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Sunday, 6 December 2015

A sequel to War of the Worlds

For a horrible three seconds I thought it meant a movie sequel to that Tom Cruise vomit. Fortunately :

"Written by Stephen Baxter, The Massacre of Mankind will see the Martians from Wells's story invading Earth once more, having learned from the mistakes they made first time around. The author of more than 20 novels previously penned The Time Ships, a sequel to Wells's 1895 story The Time Machine."

And I did enjoy The Time Ships very much, but in a completely different way to the original. Baxter is better at hard s.f. than Wells (so he should be, he's had more than a hundred years of extra scientific advancements to draw on), but he doesn't hold a candle to him as a social commentator.

I still don't understand why no-one has made a good movie version of the original book. Vampire aliens riding astride huge steampunk tripods smashing up Victorian London ? Why would this not make money ??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35004565
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4 comments:

  1. Mark Ruhland6 December 2015 at 00:40

    Rhys Taylor "that Tom Cruise vomit." That got me laughing til I cried. So, I can take it that you are not a Tom Cruise fan? Would that be fair to say? lol

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  2. Rhys Taylor6 December 2015 at 09:08

    Well, I do like The Last Samurai, Minority Report, and A Few Good Men. Nothing against Tom personally, even if he is a Scientologist nutjob.

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  3. Mark Ruhland6 December 2015 at 14:34

    Rhys Taylor There are a lot of 'em out there.

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  4. Andrew Robertson7 December 2015 at 02:16

    I would  love to see this War the Worlds/World War I short movie made into something full length. One of the best realisations of the tripods yet.

    https://vimeo.com/107454954

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