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Post by RustiSwordz on Jul 7, 2009 14:18:40 GMT 1
I was watching Mars Attacks and i thought this was a better movie. Really. Better acting, script, more action, sfx was simple and fun and i remembered the martians more than i ever did Spielcraps monsters.
How far did the movie fall, i wanted it to be so good, all my life was worse than some two bit comedy.
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Post by mrgrotey on Jul 7, 2009 14:23:06 GMT 1
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Post by RustiSwordz on Jul 7, 2009 17:29:14 GMT 1
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Post by poyks on Jul 8, 2009 0:05:50 GMT 1
lol! ;D Is that a pseudo-existential blob of ketchup?!
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Post by RustiSwordz on Jun 14, 2010 21:57:52 GMT 1
Nah my brain after being forced to watch SS WOTW.
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Post by Relyt on Jun 14, 2010 21:59:53 GMT 1
I don't think it was that bad.
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Post by Lonesome Crow on Jun 15, 2010 23:42:00 GMT 1
Lets face it Rusti, if SS had made that film and called it............ 'Aliens from inner Earth' or something like that, you would be leaping up and down saying "The cheeky bastard's nicked the plot from TWotW and given it a new title". Apart from location, period and how the Martians/Aliens arrive, the film does follow the book quite accurately. Most of the main elements of the book are in the film, you can look at the chapters in the book and fit most of them to scenes in the film. I would say it's the best adaptation to date. Gets ready for incoming!!!!..... ;D
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Post by Relyt on Jun 16, 2010 2:12:18 GMT 1
I share that view, except that my favourite film version is still the '53 film, because I like the classics. Let's look at the Wells novel as if we were in 1898, shall we?
Setting: Modern day, in the most powerful nation on Earth. Plot: Invaders from an inconceivable location are, well, invading the most powerful nation. Invaders: Ride in machines far in advance of any terrestrial construction. Invaders themselves look nothing like anything previously seen. Character: An average, middle-class citizen who is trying to reunite with his wife. Ending: Some invaders are killed by humans, but the majority die to bacterial diseases.
Now for a moment, imagine that Wells had never written The War of the Worlds, but Spielberg had still made the movie we are familiar with. If someone looks at the points of the novel I have just given, and if said person had seen the movie, while the book never being written, that person would see the points I have given and say something along the lines of, "Ah, I remember that. That's the movie that Spielberg had made."
Therefore, Spielberg's film, generally, is quite accurate according to the elements the film and book share.
And LC, you're the first Brit I've met who openly likes the SS film.
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