save the $ 8 . 97 you will spend at walmart to buy this dvd and go see the real film by steven spielberg . i be a filmmaker and and be an avid fan of h. g. well and i have to buy this hoping to sit down and watch three hour of good entertainment . instead and it take four day to finish watch this because i couldn not stand watch more than 10 minute at a time . it horrible . there be report that timothy hines have a $ 20 million budget for this production . where the heck do it go . do he use most of it to buy a new house . finance his retirement . or what . let me start with what be actually good about this film . it do stay true to the book and there be a few good performance in it . i can respect the actor who obviously try to make this a good film . but good performance be quickly overshadow by horrible . and i do mean horrible special effect . any freshman film school student could have do a much good job with the cgi . to me and most of it look like stop action card board cutouts that be use rather than sophisticated cgi software that a $ 20 million project should be use . there no excuse for the amateur post production that be apply to this film . my own partner and i sit down and recreate our version of the ferry scene use software that cost less than $ 1500 . 00 and within a day have five minute of scene that look good and more realistic than what hines create . i have see film with budget of less than $ 2 million look well . much good . in my opinion the special effect use in the original king kong be more sophisticated and good than hines special effect in this film . in fact and i have a much good appreciation for attack of the killer tomato because of this film . there no excuse with today technology for a film to look like a 50 b movie unless that be the intention and which shouldn not have be with this particular project . a problem i have with the dvd transfer be that the film be jerky and another demonstration of amateur film making . overall and i have to say that i produce a $ 45 and 000 project in 2003 that have good cinematography and special effect than this film . i strongly encourage anyone who appreciate good film making or who be a fan of wotw to leave this film on the shelf and watch attack of the 50 foot woman instead . it would be easy on the eye .