The War of the Worlds (1953)
Oh my word -- what a mess.
Sure, I understand that these special effects were good enough to win the Oscar more than 50 years ago despite the fact that they made me giggle in a "Plan 9 from Outer Space gets flak while this gets praised?!" way. But, even if the aliens didn't look like silly rubber finger puppets you can get in a plastic bubble out of a candy machine and the spaceships weren't obviously bobbing along on strings, there's still no forgiving the "acting" or the lack of tension in the script (which must have read something like "aliens land and shoot; repeat enough times to fill 80 minutes; aliens break").
Between this and the 2005 version, I'd recommend that one.
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Sure, I understand that these special effects were good enough to win the Oscar more than 50 years ago despite the fact that they made me giggle in a "Plan 9 from Outer Space gets flak while this gets praised?!" way. But, even if the aliens didn't look like silly rubber finger puppets you can get in a plastic bubble out of a candy machine and the spaceships weren't obviously bobbing along on strings, there's still no forgiving the "acting" or the lack of tension in the script (which must have read something like "aliens land and shoot; repeat enough times to fill 80 minutes; aliens break").
Between this and the 2005 version, I'd recommend that one.
D
posted by MeMe | 5:18 PM
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