Snore of the Worlds

It's not that War of the Worlds was a bad flick, but I just lost interest in the movie right when it showed the aliens. The aliens in this movie looked like little green monkeys, spinning bicycle wheels and sipping water out of a sink like a pack of idiots. Hollywood never gets the aliens right. Never. Remember how dumb the alien at the end of Signs looked? Or what about the Independence Day aliens, with the ridiculous tentacles?

And why are aliens always naked, without any genitalia to boot?

And if I remember correctly, aliens are supposed to have almond-shaped, slanty eyes. But in this movie their eyes are nice and ROUND. What, does Hollywood lack the guts to make Japanese-looking aliens?

The moment I saw what the aliens looked like in this movie is the moment I gave up and nearly fell asleep. Not that you can't possibly enjoy watching it. There are still things worth seeing. Tom Cruise is still a crazy midget, Dakota Fanning is still creepy, and Tim Robbins is still good at playing bewildered lunatics. And if there's any redeeming moments in the movie, it's when a tentacle of one the giant tripod robots tries to pull Tom Cruise inside its gigantic pink rectum. Honest, that's what happened in the movie.