something to amuse for an hour or two

Anybody see the 2005 movie "War of the Worlds" with Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Typical Yank rubbish, they took a perfectly good science fiction story and ruined it, all I remember is Dakota Fanning screaming all the way through the movie..................the special effects were good though!!:p

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYnHA2OzfA]War of the Worlds (2005) trailer - YouTube[/ame]


There was also a movie made in 1953 starring Gene Barry. In that movie the special effects of the time could not reproduce Martian tripods so they had the Martian machines hovering.:)


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9T9f3UbGuo]The War of the Worlds (1953) Trailer - YouTube[/ame]


A bit of useless information, Gene Barry who was the star of the 1953 version, had a cameo role at the end of the 2005 version................now don't you feel better for knowing that.:)

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Originally Posted by Orkney 90

I also have the original vinyl edition with the pictures that came in the booklet. It freaked me out as a kid, but I couldn't get enough of it. My favourite song from the album to this day is: "The chances of anything coming from mars, are a million to one, he said...."

Shame I missed the live production when it was on.

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And one of those tunes you have one or two lines run around your head for days now its been mentioned!! (its a ripper!) This is the first double cassette I ever owned :)

Guess what arrived today will be playing it in the car tomorrow:)

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Originally Posted by 67hardtop

Guess what arrived today will be playing it in the car tomorrow:)

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Umm!!!, Gee, that's a hard one, let me think..........would there be tripods in it!!!:p

Just out of curiosity, do the CD versions still come with the booklet of song lyrics and those freaky pictures?

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Originally Posted by Orkney 90

Just out of curiosity, do the CD versions still come with the booklet of song lyrics and those freaky pictures?

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Mine has the booklet, but I bought it quite a while ago!!:)

Jeff Wayne also did a musical version of Sparticus which was good, but not as good as WotW.
Anthony Hopkins did the narration. Ladysmith Black Mombazo did some of the music.

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Originally Posted by Orkney 90

Just out of curiosity, do the CD versions still come with the booklet of song lyrics and those freaky pictures?

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Yep sure does. Need a magnifying glass almost:censored:. The cd's I just got also contains some remixes of a couple of the songs at the end of disc 2. Playing it today brought back so many memories. I found myself singing along and remembering most of the words too:eek::eek::eek:.

Cheers Rod:wasntme:

It's truly amazing. I cannot remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I remember the words to the songs on War of the Worlds. Are any of the remixes any good, or is it just a modern computerised take on genuine classics?

First one sounds very reggae, cant remember other ones. First one put me off:(

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