War of the Worlds - Teaser Trailer Announced!
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UPDATED: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 19:37
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The two good ones then. This bodes well.
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I'm sure it will be a great film but for me a much more interesting and challenging movie could have been made by following the story as Wells intended it.However, since that would mean that all the good guys would be English I suppose American audiences would not accept it.
It will be interesting to see if at least the basic premise of Well's book is left intact: that is the fact that no Nation or Empire could do anything to stop the invasion and it was Bacteria (and the Martians panchant for jacking-up on human blood) that saved the world.
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This is a direct link to the superbowl tv spot.
http://iesb.net/video/wotwsb.mov
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We saw that ad during the SB and all four of us (all Firefly fans) got real excited and we'll all wind up going to see it. :D
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Well my feeling on this is we already got a remake of War of the Worlds with INdependence Day which was the same idea but done contemporary. Speilberg is indeed eating his own words here. As long as he doens't tack on a 4th act like he did in AI, it might have a chance. I don't know.
I love the 1953 George Pal film so much I just wonder how it'll compare.
On a related topic- any browncoats here also fans of the 1988 syndie War of the Worlds TV show? I feel like I'm one of 5 people who even remembers it or was a fan. But I loved it at the time. It even holds up fairly well upon re-viewing, certianly ahead of it's time anticipating certian X-Files-esque trends. Granted the Second season was such crap it might as well have been a different unrelated show, but that first seaosn was marvelous. (I know the TV show tends to get marginalized by War afficianados but I think they're crazy)
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Well, there are actually six people who remember the TV series. I liked it as well.
Since reading the novel, I've been thing how neat it would be for a movie version to be set in the original time period (1897 I think). I can dream.
By the way, has anyone else seen "Duel", Speilberg's old made-for-television (I think) road-rage movie? Still among his best work.
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Okay, I tried to post at length about this but I got all worked up and had to go lie down.
Suffice to say, I'm not exactly looking forward to this, and I HEARTILY second the motion that someone, someday, make a War of the Worlds movie set when (and preferably where) it was supposed to be.
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Glad to find another WOTW fan. I take it you preferred seaosn 1 to seaosn 2?
Well there's that Pendragon indie version of War of the worlds that's set in england during the 1800's cheaper- but hey! it's done! and it should open around the same time as Paramounts in seect cities...or maybe straight to video.
Duel is a great TV movie. Speilberg did fantastic work in the 70's especially in his early TV roots. I loved what he did with his Columbo episode: Murder by the Book and the failed Martin Landau vehicle: Savage - also primed for NBC's mystery wheel at the time - extremely innovative camera techniques.
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saw a tease for War of the Worlds last tnight on tv
ooppss I recognized Dakota Fanning before I did Tom Cruise!!!!!!!!!
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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Make that 7 fans.
I remember watching it in Scifi channel's infancy. When they had maybe six different shows for the whole channel. They played WotW in 2 or three episode blocks, then they'd have a marathon. Oh, anyway, I liked it once I sat down to watch it. I was suprised it was actualy pretty good. I haven't seen in in forever. I remember the triumvirate , was it called? I guess it was season 2 they brought in Adrian Paul? That was pre-highlander, so he had less attitude then.
I'll see the new movie because I love old scifi. It's so innocent and the ideas were so simple. Now theres all that techy stuff and we have to have facts to back up our stories.
Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)
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