Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Gordon on November 17, 2019, 08:30:16 PM
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BBC1 at 9pm this evening.
Seemingly fairly true to the original H G Wells novel set in Edwardian times in deepest Surrey (or thereabouts).
Probably worth a watch.
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Will have to check that out. Always lived the musical version with Richard Burton and David Essex. I think Phil Lynott was in it too.
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Will have to check that out. Always lived the musical version with Richard Burton and David Essex. I think Phil Lynott was in it too.
Lynott was the parson.
Also Julie Covington and Justin Hayward.
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I have that album.
Was away from Friday pm until not long ago, only TV I saw was 'Strictly' on Saturday :-). Will binge watch what I missed including War of the Worlds, I'd been looking forward to it.
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Saw part one on iplayer last night. Bloody good, although the flash-forwards were a bit confusing, until I realised what they were. I read the novel 50-odd years ago, in my teens, along with Wells's other sci-fi novels, but can't remember much about it now. I've also seen most of the screen versions, including the 50s yank one, which had quite sophisticated special effects for the day, and, of course, 'Independence Day', which isn't explicitly a version of the novel, but nevertheless is, with its rather witty re-working of what eventually defeats the Martians - I'll say no more, in case anyone doesn't know. I must re-read it, and the others.
Woking now has a sculpture of one of the Martian tripods in the town centre. https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/406590672581541154/?lp=true