I must say this looks quite good.
Link: Full Trailer
Hmm...
I'll give it a go.
If it doesnt have the red weed in it,its gonna be shit shit shit.The red weed is the creepiest of creations and no-one bothers to use it as it will turn audiences away.well BOOYAH!
Ill be watching grumpily.
Good job they didn't Americanise the whole thing, shift the setting to the USA, make it all "contemporary" by setting it in the modern day, as opposed to the 1890s, cast a boring lead actor who'll use the film as an ego transport, and then cast some annoying child actor as the main support!
No, wait.
apparently its got The Red Weed in it Carlsborg, I like the way it has both Tripods and the UFO type things from the 50's movie in it, Apparently they Transform cool idea IMHO. I was worried when I learnt they traspired the story to current day US but I dont think it will effect the overall feel of a World being invaded by a merciless powerful ememy, only thing I'll miss is the Steam ships and cannons instead we'll get Tanks and Jets. With over $300million thrown at it we know it will atleast look good.
cant see that Trailer, F'n work computer
CU Krestel
I don't have the strength to watch another trailer. The audacity of Hollywood to trash anything they get hold of, and not to even have the skill or talent to create something of worth from the wreckage, has really begun to get to me.
Besides, Cruise and Speilberg make me wanna puke anyway!
Saw this trailer before 'Sith' - the tripods & effects look like they'll be good - but everything else sucks. Cute annoying child doubly so
...however the trailer for Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe looks quite promising.
@traspired
transposed KESTREL VB.
F**k KRestel!
shit I know what I meant anyway :)
CU KRestel
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say hello to my relatives over there wont you.Any second name of Rothwell you hear in passing,will be sufficient enough for you to intrude a conversation to say..
" Antony says Hi!"
Then nod whilst saying,
" Hes a 2000ad reading Rothwell!" :)
Slightly off-topic:
When I worked in a restaurant years ago, a guest came in to check his reservation: a Mr Oola. Before I could stop myself I shouted "OOOOOOH-LAAAAAAAA!" at him.
From the expression on his face, I'm guessing he'd either never heard Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, or that this happened to him all to frequently.
Either way, I didn't get a tip.
Oddyboy said
"...however the trailer for Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe looks quite promising."
... doen't it just. Caught me quite unprepared, amongst average looking trailers for WotW, FF etc. Tion, the Witch and the Wardrobe looks like it could be this years surprise great movie! Certainly should be better than the slightly above average Star Wars movie I saw after it! ;)
Alan!
I think it will be as good an alien invasion movie as Hollywood is capapble of making.
I don't think it will have anything to do with the original source or the strangely beloved Jeff Wayne thing.
I like Cruise (he's a good actor and I think unfairly labelled as simply a pretty boy) and Spielberg (providing you stop watching the film before he adds the ten gallons of syrup in the final few minutes a la Minority Report, Saving Private Ryan etc. ad nauseum)
This could be a very good movie. The obvious criticisms (that Spielberg, Cruise and cute child actors are crap) can easily be turned around.
Remember, Spielberg brought us ET & Close Encounters: two of the most well-respected sci-fi movies of all time. Both of those movies feature "cute child actors" that do not detract from the movies one iota (and certainly in the case of ET are central to the dramatic success of the movie).
As for Cruise, well he can be hit and miss in terms of critical acclaim, but he turns out some superb performances in those movies where he's called upon to act as anything other than a straight hero (eg Magnolia & Rain Man).
As for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, do you really want to see that transformed onto celluloid? Go back and listen to it. Think about it some more. Are you sure?
:: As for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, do you really want to
:: see that transformed onto celluloid? Go back and listen to
:: it. Think about it some more. Are you sure?
I'd prefer the *story* from Wayne's version to Spielberg's, because it's closer to the original novel, and because it's unique. Modern-day "USA gets attacked by aliens" films have been done to death. This one may be better or worse, but it's still more of the same. However, imagine for a second a film set in the 1890s, with humans battling steam-punk tripods, whose technology isn't far ahead of what we have today. Mix in the obvious politics, man's futile attempts to escape, and the fact that in those days, you really don't know what you're escaping to (who knows whether the Martians had conquered France in the original novel?), and you have a great film, rather than a totally derivative one.