The War Of The Worlds

The War Of The Worlds

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  Reviewed by Adrian W. | see all reviews by Adrian W.

  13/12/2010

  At some points, it feels like it drags on a little bit with stuff -I- don't really care about, but everything is relevant to the overall plot, from the narrator's observations of the all-talk artilleryman to the behaviour of a group of crows near the end. H. G. Wells seems to have had an uncanny insight into the behaviour of distressed humans; great stuff.
  
  What especially impressed me, however, were the descriptions of the malevolent Martians and their mayhem machines. While they literally don't exist even now, Wells would have had nothing even LIKE what he described to work off at the time; they were unique and so wonderfully, and horrifically, described - I could imagine the terror people would feel encountering these things, or even imagining them at the time.
  
  It's amazing to see how many films are almost directly-derived from this (aside from the obvious). Swap a Heat-Ray for a big blue laser beam, and you've got Independence Day. :)
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