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New Japanese Trailer For WAR OF THE WORLDS Continues To Amaze!
Hey folks, Harry here... I don't know about you, but I'm literally intoxicated by WAR OF THE WORLDS. Now, I've been this way most of my life. H.G. Wells, Orson Welles and George Pal are all patron saints due to their involvement in the WAR OF THE WORLDS mythology. I have the old Amazing Stories Pulps that featured those amazing war machines, I own George Pal's director's chair that he directed WAR OF THE WORLDS from... and just recently I picked up this original first LP edition of Welles' WAR OF THE WORLDS radio broadcast that panicked a nation autographed by Orson himself!
There's something so vitally immediate about the story of WAR OF THE WORLDS that perfectly suits it for adapting into any era. Watching the trailer campaign for Spielberg's version has been so much fun, but at the same time... utterly confusing. I am trying to figure out, just from the evidence we have... these trailers, interviews that folks involved have done, and little things that Quint remembered when I applied the hot irons to the soles of his feet. At no point in any of these trailers do we see any main character do anything, but care for their family and run. There's no, "Ok, what we have to do is explode the gas main under the war machine, throw it off balance then we can bring these buildings down atop it." No, there isn't any of that.
Somewhere along the way Spielberg said he wanted this to be the great American refugee film. It seems that what he has planned here is a survivors tale. The story of what it was like to live through the War of the Worlds. Steven has said he loves the immediacy of Welles' radio play, that 'You are there!' quality. This new Japanese trailer furthers that idea even further. When Cruise meets the Army - he's trying to talk them out of going in the direction of the invaders. This doesn't seem to be a hero's tale, but one of a father and his kids just trying to see another day. That's powerful stuff. This new trailer also shows a cylinder unscrewing. Goosebumps! Can not wait to see this sucker!
Check out the new Japanese trailer at DreamworksFansite.Com
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For shame!
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Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise. Exciting.
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I liked it! I'm another big WOTW fan, all my life, so this looks good...or at least better than that WEIRD-ASS TV show loosely based on it in the 90's. Oh, and FIRST!!!
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"Star Wars" fans wait at wrong theater - Studio says film will open May 19 at ArcLight, not Chinese. LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- "Star Wars" fans will have to find the right theater before they can leave for the dark side. Seven weeks before its release, "Star Wars" fanatics started lining up outside Grauman's Chinese Theater for the sixth installment of the popular George Lucas movie series. The vigil began Saturday. But there's a problem: "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" won't be showing at the Hollywood landmark when the movie is released May 19. The studio, 20th Century Fox, opted instead to open the film a mile away at the ArcLight theater. Still, the resolute "Star Wars" die-hards aren't moving on. Beneath a makeshift awning, 11 people refused to relinquish their spots in line. "We've heard all this before," fan Sarah Sprague said, noting there were plenty of rumors in 1999 and 2002 that previous "Star Wars" movies weren't opening at the Chinese Theater. The rumors were false and the films were shown there. Fox and the ArcLight haven't completed their "Star Wars" deal, but executives on both sides told Daily Variety "Revenge of the Sith" will play at the ArcLight, not the Chinese. Yet Sprague was adamant the line wouldn't be moving to the ArcLight. "This is still the epicenter for 'Star Wars' fans. For the big iconic pictures of the 1970s, people lining up were here. They weren't at the Cinerama Dome (at the ArcLight)," Sprague said.
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Though I didn't see the cylinder unscrewing, unless we're talking about what looks like a jet engine in the house and I completely misinterpreted that scene.
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That's a jet engine Harry.
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What purpose was posting that old story thats been up on other sites much here in a War Of The Worlds TB? So what if they admittantly choose to stay lined at the Chinese theater. It's a tradition to them to line up for this film because no other films down the line will probably envoke such a need to do so ever again. No matter how bad these films got.. SW was the reason we got excited and lined up for movies in the first place. So tired of degenerates finding that story and posting it in some failed attempt at spreading humor in it because it's now chic/cool to hate SW. If they wern't there mainly for charity I can maybe understand the "teehee" and "haha" in that but it's not funny when it's about the Starlight Foundation. They even stated if they moved the line the charity wouldn't make as much money at the other theater which is the goal of a continuing charity.. to make more money than before. Anyway... as for this War Of The Worlds trailer. I love it, I like how they are keeping the invaders mysterious.
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They made that sound from the Pal version by opening a mayonaisse jar inside a toilet.
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Apr 06, 2005 9:30:57 PM CDT
Well, if ROTS ain't opening at Mann's then WOTW oughta.
by hanfiredfirst
But I still think ROTS should open at Mann's Chinese ... tradition and all.
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Apr 06, 2005 9:32:15 PM CDT
you'd think Harry would also be interested in that OTHER WOTW fi
by realdoublej
being the great big fan he is. You know, the one being done in England and being completely faithful to the book. It also comes out before Spielberg's modern-day update where the Martians don't come from Mars. I'm looking forward to Spielberg's movie. But it looks more like a serious Independence Day remake than a War of The Worlds homage.
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Apr 06, 2005 9:44:21 PM CDT
At first I thought that 'real' WOTW adaption was a joke....
by gil-galad12
turned out it wasn't. Too bad.
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Apr 06, 2005 10:23:24 PM CDT
The alien vehicles look like the walkers from Halflife2 I bet
by orionsangels
No biggie
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Apr 06, 2005 10:49:43 PM CDT
YES. A scene of a car/truck/spaceship/boat/person zooming while
by vekt0r
never seen that before!!
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gotta link?
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Apr 06, 2005 11:14:15 PM CDT
WOTW is actually pretty timely and relevant like all good sci-fi
by johnnytremaine
It'll probably be a huge hit, one of the reasons being that it, like the novel, taps into modern day anxieties arising from foreign, i.e. terrorist threats to economic worries, and channels it via a science fiction premise. It'll connect with people and the flick will likely have legs for a long summer run. Plus, the FX look awesome.
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Was the bomb. I was very young but I remember enjoying it.
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Sweet! BRING MORE TRAILERS!
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..this trailer looks a lot like the other ones. when are we going to see some alien stuff?
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Apr 07, 2005 12:21:59 AM CDT
Rumor has it the new, final trailer (showing more stuff) goes ou
by triumph poops!
Which would make sense...attach the trailer to the second biggest event of the summer to the first biggest to maximize exposure. Not that WOTW needs it. I'll be there opening night! But I can't wait to see the full out full trailer that does show more...
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Looks like I'll have to think of some other completely arbitrary reason to condemn the latest Spielberg film before it's even out of the editing room so that I can maintain my image of free-spirited independent thinker.
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The somber tone of the advertisements for this film has it as my most anticipated movie of the summer. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out to be just another big-budget sci-fi flick but rather that Spielberg turns in a potent 9/11 allegory. Either way I'm there in the theatre, opening day. I can't wait.
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Apr 07, 2005 1:58:54 AM CDT
The Problem With the Japenese Trailer is, An Hour Later You're H
by hipcheck13
...this look's SMOKIN'.
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all the fucking GRAVITAS! I can't fucking take it! Soooo fucking SOMBER. Whatever. Show me some aliens, goddamnit. Or some fucking spaceships. If you want my ass in the theater. show me something unique and exciting, not Tom Cruise portraying Tom Cruise in a baseball hat. Hmmm... big budget sc-fi flick in one hand... 9/11 allegory in the other... hmm... yeah, that's a touch choice.
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...He has never made a bad move. Not one. THis will be great. He brings heart to everything and I know he is kicking ass with this one too....
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And I'll probably go see it, it's just that so far I've had nothing more from this film other than an overwhelming feeling of "meh." None of the trailers excite me, not one. It really does remind me too much of ID4, Armageddon and a number of other sci-fi/disaster films. Natrually I could be wrong; this wouldn't be the first case of good movie/bad trailer syndrome. But thus far Batman Begins, Revenge of the Sith, Kingdom of Heaven and even Fantastic Four all look like better bets as far as quality goes. Toppu o Nerae!
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with Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise and Tom Cruise...starring Tom Cruise, guest star: Tom Cruise, featuring Tom Cruise's best actor friend: Tom Cruise...
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Recently bought the Jeff wayne musical and I've not heard it since I was was wee. Incredibly atmospheric still and can't beat a bit of Prog. Anyone know what's happening about the animated version of that album? What I loved about Close Encounters was Richard Dreyfuss's everyman quality. The best scenes were just him struggling with his sanity. Spielberg seems to have disregarded this in his casting of Tom 'featuring me' Cruise.
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that's what's gonna happen if I make this my last post before going to bed in the UK and a bit shocked to find a response. http://www.pendragonpictures.com/WOTWKEY.html
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Apr 07, 2005 8:21:39 AM CDT
I don't recognise one person in that other WoTW flick..
by big_bubbaloola
No stars= no or limited release. Coming soon to a bargin dvd bin near you!
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I am looking forward to this but that really was not worth the effort. Especially me still being on dial up. There is no cylinder unscrewing at all, it's quite blatantly a jet engine. LET'S SEE SOME FUCKING TRIPODS.
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turning slowly and looking up and off camera in shock?
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...and even enjoyed 1941, there were many who panned the hell out of that WWII farce. And I think AI was about the most boring and self-absorbed futuristic robot movie I've ever seen. After the first two hours of being beaten over the head with the Pinnochio parallels via Blade Runner, I wanted to gouge my eyes out witha melon baller... and the movie just kept going! I despised iRobot, but I'd watch that again twice before even downloading ten minutes of AI. So when I hear Spielberg is going back to the Sci-Fi well with his Minority Report star (a very ho-hum movie given the potential promised by the premise), I get a little nervous. And none of the trailers or images I've seen so far have done anything to reassure me this will be anything but a very melodramatic ID4 without the "rah-rah" factor or Will Smith. On the plus side, maybe this exercise will cleanse Stevie's palette of the need to make sci-fi so heavily allegorical so he can loosen up and have some fun with the Transformers movie.
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I'd written this off as a "serious ID4 ", as somebody said earlier, but Harry's right, this teaser at least gave the feeling of the characters being "refugees", rahter than "Tom CruiseTM learns to be a good father again in the face of tragedy, while also implausibly helping to save the human race and kill the aliens". Still a bit ambivalent, but it's pretty reassuring.
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As uneventful each of these new trailers are (it's really just the same trailer over and over), and as amped up that Spielberg is about his PEOPLE STARING AT THE CAMERA IN HORROR/SHOCK... This is fine for me. I want to be surprised AT the theater for a change. It should also be noted... Don't count on the aliens being from Mars in THIS version either.
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... SUCKED! HARD! Your childhood memories are faded and have fogged your thinking. The show also had the problem of changing the damn alien protagonists each season. "Well, thank god an even more powerful alien race came in and chased out all those damn martians... OOPS! Now they're killing all us humans, too? GODDAMMIT!" Interestingly, that bad Gene Roddenberry show from the 90's with all the aliens who looked like Buddha had the same problem in later seasons.
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Apr 07, 2005 4:23:32 PM CDT
"if we had really had to fend off an attack from another, more t
by stan the bat
"...don't you think we probably would have put aside a lot of our petty differences and started to work together?" Aww, how sweet. But no, we wouldn't have. You watch too much TV, or believe too much of what you watch. A "real" WOTW scenario would end with various nations scrambling to adapt alien technology so they could be the first to ravage the globe with it. "Hey, we HAD to- otherwise somebody ELSE would have done it. We only wanted the heat ray as a DETERRENT... and fortunately we're a nation of GOOD people who will only use the alien heat ray again BAD people. Pre-emptively."
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Apr 07, 2005 4:58:34 PM CDT
To appeal to the Japanese, they're handing out glasses that see
by boris the blade
Me so solly.
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Lets see Spielberg, Koepp, Fanning and Cruise. That's not exactly a group I associate with good movies. Koepp's written one good film (Trigger Effect) and Cruise has been in maybe 2 good movies in a 20+ years of making them. Spielberg has maybe one good film out of 10 made and fanning's never been in a good movie. My guess is, this movie will be ass.
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Apr 07, 2005 9:31:28 PM CDT
Gimme a break. The people who post or recommend the Pendragon ve
by triumph poops!
Seriously, because I can't imagine ANYONE wanting to see such an utter piece of shit. Voicebox5's comment above that it looks like a low budget, bad reenactment film that you'd see in a museum, where I can picture then sitting on some bad padded stool facing a small TV monitor, was dead on target. Best quote about the Pendragon version I've EVER hear and will probably be the ONLY positive "blurb" that the Pendragon people will be able to use once their crap gets flushed away by the might that is Cruise and Speilberg!!!!
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i really liked the music they used in that japanese trailer. does anyone recognize it? it doesn't sound like typical John Williams crap (yeah, i said it, john williams is crap. deal with it.)
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The music used in the second half of the trailer is the main theme of King Arthur by Hans Zimmer.
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ah, that makes sense. i thought it sounded like Zimmer. thanks!
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Apr 08, 2005 2:06:53 AM CDT
The aliens are'nt real people. The S-man is just pulling an M.
by cherrycola
The aliens are not real. Where does the trailer show the aliens? Now before you people start flaming me....A guy at work told me this and I'm just repeating it. It may be that the over active imagination of the tom cruise character and the people around him and in overdrive and this is a re-telling of the infamous orson wells radio stunt from many moons ago. I know, not gonna happen. But still, It would be pretty damn funny to find out it was all fake.
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I'm more interested in a faithful adaptation, regardless if it hasn't got any "stars" in it, than yet another movie where we see modern-day earth get blown up. The reason why I posted about the Pendragon picture was I found it humorous that Harry calls himself such a WOTW fan and yet not a word about this other pic which has been in production longer than Spielberg's. It had to stop production after 9/11 because no one wanted movies where buildings blow up. People's comments about this being a "dramatic re-enactment" might hold up, this might be a film to go straight in the bargain DVD bin, but it has just as much chance as Spielberg's in either being good or being shit.
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Apr 08, 2005 6:47:49 AM CDT
It ain't worth shit if it doesn't have a single werewolf in it.
by uncle stan
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It reveals a great deal about this site, when Harry will post about some kids doing an 8mm remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark but will not post a story about a film company making an adaptation of one of his favorite works. The obvious conclusion one can draw is that Harry is in bed (ugh what an image) with certain movie studios, directors, etc. AICN is just a PR tool posing as a geek website.
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but the trailer still looked more credible than recent Sci-Fi Channel originals. Mansquito anyone?
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"Would we have even HAD a WWI or WWII? So maybe setting it in the present works best for the purpose of the story". Yes, unless you want to be faithfull to the book, which was first published in 1898. Before WWI and before WWII.
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Voicebox, the Pendragon movie may well be crap, but AICN has reported on a lot of worse crap than that. It deserved a mention somewhere along the line on a site that is supposedly dedicated to all movies geeky. It just takes a situation like this to see how much a shill AICN has become. It reveals the emperor has no cloths. (Uggh, there's that image again.)
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the trailer reminds me of Dantes Peak.
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