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So anyone seeing this when it comes out ? :-) I'm looking forward to it big time ! I was saying ages ago how there should be a remake of this film, and just a couple of days later, I'm looking around film sites and there was news of this one being made !
And just to add to it, the release of the film pretty much lands on my birthday ! The old film is one of my favourites so its cool to have the new one arrive for my birthday. ;-)
I've been watching trailers for it since around Christmas time, but I've managed to avoid seeing this one thats supposedly doing the rounds online that shows the Martian war machines. Don't want to see them in all their glory till I see the film. :-)
Gonna be going on Thursday 30th June seeing as they start showing the film in Basildon a day early. ;-)
And just to add to it, the release of the film pretty much lands on my birthday ! The old film is one of my favourites so its cool to have the new one arrive for my birthday. ;-)
I've been watching trailers for it since around Christmas time, but I've managed to avoid seeing this one thats supposedly doing the rounds online that shows the Martian war machines. Don't want to see them in all their glory till I see the film. :-)
Gonna be going on Thursday 30th June seeing as they start showing the film in Basildon a day early. ;-)
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Again, the majority of the book was spent hiding from the martians and talking to the Artilleryman about the 'Brave new world' underground.
The only action bits I recall from the book were: The landing of the pods, the first martian vapourising the crowd by the pod; The first attempt at defeating the martians with artillery fire; the martian harvesting the parson and grabbing the journalist's boot; Thunderchild.
I'll probably re-read the book after I've finished reading Koji Suzuki's Spiral.
The only action bits I recall from the book were: The landing of the pods, the first martian vapourising the crowd by the pod; The first attempt at defeating the martians with artillery fire; the martian harvesting the parson and grabbing the journalist's boot; Thunderchild.
I'll probably re-read the book after I've finished reading Koji Suzuki's Spiral.
I knew they'd mess it up, try and go all frickin arthouse with it, give some sort of dramatic and entirely unnecessary portrayal of how it would affect Joe Nobody and generic family #1A.
They spoilt the perfectly sound premise for a solid laser-toting action packed sci-fi movie for no reason other than they could.
I hate them.
They spoilt the perfectly sound premise for a solid laser-toting action packed sci-fi movie for no reason other than they could.
I hate them.
*nicked from the other thread*
Total waste of time. It's like they thought "Well, Indpendence Day showed aliens wrecking stuff; we won't bother"
In fact the scene with the reporter reeked of "Here's some exposition for you, because we can't be bothered to show it properly"
Sure, sure, it's all about the family, but even that was crap. Was Cruise meant to be the caring father, or the useless father who learned to love his kids by the end? He seemed to switch from one role to the other. That, and he was like every other character Cruise plays.
I expected so much... it could've at least been as good as the original.
War of the Worlds? Scrap of the little girls if you ask me.
"Let's spend half the film in a basement, purposefully not showing the huge battle raging on. Oops, the film is over, better show them dying of a cold* in the last five minutes"
I had to explain why the aliens died to one of my friends (though I couldn't explain why the shields went off) They thought ol' Tom had done something with those grenades that affected them all.
It wasn't terrible, it was certainly watchable, but a bit of a let down considering every review gave it 4 to 5 stars and one said it was one of the best film ever made.
And did anyone else get flashbacks of Close Encounters when he was driving through the fields?
*if that spoiled something for you, then you deserve it for not seeing the original
Total waste of time. It's like they thought "Well, Indpendence Day showed aliens wrecking stuff; we won't bother"
In fact the scene with the reporter reeked of "Here's some exposition for you, because we can't be bothered to show it properly"
Sure, sure, it's all about the family, but even that was crap. Was Cruise meant to be the caring father, or the useless father who learned to love his kids by the end? He seemed to switch from one role to the other. That, and he was like every other character Cruise plays.
I expected so much... it could've at least been as good as the original.
War of the Worlds? Scrap of the little girls if you ask me.
"Let's spend half the film in a basement, purposefully not showing the huge battle raging on. Oops, the film is over, better show them dying of a cold* in the last five minutes"
I had to explain why the aliens died to one of my friends (though I couldn't explain why the shields went off) They thought ol' Tom had done something with those grenades that affected them all.
It wasn't terrible, it was certainly watchable, but a bit of a let down considering every review gave it 4 to 5 stars and one said it was one of the best film ever made.
And did anyone else get flashbacks of Close Encounters when he was driving through the fields?
*if that spoiled something for you, then you deserve it for not seeing the original
Savatt78 wrote:
> Yeah the war machines were pretty cool. Just woulda been nice to see
> them against the military more.
Again, that's where it's pretty close to the book. It's told from the POV of one bloke. The endings pretty abrupt in the book too.
I would have liked to have seen a Thunderchild style showdown however.
> Yeah the war machines were pretty cool. Just woulda been nice to see
> them against the military more.
Again, that's where it's pretty close to the book. It's told from the POV of one bloke. The endings pretty abrupt in the book too.
I would have liked to have seen a Thunderchild style showdown however.
Saw the film today, thought it was excellent.
"Buy the Special-Supery-DuperyTM edition with 497 extra minutes of aliens kicking our asses ... until one sneezes - only £129.99!!1!1"
Yeah the war machines were pretty cool. Just woulda been nice to see them against the military more.
Savatt78 wrote:
> Sorry my mistake. When I say Martians, I meant "some guys that
> live beyond the U.S borders". ;-)
Heh. All the different versions have their subtexts. The Welles radio version had the economic climate of the time, the 50's, the martians were the commies. This one's will be post 9/11 (even though Keopp says it's not)
I think most of the stupid bits are wiped out because ther is zero communication with the invaders and you only see it through the eyes of one bloke.
Where are they from? Why are they indaving? Have the machines been buried for millenia (Only Tim Robbins character tells us that they are. How does he know) Why couldn't they teleported in in the initial storm, then the creatures dropped in?
It's simply not said.
Regardless of what you though of the movie, do you admit that the war machines were a masterpiece?
> Sorry my mistake. When I say Martians, I meant "some guys that
> live beyond the U.S borders". ;-)
Heh. All the different versions have their subtexts. The Welles radio version had the economic climate of the time, the 50's, the martians were the commies. This one's will be post 9/11 (even though Keopp says it's not)
I think most of the stupid bits are wiped out because ther is zero communication with the invaders and you only see it through the eyes of one bloke.
Where are they from? Why are they indaving? Have the machines been buried for millenia (Only Tim Robbins character tells us that they are. How does he know) Why couldn't they teleported in in the initial storm, then the creatures dropped in?
It's simply not said.
Regardless of what you though of the movie, do you admit that the war machines were a masterpiece?
Sorry my mistake. When I say Martians, I meant "some guys that live beyond the U.S borders". ;-)
As for the birds - it was supposed to be our blood that killed them. I guess it could have been alot worse though. A bunch of trained birds could have dropped a big American flag on each Tripod, causing them to fall over and have the Martians graze their elbow - leading to infection. God I hope no American director is reading this.
As for the birds - it was supposed to be our blood that killed them. I guess it could have been alot worse though. A bunch of trained birds could have dropped a big American flag on each Tripod, causing them to fall over and have the Martians graze their elbow - leading to infection. God I hope no American director is reading this.
Savatt78 wrote:
> One or two seemed to think
> the Martians were beaten by birds.
Where are "Martians" mentioned exactly in this new version? :P
Why not beaten by birds? Perhaps they could get past the shields and spread the bacteria. sorry, devils advocate :D
Savatt78 wrote:
> Anyway, it was alright - but the film I make in my head from the
> novel is alot better. ;-)
As are all of them.
> One or two seemed to think
> the Martians were beaten by birds.
Where are "Martians" mentioned exactly in this new version? :P
Why not beaten by birds? Perhaps they could get past the shields and spread the bacteria. sorry, devils advocate :D
Savatt78 wrote:
> Anyway, it was alright - but the film I make in my head from the
> novel is alot better. ;-)
As are all of them.
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