{"id":862,"date":"2005-06-30T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2005-06-30T23:32:23","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T22:32:23","slug":"review-war-of-the-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Review: War of the Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are the movies where not reading any books at all comes in handy (I highly recommend it to y&#8217;all). First of all, it helps with many surprise effects, and in this case, the script is somewhat thin and one-tracked.<br \/>\nBut leave it to Steven Spielberg to make the most out of it, and turn it into a fast paced, gritty drama\/actioner, with awe inspiring special effects to support it. Both from a storytelling and from a technical standpoint, he&#8217;s your man. Again, this movie involves and requires shots that make the heads of the people at ILM spin in overdrive. They even do it in the most short-tracked time period a high SFX demanding movie has ever seen (some 7 months), and it still looks amazing.<br \/>\nThe story plays out very much the same way as Independence Day, but with more tense setups and a more focused and hence more intimate setting (only 3 principal characters, Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin). The acting is good, though it&#8217;s hard to create a strong emotional bond with all the running and hiding going on.<br \/>\nAll in all, even though the train ride is rough and wobbly, I&#8217;d say, hop on anyway.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the movies where not reading any books at all comes in handy (I highly recommend it to y&#8217;all). First of all, it helps with many surprise effects, and in this case, the script is somewhat thin and one-tracked. But leave it to Steven Spielberg to make the most out of it, and turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}