Worst Adaption Yet.

Rating: 1/10 (22 February 2011)

I've never understood why directors / movie studios take a popular book and then proceed to largely ignore the source material. Sometimes you can get away with it, but more often than not they fail miserably, succeeding only in disappointing the fans of the original in the process.
If SS wanted to do a angsty, dysfunctional family drama set against the backdrop of an alien invasion he should have just made up his own story, rather than bastardizing the work of someone else.
It's ironic that when you consider this movie in comparison to the George Pal version from the 50's, suddenly George's messing with the plot doesn't seem so bad, at least I enjoyed that movie even if it also largely ignored the bulk of H G Wells original plot.
Steven, give me back the two hours of my life wasted on this movie!