{"id":22,"date":"2006-01-16T00:42:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T05:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-08-24T01:22:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T05:22:03","slug":"war-of-the-worlds-spielberg-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"(Spielberg 2005) War of the Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9802\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9802 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/06-01-16-VIEW-Spielberg-2005-War-of-the-Worlds-.png\" alt=\"06-01-16 VIEW (Spielberg 2005) War of the Worlds\" width=\"234\" height=\"176\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After about twen\u00adty min\u00adutes of expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201ctyp\u00adi\u00adcal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan fam\u00adi\u00adly\u201d, which con\u00adsists of an incred\u00adi\u00adbly bone-head\u00aded father, played by Tom Cruise, an annoy\u00ading, con\u00adstant\u00adly screech\u00ading young daugh\u00adter, and a tire\u00adsome\u00adly surly son, I start\u00aded to root for the Mar\u00adtians.&nbsp;I des\u00adper\u00adate\u00adly hoped that the Mar\u00adtians would turn them into blood slurpees.&nbsp;Actu\u00adal\u00adly, the film doesn\u2019t say they are Mar\u00adtians; it would be impos\u00adsi\u00adble to log\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly update Wells\u2019 1898 nov\u00adel and have them com\u00ading from Mars.&nbsp;But wher\u00adev\u00ader the aliens come from, they seem to have been able to build a tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal super-civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion with\u00adout know\u00ading the germ the\u00ado\u00adry of dis\u00adease.&nbsp;The 1953 Byron Hask\u00adins adap\u00adta\u00adtion, star\u00adring Gene Bar\u00adry, was a lot more&nbsp;fun.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about twen\u00adty min\u00adutes of expe\u00adri\u00adenc\u00ading Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201ctyp\u00adi\u00adcal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan fam\u00adi\u00adly\u201d, which con\u00adsists of an incred\u00adi\u00adbly bone-head\u00ad\u00aded father, played by Tom Cruise, an annoy\u00ading, con\u00adstant\u00adly screech\u00ading young daugh\u00adter, and a tire\u00adsome\u00adly surly son, I start\u00aded to root for the Mar\u00adtians.&nbsp;I&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=22\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9804,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/9804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}