silverwinged

[sidekick]

okay, i have about 75 pages left in War of the Worlds, so i thought i would write a little thing on what i think so far.

it's oooookay. not as good as i was expecting it to be. you were right about the dry parts...i find that a lot the book reads like an instruction manuel on events that happened. you know what i mean? i haven't really come across many elements that make the story human and involving. there is virtual no character development at all. i read a whole chapter without even knowing that i was reading about the brother's adventures and not the main characters!

will update once i finish the book.

[Goodfellow]

why are you reading a shitty book ?

[Silverwinged]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

okay, i have about 75 pages left in War of the Worlds, so i thought i would write a little thing on what i think so far.

it's oooookay. not as good as i was expecting it to be. you were right about the dry parts...i find that a lot the book reads like an instruction manuel on events that happened. you know what i mean? i haven't really come across many elements that make the story human and involving. there is virtual no character development at all. i read a whole chapter without even knowing that i was reading about the brother's adventures and not the main characters!

will update once i finish the book.

history text book even!
the descriptions get a bit elaborate and crazy... and you have to go back a few pages and be all "okay what is going on exactly..."
parts of it just gave me a huge head ache, fantastic story idea... maybe the silver screen will spruce it up alittle, without going too far overboard.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by GoodFlow

why are you reading a shitty book ?

well, usually when you go to read something it's because you haven't read it before and think it might be a good read.

i never said it was 'shitty', i just meant to say it wasn't the best thing i have ever read. it's only 200 pages long, so it will only take up 2 days of my life. besides, i wanted to read it before i saw the film.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by Silverwinged

history text book even!
the descriptions get a bit elaborate and crazy... and you have to go back a few pages and be all "okay what is going on exactly..."
parts of it just gave me a huge head ache, fantastic story idea... maybe the silver screen will spruce it up alittle, without going too far overboard.

yeah, definitly history textbook style at some parts. i mean, H.G. Wells had a fantastic imagination and you can tell he totally knows everything about what he's talking about, but he just has to convey it in a more interesting manor, i think.

[sidekick]

just finished the book. it was clever, but ultimately too dry and instructional to be of much interest.

[Silverwinged]

come on tom cruise!
make it a sensational and stupendous block buster!
(throw a little paw at dakota fanning in there... it would be perfectly normal for him)

[sidekick]

haha. i actually heard the movie was pretty good. they said it was the normal spielberg film. most of his movies are pretty much the same. i still want to see it though.

did you finish the book?

[FeelGood]

speaking of books, i should go to the library and get me a new one.

[sidekick]

^don't make it War of the Worlds.

[Allya]

The Time Machine was definitely Well's best novel. It shows alot more imagination and poses some interesting moral questions. War of the Worlds, meh, the book is pretty blah. The original movie is quite good, though. It was made at a time when war and self nuclear annhialation was on everyone's mind to some extent and they conveyed the consequences of global devastation quite nicely through cinema. Also the 1950s scifi sound of the alien weapons blowing everything up was just sooo eerie. Wicked sound design for such an old film.

I don't think the new film will be that great, but I'm sure it'll be enjoyable just to see the Spielbergian special effects and overall grand scope. Plus seeing the world go through an apocalypse on film never seems to get old. Anyone remember the 90's War of the Worlds tv series? The aliens apparently didn't die and simply went into hibernation for 50 years until they could develop a natural immunity to human diseases. Interesting concept but not a great tv show.

[decypher]

Good movie, weak ending. Very suspenseful.