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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Feb 16, 2005 2:53:10 GMT
Yeah cause all Spielberg makes is patriotic cornball eye candy innit? I was well jolly after seeing Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan and all that wonderful upbeat slapstick sight gags in Minority Report. I think cornball [ or should I say corny balls up ] might well be spot on for Spielbergs upcoming Tom Cruise ego fest.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 16, 2005 2:56:00 GMT
i prefer the term 'corn and cheese casserole'
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Post by theheatray on Feb 16, 2005 3:24:14 GMT
i prefer the term 'corn and cheese casserole' I hope it isnt a 'corn and cheese casserole', I cant see it being like that truthfully, but then im not a natural cynic (apart from politics and religion) but I would have liked something more than a PG13, collateral was a 15 and that was about as shocking as eastenders. So it wont be as scary as they are making out but I dont think it will be a 'corn and cheese casserole', I hope.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 16, 2005 3:28:47 GMT
i happen to like corn and cheese casserole! ;D but it could have been prime rib
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Post by lanceradvanced on Feb 16, 2005 4:30:47 GMT
You simply cannot say by some martian miracle all our weapons simply disappear or become inoperable Sure you can, it's called a -plot device- There's no reason to assume that whoever writes the story won't upgrade the martians to match the human advances, just adding a lot -more- martians, would make it a lot tougher, in 1900, there were only 60 of em, If the martian weapons and sensors, got nastier, more accurate, and not even by much, we'd have a really hard go at it. RPGs can be shot down by heatrays, or the troops with them attacked before they get a chance to fire. ammo dumps destroyed by flying machines or bombarded with Black Smoke, they'd only be "hit from all sides" if the RPG's were distributed ahead of time to all sides, and that's if we don't have to worry about the possibility of killing -millions- of our own guys, trying to get them. And our society is even -more- dependant on the flow of resources, than 1900's England was.. power and communications cut, roads wrecked, no food, no gas, no power moving to the effected areas.. We -can- be hamstrung, we do it to ourselves by accident from time to time, and the Martians did it -delibrately- when they advanced on London. And then there's allways the question of -where- they hit, they don't -have- to come down where we conveintly have troops handy to fight em.
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Post by Topaz on Feb 16, 2005 6:31:48 GMT
While I always picture the FMs from the book moving swiftly, but... smoothly, for want of a better term, I can see 'modern' Martian machines for the Paramount movie making 'snap' shots, whipping the Heat-Ray around to aim quickly at incoming missles, planes, etc.
Makes them seem all the more aggressive, actually.
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Post by Necronmaniac on Feb 16, 2005 10:01:28 GMT
I also like the idea of the FM's being more agile and faster, makes them all the more scary.
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Post by RustiSwordz on Feb 16, 2005 12:46:06 GMT
I agreen with the above too. id like to see them 'clamber' over stuff like being able to scale destroyed buildings and such because of their manoverabillity.
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Post by phillev on Feb 16, 2005 14:23:43 GMT
Going a bit o/t here but do you think the heatray will be on a rotating mechanism similar to the gun fitted on the Apache gunship otherwise it can only fire straight ahead surely it would be better on a rotating turret....Just a thought.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 16, 2005 14:26:40 GMT
i want them to be maneuverable, but not to the extent of say, a spider. after all they're 100 feet tall. when a thing increases in size, its rate of accelleration increases with its speed if you're going to have it move extremely nimbly... we wouldn't want the 'aliens' to be splattered inside the hood of their machines.
i wonder if the SS camp is gonna release any tripod footage, i'll be irked if they don't give us at least SOME idea of what they look like before the movie comes out.
oh and phillev... i'm HOPING that the heat ray will be either attached to a prehensile tentacle or an articulate arm of some type. having it mounted directly to the body would be far less interesting
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Post by phillev on Feb 16, 2005 14:41:56 GMT
Agreed malf I can't wait to see what the Tripods look like and to see them in action but I have a feeling Mr S is going to keep them under wraps .
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Post by theheatray on Feb 16, 2005 14:44:48 GMT
Yes malfuntion I agree totaly with that, a tantacle mounted heatray would be scary and flexable.
That was my only bone of contention with Jeff Waynes album fighting machine was that the heatray just looked like it was squerting tomato soup through a straw. The heatray just stuck out the front with out any flexability, so now they have to animate the fighting machine to turn in the direction it wants to fire.
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Post by Topaz on Feb 16, 2005 18:59:55 GMT
i want them to be maneuverable, but not to the extent of say, a spider. after all they're 100 feet tall. when a thing increases in size, its rate of accelleration increases with its speed if you're going to have it move extremely nimbly... we wouldn't want the 'aliens' to be splattered inside the hood of their machines. i wonder if the SS camp is gonna release any tripod footage, i'll be irked if they don't give us at least SOME idea of what they look like before the movie comes out. I was just thinking of the arms and tentacles being really quick: snap over to aim at the target, shoot!, snap over to the next target... As for getting a view of the machines prior to release of the movie, I wish for that too, but if previous filmmaking history is an example, we'll be lucky to see a leg or a foot. Studios don't seem to like to 'give away the goods' without us having to buy a ticket. Recall my post about what my coworkers and myself went through with SW Episode I. They didn't want anything leaking out!
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Post by theheatray on Feb 16, 2005 20:47:43 GMT
Could you tell which way the design was going from the pictures of the martian baskets? I never got to see those so I dont know.
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ClaytonForrester
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This kind of defense is useless against THAT kind of power!
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Post by ClaytonForrester on Feb 20, 2005 0:06:44 GMT
Face it guys!SS and TC are a couple of arrogant bastards,who think just because they bought the rights to the story,they can trash it in any way they please.I for one will NOT be going to see it,and I WILL go see the Pendragon version,Not because it has money or names attached to it but because it ,unlike it's American cousin,has some literary and creative integrity behind it. Also ,I detect a sound note of sincerity to Wells' intended mood and flavor of the work.Poor ,but Proud.
ClaytonForrester. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Cylinder on Feb 20, 2005 1:10:40 GMT
RAVINGS OF A MADMAN
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Post by I own a cylinder on Feb 20, 2005 3:21:25 GMT
Face it guys!SS and TC are a couple of arrogant bastards,who think just because they bought the rights to the story,they can trash it in any way they please.I for one will NOT be going to see it,and I WILL go see the Pendragon version,Not because it has money or names attached to it but because it ,unlike it's American cousin,has some literary and creative integrity behind it. :-/Ravings maybe. But a good one. I'm sorry but to me (and that extends no further than me) this movie has seemed like nothing else but an Ego boost to SS and TC. They have jack sh*t respect for the story. They have only respect for the little radio broadcast Orson Welles did that made the state of New York and note 'New Jersey', wet themselves. Look out for the sign posts to Grovers Mill in the movie. They WILL be their somewhere. WOTW exists only in that form to Americans.
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Post by Topaz on Feb 20, 2005 5:55:54 GMT
... I for one will NOT be going to see it,and I WILL go see the Pendragon version,Not because it has money or names attached to it but because it ,unlike it's American cousin,has some literary and creative integrity behind it. Also ,I detect a sound note of sincerity to Wells' intended mood and flavor of the work.Poor ,but Proud. Ummm, Clayton? The Pendragon production is American as well. Last time I checked, Seattle was still part of the State of Washington.
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Post by themotile on Feb 20, 2005 12:30:55 GMT
I WILL go see the Pendragon version,Not because it has money or names attached to it but because it ,unlike it's American cousin,has some literary and creative integrity behind it. Also ,I detect a sound note of sincerity to Wells' intended mood and flavor of the work.Poor ,but Proud. ClaytonForrester. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Err...I dont think your going to see it here anytime soon...
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Post by dudalb on Feb 21, 2005 20:02:10 GMT
Clayton Forrester = Troll. And not a smart one at that.
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