The _Other_ WOTW Movie

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

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:41:51 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

Well, I just saw Pendragon Pictures direct-to-strobing DVD take on WOTW-
on the upside, it follows the book exactly.

Actually, no.

If you can somehow see through and past the pain
you'll find that director/producer/lotzaudderthingz
Timothy Hines has actually ****ed that up royally as
well... despite having his actors mouth large swatches
of the actual text sans context or comprehension.

There's still room for an actual period version of WotW
done competently... if Hines' stupidity doesn't poison
the market... literally :/

BTW: Don't forget to check out Asylum's direct-to-DVD
modern version as well. Word has it as a competently
done B-movie.

Pat

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But you must admit, it has the right title and is set in the right country.
The other mob couldn't even get those simple things correct.

Chuck Stewart wrote:

If you can somehow see through and past the pain
you'll find that director/producer/lotzaudderthingz
Timothy Hines has actually ****ed that up royally as
well... despite having his actors mouth large swatches
of the actual text sans context or comprehension.



It's a hell of a lot closer than either the Pal or Spielberg/Cruise
version is- close enough that I could tell what was going to happen next
from having recently re-read the book...mind you, that blue claymation
spotted cow isn't in the book- maybe it's a Mooncalf that snuck in from
"First Men In The Moon".
Those may be the worst special effects I've ever seen in my life; and
I've seen "Reptilicus".
I tried turning the color on the television completely off to see If I
could get the strobing effect to make it look like a piece of film from
around W. W. I - that helped some, but I couldn't tell if it was due to
it now looking like an old movie, or if the less you see of it the
better it seems. It would be interesting to turn off the picture
completely and see if what's left is a nearly tolerable radio show
version of it. Not anywhere near three hours interesting though...maybe
ten minutes interesting on a good day.

There's still room for an actual period version of WotW
done competently... if Hines' stupidity doesn't poison
the market... literally :/

BTW: Don't forget to check out Asylum's direct-to-DVD
modern version as well. Word has it as a competently
done B-movie.



Just once could someone do it as a good high budget one...and in period?
Is that too much to ask?

Pat

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:11:52 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

Just once could someone do it as a good high budget one...and in period?
Is that too much to ask?

Well Jeff Wayne, who has the EU rights to WotW locked up
till 2016, is currently doing a CGI version of his musical...
but folks tend to forget just how much _he_ altered the book
to make it a rock musical.

Pat

--
Chuck Stewart
"Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?"

Chuck Stewart wrote:

Well Jeff Wayne, who has the EU rights to WotW locked up
till 2016, is currently doing a CGI version of his musical...
but folks tend to forget just how much _he_ altered the book
to make it a rock musical.



That's a great piece of work though.

Pat

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:50:58 GMT, Chuck Stewart
wrote:

Well Jeff Wayne, who has the EU rights to WotW locked up
till 2016, is currently doing a CGI version of his musical...
but folks tend to forget just how much _he_ altered the book
to make it a rock musical.

....And just because I was in a masochistic bent, last night I listened
to that album for the first time in probably 20 years. Except for the
Justin Heyward track, the rest of it is nothing more than an
opportunity for Richard Burton to show how much he's in love with his
own voice.

Why anyone thinks this is a *good* album is beyond me...

OM

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In article , Pat Flannery
wrote:

Chuck Stewart wrote:

Well Jeff Wayne, who has the EU rights to WotW locked up
till 2016, is currently doing a CGI version of his musical...
but folks tend to forget just how much _he_ altered the book
to make it a rock musical.



That's a great piece of work though.

Yes, but listen to it again and try and picture it as a movie... the
naration tells you the tripods have suddenly appeared, there's a very
long instrumental, then the naration tells you what the tripods look
like and what they did as soon as they appeared. It just won't work
just adding video to the album, Wayne will have to tear it apart and
re-arrange it.

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'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

Invid Fan wrote:

Yes, but listen to it again and try and picture it as a movie... the
naration tells you the tripods have suddenly appeared, there's a very
long instrumental, then the naration tells you what the tripods look
like and what they did as soon as they appeared. It just won't work
just adding video to the album, Wayne will have to tear it apart and
re-arrange it.



Meanwhile, back in Siberia:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1454133.html?menu=
Somewhere up there, Orson Wells is laughing. :-)

Pat

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