War of the Worlds 2005 Trailer

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:04 pm

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The remake on H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds", now being directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise is being rapidly produced. Slated for release this summer, the trailer has just been released.
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<br>Watch it <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount ... /">now!</a>

Greeny · Post by **Greeny** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 5:42 pm

Spelberg, overrated...cruise *shudders*

Post by **Retlaw83** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 6:16 pm

How badly is Hollywood starved for ideas that, instead of making a new alien invasion movie, they have to remake a classic one?

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:38 pm

Shame it's not based on the original book and is just another modern take on an old story. It might be a nice change of pace to see an alien invasion in the 19th century or whatever.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 1:35 am

That's too good an idea to ever gain commercial success.

xbow · Post by **xbow** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 4:46 am

It makes me wonder why in the hell the dip shits couldn't have presented War Of The Worlds in the correct time frame. What! HG isn't creative enough? The setting should be England circa 1898, the gas light era.

It would have been sweet to see the Martian war machiness clanking down the streets of London blasting people with its heat ray flipping over carriages and throttling people with its steel tentacles.

Sadly what we will see instead is Spielburg's egotistical 21st century spin on a classic, and that irksome little bitch of a Scientologist Tom Cruise acting out his mutant tale.

jiujitsu · Post by **jiujitsu** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:15 am

I'm optimistic. I think it's going to be awesome.

OnTheBounce · Post by **OnTheBounce** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:53 am

My list of films to ignore is getting longer and longer.

Oddly enough I started reading Wells' The Time Machine last night. If this keeps happening I'm going to have to quit reading...

OTB

requiem_for_a_starfury · Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:26 am

Wasn't the last version of Time Machine a period piece? Surely that made enough money to prompt more retellings of classic tales in the original setting? Or would it just cost too much to combine special effects and period costuming and sets?

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:58 am

jiujitsu wrote:I'm optimistic. I think it's going to be awesome.

Yeah, but you also have no foreskin.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:10 pm

I'm pretty sure the latest Time Machine movie was both utter crap and possible a bit of a flop.

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:48 pm

The first Time Machine movie sucked as well. I loved the book, though.

zer0 · Post by **zer0** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:39 am

Mad Max RW wrote:The first Time Machine movie sucked as well. I loved the book, though.

Agreed, the book is one of my favourites. The latest movie was a fuckin' disgrace.

Too bad we can't really expect better from fuckin' holllywood.
I wouldn't get my hopes up anyways, look what they did to another classic. "I, Robot" by Asimov.

Hollywood movie biz doesn't have one creative bone left in its body. To save its life.

xbow · Post by **xbow** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:22 am

Zero

I don't think anyone can argue with that.

Remember that fucked up high budget blockbuster, 'Independence Day'. I thought it was beyond lame that the CLOWNS that made it couldn't think of one original thing.

Some of the things they ripped in that turkey:

The reluctant use of a nuclear weapon and its failure to scratch the ship from the 1953 War Of The Worlds. Even the report from the forward observer was almost identical to WOTW.
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The huge ships hovering over the major cities was ripped from the TV series 'V'.
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The biomechanical outer shell of the invaders looked quite a bit like the ALIEN with a white coat of paint.
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The big air battle was so much like something out of star wars that it was laughable.
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the list could be very long.........

Absurdities:

Will Smith playing a hotshot USMC pilot and acting like a Compton home boy ( he was certainly believable in that role wasnÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‹Å“t he).

The military was attacking something that must have been 15 miles across and had a corresponding mass of something like 20 billion tons with air to air missiles the largest of which packed a whopping 50 pound warhead...wow!!!

Expect the same degree of idiocy with this new and improved War Of The Worlds. It will be all about flashy FX and CGI and little else. When Spiel-boy is done, there will be nothing of HGÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s masterpiece except the name.

Snake · Post by **Snake** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:43 am

Did anyone see the two low budget sequels made in the late 80's early 90's?

Thorgrimm · Post by **Thorgrimm** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:48 am

Gents, i don't know if you know it or not, but Pendragon is making a version of War of the Worlds that is set in 1890's England. So far from what i have seen they are paying particular attention to keeping faithful to the book. This is the WOTW that i am going to see, not that piece of Bovine Excrement Paramount is putting out. :no:

This is the link to Pendragon's site for WOTW:

http://www.pendragonpictures.com/WOTWKEY.html

Cheers Thorgrimm

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 7:14 am

motherfuckingbitchhofuckshitgoddamncockfaceddipshidassholebitches

This one has just gone too far, flight of the phoenix too!?!?!?!?!?!

lord

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:13 pm

fallout ranger wrote:This one has just gone too far /EUGENICS : EL SNIPPO APPROVES !!!1

Your parents went too far.

fallout ranger · Post by **fallout ranger** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:14 am

your mental capacity doesnt go far enough

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 12:21 pm

*laughs*

Ah, you do know how to amuse, I'll grant you that. Thank you FR, you are a kind monkey.