how many times we remaking this story?

Good point. You just have to remember that TimMC lives in a time before the discovery of bacteria and viruses.

Huh?

It's one of the most brilliant twists of all time, that it wasn't military firepower that brought the aliens down but something biological.

And it's a brilliant take on how civilizations were, in fact, taken down or wiped out by outsiders.

No. Just Democrats. Not the same thing. If I hated law and order, I'd love Democrats. If I loved rioting and looting and blaming everything on racism, I'd still be voting for Democrats. Democrats are a poison to democracy.

On the contrary, what I wrote makes perfect sense if you look at it through the prism of liberalism, except they don't just talk about something, they do it. They riot, they loot, they shoot and rape and attack. That's the modern liberal mind. They let millions of illegals into America. Not because they care so much about them. I'll leave it to you to figure out why liberals care SO MUCH for the 'brown' illegal aliens coming into America.

It's the story that matters, not how bloody or realistic the battle is. I am more of a theatrical fan of stories ... where suspension of disbelief is more important in service to the story than special effects are to make a story seem better than it really is.

^ Pretty much, yes.

The problem with all the adaptations, I've noticed, is that every idiot decides that they're going to improve on the original story by adding some kind of lame "stamp" on it.

Don't put any stamp. Just adapt it as it was written. That is the job of a film adaptation--to take something on the written page and bring it to life as readers envisioned it. Not to take a story and then add lame little touches that you think will improve on it or make it "accessible" to the lowest common denominator (I'm looking at you, Spielberg).

Yes but original 1951 version is so much better.

But I’m talking about adapting the War of the Worlds book which takes place in the mid-1890s.