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Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 16, 2006 0:07:48 GMT
I was looking on some web sites when I found this still on Pendgrons' film. What is it?  It doesn't look like the Martians so what can it be?  |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Mar 16, 2006 0:14:02 GMT
It's from their initial, aborted, production set in present-day Seattle. It's an animatronic Martian. They scrapped it when they started over again with their 'faithful' version.
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Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 16, 2006 0:20:11 GMT
Ok thanks. Did they scrap it for better or for worse do you think? |
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Mar 16, 2006 1:45:48 GMT
Worse.
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Post by FALLINGSTAR on Mar 16, 2006 2:47:01 GMT
I think they've been 'worse' right from the start - even before their so called faithful version. A load of B.S. artists.
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Post by Thunder Child on Mar 16, 2006 23:22:57 GMT
I had great expectations for this movie. But it is clear that TWOTW can not be filmed on a small budget. But I have to say that I do like the PP movie for what it is...
Johan
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Post by Lensman on Mar 17, 2006 8:49:58 GMT
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone (other than a Hines shill) who doesn't think the animatronic Martian from the original, pre-9/11 production looks loads better than the CGI version from the actual movie.  |
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Mar 17, 2006 10:24:01 GMT
Indubitably.
I remember, when I were a lad, back in the mists of time... *dissolve to sepia-toned image of small boy sitting on grandad's knee; Dvorak's 'New World Symphony' plays in the background, a la the Hovis ads* ...when Pendragginitsarse first announced WOTW and they had a load of pre-prod artwork etc. on their site, including that Martian. Some people criticised it for not following the book's descriptions closely enough, but I always quite liked it. No-one would have believed in the first years of the twenty first century, however, that Hinesy Boy would have scrapped a perfectly serviceable animatronic puppet in favour of a sub-Nintendo CGI boss-eyed tentacled turd...
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Post by Luperis on Mar 17, 2006 10:28:25 GMT
Some of the pre-production concept art on pendragon's site was quite cool... I think they had several different ideas for the marians up, some of which I quite liked, but none of which they used.
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Post by Lensman on Mar 19, 2006 8:35:49 GMT
Actually I thought the CGI Martians' eyes, as seen in extreme close-up on the second poster, were well executed and appropriately alien. But the animation of the movements of the CGI Martian as a whole was so minimal and poorly executed that it was in spots literally laughable.
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Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 19, 2006 8:49:54 GMT
I agree with Lensman about the eyes on the poster.
They are quite good as a still image but the animation wreaked it.
As for the Martians themselves, I think that they move too well on our planet and the gravitiy doesn't even come in to it (Pendragon seemed to have skipped this and completely left it out) and Pendragon seemed to have made their CGI Martians are too flat.
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Post by Chris Oakley on Mar 19, 2006 10:00:05 GMT
What is it? It doesn't look like the Martians so what can it be? Never mind what that is, what the hell is this?  |
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Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 19, 2006 10:06:04 GMT
Good point Chris.  |
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 19, 2006 10:10:29 GMT
Play Doe gone wrong
Closer inspection I do believe it to be Elton John and his hubby going to a costumn party. Elt's hubby is at the back (no suprise there) and Elt is at the front - where the fake horns are you can clearly see Elt's wig ;D
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Post by Commandingtripod on Mar 19, 2006 10:20:17 GMT
Or, or it could just be - *gasp* - a movie gone wrong.........
I would ask the company but............I can't be bothered.
Perhaps they'd think I'm an adoring fan and send me out a copy of the DVD?
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Post by Lensman on Mar 20, 2006 20:07:00 GMT
Let me quote from my FAQ. Comments, corrections and/or brickbats are invited:
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D4. What was that "beast" which looked vaguely like a cow the Martians were draining of blood?
We believe this was intended to represent a Martian "cow". In Wells' novel the Martians brought "bipeds" with them to feed on during the journey, and the bodies of some were found in the aftermath. Perhaps the film-makers thought the cow-like shape would make this more obvious than showing one of the bipedal "cattle".
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Post by RustiSwordz on Mar 21, 2006 14:45:33 GMT
the origonal picture is Anthony Piana without his stick on hairy caterpillar.
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Post by mctoddridesagain on Mar 21, 2006 15:53:02 GMT
But isn't the thing dangling underneath his hairy caterpillar?
Wait, I'll rephrase that...
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Post by Tripod Bait on Mar 21, 2006 16:33:22 GMT
But isn't the thing dangling underneath his hairy caterpillar? Wait, I'll rephrase that...  ;D |
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Post by Poyks on Mar 30, 2006 10:40:17 GMT
lmao! ;D
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