[Nico]

The only true tripods:

damn them for cancelling season 3 ~~

[karajorma]

I was most upset about that.

Ironically enough the movie has a lot of things in common with that storyline

Spoiler:

right down to one of the tripods being brought down by someone throwing a grenade inside it when it opened up to take an unwilling human in.

[mikhael]

My understanding is that Tripods is a television series based around a modern (at the time) setting for War of the Worlds.

[Nico]

The Tripods are based on the trilogy book called "drumroll": the Tripods.
It's a futuristic setting where aliens have invaded earth and forced humanity back to middle age, and control people's mind thanks to the capping process (they cap the guy -when he turns 16 iirc- by inserting some metal thing in the head that repress violent thoughts and emotions, basically turning people into obedient and quiet people. During the series, tho, there's a couple occasions that proves that it does not make people their slaves either, it just calms them). The whole plot is about the resistance to them and kicking them out of the planet. Was very cool, that medieval/sci-fi mix. The series covers only the two first books. Don't remember much the books, but I remember the series being quite faithful to them, save for them adding military tripods (the red ones) to the usal grey ones. Was a cool addition so I wouldn't complain

[Nico]

Originally posted by karajorma

Spoiler:

right down to one of the tripods being brought down by someone throwing a grenade inside it when it opened up to take an unwilling human in.

[/B]

Actually in the series, it goes like that:

Spoiler:

they make the ground crumble under one of the tripods legs with a grenade, so the tripod falls, and they throw another grenade when the alien is stupid enough for opening the door. Then follows the first apparition of the red tripod and its turbolasers Hehe, the scene when they found the grenades and firearms was quite funny.

[karajorma]

I remember the books better and in that it is much closer to the way it happens in the WotW movie.

I've got the show downloaded off the net somewhere. I should watch it again

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Nico
The Tripods are based on the trilogy book called "drumroll": the Tripods.
It's a futuristic setting where aliens have invaded earth and forced humanity back to middle age, and control people's mind thanks to the capping process (they cap the guy -when he turns 16 iirc- by inserting some metal thing in the head that repress violent thoughts and emotions, basically turning people into obedient and quiet people. During the series, tho, there's a couple occasions that proves that it does not make people their slaves either, it just calms them). The whole plot is about the resistance to them and kicking them out of the planet. Was very cool, that medieval/sci-fi mix. The series covers only the two first books. Don't remember much the books, but I remember the series being quite faithful to them, save for them adding military tripods (the red ones) to the usal grey ones. Was a cool addition so I wouldn't complain

That sounds a lot like the White Mountains series. Those books own

[karajorma]

That's probably the same series under a different name. The haven mankind used to escape the Tripods was known as The White Mountains (it was in France BTW).

[Nico]

yup, was the Alps.

[pyro-manic]

Just saw the film, and I liked it a lot. Too short, but well done, and none of the usual "USA saves the day!" crap that Hollywood throws up so often.

My one gripe was the fact that Cruise and family spend days getting nearly killed, and then they get to Boston and the ex-wife's house (the entire street in fact) is pristine, with no damage, and they've just been waiting there, even though the rest of the city is in ruins. Thought that was a bit silly. But the rest was great.

[IPAndrews]

For those who are interested War of the Worlds is out on DVD on 14/11/2005. According to play.com. That was quick!

[Col. Fishguts]

....it's still in cinemas around here.

[Wild Fragaria]

I heard that film was very well done.  Pity that Cruise was in the film.  That just never motivate me enough to go watch it at the theater.  I might watch it on DVD later if someone happenes to play it while I am around.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Wild Fragaria
I heard that film was very well done.  Pity that Cruise was in the film.  That just never motivate me enough to go watch it at the theater.  I might watch it on DVD later if someone happenes to play it while I am around.

It's worth seeing on the big screen if for nothing more than the "wow" factor, which is considerable.

[pyro-manic]

Cruise is actually getting better, if that makes any sense. Some recent roles have been pretty good (Minority Report, WOTW, Collateral, etc). He'll never be a Penn, but he's not as awful as he was.

And I second Sandwich - the big screen does add a lot to the effect.

[mikhael]

Yeah. When a tripod pops its bulk over the hill and looks down on the flood of humanity racing for the ferry, I got that cold shiver usually reserved for when you find out that large, rabid mastiff you've been taunting just out of the reach of its leash isn't really leashed down.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Wild Fragaria
I heard that film was very well done.  Pity that Cruise was in the film.  That just never motivate me enough to go watch it at the theater.  I might watch it on DVD later if someone happenes to play it while I am around.

Trust me. If you only see one film on the big screen this year. Make it this one.

[MicroPsycho]

aside from the special effects, which were godly, I didn't think the movie was that great, too much Tom Cruise running around and not enough military vs. tripods stuff. But yeah, well worth seeing on the big screen if only for the special effects.

[pyro-manic]

But the film wasn't about the military. It was about Cruise and his kids trying to survive.

[Braxis]

I give a 3 from 5.

The storyline is quite ****ty.
I mean...
what kind of jerk would prepare a world-wide invasion without checking if they troops would get sick? (Bush is not a valid answer)
There are too many jokes and cliches in the movie that breaks the tension. (something i didn't liked)

On the other side, it was quite good to see how the humans woulds react on such situations. (specially when they fought for the car)