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War of the Worlds: Extermination

|Jodi| and I went to see Spielberg’s new movie, War of the Worlds last night. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and had tried to stay away from spoiler sites (which are generally a guilty pleasure of mine). I read the original novel by H. G. Wells in an anthology I got as a kid, and also had heard the Orson Welles ‘Mercury Theater on the Air’ broadcast on cassette tape as a teen. Speilberg’s vision borrows from both, and exudes the hopelessness and desperation that Orson Welles’ interpretation captured so brilliantly.