War of worlds

Hades said:
One thing that has always intrigued me is why the martians die of earthborn viruses but we don't catch theirs?
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Probably because are bacteria is every where. Human contact with them will be small. As well if us humans are anything to go by, there ships/craft will be very sterile. They'll be using some sort of nukem hand wash :D
 
Was not over inpressed with film, original was better, i remember having the tapes around 22 years ago, me and mates use to listen to in my mini,with some smokes.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Probably because are bacteria is every where. Human contact with them will be small. As well if us humans are anything to go by, there ships/craft will be very sterile. They'll be using some sort of nukem hand wash :D
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Ha yeah that makes sense. In our society nowadays we are gradually trying to be more sterile.
 
I really liked the film and I was bought up on a regular diet of all things to do with War of the Worlds.

It's a shame people cant enjoy films for what they are - entertainment, instead of spending two hours picking holes in it.
 
Hades said:
One thing that has always intrigued me is why the martians die of earthborn viruses but we don't catch theirs?
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If I remember the musical version properly (I used to listen to it a lot when I was younger), there's a line about how the martians "have long since eradicated all harmful organisms from their own planet", and therefore their immune systems were weak / non-existant.

I thought the film was terrible - great effects, blowing stuff up is always fun (and I'm in awe of the turnover time ILM managed on the shots) but just .... bleurgh.

If I'd have made the film, I'd have based it in the "last years of the ninteteenth century" ;)
 
I thought it was a great film, people get to hung up on the original. Just think of it as a new film roughly based on the same idea.

It's like the new mini's and Beetles, shouldn't carry the old names but in there own right there good cars.
 
Im really hoping that someone actually makes a film of this book properly. Neither the 1950s version of the modern Speilberg have done the book any justice.

The film should be set in late nineteenth century England. That's one of the things that make the story so spectacular. The aliens descend upon a human world of Victorian technology, but compared to the modern world, they are not that advanced. If you read the book, some of the alien tripods are defeated by batteries of cannon. You cant make this story very well in the modern times, because if you did, and you kept the Martians as they were described, they would have the crap kicked out of them by modern armour, planes, helicopters, etc. The film makers lame way of getting round this was to just say "Well, lets give the tripods some magical impenetrable shield LOL!!". Hmm. Sci-fi cliché #11,834.

It would also just be so much more original. I don't think I can recall any sci-fi film of this ilk based in the world of over a hundred years ago. I really hope someone decides to do the book justice one day.
 
I liked it. It's not as good as the musical but as a piece of entertainment in its own right it was mostly very good.

I didn't like the way Tom Cruise's laddie turns up at the end after disappearing over a hill from which NOTHING RETURNED, ALL WAS TURNED TO FIRE INCLUDING ARMOURED CARS... But he didn't have a scratch on him. That annoyed me.

Other than that, pretty top film.
 
i remember as i child lending the cd of my auntie and loving the story and the soundtrack

i distintly remember the crows eating parts of the martian tripods aswell, but i could be wrong, iirc it was inside the cd book as an story image thingy

as for the film, its a good film, if you forget its war of the worlds, if you dont, then it just angers you imo, it should be true to the book, and as for the soundtrack, pffffttt it defo should have been on the film
 
I really hate the speilberg version of this classic. I was waiting and thought this could be good but no it was tripe :(

I went out and bought the 50's version on dvd, even tho that isnt exactly amazing its far better than the new version. I wish somebody could do a proper version thats based on the book with the look and feel of victorian england
 
da_mic_1530 said:
i distintly remember the crows eating parts of the martian tripods aswell, but i could be wrong, iirc it was inside the cd book as an story image thingy
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I'm sure it was just the red weed the birds ate and not the tripods.

Anyway, even the musical version differs from the book in places. (Girlfriend escaping on steam ship, etc)

But as for the Spielberg film. Nice special effects, but a really dumb American storyline.
Could do better. :mad:
 
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question 3) why the hell is it in this forum :(

1) bacteria kills them
2) he gets his mate to replace one part of the car, just before he steals it from him..
 
The 1950s alien craft flew because it was easier to do than tripods. There are beams of light/energy/force that are the film makers attempt at the legs :p The machines in the new film I think are awesome. Three scenes in particular show them in a fantastic way - the emergence, the 3 tripods appearing over the hill and the one rising from the water. Other scenes are good but those mentioned instill a great sense of "awwww crap"

Ullah would have been crap in the new film. The deep trumpet sound is far more fitting, and creepier too. I first heard the musical on CD when I was about 10 and I thought "Ullah" sounded stupid back then.

While I enjoyed the new film as what it is, entertainment, I do hate and almost resent the fact that yet again a film is set in the almighty USA. I would also pay good money to see a director's cut where both kids get squashed.

SiriusB
 
SiriusB said:
While I enjoyed the new film as what it is, entertainment, I do hate and almost resent the fact that yet again a film is set in the almighty USA. I would also pay good money to see a director's cut where both kids get squashed.SiriusB
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Me to, she is sooo anoying!!

Rich
 
What made it poor was the weight of expectation of it being a remake of War of the Worlds. As a Sci Fi film it was pretty average. I remember reading an interview with Spielberg in Empire just before it came out he was proud that the production time was 70 odd days which is pretty short and it shows.

The whole emphasis of this film was an estranged family getting from New Jersey to Boston. It didnt capture any of the classical aspects or drama of the book or the musical.
 
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