New War of the Worlds trailer..

[SylasGaunt]

Not the one I saw playing with Star Wars anyway.. looks spiffy to me.

LOTR Trailer music ahoy!

[Junghalli]

I wonder if the aliens still come from Mars or have they moved their planet of origin outside the solar system to be more in harmony with reality?

[Dalton]

What's that trailer music originally from? Was it created originally for LOTR?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I wonder if the aliens still come from Mars or have they moved their planet of origin outside the solar system to be more in harmony with reality?

They're still from Mars.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I don't know if the music is from LotR exclusively or just appeared in one of the trailers, but I have definately heard it somewhere before.

[VT-16]

Wasn´t it "Alternate dimension " Mars?

[Superman]

They should be from Mars. If they're doing a remake, at least get the fucking details right.

[dworkin]

What details?

19th century - bzzzzt
England - bzzzzt
Writer as protagonist - bzzzzt
Martians come from Mars - who cares now.

George Pal's version is a B grade classic. Independance Day was bloody awful in the way it shamelessly raped the story. Global Dispatches (short stories collection)? Good idea but very badly done by writers who should know better (Einstien as an action hero, wtf).

What is it about the founding father of all 'Alien invasion' stories that people just don't fucking get?

[DocHorror]

Hmmmm, that shows a little more of the film and, imo more of the seemingly huge flaws it has.

[Vympel]

It's from one of the very first LotR trailers made, I mean years ago now, when they had Peter Jackson sitting there talking about the movie, a small girl in an animatics suit, filming of the Nazgul chasing Liv Tyler, etc. It wasn't really a trailer ot teaser at all.

Don't know where it's originally from, though.

[VT-16]

Tom Cruise´s face plastered all over the camera? Check.
Sentimental claptrap from Spielberg? Check.
Adorable kid crying? Check.

Yup, think I´ll sit this one out if it´s got more of the above than any actual fighting or, you know, tripods.

[Zac Naloen]

I've wanted to know where that song is from for ages, if i just knew what it was called i'd be happy. Then i'd aquire it.

The film looks like its gonna be crap though.

[Vympel]

Tom Cruise´s face plastered all over the camera? Check.
Sentimental claptrap from Spielberg? Check.
Adorable kid crying? Check.

Yup, think I´ll sit this one out if it´s got more of the above than any actual fighting or, you know, tripods.

Good call.

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

It's "Gothic Power" by Christopher Field.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Tom Cruise´s face plastered all over the camera? Check.
Sentimental claptrap from Spielberg? Check.
Adorable kid crying? Check.

Yup, think I´ll sit this one out if it´s got more of the above than any actual fighting or, you know, tripods.

Ever read WotW? Maybe you'd realise that the focus ISN'T on the fighting of the war, but the struggle of one family trying to get away from the invasive forces.

But I bet a load will come in now saying the same crap. Go and play a damn videogame or watch the shit Michael Bay makes if you want purely action and no plot.

I, for one, am looking forward to this since they actually have the Martian walkers for a change and obviously kicking the shit out of our forces in style.

The music from the trailers is mixed. Some from that one if LotR, but there are pieces from Zimmer and Badelt from numerous movies (the very last segment sounded a bit like the final track in The Bourne Supremacy trailer).

Hmmmm, that shows a little more of the film and, imo more of the seemingly huge flaws it has.

These being?

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I for one actually am looking forward to this quite a bit.

And for the record, while the Pal version may be a classic B picture, I recently watched it and didn't really like it at all. Thought it was too short, too rushed, and too little actual substance.

[Shroom Man 777]

Wait...so lightning strikes the ground and the Tripods have been teleported underground...or something?

I look forward to this though. Explosions are always good.

[Admiral Valdemar]

The '50s version is certainly short, the end feels very rushed once the saucers start blasting LA (I loved the city council building blowing up like in ID4). But then when it was the darkest moment, they bloody die. I can only hope this new version is longer and shows more superweapons like Black Smoke and Red Weed. When they die off, I at least want our planet to appear like it got a bitchslapping.

Wait...so lightning strikes the ground and the Tripods have been teleported underground...or something?

I look forward to this though. Explosions are always good.

I still don't get that either. All I can imagine is that the cylinders are somehow able to get below ground via that storm (the storm has no thunder for some reason). In all the other versions, the cylinders came down conventionally as meteorites near enough, but I suppose they would be easier to track and then get rid of with modern weapons.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

Well, there's that one overhead shot of Dakota Fanning near the end which looks like it has the red weed on the ground or some such.

[RedImperator]

I still don't get that either. All I can imagine is that the cylinders are somehow able to get below ground via that storm (the storm has no thunder for some reason). In all the other versions, the cylinders came down conventionally as meteorites near enough, but I suppose they would be easier to track and then get rid of with modern weapons.

The tagline for the film is "They're already here". My guess is that the cylinders are buried underground and the lightning is part of the process that frees them. This is probably how they got around the fact that there's no way a civilization could be active on Mars in the present day without us knowing about it, but nevertheless we've been invaded by Martians. The Martians came some time in the past and, for whatever reason, waited in stasis. I'm hoping there's a good explanation for why they didn't just set up a colony whenever they first came.

[RedImperator]

Tom Cruise´s face plastered all over the camera? Check.

He's the star of the fucking movie and his presence in the film will sell tickets. Of course he'll be all over the trailer.

Sentimental claptrap from Spielberg? Check.

Where?

Adorable kid crying? Check.

What's your definition of adorable? The kid looks scared shitless.

Yup, think I´ll sit this one out if it´s got more of the above than any actual fighting or, you know, tripods.

How much of the book was fighting, and how much was the protagonist trying to survive? Go play Command and Conquer if all you're interested in is shit blowing up.

What is it about the founding father of all 'Alien invasion' stories that people just don't fucking get?

One of the things they don't get, apparently, is that it was an allegory for mistreatment of the powerless populations by powerful foreign states, and setting it in 19th century England would obscure that for modern audiences. Making the film 100% faithful to the book would miss the whole point.

[FedRebel]

Let me guess the movie ends with the same old Deus Ex Machina


Spoiler Alert!















Just when the Martians are on the verge of victory they all suddenly drop dead from diseases we're naturally imune to.















End of Spoiler

[VT-16]

Black Smoke

Not in it. Got cut due to "raitings" or other such nonsense.

He's the star of the fucking movie and his presence in the film will sell tickets. Of course he'll be all over the trailer.

Strike 1. I hate Tom Cruise and have never seen a believable performance from that particular "actor". I am not convinced he´ll carry this movie well.

Where?

Most of the trailer seems to imply that the mother and father has broken up and knowing Spielberg, they will somehow end up back together again by the end of the film. This coupled with the inevitable "happy end" (which is unavoidable due to it being in every single version of the story, from the very beginning) will make me roll my eyes and try to remember why I wanted to see another Spielberg flick in the first place.

What's your definition of adorable? The kid looks scared shitless.

They could have gotten a different kid-actor. Fanning looks too "munchkin-like" for my taste. She´ll most likely have "cute" little scenes to alliviate the dark parts and make me cringe.

How much of the book was fighting, and how much was the protagonist trying to survive? Go play Command and Conquer if all you're interested in is shit blowing up.

How about shutting the fuck up and stop guessing what I like/don´t like about the WOTW story, asshat?

This isn´t about explosions, this is about what I percieve to be missteps by a director who I have little confidence in at this point.

One of the things they don't get, apparently, is that it was an allegory for mistreatment of the powerless populations by powerful foreign states, and setting it in 19th century England would obscure that for modern audiences. Making the film 100% faithful to the book would miss the whole point.

No. It would get the same point across if the themes from the book were kept. Setting it in the 21th century really seems to me to be a cop-out, as if there is nothing interesting with doing retro-scifi, yet making an Independence Day-lookalike is somehow "brilliant". Sigh.

[VT-16]

raitings <--- ratings

[RedImperator]

He's the star of the fucking movie and his presence in the film will sell tickets. Of course he'll be all over the trailer.

Strike 1. I hate Tom Cruise and have never seen a believable performance from that particular "actor". I am not convinced he´ll carry this movie well.

If you don't like Tom Cruise, that's your business.

Where?

Most of the trailer seems to imply that the mother and father has broken up and knowing Spielberg, they will somehow end up back together again by the end of the film. This coupled with the inevitable "happy end" (which is unavoidable due to it being in every single version of the story, from the very beginning) will make me roll my eyes and try to remember why I wanted to see another Spielberg flick in the first place.

Name me one Spielberg movie where a divorced couple got back together. It didn't even happen in E.T., for Christ's sake. It would be highly out of character for Spielberg to do that, because his own parents divorced and he knows full Goddamn well that divorced parents almost never get back together.

What's your definition of adorable? The kid looks scared shitless.

They could have gotten a different kid-actor. Fanning looks too "munchkin-like" for my taste. She´ll most likely have "cute" little scenes to alliviate the dark parts and make me cringe.

There's not a shred of evidence from the trailer that's what's going to happen, and one advantage Dakota Fanning has over most other child actors is that she can actually act. You're just on a fishing expedition now.

How much of the book was fighting, and how much was the protagonist trying to survive? Go play Command and Conquer if all you're interested in is shit blowing up.

How about shutting the fuck up and stop guessing what I like/don´t like about the WOTW story, asshat?

How about you suck my cock instead. I wasn't talking about what you like about the book. Your final comment about the movie amounted to "There won't be enough fighting," which, going by the trailer and the amount of fighting in the book, is bullshit.

This isn´t about explosions, this is about what I percieve to be missteps by a director who I have little confidence in at this point.

What missteps? Here are the complaints you've made which are actually grounded in reality:

1. It has Tom Cruise. I don't like him.

That's it. The rest of your objections are pure, unfounded specultion about a movie you've never seen, and the only specific prediction you've made has never happened in a Speilberg film and is unlikely to ever happen in a Speilberg gilm.

No. It would get the same point across if the themes from the book were kept. Setting it in the 21th century really seems to me to be a cop-out, as if there is nothing interesting with doing retro-scifi, yet making an Independence Day-lookalike is somehow "brilliant". Sigh.

No it would NOT, you retard. The allegory is LOST on a 21st century audience because colonialism has been a dead issue for fifty years. The issues Welles was addressing in WOTW were in the newspaper every single day in England in 1898. The metaphor would fly right over the head of your average 21st century moviegoer.