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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>War of the Worlds</font> <font size="2"> <br>movie review by Gary Johnson</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p>Steven Spielberg's up dating of <i>War of the Worlds</i> discards the idea of cylinders falling from the sky like meteors, as conveyed in H.G. Wells' story, as well as Orson Welles' 1938 radio version. Spielberg forgoes the mystery of the falling cylinders in favor of ominous, swirling clouds and spastic, intense bursts of lightning. However, Spielberg provides the same devastating results once the aliens do in fact arrive. Spielberg's aliens arrive in a different manner altogether that brings their status as outsiders into question: they've been here before, and their invasion infrastructure may already he here, waiting to be activated. </body>