- "I haven't read the whole thing because it's kind of long, the writing is small and there aren't any pictures, but I'm pretty sure the Declaration of Independence says something about the freedom to take it easy and for the English to just get off our backs, man. God bless the freedom to watch a hurricane marathon on the Weather Channel and not remember a God damn thing about it."
- WARNING: pretty much total spoilers.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
The July 4th box office smash, War of the Worlds, as reviewed by The Filthy and Ever-Patriotic Critic
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In a foreword for one of the reprintings of the short story, H. G. Wells admitted the beginning of was much better than the ending, and apologized to the readers. The reason he gave was that his landlady kept yelling at him to turn out the light because he was using too much lamp oil! As a result, he had to rush the ending. It seems so strange to imagine someone hunched over a paper, with quill and ink pot, illuminated under lantern light, writing these stories that still capture our imagination today.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading somewhere that those living in those Modern times imagined a world of unsinkable ships and time machines, and all were equally possible. How different the world might have been had WWI not intervened and set us on a different path.
The era we live in is called post-Modernism for the reason that, except for perhaps for automation and the Internet, basically everything we have and do now is a derivative of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Anyway, if you get a chance to direct any alien invasion movie, have the guts to go with the only plausible ending - they win and we lose!