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Post by HTT on Dec 8, 2005 13:22:40 GMT
Beavis: "Hey, don't shoot the chicks, you schlong!"
Butthead: "No way! Die! heh heh heh"
Beavis: "Like, I saw this dumbass movie vy Pendragon, and they got these chicks and started ripping their clothes off an' stuff"
Butthead: "Whoa! Cool! 'Take me to your hooters' heh heh"
Beavis: "huh huh My weiner's an anal probe huh huh"
<<Both do devil horn point and air guitar whilst chanting opening chords to Eve of the War"
Daria: "You guys are so lame"
Beavis: "Hit her with the black smoke dude"
Butthead: <farts>
Beavis: "huh huh huh That was cool huh huh"
Butthead: "Wait till you see my red weed heh heh heh"
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Post by Leatherhead on Mar 5, 2006 5:07:03 GMT
i don't know...shouldn't the tenticles surround the mouth? i always imagined them as having them in a circle around the mouth like in Wells desription.
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Post by krys666 on Mar 5, 2006 18:29:30 GMT
Beavis: "Hey, don't shoot the chicks, you schlong!" Butthead: "No way! Die! heh heh heh" Beavis: "Like, I saw this dumbass movie vy Pendragon, and they got these chicks and started ripping their clothes off an' stuff" Butthead: "Whoa! Cool! 'Take me to your hooters' heh heh" Beavis: "huh huh My weiner's an anal probe huh huh" <<Both do devil horn point and air guitar whilst chanting opening chords to Eve of the War" Daria: "You guys are so lame" Beavis: "Hit her with the black smoke dude" Butthead: <farts> Beavis: "huh huh huh That was cool huh huh" Butthead: "Wait till you see my red weed heh heh heh" ... Funny stuff!! |
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Post by the Donal on Mar 7, 2006 18:09:30 GMT
I Always imagined the tentacles to emerge from the main body- again not true to the text, but a little different from here. Something more octopus like.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Mar 14, 2006 19:52:43 GMT
I hope the Martians aren't shown too clearly as I think it would give them more of an air of mystery.
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Post by the Donal on Apr 25, 2006 14:45:15 GMT
I'd be curious to see if there's been any advance on the image we've seen- though I guess it may appear in the concert (just a few hours to go- oooOOOOOOooooooo!!!!)
This goes with all the concepts we've seen so far- they all look pretty solid, but it'd be interesting to see how things are going-like everyone's got time for sending us more appetisers!!!
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Post by Commandingtripod on Apr 26, 2006 7:21:52 GMT
Beavis: "Hey, don't shoot the chicks, you schlong!" Butthead: "No way! Die! heh heh heh" Beavis: "Like, I saw this dumbass movie vy Pendragon, and they got these chicks and started ripping their clothes off an' stuff" Butthead: "Whoa! Cool! 'Take me to your hooters' heh heh" Beavis: "huh huh My weiner's an anal probe huh huh" <<Both do devil horn point and air guitar whilst chanting opening chords to Eve of the War" Daria: "You guys are so lame" Beavis: "Hit her with the black smoke dude" Butthead: <farts> Beavis: "huh huh huh That was cool huh huh" Butthead: "Wait till you see my red weed heh heh heh" ... Funny stuff!! I reackon that Black Smoke is the by-product of Martians smoking red weed. |
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Apr 26, 2006 7:58:57 GMT
H_C imagines a sign stuck in the middle of the Red Weed which says "Don't Walk On The Red Weed - Smoke It!"
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Post by Commandingtripod on Apr 27, 2006 8:24:56 GMT
Ever wondered why passive smoking has been bad for your health?
Wells' shows us why in his book: WOTW!
Passive smoking has never been so dangerous before!
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Apr 27, 2006 17:12:27 GMT
Well it's got 2 large dark eyes by the looks of it, a rounded head, v shaped mouth with it's pointed upper lip [ as far as I can make out] and Gorgon groups of tentacles so it appears quite faithful to the books description. Thank god I've got a new monitor screen. I can actually make things out properly now. |
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Post by Commandingtripod on Apr 28, 2006 6:53:07 GMT
Well it's got 2 large dark eyes by the looks of it, a rounded head, v shaped mouth with it's pointed upper lip [ as far as I can make out] and Gorgon groups of tentacles so it appears quite faithful to the books description. Thank god I've got a new monitor screen. I can actually make things out properly now. LOL. That always helps. ;D |
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Post by Lensman on May 19, 2006 15:14:26 GMT
In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. --II-2
I could quibble about the eyes not being round-- "luminous disks"-- as Wells describes, but given the necessity of translating word to picture I think it's a remarkably good job of making the Martians look menacing and still remaining pretty close to canon.
I'm not so sure that isn't the best placement for the tentacles. If they are to ever "walk" on them, that arrangement will work much better than having them gathered tightly in bunches right at each side of the mouth.
Perhaps I shouldn't get my hopes up, considering what happened with the Pendragon production, but still I have a feeling that in another year or so we are *not* going to be moaning that WotW hasn't received a good period piece movie adaptation!
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Post by Lensman on May 19, 2006 15:35:45 GMT
I also dont like the way that the tenticles seem to come from underneath the body, like they are retractable. I think they should be more octopus like The tentacles look the way Wells described them, as thin and rope-like or whip-like. Wells did not describe the Martians as octopus-like. Remember the Martians had atrophied bodies, they didn't use their tentacles to walk around much, and when they did it was under only 4/10 of Earth's gravity. Besides, that picture shows them in a watery environment, suggesting they spent much or most of their time floating. If I had to live on a world with 2 1/2 times the gravity I was used to, I'd try to spend as much time as I could floating in water too! the tenticles seem <snip> way too weak to do anything like pilot a tripod. I don't understand why you'd say that. How much strength does it take for you to flip on a turn signal lever, or twist a knob on a dashboard? And Id just to say that this is the worst things weve seen from the movie so far, and that its the only bad thing. I'd be quite happy with this design for the Martians. It's the Jeff Wayne Tripod design I object to-- *nothing* like what Wells described. I like the human-like head shape, adds to Wells' suspisson that they were once like us. Hear, hear! You've hit it precisely. |
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Post by mightymandy2001 on Sept 20, 2006 16:38:41 GMT
hmmm it looks pretty awsome ^^. Cant wait to see the movie
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Post by Killraven on Sept 21, 2006 14:06:20 GMT
Remember the Martians had atrophied bodies, they didn't use their tentacles to walk around much, and when they did it was under only 4/10 of Earth's gravity. Besides, that picture shows them in a watery environment, suggesting they spent much or most of their time floating. If I had to live on a world with 2 1/2 times the gravity I was used to, I'd try to spend as much time as I could floating in water too! Quite the way I imagined them to be too. Very reminiscent of the design of the Rutans from Doctor Who [ref. "Horror of Fang Rock"] (except involving less bubble wrap and shiny paper ;D) LR |
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Post by motile2 on Oct 2, 2006 12:24:02 GMT
I don't like it's eye's. They are the eyes of a grey. The martians should have luminous disks not black almond shaped cliche's. And yes, it does look like Beavis.
Plus it's too green.
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Post by Killraven on Oct 2, 2006 14:32:32 GMT
Actually motile, if you look closely, the eyes aren't black - more like a translucent green. It's probably the shadow of the surroundings which is making them appear black in the image. I agree I would prefer the skin to appear less green and more an oily brown as described in the book  KR |
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Oct 2, 2006 15:54:23 GMT
It's been explained but the skin looks green because of the light of the inside of the ship/cylinder.
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Post by Killraven on Oct 2, 2006 18:27:44 GMT
It's been explained but the skin looks green because of the light of the inside of the ship/cylinder. Aha! As I thought! KR |
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Oct 2, 2006 18:47:48 GMT
It's been explained but the skin looks green because of the light of the inside of the ship/cylinder. Aha! As I thought! KR Mind you - this most probably isn't the finished design anyway [ that's if they're working on anything to do with a film ]. |
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