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 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:38 am
Being the book and the latest movie.
And the radio version - which cracks me up every time I hear about it; our year seven English exam was about it xD... - AND the musical.
Has anybody read it? What do you think?
I love the book. It's so scientific and shiny, plausible even if half the science is incorrect. Homy, geothermal cooling. Wells was way ahead of his time.
...And the movie. Well now.
I'm sorry. I'll probably talk properly in later posts - if anyone replies, heeho - I'm just pent-up on an entire packet of dark chocolate-covered coffee beans. *jitter* So, forgive the babbliness.
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:40 am
Ooo yeah!
And who would win out of the Daleks and the Martians? =3
And would the Doctor be able to put a stop to their rampaging antics before they all die out from disease? =o
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:41 am
Pepper pots and tripods... xO
I can just imagine the battle taking place on the Chemistry bench~
*toddles off*
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:32 am
LoL Yea I can see that. And no I've only seen the remake movie.
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:48 am
I loved the book, which I first read many years ago.
The movie was OK, although I could do without Tom Cruise. And what is with relocating it to this century and New Jersey? And introducing annoying kids? And have everyone stalled on the freeway conveniently leaving a path through...
The musical rocks, having singers from Thin Lizzy, the Moody Blues, David Essex, Julie Covington... Forever Autumn is my favourite song, followed closely by The Eve of War (as in, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come).
Not had a chance to hear Orson Wells' radio play, alas.
DW
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:16 pm
I've seen the old movie, but not the new one. There was also a TV spin-off, where the alien creatures would shove themselves inside human bodies... sort of like Slitheen, except without the zipper forehead and 'gas' problems. It wasn't that great, from what I remember.
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Hairy Priest Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:40 pm
I want to see the old movie. =o
Is it set in... Essex, isn't it? *muse*
I live really near to Woking. We'd have been obliterated. x__x
Humhum. In the new movie, I really like the way Spielburg did the tripods; they looked so fluid and alive, like they're described in the book.
But what was up with the freedom of movement for the aliens. D:
D'un make sense. Graaavity. *flail*
I thought he would have liked to leave something like that in.
The lightning storms were funky.
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:52 am
This is the life. x3
*Has the movie on AND playing on the computer*
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:09 am
the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said...
i liked the song forever autumn.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:56 am
Timelady42 the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said... How did I just KNOW you were going to say that...??? stare
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:53 am
Timelady42 the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said... A million to one.... but still they cooooooooooooooooooooooome! hemhem yeah.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:23 pm
Timelady42 the chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one he said... i liked the song forever autumn. x3; I'm going to have it stuck in my head all today, now~
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:31 am
The musical was live in London last night; a friend of mine went to see it and it appears to have absolutely rocked. Complete with special effects and the disembodied floating head of Richard Burton...
DW
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:47 am
^ ^~
I saw a poster for the same thing showing at the NEC.
I bet it was goo~ood. T^T
*wants to see it*
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:22 am
yeah.
I used that song in a story...
except I changed the 'mars' to 'lars' which is the name of the baddie.
It's about an egg-hunter who kills off posessed eggs.
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