War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave

C. Thomas Howell, Fred Griffith (2008) Mankind unites to fight back when a second alien invasion threatens Earth.

SciFi Saturday movie from 4/18.

Another exciting offering from "The Asylum". Remember them? The ones who make crappy movies? Yeah, them.

My main issue with the first one of the Asylum's War Of The Worlds movies was that the alien walkers had 6 legs, rather than 3. That, and it was terrible. I'm pretty sure that the book described the walkers as "tripods". Which implies 3 legs. The first scene of this movie shows 3 legged walkers arriving and wreaking havoc. Let see if this one is any better than its predecessor. I'm not too hopeful, given that this is an Asylum production.

You know things are bad when an amazing birthday present is a can of canned ravioli. I guess that's how the tell us that its a post-apocalyptic movie...

Apparently C. Thomas Howell's character has never seen an F22 before, or he's got a really good imagination. Because those things don't really look like F22s, aside from the fact that they're airplanes, and they can fly. And are gray. They don't have any sort of vertical stabilizers. They've got sort of a delta wing configuration, and they've got 3 separate cockpits (think SR71 style), rather than the large glass cockpit of the raptor. And the pilots seem to wear infantry combat helmets instead of flight helmets. And the planes don't even have wheels. So, all in all, not even close to an F22 Raptor.

But he is supremely awesome, because he can get printouts from his telescope. It looked like a regular telescope. That wasn't connected to anything that might be a printer... or any sort of machinery...

And apparently in the post-apocalyptic world, fuel gauges don't work. And people drive freaking huge trucks. In a world of limited gasoline. Yay, fuel economy! Wait a second...

Intriguing... It seems that the tripods can fly. And they fly in the opposite direction that they walk. I wonder if there's an alien on one end that's in charge of watching, and another one at the other end that's in charge of flying...

In other news, some guy just used a rifle scope as a monocular. With the scope rings still attached. I think in post-apocalyptic, alien invasion world, you'd want to have a rifle attached to that scope... or you'd want to use all your rifle scopes for rifles, and use binoculars for far away viewing.

And then stuff happened. I'm not really sure what, and I was paying attention more than I have been lately. Just was sort of incomprehensible, and not very well explained.

But the great thing is, that they left the door open for another sequel! Joy of joys! Oh wait... not so much...