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The Red Weeds continue to attack our sickly green planet in Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS!
Hey folks, Harry here with the latest from the world of the master... Spielberg and his WAR OF THE WORLDS. From the various websites' visits to the set - it seems he's leaving out the Black Smoke from the original novel... I suppose showing what it does is too heavy for PG-13... but to me, it was always the most horrific part of the book, foreshadowing the dangers of weapons of mass destruction and gas warfare... two things that as a society we're still obsessed with being worried about. Well, here's more images of the weeds down below. I wonder if this weed will get you high if you smoke it?
Harry, Sometime ago you posted a few pics taken by a fan on the set of WOW, now see some GOOD shots of the red weed from the Spielberg movie. One of them actually looks like some kind of creature I doubt is the Aliens but it could be the organisms that create the red weed.
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and i lol at red weed. mm ill smoke it
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what do the red weeds and the black smoke do?
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It would have been cool to see some "red weed" in one of the teasers. At least it's something! Did anyone read Alan Moore's last League of Extraordinary Gentlemen? The Martians used the red weed to capture the Nautilus...
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Shame about the black smoke, it had such a presence in the book, rolling clouds of black smoke causing panic and mayhem, ah well. But the smoke just suffocated people, nothing gruesome, and its so thick that you can't see through it, so when it does its killing you wouldn't even see the people dying, so I'm not sure why it would pose any kind of problems with the ratings board as far as a PG-13 goes. And the red weed is pretty much something that's just there, it doesn't do anything, just kind of a footprint of the Martian presence.
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The second book did a great War of the Worlds. Loved Mr Hyde.
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Feb 24, 2005 7:20:10 AM CST
Visually the Red Weed will hel the drab NJ scenes *considerably*
by spacesheik
WAR OF THE WORLDS looks great (for once we see disaster scenes in daylight, not shrouded away by darkness, clouds, like INDEPENDENCE DAY or GODZILLA). The red weeds look great - visually it will add to the NJ's drab greys and whites - but if they also had the black smoke it would be even more brilliant.
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The aliens are actually a whole eco-system taking over ours, alien plants and bugs and everything, not just some squiggly monster. Can't wait for the next book.
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Feb 24, 2005 8:28:19 AM CST
The Black Smoke is too terrifying for Spielberg's "target demo",
by thewoodman
...That's all I need to hear. Looks like this is gonna be some kind of chickenshit kiddie flick. E.T. with a naughty attitude. Just when "Schindler's List" & "Saving Private Ryan" had you thinking Spielberg had grown a set of balls, he goes crawling back to his half-assed white-bread suburbanoid roots. Feh.
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Now hold on there. Jeez, people really do seem to be looking for excuses to condemn Spielberg. It sounds like you're taking some weird speculation HARRY made in his intro and using it as some kind of proof that Spielberg sucks. It's not like the "black smoke is too scary for my target demographic" line was from an on-set interview with Spielberg or anything. That's a statement from Harry--and quite a nonsensical one at that. I mean, why would smoke be too grisly? I suspect that if Spielberg chose to omit the black smoke (and there's no proof one way or the other so far if he will) it's simply because there's nothing particularly "alien" about it visually, and that it would obscure the actors' faces.
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There was never anything remotely courageous about it in the first place. You thought there was going to be a daring take on a classic novel. Chickenshit never played into it.
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I was okay with it being set in modern days. I was okay with having the aliens not be from Mars. But no black smoke! GOD DAMNIT! What's the point of making a War of the Worlds movie with no smoke! As soon as this movie was announced I'd stayed up countless nights, hoping and praying that finally my lifelong dream of seeing smoke on film would finally be realized. And now this! Harry's speculation that because none of the early WOTS websites feature smoke in the early press-release shots, then there is definitely no smoke in the movie--just proves what an artistically bankrupt fatcat Spielberg really is and always was. Stevie had a chance to show us something on screen that has never been attempted visually before--smoke--and he pussies out! That fucking hack. I knew he'd blow it. This smokeless movie's sure to be awful now. Have fun with your little Teletubbies kiddie-flick, you geeks. But not me, I'm staying home. Wake me up when Episode 3 comes out. Hopefully there will be some smoke in that one.
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I don't give a rats ass if this movie leaves the black smoke out, it will still own. The 50's movie took out the tripods and replaced them with flying saucers for fuck's sake!
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No smoke ! oh what a motherfucker ! This is going to be terrible now . I'm going to tell all my friends ' don't see this film there is no black smoke FS!' then i'm going to do an amazon review as soon as it comes out and i'm going to say 'NO BLACK SMOKE 1/5 ' just in case people don't know because if they did know they would be sooo dissapointed .
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Assuming the story is true about the invaders in Spielberg's film NOT being from another planet, but rather another dimension, I have a theory. I may be late to the dance on this but it just occurred to me that Tom Cruise's religion, Scientology, has a very un-scifi view of aliens. Is it possible Cruise is behind the change in origin?
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I just thought that I would cheer up jollysleeve with this little tidbit -- internet rumor has it that there will be *SPOILER* smoke *\SPOILER* in Episode III. Hopefully, this will make up for the inevitable disappointment that a smoke-free WOTW will surely be...
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Feb 24, 2005 10:45:04 AM CST
Red Weeds in New Jersey? Seems kind of ironically appropriate
by ingeld
I said as much on the other talkback but my theory is that Speilberg has conflated the themes of the Time Machine with War of the Worlds. The aliens are indeed a future species of humans--think Morlocks. They are all technology and no soul. Intelligent animals without any sense of humanity.
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Assuming the story is true about the invaders in Spielberg's film NOT being from another planet, but rather another dimension, I have a theory. I may be late to the dance on this but it just occurred to me that Tom Cruise's religion, Scientology, has a very un-scifi view of aliens. Is it possible Cruise is behind the change in origin?
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Ah. Finally, the hardcore Star Wars movie we were all waiting for. Are you watching, Stevie? Maybe your smokeless ass could do with a few pointers from your old friend, George...... However, I'm still a bit wary of getting my hopes up again. Remember, Lucas is a filmmaker who is very much aware of his target demographic too. I just pray he sticks to his guns all throughout post-production. I pray that smoke doesn't end up on the cutting room floor in some pathetic attempt to avoid the NC-17 rating.
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green or red, i like weed
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Hey, good job getting me all psyched then pissing me the fuck off. Where's my trailer goddammit?
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Would that be Panama Red?
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....yeah, real scary.
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Feb 24, 2005 1:46:46 PM CST
What I'd like to know now is if Spielberg has enough courage lef
by salvatoregravano
Or did the little ballless source-rapist remove that, too? "Aww, no, Tommy cannot cowardly crack a poor priest's skull, people!" Perhaps in this "new version" he smashes the head of a terrorist hiding in the cellar, then? :P
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Otherwise it gets in the way of the scenery and makes manipulating the image way more complicated than need be. I'll bet you it will be in the final product.
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http://imdb.com/gallery/ss/0407304/Ss/0407304/WOTW_Poster1_600x800.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0407304
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Either somebody's having a party, or somebody needs to do their shirt laundry...
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hollywood producers are the only ones who can blow black smoke up their own ass - 'nuff said.
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You now have four months and change to complete this movie. That red fungus is giving me a bad "Dreamcatcher" flashback.
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Kurtz and Willard bake muffins and play Pong together. Intense shit man!
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Feb 25, 2005 1:23:45 AM CST
Tom Cruise had a Scientology Tent erected on the War of the Worl
by kintar0
It's true. I'd rather have a Blowjob Tent, but I differ.
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No amount of 'red weed' they show is going to ease my troubled mind. This is going to be Private Ryan meets ID4 (the reason I wrote 'ID4' is because I despise anyone who refers to that movie as 'ID4') but with an even bigger lame-ass humanity aspect. I want to see half of the human race wiped out in an all out WAR with another world (hence the film's title) I want to see every man and woman for themselves against every alien (or every alternative universe human or what the hellever Spielberg and Koepp have cooked up to make it 'original'). I want to see the President of the United States (played by Hulk Hogan) teaming up with Cruise and Dakota Fanning on a space mission to rebuild the human race on Mars, brother! If this is lame-ass I call for Spielberg not to make Indy 4 as that will also suck.
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Erik_Richmond - the black smoke is fired by the Martian tripods and covers the ground killing everything it touches. When Wells wrote the book at the turn of the centuary the idea of germ warfare and gas attacks were what scared everybody most. The red weed comes with the Martians and grows everywhere choking out earth plants. The red weed is probably a metaphor for the colonisation of another culture by a more powerful one. Wells was very concerned about how the British empire and it's culture was wiping out indiginous cultures in the same way everyone says America is doing now. Just show how nothing has cyhanged.
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Feb 25, 2005 5:23:54 AM CST
if the bad guys in this are not martians but scientologists-like
by spacesheik
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...is because we're long past the stage of believing there may be intelligent life on Mars (though we haven't ruled out primordial life yet). Now, saying they're "from another dimension" is pretty nonsensical in my opinion; I'd rather just have them be from another star system such as Alpha Centauri or Sirius or whatever.
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But I think they should take that lead as far as where the aliens are from and just not mention it, I mean, if aliens actually did invade us, how would we know we're they're from anyways?
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"But I think they should take that lead as far as where the aliens are from and just not mention it, I mean, if aliens actually did invade us, how would we know we're they're from anyways?"
By their bumper stickers? "Alpha Centauri or Bust?" -
Feb 25, 2005 5:17:37 PM CST
Reminds me more of Day of the Triffids or Island of Terror
by boris the blade
Some Peter Cushing flick.....
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http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/wotw-videos.htm
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I can't believe how may people in this talkback are bitching and complaining about the Black Smoke. Who fucking cares! Instead of getting truly excited about seeing a great film maker's interpretation of a great story, we get caught up in the details. Please people, quit whining about stupid shit! Who knows, maybe Harry is wrong about. It wouldn't be the first time!
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It's ALL in the details, fuckwit. It's ALL ABOUT the details. THE DETAILS are ALL THAT MATTER. What are you, two years old?
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