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Post by Zoë on Apr 1, 2005 9:34:07 GMT
Ok well I know some of you might not get scared of it now, but you cant deny that it didnt scare you at one point, sooo there has been a 'which part are you looking forward to', now its time for 'which part u think will scare you'. For me i think itl be: when the journalist and the parson are in the house and the paragraph starts 'the curious eye of a martian appeard at the window slit... and so on' I can just tell that that image alone will scare me. I can actually imagine it now...
I think that might be it, but also when they 1st see the martian coming out of the cylinder.. that was the part i used to have to turn it off at.
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Post by djmatt82 on Apr 1, 2005 11:20:44 GMT
mine asways has been the curate......creepy mad man.
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Post by epicdream on Apr 1, 2005 18:25:04 GMT
[glow=green,2,300]Erm... all of it!? ;D If JW manages to create the same atmosphere he has with the pictures, into a film, then it I will have to take some spare undies with me to the flicks... Dead london... 'nuff said! [/glow]
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Post by Stewymartian on Apr 1, 2005 19:40:47 GMT
I shall be on Valium for the entire film, and probably for at least a week afterwards.
The part after the Thunderchild is sunk is one of my most fear inducing moments, with the sky full of cylinders and the terrible sound of Martians and their machinary.
And, or course the entire ruined house section of the story.
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Post by Peter on Apr 2, 2005 12:52:35 GMT
All of it... My parents had the Jeff Wayne LP, and I listened to it (and looked at the art book) when I was about 7 years old.
I had nightmares of those bloody war machines for years - and it wasn't helped by the hauting sound of David Essex's Ulla! There was just something about the war machines that was just frightening. I'm not sure if it was the size of them, or the hugh glowing green eyes.
I must confess that whilst very young and growing up, when it was pitch black outside, there sometimes used to be a glow outside. My overactive imagination used to manage to convince itself that there was a war machine or handling machine doing down our victorian street and looking through the windows...
I didn't listen to it again until I was about 16, and was brave enough to look at the artwork again. Since then, I thought the album and artwork was sheer brilliance.
Having seen the test animations, I can say that the machines (all three) look scary. At least I'm not having nightmares about it this time around (at nearly 30 years old!)
I think seeing it all, in an animation, might be a bit un-nerving but I'll happily go to the cinema to see it. I can see it having a 15 rating.
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Post by the Donal on Apr 4, 2005 12:34:14 GMT
I think the lid unscrewing will be pretty creepy- I haven't played the game and therefore haven't seen any rendering of this 'cept on the '53 movie. The whole Horsell emergence of the martians should be pretty gripping and dramatic...
Also, the bit in the ruined house- the fear of being seen/caught. This could be terrifying if scripted right. It will be interesting to see how the painting will fit in here- if they'll use this for a quick look at the Parson's vision/delusion. It would make a nice moving shot of the line of tripods passing the man with upturned cross, one turning to look at him just as the image fades.
Oooooh! Thank Gods I'm writing this in daylight!!
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Post by JonT on Apr 5, 2005 21:04:22 GMT
the part that will probably freak me out is the opening of the cylinder and the first sight of the martian. that bit always scared me and i had many nightmares about it.
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Post by beecus on Apr 9, 2005 1:50:02 GMT
I have to admit being terrified the first time I heard it lol ;D
I was alone in the house, sick in bed and off school. My dad says ''here, listen to this'' and gives me a pair of headphones and leaves.
Scared the willies out of me and I had to stop listening lol
I read the book years after and the images it projects are just chilling, like some sort of primeval horror inside me.
The whole story scares me lol but the one scene that would take the cake would have to be the broken house, with the tenticle shuffling around in the dark, touching the narrator's foot and 'click' it snaps shut.
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Post by wingnut268 on Apr 9, 2005 13:16:31 GMT
It's hard to say, but if it's done right the part where the curate and the artillaryman are sitting drinking and playing cards, all the time the tripods are moving around in the distant night..... strange but that seems to be one of thoughs look behind you moments...
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Post by MikeH on Apr 12, 2005 14:09:28 GMT
I assume you mean the narrator But I know what you mean, I can see that being a pretty powerful image of the martians in the darkness. The pit stuff will no doubt be pretty scary aswell, also the scenes where the fighting machines are generally chasing the crowds around
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Post by BiG_ReD on Apr 17, 2005 23:23:49 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Definately the part when the Journalist is moving along the road to Weybridge with the Artilleryman, during the storm, and the first FM appears during all the thunder and lightning. Just the fact that they couldn't see the damned thing until it was right on top of them, and that part with the whole "deafening howl which roared like thunder,"Those words scare the bejesus out of me every time! Hmm... FM eyes glowing in the dark don't help either, so probably all those bits as well.[/glow]
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Post by bittersound on Apr 18, 2005 9:07:02 GMT
well if the movie is anything like the musical version then i'll be pretty much p1ssing my pants to the whole thing
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Post by the Donal on Apr 18, 2005 12:40:17 GMT
Yeah, but you do that for kicks anyway! ;D
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Post by bittersound on Apr 22, 2005 12:06:40 GMT
Yeah, but you do that for kicks anyway! ;D only when i'm slamming your **** in the fridge door, darling...
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Post by the Donal on Apr 22, 2005 12:48:25 GMT
;D And that's when I'm too drunk to do it myself!
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 22, 2005 12:53:28 GMT
Remind us not to have a drink from your fridge.
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Post by the Donal on Apr 22, 2005 13:04:37 GMT
Yeah- they won't be very cold. I'm fast wearing a lardge notch in the side of the door. The neighbours keep complaining they hear a slamming sound and a hysterical voice shouting "FEEL SOMETHING!" over and over again. personal note- must get my head looked at.
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Post by CrazyIan on Apr 23, 2005 1:12:10 GMT
The first time you hear 'Ulla!', that always got me..
But the bit that always sends a shiver down my spine (With pride) is: "Between them lay the silent, grey Ironclad: THUNDER-CHILD!"
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Post by neozeed on Apr 26, 2005 1:16:40 GMT
Thats easy... "now and again a light, like a beam of a warship's searchlight, swept the common - and the Heat Ray was ready to follow.". Although I think the best/saddest music is the Dead London part.... I always get the chills from that one.
I lived behind an airport, and the searchlights would occasionally shine in my room.. I dont think I slept that much as a child in that house.
Although in retrospect, I absolutly loved the artwork, and the whole Jeff Wayne experence, even though I was terrorfied of it... Kinda like a rollercoaster!
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Post by artillerymanfan on Apr 28, 2005 23:24:51 GMT
Probably the first cylinder landing and the lid unscrewing and the martian first appearing. It'll look repulsive, eerie, and make that horrible shriek when it falls into pit. I live by an airport and constantly see planes fly by window in bed at night. So I constantly think, OMG its a UFO! What a creepy childhood.
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