Madbadger wrote:
At the start and end you have a narrarator (is it Freeman?). Did it anoy anyone how the script was so not how it was in the book/Jeffs version? i had to keep correcting it i was pissed. Also what in gods name did Speilberg mean when he said there was an ending different to the book? as far as i see the endings the same.
Also the aliens were too damn small should be Bear sized.
Two answere your last question first, I think that he put that out so that when you saw it you didn't know what would happen at the end. So you still had that wonder. Bit lame really.
As for the opening bit being different to Jeff Wayne's, well if he'd have copied that then that would be plagerising and Jeff would rightly sue.
As for being different to the book, that's natural I think because the origional has the rythm and speach of Victorian times and this was after all an update.
I just don't know why he felt the need to get Morgan Freeman to do it. Just an unknown actor who he could give some work to who had a great voice would have been better and fairer.
As for the aliens, they'd gone for something totally different to the discription in the book, so why keep the size the same?