RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

edimusprime Ugh what can I say here. I liked this show I really did. Season 1 was pretty good. And overall it was a great concept.Then came season 2.I don't mind the idea that the aliens turned the tables and now our hero's had to fight an uphill battle that much. In all honesty it gave the series a more gritty tone it had lacked. I also don't mind the deaths of several of the characters from season 1 it gave the show an air of jeopardy. It upped the stakes.But really after the season change the show just plain stunk. It was depressingly slow, and boring.Now onto my main beef here. The DVD set of season 1. What a hunk of crap. Who was in charge of this transfer? It looks like they transfered directly from VHS (actually I have some episodes on VHS that are clearer than these DVD's are) with no clean up what so ever. This is the worst set I have ever purchased by far. The images are not clean, but distorted and barely watchable. NOt to mention their actually edited episodes. Cause the first episode has not even been restored to it's original airing cut that included Dr. Blackthorn as a child watching the war machines fall.Avoid this DVD set at all costs. That is not a warning I've ever issued EVER!

crazyrabbits You know, the first season of this show wasn't that bad. You had strong plots, good acting, and a good overall storyline.Then the second season started.What the hell was Frank Mancuso Jr. thinking when he made this series? It sucked! Here are some of the reasons why it sucked: 1) You killed off half the cast, including the strong military commander and the computer expert. They were actually the most interesting characters on the show! 2) What year is it? For one thing, it's never explained how much time has passed between the first and second seasons, and there's also the matter of where the woman who owned the house where lived in the manor went? She just disappeared.3) The main characters now live in an underground pipe.4) Even when the main character (Harrison) said he never used a gun, he just broke his own moral code and shot some guys in the second season premiere.5) The plots just sucked. Period.Bottom Line: Stick to the first season, and forget this season ever happened. You'll be better off.

Theo Robertson I vaguely remembered hearing about American TV doing a series based on the events after the Martians tried to invade Earth in the 1950s classic movie WAR OF THE WORLDS and thinking to myself this might be a bad idea . This was in 1988 and I didn`t get to see the WOTW pilot THE RESURRECTION until 1991 which proved my reservations that this show was a bad idea and when I saw the full series in the mid 1990s my instincts were confirmed 100%There seems to be severe continuity problems with this show . Remember how human civilisation was destroyed in the 1953 movie version ? Well the events directly follow on 35 years after that movie where strangely mankind seems to have quickly rebuilt the world , but most seriously of all from a logic stand point , no one seems to believe that Martians have ever existed ! It`s not actually a continuity error - it`s bad planning on the part of the producers because nearly every episode of the first season uses the film version legacy around the plots including a cameo by Ann Robinson playing the same character she did in the movie . All this becomes ridiculous in a show whose format closely follows that of THE INVADERS Another problem with the first season is the political allegory . With the film HG Wells subtext of the aliens being European colonists has been replaced by the bad guys being communist aggressors but in 1988 the cold war was more or less over ( The cold war was long gone when the series was broadcast in Britain ) with the last Soviets pulling out of Afghanistan and the fall of the Berlin wall just months away , so to hear the aliens calling each other " Comrade " seems old hat and even silly . There`s also a severe lack of on screen chemistry by the lead roles ( especially Jared Martin - I`ve seen forests that are less wooden ) but I guess I shouldn`t be too hard on Richard Chaves as Col Ironhorse , after all it must be very difficult for any actor to play a narrow minded military officer battling against aliens week in week out The second season of WOTW is actually a completely different show format wise . It`s much darker , there`s little if any political allegory used and it`s set in " The day after tomorrow " . We also see Ironhorse written out and have Adrian Paul as Kincaid , the show`s pretty boy action hero . I did think season two was an improvement but like the first season there`s a total lack of continuity . For example an episode revolves around the plot that drugs have been legalized with the aliens being behind it , but in previous and subsequent episodes drugs are never referred to . This is actually a common fault with American shows where things are ignored or not referred to in continuing serials because when selling the shows to overseas buyers the episodes are usually shown out of order . It`s also the reason why British shows ( despite being acclaimed ) rarely become syndicated , it`s because there`s large amounts of internal continuity as seen in BLAKE`S 7 , DOCTOR WHO etc which makes selling them unattractive to buyers . I digress So sorry to hurt the feelings of everyone who enjoyed WAR OF THE WORLDS but this show was a bad idea badly done

mistermime The first season of War of the Worlds was groundbreaking and refreshingly innovative. In many ways, it was the predecessor of shows like "The X-Files". The first season was very much like a game of chess between the Blackwood Project and the aliens- led the triumvirate Advocacy (featuring the underrated actress, Ilse Von Glatz- who was chilling as an Advocate). Towards the end of the season, there was a mythology carefully being built with the introductions of new characters such as the renegade alien/human hybrid- Quinn and the Qar'To Synth, Katara. Also, the show was blessed with creative writing, excellent direction- and casting Ann Robinson as Sylvia Van Buren was a nice coup for the producers.However, Paramount had plans to assassinate the show and installed Frank Mancuso Jr. as the new executive producer. He obliterated the first season storyline, continuity, most of the characters and killed the show in the process. But to many fans, the only real season of WOTW was 1988-1989.