Odysseus-5
Iscritto in data dic 1999
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Valutazione di Odysseus-5
If you've never read the original Wells masterpiece, or if you've only seen the likewise weak translation (but otherwise pretty good film) of the story directed by George Pal in the sixties, then this is a pretty decent film. Although the beginning was a little too cute and contrived, the rest of the film does make up for these shortcomings.
However, I *HAVE* read Wells' original, and trying to draw inevitable comparisons do hurt. I was hoping to see a true-to-the-story version of the film with the modern effects that are really needed to make it sparkle. The effects were there, but where was the story?
Unfortunately, H.G. Wells' story was quite absent. Some of the names were taken from the original work, but they were applied to beings that simply didn't match up to his vision.
I can only hope that the proposed upcoming War of the Worlds will be a better translation - and hope also, since this has been done more than a few times before, someone else will come along with a version that will do justice to a great tale.
It is worth watching - as a rental - but don't expect to see the book made a movie here.
However, I *HAVE* read Wells' original, and trying to draw inevitable comparisons do hurt. I was hoping to see a true-to-the-story version of the film with the modern effects that are really needed to make it sparkle. The effects were there, but where was the story?
Unfortunately, H.G. Wells' story was quite absent. Some of the names were taken from the original work, but they were applied to beings that simply didn't match up to his vision.
I can only hope that the proposed upcoming War of the Worlds will be a better translation - and hope also, since this has been done more than a few times before, someone else will come along with a version that will do justice to a great tale.
It is worth watching - as a rental - but don't expect to see the book made a movie here.
Take the original War of the Worlds story and set it in the 1950's. A difficult task, but one that this film does and does admirably well. The effects were (for the time) groundbreaking, and I liked the fact that the movie-makers at least made an effort to depict the unusual alien nature of the invaders as well as the hopeless efforts of mankind's best technology. Though not as poignant, the parallel is made between the ironclad Thunderchild - the most advanced fighting machine made by man at the time, according to Wells - and the attempted use of nuclear weapons against the invaders... with basically the same results.
I would have liked to have seen more of the world the way it was depicted in both the original book and in the Mercury Theater radio translation in this film. Wandering through an empty, alien-haunted wilderness with the fading reminders of human civilization would have given it a wonderful surreal touch, but it would not have been really possible given the time - and the depicted feel - of this film.
Still a great sci-fi movie - a classic, and destined to remain that way. I hope the next version can at least live up to the impact of this classic.
I would have liked to have seen more of the world the way it was depicted in both the original book and in the Mercury Theater radio translation in this film. Wandering through an empty, alien-haunted wilderness with the fading reminders of human civilization would have given it a wonderful surreal touch, but it would not have been really possible given the time - and the depicted feel - of this film.
Still a great sci-fi movie - a classic, and destined to remain that way. I hope the next version can at least live up to the impact of this classic.
Can it be?
Yes!
This is an excellent beginning to the Lord of the Rings trilogy! While there were slight story changes and some of the images are not what I've always imagined while reading the book, it is obvious that Peter Jackson has done an amazing job of capturing Middle Earth and putting it on-screen.
If there is one fault that I find with the film, it is that it glosses over elements that I thought were important in the story. This I can forgive - if they had done the film the way I really would have liked to see it, it'd be six or so hours long!
While the settings all shine in their own way, it seems obvious to me that the best attention was paid to Moria, which is so impressive it is a star of the film in its own right. The feel of overwhelming gloom and ruinous splendor that hangs about Khazad-dum is both expansive and claustrophobic at once, with this being broken only at Balin's tomb. The battle in Balin's tomb is astonishingly well done, and the pursuit to the Bridge of Durin shows the orcs as being, if possible, even more sinister and fearsome than I had imagined in the book. The orcs of Moria resemble nothing so much as humanoid spiders in the deeps.
As far as the Balrog is concerned, well... Lets just say that if I had to imagine a "Demon of Might" - this would be it!
Perhaps nothing is more striking in the film than being able to see through Frodo's view with the ring on. You can understand now that the ring does not just make you invisible... when the bearer wears it, it is as though he has entered another reality that overlays our own. It neatly works with Tolkien's own description of the "existance" of the Nazgul.
All in all, an amazing translation, and well worth seeing! A few omissions and changes do not detract from this film's viewability at all - go and see it NOW!
Yes!
This is an excellent beginning to the Lord of the Rings trilogy! While there were slight story changes and some of the images are not what I've always imagined while reading the book, it is obvious that Peter Jackson has done an amazing job of capturing Middle Earth and putting it on-screen.
If there is one fault that I find with the film, it is that it glosses over elements that I thought were important in the story. This I can forgive - if they had done the film the way I really would have liked to see it, it'd be six or so hours long!
While the settings all shine in their own way, it seems obvious to me that the best attention was paid to Moria, which is so impressive it is a star of the film in its own right. The feel of overwhelming gloom and ruinous splendor that hangs about Khazad-dum is both expansive and claustrophobic at once, with this being broken only at Balin's tomb. The battle in Balin's tomb is astonishingly well done, and the pursuit to the Bridge of Durin shows the orcs as being, if possible, even more sinister and fearsome than I had imagined in the book. The orcs of Moria resemble nothing so much as humanoid spiders in the deeps.
As far as the Balrog is concerned, well... Lets just say that if I had to imagine a "Demon of Might" - this would be it!
Perhaps nothing is more striking in the film than being able to see through Frodo's view with the ring on. You can understand now that the ring does not just make you invisible... when the bearer wears it, it is as though he has entered another reality that overlays our own. It neatly works with Tolkien's own description of the "existance" of the Nazgul.
All in all, an amazing translation, and well worth seeing! A few omissions and changes do not detract from this film's viewability at all - go and see it NOW!