Well, I just saw Pendragon Pictures direct-to-strobing DVD take on WOTW-
on the upside, it follows the book exactly.
On the downside, it is like something Ed Wood would do if he were given
the job of filming it.
Not only does day turn to night and back to day in numerous scenes in a
matter of seconds; not only do incinerated people have skeletons that
can continue to wiggle around on the ground despite a total lack of
muscleclature; not only do we find out that there are around ten gallons
of blood inside a person as evidenced by the kid's swimming pool sized
puddle that is made when a war machine steps on somebody; not only do we
see special effects that are every bit as convincing as those claymation
ones found in "Gumby and Pokey"; not only do we see the amazing deck
guns of the Thunder Child that can fire while totally uncrewed, and what
by its speed and lack of wake and bow wave appears to be the world's
first paddlewheel hovercraft; not only do we see The Tone-Deaf Singing
Girl get sucked dry in a matter of seconds by the Martians to the point
where all that is left is her skin pulled taut over her bones like an
Egyptian mummy; not only do we see the Martians also do this to the
strange claymation Spotted Blue Cattle that are only rarely now seen in
Britain....but we get to see all of this over THREE F***ING HOURS TIME.
Give me a good movie! Give me "Teenagers From Outer Space" or "Mothra
Rebirth II" or even "Attack Of The Giant Leechs".
Anything but this... GOD BLESS YOU, MR. CRUISE! IT LOOKS EVEN BETTER
NOW! Where's that Scientology pamphlet...this thing has left a terrible
engram in my mind that needs auditing! :-D

Pat