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WOTW TRAILERS

Wow, $200 million budget. Can't wait to see the mecha with energy beams.
Anyone here listened to Jeff Wayne's musical version?

Listened to it? I bought it when it was first released onto the music charts back in the 70's. Yep. I have the original Vinyl pressing of this. Pity I have not had a turntable to listen to it for over 10 years I also have two of the re-releases on CD. I have not got the currently available one, however, as the only difference is the addition of some "remixed" tracks at the end, and they sound like crap.

Jeff Wayne also did a musical version of SPARTICUS that was also amazingly good.

As for this particular movie version I am not even close to interested. I lost faith in Steven Spielberg about 10 years ago and have yet to see a tom cruise movie that was close to good.

This Spielberg version will play more like "Independance Day 2".

This version is of significantly more interest to me.

I wonder if people will panic in the streets thinking they're really being invaded like when the radio show aired.

Originally posted by Danny@Feb 26 2005, 05:31 PM
Listened to it? I bought it when it was first released onto the music charts back in the 70's. Yep. I have the original Vinyl pressing of this. Pity I have not had a turntable to listen to it for over 10 years I also have two of the re-releases on CD. I have not got the currently available one, however, as the only difference is the addition of some "remixed" tracks at the end, and they sound like crap.

Jeff Wayne also did a musical version of SPARTICUS that was also amazingly good.

As for this particular movie version I am not even close to interested. I lost faith in Steven Spielberg about 10 years ago and have yet to see a tom cruise movie that was close to good.

This Spielberg version will play more like "Independance Day 2".

This version is of significantly more interest to me.

Wow Danny! I watched the trailers,and I can see where it's coming from.
Pre-WW1? Like H.G. intended and wrote it. but of course it won't work, and the SFX are pbslike. I think I'll wait to see what the new Hollywood version is like. I might buy the Hines DVD when it comes out.

Originally posted by Dragonrider1227@Feb 27 2005, 01:09 AM
I wonder if people will panic in the streets thinking they're really being invaded like when the radio show aired.

Of course not, they know the trick now: when the youngs will start to panic the elders will tell them "Don't pay attention, they got us a few decades ago!"

But they are right down the street !!!
What the... :wacko:

Originally posted by Danny@Feb 26 2005, 06:31 PM
This Spielberg version will play more like "Independance Day 2".

I thought exactly the same thing.

**PARTIAL SPOILER WARNING**
In the original movie, didn't it end with the aliens stepping out of their ships and dropping dead on the spot from common bacteria in the air?
There's no way Hollywood is going to let an ending like that pass these days. They're going to want to have Tom Cruise infiltrate the enemy spaceships with a secret pathogen and do a whole ridiculous Independence Day / Mission Impossible end sequence.

well, im gonna see it....

B)

Originally posted by DrFrag+Feb 27 2005, 09:16 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DrFrag @ Feb 27 2005, 09:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--Danny@Feb 26 2005, 06:31 PM
This Spielberg version will play more like "Independance Day 2".

I thought exactly the same thing.

**PARTIAL SPOILER WARNING**
In the original movie, didn't it end with the aliens stepping out of their ships and dropping dead on the spot from common bacteria in the air?
There's no way Hollywood is going to let an ending like that pass these days. They're going to want to have Tom Cruise infiltrate the enemy spaceships with a secret pathogen and do a whole ridiculous Independence Day / Mission Impossible end sequence.[/b][/quote]
Well, I think that what Wells was talking about,was the fact that the conquerers and the destroyers of worlds from the Heavens were mortal, and would die as all others in the course of time. This may seem theological rhetoric to some. But Wells is seen as a prophet to many people. The true student of life knows that the Martians are coming, and can't be stopped until mass destruction has been carried out on the world. The prophecy of heavens wrath will be proved true. <_<

"....Here and there they were scattered, nearly fifty altogether, in that great gulf they had made, overtaken by a death that must have seemed to them as incomprehensible as any death could be. To me also at that time this death was incomprehensible. All I knew was that these things that had been alive and so terrible to men were dead. For a moment I believed that the destruction of Sennacherib had been repeated, that God had repented, that the Angel of Death had slain them in the night..."
from H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds" Book Two: The Earth Under the Martians, Chapter eight;"Dead London"
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This is the English school boy Wells at his most profound. The Kaiser,Hitler, Napolean, Stalin, 666, Mao, Castro, the Thugs, The KKK, et al.
The Martians are dead... God has spared us, rebuild the forbidden temple in hewn stone. :wahah:
The Martians will return,let us pray.

I have enjoyed this story in all 3 media, and without a doubt, the book was the best. After that, the radio program was fairly intense. But it was just impossible to put myself into the mindset of the people who first heard it.

Now, as regards our little friend Atom, he was very affected by the "broadcasts from Outer Space," the 65th manga adventure and the 161st Episode of the 1960s anime. That episode, "Dream-selling Aliens" was way funnier than the manga, Tezuka showed his talent for physical humor in that series!

Imagine the gall of that turnip alien, demanding payment for broadcasts, which people were assumed to be watching, but which messed up nearly all the robots. It was one thing when the robots were sleeping, but quite another when they were awake. Like LSD, these broadcasts caused the robots to act in accordance with the 'dreams' they were having, and destruction was massive. If you thought Yellow Horse was funny, this was much more so. Yay for Atoman! He has the entire 60s series on DVD, I think the 80s also. & only 15 minutes from my house!!