War of the Worlds

[Watto]

Who else is going to see the Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds when it comes out this summer? I am personally looking forward to it...roll on summer, then...:D

[WoodenCoyote]

Who else is going to see the Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds when it comes out this summer? I am personally looking forward to it...roll on summer, then...:D

I'm going to see it, although there are something I've seen from the previews that make me wary. Tom Cruise doesn't strike me as the first actor I'd pick to play the nameless main character. Cruise is too charming, he plays characters that are typically self-sure and ****y, good-looking or at least attractive, heroish - not middle-aged Brittish nobodies with plain wives from Ottershaw, who hide for several days in cellars and watch without helping as aliens devor the local clergymen. The character in this story is self-preserving and in that way selfish, a hero who won't anything heroic at all.
Also, the apparent shift into the modern era is equally troubling. One of the most important points was that humans, no matter how adavnced we thought we were, were trumped by a species that was far more technically superior to us. In the face of these beings, mankind is made impotent and small. But in today's time, we can wipe the invanders away in a flash [ thus missing the point of the story. ]
I'm not looking foward to lazer-gun battles and daring feats of bravery, where men fight valiently against the foe - I wanna see them all get squashed like ants while Aliens stomp around London, until they're brought down unexpectly by something men have no control over... which I won't reveal here. That would be giving away the ending :p

[Watto]

I think that the scene in the book with the Thunderchild (if the film is based that much on the book) would be replaced with a Independance Day (which also has many elements of War of the Worlds in it) style nuclear attack...and I doubt that men will be crushed like ants in London. The film will proberly be Americanised with the citizens of New York and DC, etc getting crushed...As I said before. Roll on summer...

[WildWill]

One of my clients at work is working on the flick...the scuttlebutt in Hollyweird is that it's going to be a COLLOSSAL failure. This is the most expensive movie ever made, and Tommy screwed up MI3.

[Watto]

One of my clients at work is working on the flick...the scuttlebutt in Hollyweird is that it's going to be a COLLOSSAL failure. This is the most expensive movie ever made, and Tommy screwed up MI3.
Wow...my dreams have been shattered...:D

[WoodenCoyote]

I doubt that men will be crushed like ants in London. The film will proberly be Americanised with the citizens of New York and DC, etc getting crushed...

What a rip-off, that makes it like every other boring monster flick from the States...

[After*Glow]

I want to go see it cause they filmed some big highway scene close to where I live. So I want to see how that comes out.

[Watto]

Did you see anything? What did it look like they were doing...?

[Greg]

the trailer looks good, i hope the martians are like the ones from jeff waynes musical version

[Kris Planer]

i'll wait untill i read some reviews on it before i go to see it, theres nothing worse than wasting money and time on a piece of crap movie (example: the croc hunter movie)

[Kirarakim]

It looks interesting because of Spielberg. I can take or leave Cruise. Although some of Spielberg's recent movies haven't been that good either. AI was nothing impressive.

[Greg]

It looks interesting because of Spielberg. I can take or leave Cruise. Although some of Spielberg's recent movies haven't been that good either. AI was nothing impressive.

ai was dire, spielberg hasnt done a good movie since Ryan, cruise was excelent in the last samurai and collateral, ive never been a fan but i`ll see war of the worlds

[piccolo#1]

The trailors look bland. They don't give enough to give you a feel for the movie. I might check it out just to see if I recognize some pieces of land. Some of it was filmed a couple of hours from where I live and I think I've been to the places it was actually shot.

[meteoraclown]

i might see it. well i know the ending unless they change it to where we blow everything up and the only thing that live are raoches and telemarketers.

anyways, i still have to see the original one. i seen from the beginning to the middle and then my teacher never showed us the rest of it.

[Noah]

Just by some of the dialogue i dont want to see this movie:

"Get everyone onto the boat!"

Well, actually, i cant wait to see about 200 people run and try to get onto a boat while aliens are attcking, it will look rather corny indeed. :cool:

[Greg]

Just by some of the dialogue i dont want to see this movie:

"Get everyone onto the boat!"

Well, actually, i cant wait to see about 200 people run and try to get onto a boat while aliens are attcking, it will look rather corny indeed. :cool:



i want to hear, people started cheering "Come on Thunderchild"

[Watto]

I'm begining to doubt that the film will be better than the Jeff Wayne's musical version...please prove me wrong!!!
PS: Does anyone have any links to the trailers?

[WoodenCoyote]

I'm begining to doubt that the film will be better than the Jeff Wayne's musical version...please prove me wrong!!!
PS: Does anyone have any links to the trailers?

http://waroftheworlds.com/

This is the offical movie site, its got trailers and so forth. Be warned, its kinda slow loading

[akiragale_532]

I may see it if it gets good reviews.......if not I'll rent it when it comes out on DVD.

[MasterJimmy]

i think it looks like an alright movie from what it shows in the trailer.. :rolleyes:

[juvanya]

Remakes is the new movie thing I guess...I guess I might go.

[Greg]

Remakes is the new movie thing I guess...I guess I might go.


yeah but there has been some bad ones....... Rollerball ?

And some good ones, Dawn of the dead,

i can see a return to form from spielberg

[WildWill]

Remakes is the new movie thing I guess...I guess I might go.

Uh, no, it isn't. Hollywood has been doing Remakes since the dawn of film. In fact, many of the original silent films were remakes of OTHER silent films. They've been doing it for years, and it will probably never stop, basically because Hollyweird has no talent in it whatsoever.

[cyberteckaftershoker]

The movie looks awesome. Actually Im reading this book for class. : )

[Greg]

has anyone ever seen the tv series ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094578/

[Watto]

has anyone ever seen the tv series ?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094578/No, not yet...

[olibuhero22]

I definatly plan on seeing this....the original was ok, but I wanna see some better effects dang it....lol, the book wasn't bad 2

[WildWill]

I LOVED the show when it was on, it only ran 2-3 seasons as I recall, but yeah, it was GREAT because they actually treated the 50's movie (which is one of the BEST science fiction films of it's era) as source material.

[MikeKHfan89]

i think i might see this movie only becuase a part of the movie was shot here in CT near where i live and my grandfather went and saw tom cruz (he's not even a fan lol), got a picture taken with him, and used the picture for his christmas card.

[lostboy 13]

Who else is going to see the Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds when it comes out this summer? I am personally looking forward to it...roll on summer, then...:DI loved reading the book by H.G. Wells, and the radio play scared me half to death. i love that! and i was one of the many people who waited in line to try out for being a extra in the movie. the casting call had taken place in lexington VA. in a highschool, here is proof. People waiting in line. (http://img53.exs.cx/img53/3022/thewaroftheworldscastingcallpi.jpg) i will have more soon. anyway, i do think i will try and go see it.

[Dr.Philip & Mr.Fiend]

I can't wait to see it but first I want to read the book. Some of my friends have read the book and they tell me that it is really good so I'm going to read the book first and then see the movie (that is if my will power holds out). So ya I'm excited about it coming out.

[Watto]

I can't wait to see it but first I want to read the book. Some of my friends have read the book and they tell me that it is really good so I'm going to read the book first and then see the movie (that is if my will power holds out). So ya I'm excited about it coming out.The book is really good, defianatly read it!

[Greg]

i have herd a rumor that the martians are not auctually from mars but an alternative reality/dimension.

i will specualte that this is souly a rumor but it would be a bloody good plot twist, remember - "they are already here"

[Watto]

i have herd a rumor that the martians are not auctually from mars but an alternative reality/dimension.

i will specualte that this is souly a rumor but it would be a bloody good plot twist, remember - "they are already here"If that happens in the film I will walk right out...

[Greg]

you walk out ? seriously? remember this is hollywood, they can mess up anything, especially U-571 that was an insult to our great coutry and the brave souls who gave their lives for peace in world war II.

anyway, i have always liked spielberg and if this rumor is true then it could be interesting.

[Watto]

you walk out ? seriously? remember this is hollywood, they can mess up anything, especially U-571 that was an insult to our great coutry and the brave souls who gave their lives for peace in world.I didn't see U-571 either... :D

[Greg]

i was reading empire last night while i was eating my dinner, i was looking at a poster for war of the worlds then a crazy idea came into my mind, i took into account the "they are already here" part from the trailer as i noticed the aliens hand holding planet earth.

its the aliens hand, the 3 fingers/feelers and all the red stuff enticed around its hand that looks like stringy muscles. how about this for a theroy:

the alies/martians can assume human form, can blend in with society, as they plot our downfall, "they are already here".

[Watto]

i was reading empire last night while i was eating my dinner, i was looking at a poster for war of the worlds then a crazy idea came into my mind, i took into account the "they are already here" part from the trailer as i noticed the aliens hand holding planet earth.

its the aliens hand, the 3 fingers/feelers and all the red stuff enticed around its hand that looks like stringy muscles. how about this for a theroy:

the alies/martians can assume human form, can blend in with society, as they plot our downfall, "they are already here".
I hope not...The film should be based at least loosly on the book...

War of the Worlds Film Site (http://www.waroftheworlds.com/)

Oh, and if anyone is interested, I've found at least 3 other WotWs films in development now, including a CGI film version of Jrff Wayne's musical version of WotW, for release in 2007...sounds interesting. The CD is also being re-released this year as well...:drools:

[masterofpain]

hardest bok ever?

hmmm.......


probobly last years phone book. I gave that thing to my neighbor's dog & only a few pages were ripped. MAN THAT SUCKER IS THICK!!! maybe i'll give it to that super strong guy on TV.

[Betelgeux]

if they model it off the standard "natural disaster" idea (which nearly every movie featuring destruction is these days), the movie's bound to crash as cheesier than velveeta. =[

[Watto]

http://www.thewaroftheworlds.com (OFFICIAL Jeff Wayne WotW site)
Must...purchase...7 Disc...collectors...edition... :rolleyes:

[ORACLEPAGER1029]

I liked the super bowl trailer, but it didn't explain anything.

[Watto]

I liked the super bowl trailer, but it didn't explain anything.I think that was actually a teaser, which is meant to tease the viewer. I read that the first full trailer is going to be shown before Revenge Of The Sith...

[Greg]

i just want cruise to burst into song towards the end, like david essex in the jeff wayne version

[Watto]

i just want cruise to burst into song towards the end, like david essex in the jeff wayne version
LMFAO!!! The Jeff Wayne version is excellent!!!

So, only 4 days to go until the film is released, well, 4 days in the UK, not sure when it's released in the US... Anyway, I'm going to see it this Saturday in Nottingham with some mates, anyone else going to see it...?

[SpringChocobo]

I'm having second thoughts about seeing it since the Tom Cruise water microphone incident. lol. I guess thats not very reasonable...

[Watto]

I'm having second thoughts about seeing it since the Tom Cruise water microphone incident. lol. I guess thats not very reasonable...
Well, a Martian invasion can ruin ANYONE'S sense of humour...

Anyway, I had second thoughts because of Cruise as well, apparently, on a radio interview in the States, he claimed the film is better than the book. What an ego-maniac. How can those poor 100ft tall Tripods stand a chance against Cruise's crazily massive ego?

[The End of Anubis]

Well, a Martian invasion can ruin ANYONE'S sense of humour...
I was under the impression that Speilberg said the aliens' home planet is not specified, so they could be from anywhere, not just Mars.

I really want to see this movie, but I don't want to give Cruise any of my money. He'll just donate it to a cult.

What I will probably do is buy a ticket to Batman Begins and sneak into WoTW. :p

[Watto]

I was under the impression that Speilberg said the aliens' home planet is not specified, so they could be from anywhere, not just Mars.
I know that... But first they reset the book in modern times AND America. Then they give them invisible shields (from what I've heard from various spoilers) ala' the terrible '53 version. And they've more than likely taken the cylinders away as well... So, I'm gonna call the "aliens" Martians anyway... Please don't take the Martians from me, please!!! They've all I've got left!!!

[The End of Anubis]

I know that... But first they reset the book in modern times AND America. Then they give them invisable sheilds (from what I've heard from various spoilers) ala' the terrible '53 version. And they've more than likely taken the cylinders away as well... So, I'm gonna call the "aliens" Martians anyway... Please don't take the Martians from me, please!!! They've all I've got left!!!
*Steals his Martians*

Mwahahahaha!

The reviews have finally started coming in, if you check RottenTomatoes.com. They are basically saying that there's a 15 minute buildup, then all hell breaks lose. It's supposed to be very terrifying, some of Speilberg's best work.

However, they're saying that the end is the usual Speilberg sappy cheese. But I can live with that considering how dark the rest of the film is supposed to be.

[Watto]

*Steals his Martians*

Mwahahahaha!
Nooooooo!!!
Yeah, I've heard about the ending, apparently Cruise's character's son turns up, unharmed, despite the fact he was last seen running into an alien vs. army melee... Yeah, right. Pfft.

[Greg]

jeff waynes masterpiece is back in the charts !

[Watto]

jeff waynes masterpiece is back in the charts !
Oh yeah!!! And I'm willing to bet that Greg is one of the few people to recognise the mighty war machines in my sig/avy...

Anyway, JW's WotWs is one of the best versions of the book...

[The End of Anubis]

Has anybody seen it yet? I may not see it for a couple weeks.

[ORACLEPAGER1029]

*WARNING: SOME SPOILERS*

I saw it today, its like a more emotional and more detailed version of the old movie. It really captures the emotions of people if we were really invaded by aliens. The effects just express the movie so much. The best effects are the vaporizing people, the tripods, and the destruction. Unlike the old movie you see the bacteria and the aliens. The hand comes out of the tripod and you see the whole alien. Just a more improved verion of the old movie, very well adapted.

[Blankauctions]

*WARNING: SOME SPOILERS*

I saw it today, its like a more emotional and more detailed version of the old movie. It really captures the emotions of people if we were really invaded by aliens. The effects just express the movie so much. The best effects are the vaporizing people, the tripods, and the destruction. Unlike the old movie you see the bacteria and the aliens. The hand comes out of the tripod and you see the whole alien. Just a more improved verion of the old movie, very well adapted.


I saw it... it was pretty good. The ending wasn't as good as it could have been -_-.

[Watto]

*WARNING: SOME SPOILERS*

I saw it today, its like a more emotional and more detailed version of the old movie. It really captures the emotions of people if we were really invaded by aliens. The effects just express the movie so much. The best effects are the vaporizing people, the tripods, and the destruction. Unlike the old movie you see the bacteria and the aliens. The hand comes out of the tripod and you see the whole alien. Just a more improved verion of the old movie, very well adapted.
Actually, just from the trailers I can tell the film is closer to the book than the '53 version...
I could be wrong, but hopefully the Spielberg film is a updated version/modern re-telling of the book...
And if anyone in the UK is interested, the '53 film is being shown on Channel 5 on Saturday...

[Gods Dark Angel]

Im gonna see it late today I hope its good. From the sounds of reviews I hope it is...

[PhoenixMagnion]

I just finnished watching it with a few of my friends. And as soon as I figure out the color code for spoilers, I'm going to rant some things out, cause theres a few things that are bugging me about the second half of the movie that I just don't get.

what is the code?

[Village Dag]

Has anybody seen it yet? I may not see it for a couple weeks.

I have. It was mediocre. The film was seriously overblown and was pretty much just like a disaster movie.

[Watto]

I just finnished watching it with a few of my friends. And as soon as I figure out the color code for spoilers, I'm going to rant some things out, cause theres a few things that are bugging me about the second half of the movie that I just don't get.

what is the code?
Just put in [COLOR = 333333 ] *Your text here* [/ COLOR ], but remember to remove the spaces...
^Highlight Me!!!^

[Greg]

BAD ENDING, excelent special effects, ok movie, i seriously prefer the jeff wayne musical version, just for "the fighting machine" and "thunderchild"

[Watto]

BAD ENDING, excelent special effects, ok movie, i seriously prefer the jeff wayne musical version, just for "the fighting machine" and "thunderchild"
Props to you Greg, "Thunderchild" is a great track, although I'm partial to "Forever Autumn" and "Brave New World" myself...

"Listen, maybe one day we'll capture a Fighting Machine, eh? Learn how to make 'em ourselves, then, WALLOP!!! Our turn to do some wiping out! Whoosh with our heat-ray, whoosh!!! And them running and dying, beaten at they're own game, man on top again!!!"

Meh, I just like the Artilleryman's over-optimism. It's a great contrast with the Parson's grim view of mankind's future... :rolleyes:

[Greg]

i like brave new world, i like the way the artilary man says "underground", i dunno, call me weird

[The End of Anubis]

I have. It was mediocre. The film was seriously overblown and was pretty much just like a disaster movie.
Maybe because it is a disaster movie.

[olibuhero22]

BAD ENDING, excelent special effects, ok movie, i seriously prefer the jeff wayne musical version, just for "the fighting machine" and "thunderchild"

I agree that the ending could have been alot better, but overall I was pleased with the movie...

[PhoenixMagnion]

*Spoilers*

First of all, grenades is mans greatest offensive weapon. Secondly, and this is about the ending, really; Why is Robbie, the son, not dead? I mean, that aragant SOB should've gone up in flames with everything else towards the end. So how is it that a 17-18 year old teenager, who has no military experiance, happens to have survived the battle while rushing head long in to it? How?!?!

Anyways, I found the movie to be very enjoyable, except for the ending, of course. I found the times when Ray (Tom Cruise) was trying to interact with his children in the beginning funny. In a good way. But the best part has to be the vaporizing of people. Man I did not see that one coming. The didn't even have time to scream. they were just gone. Dust in the wind, wich he was covored in while running. That was just sick.

I'm done

[Watto]

i like brave new world, i like the way the artilary man says "underground", i dunno, call me weird
"I'm not trying to tell you what to be,
Oh no, oh no, not me,
But if mankind is to survive,
The people left alive,
They're gonna have to build this world anew,
And it's going to have to start with me and you!"

Yeah, the Artilleryman is the shiznit... :o

[Nated]

From some of the stuff I've read, it sounded pretty bloody. Is that true?

[Watto]

From some of the stuff I've read, it sounded pretty bloody. Is that true?
Bloody, not really. Seeming as the heat-rays do their thing before there's any blood...

Anyway, just seen the film today. I have to agree with the critics, great film, but it has a poor ending. Anyway, some of my thoughts of the film... [WARNING!!! SPOILERS!!!]
The first time you see the tripods is quite harrowing. The heat-rays basically vaporise people. They turn to ash almost instantly. It is really quite scary to see a person hit by the ray, turn to ash, and then explode... The effects in that scene really worked well. Although I couldn't shake the feeling the tripods were just killing people beside Cruise, as if toying with them. The scene also has a reference to the book in it. As the tripod begins to rise out of the ground, the ground begins to rotate, like the cylinder's unscrewing in the book.

One of the best (IMHO) and most disturbing scenes i the one where Cruise beats the crap out of Ogilivy, to prevent him from revealing their location to the aliens waiting just outside after he (Ogilivy) goes mad after he sees what the tripods/aliens do with the people they capture... ("Not my blood, not my blood!!!") That scene is really surreal, Ray places a blindfold over Rachel's (Fanning) eyes, tells her not to look, and to sing Hush-a-Bye Mountain while he goes into the room where Ogilivy is freaking out and trying to dig a tunnel to the city. It is so strange listening to Dakota Fanning singing that song while the sounds of a man being killed emit from behind a closed door...

The aliens were good as well.Think the ID4 aliens, but with 3 limbs. The clever little buggers are even seen examining family photographs in the house where Ray and Racheal are hiding... And as for the tripods, all I can say is wow. Just, wow. They are massive bad ass things, and the war-cry that emits from them is just so awesome, my cinema seat was literally vibrating from the sheer volume of it. Think foghorn, but a thousand times louder.

Unfortunley, the ending is the only failing of the film. It seemed rushed, and didn't really explain how the aliens meet their downfall. And despite Robbie running into the middle of a Alien vs. Army melee, he manages to get reunited with the family no problem, with hardlya scratch on him. Bah!

Anyway, this film was one of the best I've seen for a while, and possiblyone of the best films from "Psyco" Steve. (I read a review that said there was 3 Spielbergs, 1) Family Steve (ET), Comedy Steve (The Terminal) and finally Psycho Steve (Jurassic Park, Jaws) who sould grab you from behind and yell "BOO!!!") This really deserves to be one of the best films of the summer and has to be, IMHO, one of Cruise's best films ever.
EDIT: What happened to my sig? If you mods wanted it changed couldn't you have just asked me? I feel very vilolated...

[Greg]

Watto, buy this months EMPIRE magazine, there is an interview with Jeff Wayne, he said there is going to be a CGI movie of his version coming out in 2007 !

[Watto]

Watto, buy this months EMPIRE magazine, there is an interview with Jeff Wayne, he said there is going to be a CGI movie of his version coming out in 2007 !
Damn, I forgot to tell everyone that... I've known about it for a few weeks now, it's great being a member of the official JWWotWs site... Didn't he also mention a TV series as well...?

Anyhoo, roll on 2007 then...

Also, guess who just brought himself a new copy of the album...?

[Greg]

My Girlfriend has brought the special edition

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. The Eve Of The War - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton And Justin Hayward
2. Horsell Common And The Heat Ray - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton
3. The Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton And David Essex
4. Forever Autumn - Featuring Richard Burton And Justin Hayward
5. Thunder Child - Featuring Richard Burton And Chris Thompson

Disc: 2
1. The Red Weed (Part 1) - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton
2. The Spirit Of Man - Featuring Richard Burton, Phil Lynott And Julie Covington
3. The Red Weed (Part 2) - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton
4. The Artilleryman Returns - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton
5. Brave New World - Featuring Richard Burton And David Essex
6. Dead London - Jeff Wayne Featuring Richard Burton
7. Epilogue (Part 1) - Featuring Richard Burton
8. Epilogue (Part 2) (Nasa)

Disc: 3
1. The Remixes – 1979 - 2005

Disc: 4
1. The Coming Of The Martians: Revisited (Original Studio Outakes I Of III)

Disc: 5
1. The Earth Under The Martians… Revisited (Original Studio Out-Takes: II Of III)

Disc: 6
1. The Earth Under The Martians… Revisited (Continued) (Original Studio Out-Takes: III Of III)

Disc: 7
1. Deconstructing The War Of The Worlds (DVD Documentary)

it has the complete script, pictures, an excelent package, well worth the money, she rocks !

[Betelgeux]

that has to be one of the stupidest endings i've ever seen....

they did a fine job of making it disturbing up until that point, but then his boy survives and the rest of family is all there, virtually unscathed.


yeah right. the way they looked, one would think there was nothing threatening their world and they were simply worried that their daughter/granddaughter/sister wouldn't make it home for a while.


if hollywood has the time, money, and people resources to produce such a film, they should at least have the brains to put it a 'realistic' ending (realistic in terms of the movie's content). even if it wasn't as true to the book, it would still have fit better.


and what was with the bloody-murder screaming every five minutes from that girl? i can understand they wanted to portray a certain type of character, but that part was seriously overdone.


righto...

[Watto]

that has to be one of the stupidest endings i've ever seen....
righto...
That's what everyone thinks, but IMHO, it's not stupid (the book ended that way, and I doubt they wanted die hard fans trashing the cinema...), but it was rushed and poorly explained. The could have spent another 10 minutes in the Aftermath and stuff...

And Greg, I hate you. I want the collectors edition!!! :( LOL, me thinks it's time to get a paper round...

[Greg]

just get a woman who loves you dearly.


does anyone else think that spielberg is loosing his touch, he hasnt made a good film since Saving Private Ryan, and before that Jurrassic Park.

[Watto]

just get a woman who loves you dearly.
Paper round is easier... lol!!! :D

Speilberg losing his touch? Nah, although I may be prejudiced thanks to those awesome Tripods... :drools:

[Hero of Time]

I want to be spoiled. Can someone give me a summary and a semi-detailed ending? As many spoilers as possible please.

[Greg]

MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS:


New Jersey's Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a no-good divorcee who has to entertain his two kids, Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning) for a few days, as his ex-wife is going to stay with her new hubby in Boston.

Ray wakes up one morning, hammered from the night before, and argues with daughter Rachel a bit about his son Robbie, who doesn't have his driver's license yet but who still took Ray's car that morning. The television's on and a news anchor is talking about 'magnetic storms' which have been seen all over the world. Then, the weather outside turns dark; Ray walks out and looks up, to see a maelstrom of black clouds. Lightning strikes close to his house, followed by another lightning strike, and another, and another. At first, Ray calls out Rachel to look at the lightning, but after a couple of minutes, Ray is hiding underneath the kitchen table together with his daughter. When the lightning strikes have stopped (after 26 strikes), Ray walks out into his garden again, and then returns into the house, only to find that all electrical appliances - including the fridge, the light, his mobile phone and even his wrist watch - have stopped functioning.

He then goes outside, telling his daughter to not leave the house. On the street, Ray finds himself surrounded by cars which all can no longer drive; he walks past his neighbor Manny, who has a car repair shop and who is working on an old Chrysler Voyager to get it to work again. Ray advises him to change some engine parts and bumps into his son Robbie, who tells Ray that he's sorry he took the car, but that it's no longer working, just like all the other cars. Ray tells him to go home and stay with his sister. He himself moves toward the part in the suburb where the lightning strikes struck, an intersection where hundreds of people have gathered with a few Police officers to look at a small, smoking hole in the pavement. Ray joins them to look, but suddenly, cracks appear in the pavement, and they seem to be coming from the small hole. The cracks quickly widen and lengthen and within moments, the entire intersection seems to be moving. Part of a church collapses and then there's suddenly an explosion of air and dust, with concrete slabs being thrown several hundred feet into the air.

When the dust is settling, a huge shadow can be seen moving in a giant crater. Suddenly, something that looks like a huge three-fingered hand reaches out of the crater, followed by what seems to be an oval kind of head. Then two more 'hands' reach out, and within a couple of seconds, the giant head is seen gaining altitude, and after a minute, Ray finds himself staring at a huge Tripod. The oval head looks a bit like an insect's head, with what appear to be two bellowing eyes, and it seems to be wearing some kind of huge helmet. In the front, where an insect's mouth would probably be, is a huge, blinding white light.

The hundreds of people around the intersection look on in awe, not so much in fear, at the machine which appears to be as high as the Empire State Building in New York City. Then two huge arms appear from the machine, with light green claws, and the machine starts emanating a sound, much like a giant dynamo gearing up. When the sound ends, a deafening "CLICK!" can be heard. Silence returns, but only for a few seconds. Then an even more deafening siren wails, reminiscent of a huge ship's horn.

Some people in the crowd start backing away, Ray included, and then the Holocaust begins.

Light-green rays suddenly blast from the claws and within moments, dozens of people are simply evaporated by the rays. The rays only seem to destroy the people's bodies, not the clothes; as the crowd runs for life, Ray is surrounded by evaporating bodies - people are simply turned into dust instantaneously, with only their clothes remaining. Ray, covered by dead people's dust, runs into a department store, and is almost hit himself; he runs into a woman who gets zapped and Ray can be seen crashing through the evaporated dust statue that was once a woman. Ray manages to flee the area while people and buildings all around him are being destroyed.

He reaches his house, where Robbie and Rachel are still wondering what the heck is going on. Once inside, Ray collapses, traumatized by what he just witnessed and because of the human remains - in the form of dust - on his clothes and in his hair. He quickly recomposes himself and tells his kids that they're leaving the house "in 60 seconds." They pack up, run outside and Ray orders his kids to take a seat in the Chrysler Voyager which Manny was fixing. Ray tries the engine and it works, but Manny - who is also unaware of what's going on - tells Ray to get out of the car, as it's not his. Ray tells Manny to get into the car or he'll die, but Manny won't budge, so Ray tells Robbie to close the passenger seat's door. Just when Manny wants to protest, Rachel looks behind her and sees the New Jersey Bridge collapse - Manny doesn't have time to witness that as he's zapped. Ray jumps on the gas and the car dashes forward while Robbie and Rachel witness dozens of people being zapped all around them.They reach the freeway where thousands of refugees are walking, unusable cars strewn everywhere, and Robbie and Rachel press Ray to take them to their mother, whose house is closeby. Ray, unsure of where to go anyway, agrees and he assures the kids that the attack isn't from European terrorists, but something "different."

They reach their mother's house but it's empty and they decide to spend the night in the basement. In the early hours of the morning, bright light is suddenly seen through the basement windows and crashing sounds rock the basement. In the early hours of the morning, Ray carefully walks outside and is confronted with the wreckage of a Boeing-747 which crashed right into the suburb, destroying several houses. He walks through the rubble and finds a network's camera team. A journalist tells him that the entire planet is under attack from aliens. They're everywhere, she says, and shows him footage of various cities. In one scene, multiple Tripods are seen destroying a city. She tells him that the Tripods had lain buried deep in the ground for probably thousands of years and that the lightning strikes had only delivered the machines' crews; she freezes a scene and Ray recognizes a silvery capsule that's being crashed into the ground by one lightning strike. Then, in the distance, a siren is heard wailing and the camera team skids off in their network's truck. Ray runs inside and brings out Robbie and Rachel, and they quickly move away from the suburb in the van.

Ray decides to use small roads to get to Athens, where he wants to take the ferry to cross the Hudson to go north, to Boston. When Robbie asks why Ray wants to take the small roads, instead of the much faster highway, Ray tells him that their car is probably the only one still functioning, and that "a lot of people will probably want to take this car." They pull over near a farm because Rachel has to pee and just then, an Army armored column drives by. Robbie goes ape and wants to join the soldiers in their trucks, which are moving toward the alien machines. Ray manages to stop Robbie from jumping onto a truck and they move on again.

They finally reach Athens at dusk and the small town is crowded by thousands of people who all want to take the ferry. As Ray moves closer to the boat, people start pounding the van, shouting that they want to get in to the car. Ray blows the horn a couple of times and some people jump on to the hood. Others use clubs to break some of the van's windows and Ray stops the car. He and Robbie are pulled out from the car and a fight breaks out. Ray is worked to the ground but then remembers the gun he brought from home. He fires two shots into the air and the crowd moves away from the car. Unfortunately, he isn't the only one with a gun; another guy puts his gun to Ray's head and tells him to drop his gun, which Ray does. The guy wants to take Ray's car and Ray says that's fine, as long as he can get his daughter from the back seat. The guy agrees to Ray's demand and Rachel is pulled out of the car by Ray, while at the same time, another man finds Ray's gun on the ground and picks it up.

While Ray moves his kids into a coffee bar next to the road, the van starts moving but is immediately attacked again by the crowd. Ray and the kids are stifled when they hear gunshots; outside, the man who picked up Ray's gun can be seen emptying the entire clip at the guy who moments before forced Ray to hand over his car at gunpoint.

Ray, Robbie and Rachel reach the ferry and they seem to be alright, when Rachel looks behind her (again!) and sees some large trees on a high hill move violently. She taps Ray's shoulder a couple of times and when he finally turns around, a Tripod is standing on the hill overlooking the town. The Tripod's siren wails while two more Tripods take up position beside the first one, and survey the crowded town with their blinding search lights. Pandemonium breaks loose at the ferry as everyone tries to get on board but the captain decides in a panic that it's time to move. Ray tries to get him and his kids and some of their New Jersey neighbors onto the boat which doesn't work as they're stopped in their tracks by soldiers. Ray guides Robbie and Rachel around the soldiers' blockade and manages to get on to the ferry. As the Tripods move closer and start zapping people, the captain hits the gas and the large ferry jumps forward. But it turns out that the Tripods can also be used under water. The captain sees a shadow below the surface and within moments, the Tripod is capsizing the ferry. Ray jumps off, taking Robbie and Rachel with him, and they manage to swim ashore. Once there, on a hillside, they witness other Tripods hunting down hundreds of running people on another hill and zapping away like mad.

Ray and the kids silently move through a forest as hundreds of shirts, blouses, pants and pieces of underwear come floating down.

Ray and the kids join a column of refugees and suddenly a batallion of tanks, armored vehicles and Hummers appear. They move forward to a ridge where other army units are trying to give some Tripods hell

Robbie goes ape again and screams that he wants to see what's going on as he wants to "fight back." Ray, however, knows that the Tripods have some kind of magnetic shields which make them invulnerable to any weapon. Robbie manages to pull away from Ray, though, and Ray leaves Rachel standing next to a tree and runs after Robbie. Meanwhile, an officer is seen shouting into a communications set, informing his bosses that none of their rounds is penetrating the Tripods' shields.

Another officer shouts that they have to keep firing to "buy the refugees down there some time to flee!" Abrams tanks move up on the ridge as well and start blasting at Tripods in the distance and while nearly on the top of the ridge, Ray manages to slam Robbie down to the ground, shouting that Robbie has to come down again so they can flee the area. Meanwhile, a concerned woman and their husband find Rachel standing beside the tree, and the woman thinks Rachel is an orphan. So while they're talking Rachel into coming with them, Ray is trying to convince Robbie to come down, but Robbie insists that he has to see "what's going on." Robbie demands that Ray let him go; at that moment, Ray sees the couple down below, who are trying to get Rachel to come with them. Ray has to make a choice and loosens his grip on Robbie, who immediately jumps up and runs toward the soldiers, who are still blasting away with everything they've got

Ray runs down the hill and grabs Rachel from the couple; just then, the Tripods seem to have come close enough for some good ole' fun and the entire large batallion is simply turned into one giant fireball within a fraction of a second. One of the Tripod's oval heads is dramatically seen through the fire while Ray picks up Rachel and runs further down hill. A man holding a riot gun shouts for them to join him in a farmhouse's cellar and Ray quickly carries Rachel inside.

While explosions, zapping rays and death screams can be heard outside, Ray and Rachel are introduced to Harlan Ogilvy (Tim Robbins), a former ambulance driver who tells them that he lost his entire family. Ogilvy seems like an OK guy at first but he's really a dangerous mixture of fear and anger.

After Rachel falls asleep on a couch, Ray joins Ogilvy for a drink. Ogilvy tells Ray that people in Osaka, Japan, were apparently able to take down some of the Tripods, but no one yet knows how. "If the **** can do it, why can't we!?" Ogilvy demands, and he tells Ray that he should join Ogilvy in setting up some kind of a Resistance-movement.

Outside, the screams and explosions have died down and all that's heard is the mechanical, droning sound of Tripods. Suddenly, that sound stops, too, and Ray looks around in fear. Just when he wants to start moving again, a huge mechanical camera attached to a snake-like arm appears through a hole in the cellar's roof. Ray quickly wakes Rachel and they and Ogilvy hide from the camera, which is obviously trying to find out whether there are people hiding in the cellar. In a snake-like fashion, the camera moves through the cellar and although Ray and Rachel manage to avoid being seen, Ray suddenly sees Ogilvy standing next to the "snake" with an axe raised above his head. From the other end of the hallway, Ray silently begs Ogilvy not to attack the metal arm; Ogilvy is swayed and he silently joins Ray and Rachel in hiding

Unfortunately, while moving, Ogilvy throws some empty cans to the ground and the mechanical snake immediately reacts. Ray, Rachel and Ogilvy grab a huge rectangular mirror and hide behind it. For a few seconds, the camera observes itself in the mirror, and who or whatever is controlling the camera, decides to move away - until a muscle in Rachel's right leg decides to have cramps. Rachel's leg is stretched and her boot sc***** the ground. For a millisecond, Rachel's trembling boot appears aside from the mirror and the camera sees it. The "snake" quickly moves to see what's behind the mirror, only to find Rachel's empty boot. The camera then moves off again, out of the cellar.

Moments later, Rachel and Ray hear sounds; it was raining all night and with the broken water main in the cellar, a small water pool has formed in a lower part of the basement. Four aliens appear through the hole in the roof and one alien moves to the broken water pipe, to drink some of the water that's still spewing from it. The other aliens rummage through some boxes owned by the former inhabitants of the house; they show each other large photos found in a box, as if they were tourists. The aliens have large heads, large eyes, small mouths and thin black muscles bodies and long arms and fingers. Ogilvy goes Gung-Ho again and aims his riot gun at the aliens through a hole in a wall, but Ray manages to grab hold of the rifle. In an eerie silent fight, Ray tries to stop Ogilvy from shooting, as Ray probably knows that there are probably many more aliens and Tripods outside the house. He's right; just when Ogilvy manages to get control over his riot gun again, a Tripod's siren wails and the four aliens scurry away through the hole in the roof. Without saying a word, Ray and Rachel distance themselves from Ogilvy and fall asleep.

In the early hours of the morning, Ray is seen trying to wash himself at the broken water main when Ogilvy suddenly shouts "RAY! RAY! RAY!" Ray, scared that aliens might hear the loud voice, runs up to Ogilvy and sees him looking outside through a small basement window. Ogilvy walks off while Ray takes his place and looks through the window. It's then that Ray discovers that the Tripods have another function beside merely exterminating humans, as not all humans encountered are destroyed but are also "harvested."

The basement's window is shattered and Ray observes some strange red roots in the window sill, much like those of trees, and they're covered in what appears to be red oil, or something like that. Ray can't make out what the stuff is, much less where the roots are coming from, until he observes a man being thrown out of some container that's attached to a Tripod which is standing outside the house. The man falls to the ground and only his legs are visible to Ray as there's a car wreckage blocking his view.

From the Tripod then appears a slender arm with a huge kind of needle, which is then slammed into the man's back. The slender Tripod's arm then turns out to be some sort of hose and Ray sees the man's blood quickly move up through the hose and into the Tripod's metal head. A second later, the blood is spewed from the Tripod's mouth, together with some strange earth-like matter. "Fertilizer!" Ogilvy shouts from the back, "they're turning us into fertilizer using our blood!" Ray suddenly understands the horrible truth and he drops the small piece of root he had grabbed earlier, and tries to wipe the blood off of his hands. Meanwhile, Ogilvy seems to have gone completely crazy, shouting that "they're not going to get my blood! Not going to get my blood!" Ray runs toward Ogilvy and sees that he's trying to dig a tunnel with a shovel. Ogilvy tells him that he's digging the tunnel to reach the city which lies beyond the ridge mentioned earlier, so that they can escape and start the Resistance movement.

Ray now understands that Ogilvy has gone completely mad and implores him to be silent, but Ogilvy hits Ray with the shovel. Ray is momentarily dazed, but then stands up, walks back to Rachel, covers her eyes with a blindfold and tells her to cover her ears and sing a song and wait until he comes back. Then Ray is seen moving through the back of the cellar again, where Ogilvy turns around and watches Ray. Then a door falls closed and while Rachel sings her song, sounds of men fighting can be heard. A few minutes later, Ray appears again, cuddles Rachel and they fall asleep on the couch.

Ray is awakened several hours later by a high-pitched scream from Rachel, who's staring right onto a "snake camera." Rachel jumps from the couch and Ray grabs the axe earlier held by Ogilvy. Bashing away at the alien metal suddenly seemed a good idea because with about ten blows, Ray manages to almost sever the camera from the arm, which then withdraws itself. Ray then realizes that Rachel is missing and he runs upstairs as he can hear her scream.

Without thinking he opens the front door of the house, only to see that the entire area is covered with red roots; the aliens are clearly trying to turn Earth into a copy of their planet, indeed using the billions of human bodies as fertilizer. He dashes forward but is confronted with a Tripod. Just as it wants to grab Ray with one of its slender arms, Ray scurries into a pick-up truck, which is then picked up by the Tripod and rolled over a couple of times. Just when the slender arm wants to take Ray from the truck, Rachel is seen standing close to the truck and she screams. The slender arm then picks Rachel up and throws her into a container attached to the Tripod's head. While this happens, Ray runs over to an abandoned Army Hummer and finds a belt filled with grenades.

The aliens in the Tripod seem to have forgotten all about Ray as the Tripod moves away from the area, but Ray throws a grenade at it. The magnetic shield appears and the grenade goes off but doesn't damage the Tripod at all. The machine turns around and a slender arm grabs Ray; he is thrown into the container which holds Rachel and a bunch of other people. Just when Ray finds Rachel between the crying and panicked prisoners, a circular door below the Tripod's head and above the container slides open and a guy wearing an Army suit is pulled from the people kicking and screaming. The man disappears into the head and seconds later, another round of roots and blood is spewed from the front side of the Tripod. Almost immediately after, the door above the container opens again and a small slender arm appears, heading for Rachel. Ray jumps on top of Rachel and the arm takes Ray by the feet, pulling him up. Ray manages to grab the belt with grenades but just as he's about to disappear into the machine's head, another Army guy grabs his arm and screams at the others that they should help him pull Ray back. They succeed and as Ray lands head-first into the container's metal frame, he spits two pins from his mouth. The soldier sees the pins and screams "DUCK!", and the grenades go off inside the Tripod's head, which starts to disintegrate. The Tripod trips, ditches the container holding the people, and falls down.

The next scene sees Ray and Rachel moving up to the top of the ridge, only to find that the city they were expecting to find on the other end is completely gone. Only ruins and black smoke columns remain; the city is completely razed to the ground.

The almost final scene sees Ray and Rachel in a column of refugees as it enters what is left of Boston. They are accompanied by a group of soldiers and Ray sees red roots covering the streets and buildings - except for a bronze monument. The roots on it catch his eye and he moves closer to find that the roots on the base of the monument aren't red but gray and completely dried out. "What's happening to it, dad?" asks Rachel, and Ray says, "I don't know, it seems to be dying..."

Then he hears a rumbling sound and looks up, and sees a Tripod leaning against a half-destroyed skyscraper. Ray runs over to a soldier and asks him what happened to the Tripod. "I don't know what's up with them," he replies. "This morning their behavior suddenly became erratic, it's as if they've lost their mind. That one" - he points to the leaning Tripod - "just crashed into that building and stayed there."

Just then, a siren closeby wails and another Tripod appears from behind a large factory building. The soldiers quickly guide the refugees, including Ray and Rachel, into a subway. Ray watches the moving Tripod and squints as the machine's behavior seems out of the ordinary. It keeps on wailing, but the lights in front of the Tripod's head isn't blinding anymore and it sometimes seems to be losing power completely; the aliens piloting it also don't seem to know where they're going. Ray shouts at a nearby sergeant that there's something weird with the Tripod but the sergeant shouts back that he can't hear a thing because of the loud siren. Then Ray watches the Tripod again and suddenly opens his eyes wide. "Look at the birds!" he shouts at the sergeant, who rubs his ear and shouts "WHAT?! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" back. Ray repeats his line a couple of times at the top of his lungs and then the sergeant turns around to see what Ray's pointing at. Just then the siren stops and Ray shouts, "Look at the birds!" A flock of ravens is shown taking a rest on top of the moving Tripod. "The shields! Their shields are down!" The sergeant quickly pieces 1 and 2 together and he calls for his soldiers to move up with their Javelin and Carl Gustav anti-tank missiles. They each fire a couple of missiles at the Tripod, which seems unable to do anything but try to scare off the soldiers using its siren. Then a Javelin missile explodes into the Tripod's head and the machine falls, crashing through the large factory building. As the dust settles, the soldiers and Ray slowly move closer to the Tripod's head, which is now on the ground, and a hatch in the front starts opening. A pink fluid comes gushing out through the hatch, after which slender alien fingers appear. After that follows an arm and the camera pans up to show the head of an alien, which lets out a small, high-pitch scream filled with hatred. Then the head drops and the alien is dead.

The final scene shows Ray and Rachel walking up to the house of Rachel's mom's new husband, and both he and she are alive and well. Rachel runs into her mom's hands and in the door opening stands Robbie, his clothes blackened and torn, but alive. Ray and Robbie hug and Ray then looks into the distance.

The epilogue shows a top-down view of an unnamed, half-destroyed city, littered with fallen Tripods, and while the camera zooms in on a gray tree branch with drops of water on it, a narrator's voice-over by Morgan Freeman says, "The aliens' machines were invulnerable to our weapons and technology. But the moment the aliens started breathing our air, drinking our water and eating our food, they were finished."

The epilogue ends with images of bacteria inside the drops of water.

[Watto]

'Nuff said, that basically sums up the entire film...

Anyway, has "****" been added to the swear filter...?

EDIT: Apparently so...

[Hero of Time]

I don't understand the whole harvesting thing.

[Betelgeux]

That's what everyone thinks, but IMHO, it's not stupid (the book ended that way, and I doubt they wanted die hard fans trashing the cinema...), but it was rushed and poorly explained. The could have spent another 10 minutes in the Aftermath and stuff...


yeah, my brother said the book ended that way and i can understand a desire to be true to the book (because there's certainly enough movies these days that aren't)...





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but it probably the combination of being rushed and a virtual 'deus ex machina' that killed it for me...




i guess i wouldn't really like the book in that case.

[DarkLightner]

I don't understand the whole harvesting thing.

I suppose it was to terraform the planet to be like theirs.

[Watto]

In the book the Red Weed's purpose isn't fully explained either (I think so anyway, it's been a while since I read it...), but in the film I guessing it was an attempt to "terraform" the planet, although the aliens could obviously survive in our atmosphere. Maybe it's the equilivent of putting in plants when you move to a new home...?

[Black Paladin]

my cousin went and watched it. he said it was horrible. like the movie just went on and on, and suddenly just ended. I think the book is always better

[mAsTer_PaiNe]

I agree...the movie went on and on and then it just ended. Can someone tell me why the aliens were invading and killing people, and why they died?

[Watto]

I thought the fact we don't know why they're here added to the fearful atmosphere...

And they died from the viruses and diseases that we've evolved to survive, yet they had no reistence to...

[Greg]

i think they set out to colonise earth watto (the red weed)

remember the machines have always been here, maybe they set out explorers to hide machines on distant planets for their resources, then when the time is right they invade for them.

[Watto]

i think they set out to colonise earth watto (the red weed)

remember the machines have always been here, maybe they set out explorers to hide machines on distant planets for their resources, then when the time is right they invade for them.
Ah, yeah, sorry, wasn't really thinking there... lol
Yeah, in the book they invade Earth because thier planet (Mars) is dying...

[DarkSoulBlade131]

Thanks a lot Greg, now I don't have to watch the movie.

[Greg]

Jeff Waynes War of the worlds is STILL in the album charts

[GooberGrape513]

It was pretty good, but it didn't explain much about the aliens and invasion (you had to think, which isn't a BAD thing).

[Captain_Marvel]

Alright I saw this movie and didnt think it was that bad, was a bit rushed, but I thought it was pretty good visually and the movie showed how desperate we as a community get when things go wrong and we cant have certain conveniences that we have in our everyday life (i.e. a car.) I watched that movie very closely, and there is still one thing that confuses me. How in the WORLD did Robbie survive? Was it ever explained? Or was it something I just missed? Cuz if i recall that kid ran into the battlefield like he was brainless then everything exploded, and he suddenly reappeared in the end. I was questioning how he survived for the rest of the night. :confused:

[Dark_Dragon943]

I saw the movie about a week ago. It was okay, not the best, but not terrible. It was kind of slow and dragged out, which made it boring at times. At least the aliens looked kind of cool, I liked when that one was spinning the bike wheel...

[GooberGrape513]

How in the WORLD did Robbie survive? Was it ever explained? Or was it something I just missed? Cuz if i recall that kid ran into the battlefield like he was brainless then everything exploded, and he suddenly reappeared in the end. I was questioning how he survived for the rest of the night. :confused:

I guess it was meant to be one of those weird family films.

[ORACLEPAGER1029]

Don't want to sound stupid but what was the red/pink stuff that was growing everywhere? And why did they need human blood?

[GooberGrape513]

Don't want to sound stupid but what was the red/pink stuff that was growing everywhere? And why did they need human blood?

The red stuff WAS blood (I assume they used more than humans because of that cow he jumped over) extracted in that form.

I guess they used blood to fuel the ships.

I wondered how could they have used blood if they were underground the entire time...didn't they have to test it or something...?

[Watto]

The red/pink stuff that was growing was the Red Weed.

Anyway, two kewl WotWs related sites here, straight from my broweser to your... erm, browser...

Nimbin: The Martian Saga! (http://www.eveofthewar.com/nimbin)

This has to be the single best variation of The War of the Worlds I have ever seen. It's only up to chapter 3 at the moment, but so far it's been great...

Dark Horse eComic! (http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/index.php)

Also awesome. Just, check it out. It pwnz.

[Greg]

whoa, nice find watto, are they going to release it or is it just on the net ?

[Watto]

Both are just on the net. So far the eComic is pure pwnage, don't like the look of the Fighting Machines though... I've been following it for the past 6 weeks, and now it's really getting to the good parts of the book... And the Nimbin: Martian Saga, can't really say much, as it's only on Chapter 3, but it is hilarious so far...
"It is highly unlikely that there is anything al-OMG Aliens."
"I thought they were Martians, coz they are from Mars."
"That is correct."

Now, who likes modeling...?
http://www.eveofthewar.com/articles/9546/Various_The_War_of_the_Worlds_Fighting_Machines_Mo dels_From_Comet_Minatures

[Greg]

maybe they will release it when Jeff Waynes movie come out

[Watto]

maybe they will release it when Jeff Waynes movie come out
I'd buy it! :D

EDIT: Concept art of the Martians from JW's version!http://forums.eveofthewar.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=259&pos=0

[Greg]

i JUST missed out on getting tickets on e-bay !

[xDrJacKaLx]

I'm not looking forward to it , but might be worth watching so I'll go check it out when it comes out.

[wrathchild]

I'm not looking forward to it , but might be worth watching so I'll go check it out when it comes out.

WTF?! didnt war of the worlds premiere summer 05? WTH do you mean by checking it out? Its 06 now.

[Aeto]

Dr.Jack apparently cannot read the dates above the posts -_-

And FEI (For Everyone's Information) WotW exceeded all my expections...squeee!

[Watto]

Two months untill Jeff Wayne's live tour... I missed out on getting tickets though. :(
But, there are rumours that the show will be released on CD and DVD, and according to the official website, it will be shown on British TV...

[Greg]

Two months untill Jeff Wayne's live tour... I missed out on getting tickets though. :(
But, there are rumours that the show will be released on CD and DVD, and according to the official website, it will be shown on British TV...

BBC2 are rumoured to be showing it in the summer

[Watto]

BBC2 are rumoured to be showing it in the summer
Finally! The license fee is put to good use!

Life On Mars, Doctor Who... and now this. Let us all bow to the glory of the BBC!