In The Curse of the Gold Cross, G. K. Chesterton has Father Brown say, "I can believe the impossible, but not the improbable... it really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that deals with things we don’t understand, than a natural story that contradicts things we do understand."
I felt that way with The War of the Worlds. I'm happy to accept that alien ships can rise out of the earth and kill millions of people. But I cannot believe that a man can drive his car at full speed along a highway full of stationary cars, and not have an accident. The aliens I'm agnostic about, but the driving contradicts what I do understand.
That - along with Tom Cruise trying to be a father - made the film a bit painful to watch. It was, of course, much darker than the 1953 version - and in this one, nobody went to church. But Dakota Fanning's performance was amazing, and the film had me at times on the edge of my seat.
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