War of the Worlds, a review

[FearlessOne]

The opening sequence of the movie shows the planets, and while Morgan Freeman is talking it zooms in on Mars.  I don't know if there is another instance pointing to Martians, but I'm pretty sure the movie stayed true to the book in that sense.
Cheers, Munk
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Well, I went and saw the movie yet again, and it only briefly showed the top portion of an orangish world, probably Mars. Then it panned the camera up to another world, which was clearly the earth. Yes, the book used Mars as the likely origin of the aliens. But the movie wasn't so commital. In fact, I'm pretty sure Morgan Freeman said something about them being or looking "far across the galaxy" and Mars isnt even far across the solar system :) He did NOT mention the planet Mars by name, and thank goodness for that! (although it would kinda explain why so many of our probes go kerplooie when they try to land there...)

If any of u guys want 'further reading' on this, I made 2 long posts over at diabloii.net at their Off Topic forum that are quite amusing:

http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=361290

...its around the 85th or so post out of 92 total. Someone over there actually posted a huge long review of the movie today and said something like "so Cruise goes to Boston and its too cold there and the aliens die..." You just have to be kidding me.