From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEgmail.com   
      
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   >>>>>>> The teaser trailer for the remake of this cult classic has been   
   >>>>>>> released starring Keanu Reeves   
   >>>>>>> and the Blade Runner references are so obvious I can't but wonder...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> With a very calm and controlled voice:   
   >>>>>>> "I am going to ask you a series of controlled questions..."   
   >>>>>>> and the polygraph / Voight-Kampff machine starts breathing...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Very inspired indeed. Can't wait for the actual release...   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Iakovos:)   
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   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>    Seeing a VK comparison in the interrogation segment is a hell of a   
   >>>>>> stretch.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>    The original with Michael Rennie is one of the best, and my   
   >>>>>> favorite, science fiction films of all time.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>    They better not fuck this remake up the way Spielberg did with War   
   >>>>>> of the Worlds.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>    DR   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I'm going to step up and do something unpopular.  I'm going to defend   
   >>>>> Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS.  Neither Pal's or Spielberg's film was   
   >>>>> what I wanted to see from Wells' novel, but I thought Spielberg hit it   
   >>>>> closer in that he actually had the tripods, which were creepy.  He   
   >>>>> also captured the feel of what it would be like to see them on the   
   >>>>> landscape. He did a great job of capturing the mayhem and the movement   
   >>>>> of troops, the busy countryside.  The creatures, too, were great.   
   >>>>> Pal's was a big disappointment to me, even as a kid.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I tend to agree, and I do not regard Spielberg's version as a bad   
   >>>> adaptation at all. Just my 2 cents. :-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>    Has ANYONE considered the deeply flawed logic in Spielberg's version?   
   >>> The damned Martians have had their machines buried on our planet for   
   >>> millennia, yet in all that time they didn't develop their own immunity   
   >>> to our viruses and bacteria? Or at least a vaccine for themselves?   
   >>   
   >> You said it yourself: in the Spielberg version the *machines had been   
   >> buried* but not the Martians themselves. This does not invalidate the   
   >> notion of them being  susceptible to modern day bacteria and viruses.   
   >> Even we humans are constantly under attack in that respect, so all the   
   >> preparation in the world (or worlds) might not amount to all that much.   
   >> It's really not much of a stretch, if you ask me.   
   >>   
   >> Anyone?   
   >>   
   >>>    Or are they like replicants, in that their genome only supports a   
   >>> four-year life span?   
   >>   
   >> Who knows? There's just too many unknown factors IMHIO.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Good answer Lukas.  Gonna have to think about that.  Let's just say to   
   > hell with it and go watch "Forbidden Planet", which I hope they are not   
   > planning to remake.   
      
   Heh, well, you can't go wrong with FP! Of course, wasn't FP itself a remake   
   of a Shakespearean story? :-)   
      
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