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View Poll Results: Which version did you like better?
WAR OF THE WORLDS (Tom Cruise, 2005)
27
50.00%
WAR OF THE WORLDS (Gene Barry, 1950's)
10
18.52%
INDEPENDANCE DAY (Will Smith)
6
11.11%
WAR OF THE WORLDS (Orson Wells radio version)
15
27.78%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 54. You may not vote on this poll

Which version of WAR OF THE WORLDS was better?

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Old 06-30-05, 06:29 AM
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Which version of WAR OF THE WORLDS was better?
Now that the movie has opened which version did you like better?
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers should've been included in the poll too (ID4 was actually more of a remake of it instead of WotW).
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If Tom Cruise had a pipe and was a scientist, strutted around and comtemplated things a lot the movie would have been better.
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I can't vote on this one. Each version was great at it's time.
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I'm thinking the movie will look better on dvd.
It seemed to lack color in the movie theater.
Where as the 1950's one with it's technicolor on laserdisc looks so beautiful.
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Spaced Invaders should be included since the Aliens hear the original radio broadcast and decide to join in and invade earth

Or The Night That Panicked America? That was a decent movie.
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MARS ATTACKS!, SPACED INVADERS were like comedies weren't they?
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I can't vote on this one. Each version was great at it's time.
Man, could you image the panic during the radio show? I was never there but I'd have to go with that version just on how many people thought it was real.
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Old 07-03-05, 06:47 PM
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I can't vote on this one. Each version was great at it's time.
I agree 100%. Loved them all. Except WOTW(2005) is my 2nd favorite movies of all time,BUT I do sets of movies and #2 includes WOTW(Both) & ID4,so.....
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MARS ATTACKS!, SPACED INVADERS were like comedies weren't they?
And they were both fan-fucking-tastic.
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I second that statement, Matthew Chmiel!
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Wotw 2005
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