[SlowBoat407]

Hate to say this, but it's just being true to the book in this case.

[SlowBoat407]

I do believe, though, that there was some thanks in the book to someone named... Gad? Ged?

Oh yeah... God.

[JennysCool]

My thought exactly. As Wells had it, we're useless against Them -- but Mother Nature isn't.

He was a splendidly imaginative writer.

[Cool Chick]

Is there anything in the book about insurgencies making it so that occupation will never work? That's a quote from the movie, according to Schlussel. Read her whole column. Very interesting.

[Frank_Discussion]

Yep. Methinks the reviewer doth protest too much.

[Little Ray]

Not really. The steam ram, HMS Thunderchild got a pretty sympathetic treatment.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I think you are right. H.G. Wells was in real life a Pacifist, Socialist, etc..
He would wholly applaud that type of message.
It is interesting that Wells had a long life and did live long enough to witness both World Wars and the invention of the Atom bomb that he had previously written about.
I would suspect he was a very disappointed man when he died and yet still could not grasp the real truth.
It is amazing that the Hollywood Liberals and their Eastern Elitist Brothers think that by being passive and giving in that all of our enemies will go away and leave us.
These people hate us and it is an unreasonable hate but hate it is and turning the other cheek only emboldens these people more not less.
Hollywood can continue to be Anti-Amercian and everything else but then again I don't have to watch and spend my money supporting Spielberg and his colleagues.
They wonder why the Box Office is down it may be simply that they have given us bad movies and when you continually bash those that live in the Red States, the people there get even and quit supporting your product.
These people will never learn and I feel no sorrow for them at all.

[jpl]

Out of curiosity, have you actually seen the movie yet? She has, and I'm inclined to believe her that the movie will contain plenty of not-so-subtle political overtones that have little to do with the fictional novel. Spielberg is definitely a leftie, and it would be par for the course for Hollywood.

[bvw]

And perhaps that is why Spielberg picked it. The waste of fighting back -- a sub-theme of the more general "Life is all about being a Victim".

Viewed in that light, this polemic transforms further. It is the modern Liberal zeitgeist offering its throat and cowering before the conservative war-mongering colossus. Unable to fight back with any effect, per the movies plot, the Liberals hope we all die of some rapid disease. We will not! Nor do we want war -- we just reject the alternative.

So the movie is a white flag of a sort from leftist Hollywood.