Post by Zone Fighter on Jun 28, 2005 18:02:47 GMT -8
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005)
Directed by Timothy Hines
Screenplay by Timothy Hines & Susan Goforth
main cast
Anthony Piana - The Writer (narrator and lead character)
Anthony Piana - The Brother (of the Writer)
Susan Goforth - The Wife (of the Writer)
Jack Clay - Ogilvy
James Lathrop - The Artilleryman
Darlene Sellers - Mrs. Elphinstone
Jamie Lynn Sease - Miss Elphinstone
John Kaufmann - The Curate
W. Bernard Bauman - Henderson
Although the credits weren't much on giving the characters real names you won't find ending credits that are more thorough. They even listed the names of the horses and what stables provided them.
The bad:
The lighting in this film is very strange. Many of the inside shots have a yellow tint, unless it's night. The night scenes are blue. Outside peoples face tend to be either in shadow or too shiny. Near the end when it appears that the martians have won everything goes red. Piana's accent comes and goes. Most of the time characters speak in fairly modern English but every once in a while somebody rembers its supposed to be the late 1800s and they start using older English phrases. Some of the acting is really bad. The British war ship that takes on Martian war machines in the ocean looks flat, the worst special effect of this film. I think Timothy Hines should have taken another year insisted of insisting on releasing this before Paramount's multimillion dollar film.
The good:
The story is much closer to H.G. Well's original. I like the spidery Martian machines that stand on three mechanical legs, as in the book. The heat ray really burns people to death. And there is the black smoke rather than two more rays. This is a darker film than Paramounts 1953 film. Town after town is wiped out. The invasion brings out the worst in some people (and the best in others). Remember the scence in the 1953 film of the tenticle probing the inside of a house, well there is a similar scene in this film, except the Martian isn't just curious, its hungry.
I'd classify this as a modern B movie. Watch it at 2am. Having a couple of drinks first woudn't hurt.
Directed by Timothy Hines
Screenplay by Timothy Hines & Susan Goforth
main cast
Anthony Piana - The Writer (narrator and lead character)
Anthony Piana - The Brother (of the Writer)
Susan Goforth - The Wife (of the Writer)
Jack Clay - Ogilvy
James Lathrop - The Artilleryman
Darlene Sellers - Mrs. Elphinstone
Jamie Lynn Sease - Miss Elphinstone
John Kaufmann - The Curate
W. Bernard Bauman - Henderson
Although the credits weren't much on giving the characters real names you won't find ending credits that are more thorough. They even listed the names of the horses and what stables provided them.
The bad:
The lighting in this film is very strange. Many of the inside shots have a yellow tint, unless it's night. The night scenes are blue. Outside peoples face tend to be either in shadow or too shiny. Near the end when it appears that the martians have won everything goes red. Piana's accent comes and goes. Most of the time characters speak in fairly modern English but every once in a while somebody rembers its supposed to be the late 1800s and they start using older English phrases. Some of the acting is really bad. The British war ship that takes on Martian war machines in the ocean looks flat, the worst special effect of this film. I think Timothy Hines should have taken another year insisted of insisting on releasing this before Paramount's multimillion dollar film.
The good:
The story is much closer to H.G. Well's original. I like the spidery Martian machines that stand on three mechanical legs, as in the book. The heat ray really burns people to death. And there is the black smoke rather than two more rays. This is a darker film than Paramounts 1953 film. Town after town is wiped out. The invasion brings out the worst in some people (and the best in others). Remember the scence in the 1953 film of the tenticle probing the inside of a house, well there is a similar scene in this film, except the Martian isn't just curious, its hungry.
I'd classify this as a modern B movie. Watch it at 2am. Having a couple of drinks first woudn't hurt.
