War of the Worlds starring Tom Cruise

tom_hobbes · Mar 12, 2005

It's present day, view the trailer above. I agree, the Thunder Child chapter is one of those truly magnificent moments in WOTW. Somehow I doubt there'll be another version after this one so we may never see it. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I wish I could remember But my selective memory Won't let me - Mark Oliver Everett </div>

flynn · Mar 12, 2005

I really really really want to see Charge of the light brigade Vs invincible alien war machines I really think they have missed an oppertunity. I'm still excited about the film as it is, I just really wanted to see a period piece. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

tom_hobbes · Mar 12, 2005

Agreed. Still looking forward to it though. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I wish I could remember But my selective memory Won't let me - Mark Oliver Everett </div>

avaunt · Mar 12, 2005

I am so thankful LOTR was not made in Hollywood. {New Zealander looks at his fingertips and nails. nonchalantly polishes them on his shirt front, determinedly looking disinterested.} <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> I agree, Thunderchild ought to have been allowed Her run. Anyone here played the War of the Worlds computer game?. Excellent in every way, except it doesn't allow for two players. And it so easily could. The machines you can develop are really interesting, and I bet you could have some pitched battles, if both sides were controlled by people, without the easily thwarted AI. I recommend it to you all.

rogers_buck · Mar 12, 2005

By setting it in present day, they screw it up. The reason I say that is in the 50's version, we couldn't touch the martians at all. The fact that we could draw blood is important to the story line. If we can draw blood in this version, we have nukes. Game over. So the martians cannot be killed with sacrafice (as per Thunder Child or the gun crews hidden in the forrest). The absence of that ingrediant makes it little more than a disaster movie - no point in shooting at a super volcano or an asteroid impact.

avaunt · Mar 13, 2005

What I never understand, is that urge to change something radically, but the insistance on keeping the same name. If it isn't almost exactly "H.G.Wells' War of The Worlds" as he wrote it, DON"T CALL THE WUCKING MOVIE THAT !. " Wells never claimed to own the idea of Alien invasion. Write your own plot, damn you to burn in hellfire, Hollywood. puff, puff, puff. [angry] <img src="/images/icons/mad.gif" /> GRRRR No, its ok, I am alright again. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> I always thought that there would have been lots of stuff you could have done to fix the tripods. Mines. Lots of holes with canvas over them. Smoke bombs. BIG cannon, firing across long ranges, with chain shot. Mirrors. Hand held rockets ( Lets see a Martian War machine pick its way through the Kyber pass, in one piece. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> )

flynn · Mar 13, 2005

The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson - ammended by Flynn, please don't turn in your grave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! "Charge for the aliens!" he said: Into the valley of Red weed Rode the six hundred. 2. "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Red weed Rode the six hundred. 3. Tripod to right of them, Tripod to left of them, Tripod in front of them Zapped and lazered; Storm'd at with ray and mist, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. 4. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the tripods there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the lazer-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Martian and Alien Reel'd from the sabre stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. 5. Tripod to right of them, Tripod to left of them, Tripod behind them Zapped and lazered; Storm'd at with ray and mist, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. 6. When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred. *EDIT - after creative direction Fr <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

tom_hobbes · Mar 13, 2005

<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> Should have been 'Into the valley of Red Weed'. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I wish I could remember But my selective memory Won't let me - Mark Oliver Everett </div>

flynn · Mar 13, 2005

Like it, I'll ammend it later and give you credit. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

tom_hobbes · Mar 13, 2005

<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> I wish I could remember But my selective memory Won't let me - Mark Oliver Everett </div>

rogers_buck · Mar 13, 2005

Maybe that's the new plot line. It won't be an all out struggle against the martians, it'll be the DEA trying to arrest those who are growing the red weed and the Border Patrol after the undocumented aliens.

avaunt · Mar 13, 2005

Oh, very good mate. Wish I had thought of that.

rogers_buck · Mar 14, 2005

Y'know, I bet they totally cut the slimy weak cleric from the movie and will probably replace it with positive church stuff like the 50's version did. I bet that really made Wells turn in his grave. He crafted the cleric so carefully that you wanted to cheer when the blood sucking alien grabbed him for a snack.

flynn · Mar 14, 2005

I really want to read it again now but I know it will absolutly ruin the film for me as I'll seeth all the way though, amybe, I'll read it again afterwards. Have just started to reread Catch-22 because I was talking about it with a friend. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

hracctsold · Mar 15, 2005

About this new moive, I have a question I have been wondering about. If H.G. Wells set the book in his modern day, and Orsen Wells set the radio drama in his modern day, the George Pal,(is it), set his film in his day, why all this knocking about setting this show in THIS day? I am hopeing for the best but really don't expect all that much, considering all that has gone on before. Or is it just that all of you would like to see what it would be like set in that time period? That, to me, is still one of the shows I still remember and enjoy seeing as a kid then and now.

flynn · Mar 15, 2005

Other than the fact I really want to see theoriginal get the cinema treatment, I feel War of the Worlds has been done like this and It'll be no more than a fancy ID4. I am still looking forward to seeing the film I just feel that they have missed an opertunity to do something a little different. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

hracctsold · Mar 15, 2005

I was called away this morning and couldn't finish, but thanks for the reply. I have been so jaded by promises of GREAT movies, and then seeing what they call a movie on the screen, that I want to screem!!! This is why I just hope it is good and somewhat true to the concept of the idea. Jurrsaic Park was a good book and a great show, but they differed in the end and made both better for it. The book was a little darker in content and ending, while the movie was lighter and more upbeat and made for a better ending and continued storyline. Timeline was another example of different being good. The book was drawed out in days, while the movie was centered in hours. For a movie, that was a better concept to follow, but both were good in their right,(while I differ from most by not enjoying or agreeing with the amount of cursing in each). But back to the movie at hand, if it can be true enough to identify and be true to the thought and content of the book, that would be great!

tgharris · Mar 18, 2005

Hmm. Three fingered hand. They'll probably look like the sorta-humanoids from the '53 film. Pity. I don't remember Thunderchild, but I do remember the Martians looking sort of like a giant octopus--actually a humanoid reduced to only (colossal) head and fingers. A modern FX designer could have gotten a lot of mileage out of Wells' alien.

airconvent · Mar 19, 2005

some people think that War of the World is like Shakespear, they expect to bring the book into the cinema and expect the actors to say exactly as the book word for word and any deviation is whoa....."the crime of the century". movies are movies and books are books. while the book's enjoyment is how the writer writes it, the movie's value is how the director present it. sometimes they don't mix...what works in the book will not work on the movie...let's just watch it first and see what happens.. I for one is looking forward to it...(and I read the book and own the first movie version) <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...Live Long and Prosper </div>

rogers_buck · Mar 20, 2005

I agree to a point. The problem I have is the same problem as the 50s film faced. If you set the book in the context of the present day, the martians have to be able to withstand nuclear weapons. Otherwise, game over. Some of the best aspects of the book are the lucky shots and sacrafice paid for a few successfull hits. These drive the martians to more desperate measures and constitute a change of plan on their part. Nothing like that can be possible with nukes around. They might as well have called it Independence Day.

centsworth_II · Mar 20, 2005

I don't know how you felt about the movie "Signs", but it was certainly able to build on the suspence of an alien invasion without getting into how the aliens would defend against nuclear attack. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

airconvent · Mar 20, 2005

I watched Signs but did not like the ending... alot of questions unanswered. the build up and suspense was good but at the end, I was asking" is that it? is there no more? " ...maybe I'm just not abstract enough..but I must say, I liked Sixth Sense... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before...Live Long and Prosper </div>

flynn · Mar 20, 2005

Sixth Sense okay but The Village was dire. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> "All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring" - Chuck Palahniuk. </div>

rogers_buck · Mar 20, 2005

Never hear of it. I'll keep an eye out for it now on the sat, thanks.

qzzq · Mar 20, 2005

I liked Unbreakable best. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> *** </div>

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