Plagiarism?????

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2005)

As best I can tell, the tripod concept is from John Christopher's The Tripods series for kids, not from the Well's novel. This should be obvious, BBC did a series on this. Christopher's books are about an earth conquered by these tripods which run around the planet in large numbers. Christopher's books have much more to do with what happens after the basic conquering. But the marauding tripods which grab people from the ground with automated arms is from Christorpher's books. Christopher's tripods have extending cables which pick up people. In the original movie, the aliens had spaceships. I can't remember what the Well's book had. So, it looks like the new movie is a composite of the 2 books with a modern story interwoven. All badly done. Basically the movie is about a couple days of running away from the tripods and then it ends.