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after reading jiaaqi's blog ( i didn't know she has a blog!), i realised she had read the book too. kind of expected. and she read it like 10 yrs ago? not to be outran by her, i need to make a confession now. i have actually read the bk during my K2 days......the children's version lol .hahaha....its a simplified bk or i dono wat la. but won't consider it as reading coz i was more interested in the illustrations. mind-provoking. instantly my imaginations went wild when i laid my eyes on em.
I have to disagree on Jiaqi's point that the movie matches HG Wells' description of the alien itself. As I've said, the alien in the movie is totally new.wasnt supposed to look humanoid. and just for an extra bit of info, the aliens came from Mars (Martians) and they reproduce by.........budding! yep, as in the offspring grows from the parent via a small extension, then breaks off when the time is right. cool rite.
The alien ships are spot on with the writer's imagination though. or may even be better off with the realistic CGI and graphics.
i dont mind watching it again with u guys. nj and pioneer frens.
AND I'VE GOTTEN MY HANDS ON THE BACKSTREET BOYS CD.
my cousin brought it alll the way from Dubai. so gd of her. the genre's is a bit different, a few songs sound oddly like BBMak's,many still uphold the distinctive 'Backstreet Boys style', the tunes are no longer easy to remember, and im beginning to think the Millenium Album is just another one-album-wonder (plus the previous album). so my verdict: disappointing. don't expect to hear repeats of feats like 'The One' or the 'Shape of My Heart' or wateva. but the songs are still nice to the ear. they're just not....rememberable...haha does tis word even exist?
Is it here in S'pore yet? tell me if you've seen it.
It's a blast in other countries. Read this:
The Backstreet Boys are back on top of the Billboard album charts debuting this week at #3 in the U.S. Worldwide Never Gone is topping the album charts with #1's in Japan (on the international chart), Germany, India, Chile, and Korea with Top 5 album debuts in Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Mexico and Brazil.
Sorry if this sounds weird/disgusting/painful/awful,
Backstreet Boys is my fave boy band :)
You can here some full-length clip of the songs in the new album at www.backstreetboys.com
wow...my unimportant wanted-list this time has finally exceeded its limit, which is 1 at any one time.
1) Backstreet Boys' Never Gone Album
2) Harry Potter & Half Blood Prince
3) Artemis Fowl bks
as usual, i tink my wanted-list will juz.....stay on as a unimportant list.
ok...i'm sooo into War of the Worlds. probably the best sci-fi movie ever. and it happens to be my fave sci-fi novel, though i didn't really like its original old classic WWI setting. u c...its written in 1890s by H.G. Wells. Quite a feat for a sci-fi writer in his period. Anyway i feel so 'honoured' to have read the bk long before anybody and to see the story alive in the movie is just satisfying.
so...for those who have watched it and want to noe how it deviates from the original story...well feel free to read my penny of thought.
*** WARNING: IF U HAVE NOT WATCHED THE MOVIE, PLEASE DON'T SCROLL DOWN. SPOILER ALERT ***
the original novel, like the movie, focuses on a character....unlike Independance Day which gave an overview of the aliens vs humans war. This itself adds a new twist against the backdrop of dread aura exuded by those aliens. Heres the difference: H.G. Wells wrote about a gentlemen, who obviously got separated from him loved ones in the midst of the attack, then met some artillerymen along the way and managed to survive blablabla....then u noe wat happens.....while Spielberg's version is in the form of a divorced father who raced to survive and save his children from the merciless aliens, portraying the transition from his once selfish attitude to one of a selfless father. obviously there's a message Spielberg wanna reach out to us behind it.
Spielberg's alien-landing and the way it was buried in the ground via lightnings that strike menacingly on the same spot ( quoting tomcruise: lightning never strikes twice on the same spot......) is apparently his own original idea. probably tailored to make the movie more scary. Wells' version is more of a slowly-wait-and-see situation. there's this astronomist who happened to spot some cylinders via his telescope flying off the surface of Mars, heading towards our very planet. Slowly,at different intervals, more cylinders were launched from Mars, one after another. Then, one by one, they landed on earth, and the inferno begins.
There are still a lot more but im going to round things up with the aliens themselves. The novel is obviously filled with 'aliens' everywhere - jellyfish-shaped, huge bird beaks, evilish eyes, tentacles, no legs. However, it's different for the movie. For once, I thought the aliens in Independance Day had jumped ship to War of the Worlds, coz they look pretty much the same. big ET eyes, humanoid shape, exoskeleton skin and shell, and black.
But it's kinda a waste to end the movie just like that. Spielberg is asking WotW fans to smack him. the ending part of the novel is kinda sombre anyway....scientists taken alien bodies to operating tables....autopsy....learn more about the alien physiology....makes sure they're prepared for another invasion....Spielberg should have added this part...and I prefer it to end with TomCruise saying "Told you Boston is safe....." .....nah. it was not to be. but not bad for a movie filmed in 7 months...YES 7 SHORT MONTHS!!..and in only 27 filming sessions! i can understand Spielberg's desire to showcase the movie a.s.a.p...he had been waiting for like 7 years...he wanted to film WotW in 1997 but there was already another movie of about the same concept. Independance Day was the title.
I give it a 3.5-4.0 out of 5.
lemme quote this movie critic webby: WotW was obviously a grade-B movie, but what a grade-B movie!!!