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I caught War of the Worlds late last night, which marks the first time in my life I've caught back-to-back movies on opening day. (Star Wars, being the other, in case you've missed my 800 Star Wars related postings.)

I'm not gonna write a spoiler here but I am gonna talk about general themes, so consider yourself warned...

WARNING!! DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU WANT TO HEAR GENERAL THEMES!!

That was a final warning. I don't want to get sued. I'm already involved in a lawsuit after telling someone the ending to The 10 Commandments. Okay, here we go...

Speilberg really has the ability to push movie-making like nobody else. Just when you think you've seen it all in term of suspense, or special effects or plotline, he somehow pulls out all kinds of surprises that keep you on the edge of your seat. Even if you are a judgemental comedian.

Tom Cruise might just be at that breaking point in his career where you can no longer view him as anyone else other than Tom Cruise. The whole movie I kept thinking, "Why doesn't Tom takes the kids and hide in the local affiliate of the Church of Scientology ?"

The only thing I didn't like about the movie was the last 10 minutes, which I cannot begin to explain to you. I really don't know what happened, other than that Tom get sucked into some sort of giant alien anus and was able to climb out after leaving a grenade up there. This somehow starts a chain reaction that leads to the destruction of aliens. It has since been explained to me that the aliens got sick after being contaminated by our human genes. I guess that makes sense, I mean who wouldn't be sick after eating 10,000 humans? That's a lot of extra carbs.

Is Morgan Freeman the only person in Hollywood capable of doing a movie voice-over? He picks up right where he left off in Shawshank Redemeption and Million Dollar Baby and tells us the story of how the aliens got here. What is it exactly about an old black man telling us a story that makes it more believable?

I'm not sure what the answer is to that question, but I have to get going because Sidney Pottier is coming over in 20 minutes and I need to clean up before he gets here. He reads me the newspaper every Thursday afternoon.