War of the Worlds - to be directed by Spielberg?

[Karlos]

I loved HGWells' WOTW. The mans imagination was superb.

They better make a decent job of the movie.

[Karlos]

@Kenny

Actually, the funniest thing in the story, from my point of view at least, is the total lack of fear at the aliens arrival. All the people going about their buisness as normal aside from the onlookers camped around Horsell Common. Even as the cylinder begins to open, people remain transfixed. It isn't until the martians actually open fire that people flee in terror.

[Karlos]

@The_Editor

< comic store guy from simpsons >

In the original story, the desription of the first encounter with the fighting machine has it roaring "Aloo! Aloo!"...

Seen nearer, the Thing was incredibly strange, for it
was no mere insensate machine driving on its way.
Machine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long,
flexible, glittering tentacles (one of which gripped a
young pine tree) swinging and rattling about its strange
body. It picked its road as it went striding along, and the
brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the
inevitable suggestion of a head looking about. Behind the
main body was a huge mass of white metal like a gigantic fisherman’s basket, and puffs of green smoke squirted out
from the joints of the limbs as the monster swept by me.
And in an instant it was gone.
So much I saw then, all vaguely for the flickering of
the lightning, in blinding highlights and dense black
shadows.
As it passed it set up an exultant deafening howl that
drowned the thunder—‘Aloo! Aloo!’—and in another
minute it was with its companion, half a mile away,
stooping over something in the field.

Which instantly made me think of Rene Atois :lol:

[Karlos]

@Kenny

I know what he meant, I was listening to the first album when I wrote that post ;-)

I was just in nitpick mode when I pointed out HG Wells used "Aloo!" :-D

I wonder what Spielberg will use?

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I think The_Editor must have the Norfolk locale version judging from the way he writes it :-)

[Karlos]

Followed by "All your hedgerows are belong to us, Earthlings..."