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"The aliens die from the common cold."

There, now you know what stops the aliens in the soon-to-be travesty of the War of the worlds film, so you don't have to watch it.

Seriously, the original (film) was a fantastic piece of work. Considering when it was made, the special effects were outstanding, and the aliens genuinely scary. Now Senor Spielbergo is making a trilogy out of it, and he's promised not to destroy any 'sensitive' landmarks!?!?! Forget about moving the location from London in the books to other places - that's a good idea for a film conversion, because there are better things to blow up. But he's basically splitting Independence Day into three films: aliens invade and fail; we study their technology; we strike back! And with Spielbergo at the helm, we can't possibly lose a war against a master race of aliens (or should I say "Nazis"), with their space travel and advanced technology - it wouldn't be PC! Next Summer, the Human spirit WILL find a way.

Go and buy the original film to see how brilliant it is. I'm sure it's only about a fiver from Play, or Amazon. You won't regret it.

I trust Spielberg. It's good source material, he's a great director, I see no reason why he'd mess it up. Difficult to judge a film before they've even started making it, it could be fantastic.

I have an idea for an alien-related film. Aliens invade the Earth. All the scallies are wiped out. They leave, and we all feel the benefit.

Maybe they could have used Victorian techonology to build giant walking spiders, like that film, Wild Wild Wiggedy-Wa Independence Day.

It was set in hte Victorian times? Also I hope they attack Woking in this trilogy.

I think he missed an opertunity to make something quite unique. It'd have been interesating if he set the film in the time period in the book, victorian England. It certainly would have been more original than the Independance Day rip off it sounds like it's going to be.

I missed the middle of the book out when I read it at school as I ran out of time to write my review for it.

So errr aye.

There, now you know what stops the aliens in the soon-to-be travesty of the War of the worlds film, so you don't have to watch it.

Seriously, the original (film) was a fantastic piece of work. Considering when it was made, the special effects were outstanding, and the aliens genuinely scary. Now Senor Spielbergo is making a trilogy out of it, and he's promised not to destroy any 'sensitive' landmarks!?!?! Forget about moving the location from London in the books to other places - that's a good idea for a film conversion, because there are better things to blow up. But he's basically splitting Independence Day into three films: aliens invade and fail; we study their technology; we strike back! And with Spielbergo at the helm, we can't possibly lose a war against a master race of aliens (or should I say "Nazis"), with their space travel and advanced technology - it wouldn't be PC! Next Summer, the Human spirit WILL find a way.

Go and buy the original film to see how brilliant it is. I'm sure it's only about a fiver from Play, or Amazon. You won't regret it.