{"id":132154,"date":"2016-12-05T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/movie-review-the-war-of-the-worlds-1953.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T22:31:29","slug":"movie-review-the-war-of-the-worlds-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/05\/movie-review-the-war-of-the-worlds-1953.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "The War of the Worlds" (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite SF movies when I was a kid, the gorgeous Martian War Machines remain an icon. Don't watch it expecting a personal drama: this film is all about SFX, amazing miniatures, and faith as the source of resistance to the evils of this world.<\/p>\n

Three stars and a heart.<\/p>\n

Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-war-of-the-worlds\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I always get a chuckle at the references to the rural Inland Empire of Southern California, with call-outs to landings in the Corona and Pomona areas, and the last-ditch attempt to nuke the Martians in the Puente Hills. These days that's all suburbia — back then it was tiny farming towns and dirt roads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of my favorite SF movies when I was a kid, the gorgeous Martian War Machines remain an icon. Don't watch it expecting a personal drama: this film is all about SFX, amazing miniatures, and faith as the source of resistance to the evils of this world. Three stars and a heart. Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-war-of-the-worlds\/ … Continue reading “Movie Review: "The War of the Worlds" (1953)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/war-of-the-worlds5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19147,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/war-of-the-worlds-1953.html","url_meta":{"origin":132154,"position":0},"title":"War of the Worlds (1953)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Nov-10 9:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally got Kay to sit still for the George Pal War of the Worlds<\/i>. \u00a0As a movie, it has no more personality than Wells' original, but the effects -- in particular the Martian War Machines -- still are Teh Awesome. 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