[Ransom]

It was bloody awesome.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Turnsky


wait, jeff wayne's making a CGI version?!
 Supply me with a link....NOW!

There's some info here but I'm trying to find the test footage of the martian walker that I've seen.

EDIT : Found it. Martian Walker in action

EDIT 2 : Here's one of the martian flying vessels that sprayed the black smoke.

(Before people start saying that there weren't any flying vessels in the H.G. Wells book there were. They just didn't start appearing until much later the first one is seen just after the Thunderchild sinks).

[Ford Prefect]

EDIT : Found it. Martian Walker in action

I thought the walkers in the Spielberg film were much better than that.

[karajorma]

Haven't seen the spielberg film but these are much closer to the books vision of what the Martians were like. Remember that although the Martians were tough then a modern army could probably wipe them out without too much of a problem. They might take casualties but they'd win.

[achtung]

Originally posted by karajorma


EDIT : Found it. Martian Walker in action

EDIT 2 : Here's one of the martian flying vessels that sprayed the black smoke.

Those are great but for some reason they just don't look alien enough to me.  They need to be more tentacle like, that would make it look great.

[Stealth]

i thought it was a pretty good movie :nods:

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma


There's some info here but I'm trying to find the test footage of the martian walker that I've seen.

EDIT : Found it. Martian Walker in action

EDIT 2 : Here's one of the martian flying vessels that sprayed the black smoke.

Cool.  I love that sort of jerky-fluid animation.

[karajorma]

Me too. I love the way that they've done the walker.

The only question I really have is whether Jeff is writing new music for the film or not. Part of me really wants it but part of me also feels it would be wrong to not at least start the movie with Eve Of The War

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Swantz


Those are great but for some reason they just don't look alien enough to me.  They need to be more tentacle like, that would make it look great.

I think the inspiration is insectoid / victorian-era 'steampunk' style.

[vyper]

That CGI one looks cool.

[Kie99]

OK, I liked most of the film BUT:

Spoiler:

I've never seen  more of a Deus Ex Machina ending.

[Ford Prefect]

Uhhhh, you're going to have to take that up with H.G. Wells then, because that's the way the story goes.

[Kie99]

Yeah, I know, still hated it though.

[Ransom]

I thought the ending was good,

Spoiler:

purely because it wasn't the humans who defeated them, which is what usually happens in these kinda stories.

[achtung]

You have to earn your right to be here, I like that.

[mikhael]

Wow.

I just saw it. Wow. I was expecting crap and this movie shines.

The machines were incredible. They were terrifying. I felt through the whole movie that we as a race were simply doomed. When the first tripod lifted up out of the earth and started laying the smack down, I was hooked. Five damn stars.

Two things, only peripherally related: First one is the King Kong trailer. Best King Kong EVAR. That movie looks SWEET.

The second thing is sort of spoilerish, so I'm going to hide it.

Spoiler:

Did anyone else notice the Martians were almost soft-bodied cousins of the Shivans?

Too bloody awesome.

This movie rocked. Go watch it.

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by mikhael

Spoiler:

Did anyone else notice the Martians were almost soft-bodied cousins of the Shivans?

[/B]

that was the exact same thing I thought, if only they wouldn't have been given humanoid heads they would have been perfict.

[mikhael]

Good point. Especially given the original movie version: they had decidely nonhumanoid heads. Heads that could have inspired, well, certain things.

[übermetroid]

Good movie, but I think the ending was weak.  It needed more.  More of something.

And why was Boston not harmed?

[Janos]

God damn I hated Rachel. She was so ****ing annoying. GOD DAMNIT KILL RACHEL