The Time Machine

                I did not like The Time Machine at all. It’s written in 1895 which already makes it hard to understand, and then you add science to it and it’s nonsense. The entire book is just him describing the year he has entered, and it is very boring. I did see the movie in middle school, and I don’t remember it being that bad. I could barely get through the book though, and I even skipped paragraphs at a time because it was so dry.

               

I think it would have been better if there were more characters or more things going on. Yeah, he talked about the Morlocks and Eloi and their problems, but it was done in poor fashion. I think it should have been more intense or something. Even when The Time Traveler would get taken or was in trouble or whatever, it didn’t seem very exciting, and I didn’t relate to him at all. I feel bad that I’m trashing this book, but I honestly don’t have anything positive to say about it. Also, the Eloi started to annoy me, especially Weena. I get that they’re childlike and have de-progressed, but it just got on my nerves. So yeah, not a good book for me.

Battle: Los Angeles

                The second movie my group watched was Battle: Los Angeles. It’s about the US army fighting against these machine things that are trying to destroy them. It was originally thought that the machine things were meteorites that could only be seen when they entered the atmosphere, but they figured out they were machines (I don’t know their name) that were sent from an enemy in space.

Basically the entire movie was just the army fighting them…nothing else happened. I don’t even know what to write for this because nothing happened in the movie! It was two hours of battle scenes –boring scenes, at that. The men would have a certain time limit to escape before a huge hit would come, and they run into a bunch of problems, obviously. Towards the end, they decide to fight the aliens. They do good, and the alien troops retreat and word is sent how to destroy them. Oh, and it’s centered in California on the coast which is why the title is called Los Angeles. At the end the soldiers fight to get LA back.

                That’s really all I can say about the movie. I don’t recommend it because it was bad and boring. I daydreamed through half of it. So yeah, don’t watch it.

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds is a film directed by Steven Spielberg that shows the end of humanity. In the movie, these massive machine tripod-things come out of the Earth and start destroying everything -people, buildings, houses, etc. When the first tripod came out of the Earth, it had these lasers on its arms that vaporized whatever it touched immediately. After it was gone, people assumed it was the only one and were a little relieved until they saw the news that showed the machines everywhere. The movie follows a family of a dad and his son and daughter and how they make their way to Boston where the mom is. Through the journey, we see how dangerous these things really are and how they survive. The pick up mass amounts of people and feed on them and then spray blood everywhere. It’s gross.

    It is known that these machine were put into the Earth before humans walked it, as told by the crazy guy in the cellar. Since these machines are very advanced and almost invincible, it makes you wonder how they were built such a long time ago. Aliens is the answer, but it is still crazy. I liked this film, but I felt it dragged on a tad in certain parts. It ended on a bit of a cliffhanger, but I think there is a sequel to it. I probably won’t watch it, though.