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Post by SpaceMonkey on Feb 20, 2005 14:11:29 GMT
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Post by maniacs on Feb 20, 2005 15:03:23 GMT
No need for cylanders then!
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Post by alabaster on Feb 20, 2005 15:33:49 GMT
Now it's Sliders: The Movie!
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Post by I own a cylinder on Feb 20, 2005 15:43:16 GMT
:oWhat the hell is that bull sh*t Good God i hope not. Attention Spielberg. You DARE do that and you'll find a full on invasion aimed at you!! In other Words, AN ARSE KICKING TO END ALL ARSE KICKINGS. Sorry. Over reaction ;D
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Post by Anthony on Feb 20, 2005 16:33:44 GMT
Thats a load of BS, it doesnt tell you anything really.
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Post by timeship2 on Feb 20, 2005 17:22:21 GMT
This comment really upset me in the comments section:
"Spielberg is a genius!" "Wells was a f**king idiot"
Yes of course, silly us, Spielberg is such a genius that he can't come up with his own original idea and has to base his movie on that 'idiot' HGWells who wrote war of the worlds!
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Post by Charles on Feb 20, 2005 17:32:57 GMT
Remember: Hollywood knows best!
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Post by I own a cylinder on Feb 20, 2005 17:33:14 GMT
This comment really upset me in the comments section: "Spielberg is a genius!" "Wells was a f**king idiot" Yes of course, silly us, Spielberg is such a genius that he can't come up with his own original idea and has to base his movie on that 'idiot' HGWells who wrote war of the worlds! Where was that said?? By who??
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Post by timeship2 on Feb 20, 2005 17:56:08 GMT
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 20, 2005 18:16:05 GMT
You gotta be ***king kidding me?!!!
Hope this is just someone trolling...
-Gnorn
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 20, 2005 18:19:32 GMT
ugh. more nausea. my worst fears being realized... yup, they should just climb up from their undergroud lairs since they're 'already here'. oh and to make it even more sci-fi-ish lets throw in the extra dimension thing.
i just can't wait till this movie is over and done with so i can say that i at least got a kick out of the FX.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 20, 2005 18:22:25 GMT
Hope Spielberg doesn't forget to put in the weird old bloke who for years has been warning people about the impending invasion, but nobody believed him.
-Gnorn
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Post by alabaster on Feb 20, 2005 18:25:06 GMT
Let's not get offended by the comments of AICN talkbackers. We must pity them, not scorn them, for they are an inherently lower form of life. Beasts that perish and all that...
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Post by themotile on Feb 20, 2005 18:34:03 GMT
Sounds like a bunch of horse sh1t to me.
(A) Koepp is just not that imaginative
(B) Spielberg has stressed that this is realistic and gritty, going so far that the martians arnt even martians. Alternate dimensions are just silly and you loose credability therfore rendering it unrealistic. Spielberg is a lot of things but he aint stupid.
As for the comments, fu*k 'em.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 20, 2005 18:38:03 GMT
Sounds like a bunch of horse sh1t to me. excatly what i've been thinking since they first announced it was gonna be modernized
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Post by Topaz on Feb 20, 2005 19:00:07 GMT
Attacked from a parallel dimension?
Oh, please no. Please, please, PLEASE, no!
This opens vast vistas of insipid "they're unsuited to our dimension" garbage for the ending. You know, the cliché that occurs in every pop-culture rendition of time/dimension travel. So instead of dying by disease, Poof! Aliens die or disappear from 'dimension allergy' in a crackling burst of electric arcs. Oh so "modern".
I think I'll be ill if that's the way they play it.
*hoping, praying, that report is incorrect*
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Post by themotile on Feb 20, 2005 19:29:33 GMT
Yeah im willing to bet money its just tripe.
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 20, 2005 19:41:20 GMT
if it turns out to be true, how does that affect your disposition towards the SS film motile?
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Post by themotile on Feb 20, 2005 21:18:05 GMT
Seriously? I may jump into your camp of "the FX might be worth the cinema ticket but the rest isnt worth the fluff from my arse crack", parallel dimension? Thats just crap and no amount of eye candy will stop it being a travesty.
But I firmly believe its not true.
If you consider the reason behind the decision to change the martians because "we want to keep it real and gritty and we know mars has no martians living on it" to go and use something even more ridiculous just contradicts that entirely.
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Post by Topaz on Feb 20, 2005 21:27:22 GMT
The trouble with a report like this is that:
1) It's totally unconfirmable.
2) It's exactly the sort of thing the movie industry generally does to a tale like TWOTW. LOTR was largely spared that kind of treatment, thank God.
I, for one, was amazingly disappointed at the most recent rendition of The Time Machine. Having read the book, I wondered if the screenwriter had. Wells' grandson was supposedly involved, but that didn't seem to make a difference. Only the major iconic characters/elements were there - otherwise, it was an entirely different story from the book. The entire point of the book had been subsumed in favor of the physical action possible. The Eloi were just tribespeople and the Morlocks were just monsters. The trouble (if you want to call it that) with TWOTW being done by one of the mainline, major studios is that they're prone to that kind of shredding of the story. All of the fears expressed here are possible, given their track record.
IMHO, the '53 movie actually kept a remarkable amount of the themes and overall story of the original book intact, however much they tweaked the details. The reasons for the Martian invasion, the major plot devices of the landings, machines, the attack on the major area metropolis, the exodus, etc., - and the ending was honest to the original book.
For me, I'm becoming afraid that the Paramount movie is the opposite of that: Many of the iconic images will be there, but the meaningful plot and storyline will be almost unrecognizable. Perhaps - and I hope - I'm wrong.
This is not to say it won't be an entertaining movie in its' own right. But the potential is there for the movie to be vastly disappointing to anyone who remotely considers themselves a purist - or maybe even a fan - of the original book.
That's my opinion. Your milage may vary.
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