posted this already... figured i'd post it here too...
I'm so jealous of all of you that saw WOTW and liked it.... I really wanted to like it but there are just far too much stuff that prevents me from liking it...
For Instance... (Spoilers)
If the aliens planted the Tripods beneath the ground millions of years ago when there was nobody here... WHY did they do it? What, are they pyschic? Why go through all that trouble when this planet was nothing more than a garden and moultan mass....?
Also, if the Tripods had been benath the ground for millions of years, and there were clearly millions of THEM, how the hell are we supposed to believe that NOBODY, not ONCE in history did we uncover them? I get that they were deep, but we've dug plenty deep in many places... i just don't buy that we wouldn't have found at least ONE of them...
Then, why wait? They had this technology, they had there plans in order, they had the technology... why did they wait so long?
IF this had been real, Tom Cruise would have been dead the first time the Tripod rose from the ground. It zapped everything and everyone but him. Then when he's driving, the buildings are all blowing up around him.... and still, he manages to escape?
A lot of these things are similar to plot holes found in other movies, and had the movie been good enough to stand above them, I could have over looked them. But the ending prevented that. I mean, that was sooo bad. The germ thing was handled so quickly it was rediculous. IT was like they ran out of time and just had to put an ending together.
And the family reuninon. THe whole movie, Ray is keeping it togher because he is focusing on Boston. He has a destination, a goal. And that is what keeps him going. He can tell his kids that in Boston, everyhting will be ok. That Boston is this magical refuge from all this craziness. And I liked that. I liked that that was his thought process... it gave him hope and it allowed the kids to think that that was the case. BUT then they get there and it IS EXACTLY THAT? WTF? That was soooo stupid! They should have got there to see that Boston was exactly what it would have been... a pile of rubble. THey should have run through Miranda Otto's parents apartment building (what was left of it) to find the tripods in the back, and as they get there, they start bleeding Miranda dry. None of this happily ever after @#%$.....
There were some good things about it ... but the bad far outweighed the good for me