Post A Reply
my profile
|
directory
login
|
search
|
faq
|
forum home
»
Flare Sci-Fi Forums
»
Sci-Fi
»
General Sci-Fi
»
War of the Worlds Book Covers Site
» Post A Reply
Post A Reply
Login Name:
Password:
Message:
HTML is enabled.
UBB Code™ is enabled.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by machf: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] Looks like a giant cricket. We've been debating this to death over at SSM. The Speilberg version looks slick but does not seem to follow the book closely and both Speilberg and Cruise have said that the movie is "more about family values and relationships than interplanetary war". What the [i]fuck[/i] are they thinking? [/qb][/QUOTE]Possibly, something along the lines of "Hey, Steven, I want you to direct me the super-star in a movie with lots of explosions and action and a kid or two and a big title people will recognize!" "Well, how about 'War of the Worlds'? I'm sure we can turn that into something that will do." From what I had seen so far, it looked like Spielberg and Cruise had watched that horrible TV series from some years ago and thought that was the original source... even the [URL=http://www.cinematicwallpaper.com/wallpaper-science-fiction/War-of-the-worlds.gif]movie poster[/URL] looks a lot like the [URL=http://www.walterklassen.com/images/logos/1996-1998/waroftheworld.gif]title screen[/URL] from the series opening. Of course, it could be argued that the series was based on the 1953 movie, which in turn was based on the book, so that there wouls still be a connection between this movie and the original story, but... [QUOTE] [qb] Looks like a giant cricket. Also, it seems the Martians do not arrive from Mars, bur rather were buried for millions of years and re-awakened to reclaim their (yawn) world and...ZZzzzz... [/qb][/QUOTE]Then it's worse than I had thought. Wouldn't H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories have been better suited for such a story? [QUOTE] [qb] Looks like a giant cricket. Pendragon Films just released their (really close to the book- which I bought) version on DVD but it's laughably bad acting and CGI in places.... Really good renditoin of the Martians and the Flying Machine looks very nice buuut it would serve best as a teaching tool for schools and not as a feature film. Just read the fucking book! [/qb][/QUOTE]So, they had to release it directly to DVD? I was hoping someone would bring that one to local theatres to counteract the effects of the Spielberg/Cruise one... [/QB][/QUOTE]
Instant Graemlins
Instant UBB Code™
What is UBB Code™?
Options
Disable Graemlins in this post.
*** Click here to review this topic. ***
© 1999-2024 Charles Capps
Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3