BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Nov 19 - 10:36 PM

Mrs Backwoodsperson loves it. I think it’s not so good (apart from the delicious Eleanor Tomlinson, for whom I would forsake my pension if she asked it of me!).

There seems to be far more - and far too much - ‘going on’ in the BBC production, when compared with the book, although that could simply be my old brain mis-remembering. And I always feel uncomfortable when movie-images clash with my own mental images derived from reading the book.

Or maybe I’m just becoming an old curmudgeon.

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 07:20 AM

Where is the theme that the greater the adversity the more there is a unifying empathy? There is the tradjedy of self pity and the bravery of others. Spoiler alert: The smallest and meekest not only inherits the Earth it ...ta da...saves Earth.

btw in the movie Titanic, it sinks in the end.

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 07:38 AM

Superbly acted and filmed but I am not too sure about the choping and changing of both the timeline and the plot. I will certainly watch it through to see what they do with it. HG Wells it isn't!

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 12:00 PM

Haiku time:

Martians came to earth
In merc'ry powered rockets
Fuelled from Hg wells.



(my response to a haiku competition from the BSFA back in the 80s)

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 19 - 05:11 PM

The semiphore version of your haiku is even more powerful.

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Dec 19 - 11:53 PM

Well, I will not spoil the BBC version further, in this post.
I will just say that (unable to watch, in the USA)
I looked online for reviews of the show,
the third and final episode just aired last night in the UK.

So I read the spoiler review elsewhere for the conclusion.
And WHOA!    Changes left, right, and center!
It sounds dreadfully confusing.

Now it comes out, in one soundbite in the news,
that one of the writer/editor/producer/adaptors
had suffered a bereavement at about the time
that this person was working on the H G Wells assignment;
and -- not naming the person, but the soundbite names them --
this person decided that
the bereavement would be a better way to end the film
than the actual ending that H. G. Wells wrote.

That kind of makes me ... feel ...
well, just as well I couldn't watch the show after all.

Subject: RE: BS: War of the Worlds film by the BBC (2018)
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Feb 20 - 12:05 PM

AMC Premiere, which is the AMC cable network's
commercial-free streaming service,
has made a deal to distribute
BBC's The War Of The Worlds.

announced 11 February 2020