i be currently sit here and force myself to finish this . i figure i blow 6 bux on the vhs and might as well suffer for it . i remember about 4 or 5 year ago do a search on the internet for war of the world cause of the rumor of the spielberg movie at the time and and i miss the old tv series from the early 90 . the website make it out that this be a multi million dollar budget rendition of the classic book . it be go to be a perfect translation . perfect crap be more in tune with this film . first off and the video on this movie be glitched . it look a if i be watch the full motion video from an old mid 90 pc or playstation cd rom video game . sadly enough and the color quality be similar . the act make shatners classic dramatic pause look damn near shakespearean in quality . the cg rendering of various scene be horrendous and and green screen sequence be bad than those see in old duke of hazardd scene . secondly and it be slow and terribly draw out . i sit thru 45 minute of the video ( no promo at the beginning ) before the cylinder actually open to reveal the first alien . after that and the alien be a terribly construct cg squid . i be now an hour into it and the most of the alien weaponry i have see be a spin silver disk ( crappy down even ) attach to a mechanical arm . the dramatic scene be murder with overly do instrumental . the last thing on that and for an alien invasion in the turn of the century 1900 no one be concern for their life . it like they have no concept . even though medium be slow and word of mouth spread fast and people would have know . the illusion of day and night be shoddy at best . simply change the color around the people to purple and blue or green do not signify night time . perhaps some lighting and actual night time shoot would have give a much good illusion . there be a lot of wasted sequence throughout the film of just watch the hero gallop around or walk down silly road . get on with the film . i know how people get around and you do not need to be so in depth . now and finally an hour and 5 minute into the film and they show the alien machine . mighty morphin power ranger have well look effect . even the skeleton of vaporized human look a if animate by a freshman high school computer app class student . the animation do not match up to the scenery at all . in close folk and if you want the war of the world and do one of four thing . 1 ) watch the 1953 original and 2 ) watch the early 90 tv series and 3 ) wait for spielberg rendition to be release shortly and or 4 ) read the frikkin book ( something we all probably do in elementary english class ) . avoid this movie . it be a waste of your money .