[MrShape]

I saw the movie and really enjoyed it. I thought it was a hell of a lot better then the old 50s version. I know a lot of people hold that film in high regard, but it left a bitter taste in my mouth since I'd read the book first. The 50s film was nothing but religeos propaganda made up to look like a sci fi film. All of that was mercifully absent from the Speilberg film. And those tripods were pretty impressibve. Those were the war machines that I'd read about in the book (as opposed to the flying vacume cleaners we saw in the 50s version). All in all, it was pretty cool film and a lot more accurate to the book then anything else we'd seen before. A pretty cool film.