War Of The Worlds

[Busyman]

Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg directs

Trailer

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/waroftheworlds/

Should be interesting...

[Cheese]

I'm looking forward to this. Did the novel by HG Wells for English last year, one of my favourite sci-fi books.

Any word if the aliens will be hovering (like the previous film) or kick-ass tripods (like the book)?

[Emdee]

I don't like the look of it myself. Bringing that story into the modern age is a mistake, they should've left it in Victorian England.

Or they could've just made the League of Extraordinary Gentleman 2 which is based on War of the Worlds, but since LXG1 sucked, that's not gonna happen either.

[Cheese]

I don't like the look of it myself. Bringing that story into the modern age is a mistake, they should've left it in Victorian England.

Or they could've just made the League of Extraordinary Gentleman 2 which is based on War of the Worlds, but since LXG1 sucked, that's not gonna happen either.

This is kind of sad but my essay I wrote abot WotW was about HG Wells' hatred of industrialization and how he took an almost perverse pleasure in writing about it being destroyed. So I look forward to the modern industrial world taking a beating to the alien invaders.

Just as long as we get tripods I'll be happy.

[Hunted]

Looks good, can't wait to watch it... I might read the book, we listenend it to in our social studies class... well only a small portion of it

[yiny46]

We listened to it in social studies...My social studies teacher can be funny...but he can be the biggest DICK in the world

[Peerzy]

War Of Teh Worlds was based in a town called Horsley i think (iv never read it) which is about 10min drive from me In Woking (A town also near me) they have a building called the HG Wells building and all around it then have massive (yes to scale) silver constructions of the aliens and so on.

[Emdee]

This is kind of sad but my essay I wrote abot WotW was about HG Wells' hatred of industrialization and how he took an almost perverse pleasure in writing about it being destroyed. So I look forward to the modern industrial world taking a beating to the alien invaders.

Just as long as we get tripods I'll be happy.

I don't think Speilberg'll go into that much depth. I'm thinking we'll just be getting a rehashed version of Independence Day with liberal dashings of American patriotism colouring the story.

I'm sure the tripods'll be cool though.

[yiny46]

yes...and both the movies were based on a radio show that was aired in the time of WWI...and its scared everyone...everyone listening evacuated the city...they were scared to death...

[Emdee]

If anyone fancies having a read of the book, it's online for free here.