War of the Worlds not necessary.

Running "round" is rather apt given the present state of the "Western" population. I exclude myself of course. Though I'm always prepared to compete for England in "headless chook" at the next olympics. I wonder if obesity is just another way of "trimming the fat" by means of evolution?

Rather looking forward to seeing the movie. What with Doctor Who and Star wars on our screens, space adventures are all in vogue.
Can we have some reviews in the films thread please.
You seem to get the release earlier than us.
We don't have a film lending library so will have to part with some hard earned, but only on your sayso, mind.

Holywood has done it again.

" A contemporary retelling of HG Wells's seminal classic....through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it"

I have no beef with our American cousins, but why does Holywood invariably have to reinvent the world as if it is all American?

I think you'll need to point the finger at Orson Welles rather than Hollywood for this one.

Standard Disneyesk parochialism crossed with accute national paranoia. Add several buckets of sickly-sweet fizzy tear jerker to taste and bring to the boil beneath a standard-issue US child actor with a Donald Duck voice and saucer eyes. Now mix in an endlessly screaming weakling of a female displaying an adequate silicon valley. Insert a lightly salted, wet shirted, lantern-jawed male lead and you can sum up much of Holey-wood's output. As long as it's Arney, Tommy or Brucey doing the physically impossible at the drop of a costumier's hat to an excess of infrasonics the DVD should do well.

Wot, Nime, won't it even make the theatres?
Speaking of which, the US version of "The Office" was pulled after the first episode as it didn't rate.
It's a cut- throat world on commercial TV with no second chances.

I thought most of the "second chances" were shown at peak times on Europen TV?

Nime, you forgot the inevitable slow-motion action pics of Tom "I may be short but I have a huge ego" Cruise performing miscellaneous heroics

S.

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Originally posted by Nime:
I thought most of the "second chances" were shown at peak times on Europen TV?

Fifth chances even, though I think 9/11 woke the Yanks up into realising that the real world didn't in any way resemble Hollywood, innit

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Originally posted by Yeldarb:
Holywood has done it again.

" A contemporary retelling of HG Wells's seminal classic....through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it"

I have no beef with our American cousins, but why does Holywood invariably have to reinvent the world as if it is all American?

Umm, Hollywood is in America. Might have something to do with it.

Still, at least we can count on Pinewood Studios to do things in a properly non-Anglo-centric fashion. Oh wait, maybe not.

Has Cuise got too far now? "Nutter" himself?