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The difference between Scientology poster-children Tom Cruise and John Travolta (besides about 100 pounds of head-bloat): When Cruise wants to make Battlefield:Earth, he gets Steven Spielberg to direct it.

The War of the Worlds trailer arrived this morning, and it goes for "talky and semi-ominous" over "exciting" to try to draw some early buzz for its summer release. Somewhere, H.G. Wells is snoring in his grave.

UPDATE: A reader informs us that the voice-over in the trailer is actually a paraphrase of the opening portion of the H.G. Wells novel. So we went back and watched it again, armed with this new info. And? Still boring.