War of the Worlds Options

[Critter]

War of the Worlds begins in this town (in New Jersey, I think) with these people in identical row houses, with identical yards separated by identical chain-link fences. My first thought upon seeing this scene was "Isn't this something that screams out for extinction?" Was the high and mighty objective of billions upon billions of years of evolution so that a bunch of clueless fahkers could eat and shit in identical cookie-cutter houses in fahking New Jersey?"

I've read reviews of War of the Worlds that praise Spielberg's focus on The Family, the father (Tom Cruise) struggling to keep his family together. This is all well and good, but, why fahking impose some sheat family saga upon War of the Worlds? I mean, Spielberg has a lot of money and resources, couldn't he have just created some new story instead of fahking up War of the Worlds? Well, the reason is more than obvious. Spielberg chose War of the Worlds for the money, to get people to buy tickets. Spielberg then focused on this bitch-issue of The Family maybe hoping the tired-ass beauches writing movie reviews and nominating people for oscars would be impressed. As per usual, Spielberg has proven that he is a master masturbator, a camera jiggling meister.

You know, I shouldn't be so hard on Spielberg. For most of War of the Worlds, I almost didn't notice that it was a Spielberg movie. What kept reminding me that War of the Worlds is Spielberg was that screaming beauch daughter. About part ways into War of the Worlds, I was hoping that something killed that fahking kid just to shut her fahking screaming up. And, the ending of War of the Worlds is so stupid and illogical only Spielberg could have filmed it and thought that people wouldn't laugh at it. Not to give too much away, but imagine that most of the world has been destroyed but when you finally make it to your mom's house, she is sitting on the porch in a rocking chair and her house is completely untouched by any destruction whatsoever.

There was something a tad jarring about the casting of the son in the movie. I realize that Tom Cruise is probably old enough to have a son much older than the kid who played his son in the movie. But, the kid's height and appearance compared to Tom Cruise is a little unsettling (to say the least).

The Hawaiians

I don't think it is any big secret that the aliens in War of the Worlds die because they can't handle bacteria in the earth atmosphere. This War of the Worlds is a remake.

In re disease/bacteria, I am reminded of this incredible movie The Hawaiians staring Julie Andrews. The Hawaiians never experience the plague and other diseases that swept through Europe (and that the Europeans were therefore imune to), to The Hawaiians were nearly killed off just from being exposed to Europeans.

A lot of these Europeans who went to Hawaii went there as missionaries to help the natives. These missionaries killed off most of the Hawaiians with their diseases and the sons of these missionaires became the sugar barons and major land owners of Hawaii.