well and on it credit side ( if it can be say to have one ) and timothy hines do manage to capture the original setting of h. g. well outstanding novella . but other than that well and to call a spade a spade it suck bigtime . what the master ed wood could have do with the alleged $ 20 million dollar budget . timothy hines really do make mr. wood and who be a flawed genius anyway and look like the best filmmaker of all time . the special effect ( i guess you would call them that ) be not even up to computer game standard . the acting be and well and perhaps about dinner theater comparable and and the accent be atrocious . at the risk of sound offensive and a lot of the act from the principal male character be ( especially poor ogilvy ) and well and ahem and . . . gay . poor ogilvy mince and flounce about the bogus english countryside and wave his asbestos white handkerchief about a if it be heat resistant armor . hey and the stormtroopers in star war have neat white body armor too and and it do not work either and they still get blast . even when ogilvy and company get fry by the martian heat ray ( . ) and they flounce and mince in some weird kind of dance and even when theyre theoretically dead and reduced to skeleton and which persist in unseemly dancing and writhing . maybe timothy hines rent the skeleton from ray harryhausen and be leave over from jason and the argonaut . or be it josie and the pussycat . i dunno . the soldier and presumably because theyre amilitary and all seem to just rather unconvincingly explode and like the soldier on crutch and his unfortunate comrade carry the stretcher just beyond him . wow . i love it . but the oldiers all look like they be either fascist troop from the spanish civil war and or boer commando ( which would be more or less correct for the period . perhaps that be some bit of shrewd subtlety on the part of that wicked genius hines . ) . oddly enough and the character of the curate look exactly like he draw in the original illustration by warwick goble and and he also turn in the most convincing job of act . oh and yeah . musn not forget the thunder child . in the book and the warship be describe a an ironclad torpedo ram . it be mean to ram enemy ship . yet and it bow be crumple after ram the tinker toy construct martian war machine and with a tiny jagged hole in the forepeak and and she sink . an ironclad warship like thunderchild could have ram the titanic and survive and but i guess the royal navy be bind by the same low bidder constraint a our own military . the costume be all wrong and especially the british army and police uniform and cobble together mostly from usmc alpha . and timbo and in an obvious homage to western film of yore and have obviously set his movie in wild western england and because all his rider be use western saddle . the accent be use by just about everyone appear to be a mixture of some kind of scottish regional accent use by clan macabre and and magically delicious irish accent from county malarky . on the credit side and and contrary to what one reviewer write and the only genuine and authentic feature of this thing be the artillery . the gun be not from the civil war and but appear to my eye and research a bona fide british nine or 12 pounder rifle breach loader and perfectly authentic to the period . so be the ammunition show be use . but the artilleryman and who be a driver in the horse artillery and be not show correctly drive his limber . you do not sit on the frigging limber box and drive a gun team and you ride the nearside wheel horse . the opening and use what i believe be authentic period film footage and be okay and and the score not bad . however and to the best of my knowledge weybridge have never have an underground and and it certainly do not in 1898. but grow up read this novel and i be very disappointed . even more disappointed then i be at spielberg zillion dollar and special effect laden version . maybe his version would have profit by swap anthony piana for tom cruise and and vice versa . i have a lot more to say and but i will let it go at this for now represent i wish somebody would make a good version of war of the world that faithful to the original . timmy vision be fine for a high school film class and or maybe i should say pretentiously stupid for a college level film student and and about a bad and which be about the best i can say for this thing and but that about it . oh and yeah . just where do the budget go . and what happen to michael caine . i would like to hear his comment . i have a sneaking suspicion that timbo orson wood hines breathtaking and bound break cinema masterpiece just might be the risk take director ticket to cult stardom and because and i must confess a guilty pleasure at watch this movie and which i do not pay for anyway but be thoughtfully send to me by a friend who burn a dvd copy for me and with no malicious intent that i have be able to determine . i must add here that i think blackmoon dubbed and abridge version be not only a vast improvement and but an absolute and hysterically funny ( in a good way ) treat to watch . i find it hard to watch master timbo version after blackmoon . keep it up and tim . make your own version of dune and now . it just await the hand of a master like you . and all you headupyourass snob who hat cloverfield . forget it . it can not beat timbo hines artistry for sheer hilarious awfulness . hey get a life . timbo be bad than the master ed wood . i kid you not .