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Post by djmatt82 on Jul 7, 2005 12:01:12 GMT
Their heads looked too much like the ID4 aliens, i think should have been a bit more otto, should have had the hand on the shoulder moment too. However, i did like the fact that they had 3 legs, they were like tripod aliens, which explained their reasoning for the tripod design.
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Post by theredweed on Jul 7, 2005 12:08:42 GMT
The George Pal aliens had three legs too. I did think their head were ID4 too, I also thought they looked like the had spine problems.
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Post by Tripod on Jul 7, 2005 12:09:19 GMT
The Fighting Machines already looked like Otto, it would have been a bit to much if the Aliens looked like him too. But I liked them they were absolutely better than the ID4 aliens. They behaved like teenagers, at least that's what came to my mind first. You know when one of them spins the wheel of a bike and it comes down. At first the alien is freaked out and then he becomes irritated and pushes the bike roughly away. I loved that scene.
Tripod
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Post by djmatt82 on Jul 7, 2005 12:12:19 GMT
oh yeah for sure, but the head still looked a bit ID4
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Post by Thunder Child on Jul 8, 2005 20:44:46 GMT
What the hell? I have not yet seen the movie, but do the aliens themselves have 3 legs instead of tentacles??? Johan
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Post by Marcus on Jul 8, 2005 21:43:53 GMT
Yes. Three legs instead of tenticles.
Apparently they designed the Tripods after themselfs... because, ya know, we have wheels instead of feet and thats where cars came from.
Their terrible aliens.
Worst thing in the film.
I hate that every film version has taken the 'three' Tripod legs to the extremme.
Like, I get the '53 film. It actually made sense that the aliens would design the eye etc after them, and the legs wernt seen much, and with flying machines it wasnt as though they had based their technology on themselfs. But with these its clear that the tripods are based on their own bodies. And while I have no problem with that, compared to Wells Martians their abysmal.
And its poor logic to have them with three legs, just because there machines do. Its like - have we ever built a car with two feet? No.
So why do the aliens base their technology on themselfs?
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Post by draggedaway on Jul 8, 2005 23:18:14 GMT
I didnt have a problem with the three legs, anything with 3 legs looks weird because nothing in nature has exactly 3 of anything but the faces made them look about as threatening and evil as a 1 week old Yorkshire Terrier. The ID4 aliens actually looked nastier. As for why they would have machines with three legs like themselves, I don`t know, maybe they can drive them without a full licence like we can with 3-wheelers and the ones that came down to earth had failed the test five times and it was doing their heads in. Maybe if you pass the test you get an AT-AT.
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Post by Marcus on Jul 9, 2005 2:27:07 GMT
-LOL-. And your learner vehicle is an AT-ST?
I didnt mind that the Tripods had three legs, just I thought the aliens would've been better being full Wellsian, instead of having the three legs, which just seemed to be an attempt to tie them into, visually, the Tripods.
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Post by ben on Jul 9, 2005 14:32:58 GMT
I think the aliens worked fairly well. I found my reaction to them was interesting. I wasnt overly scared of the aliens, but all the time i was very conscious of the tripod standing unseen over the house. In a way thats similar to humans and our war machines.
It`s all too easy to try to get fear from the aliens themselves, but spielburg was, i feel, wise to keep the fear from the situation as a whole...ie the fear of being discovered and then spiked to death by tripod tentacle skewers.
Partly the seeming vulnerability of the aliens when they do appear is to highlight just how easy it would be for ogilvy to blow them away.
Again, the power of the tripods compared to the apparent weakness of the aliens illustrates how reliant the creatures are on their technology. It makes the situation all the more horrific when you consider that, without the technological difference between us and them, we`d be able to club them to death with baseball bats. As it is, some fancy toys have rendered us no better than cows to them.
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Post by Gnorn on Jul 9, 2005 14:38:56 GMT
The aliens where laughable! First the three legs, ofcourse, and then their looks. Awefull design. And the way the acted in that basement, it was like watching monkeys at the zoo. And not scary at all. And the one dying in the end, coughing up saliva... LMFAO!
*ends rant*
-Gnorn
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Post by ben on Jul 9, 2005 14:42:38 GMT
Gnorn, you must have really hated this film. Every post i`ve read from you makes it sound like the worst thing ever.
Have you seen "Battlefield Earth"?
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Post by Gnorn on Jul 9, 2005 14:46:28 GMT
No, I haven't seen it, and I guess I must be glad I didn't? Yes, I hate this movie. Well, I better stop posting in this thread, and let all of you who did enjoy it, discus it. Enjoy, and see you all in the other threads!
-Gnorn
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Post by Marcus on Jul 9, 2005 18:19:14 GMT
And with good reason he hated it!
Not the worst film ever, but one of the worst alien invasion films ever.
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Post by Trivet on Jul 9, 2005 19:47:46 GMT
The whole basement scene felt like a rehash of the Rapter/Kitchen scene from Jurassic Park. The Aliens were very disapointing, they looked like baby versions of Pilot from Farscape. I didn't expect them to be scarey but someting "Alien" looking would have been nice, the Pal Martian is still far more effective. Speaking of which the design of Pal martian doesn't have three legs but has a skirt of six tenticles to hide the operator, you can just about make them out on screen and there was a behind the scenes photo published in a Starlog issue a couple of years ago showing the creature under construction, not sure of the issue number.
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Post by Lensman on Jul 9, 2005 20:00:03 GMT
Pal used the idea of "threes everywhere" much, MUCH more than this movie did. Pal's Martians had 3 arms, each of which had 3 fingers; the eyes had 3 lobes; the flying machines had 3 repulsor rays they supported themselves on (replacing the Tripods' 3 legs); the machines swept out triangles of conquest... there are probably more "threes" in the film I've forgotten.
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Post by Chris on Jul 9, 2005 20:09:18 GMT
Oh so Speilbergs aliens are too terrestrial now? :rolleyes:
Why shouldn't aliens base their tripods on themselves? You automatically assume that because we built vehicles with wheels that they would do that too? This is all part of what makes them A L I E N S. They don't think like we do. Basic things that we take for granted like logic do not apply to them. You complain that the aliens arn't 'alien' enough when you yourselves are applying HUMAN principles to them... irony?
Wells' martians were hardly scary either. Oooo no, a big drooling blob with tentacles that can't move around very well in our atmosphere.... oooo the horror. Wells' martians may have been grotesque but they don't strike me as something SCARY looking.... they were practically invalids without their machines.
I swear people just hate on this film for the sake of hating.
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Post by Marcus on Jul 9, 2005 20:22:51 GMT
I never argueed that they wouldnt. Im just saying that giving this as a sole for reason for changing them from Wells' description is a poor reason on its own.
And please, dont assume my reasons for hating the film are anything more than the fact its not a very good film.
Besides, I could say this;
I swear some people like this film just for the sake of loving it.
And its just as strong as an arguement to your narrow view on others thoughts.
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Post by D.A.V.E on Jul 10, 2005 0:56:09 GMT
I have to agree, the aliens were a bit pants. We have the ominous and terrifying looking tripods that savagely incinerate people and buildings with their extra-terrestial heat-ray, only for the pilots to look like they belong in one of those annoying games you get, with the mechanical claw trying to grab the cute and cuddly toy. I think it would have been better, if we only saw glimpses of the aliens - nothing full - just enough to up the tension.
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Post by Stormdragon666 on Jul 10, 2005 10:32:00 GMT
The aliens where laughable! First the three legs, ofcourse, and then their looks. Awefull design. And the way the acted in that basement, it was like watching monkeys at the zoo. And not scary at all. And the one dying in the end, coughing up saliva... LMFAO! *ends rant* -Gnorn At first i thought he would flip the finger at the humans before taking his last breath. hehehehe. The face of the thing kind off reminded me of my 1 year old nephew when he just wakes up. My sister even went: awe aint them martians cute?
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Post by sunnyrabbiera on Jul 10, 2005 13:58:23 GMT
the worst part about the aliens is that they never popped out of peoples chests
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