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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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Is it actually written anywhere that the war machines were always underground? The pods that come down with the lightning could have expanded, you never know?
Savatt78 wrote:
> Another thing about the new arrival idea - isn't it amazing how the
> Martians managed to bury their machines in spots exactly where we
> were to oneday build cities ? Not only that, but in a place full of
> buildings, they managed to pick the spot where the nice wide road
> would be, rather than coming out with half a building on its head.
*Sigh* you're really reading way to much into what amounts to a big budget b movie. It's a movie. About bigass aliens attacking humanity. It's not supposed to be realistic.
I suppose the original book is the height of gritty realism?
> Another thing about the new arrival idea - isn't it amazing how the
> Martians managed to bury their machines in spots exactly where we
> were to oneday build cities ? Not only that, but in a place full of
> buildings, they managed to pick the spot where the nice wide road
> would be, rather than coming out with half a building on its head.
*Sigh* you're really reading way to much into what amounts to a big budget b movie. It's a movie. About bigass aliens attacking humanity. It's not supposed to be realistic.
I suppose the original book is the height of gritty realism?
Well I just had a little result on ebay. :-) Was looking at prices for the 7 disc collectors edition of the Jeff Wayne musical and found an auction for a framed film cell of the 1953 film. So I grabbed that for £9 and I'm happy. ;-)
Now if I can just get a good price on the collectors CD...
Now if I can just get a good price on the collectors CD...
Domaye dribbled:
> Saw it last night it was so bloody awful i was laughing most of the
> wayt through it.
OK, let's see then shall we, Domaye, if that is your real name.
> Heh, "EMP no electric device will work!!! Apart from the video
> camera that randomer has"
Maybe he replaces the batteries - they didn't say that battery powered devices didn't simply have their batteries drained. The car battery worked, they just had to change a component (solenoids).
> argh there was so much stuff which they just put in there which was
> utter balls.
Good argument.
> Like "Dad I have to see this let me go" This being tanks firing at
> alien tripods, then theres a mass explosion,
> yet the son gets to boston (Aliens dont go to boston apparently)
> before the dad and the daughter.
They were stuck underground with psycho Tim Robbins for ages. Possibly days. You don't see the son die...haven't you ever seen a film before? In fact, did you even see this film? The tripods were in Boston, you see them at the end. Jesus, you're so impatient!
> And if the aliense put all the things under the ground a million years > ago, why didnt they just take the planet, a million years ago.
> what had they been doing for a million years :S
*sigh* The aliens told you that did they, or was that only ever mentioned by crazy ol' Timbo Robbinbo?
> And what was with all the dead people on the river? I thought the
> people that got caught were either zapped or picked up by :S
Obviously not...
> Heh I havent read the book but, i was hoping tom cruise would die and
> the man with the shovel would survive. Now that would have been a good
> story.
It's not a book, it's a film. The book is the frame of reference and is set 100 years before this. And no, your Tom Cruise snuff fantasy didn't come true, he'll haunt your wet dreams forever. You have to kill him in your mind, not Spielberg's.
Superb film, sorry it didn't have enough explosions for you Domaye.
EDIT: Oh, and whoever mentions the peanut butter incident - the view was from inside the window, just over Tom Cruise's left shoulder instead of the right. He has two shoulders, he ain't no freak. The thing you were seeing is called a "reflection". Look in the mirror. Now stop because you're ugly. Morons.
> Saw it last night it was so bloody awful i was laughing most of the
> wayt through it.
OK, let's see then shall we, Domaye, if that is your real name.
> Heh, "EMP no electric device will work!!! Apart from the video
> camera that randomer has"
Maybe he replaces the batteries - they didn't say that battery powered devices didn't simply have their batteries drained. The car battery worked, they just had to change a component (solenoids).
> argh there was so much stuff which they just put in there which was
> utter balls.
Good argument.
> Like "Dad I have to see this let me go" This being tanks firing at
> alien tripods, then theres a mass explosion,
> yet the son gets to boston (Aliens dont go to boston apparently)
> before the dad and the daughter.
They were stuck underground with psycho Tim Robbins for ages. Possibly days. You don't see the son die...haven't you ever seen a film before? In fact, did you even see this film? The tripods were in Boston, you see them at the end. Jesus, you're so impatient!
> And if the aliense put all the things under the ground a million years > ago, why didnt they just take the planet, a million years ago.
> what had they been doing for a million years :S
*sigh* The aliens told you that did they, or was that only ever mentioned by crazy ol' Timbo Robbinbo?
> And what was with all the dead people on the river? I thought the
> people that got caught were either zapped or picked up by :S
Obviously not...
> Heh I havent read the book but, i was hoping tom cruise would die and
> the man with the shovel would survive. Now that would have been a good
> story.
It's not a book, it's a film. The book is the frame of reference and is set 100 years before this. And no, your Tom Cruise snuff fantasy didn't come true, he'll haunt your wet dreams forever. You have to kill him in your mind, not Spielberg's.
Superb film, sorry it didn't have enough explosions for you Domaye.
EDIT: Oh, and whoever mentions the peanut butter incident - the view was from inside the window, just over Tom Cruise's left shoulder instead of the right. He has two shoulders, he ain't no freak. The thing you were seeing is called a "reflection". Look in the mirror. Now stop because you're ugly. Morons.
Saw it last night it was so bloody awful i was laughing most of the wayt through it.
Heh, "EMP no electric device will work!!! Apart from the video camera that randomer has"
argh there was so much stuff which they just put in there which was utter balls. Like "Dad I have to see this let me go" This being tanks firing at alien tripods, then theres a mass explosion, yet the son gets to boston (Aliens dont go to boston apparently) before the dad and the daughter. And if the aliense put all the things under the ground a million years ago, why didnt they just take the planet, a million years ago.
what had they been doing for a million years :S
And what was with all the dead people on the river? I thought the people that got caught were either zapped or picked up by :S
Heh I havent read the book but, i was hoping tom cruise would die and the man with the shovel would survive. Now that would have been a good story.
Heh, "EMP no electric device will work!!! Apart from the video camera that randomer has"
argh there was so much stuff which they just put in there which was utter balls. Like "Dad I have to see this let me go" This being tanks firing at alien tripods, then theres a mass explosion, yet the son gets to boston (Aliens dont go to boston apparently) before the dad and the daughter. And if the aliense put all the things under the ground a million years ago, why didnt they just take the planet, a million years ago.
what had they been doing for a million years :S
And what was with all the dead people on the river? I thought the people that got caught were either zapped or picked up by :S
Heh I havent read the book but, i was hoping tom cruise would die and the man with the shovel would survive. Now that would have been a good story.
It was our blood that killed them off in the original story. The air part came into it in the 1953 film - which probably changed the details a bit cause people would have been more squimish back then.
Another thing about the new arrival idea - isn't it amazing how the Martians managed to bury their machines in spots exactly where we were to oneday build cities ? Not only that, but in a place full of buildings, they managed to pick the spot where the nice wide road would be, rather than coming out with half a building on its head.
I find it annoying cause the cylinders coming down was like one of the key parts of the story for me and now its been replaced with some lame lightning crap. Can't even describe the look on my face when they came up with the "buried millions of years ago" crap theory, other than that I was like "OH **** OFF !"
I love War of the Worlds and although the new one is a good film in its own right, for me its screwed up the original story and left me feeling a little disappointed after the time I waited for it.
Like I said, good film, particularly for those that don't know anything about the story. But its a kick in the teeth if you go to see it with all these classic book moments in your mind. Of course its set in modern time instead of 19th Century, etc. But you still feel they could create something thats modern, but still true to the original story.
Another thing about the new arrival idea - isn't it amazing how the Martians managed to bury their machines in spots exactly where we were to oneday build cities ? Not only that, but in a place full of buildings, they managed to pick the spot where the nice wide road would be, rather than coming out with half a building on its head.
I find it annoying cause the cylinders coming down was like one of the key parts of the story for me and now its been replaced with some lame lightning crap. Can't even describe the look on my face when they came up with the "buried millions of years ago" crap theory, other than that I was like "OH **** OFF !"
I love War of the Worlds and although the new one is a good film in its own right, for me its screwed up the original story and left me feeling a little disappointed after the time I waited for it.
Like I said, good film, particularly for those that don't know anything about the story. But its a kick in the teeth if you go to see it with all these classic book moments in your mind. Of course its set in modern time instead of 19th Century, etc. But you still feel they could create something thats modern, but still true to the original story.
Saw it last night, never read the book or seen the 53 version, but thought it was a solid 8. 'Course I don't know much about it but it was always going to be hard to convert a 1898 novel into a 21st century film, and there were some rather dodgy bits - like when Ray and his daughter and the former ambulance driver were hiding out in the building, and in come the tentacles with cameras on the end. Obviously these superpower aliens would not rely on sight and sound - as in, they should have had heat sensors or similar. As previously said, that can probably be accounted for in the book since it was written so long ago.
It wasn't a perfect movie and some parts were deliberately ruined I felt just so Ray's son could get that "Hi Dad" in at the end.
Oh and one other thing which I felt was a huge plot error or else I missed something - these whole events can't have taken more than a few days, yes? So, when the aliens were first on earth, all those millenia ago, burying their "tripods", why didn't they get oxygen poisoning then or at least realise the dangers? Surely in thousands of years of planning some bright spark would think about the air they had to breathe? Gah, the more I think about it the more loose ends there are. Anyone explain this to me?
It wasn't a perfect movie and some parts were deliberately ruined I felt just so Ray's son could get that "Hi Dad" in at the end.
Oh and one other thing which I felt was a huge plot error or else I missed something - these whole events can't have taken more than a few days, yes? So, when the aliens were first on earth, all those millenia ago, burying their "tripods", why didn't they get oxygen poisoning then or at least realise the dangers? Surely in thousands of years of planning some bright spark would think about the air they had to breathe? Gah, the more I think about it the more loose ends there are. Anyone explain this to me?
Savatt78 wrote:
> Actually Mojo - Independence Day is a rip off of War of the Worlds.
Yup. Even donw to the virus winning the day
> As for the description of the Martians in the book, they are brown
> with a body that is basically a large head. They don't have a
> seperate head, more like a body with a face. The 1953 film will give
> you a general idea although it still misses some of the details.
The Dark Horse E comic has the second best visualisation of them. [URL]http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=20[/URL]
League of extraordinary gentlemen vol 2 has the best IMHO.
[URL]http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict00023mj.jpg[/URL]
> Actually Mojo - Independence Day is a rip off of War of the Worlds.
Yup. Even donw to the virus winning the day
> As for the description of the Martians in the book, they are brown
> with a body that is basically a large head. They don't have a
> seperate head, more like a body with a face. The 1953 film will give
> you a general idea although it still misses some of the details.
The Dark Horse E comic has the second best visualisation of them. [URL]http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/wotw_popup.php?p=20[/URL]
League of extraordinary gentlemen vol 2 has the best IMHO.
[URL]http://img144.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pict00023mj.jpg[/URL]
Edgy wrote:
> Jeff Wayne should have directed a War of the Worlds movie...
There's an animated version coming out based on the album. 2007
[URL]http://forums.eveofthewar.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=235&pos=0[/URL]
> Jeff Wayne should have directed a War of the Worlds movie...
There's an animated version coming out based on the album. 2007
[URL]http://forums.eveofthewar.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=235&pos=0[/URL]
That's what made it so good. I wish I could get it to play on XP inclusive of its own ingame music like it is supposed to play.
For some reason, it will only work with the game's sound FX.
I remember I invented my own cheat for the game - one which I did only to satisfy some curiosity. You can start the game how the enemy starts whichever team you're on by renaming a couple files :D
For some reason, it will only work with the game's sound FX.
I remember I invented my own cheat for the game - one which I did only to satisfy some curiosity. You can start the game how the enemy starts whichever team you're on by renaming a couple files :D
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