Guerra de los Mundos

Last night, we decided to go see Star Wars after work. Once we got to the ticket counter, though, we opted to watch Spielberg's newest epic instead. We just can't seem to bring ourselves to watch Revenge of the Sith. Maybe it's for the best. But anyway, like Peter said, it was rather underwhelming. Although it has great special effects and is plenty suspenseful, it just doesn't feel like it goes anywhere. Two suggestions to make it immediately better:

1) The aliens should have been a bunch of pissed-off ET's, thus giving a nod to Spielberg's alien roots. Ooh! All the ET's could have been lead by an aged hippy Richard Dreyfuss! Also, waddling aliens with deadly, glowing fingers that zap death beams would have been sweet!

2) Tom Cruise has already shown us that he can portray a toothy, grinning lunatic wholeheartedly and convincingly. Yet for him to really blossom as an actor, he needs to work on his "I'm so devastated and horrified" character. Maybe Spielberg should have had Katie Holmes do a quick, zapped-to-pieces cameo. Then again, inconsolable weeping and slavering would've been a bit much.

Best part of the movie? When Cruise is pulled out of something that looks alarmingly like an irritated, alien rectum. It is now my deepest wish that "Taking a Tom Cruise" will be incorporated into American lexicon as slang for defecating. At least consider saying, "Excuse me guys, I gotta go drop a TC-bomb." Please?