Hello, it’s me and I’m in Leceister Square, London on Sunday 19th June 2005 for the UK premiere of Motion Picture War of the Worlds, a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, staring Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins, and I’m sure I’ll be smooching with one of them later this evening, nyess!
It’s boiling hot but I’m fully equipped with a damp flannel, several litres of juice and a lunch box filled with delicious meat and lettuce.
Anyway the movie is being hyped as being most successful ever and I’ve heard it’s going to be the biggest winner at the Oscars this year winning a grand total of 14 awards and believe me it took more than just a quick peck on the cheek to find that one out!
It’s said to be the biggest ever movie money maker in history expecting to make $1 billion in it’s first month and a grand total of $10 billion, more than any other movie ever! Paramount Pictures have rumoured to have spent tens of millions of dollars just promoting the film, it’s not unusual but they’ve spent more than star wars and batman.
So what is all the fuss about?
Well, I’ve been poking my little nose around to find it all out..
Based on a classic novel by H G Wells, war of the worlds has finally hit our big screen with the help of movie magician, Stephen Speilberg, who really believes aliens exist so later on I’m going to ask him if I should be digging a little bunker in my allotment just in case the aliens come to get me. Yes he really does believe aliens exist, not suprising as it’s his third alien film following the infamous ET and Close Encounters.
The film is all about how a bunch of aliens, also known as the Tripods, from another world come to earth, a place in America known as New England and start a ravaging attack with their big long things, enormous wepons and powerful force fields, blowing up everything in sight basicly. Humans are simply left powerless as their little riffles and pen knives wont even scar the aliens and are left running for their lives in this nail bitting, bowl irritating, seat edging, head sweating, pop corn crunching movie of a life time, it’s amazing with action, adventure, romance, love, no naughty things happen so it’s great for kids too providing they have an adult with them ofcourse. This movie also has no less than the Tom Cruise staring as character Ray Ferrier married to Co Star Miranda Otto who plays Mary Ann Ferrier together they have a young daughter, Rachael Ferrier played by child star Dakota Fanning and Ray has a son played by Justin Chatwin. Rays family remains the focus of the movie as it follows their survival and as usual Tom Cruise has a heroic role as he protects his family and helps to save the world, although he’s not the one who actually saves the world.
At some point in the movie someone finds a big enough weapon to fight back at the aliens and in the end it’s sadly not the end of the world but mankind defeats the aliens and has a lot of pieces to pick up, the world simply has a fresh start, until the next time.
The story line follows through quite nicely with the action and special effects and altogether brings a balanced but very exciting picture to our screens.
The quality of acting in the film is also a huge success story as we see the younger generation of Hollywood steaming ahead with turbo power and I’m sure young Dakota Fanning has a very bright and glittering career ahead of her.
In all the excitement of the Movie Tom Cruise has just proposed to his girlly, Katie Holmes, in Paris, how romantic. To make a statement Katie wears a really big diamond ring, supposingly given to her by Tom Cruise. They appear to be very much in love, but I have news from the underworld as it’s apparently all just one big publicity stunt to make Katie’s movie Batman and Tom’s Movie The War of the Worlds get more media coverage.
They don’t sleep in the same bed, they don’t have much in common in fact they say Tom Cruise likes his cricket so much he uses both sides of his bat, so you never know it could be me wearing a ring like that one day. And I’ll be waiting!
