War of the worlds 3 : H G Wells turns in his grave

A comment just on your subject line alone: too late... what else is there to say?

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Somehow, with limited advertisement and a low budget, I don't think that the "almighty dollar" was their chief concern :/

I understand that with new advances in cinematic technology it becomes possible to "revisit" certain stories and give them a cinematic 'make over' and for the most part this is a good thing, however writing up sequels for stories that had no sequels is lame in the extreme, (Sort of like the New adventures of <Place name of classic character here>)"Milk that cash cow!!!".

A common complaint of "book to movie" is how much the movie differs from the original story line, in many cases losing the very message that the book set out to put across, some puritans insist that each and every character in a book should be represented on screen, some extreme puritans insist that the film strictly follow the book I am not one of these puritans, a movie can be made from a book really well and still encapsulate the main theme of the original storyline, I am even forgiving of "Modernising" a storyline to make it more recognisable to a modern audience (Most plotlines require some sympathy for the characters and modernisation allows a modern audience to sympathise with contemporary characters), but a sequel to a sequelless storyline is just pure profiteering for the sake of the almighty dollar.

I suspect that this "Sequel" will be a shallow and empty shell of a story that many of us grew up with in both book and movie format (I read the book long before I saw any movie of the story) that will not only lose sight of the original message of the story but also be manipulated in some stupid way (Like the War of the worlds TV series).

Why does Hollywood, who feel the need to flex their copyright legal muscles all over the world, think it is OK to screw around with copyrighted classic stories with cheap and nasty sequels where there was never supposed to be a sequel?

What next "Pride and Prejudice 2 : Mr Darcy goes psychotic with a chaingun and rocket launcher"?

Some stories just don't have and were never meant to have sequels and The War of the Worlds is one of them...






Agreed, the people who made this flick and the horrid first one are a bunch of complete money grabbing morons.












Spielbergs WOTW is an insult to HG Wells and Russell T Davies is the worst ever Dr Who writer!

i thought this was a sequel to the blockbuster! i just found out its not!

Totally agree.

I'm looking forward to 1984 - 2 and Gandhi the Sequal.

War of the worlds 4: Zombie H. G. Wells, Jesus and the Harlem globetrotters fights the evil space aliens from space!

Coming to a torrent near you.

I don't think he is turning in his grave.
He's dancing charlston from out of this so called "motion feature movie"

Very impressive review of the WotW2 film. Food for thought with your argument that some stories don't have sequels and/or are not meant to have them. I agree with your comments here. However, you got me thinking. Could the original WotW story actually leave plenty of room for a sequel, irrespective of the intentions or thoughts of the author H G Wells? What I'm thinking of is that if the advanced Martian civilisation were to go to such trouble invading Earth, would they be put off by their experience of being felled by diseases they had no immunity from? I can imagine the Martians would sit down and discuss ways of how they might get round this obstacle, so that next time they attempted an invasion, they'd be armed with antidotes and other precautionary contingencies. If the WotW2 story were built round such a scenario it would surely make a lot of sense, and it would also be an object lesson to human beings - that just because they see off superior invaders, spending the time afterwards celebrating in triumphal fashion, it doesn't mean the losers won't be back to try again. In fact I see so many Hollywood films make that very mistake. Everything's hunky dory, and we spectators have to ASSUME the defeated foe, irrespective of their might and their resources, now have their tails permanently between their legs and they're never gonna be coming back. Real life's not like that, I'm afraid to say. Human beings are far more vulnerable than we'd like to think, when put to the types of testing situations Hollywood cooks up for them in imaginary film plots.