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A Japanese WAR OF THE WORLDS Teaser Trailer Reveals A New Element of Spielberg's Latest!
Hey folks, Harry here... Boy this is looking hot as hell. This damn file is giving me a headache. It's one of them bloody mms: files that you can't download... which means... it's impossible to get to play nicely off your own hard drive, which is the only way to really see idiotic 'streaming' technology. When I initially posted - all I saw was the date 1978 followed by the image of a woman clutching her child beneath a clothesline. My impression was that this meant that the clip was "set in 1978" which was an assumption on my part - given ignorant inability to decipher Japanese. Turns out... it is a series of text referring to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS and E.T. As a contrast for what Spielberg is doing with these aliens being nasty ones. If anyone knows where I can download this file so I can see it all the way through, or that finds a decent Quicktime of the file... let me know. I'm dying to see this without starts and stutters. However, maybe you can see it for yourself!
Hi Harry,
I've just downloaded and seen "War of the Worlds" TV Spot airing in Japan. Although it's very similar to the Super Bowl Spot, there's some shots never before seen. I like this one, too.
Click Here To See The Window's Media Version of this new Japanese Spot!
-Jin
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That plays properly for about 2 seconds for me then turns into a slideshow. Whens it up in quicktime?
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Feb 21, 2005 6:53:10 AM CST
I got sound but no picture, and the second link didn't work at a
by monkey butler
I was really excited for this, but reading Spielberg's and Cruise's comments about the film I'm losing alot of that excitment. For a films that Spielberg claims is his pet project, he doesn't seem to care all that much about it
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...that just looks like references to close encounters in 78 and ET in 82...... all the clips you see in that trailer are from war of the worlds...
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by the way, the tone of the movie IS just right! Total panic!
By the way, use Nettransport to download the movie (use the 'download'link) -
...will always stream, you can download this but it comes in the form of a tiny .ASX file which, you guessed it, still only streams it from the site it's on... I'd imagine there's a bloody huge queue of people trying to view this right now which is why it stops/starts... i'm sure it'll be out soon in stand alone format...
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Feb 21, 2005 7:25:03 AM CST
Use Net Transporter To Download & Save Trailer To Hard Drive.
by the outlander
http://lycos26486.l97.lycos.com.cn/default.htm
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Feb 21, 2005 7:36:13 AM CST
Besides Windows Media sucking ass compared to Quicktime, it woul
by commando cody
I appreciate the heads up on anything new regarding this flick (since I'm dying to see it this summer), but like others have mentioned here all I get when I click on the link is streaming sound, but no picture. So I hope someone who has seen this can at least put in writing for the rest of us just "what" new shots are in this trailer. Or that someone will get a proper working copy of the file and post it to a mirror site so it does stream correctly. Man, for all the money Bill Gates makes off Windows and given that Windows-based computers account for -- what, like 90% of the worlds computers? -- you'd think that Microsoft would FINALLY spend some of that dough and create a media tool that is as every bit as good as Quicktime, yet in the immortal words of John Belushi "But noooooo!"
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Feb 21, 2005 7:51:57 AM CST
Yes, Got It, Harry Likes QuickTime, Jeeezus, Is Apple Fucking Pa
by filker-tom
Thanks to people bitching about spyware and programs commandeering their computers, the major media players have given people MUCH more control over their own settings the past few years -- which, to me, brings it back to which formats work better for what. And, frankly, the ONLY advantage of QuickTime I can find is that, when you know where to look, sometimes, the file can be copied from your Temp files. The audio is no better than Real, and the video rather inferior to Dvix or even some Flash. Windows Media is not the best, but it does the job. It's like hitching a ride, and you get picked up by a truck, and then you bitch out the truck driver because he's not in a Caddy. Quit whining.
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Feb 21, 2005 7:57:45 AM CST
Windows Media Player suks arse and Bill Gates can eat my shit.
by regicidal_maniac
Nah I'm just kidding he seems like an okay nerd. But seriously WMP blows goats, let me know when it turns up in QuickTime.
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Feb 21, 2005 8:00:50 AM CST
well looks like a forgot the "c" in sucks, what a silly unt.
by regicidal_maniac
"Name's Smoketoomuch"
"Well you'd better cut down a little then hadn't you?"
"I'm sorry?"
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Feb 21, 2005 8:05:58 AM CST
Ah shit, for the purposes of the above subject line: "a" = "I".
by regicidal_maniac
...kids let this be a lesson never to type while drunk.
"But officer I swear I'm okay to type."
"Son step away from the keyboard and place your hands palm-down on the desk." -
1978 refers to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I think the Japanese title is translated as "Unknown Contact".
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By the way, I saw the Japanese teaser trailer (with the name of the movie at the end redone with Japanese graphics) in a Tokyo cinema, but I don't know why Apple.co.jp does not have the trailer for viewing, considering how both Cruise and Spielberg are really big in Japan.
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Ever heard of Streambox, SDown and dozens of other stream downloaders? The above should be rephrased to "it's one of those bloody mms: files that I don't know how to download..." The file that *downloads* from this link is a 3.7 MB asf (spot_1m.asf), by the way.
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Not sure what you're smoking, but don't you know it's rude to post while high?
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Nowt much new here. WM Recorder will download the stream to your HD for your repeated viewing pleasure BTW.
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Seems that the audio is running nicely, but all I got is some stills with only a bit of movement.
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All I got was the audio. The only thing I saw was the 1978 screen the whole time.
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Feb 21, 2005 1:58:17 PM CST
http://forums.eveofthewar.com/photos/displayimage.php?album=46&p
by darth yddet
There you go. Man, this movie is going to make so much money.
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Very Spielbergian
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We know that Spielberg has said that he would never make an evil alien film, and we also know the 'invaders' come from an alternative universe. Factor in that we haven't seen any of the aliens in the trailers and the tag line 'they're already here' leads me to the conclusion of a possible twist. THE INVADERS ARE HUMANS FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
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Another War Of The World trailer, another fucking gyp! Let's see a fucking laser beam! Or an alien spaceship! Or something! As for the aliens being humans from an alternate Earth, I SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hope that's wrong, but it seems possible.
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It took for ever to "Download" and buffer and shit, but then it still was jerky and froze up several times. As for set in "1978", I'd guess from the title "1982" that is was set 4 years later.
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The trailer just opens by showing titles of Spielberg's alien films, 1978, Close Encounters (it was 77 US, but a 78 release foreign), 82 ET, 2005 WotW.
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http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2005/STUVWXYZ/War-of-the-Worlds/trailer.php
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The Japanese Movie Trailer Guy sounds just like the American Movie Trailer Guy?
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Feb 21, 2005 4:39:13 PM CST
Saw the trailer: New footage..?? More people screaming and runn
by alcamaeon
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I don't understand Japanese at all, but I'm pretty sure he says "In a world on the brink of destruction, one man..."
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Feb 21, 2005 6:33:10 PM CST
Mr Miracle, if you want to see laser beams, see Star Wars
by monkey butler
The heat rays in WotW are supposed to be invisible, which could look infinitely cooler if done properly.
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The first link won't play for more than two seconds without locking up, and the second link won't work at all in Firefox. In IE the second link has freaky dancing shapes on the edges. Windows Media Player sucks. I WANT HI-RES QUICKTIME!
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I didn't see your post until after I posted myself. Thanks for the link. At least in Quicktime I can SEE what I'm hearing.
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The heat rays are invisible in the book. Which works in the book, because you have to imagine the invisible heat rays. Because it happens in your mind, in your imagination, sure invisible fucking heat rays. But this is a film we're talking about here. Film is a visual medium. We're gonna see the fucking heat rays, okay? Predator was invisible, but we could see him. Your own logic doesn't even make sense. Yes, I will see Star Wars.
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will you find someone bitching that they can't see the invisible heat rays. And yes, film is a visual medium, and the visual that Wells was aiming to create, and Spielberg is recreating with the invisible heat rays, is the look of things almost spontaneously being destroyed, if you can see the invisible heat ray, you lose that visual in favor of people who simply want to see a nifty laser beam. Being a visual medium simply means things need to make sense in a visual manner, it doesn't mean every little thing has to be laid out for you as if you were deaf and dumb. And Predator wasn't invisible, since not only could we see him, but they could see him in the movie as well.
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we won't see any laser beams in this new War of the Worlds? We'll just see things toppling and things "spontaneously being destroyed?" Sounds lame. Al least the Pal version had all kinds of laser beams. What's wrong with laser beams, anyway? Too, um, unrealistic? You don't want to see giant alien machines destroying shit with laser beams? You'd rather see the giant alien machine pause, look at Eifel Tower, silence, the Eifel Tower melts, and the giant alien machine rolls on, satisfied? Sounds, yeah, really visually stimulating... can't wait.
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cause that teaser clip that showed all that stuff being destroyed really had no visual interest whatsoever, I mean, that freeway flying was pretty boring without a neon light flying through it, they should do this movie exactly like every sci-fi movie before has already done it.
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WHY?? WHY?? Freaking Quicktime is just standing there - USE IT.
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I would rather download a large Quicktime preview on a dial up connection while I watch a TV show in the livingroom, than watch a streaming Windows Media Player preview on a high speed Broadband connection anytime, anywhere. The picture quality of Quicktime is always (IMO) better. Plus, with the rapid fire shots that are sometimes a part of these previews, I like to have the ability to go through those shots frame by frame. WMP doesn't do that. And what the hell is "Buffering"? If it's loading the preview, then say it's loading the preview!! Buffering gives me a headache! Makes me go looking for some Bufferin. Or some Excedrin. Or perhaps some Tylenol. Or even the elusive "Pain reliever that works". Oh well, time to go see what Jack did tonight. I recorded 24 on my VCR. You know. Those plastic black rectangles that record TV shows on non-disc media? Anybody? ...god, i feel old... ...okay... enough ranting. I still don't like WMP. Bite the big one Gates!
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Thanks for the link. Looks good... ...IN GLORIOUS QUICKTIME!!! I don't know japanese, but I do like hearing it in Quicktime! Die Windows Media Player!! DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!
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Feb 22, 2005 2:34:47 AM CST
sorry, but everything about this movie looks incredibly derivati
by sirbiatchreturns
so far it will not have my money. Nothing is happening. Just a bunch of people looking afraid. yet i see that some of you have already bought into this HARD. which i find absolutely fascinating. Do some of you actually have tastes in movies, or is it just random?
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Feb 22, 2005 3:33:42 AM CST
Spielberg had a chance back in 1979 to make a film about evil a
by monkey_king
E.T. was based on the last part of the 'Dark Skies' script by John Sayles(loosely based on the Hopkinsville goblins case in 1955). Dark Skies would've been the sequel to Close Encounters had Spielberg pulled out on both Rick Baker and the films original story. Making up for it this time? Perhaps. We'll see. (sidenote, the Hopkinsville goblins bore a striking resemblance to the Gremlins or vice versa, except teh goblins in Hopkinsville were silver, less scaly, and floated around when not walking)
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"Nothing can touch them." Maybe it's just me, but that makes me a bit nervous. One of the great things about the book is that human weaponry COULD touch them, but it was a losing battle. Keep in mind, the title is War of the Worlds, not Massacre of the Worlds. "War" implies some minute ability to fight back.
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...for the first batch of reviews to pop up before I decide whether this will be worth my money in the theater. That's what I did with Sky Captain and, after finally renting it last night, I can honestly say I'm glad I waited. It was nice being able to pull out my laptop and play computer games when the movie got boring. Steve just hasn't convinced me he still knows how to do sci fi.
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sometimes that TB mentality really gets on my nerves. either people hype something to death and expect everything to be as good as what they`ve experienced when they were 8 or 11 or they start moaning and bitching because they know for sure that it is not going to be like something they`ve seen 20 years back. and all that because of 30 seconds.
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Really shouldn't make you nervous, cause that's exactly the sentiment Well's character had in the novel, and human weaponry really couldn't touch them, as Wells really makes it obvious how easy it was for the Martians, Wells accounted for there being something like two dozen martians in England, taking on the millions of people there, and winning, and by the end of the fighting we're told that the Martians had lost just one, and that one was due to an accident.
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Feb 22, 2005 9:25:27 PM CST
"I bet we'll find life on Mars before the movie comes out and th
by commando cody
First off, the European Mars Express probe and the discovery of an ice bed only confirms previous U.S. observations that substantial water-ice lies at the poles, on its own or mixed with carbon dioxide ice and dirt. In other words, the notion of water on Mars is OLD news, and does NOT confirm any notion that life existed there at ANY point in the planet's history. But even the newly announced ice bed is buried under a thick layer of dust, and further exploration of it is extremely problematic -- not the least of which is that no physical Mars lander, that is a probe actually touching down the surface, is due to reach the planet anytime soon. And even if there is a U.S. or European landing scheduled that I'm missing the notation on, the likelihood of it THEN instantly stumbling on life is like 7 trillion to one. The odds of discovering life on Mars BEFORE July 4th Weekend and the opening of WOTW just ain't gonna happen -- not to mention, your prediction that it would tank the box office is utterly lame and completely off by 180 degrees since the discovery of life would only prompt the box office to SOAR even higher than it already will since it would only be calling more media attention to the movie and drive more people into the theater. Let's face it, other than EPISODE 3, Spielberg and Cruise and WOTW will likely be the biggest hit of the summer. Other than EPISODE 3, it's certainly the movie to beat...
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Feb 22, 2005 10:27:40 PM CST
Aliens arent from Mars....Cruise playing the average joe...Dakot
by bong
oh daddy
Please make the aliens go away
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...maybe you all have stupid computers. Get a new one.
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The VO says "Earth's last war, will not be started by mankind."
Also the title in Japanese is "Space War" for some reason...seems a little off...oh well.
Japanese web site is www.uchu-sensou.jp
Nothing new there, though.
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Feb 22, 2005 11:31:06 PM CST
Wow! A bunch of people slowly standing up and looking at the sk
by han ol' buddy
Never seen that in an alien movie before! I was able to see the trailer at the Moviebox website in Quicktime but I didn't see anything new to get all excited about. I'll see it because it's Spielberg but I could do without Dakota. She's the female Haley Joel. Just plain creepy.
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Seriously. God damn Haters. Please explain in coherent sentances with cogent arguments to support your case. Pleawe keep the cuss words to a minimum and the words "Star" and "Wars" are forbidden. Thank you.
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Feb 23, 2005 6:18:52 AM CST
"Pleawe keep the cuss words to a minimum and the words "Star" an
by kintar0
Fuck that and fuck you.
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So don't bother...
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Is that your final answer?
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