I've watched WoW several times now, and not all the way through each time and not because I'm a big fan in of it in general, but primarily because of the visual effects, especially the sequences fromWar of the Worlds, the Tom Cruise one. I kinda went comatose this afternoon and am watching it now.
If the thesis of this movie is that as a species, we're so pathetic and helpless and irrational that we should be wiped out and the rest of the universe will cheer our loss, then they're making a pretty good case of it. Or maybe it's a movie exercise in presenting unlikable but pretty characters and seeing if I'll cheer for them. Answer: I won't.
They're in the cellar now, which is symbolically appropriate. I have to do something productive. I'll assume it follows the original story, that we prevail for no reason having to do with our actual merits, and go get something done. If it ends a different way and somebody here saw it, you can let me know. Or not. I don't care.
when the first tripod emerges from beneath the street to when the Cruise character returns home, and then from when they steal the van to when they stop at the house which later that night gets torn to shreds.
Those are the things about the movie which I like. I can't stand the miserable family discontent. Who needs to be reminded of how pitiful and whiney we can all be at times?