tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post1427690895742549330..comments2023-10-03T06:18:27.828-05:00Comments on The Aardvark's PLUMBLINE: The Not-So-Great Martian WarThe Aardvarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11425052822588090155noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-19476313211288062532014-08-06T19:50:38.558-05:002014-08-06T19:50:38.558-05:00@Jay --- I still have Jeff Wayne's War of the ...@Jay --- I still have Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds . . . both on LP and on CD. Agreed it was a brilliant piece of work.<br /><br />You might be interested in learning that Wayne has updated his musical: Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds -- The New Generation. Some of it is interesting (listen to it on YouTube) but, on the whole, I prefer the original version.Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-30565096486707904132014-08-06T19:25:42.204-05:002014-08-06T19:25:42.204-05:00@Michael- Yes! The one with Gene Barry and Ann Rob...@Michael- Yes! The one with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.<br /><br />For a while I owned a dramatization on LP that had Richard Burton narrating.<br /><br />I, of course, have the Orson Welles rendition on disc.Jay!http://www.jaysteevee.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-11003822717295295272014-08-06T18:22:51.214-05:002014-08-06T18:22:51.214-05:00@Jay --- to my mind there's only ONE "War...@Jay --- to my mind there's only ONE "War of the Worlds" film worth watching, and that was the 1953 Pal/Haskin production.<br /><br />In a distant second place is this episode from "The Great Books" series: a discussion of Wells' book intermingled with a serviceable dramatization of the story (and ably narrated by Donald Sutherland):<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-35335895885919619142014-08-06T16:32:03.098-05:002014-08-06T16:32:03.098-05:00@Michael:
Kind of reminds me when that Tom Cruise...@Michael:<br /><br />Kind of reminds me when that Tom Cruise/Spielberg abortion came out.<br /><br />There were two other WOTWs released about the same time. One had C. Thomas Howell and the other was poorly made Brit one with bad CGI (It too was repetitive and boring.).Jay!http://www.jaysteevee.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-31274344118767954292014-08-06T09:37:18.698-05:002014-08-06T09:37:18.698-05:00@Jay: Good one!
No, when I watched this I was act...@Jay: Good one!<br /><br />No, when I watched this I was actually hoping for a sort of approach like "World at War", or "Battlefield". I caught the same thing Weatherly did: the constant re-use of existing footage (which really doesn't help a program such as this). If they couldn't manage much more footage, then perhaps they should've taken the "Battlefield&Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-2056953368766744792014-08-05T19:26:29.272-05:002014-08-05T19:26:29.272-05:00Was it more like a BBC-?Was it more like a BBC-?Jay!http://www.jaysteevee.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6299612.post-6979773526576183702014-08-05T16:37:53.005-05:002014-08-05T16:37:53.005-05:00I gave it a B-. The BBC could've done so much...I gave it a B-. The BBC could've done so much better with the premise.Michael Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11808166630399508232noreply@blogger.com