Who decided to take THE greatest science fiction story ever written and make this slow, senseless, passion less, pointless, plodding mess?
Why? Why?? You took everything that made this story great and exciting and terrifying and clever and thought provoking and chucked it away!!
I'm off to crayon over the Mona Lisa and then record a rap version of Nessun Dorma, cause, you know, that will make them more relevant to modern society and because, well, I'm smarter than their creator's.
This should have been made by people who actually read the ###### book . I feel cheated.
The acting is bad, the script is bad,the directing is abysmal, the love story is pointless and unnecessary, the male lead seems in a permanent state of stupification, the future time shifts stop the story dead and serve no purpose, the slow motion panning shots are so out of place I actually thought my pc was buffering, and the few scenes actually taken from the original source (of which there are five) are so poorly rewritten and changed that they lose all of the excitement and horror that the book evoked...... And..um...the music was *&#T!!
When will these Movie/TV writers/producers realise that this book is still relevant and being read - 120 Years - after it was written for a reason and Stop trying to make it fit their current/
views/agendas!!!
For the love of God please just give us our book on the big screen! (sob!).
Kudos for setting it in (roughly!) the correct time and correct location, 1 star for each.
P. S for those close friends of Mr Wells who have chosen to defend this travesty by stating that 'he' would have been happy to have his book completely overhauled to better fit with current perceived social injustices, thank you for taking the time to channel his spirit and share his views with the rest of us poor lowly mortals.
Maybe next time someone decides to butcher this book on film, they could possibly call it something else.
