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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 24, 2006 19:36:30 GMT
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Post by Killraven on Sept 24, 2006 19:59:07 GMT
Well that's my evening sorted then! ;D:D Actually I think I'll have to tape it as I've a birthday party to go to... Cheers Rusti KR |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 24, 2006 20:07:41 GMT
 anytime |
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Post by theredweed on Sept 24, 2006 21:41:42 GMT
yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes
"I think he may be happy"
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Post by Stewymartian on Sept 24, 2006 22:58:58 GMT
I'll have to try and resurrect the old VCR, it clashes with my other half's CSI habit.
cheers for the heads up Rusti!
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Post by Luperis on Sept 25, 2006 21:32:26 GMT
That sounds cool. Now I need to find a TV... |
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Sept 25, 2006 21:49:36 GMT
Great, I was wondering when it would be on.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Sept 25, 2006 21:50:23 GMT
That sounds cool. Now I need to find a TV... That might help! ;D |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 30, 2006 20:16:16 GMT
Well i can see where this programme is going in the first 5 mins of the show. Instead on focusing on the mans genius they are concentrating on sex, sex, sex, sex, sex. BORING!
The man is a giant among minnows and the makers have taken the sesationalist route. How bloody typical.
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Post by David Faltskog on Sept 30, 2006 20:17:45 GMT
Sounds nothing like Mr Wells either  D.F. |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 30, 2006 20:22:40 GMT
Christalmighty its turning into lady chatterlys Lover!
WHERE ARE THE VISIONS OF TRIPODS, no the only tripods the makers have got is in their trousers.
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Post by David Faltskog on Sept 30, 2006 20:27:08 GMT
It's a BONK-A-THON!! The randy old git! D.F. |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 30, 2006 20:27:59 GMT
Nah i turned it off befor i boot the feking screen. Got quizmania on instead. |
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Post by David Faltskog on Sept 30, 2006 20:29:50 GMT
Well he's just mentioned Mars so i would.nt give up on it yet!
D.F.
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 30, 2006 20:36:06 GMT
they just got to concentrate on sex althe time in shows. Sex in a show is nothing but a clear indicator that they dont have enough material to work with.
Want sex on TV, hire a porno.
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Post by David Faltskog on Sept 30, 2006 21:16:19 GMT
What a yawn  not one sight of a Tripod even though the book and the Martians have been mentioned a few times  D.F. |
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Post by RustiSwordz on Sept 30, 2006 21:18:54 GMT
was it me or did all the press surrounding the show say that there would be SFX and CGI illustrating his visions. Not seen ONE yet. More spin and lies to get the Wells fans to watch the show i dare say.
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Post by David Faltskog on Sept 30, 2006 21:41:04 GMT
You must have dreamt that! ;D What a waste of time that was D.F. |
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Post by theredweed on Sept 30, 2006 22:22:58 GMT
The thingy on BBC four after the prog was good, loads of people talking about wellseseses life in the sense of his work. BTW is Johnathan Ross on this forum, cos his title was "H.G Wells Fan"
Also showed some of the storyboards of Haussens War of the worlds and not just the little animation of the martian emerging from the cylinder, but other shots too.
Anyone else see it??
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Sept 30, 2006 23:22:52 GMT
I totally disagree with most of the views here. I thought it was very good, superbly filmed, atmospheric, and with strong performances, especially that of Michael Sheen as Wells. If you want discussions of his work, there are now loads of documentaries available (and yes, some with nice CGI Martians), but it was great to see a film looking at him as a person, not just the writer.
Rusti complains that it was typical media tosh concentrating on sex; sensationalist rubbish - but Wells's life was sensational! His views about free love, to say nothing of his others opinions, scandalised society. This is very easy to forget in these free and easy times, when the media is wall-to-wall sex - but HG's life was wall-to-wall sex. Given how central sex was to his life, to have avoided it would have presented a passionless, neutered picture of the man.
I especially liked the interplay it showed with other writers such as James and Shaw. It's all too easy now to just see Wells as the pioneering sf writer, forgetting that he was above all a social and political writer who was held in the same high regard as such greats as GBS.
It was also interesting to see the way his thought changed over the years, for example, from his relatively youthful belief in the elite samurai and his heartless advocacy of the elimination of the unfit, to his later disavowal of that view; there's a wonderful scene where Maxim Gorky compares Wells's earlier views of the unfit going under to the policies of the Fascists, and Wells replies, "I was young then, an ignorant gardener throwing down seeds for tyrants."
And there's other stuff there for the casual viewer to ponder. Wells's initial support for the Great War, and hard work for the propaganda ministry, which metmorphoses into horror after he visits the Front and sees what the War really means; the disgust of the ministry official as he listens, in mute anger at first, to Wells's proposals for a World State and the abolition of empires and monarchies, which provokes him to spit at Wells, "God damn it, man, this isn't f*cking Mars!" is a joy to watch.
And Wells's proposals for a World Encyclopaedia (which I think he also referred to as a World Brain), a concentration of all mankind's knowldege through technological means, is explicitly compared to the internet.
All in all, a refreshing film.
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;D 
anytime
not one sight of a Tripod even though the book and the Martians have been mentioned a few times 
