{"id":120,"date":"2006-06-11T19:26:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=120"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:54:04","slug":"cable_war_of_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/cable_war_of_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Cable: War of the Worlds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/big_screen_miss.html\">another Tom Cruise movie I saw recently<\/A>, this movie just was NOT good enough for me to forget it was him.  In fact, this movie was a pretty bad piece of schlock, frankly.  It was as if they made a remake of Independence Day&#8230;but left out all the good parts.<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD:<\/p>\n<p>I mean &#8211; come on&#8230;  Alien invasion.  Fine.  The aliens come, and kill a bunch of people and wreck a bunch of cities.  Fine, we were expecting that.<\/p>\n<p>And then what happens?  They. Just. Die.  Say what?  No, America doesn&#8217;t come up with a master plan to destroy them or figure out a weakness or IN ANY WAY do anything redeeming at all.  Nobody tricks the aliens, or thwarts their master genocide plan.  The fuckers just die.  Because, you know, they weren&#8217;t &#8220;accustomed to our planet&#8221; the way we are.  How fucking stupid is that.<\/p>\n<p>Hellloooo in alien invasion movies, the whole point is the humans overcoming the aliens.  Talk about a No Hope ending!  Because clearly the next set of aliens just has to be accustomed to our planet and they&#8217;ll have no problem annihilating all of us.<br \/>\nStupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike another Tom Cruise movie I saw recently, this movie just was NOT good enough for me to forget it was him. In fact, this movie was a pretty bad piece of schlock, frankly. It was as if they made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/06\/cable_war_of_th.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}