Posted on 03/01/2005 10:24:36 PM PST by null and void
Look at those flames? How come they're not spreading? Why aren't the on plants, does rock burn???"
Everybodies a critic...
*sigh* EVERYBODY'S a critic.
Darn spell check...
"It looks like a cheesy Japanese movie."
The Martians: "Nothing like I expected."
"There are no ridges (threads) on the cap."
"The tenticles are way too skinny."
"The light's not right."
"The fire is soooo bad."
"How come some people turn to skeletons before they fall, and some people roll around on the ground?"
"Why are the skeletons moving?"
"The fire is so fake!"
"All they are doing is running and walking, and that's it. I thought it was hard to be an actor!"
"I didn't know the heat rat spread out? I thought it was focused."
"We're less than an hour into the movie and already it's the worst movie I've ever seen." (He's young, yet)...
"Sluggish? They weren't slow!!"
"The lighting is the worst, it looks like they put a piece of black plastic over it (the lens)"
"That's the worst green screen I've ever seen!"
"Has he made any movies before?" Yes.
"He has? (Laughs)"
"I think this had a really low budget."
"That's not an old library, it's a new library - it has electric lights!"
"That was the worst. He has his mustache shaved off, and in the next scene he has it back."
"That is so sucky, the (falling) bricks seem to melt into the ground."
"That was so bad graphics when it hit (the train) It just stuck and bent."
"The reigns are connected to the cart! You can see they're connected there!"
"The horse is walking faster than it's moving."
"Do I have to watch this?" It does get better. "It does? It would have to!"
"Look at how bad that is" (bouncing up and down in the cart, badly green screened)
"Dad? Why would lightning be coming from nowhere?"
"Look at that, (Martian) it's not kicking up any dust, no bushes are falling."
"See the piloting piece?" (Cockpit on the Fighting Machine) "See how it does this?" Pantomimes motions. "That's actually a good design."
"The dead guy blinked."
"The last 20 minutes passed like it's been a year."
"If anybody pays $8 to see this they're going to be like WHAT?!? WHAT?!?"
"That's the same sound that Mothra makes!"
Re: the joints on the legs, "I don't see sliding, those are hinges." (He's read the book...)
"Man this is the worst movie I've ever seen, and I don't take that term lightly."
"That was stupid." (Woman getting stepped on.) She splashed before she was crushed, no guts, and the bottom of the Martian's foot was green, no red.
"Red weed looks nothing like I thought it would."
"I thought the fighting machines would be more crab like, claws instead of tentacles, and I thought the would be flatter and more round." Me too, kid
"You notice how their clothes never get dirty?"
"Didn't they just walk down that same road? There's this one tuft of grass that always the same. It's like they're walking down the same 20 square feet of road."
"Why is he smiling? and of course he has white teeth. The director must have killed the actors (spirit)."
"Are you trying to make me stay up all night and say bad movie bad movie???" It's half over. "Good"
"The legs are too long"
"Aren't you going to run??? God they're idiots!" "The smoke from that canon was so bad."
"Oh my gosh those effects were soooo bad!" (The splashes when the Martian fell in the water)
"I've learned something, never ever watch a movie your dad wants you to, unless it's something you want to watch, or you can delete it from your mind..."
(Somewhere along the line he commented that the words and lips don't always match, like a badly dubbed foreign film)
"I wonder how long it took them to make this movie? 15 minutes?" Years.
"You and I could make a better movie than this, just (gestures at the computer) sitting here."
"Yeah, whip his shadow! Is she trying to hit him???" *shrug*
"Look at the scenery passing by. It's jolting by, like someone took a bunch of (still) pictures."
"You can see the paper line, where they cut it." (A black edge around the matting)
Butchered skeleton: "That's just nasty."
"Can I just fast forward through little bits?" No.
"YESSSS" We got one.
"The effects for the heat ray are really bad too"
"That guy;s so annoying!" He's supposed to be, he is in the book. "He's that preacher guy." The curate. "Yeah, the curate."
Two voices: "Eternity. Eternity." You think the book on tape version was better? "Oh yes, tape version was better, period!"
"they look like hamsters scarfing down as much bread as they could."
The handling machine. "That one's head is too big." Same size head, different machines.
"The Martians suddenly changed half way through the movie." (I didn't notice that.)
"That wasn't a very good image of it feeding."
At this point, overcome with excitement, my son fell asleep...
Well are you ready to finish watching WOTW? "BELLAACCHH! yeah whatever."
I hear that it's dreadful, actually.
Read my and my kid's reviews...
"Look at that! The waves aren't even crashing against the boats?" Where are the sand and rocks? It looks like they are in chaparral, not at the ocean."
"SHUT UP! If the martians hadn't seen you you be caught by now."
"The waves aren't even against the boat when it's moving. They look stable."
At least the music is better. "Yeah, for this once."
"You see the tentacles on the was machine? The tentacles are stiff, that's just not right."
"If somebody is having all the blood sucked out of them they wouldn't be able to scream that long."
"Look at that, there's nobody manning the guns" On the Thunderchild - no crew at all...
"Why don't they wipe that guy's (the curate) face?" yeah, you'd think after several days the blood would be gone.
"wasn't there supposed to be a whole ton of stuff on the ground that would crack?" - The broken crockery on the floor in the smashed house...
"I bet if the producer was here he'd say 'everybody's a critic.'"
"I thought is was supposed to be an alien tentacle that reached in (not a machine) remember it was examining the (coal)?"
"It doesn't look like it's grabbing him."
"There was a hinge there." In the tentacle? "Yeah, there were hinges there." (He especially wanted to see the sliding joints Wells described.)
"When the blood is sucked out of you it doesn't remove the skin. There hasn't been time for the skin to rot off. All the skeletons are perfect, nothing has come to chew them, like a dog or something."
"Dad, this is even more of a disappointment than the first war of the worlds movie. I can't believe I wanted to see this."
I'm going to give Kyle and Tyler a warning about this movie." Why don't you just give it to them and tell them it's wonderful? "NO!"
"It is the only movie I've seen that follows the book, but the lighting is wrong, the the colors are wrong, the voices don't match, the effects are wrong, but it does follow the book."
The handling machine: "One of the arms went into the wall and then the wall started to break. The timing was wrong."
We agree that we would have cast the woman dabbing his forehead as his wife instead of the one he did cast in that role.
Sooooo, what did you think of it? "Followed the book great. Worst graphics I've ever seen. Way too long. I think they could have had it shorter, and it would be better. And my dad, guaranteed, could have done a better job. The lighting sucked and the music was all wrong. I thought when the cylinder was talking off Mars, it was supposed to look like flame, not bright green."
"That's all folks. The movie sucks."
Yeah. It's only redeeming feature is that it does follow the book pretty well.
The elephant has labored mightily, and delivered a mouse.
An ugggggly mouse...
YES!!!!!! Yes that would be so awesome!
He made the Lord of the Rings movies??? Didn't they follow the book[s]? Wow! [giggles] Yes!!! The robots wouldn't be clunky! Yes! Yes!
So, was it released this past Spring? Where? When's it coming out on DVD? I'd rather watch a version that's true to HG Well's book.
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