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Post by andy120290 on Feb 2, 2007 21:24:05 GMT 1
What's your favorite version of The War of the Worlds?
Mine is the original novel.
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Thunder Child
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Post by Thunder Child on Feb 2, 2007 21:28:12 GMT 1
The original novel, by far!
Second would be Jeff wayne's musical version
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Post by David Faltskog on Feb 2, 2007 22:22:03 GMT 1
The Original Novel wins hands down, no "incarnation" of The War of the Worlds has come close to matching it's dark beauty and nightmarish senario.
D.F.
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Wastedyuthe
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Post by Wastedyuthe on Feb 2, 2007 23:22:26 GMT 1
Agreed, followed by the Jeff Wayne stage show/dvd.
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Post by Scifishocks on Feb 2, 2007 23:50:45 GMT 1
Yes, easily the novel- The original and best. Jeff Wayne takes the no.2 slot for me too.  |
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Post by steann on Feb 2, 2007 23:52:32 GMT 1
the radio broadcast
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Rocka
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Post by Rocka on Feb 3, 2007 0:27:02 GMT 1
Ooh, it says I'm not allowed to vote! Have I been bad, Earl?
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Post by Scifishocks on Feb 3, 2007 0:31:03 GMT 1
Have you activated your account via the email yet?
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Rocka
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Post by Rocka on Feb 3, 2007 0:37:31 GMT 1
Actually, I think I might have tried to vote twice. Spent last night on a National Express and haven't been to bed yet, so this may explain much, Nerf.
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Post by nervouspete on Feb 3, 2007 1:08:18 GMT 1
Hmm, maybe you should have removed the original novel as an option - had it as 'fave adaptation', because let's face it, the novel's going to win hands down, and rightly so.
My fave adaptation is the 2005 Paramount film, but with the 1953 one coming a worthy second. I'm nay a fan of the Jeff Wayne one really, and have never seen the Pendragon one beyond the trailers and that amusing (was it Blackmoon?) parody. Like the Orson Welles effort, though it is a little over-hyped.
My fave spin on it was Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's excellent six issue volume of their 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' comic, which covered the whole invasion and worked many classic Victorian literary characters into it, while at the same time being scary and exciting and deeply satirical.
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Post by andy120290 on Feb 3, 2007 1:17:02 GMT 1
Well it's too late to change the poll now without creating a new thread. I'll let it stay this way a while.
I guess after the novel, my second most favorite version would be the George Pal film.
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Post by Luperis on Feb 3, 2007 4:06:18 GMT 1
Yep... I voted the novel too. ^^
Jeff Wayne's musical, as the incarnation which first introduced me to WotW, comes in a very close second.
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Post by poyks on Feb 3, 2007 4:13:07 GMT 1
It's got to be the novel for me, and again, Jeff running a close second place.
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Post by Stu on Feb 3, 2007 10:05:05 GMT 1
Its gotta be the novel - then anything Jeff Wayne orientated.
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Post by thedonal on Feb 3, 2007 15:14:16 GMT 1
The book of course- with the Jeff Wayne musical so close it's probably equal first- seeing as that was what turned me onto the book....
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