Early War of the Worlds reviews

[trancejeremy]

Anyway, how did this guy see it, anyway? I was under the impression that no movie critics (except one major guy) were given an advance screening?

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Anyway, how did this guy see it, anyway? I was under the impression that no movie critics (except one major guy) were given an advance screening?

If this is true, I consider it a very bad sign. Movies that won't allow critics to view them are most often doing so because they know the reviews would be bad.

And if this guy is the only critic who was given an advance screening...and he happens to be praising the movie glowingly....well, let's just say my cynic sense is tingling something fierce.

 

[ender_wiggin]

Harry Knowles -- what kind of reputation does he have? From what I've read, his comments seem to be "nonformal" and whatnot.

 

[Taelorn76]

If this is true, I consider it a very bad sign. Movies that won't allow critics to view them are most often doing so because they know the reviews would be bad.

That is true after the incedent with the water microphone, They said they are not allowing critics to view the movie. Not sure if it has to do with that incedent but it was a few days later they anounced it.

 

[Krug]

It's Spielberg. Hoping for a return to form after the nauseting The Terminal.

 

[Renton]

From the way I heard she chain smokes, I would never look her way in the first place.

I'll not touch this comment, except to grin and sympathetically consider her oral fixation.

 

[The_lurkeR]

I have the feeling the gag on the previews was to prevent spoilers. I'm assuming (hoping) that Spielberg has changed the "twist" of the story so that the aliens are not in fact defeated by a virus.

 

[GlassJaw]

Regardless of how good or bad the movie is, I predict Tom's recent antics will hurt this movie. I seriuosly think he's beginning to overstay his "welcome". I've heard that Spielberg hasn't been too happy that so much attention is on Tom and not the movie.

 

[RangerWickett]

So could someone inform me on the finer points of what Tom Cruise has done to earn people's ire recently? And could someone explain the oddities of Scientology?

 

[Poky]

Scientology has three major beliefs:
a person is an immortal spiritual being possessed of supernatural powers
a person has lived through multiple reincarnations
a person is essentially good, but behaves otherwise (and lacks supernatural abilities) due to psychological trauma in their past life

In order to fix this, the believer undertakes "auditing sessions" similar to psychotherapy.

Where it gets weird:
Auditing sessions cost money.
The psychological traumas of past life include alien implants, life as a clam, and for the entire human race, kidnapping by galactic overlords in order to watch a giant 3D movie for 36 days.
Psychiatrists are to be distrusted: they invented pain and sex.