Would You Watch This?

>>89938590
I would play the video game

>>89938779
I need a War of the Worlds RTS where you have to manage and protect a choir along with your troops for buffs, debuffs, and troop generation.

>>89938827
That'd be cool, especially since you'd be completely fucked in any direct engagements.

Sure.

I'm glad I have it on vinyl. Found it at my local record shop pre-owned for 12.99.

Tied with Pink Floyd's meddle for my favourite prog rock album

>>89938590
Of course, that's one of my favourite albums

Though to be perfectly honest I don't think it would work very well as an animated work mostly because of the constant narration, it's obvious that it was never really written with much of a visual medium in mind so that would throw off a lot.

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>You will never fight the Martians aboard your torpedo ram.

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>>89939259
F-farewell Thunderchild

>>89938590
I love that album. An animated movie would likely trim for time, and therefore cut out too much. I'd imagine it a cross between Art Deco and Art Nouveau, and the first Heavy Metal movie's Taarna segment.

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>>89939271
It's always a sad sight seeing a ship go down.

I don't think modern world could do it right.

>>89938779
Don't bother it was crap

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>>89938779
>>89938827
Are you guys shitting me right now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMay9vYoPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu5SEyYyH0I&t

>>89938779
Press X to 'no, Nathaniel'

>>89939219
>>89939633
One of my fav albums as well. And I think if it's done in the style of >>89939215 Pink Floyd's The Wall it would be great.

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>tfw no movie set in the book's time period
>tfw no movie with the book's martians
>tfw no movie with ulla

>>89938590
>a revolutionary book, shitty movie and fantastical musical
>no animated miniseries

I'd love to see it in Genndy's style

>>89938590
There was supposed to be a CGI adaptation back in 2005, but all there that exists for it are test footage of the Tripod.

>>89938590
Well there's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHKVnfizUHk
It's uh
It exists

>>89942395
>ulla
pleb, the book has aloo

>>89943297
wait no fuck me I'm wrong it has both

>>89940779
I got the game before the soundtrack. It was kinda fun for those intros and weird units - and of course the music - but damn was it unbalanced. It was like whatever side you were on was automatically weaker. I'd switch around the savegames, sabotage everything then switch back.

>>89939654
Look how chill our sailors look!

>>89938590
I fucking love this.

>>89940157
I want to replay it one day

First album I ever owned

I'd love an animation of it

>>89947290
Pretty patrician for a first album

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>>89938827
That sounds dangerously modern, artilleryman.

>>89943267
I don't understand why the human war machines would have three legs too.

>>89938827
We need more vidya about War of the Worlds in general.

Imagine a Thunder Child naval sim.

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>>89938827
>>89949488
Burton did that in Mars Attacks. But with yodeling.

>>89938827
>>89938779
>>89940779

They made one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YQGQjDo2Ck

>>89943805
I just turtled the hell out of Northumbria and then built up my economy to steamroll those Martian scunners.

>>89938590

The book is great too, fucking read it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyRWl_1baMA

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Jeff Wayne's designs are cool and all but they just don't really click with me. Post god-tier tripods.

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>>89951507
Objectively best incoming

>>89942397
Yeah I can really picture him doing the Tripods justice. All stark and jagged looming out of the fog.

>>89947935
My Father would play it on Halloween every year.

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>>89939259
Why would they want to fight us?

>>89952315
To take our women.

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>ib4 thread pruned because not /mu/

>>89951507
As much as the rest of the movie was a pretty poor adaptation I have to admit Spielberg's take on the fighting machines was top-tier, and surprisingly accurate to the book with the exception of the heat ray being build into the tentacles rather than a held boxlike device.

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>>89953761
Forgot pic

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We don't need another War of the Worlds movie, we need something different.

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>>89953761
A tripod that looks exactly like how Wells described it would look goofy though.

compare this

>>89953797
It was the first adaptation that made them look like they were actually some sort of organic machine. And the sound of their horns haunted my dreams for awhile afterward. Also the first destruction sequence where they blast people to ash and Tom Cruise just gets covered in what used to be people, walks home and just flips the fuck out when he looks in the mirror and finally accepts everything so far is really happening was just harrowing.

Also, top-tier Williams score.

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>>89954036
to this

>>89953890
Excellent taste, that would certainly work.

>>89954055
>>89954036
The second is more of a generic ayyimao but with tentacles, the first, while goofy as Hell, does look like a being that has long surpassed the need for limbs to move itself having used machines for so long.

>>89953956
The main problem with bringing an accurate Wells tripod into a movie is that Wells tripods were written to be basically unstoppable by 1890's technology, but thanks to WW1 birthing a golden age of weapons experimenting and developing they would be complete jokes in a few decades.

It could work with a work set in the original 1890's England of the book, but they'd need to be severely updated in any movie that takes place in the modern day (see 1950's and 2000's adaptations where they now have shields and explosive super lasers instead of just heat rays)

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>>89954036
>>89954055
>Compare a quick pencil sketch to a detailed painting

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Has anybody read this? Came out last month.

>>89942397
He'd make such a beautiful cartoon out of this

>>89953956
Isn't it only described like, once though? And the description is pretty vague at best.

We're never getter a better version than the spielberg one anon.

>>89954349
Could we get a sotrytime?

>>89954919
They're described as hooded cockpits on top of three massive legs, with many smaller tentacles, one of which holds a large camera like device (the heat ray).

Besides that the only other description we get is that they look more organic than mechanical, and that all the later newspaper tabloids that depicted them as stiff, rigid, and slow moving device were quite wrong.

As said earlier, Spielberg's design is one of the best.

>>89938590
God fucking damnit, The Eve of War still gives me the creeps. Listened to it when I was a kid and it still haunts me.

>>89955178
it's /lit/, not /co/.
and I just can't get into Steven Baxter books, I just don't like the themes he's writing about.

>>89955858
THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS ARE A MILLION TO ONE HE SAID
YES THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS ARE A MILLION TO ONE
BUT STILL
THEY COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>89951507
>Post god-tier tripods.
>(posts something with four legs)

shit anonymous you had ONE JOB

>>89955292
1. They squirt green smoke out of the joints.
2. One of the tentacles has a nozzle for spraying steam.
3. They have a cage of white mesh on the back for capturing humans
4. They are described as organic in behavior, not appearance.

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>>89951507

>>89938590
Thunderchild will always be my go-to-name for any military vessel.

>>89955292
>and that all the later newspaper tabloids that depicted them as stiff, rigid, and slow moving device were quite wrong.

The narrator's aside about the tabloid depictions were specifically added by Wells for the novel as a fuck you to all the terrible art that showed up during the initial magazine publishing run. Even the more accurate ones with the Doc-Ock-style limbs are a bit silly as they took the hat=hood, googly eyes and heat-ray that looks exactly like a camera instead of camera-like shit literally. Spielberg definitely nailed it.

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>>89956162
I like the idea of being able to see the ayys inside the vehicle.

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>>89951507

>>89954276
>It could work with a work set in the original 1890's England of the book, but they'd need to be severely updated in any movie that takes place in the modern day (see 1950's and 2000's adaptations where they now have shields and explosive super lasers instead of just heat rays)

I find it interesting that War of the Worlds has never been something chained to its original publication era for adaptations, unlike other genre books like Dracula or Frankenstein(and I know there are adaptations set in the1800's of WoTW, and adaptations of Dracula and Frankenstein set before and after the 1800s, but still). I wonder if the Orson welles radio show played a hand in that.I would still like a proper high budget 1800's adaptation of the book.

>>89955907
I've had this song stuck in my head all day ever since I saw this thread.

>>89951507
don't have a picture of them, but the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen version is my personal favorite design for both the "Martians" and their technology

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>>89956162
>Abridged
yeah nah

>>89938590
They made an animated war of the worlds sequel which featured a remix song from this.
It kinda sucked.

>>89950601
They reverse engineered the tripods.
Alternate timeline.
Once again: It kinda sucked.

>>89938827
>I need a War of the Worlds RTS
Play as the scrin in C&C3.

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>>89938590
I'd like to see an animated version of this.

>>89957513
from what I remember that one kinda stunk(like most Elseworlds honestly), especially since it ends with Superman dead

>>89957637
I liked it. Was some of my first comics.

>>89955907
I scrolled to your post exactly as the lyrics came on. Absolutely perfect timing

>>89943267
B-but that's just Independence Day fucking attack on Titan while listening to WotW.

>>89943546
UUUUUUl-l-l-l-l-LAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>89953044
NO!

>>89954276
Well, what's wrong with a faithful adaptation?

>>89955760
ulla

>>89955907
UUUUUUUULLLLAAAAAAA

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>>89955941

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>>89954036
>>89954055
>>89954324

>tfw no open world survival time period WotW game
>night time, red weed faintly illuminates ruins of buildings and desolate fields
>you can see silhouettes of fighting and handling machines in the distance, made visible by burning villages
>a flying machine slowly appears from above the clouds
>run away from it's searchlight, you won't be able to outrun black smoke when it sees you
>hide under a tree
>tree starts moving
ULLA

It would be an one time experience, but it would cream myself if it existed.

>>89959774
The novel is survival horror as fuck.

>>89959774

>>89953133
Made me think of something like that, coming out of the safety of a forest or tall meadow or something and seeing a whole convoy of Martians laying waste to everything in sight, heading directly toward you.

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>Martians are capable of space travel
>Can genetically engineer themselves and their environment to be in their favor
>Technology that is centuries ahead of Earth at the time
>Can easily observe Earth from Mars

>Somehow overlook disease and get their entire invasion wiped out because no one brought hand sanitizer

Were the Martians retarded all along?

>>89959026
Nothing, a perfectly faithful adaptation to the book set in the 1890's would be great, the problem is no one will make one because of some unspoken rule that every alien invasion movie must be set in the modern day.

>>89960424
From Martian perspective, humans were even more retarded for not getting rid of diseases, like they did. It was propably their first major accomplishment.

>>89960424
I think the Martians had just existed so long without disease that they basically forgot what it even was, keep in mind their entire species has evolved into giant brains that build machines to do whatever they need and sustain themselves entirely through blood transfusions. That would require a pretty long time without bacteria, thousands of years at the very least.

>>89960424
They don't have common sense.

>achieve space travel via shooting one-way pods full of themselves to another planet, have to wait nearly a full day for the pod to cool down enough for them to safely exit- instead of designing reusable shuttles
>didn't modify their bodies on purpose, evolved that form because they behaved like the humans in WALL-E, using technology for everything, even just moving around
>purposely exterminated all native germs, not realizing that exposure to germs builds up your immune system
>being tech dependent atrophied their immune systems even further, like the Quarians in Mass Effect

>>89953133
Awesome artwork. Now that's how to do album art.

Come to think of it, a WOTW game where you have to keep a music band alive is a non-trivial challenge. Trying to drag a marching band through WWI France would be "hard", trying to keep them intact, non-shellshocked, and not losing their instruments during the martian invasion would be impossible. How many cases of looting could you have to deal with when you've only got enough baggage room for the instruments and a case of water, and then they're adding suit-cases of looting.

>>89956162
Oooh, yeah, the Lenard Nimoy version. With a bunch of other Trek actors like Will Wheaton slipping in! Well worth a listen!

>>89960424
1800s London. Unpaved streets and horse-dropping everywhere. That alone would be enough but when the m's started the blood drinking that's when the real diseases got them. In any realistic scenario you're going up against a people who, half the time, drink alcohol like it's chemotherapy: it's not for fun, it's to keep the infections down. The pox, the influenza, the auge, the vapours, the cold.

>>89960464
I think it's also that WoTW has a strong theme of our importance in the face of a technologatechnologally superior for, so the most up to date technology failing to stop the Martians is quite terrifying. Hence the atom bomb in the 50s film, and all the tanks and jets in the 2005 one.

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>>89938590
I actually directed this album as a musical in high school
it was between me directing War of the Worlds and some knob directing Lord of the Rings.

>>89939259
>>89939271
I always get emotional with that song
even tear up a little

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>>89938590
Now I have to listen to this album again. Thank you anon.

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>>89964466
with the smoke of battle clearing
over graves and waves defiled
slowly disappearing...

Fuck mang, a well done Thunderchild sequence in a movie/show would be absolutely heartbreaking, I never knew I could feel these kind of feels over a ship.

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Nah, you actually don't want this

>>89964838
>needing a visual component to appreciate something

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>>89964963
When did I ever say that?

Thunderchild is a sad as fuck song, my favourite song from the whole album, I'm just saying it would be even more powerful with visuals.

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>>89953044
See also 'The temptation of St. Anthony' by Dali

>>89964963
I for one play music videos in my mind when listening to awesome music. The amount of sailors being thrown around, explosions, and general mayhem is not something that you can trust Hollywood with.
A ship of rapidly decreasing sailors fighting to keep their burning wood-era ship from killing them all while the Martians are firing shell after shell trying to kill them all so as to take the docks full of countrymen, until the Captain says damnation take them and orders them to kneecap the tripod- with their own prow. Bravery and tragedy have always gone in the basket upon the seas.
The Parson and the Newspaperman in their desperate games of cat-and-mouse through the countryside with martians who have never played hide and go seek.
Desperate attempts to find safety by people driven from their homes while Cylinders fall across the sky. Visual components are just another way to plan objects in motion.

Apparently Jeff Wayne did a recent version for stage, too. With Liam Neeson as the Journalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds_%E2%80%93_The_New_Generation

>>89942395
>US Army say HOORAH
>US Marines say HOOAH
>US Navy say OORAH
>US Mechanized Tripods say UULAA

>>89964249
>capping intensifies

>>89960424
No, they were so advanced that they had no memory of bacterial infection, they had wiped out all forms of life on Mars harmful to them millenia ago.

>>89960424
Still, not as half as retarded as the aliens from Signs.

>>89966500
It's not as good, basically the original was alternate rock while the new one is techno.

>>89938827
I always imagined a WotW RTS similar to the PC game, but set across Europe as a whole. Rather than have the Martians on one end of the map they could appear in any random spot. You'd have to keep your manpower levels up by protecting refugees from the Martians, so you can recruit troops and research armoured track-layers and all the rest of it. A survival-horror RTS sort-of affair.

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>>89950859
>those Martian scunners

Holy shit, Super Gran is a /comrade!

>>89939259
The funny thing is, the torpedo ram is itself a retarded concept for it's time, and only came about because of a battle where one ship rammed another and then suddenly everyone said "OH SHIT, WE NEED RAMS ON OUR SHIPS". Needless to say, the fad didn't last long.

Hell, the fact that War of the Worlds happened to feature a torpedo ram is probably the only reason anyone remembers this class of warship.

>>89938590
who would /co/ cast in their adaption

>>89954324
that look lot like harryhausen's martian designs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa2OCI_M4zo

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>>89942395
>tfw no movie set in the book's time period

The trouble with adapting War of the Worlds is, the original story was written for it's time. H.G. Welles wrote the book in part due to British colonialism, basically as a "see how YOU like it" to it's readers.

You can see this in the movie adaptations.

The 1953 movie came about at the time when alien invasion movies served as a stand-in for American fears of communist invasion, and also updated the Martian's tech so it could survive the weaponry of the time, including the atomic bomb, the ultimate incarnation of human technological and military power.

The 2005 film had that largely post-9/11 feel to it, from the imagery of the devastation to the focus on the characters' personal experiences in the midst of events, rather than trying to tell a more sweeping, epic story.

>>89953761
Really the only really, REALLY bad part were those annoying as fuck children.

I want a dirty War of the Worlds.
>and suddenly, a huge funnel
>I realized with horror that I'd seen this awful thing before

>>89969099
Wasn't the original novel also written as a parody of invasion literature at the time?

>>89956342
Best volume, love the design and the fact that they actually went with invisible heat ray.

>>89938590
My primary school English teacher traumatized her kid with this album.
Not even in any predictable way. The painting of the crows gave her nightmares.

>>89954036
But that is wrong. That's an illustration of how Wells imagined Man in the year 1 million.
>>89953761
>>89954021
I remember seeing this when I was 12. By the time the first tripod attack, I was absolutely terrified. In some ways, it's still fucking terrifying.

>>89969216
Several of Wells; work from that period is. It was a bit of a fad to see 'The Empire under Invasion'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppUl_CBuyz8&t
remember that this was a thing

>>89969957
IMO best adaption

>>89938590
What was the best track and why was it Thunder Child?

>>89971499
thunder child is the best, but second would be the parson's song

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>>89969009

>WITH JUST A HANDFUL OF MEN
>WE'LL START ALL OVER AGAIN
What did he mean by this?

>tfw huge fan of Wells
>tfw huge fan of prog rock
>somehow never heard of this album

Based /co/. I've been in a creative funk and needed something absolutely wild like this to recharge. It's like Crimson King but with an actual story and point. Those ULAAAAs are 2spooky4me, I love it.

>>89971681
gayyyyyyy

>>89971681
Worst song on the Album. I remember the first tour, the guy who sang it, sang it in a really grating way.

>>89939259
>singlehandedly took out two fighting machines
>tanked a direct hit from the Heat Ray
>scared off the third present fighting machine before sinking

The HMS Thunder Child will always be my favorite ship in fiction

>>89971595
God bless the anon who made this!

>>89966737
>>89966500
But it DOES have Liam Neeson...

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Post retarded looking tripod designs.

>>89972597

That's actually pretty unnerving. As a Tripod it sucks, as an unsettling invader design it works kind of well. Reminds me of the crawling torsos from that SCP wiki article.

Test of anons' taste: what is the best /co/ depiction of tripods? I'd go with the League of Extraordinary Alan Moore Fanfictions myself. Creepy as fuck.

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>>89973152
The tripods in the War of the Worlds series weren't three-legged, but they were awesome in a flying saucer sort of way. But they weren't three-legged.

>>89972118
Its fucking hilarious.

>>89973323
They did have three legs apparently, but they were invisible. I shit you not.

>>89973323

Those are pretty creepy too, but they don't have the sheer superiority of a giant walker striding across the land and literally crushing things and knocking over trees.

I wish we could get a really good animated WOTWs movie. Or better, a Tripods Trilogy. That shit would make for some intense, dark young adult cartoons.

>>89974017
The official explanation was that they were supported by three beams of invisible force-energy, and you can actually see the emitter pads on the underside (you can see two of them in >>89973323).

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>>89974192

>>89973152
Of the best known designs I would say that it's a toss-up between League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Speilberg Film for me. But there is so much War of the Worlds fanart floating around that I have seen several tripod designs that I like better than them.

>>89953002
Good God, what is going on in this picture? It looks horrific.

>>89974506
It's the Red Weed, anon. The strange, alien vegetation that gives Mars it's red colouration.

>>89974506
Its described a little more like vines and tendrils and less like slime, but that's from the book.

>>89959323
The commercials always said to call your doctor if your erection lasts for more than a few days and they didn't listen.

>>89971681
The artillery man wanted to gather a group of survivors and move underground where they'll rebuild civilization and try to advance to the point where they can fight back against the Martians.

Considering the Martians could be bested by cannon fire and torpedo rams, it was a possibility.

>>89975010
>Considering the Martians could be bested by cannon fire and torpedo rams
I think this is why I prefered the original book Martians to the later film ones. Making your opponent indestructrable takes away almost as much tension as making your protagonist so.

>>89975226
The problem is as others have pointed out, weapons advanced far too much not to give the Martians something like a force field. Like if things played out exactly how they did in Wells' book today, the invasion would end as soon as it began because there would already be an army waiting by the time they got out.

I think Spielberg did well then showing that they can still be beaten. When Tom Cruise managed to get a grenade into the alien tripod when he was being sucked up. Problem is it's very situational.

>>89975314

Personally I feel WOTW could benefit from something as simple as making the Tripods bigger. Tripods with legs that come down through the clouds would be fucking terrifying.

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>>89938590
I'd like to see an animated version of the Time Machine. Weena is absolutely top tier waifu material.

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>>89975314
If the heat weapons could be angled fast enough each Tripod's heat ray could basically serve as a CIWS superior to anything current. Consider how fucked Afghans or Iraqis are trying to use mortar attacks on embedded American bases, our Phalanx (R2-D2) systems just shred anything short of overwhelming barrages.

Mobile, energy-based CIWS systems combined with 'Black Clouds' and Combat Tentacles (add in some of those smaller crab like 'engineer rigs' mentioned once or twice in the book as support) and even a modicum of air power and you're looking some pretty formidable shit even without 'force fields'.

Rockets, bombs, and mortars certainly wouldn't be getting through in most cases, heavy cannon might have enough projectile mass to bust through the beams, just pounding them with smoke and sand clounds of our own might disperse the thermal beam enough. Though the classic way is probably trying to get in close and using an anti-tank rifle or barrel bomb.

In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, are the John Carter Martians there too?

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>>89952446

>>89967837
Supergran

Wasn't that an Australian show for kids?

>>89977166

Yep. They're actually in combat with the Wells martians who are seen as the unknown "invaders" there too. It's kind of implied they came from elsewhere and settled on northern Barsoom, and had to be repulsed by Carter and the tharks.

It's odd they're never mentioned again after volume 2 though.

>>89972118
I honestly kind of liked the way he sung it, his singing voice wasn't very good but his enthusiasm seemed so genuine you couldn't help but like it a bit.

>>89977008
The issue would be it would be a far more even toe to toe fight in that instance, while the whole point of WotW is that Martians are supposed to be borderline unstoppable by mankind with even our greatest weapons only managing to take out one or two at best.

>>89940779
I remember that game being hard as fuck.

>>89965974

I need you to make a war of the worlds adaptation. stat. I will fund this, because you clearly have more passion for this than anybody in hollywood ever could.

>>89966500

I was lucky enough to see the last arena tour of that show. I can't quite enunciate how awesome it was. If you can find it, grab the blu-ray they did of it with Will Stapleton as the Voice of Humanity. They guy who played the VOH when I saw it was pretty great but holy shit that last "FAREWELL THUNDERCHILD!" is amazing on that version.

>>89972014

>Those ULAAAAs are 2spooky4me

that sound fucked me up good as a kid. it was all well and good when I first heard it on the first part of the album, but then my mum put the second vinyl on and the difference was horrifying.

>that one long, painful, drawn-out UUUULLLLAAAAAH at the start of Spirit of Man
>those final, agonising death cry UUULLLAAAHs at the end of the album.
>the artwork showing the dead martians being eaten by birds

I cried like a bitch at that then cried some more for good measure. I STILL can't listen to the last bit on that album because holy crap that sound will haunt me until I die.

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>>89979441
>The very first Ulla after that instrumental build up and that described imagery of massive metal fighting machines higher than the tallest steeple

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>>89979576

Other cool point about Spirit Of Man:

>Julie Covington's beautiful voice in the original
>Joss Stone giving it fucking everything in the new version

I can't tell which one I love more. Covington's voice is way more folky and works better in contrast to Lynott's voice, but god damn does Joss give the whole track so much effort, to the point that it completely nullifies Maverick Sabre's terrible voice.

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>>89979943
>That echo during "to the alter of evil like lambs to the slaughter were led"
Fuck mang that song is so good.

>>89939654


Thats not a ship, it's the DCEU

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>>89971681
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UjCsZIIOk

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>/co/ has dozens of threads about /co/ related stuff
>rampant shitposting, /pol/ and SJW posting, arguing about bullshit no one cares about, derailment, etc.

>/co/ thread about something that has almost nothing to do with /co/
>Pleasant discussion about a topic that everyone in the thread loves, and even if they disagree or the topic is hated we all stay extremely courteous

Every fucking time, what is with /co/ being at it's best only when talking about stuff that isn't /co/?

>>89980314
It's a common problem with a lot of boards.

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>>89980168

the only song I don't like on either version is Forever Autumn.

Also, if we're on about very specific things,

>that bit when THAT bassline slows down just two or three BPM just before the cylinder starts opening.

you'd hardly notice it if it weren't pointed out to you, but when you notice it, man does it work.

>>89940779

That CGI is cringe-inducingly bad

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>>89980472
>I don't like Forever Autumn
Why? I thought Forever Autumn was great.

>>89943267

It certainly got the aliens look right

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>>89980518
It was pre-2000s dude, not like StarCraft was any better.

"Minds, immeasurably superior to ours... Got PWNED by a simple cold"

>>89938590
Remember Thunderchild lads.

If the microbes hadn't done the Martians, then Thunderchild sinking those two might've been the start of a chance for humanity to catch their own fighting machine.

>>89980625
But the sinking of the Thunderchild was the landmark event that marked the inevitability of mans defeat, the moment where all of humanity realized they were doomed.

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Why was Thunder Child the only ship there? Where was the rest of the fucking navy?

>>89979943
>But if one man can stand tall! There must be hope for us all!

God, that song always gives me the chills, it's a magnificently defiant piece about the human spirit.

>>89980314
I think people just get tired of talking about the same shit over and over, going through the same arguments, dealing with the same shitposts. It's nice to have a change of pace every once in a while.

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>>89980681
Probably scattered all over the place.

Spielberg's movie was complete shit

>>89980681
In the book the Thunderchild wasn't the only ship, just the only one that could get between the steamer and the Martians in time to fight them. Hell the narrators brother says that right after the Thunderchild sunk several Ironclads could be seen approaching the Martians.

>>89980790
It did some things pretty well like the design of the fighting machines, and it did present the utter horror and hopelessness of the situation very well in some scenes (the burning train speeding across the mains and the river full of bodies, for a spielberg film that shit was pretty dark). Ultimately the children were what killed the movie.

>>89956235
>Spielberg definitely nailed it.

More liked RAPED it.

>>89980568

I guess I just found it dull in comparison to the other tracks. The rest of the album you've got huge synths, ominous basslines, Phil goddamn Lynott, narration about martian conquest and mass destruction, then all of a sudden it all just slows right down for a merely okay track about the narrator pining for his girlfriend.

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Remix time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqu9u5rsT-g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxub5-PjUZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwl2K-GRnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ygJ0OARV_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAhczmXhbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ilTqjTXqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfBobefjvM

>>89980781
>>89980681
Its safe to assume that this was a worldwide invasion. The British Empire ( and everyone else) would be too busy being taken off guard.

Has there ever been any non movie media depicting what was happening in the rest of the world during the attack?

>>89980879
What? I said he nailed the look. The movie itself was retarded, yes.

>>89980915
I honestly liked the slowdown, it was kind of a moment of breath after several tracks of the main character surviving far too close encounters from the Martians, and the fact that it immediately goes to Thunderchild helped drive home the point that there was no breath to be had, you only thought you were out of reach of the Martians from time to time only to have them to appear over the horizon again and again.
To each their own I guess.

>>89964869
That adaptation misses the whole point. Like Aliens to Alien.

>>89964869
Sure they do. It was decent

>>89965624
Ha, I never realized what the album art was referencing.

>>89966500

Funny how Jeff Wayne keeps trying to take credit for HG Welles' work

>>89981322
How so?

>>89981065

I appreciate a slowdown too, I really like the red weed section and the quieter moments in Horsell Common and the Heat Ray, for example, but I can never shake the feeling that Forever Autumn was created after somebody said "awww shit, we need a marketable love song in here"

I mean, it's a perfectly fine song, but I really think it sticks out like a sore thumb against the rest of the whole thing.

>>89969216
A whole new wooorrld, underground!

>>89971681
He was scared of the Martians and wanted an excuse to hide in his cellar.

>>89972014
Yeah, the album art of the red weed scared the shit out of me as a kid.

>>89981378
He never gives Wells any credit. Look at OP, it says nothing about Wells. Same with New Generations. It ways JEFF WAYNE'S War of the Worlds, not H.G. WELLS War of the Worlds, as told by. Or something like that.

>>89972118
Yes but his character is meant to be just like that.

>>89981405
Fair enough, I can get that.
Personally I thought the transitions between the synths of the song and the singing were actually fairly seamless which worked well in its favour.

>>89981537
At this point WotW is in the same category as shit like Dracula and Frankenstein, common literature that everybody knows the premise of. You'd have to be a moron to believe that the first alien invasion story was invented in the 1970s. He made a point of titling it Jeff Wayne's MUSICAL VERSION OF the War of the Worlds, not just Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

>>89974326
I've always been a fan of the more fantastical designs. The ones actually taller than the tallest steeple in London at the time.

>>89977801
Delete this!

>>89980623
They forgot about all that shit, they're an old race that lives in a sterile dust bowl.

>>89980623
I think the book says it was necrotic bacteria, the shit the breaks you down after you die. They didn't have immune systems, so they were being affected by that shit as soon as they climbed out of the ships, rotting as they were still alive.

>>89982032

that and they decided it was a good idea to start mainlining humans like it's goddamn Trainspotting. That couldn't have helped.

I always wonder what the original radio version sounded like that had everybody freaking out, thinking it was real.

>>89982075
I mean... you know, I would have done the same thing in their place...

>>89982415
The issue is most people tuned in well after the beginning so they just heard shit like "smoke and explosions can be seen on the horizon" and considering we were at war most people figured it was a legit attack.

>>89957637
Didn't read but unless the ray beams can kill Superman there's no point to the story.

>>89960424
It's about imperialism and bulling into less advanced nations. The ending had nothing to do with anything other than emphasizing the lesser nation had no say in the outcome.

>>89973323
They were 3-legged but didn't have the budget to animate the legs, so they made them invisible.

You can see the 3 green discs on the bottom of the ships and, in motion, you can see flaming fires on the ground as they take steps.

You'd never know it without being told so one wonders why they bothered.

>>89982032
Stands to reason we'd have something that'd ruin their day.

>>89981047
War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches is literally that. A collection of short stories about the Martians attacking the rest of the world. Features everyone from Lovecraft to Einstein witnessing it.

>>89982704
HG Wells was taught science by TH Huxley when he was younger. The bacteria killing the martians is an example of natural selection in action. Despite all their technology and fancy machinery, Darwinism wins in the end.

>>89942395
that fake great war mockumentry though...


IT WAS A WARNING

>>89938590
Yesyesyesyesssss

>>89942395
Say yes to steampunk walkers!

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>>89960424

Disease was basically like a myth from the dawn of time for them, they didn't prep for it because its effects weren't readily visible in their telescopes, and why would you bring Cyclops repellant on a space voyage?
It was an oversight, and as the novel hints at the end, if they can launch a second expedition, they won't miss it (or underestimate our rapid weapons development either) the second time. Earth would be straight fucked.

>>89955941

That's not even a Martian, as I recall, I think it's an invader from Venus or something, attacking the moon, in Jack Williamson's The Moon Era. Pic related.
(This was a favorite story of young Isaac Asimov, who waifu'ed the Moon Mother who was rescued by the heroic earthman protagonist. It was a fun read.)

>>89975314

Bear in mind, what the Martians brought may have been more built for pest control, not war.

>>89980808

Another thing: The Martians let the Thunderchild get close because they attempted to capture it for study. It was a new ship just completed, and they hadn't expected to see one like that when they launched. That's why they fired black smoke at first, instead of just incinerating it. Another miscalculation due to poor data from telescope observations, but one easier to correct. They weren't going to let any other ships do what Thunderchild did after that.

>>89980921
This is all kind of shit.

>>89988701
They might also be there for terraforming. They harvested humans for their blood which they then sprayed on the ground to grow the red weed.

>>89989009

Well, yeah, it's explicitly a colonization expedition. They want to take over and use us as cattle.

>>89981047
>Its safe to assume that this was a worldwide invasion.

There is a brief mention of the invasions in other countries during the last chapter or two of the book, as everyone begins to recover and news starts to trickle in from the mainland of Europe and overseas.

>>89982480
The US wasn't at war in 1938, but fear of a possible war certainly did play into what panic did occur, though it was far less than the popular account would have you believe.

>>89989193
Right, sorry, I didn't remember the exact date the radio play was, just that it was roughly around WW2.

THOSE MACHINES ARE JUST DEMONS IN ANOTHER FORM

>>89959661

Ah Planefag, if only you hadn't died in a petrol station fire.

>>89989001

Speaking of non-shit remixes, has anyone gotten the 'War of the Worlds' theme remix from 'War of the Servers'? Cause I wouldn't mind that one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z7aYSm8hdA

Also I remember hearing a version of 'Spirit of Man' which was like a laid back, East coast version on an Anniversary albulm of some description, but I can't track it down. Anyone hear of it?

>>89938827
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1998_video_game)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL8wOwVAgWQ

Anyone play this?

Good stuff

>>89989433
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FCFH6rTLuw
This one?

>>89981256

It was a SEQUEL, not an adaptation, numb nuts. Of course there's a notable level of difference

>>89989783

You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.

>>89989336

Whatever are you blathering on about?

>>89989479
Almost looks as good as those CD ROM games you'd get off of cereal boxes.

>>89990560
Just because it takes place in more modern times doesn't mean humans should have giant robots.

>>89960424
It's this metaphor on colonialism, you know... The thing is that 'hand sanitizer' also wasn't very effective on malaria or AIDS.

>>89938590
>I'd watch the shit out of an animated version.

Agreed.

There was actually a Dark Horse War of the Worlds that adapted the novel recently-ish. I don't remember how good it was.

>>89993290
Do you mean the one that led into the Scarlet Traces sequel comics? That one was pretty good (and had a tripod design that I really liked).

>>89994129
Scarlet Traces itself is alright as well, by the way. If you can get over the politics of it, that is (Bush-era left wing anti-capitalist, anti-foreign war stuff).

NO NATHANIEL NO

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>>89993290
>>89994129
>>89994499

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcDk_9PmGq0

>>89994724
pretty much the only time the beam has been invisible, like in the book.

>>89980921
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfh-_05laPs

>>89994724
>>89994975
Ah yes, now I remember why I liked it.

>>89994975
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen too.

>>89994975
Yes, and if I recall correctly they actually got the look of the Thunder Child correct too. So many adaptations just make her look like a pre-Dreadnought era frigate or light destroyer, whereas this one actually looked like a torpedo ram.

>>89994724

>body incinerated
>like, completely fucking obliterated.
>"ahh"

that seems hilariously calm to me, like, "oh bother, being incinerated is jolly inconvenient, isn't it old chap?"

>>89996162
I think it's more that he was incinerated so quickly that the scream was cut off before it became full-throated.