Last week was the annual beach trip with my family, and it was lots of fun as usual, except that we had huge jerks for neighbors. This guy took down our volleyball net and threw it into the dunes about fifty feet down the beach. I guess that story was more interesting if you were there than if you read it here.
We saw War Of The Worlds last week. I have conflicting opinions about this movie. My initial reaction was that I liked the movie and all the awesome special effects, but the ending was stupid. Then I read an article that said that the ending was true to the book and “purposefully low-key.” So maybe I can respect Spielberg’s decision to go with the stupid ending, which I hope wasn’t so stupid and anticlimactic in Wells’s book. Regardless, I believe it would have been better if someone other than Tom Cruise had been chosen to play the main role. He has that stupid grin on his face all the time. It annoys me. Not that I think he’s bad at everything he’s been in. I just don’t like him so much in movies that aren’t supposed to be funny.
Today we declare our Independence Day!