As I mentioned before, I caught Spielberg's War of the Worlds on the flight back from California in October. Quite a turkey, and not a patch on the Fifties version.
Libertas feels the same way. It's true that the love interest is a pain; otherwise, George Pal's movie - now reissued on an expanded DVD - hasn't aged at all badly. H.G. Wells wouldn't have approved of the religious touch at the end (one of the few really dislikeable characters in his novel is the clergyman). But he would surely have have liked the sleek design of the all-conquering "tripods" .
Talking of film and faith, Johnny Cash fans may want to follow the link to a critique of Walk The Line, written from a Christian point-of-view. Is it a "faith-lite version of a faith-filled story"?
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