Did i see a Signs-bash here? I did, i did see a Signs-bash here. Cool!

There is no filmer more overrated than M. Night Shamalayan (sp). Absolutely horrible: take a kindergarten-level basic idea (“a kid who sees dead people”, “a superhero vs. a superfrail man”, “non-waterproof aliens defeated by a thirsty kid”), add a massive overdose of mass-produced New Age philosophicy/religion/spirituality, and construct an expanded but oh-so obvious plot only to fall together in the last two scenes. I think the only way he manages to make it passable to the masses is that he does know how to visualise his dribble, and he makes good use of a (type-) casting agency.
The Sixth Sense was so incredibly obvious, i really was amazed people didn’t get Bruce Willis was a goner himself.

Back to WotW – anyone who thinks the film was a drag, get out your record player(you know, vinyl) and play Jeff Wayne’s WotW opera. THAT is a drag.
In fact i think Spielberg did a reasonable job in adapting the book to a current-day movie. Even though i think Tim Robbins’ part as the madman was a bit over the top, almost like an easy shot at the most oblivious nationalist moron. I did like the way he transformed a story about colonialism (as Wells wrote it) into a story about refugees.

It was definately a far better Welles’ adaption than that horrible Time Machine-flick from a couple of years ago.