War of the Worlds Essay

War of the Worlds Essay

Imagine you're self waking up on what seams to be a normal day. You get ready for school and you start your drive when all of a sudden your car turns off. You get out puzzled wondering what has happened when you realize that all the cars around you are broke down to, then the ground starts to tremble growing more intense then much to your amazement a large alien looking tri pod emerges out of the ground and starts attacking and killing everything in its path. This is what happened in the movie War of the Worlds. I think that War of the Worlds is most like hard science fiction because it is believable and the movie is based around aliens. According to Tarig Malik staff writer of Space.com says that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that some form of alien life exists somewhere in the universe, according to a new survey I think that is enough to qualify the movie as believable there for it is hard sci-fi.

Another reason that I considered the movie to be hard sci-fi is because the aliens had advanced technology for example they some how shut down the power to homes and made all the cars breakdown. They also had lasers that turned humans to dust. The aliens even had force fields around their vehicles that would block our weapons from penetrating. The weapons that humans used in the movie are important to the story and plausible given today's technology. What more do you need to consider this movie hard science fiction.

When it comes to picking a theme for this movie its not the hardest play in the book. When you consider that the movie had aliens that had the ability to basically shut down the humans. They had the ability to disable thousands of cars in the city. They also had shields that rendered our weapons useless. The aliens in the movie also have many more paranormal abilities. Just from what I've mentioned it's easy to classify this movie as an unexplained phenomena story.

My personal opinion of the movie is not that great if you ask me it is kind of boring and played out like most of the movies that Tom Cruise plays a roll in. If Tom Cruise plays a part in a movie you can always guarantee there will be some far fetched and cheesy action plot as War of the Worlds proves. Some things I didn't like about the movie are... Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning stared in it, Tom is not that bad at least you know there will be some action scenes, but Dakota Fanning is just plan annoying! Another thing I didn't like about the movie is when Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is faced with a problem it always seems to work out for him for example he is the only one around that has a running car, and the very dramatic scene where Toms character has to choose between his son and daughter, is ripped apart at the end of the movie because yet again it works out for Tom. While millions of people around him die Tom doesn't lose one person close to him, and