Re: The war of the Worlds
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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A new adaptation starts tonight at 9pm on BBC1
The downside for me is that it stars Eleanor Tomlinson (Demelza Poldark), I'm not sure how that will work but will give it a try tonight.
I love the concept of The War of the Worlds although I did think the book itself was a bit.... repetitive, despite being a classic. Has to be better than the Tom Cruise version though.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019...s-in-the-cast/
Surprisingly, a TV programme about the best Sc-Fi films of all time shown last night, gave the TC version a thumbs up as they (the `celeb` reviewers), thought it was in keeping with the original novel in contrast to the 1953 version.
To me, it sucked. For instance, how many plane crashes have you seen that scatter debris everywhere but leave a convenient corridor for our hero to drive through? The `son` got on my nerves too. Any acting plaudits in that film should go to Dakota Fanning, she out-acted everyone else.