War of the Worlds: Goliath

[Zor]

15 years after the War, the Martians Return

Flying aircraft Carriers, sweet looking fighting machines, biplanes, human mechs and flying machines. Looks pretty good for a direct to DVD animated thing.

Zor

[NecronLord]

War of the Worlds, and this, as far as I can see, is technology-based sci-fi. Moving thread.

[Grif]

Impressive. To think a Malaysian company would be funding and be involved in this. Heh, one movie I would watch.

[Bounty]

Lousy trailer, terrible fanwank idea.

[Formless]

Lousy trailer, terrible fanwank idea.

Eh, its not bad. Most shows like this could charitable be called fanwank... if it were being done by fans.

[dworkin]

Looks like a typical flying battleships and war-walker drama. They don't have to make sense (because they can't). Just with added Wellsian Martians. Look on the bright sight side, it could of involved Burrough's Martian Princesses instead.

[prestonwatson]

Hi All,

I am a newbie and have join today itself. I am always interested in Sci-Fi. I don't have any particular idea about war of the worlds. Are you guys talking about the movie? Can anybody take the pain of explaining me so that I can also join you. Thanks in advance.

[Thirdfain]

Hi All,

I am a newbie and have join today itself. I am always interested in Sci-Fi. I don't have any particular idea about war of the worlds. Are you guys talking about the movie? Can anybody take the pain of explaining me so that I can also join you. Thanks in advance.

War of the Worlds was a book written in 1898 by H.G. Wells, perhaps the first of the "Alien Invasion" genre of fiction. It's available free online: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/36

[Zixinus]

I find it curious that they don't show the Martians themselves.

[Zor]

I find it curious that they don't show the Martians themselves.

Actually, they do have concept art of the martians and to be honest, they look alright (although a few more tentacles would have been nice).



Zor

[Samuel]

I find it curious that they don't show the Martians themselves.

In the origional book the protagonist mentions the Martians don't really have bodies- they have physical form, but the change the body they are using depending on what they are doing.

[Manus Celer Dei]

I find it curious that they don't show the Martians themselves.

In the origional book the protagonist mentions the Martians don't really have bodies- they have physical form, but the change the body they are using depending on what they are doing.

...he didn't mean that they literally changed their body, he was talking about how they would create new machines to suit the purposes of whatever they were doing, since their actual bodies were atrophied to the point of just being a brain and manipulator tentacles.

[dworkin]

In the origional book the protagonist mentions the Martians don't really have bodies- they have physical form, but the change the body they are using depending on what they are doing.

Eh?

A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder. As it bulged up and caught the light, it glistened like wet leather.

Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly. The mass that framed them, the head of the thing, was rounded, and had, one might say, a face. There was a mouth under the eyes, the lipless brim of which quivered and panted, and dropped saliva. The whole creature heaved and pulsated convulsively. A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air.

Those who have never seen a living Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror of its appearance. The peculiar V-shaped mouth with its pointed upper lip, the absence of brow ridges, the absence of a chin beneath the wedgelike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth--above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes--were at
once vital, intense, inhuman, crippled and monstrous. There was
something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy
deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread.

They're very well described.