War of the Worlds - Teaser Trailer Announced!

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REGINAROADIE

Friday, February 11, 2005 3:09 AM

WAR OF THE WORLDS-I remember the tv series, but I still prefer the original George Pal movie. Of course, the one version of WOTW I'd like to hear is Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre radio version of it. You know, the one that made people think that aliens were actually invading Earth. Hopefully, Spielberg will deliver visually what Welles did audially.

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL-I think that a remake of DAY would be a sci-fi atrocity that would make the remake of PLANET OF THE APES look good. DAY is a rare sci-fi masterpieces ever made, and an even rarer mainstream Christian film that doesn't fall into a fundamentalist trap. Should be left alone. I think it's actually more relevant now than when it came out in 51.

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE-Actually, there was a recent remake of WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE. It was called DEEP IMPACT. But I agree, WWC was a lame movie. The ending just pissed me off so much.

"NO HAI ES BANDAI. THERE IS....NO.....BAND. AND YET....WE HEAR A BAND."

FRANCO

Sunday, February 13, 2005 3:46 AM

It's gonna be great.

The George Pal film was incredibly good at the time but does not stand the test of time

I like it updated. I have never cared for Victorian scifi films. The books are fine but the films always wind up like they were made for TV

I prefer Tom Cruise (a known and not bad factor) to a bad unknown (f)actor and I favor anything that will mean a big box office for my favorite genre.

I agree on TDTEST remake. Somebody needs to do that.

REEQUEEN

Sunday, February 13, 2005 4:18 AM

I loved, loved, loved the WotW tv show. Loved it. Watched it religiously with the Friday the 13th series, they always seemed to show them both in a block.

So, I think that makes me the eighth?

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SOUPCATCHER

Sunday, February 13, 2005 4:42 AM

Chalk another one up for the television series. I've never forgotten that "hand" coming out of the barrel of nuclear waste.

*editted to add: Loved Friday the 13th as well .

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REEQUEEN

Sunday, February 13, 2005 6:20 PM

2005 is going to be an absolutely terrific sci-fi/comic/goth geek movie year. Woo-hoo!

We've got Hitchhiker's Guide. We've got War of the Worlds. We've got Batman Begins. We've got Mirror Mask (with Neil Gaiman involved!). We've got The Corpse Bride (Tim Burton returning to what he does well!). We've got effin' Serenity!

Oh my. pant, pant, pant, sock, sock, sock

'Scuse me while I wipe my dripping forehead.

WotW looks fantastic. I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise (he should come out already, about whatever it is he's so clearly hiding....he stopped being cute in, oh, about 1986), but from the tv spot and teaser, it looks like a movie I'm gonna have to hold my breath through.

Soupcatcher:

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*editted to add: Loved Friday the 13th as well .

I think both shows were produced by the same company (in fact, the same company also did that Viper show, too, if I recall correctly, on at the same time. Production company useta be right up there with Spelling Productions). Both I would love to have on DVD. The War of the Worlds series got me where I lived, fired my imagination in ways ST:TNG had started to but failed to continue.

{Can only find info on second season at IMDB, 'cause I did my research trying to find the name of the production company, but can't find it as yet. There's a lot more sites devoted to the series than I would've imagined.}

Both were stylistically different from anything else. WotW brought the paranoia and pessimism about the future, Friday the 13th assuaged the pre-X-Files angst I was apparently feeling. Of course, I was by myself in LA at the time, watching on a five-inch tv monitor, so for me to actually watch it on an actual television set, in colour, would be marvellousness of tremendous dimension.

Or, mmmmm.....downloads....

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MANOFSTEEL25

Sunday, February 13, 2005 7:46 PM

Actually TenFour Productions was behind Season 1 War of the Worlds and Hometown Productions took over for Season 2 War of the Worlds- Hometown was Frank Mancuso Jr's company that also made his other show: Friday:the 13th. Course Mancuso ruined War IMHO.

Glad to see some other folks remember this show. It'd be great to see a DVD release but I do have them all on tape to tide me by until then.

The Triumverate was called the Advocacy- three Aliens that sort of ruled over the other slike a bee-hive clan. That was droppe din Season 2 of course but a single leader and a second in command plyed by Denis Forest and Catheirne Disher (from Forever Knight).

Since when is the Day the Earth Stood Still a Christian film?

-Bob

REEQUEEN

Sunday, February 13, 2005 8:29 PM

Ah. Thanks for the info!

I actually enjoyed season 2, as well. Since I could only stand to watch very little on that tiny, tiny (black and white) set, I became very loyal in my viewing habits.

Bob:

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Since when is the Day the Earth Stood Still a Christian film?

It is? Who said that? I must've been skimming too quickly....

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Aha. Went back to find out. I don't see how it could be, unless the "message" is somehow the sole domain of Christianity.

Quoted from ttp:// www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDDayEarthStoodStill.htm
"TDTESS was a liberal movie in a paranoid era. The Army read the script and refused to cooperate, although the National Guard gladly did. Sam Jaffe, who plays the wise scientist, was under the shadow of the Commie-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, as was the model for his character, Albert Einstein. Fifty years ago, to be a pacifist was to ignite suspicion. But, Klaatu warns the Earthlings dipping their toes in the Atomic Age, 'Join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration…the decision is yours.'"

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MANOFSTEEL25

Monday, February 14, 2005 4:31 PM

Yeah "Day" strikes me as more of an anti-atomic or anti- communist film actually than a christian one but I guess everything's open to interpretation.

I never liked Season 2 of War on TV much. It was like jumping into a diefferent show it was so different in tone, style etc. They killed off two of my fav characters, changed the aliens and technology and culture without much of an explanation, and the few remaining characters were altered so much they became unlikable. Even during the bad episode sof season 1- it was the character interations that kept me watching.

It didn't help that most season 2 plots were watered down season 1 stories simply remade.

I'll give Season 2 two point sof credit though- the new environment of Almost Tomorrow was compelling. Definately a bit more what i think the world would be like in the aftermath of a worldwide 50's invasion. Kudos for trying to do a post-apocolyptic cyber-punk kinda world on TV in the 80's. That had to be a first. Second I did like how at least initially, things got very desperate for the characters- it upped the stakes. Being cut of from the govt, people dying, being on the run- that was some heavy stuff. Had that been leading up to a massive finale with our old aliens and the changeover to this darkened world been more gradual- it might have been brilliant. As it was- I saw it as a giant misfire.

I still say no matter what, iornhorse should have lived. He was much cooler than Kincaid (yes Adrian Paul pre-Highlander...)

SOUPCATCHER

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:38 AM

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Originally posted by ReeQueen:
Both were stylistically different from anything else. WotW brought the paranoia and pessimism about the future, Friday the 13th assuaged the pre-X-Files angst I was apparently feeling. Of course, I was by myself in LA at the time, watching on a five-inch tv monitor, so for me to actually watch it on an actual television set, in colour, would be marvellousness of tremendous dimension.

I was living in LA as well. Wasn't that Channel 13, KCOP? I loved that station. It was like sci-fi/fantasy central. Now it's a damn UPN affiliate. I'm glad I'd moved away before the changeover happened. (Not glad I moved, just glad I didn't have to see one of my favorite television stations go downhill).

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REEQUEEN

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:11 PM

SoupCatcher:

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I was living in LA as well. Wasn't that Channel 13, KCOP? I loved that station. It was like sci-fi/fantasy central. Now it's a damn UPN affiliate. I'm glad I'd moved away before the changeover happened. (Not glad I moved, just glad I didn't have to see one of my favorite television stations go downhill).

Most probably. I remember it being what our Utah Fox channel was before it became Fox. Showing a large variety of cheezy '70's-type televison movies, bad horror films, and recent sci-fi-type shows.

On my visits home, I got to watch WotW on my parents' tv, so once in a while I saw it, if not life-sized, the size it was meant to be.

I loved living in LA, but my lifestyle just wasn't working out.....

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