Okay, I watched it

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In Reply to: Update Me On Your Viewing Experience In Future. nt posted by AudioHead on September 20, 2005 at 10:10:56:

This thing is a whopping three hours long! I kept thinking this must be someone's amateur film school project and have no doubt it would have never made it with your typical movie crowd. It was jerky and loaded with occasional shifts between shades of sepia green and gray and then all of a sudden orange and red, then black and white and back to natural colors again. It was obviously intended to have a sort of old fashion documentary-on-a-cinematograph look to it. And the soundtrack! It was relentless and loud and would suddenly stop in the middle of a note for some whooshing wind noise sounds and explosion sound effects and then start back up again in a completely different location in the score. It alone was maddening.
Most, if not all of the special effects were painted on and were totally fake and cheesy looking. They actually looked like cartoon drawings.
They eat alot of bread in this movie. Alot. I can imagine this being a great drinking game movie for frats...take a drink every time someone eats bread and you'll be out of it by the time the credits roll.
At least the dialog was loud enough to understand what the characters were saying, unlike so many movies today where the dialog gets lost in they hyped up dynamic range needed for special effects impact. The the Martains, I counted four distinct kinds, where done pretty well. The tripod giant "main" Martians looked like a cross between a praying mantis and a toaster but were somewhat convincing in scale and when "walking" around and blowing up things with their death ray. The other's were too much like B-movie creatures from the 50s.
Unless you're a diehard fan of H.G. Wells, don't bother.

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Update Me On Your Viewing Experience In Future. nt - AudioHead 10:10:56 09/20/05 (2)

Okay, I watched it - Ken Perkins 07:14:36 09/23/05 (1)

Re: Okay, I watched it - AudioHead 05:24:04 09/27/05 (0)

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