The Interpreter
Ordinary movie!
Fast-paced movie, but with a rather silly plot!
Nicole Kidman kind of overacts!
One could draw parallels with this movie and the recent happenings in Africa. White-men getting kicked-out, child soldiers, western democracy influencing opposition in that country, dictator getting abused everywhere for his excesses etc., - except for the child-soldiers part the dictator seems to bear a resemblence with Robert Mugabwe(Zimbabwe's Prime Minister).
The role which was played by Roshan Seth in Mississippi Masala is more realistic than the role played by Nicole Kidman in 'The Interpreter'
War of the Worlds:
Ordinary movie!
A boring Spielberg movie.
Dont think Tom Cruise could probably repeat with a performance like 'Jerry Maguire'!
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In 'War of the worlds', Tom Cruise crazily tries to hurry towards 'Boston' to escape from the aliens. Why Boston - when the entire world is in the clutches of Aliens will really you confuse you! Me wondered, is Boston a no-go area for ET!
Remember seeing another similar sequence of events in the movie 'Shaun of the Dead' in which to escape from the zombies(who are all over in the city of London) - the hero of this movie takes all his friends, relatives to his favourite bar in London(assuming that zombies wont come to that bar).
Sancho...you will have to pose that question to H.G Wells ! Obviously his target audience at that time(when he wrote the book) did not seem to think that running to a particular city is odd...given that ETs were attacking every where !!
I presume if Wells were present today and had penned his novel, he would have covered that gap.
Eshwar,
Dont blame H.G. Wells, blame Stephen Spielberg or the screenplay adapters! H.G. Wells' novel is based out of England and if memory serves me right, the chief protogonist keeps moving from place to place like the movie 28 days later.
And also, there is no kid in the movie. Dakota Fanning was probably introduced for the emotional effect.
The best thing I liked about the novel was the dig on british colonization. H.G. Wells did not like colonization and the destruction of locals that it brought about. He infact compares the martians invading with superior armaments to the british using superior armaments to conquer land!
Oh no...dont wish to blame HGW. But the alien invasion theory in movies is a oft beaten track so I guess this one just beat it too much.
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