War of the Worlds

[nessonite1]

I have a favor to ask of some kind soul.
Okay...Ive been watching ads for the new movie, War of the Worlds, like every 5 minutes caue they're running them CONSTANTLY.
Normally I don't really live a rat's patoot about new movies, especially the big Summer Moneymakers, but I really really really really really really wanna see this one. For une I really like Tom Cruise, for deaux I saw Dakota Fanning in the SciFi series "Taken" and she's amazing, and for three I just looks kickass.
I know it doesn't come out for like a week but PLEASE when someone sees it could you please tell me if it's really scary? Cause I can't stomach movies that are really scary or have a lot of hardcore bloody violence.
Thanks guys!!

 

[-Kunoke-]

Well, I'll give you my opinion if I see it before you. 😉

 

[Low_Roads]

I've seen all the same trailers, and to me this looks uncomfortably like Independence Day 2... lots of cars and real estate tossed around to no good purpose. I've never entirely forgiven George Pal for refusing to set his '50s War of the Worlds in it's rightful Victorinan period. Now Spielberg's making the same tragic mistake (aping the earlier film instead of doing something original). Wells' novel was my very first serious read (in stereotypical little kid fashion: well after my bedtime, under the covers with a flashlight). I loved it so much that I instantly spun clear through it a second time. This premise could be so transendently wonderful if set in its proper context... an entirely novel screen experience, rather than something we've seen a hundred times already. That will never happen now. No one will film this story properly in my lifetime. What a wasted opportunity! Thanks, Steve.

This doesn't address your purpose at all, ness. Sorry. But thanks for giving me an opportunity to vent.

PS. All that said, I probably will go to the film... but principally to see the first trailer for King Kong, due at the end of the year. That one, I am looking forward to.

 

[Ghost_Host_9991]

You shouldn't worry...we've all seen this movie already in one for or another.

1) Earth vs. The Flying Saucers
2) Original War of the Worlds (which definitely should have been set in victorian times)
3) Independence Day

I highly doubt that this flick is going to offer us anything new.

 

[alf1]

I suggest to read the book just because it's 100 % Cruise free 🙂

 

[nessonite1]

hahahaha thanks 😛 I've never read the book or seen the origional movie so I've got to attachment to certain time periods. It just looks like a kickass movie to me...and I very rarely am moved to say that. 😛 Perhaps after I see it I will read the book.

 

[Low_Roads]

I'll probably try for a viewing over the opening weekend. I've had good luck avoiding crowds (even for blockbusters like "Revenge of the Sith") by attending on Sunday mornings. That's a long haul, I know, since the film opens on a Wednesday, but I'm too old to stand in long lines anymore. If you haven't already seen it by then, I'd be happy to provide a short review (or at least address your gore concerns) later that day.

 

[TicklishKev]

If you read an article about the movie in Fangoria I think, Speilberg gives a reason why he purpousley didn't put it in the Victorian era. Oh, and the aliens aren't from Mars in this movie, just because he said in this day and age, Mars doesn't seem like a realistic place for them to have come from. I think he's making the aliens look like they did in the book, and is using the big tentacled war machines with the death rays, and something called the 'red weed' which is supposedly talked of in the book. I never read the whole book so that part is new to me.

 

[F.L. Atlanta 10]

I so want to see that movie, and in having read the book by H. G. Wells, I know what happens in the end 😉 Not going to tell it for those like Nessie who have not read the book or, when that time comes, seen the movie; Original or not.

 

[F.L. Atlanta 10]

If you read an article about the movie in Fangoria I think, Speilberg gives a reason why he purpousley didn't put it in the Victorian era. Oh, and the aliens aren't from Mars in this movie, just because he said in this day and age, Mars doesn't seem like a realistic place for them to have come from. I think he's making the aliens look like they did in the book, and is using the big tentacled war machines with the death rays, and something called the 'red weed' which is supposedly talked of in the book. I never read the whole book so that part is new to me.

The Black Smoke is what it is called in the version that I have read by Wells

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

I read the book, about 10 years or so ago. I've also seen the film, and listened to the complete audio version that was released many many moons ago on LP. 😀

As far as I can tell, this film is not going to be War of the Worlds any more than The Time Machine starring Guy Pearce was like the novel of that by H.G.Wells. Hollywood has a nasty habit these days of taking the premise of a long-popular novel and spinning a typical action/adventure flick around that premise.
That said, I'll probably go to watch it because:
1) I also saw Dakota Fanning in "Taken" and thought she was a brilliant actress. 🙂
2) I know the story (of the novel) and always thought it was a cool piece of fiction (though as a child the theme music on the audio version scared the holy shit outta me).
3) I like typical action/adventure flicks.

However, it stars Tom Cruise, which counts quite heavily against it. 😛 Also, depends when it comes out in the cinema , or if I'm able to get a copy on DVD beforehand... 😎

 

[nessonite1]

1) I also saw Dakota Fanning in "Taken" and thought she was a brilliant actress.

Glad to see someone else saw that! It was hard but I managed to tune into see every single episode. I'd LOVE to own it on DVD but it was just too expensive for the whole thing.
Also *sprouts angel wings* I've looked for War of the Worlds to download and it's not available yet. I don't want to download a cam version so I may end up taking a super-rare trip to the cinemas. 😛

I saw bits of the remade "Time Machine" It was a big steamy pile of fresh horse poop.

 

[Ignatz]

I saw bits of the remade "Time Machine" It was a big steamy pile of fresh horse poop.

Now, now...that comparison is unfair....to horse poop, which is not nearly as disgusting as you might think. It is, after all, only processed hay and, properly aged, is very fertile. I admit, though, I'm glad Pegasus is only a myth.

The old film of "The Time Machine," though inferior to the novel, is still pretty good. The morlocks look kind of cheesy, but otherwise it's a respectable effort. And it improves on the book a bit, with its thought-provoking ending. If you haven't seen it, the Time Traveler, after recounting his harrowing adventures to his friends back in London, returns to the future, apparently for good. His housekeeper tells his best friend that he took nothing with him but three books from his library. "Which three did he take?" he asks.
"I don't know. Is it important?"
"No...I suppose not. Only...which three would you have taken?"

This is always good for a lively discussion over drinks or after dinner. Might make a good thread on this forum.

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

That part at the end of The Time Machine also appeared in the original film (though not in the new film, because he blew up the time machine in order to kill the Morlocks).
I have Taken on DVD - I got it at Xmas, and it took me about a month to see it all 'cos the episodes are quite long. But it was worth it. 🙂

 

[Low_Roads]

Thanks for the information, Ticklishkev. I'm glad to hear Spielberg's maintaining at least that much fidelity to the source. Hope he keeps the war machines tripods. They're capable of rapid movement in the novel, and I was never able to work out how. With only three legs, the movement patterns would have to be awfully innovative. I'm curious to see the effects team tackle this problem. But perhaps they'll just keep the towers shadowy and distant. Walk logistics won't need to be addressed, then.

 

[Triple T1]

I heard a British company will be making a "true to the book ''version set in Victorian times with a lower budget of course.
I read the book about 3 times and even have a corny 1970s musical version on tape.I hope they use some of the great visuals from the novel and do'nt bombard us with the usual Hollywood cliches.


Do'nt worry Nessonite,I'm sure they wo'nt show anything even half as cruel as your electric toothbrush torture.

 

[XaviarRkR]

Got the musical, seen the film (1953 one) seen both seasons of the TV series. Not heard the Orcen Wells radio play (I cannot believe so many thought it was real! But they did for some reason. Must have been executred brilliantly) or read the book, which seems to be curiously lacking on the book shelves of libraries and stores in this small town in which I live. I am awaiting the new film, but expecting dissapointment in the hopes of a pleasent surprise (other than a god offering to make me ticklish and then fifty or so women appearing to tickle me for a few hours).

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

Got the musical, seen the film (1953 one) seen both seasons of the TV series.

Ah yes, I remember watching the TV series; they kinda dug themselves into a hole with that one - they made the Martians so hard to beat that the only way to get rid of them was to have some even MORE powerful aliens show up to destroy them, before also turning their attention on Earth. Dumb...
Otherwise, an excellently executed programme. A pity it's not come out on DVD yet. 🙂

 

[Triple T1]

I remember the series had a great commercial,but was campy as hell.Me and my buddies used to love the guy who would always scream "I'M COLONAL IRONHORSE!!!" evertime someone would casually ask his name.

It looks like the movie may be scarier than I thought.I heard the last 20 minuets turns into a Scientology infomercial.

 

[Ignatz]

Now once again here's Mr. Know-It-All!

Got the musical, seen the film (1953 one) seen both seasons of the TV series. Not heard the Orcen Wells radio play (I cannot believe so many thought it was real! But they did for some reason. Must have been executred brilliantly) or read the book, which seems to be curiously lacking on the book shelves of libraries and stores in this small town in which I live. I am awaiting the new film, but expecting dissapointment in the hopes of a pleasent surprise (other than a god offering to make me ticklish and then fifty or so women appearing to tickle me for a few hours).

The radio version was indeed well done, as were all of Orson Welles's Mercury Theater productions. (I have listened to the transcription; I don't actually go back that far myself!) It fooled people principally for two reasons: it was structured to replicate a series of news broadcasts and did so very well. The other factor is that it was on the air opposite the popular Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy comedy program. Most of the nation tuned in to Bergen at the top of the hour, but when his show broke for its first commercial, they switched to other networks to see what was on. They found themselves in the middle of "War of the Worlds" and what sounded like a live news reporter. Those who had listened from the start, of course, knew it was a drama. (It is pretty clear from behind-the-scenes accounts that Orson Welles deliberately wrote his adaptation this way in the hope that people would be taken in. The scale of the panic, however, does seem to have taken him aback.)

 

[Goodieluver]

It may be scary since i believe war of the worlds is a smokescreen for a scientologist propaganda film and you cant leave till u embrace L. Ron Hubbard

 

[nessonite1]

Not heard the Orcen Wells radio play (I cannot believe so many thought it was real!

I heard my grandparents (who are very old to be my grandparents) heard the broadcast and were all set to take their child (my aunt) and go live in a cave.

 

[Goodieluver]

This reminds me, as a comic nerd, i read alot of comics in my day, my fave was a now defunct title "guardians of the galaxy" which focused on the marvel universe in the 30th century, and the main focal point\difference between regular marvel and this storyline is that the martians invaded the earth and pretty much devestated it, some of the super heroes stayed and fought, others fled to the stars\etc. Spiderman was the last one to fall weeks after the rest of the heroes were killed

Pretty well written book, final issue involved them travelling back in time to destroy the martian tripod fleet in space, eh my nerdyness is done for now. A major char involved is my fave marvel hero, Wonderman Simon williams(goes by the name of hollywood after the war of the worlds)

 

[Triple T1]

It looks like War of the Worlds and Tom Cruises religion have something in common...They were both created by science fiction authors :cyclopes:

 

[XaviarRkR]

season two?

Ah yes, I remember watching the TV series; they kinda dug themselves into a hole with that one - they made the Martians so hard to beat that the only way to get rid of them was to have some even MORE powerful aliens show up to destroy them, before also turning their attention on Earth. Dumb...
Otherwise, an excellently executed programme. A pity it's not come out on DVD yet. 🙂

A synth fron Quartos... or something like it.
Season two was a bit naff by comparrioson, although Kinkade was good, killing off Ironhorse and Norton sucked. "But making the Mortex (or Mortax as they were called also. hmmm a statement?) into the Morthri (Ok the name was better), as a sort of extremist perfectionist race with ellements of facism and extreme communism (how they managed to combine those rather opposing extreme right wing and extreme left wing concepts baffles me) with nazzi style uniforms and very human looking aliens didn't work for me