The famous battle sequence between the ironclad ‘Thundrechild’ and the Martian tripods as seen in film “H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds” by Pendragon Pictures.
Lashing ropes and smashing timbers Flashing heat rays pierced the deck Dashing hopes for our deliverance As we watched the sinking wreck With the smoke of battle clearing Over graves in waves defiled Slowly disappearing Farewell Thunder Child!
@MaskedMan66 No, the film budget was $25 million, which was 3 times the budget of the 1953 War of the Worlds movie back in 2005. The Jeff Wayne's Musical stage show that came out less than a year after this movie, did the Thunder Child battle far better justice with far less money and only 3 weeks to animated the CGI animation for that entire stage show.
The one time a movie gets every last detail correct it has bad quality, wish this had the budget of the 2005 one, the 2005 is perfect but would be outstanding if it was more accurate
@@TheEpicGest this film didn't just take take inspiration from the book, it actually has to be the most accurate adaptation of it... and, imho, the crappiest. On a side node, speaking of the year in which the action takes place in the book: I don't think that it is actually 1894. This can be proved by a sentence from about the very start of the book, which says "early in the *twentieth century* came the great disillusionment." And the year 1894 wasn't during the twentieth century anyhow but the nineteenth one. On the other hand, the official sequel to the novel titled 'The massacre of mankind', which is set in 1920, mentions that the first invasion occured thirteen years before, therefore making the year it took place 1907.
The Thunderchild took down *two* fighting machines in the book actually. Funnily enough, I for some reason thought they showed it taking down *three* of them in this movie, but no, they kept it accurate to the novel here as well
@@KuperSpyronicStudios sorry for a late reply. In the novel the Thunderchild took down the first tripod with her guns, presumably, and the second with ramming it after being hit by a heat ray. As for the third one, after the Thunderchild exploded, the steam mixed with the black smoke spread out so that, almost direct quote from the novel, nothing could be made out of the third fighting machine. By the way, in a hypothetical novel-accurate adaptation of WotW I'd love to make (but quite unprobable I will) I plan to show the Thunderchild taking down all the three tripods, with her ramming another one after it launches a black smoke canister at the ship
Frankly, I think the acting is one of the least problems in this movie (actors of the Curate and the Writer actually act really well, I'd dare to say). Everything else though. . .
