War of the Worlds

[Prowler]

Anyone else see this one? The entire movie felt more like a side story to the events rather than the actual movie... Not that I was disappointed (you have to go in expecting something great, and Tom Cruise managed to lower my expectations due to his freak show on Matt Laurer (sp)), as the visuals were excellent.

It's a summer movie that drags. That is NOT a good thing...

[jetblue]

Hmm,you're right,more like a side story.
What chilled me the most about the 1953 movie was the 2 loud noise's the martian weapons made. In the new one the weapons were very quiet and the machines were loud like my old van. Very annoying.

[Geosgaeno]

i am appaled to see how Spielberg could destroy one of the best storylines ever created.

Damn you to hell Spielberg.

PS, the real 'war of the worlds' is great.

[Prowler]

i am appaled to see how Spielberg could destroy one of the best storylines ever created.

Damn you to hell Spielberg.

PS, the real 'war of the worlds' is great.
Actually, what's strange is the fact that a lot of the people who I've spoken to about the movie (online, mind you, because I'm at home and not college for the weekend where NO ONE is), and they said they enjoyed it a lot. Mostly because it was so true to the book and did it well. But I don't feel I need to read a book first in order to enjoy a movie. Fight Club? Shawshank?

[Geosgaeno]

Actually, what's strange is the fact that a lot of the people who I've spoken to about the movie (online, mind you, because I'm at home and not college for the weekend where NO ONE is), and they said they enjoyed it a lot. Mostly because it was so true to the book and did it well. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, it was NOT true to the book at all, that is the worst thing i have heard, ive read the book and lots of things were missed out in the film, such as 1) Thunder Child = major water battle, 2) Parson Nathaniel = Major part in the story, 3) Underground building with the artillery man, 4) it was set in 21st centuary, 5) it was set in america, whats all that about?, 6) main characters didnt even exist, such as Carrie and Her father (i dont think they exist),

i could go on and on but i think ive made a point that it is absolutely nothing like the book or Jeff Wayne musical collection, if your friends enjoyed it because it was set to the book, then they were rather watching the wrong film, or reading the wrong book.

[jetblue]

hehe,I was watching Independence Day with Will Smith and the aliens look a bit like the wotw aliens.
The movie would of been better I think if Spielberg did it for tv. Like the 2 series he's doing now for the Turner networks.
Is there gonna be a video game for this?








Those tripods(wich were more like bi-pods)look familiar. I know ive seen a similiar design before either on a old tv show,movie,or video game.

[Lord Draud]

hmm could it be that they set it in the war of the worlds setting but instead had it shift over to america? so all the guy you know and love are still there just in britten

[Locke]

Personnaly, I haven't seen it yet, but I think it looks like it should be a good movie. I'll definently take a rip over there to see it this weekend. I'll post my thoughts on it once I've seen it, and I have read the book (over and over again :p). I'll let you know my thoughts on it then.

[Yuffie]

I thought it was great viewing...and I mean viewing. It was almost like watching a film about special effects rather than focusing on the plot. I found it rather abrupt too...it was sort of...

"Quick run away before they zap us all! Oh wait. Nope they've all got colds and are dying. W00t!"

To cut a long story short. :p

Also...some tripods were in the middle of cities full of skyscrapers...skyscrapers which have supports dug deep into the ground almost as far as they are tall so it's pretty impossible the tripods wouldn't have been found. ;)

But despite it all, Tom Cruise looked pretty. :lick:

[SeymourGuado]

Why must it be visuals. Visuals do not make a movie for godsake

Many or most great movies did not depend on visuals. dial m for murder, one flew over the cuckoos nest are small examples.

I won't be waching or reading about this film, its a shambles by the ever distorting hollywood.

Seifer Almasy

[tanisthalon]

The version of The War of the Worlds we all need:
http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=srmr&page=title&r=CD&title=667497

I am getting this for my birthday!

[Geosgaeno]

its already been in my collection for years thankfully.

[tanisthalon]

Geosgaeno, you have the new 7 disc collectors edition?
Its supposedly only been around a few days. It has 2 cd's for the musical, 1 cd for the remixes of the songs, 4 cd's for outakes and other stuff from the production and finally a dvd documentary of the whole thing. Along with this set you get 2 hardback books. The set is set at around £80 but you can get it from Play for £55, with free p&p ;). I have the ordinary cd set, but this is the one!

[Geosgaeno]

i havnt seen that until now no, but it could be tempting to buy some time in the non too distant future.

looks cool.

[Geosgaeno]

ok, ive watched this film, and basically like ive said on many occasions, it is WRONG.

all of it is wrong apart from certain parts.

and the character of Ogalvy was ridiculous, in the real story Ogalvy was a scientist, not an idiot with a shotgun and an Axe, and he didnt get killed by a human at all......ARRRGG.

1/10

[Mithrandir]

Bah I thought that even if it wasn't exactly like the book it was well done. I mean I thought the sounds the tripods made were cool. I never saw the old movie but I read the book and while reading it, that's how I imagined the sounds.

Still good movie even if it's not the book.

[Geosgaeno]

the sounds of the martians were great although they arnt the original sounds like the ones in the jeff wayne version, but good all the same, but the film compard to the book, and musical version by Jeff Wayne was very poor, and very very wrong.

It ISNT as bad as i thought it would be, but sometimes things arnt explained, like at the end when the teenage boy is at his mums house in Boston (which should be set in London), how the hell did he manage to get there, it should have explained his escape from the army vs martian fight. and as ive mentioned OGALVY, he was an astrologer, not a weirdo, and when he is digging the tunnel, that in the real version was the part of the artillery man, and also the martians never had the tripods already in Earths crust, and they were not transfered by Lightning, they were transfered in huge metal cylinders hitting the surface of Earth.

The tripods were cool, the metal baskets were almost correct, the red weed was awsome, although it didnt become red from spraying blood onto it, the blood was used to inject into the martians own veins. The heat ray was ok, but its not how i pictured it, the people didnt turn to dust when it hit them, the set on fire.

on the whole.... if you have read the book or listened to Jeff Wayne it manages 1/10, if you havnt had no knowledge of the WOTW, the i suppose it manages 5 or 6/10

[Yuffie]

Well they turned into dust AFTER being burnt alive so they got there in the end! :D

Although I must admit I thought the teenage kid surviving ruined the moment where he ran away to face the aliens...he so got barbequed in that scene!!

If the aliens killed all the soldiers it's pretty unlikely some wannabe soldier kid would survive AND find his way without dying or becoming injured.

[SeymourGuado]

I am just tired of the unrealistic holywood. Fools cannot even make aliens fry people right. Must always be thousands of explosions then some nit-wit coming out of the rubble alive. What planet are they on? Mars (pun intended)

I watched An american warewolf in Paris last night. It started off pretty good, like a decentish comedy....it was ok but then they ruined it with unrealistic scenes of warewolfs chasing people all over the place and on a train. Plus the metamorphosis into a warewolf was laughable esp with the pathetic computer graphics. Warewolf in London was far more realistic and gripping.

Why Oh why are these films today so blindingly made for the sub-intelligent? I am SICK OF IT

[rant over]

Seifer Almasy

[tanisthalon]

Jeff Wayne is financing an animated version based on the original and his musical, due 2007.

[Geosgaeno]

i hope so, i would watch his version anyday, should be 10times more decent than Spielbergs.

[tanisthalon]

Did you know that Spielberg and Lucas were on a commitee that voted on Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds back in 1979 and subsequently awarded it with its music awards?

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