Re: OT: WOTW
I saw WOTW this evening and I have to say I was not impressed. The special effects were great, and the way in which the aliens was depicted was superb.
But the script flowed poorly, and the acting--except for Cruise--was pretty bad. Some of the dialogue was real junior high school stuff.
And I have a real problem with the whole "people in movies behave this way" thing.
If a giant crater opens up in an intersection in your city or town, and starts sending big cracks up the sides of nearby buildings, are you going to run like heck or just move back a few feet and stand and watch?
I usually like sci-fi, the stranger the better. And I even enjoy absurdist sci-fi like Men in Black, but this film did nothing for me. I wanted to like it, but...
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