War of worlds

I'd say read it even if you dot like sci-fi. It's one of the greatest books ever, the sort of thing everyone should try and read. Up there with greats like 1984 in my eyes.
 
I can't understand how anyone can hear this at the end

Narrator said:
From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate, and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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and still need further explanation of what happened.
 
VaderDSL said:
Agreed, it was an absolute disgrace!! Nothing more than a cash-cow for Spielberg and the Film Company :(

The 1980's film was better, and the tripods in that flew lol!
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Surely you mean the classic 1950's version? :confused:

As for the Spielberg version - I loved it. The 50's version has always been one of my fave movies and I grew up listening to the Jeff Wayne musical...so my hopes weren't high for a modern version...with Tom Cruise (urg)....set in a modern world. But it blew me away - it's probably in my top 10 of all time :eek:

My only gripe - showing the aliens. Would have worked much better without showing them and leaving the question of what was controlling the tripods up to the imagination. They should have just had the limp alien arm drooping out the machine at the end and left it at that. And worse, they were such boring generic CGI aliens. Grrrr. The rest of the film was a masterclass in direction.

As for the end - it was fine....it's what happens in the originals. Of course lots of todays youth was outraged there was no huge fight scene with CG planes and stuff :rolleyes:
 
lol yeah the 50's :) dunno why i put 80's.

I was very hostile to the new film for numerous reasons, the fact their tripods were already buried, which annoyed me greatly, as it was nonsense, there was no tension built, the characters were all so rubbish, no thunderchild, too tired to rant about it :D

where was the black smoke? the girl annoyed the hell out of me as well :D it just felt rushed, had no direction to the film, and was just generally very poor, the cg was ok.

it could have been so much better :( was just a poor attempt that felt incredibly rushed/
 
VaderDSL said:
it just felt rushed, had no direction to the film, and was just generally very poor, the cg was ok.

it could have been so much better :( was just a poor attempt that felt incredibly rushed/
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Sums up my description of SW 1 & 2
 
I am a big fan of the 50s version and saw the recent one and was pretty unimpressed.

Hovery flying aliens were so much cooler, even if they should have been walky tripod aliens :O

One part of the film that i did like was the disintigration type laser beam things, i thought that entire run away chase scene was really impressive, with people going poof here and there.

And the red mist terraforming was good.

Infact its not a terrible film, but not so good.
 
Good things:

Tripods
Heat Rays
Cool noise the tripods make (loved that :))
Red Weed
Ogilvy
Boat crossing (reference to thunderchild)

Bad Things:
The Kids
No Ullah!!
The aliens could have been from indepence day, or something equally generic
The ending where his son survived and they all lived happily ever after
The fact it was modern day
No Cylinders, or horsell common.


Actually, the good things are the only things that made it a war of the worlds film.

Still, very watchable :)
 
Like too many of our recent films from the US it was more about the special effects than it was about the story. Why bother to remake something if you don't actually add anything?
 
Baker said:
I don't know why they made this film. Independence Day was basically War of the Worlds aswell.
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I agree, thay should have stayed closer to the book and set it in 19th Cetuary England.

Rich
 
OP did you miss the whole speech about man has the earned the right to live on earth though x million years of immunity?

As for the cafe lights probably a movie error. However an EMP won't destroy every circuit, just any circuit which it can overload. If the circuit is turned of, there no current. So a larger emp is need to fry the circuitry.
 
One thing that has always intrigued me is why the martians die of earthborn viruses but we don't catch theirs?

I first "read" the story when my parents got Jeff Waynes musical of the book. I'd urge anyone who likes the story to give it a go. It's superb and the narration by Richard Burton is chilling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds

No-one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes; and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us.
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Only recently did I read the book and that too is fantastic. Particularly as a lot of areas I know are mentioned in it so it brings it far more to life. I've seen a few television adaptations of the story but none have come close to either of the above. I've yet to see the recent film.
 
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