BBC War of the Worlds

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Apparently.
Trailer looks good but only seen through third party sights.
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-war-of-the-world...

Looks good.

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BBC ran an ad just after I posted it. Spooky, but yeah, looks the business, will it deliver.

Side note, Jeff Wayne’s war of the world tour is well worth it when it is on the road.

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6th Oct? Superb. I hate the spring announcements for an autumn release.

Edit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/...

Look at the date. This slipped under the radar. I was searching on BBC 1. BBC ONE returned better results

Edit. Er..... I hope this is not a lemon.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019-09-29/when-is...

Edited by Zirconia on Monday 30th September 08:51

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Crossflow Kid said:

pidsy said:

Hoping this does the original musical justice.

The “musical” is based on a classic science fiction novel by HG Wells (as was the Tom Cruise movie).
Go and sit in the corner.

I was wondering.....

I have the large tome with seven or so of HG Wells stories in. Not sure what year but £4.95 and part published by the same firm that initially published his works.

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Never got the Audible version, they ruined Dune. I started to look for certain narrators and avoided the mixed up ones.

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james_TW said:

JackThrust said:

Fingers crossed for this, I really hope they have HMS Thunderchild in it.

This to me will define it - Will it be awesome? What will the CGI be like for "that scene"?

One article did say it would have been out sooner but they were not happy with the CGI.

It would be good to see the artillery mans idea shown in detail.

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One particular book (not HG Wells) had several versions in different media types endorsed/written by the author and they were all good though the film took a second viewing for me. I await to see what War of the Worlds is like and hope it is done well.

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Autumn 2019.........

Say the twitter feed, let you know soon they say.

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Hoping there is a 4k version.

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Halb said:

which?

Hitch Hikers Guide.
Book, radio then TV then film.

All with differences. I have the. radio play scripts. Adams passed away before the film but it was his work.

Then Dirk Gently tv series, not as per book and years after Adams but I enjoyed it a lot.

Mr Wells is not around obviously. I hope it is something he would have approved of.

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AlexS said:

The radio series came first, followed by the book, then TV and film.

Whatever.

The point being different formats and all enjoyable.

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Wonders about this. The BBC version or the Fox version?

Hate the search that indicates a link will say when it is aired and just says Autumn. Obvious hook to click the link.

If New Zealand has the first episode, is that a nod possibly to the special effects studio there assuming they did a lot of the work?

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I expect changes can be for many reasons. Lord of The Rings was OK, but a few changes split the ending somewhat. Hobbit was sort of OK, not along the lines of the kids book it was meant to be but when turned into Dune, I though come on! Probably a success with a lot of people that never read the books.

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17 November kick off.

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RemyMartin81D said:

Evil Jack said:

I had no idea this had been released first outside the UK (how does that grab you, license payers?)

Well, it's fair to say the IMDB reviews are not exactly glowing: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8001226/reviews?ref_=...

fking LOL. Wow. It's either people jumping on the one upsmanship to write as much negativity as possible OR it truly is a stinker.

Some interesting reviews in there and some from people with not many reviews or review history on films I would not go near (I didn't read them all).

Still going to watch it and make my mind up.

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KrazyIvan said:

I thought the same......but it really is st.

Effects for the tripods are good, sparse scenes with them in unfortunately

Understood. Lower expectations then.
I do like Alien 3 though, and Alien 4 and all the Jurassic films

Though I did re watch Dark Star many years after the first watch and wondered why I thought it was funny.

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Could be iPlayer here but either way popcorn at the ready.

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Recording. Sommit else needs sorting tonight. Catch it tomorrow.

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OK, giving it the next episode. Liked the effects with the tripod though but lad tickling the ground with a plastic pick axe, needed some more thought. You can do a lot on a lower budget than a blockbuster but also a lot that makes it look worse.

The Mars pictures tugged at my things wrong but not an issue.

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Clockwork Cupcake said:

One thing that really jarred with me, oddly, is why if being unmarried and living in sin was so scandalous and shocking, was it perfectly ok for them to be showing public displays of affection, kissing and smooching in public, etc. Or had attitudes towards this relaxed somewhat in Edwardian times compared to the more up-tight Victorian times?

Some searching of family history has shown that it was probably not the heinous crime that we today think it was.

I mean, ones monocle nearly fell out when she rode the horse. On her own even.


(anyone clock the teas maid?)