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Got round to watching this last night and had a love hate relationship with it.
For a kick of I'm not a lover of grain to me its arty farty %$£& and goes with my hating of anything that draws my attention all the time to the fact I'm watching a film rather than immersing myself in it. The opening scene in the docks where you can see the buildings across the bay normally they be pin sharp lines of windows these are now grained to them almost being blurred.
A number of shot Tom Cruise's face looks like hes got some skin infection.
The colours also seem washed out although I don't think the sun shines once throughout the film.
On the other hand the sound exact opposite for me it one of the best if not the best Ive heard and really make good use of the surround and although 2D it almost made me dodge to the side in one scene where a car gets shot though the air.
The film is more near
The effects are quite spectacular especially at the start but there one scene I did not understand was when the
I really would have loved to have seen the battle that was going on over the brow of the hill.
Film:7.5
Picture:2 (that's because of my hate of the grain)
Sound: 10
For a kick of I'm not a lover of grain to me its arty farty %$£& and goes with my hating of anything that draws my attention all the time to the fact I'm watching a film rather than immersing myself in it. The opening scene in the docks where you can see the buildings across the bay normally they be pin sharp lines of windows these are now grained to them almost being blurred.
A number of shot Tom Cruise's face looks like hes got some skin infection.
The colours also seem washed out although I don't think the sun shines once throughout the film.
On the other hand the sound exact opposite for me it one of the best if not the best Ive heard and really make good use of the surround and although 2D it almost made me dodge to the side in one scene where a car gets shot though the air.
The film is more near
to the book than the George Pal outing and more based on one mans struggle to keep alive and his family (although at points you wish he left them to there own devises to die as there quite a few spot they become really annoying) than what the authority's are doing to repel the invaders.
The effects are quite spectacular especially at the start but there one scene I did not understand was when the
invader emerges it jumps up into the air and nothing no more is mentioned of it then the dude pops out of the ground that really breaks the ground and towers above then, so what was the first thing that popped out. Also if they hid the machines in the ground over a million years ago why did they not invade then
I really would have loved to have seen the battle that was going on over the brow of the hill.
Film:7.5
Picture:2 (that's because of my hate of the grain)
Sound: 10