War of the Worlds.

[Holst]

I went out and spent money for it. I've seen the original maybe 20 times and read the book for times and have the LP of Jeff Wayne's rock opera.

I thought this one is interesting because it is close to the book, Characters and scenes are merged. The Artillaryman and the Curate became the Ambulance driver. The Destruction of Weybridge and the Thunderchild became the scene with the ferry boat minus about three martian war machines losing the battles. The Pony cart became a mini van. Did you see Gene Barry at the end, he didn't get any lines.

The book is still the best, neither movie really got to the point of the plot..

From the book

And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?