Pitiful effort from Spielberg

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2006)

This movie sucks big time - especially if you have read the original book by H.G. Wells or even saw the original version of the movie, with Gene Barry. I don't buy into the notion that Martians came to Earth EONS ago to "bury" those huge war machines. The whole idea of that is ludicrous. I mean, if the Martians DID come to earth years ago, why not just STAY and inhabit the earth? Why go to all that work and trouble to bury their war machines, then leave, then come back centuries later and have to go to all the trouble of destroying everybody and everything? It just doesn't make sense. The original story was better - they "watched" us from Mars, planned an attack, then came, along with their machines, in "cylinders", as the book states. That makes perfect sense. I believe if someone is going to remake a title, they should stick to the original story, or NAME IT SOMETHING ELSE.