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Bartholomewcm
gatherer
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 144
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 - 2:52 am: |     |
What's to say? Also wrote a story called "The Star," very different from ACC's. Read it and four of his most famous novels here:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/etexts/index.htm |
Bartholomewcm
hunter
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 384
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 2:46 am: | |
Looks like all ahead full for Steven Spielberg's remake of War of the world for next summer, starring Tom Cruise. Paramount has shelved MI: 3, and SS has put his production about the 1972 Munich Olympics on hold. Doesn't say here whether the new WoW will be a period piece, the only such version so far is Jeff Wayne's musical.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
--Sir James Barrie |
Sidescraper_gal
gatherer
Username: Sidescraper_gal
Post Number: 221
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 3:52 am: | |
All:
What? *Another* Hollywood remake? Why can't they do anything *original*? There's plenty of good stuff out there.
Anne G |
Bartholomewcm
hunter
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 385
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 5:09 am: | |
Don't you get it? It's never been done as a period piece. And that would have to include Wells' conception of the Martians.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
--Sir James Barrie |
Thalion
storyteller
Username: Thalion
Post Number: 1140
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2004 - 10:27 am: | |
I don't get it either. What does 'a period piece' mean?
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they pass by - Douglas Adams |
Bartholomewcm
hunter
Username: Bartholomewcm
Post Number: 470
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 6:12 am: | |
WotW in the theaters now, and it's not a period piece (like "First Men in the Moon" and every Jules Verne movie has been, shot as if taking place at the time it was written). It IS very, very good, Spielberg obviously intending it as the flip side of Close Encounters, with many homages to all previous versions, including the 1970's LP), and some new plot elements that work mostly in favor of the story. Well worth seeing, but it contains a fatal flaw not in any of the others that you can't think about without having the whole thing collapse, especially if you;re a fussy science fiction fan. Will be happy to go one-on-one with anyone else who's seen it and wants to discuss it, would be best if you're familiar with the broadcast, the George Pal film, and the LP, as well as the book.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
--Sir James Barrie |
Prehistorical Fiction, SF and Fantasy