noise from all the block-busting, superflous cinema will probably relegate it to near instant DVDhood.
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