Movie recap: War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023)

"The creature in the bushes turns out to be a blood-thirsty monster: British Artillery soldier Ben." Instant sub

High tech jets and missiles are useless , but a grenade takes them out ….

The soldiers: Yes! We killed it! The world is safe!!! Other tripods in the distance: *allow us to introduce ourselves*

Let us all be honest, The Original is the absolute best but this ain't to bad, Atleast it had them actually be Martians and octopus type, Take place in Britain, And have a Character called Ogilvy, And overall plot is very similar to the book it is just I REALLY do prefer the old Victorian setting and I don't mind a 1913 or 1938 setting, Just you know these old times, Though the fact the black kid (Dont remember his name) can mention the Tim Burton Movie Mars Attacks but not the War of the Worlds is somewhat of a crime

This really is a near-exact retelling of the original novel "War of the Worlds", and like with that, Ben informs them that the military has been completely exterminated in mere *days* at most; they could only put up a measily few days combat before they were completely eradicated in the course of the battle. In short, their entire nation's collapsed completely, any government officers who have survived have committed cowardice; those that fulfilled their duty are long-dead, or simply eaten by the Martians; and the ones who resist the aliens will inevitably meet the same fate... they have never had any chance from the start.

Wait, so these tripods don't have magic force fields yet they still roll over a modern military? How?

it's a pretty good film, if you don't compare it with Spielberg's version.

**astronomer opens door** Alien: Tf bro im dressing up

'A distant relative of Cthulhu and Dr Zoidberg'-wonderful-you have a great future ahead of you.

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well atleast the 05 version made sence for why the military couldnt fight back. This one appeared to have no shields and were weak enough to be taken down by a hand grenade. why the couldn't the military take them down with ease.

"We have war of the worlds 2005 at home" War of the worlds 2005 at home:

When you look at it, this is actually the most accurate representation of War of the Worlds set in modern day London.

It's good to see that H.G. Wells' classic SF story is still inspiring folk to adapt it. Without seeing the whole thing, I don't know the details, but in the main, this one looks at least half decent. OK, so it doesn't follow the actual story very closely, but then, it has been modernised. The protagonist in Wells' original tale has been replaced by three students, you still have the doctor, the religious man ( a curate in the book) and a military man ( who suffered a deep inferiority complex when he saw what was happening). Yet, the ships, tripods and red weed come from Mars, the Martians are octopus like, and perhaps best of all, having brought at least London, if not the world, to its knees, the Martians die from all the various bacteria, viruses and other pathogens that fill our planet alongside us... with strong hints that, given time, the Martians might be able to adapt to them! A film doesn't have to be a big budget blockbuster to be good- think 'Monsters'. Don't get me wrong, because I loved Spielberg's adaptation,, but some adaptations work better than others. The latest offering from the BBC had good creatures and special effects, but made some awful errors. Whilst placing it in its period setting (the Victorian era) it tried to 'update' things by turning the protagonist into an unmarried mother, and getting all moralistic on certain topics, which wouldn't have been seen as an issue then. The result was stodgy and mostly unappealing even to die hard SF fans. There was another adaptation that came out just afterward, but whilst I've heard about it, I haven't seen it or heard very much about it, so wonder how well it did. This adaptation, however, seems to have taken the basic elements of the story and filled the rest in with its own ideas. It looks like it didn't go overboard trying to add anything extra, and though set in a modern day, didn't try to add on modern moral values, at least that I can see. They say less is more, and in this instance, it seems they got it just about right!

0:05 Its not a good look when the helpless civilians in your movie look like they're going on a leisurely jog.

“Pedel machine” (bike)

seeing how accurate this is to the book it gives me enthusiasm

“Straddled on their precious pedal machines, the astronomers head into town.” What? 🤣

ah yes I remember when the British army had T-90A tanks in its military 4:33

Nice little easter eggs there; Ogilvy, Herbert, using the actual Horshall Common, the mental pastor, the Artilleryman etc etc. But yet ANOTHER War of the Worlds ignoring the most BADASS scene in the book: HMS Thunderchild taking down three Tripods

Aliens caught covid, too. 😂

Didn't Orson Wells scare the daylights out of everyone with the "War of The Worlds" radio broadcast on Halloween once?😊

This was so cinematic and well made, I just wish the VFX/CGI was more realistic. Ngl it kinda looks like something I could do if I had the time lololol

Your narration is TOP NOTCH!!

Military Alliance vs The Imperial Alien Empire Forces

4:45 the tanks shown are literally T-72s 💀

"Offended by the small caliber" I almost spit out lauging. Great one.

when the hell did War Of the Worlds get a sequel.

Man this was too funny I loved this! Thank you!

Ok...I love all the comedy ad-libs you do while summarizing the movie lol

A story how Nurgle saved Earth from an alien invasion

"it appears to be a blood thirsty monster, british artillery soldier ben." mf got me laughin' 😂

Yooo another tripod les gooooo. Reminds me of the tripod from 2005 (These goobers traumatize me but i love them still)

After all that time, i still ask myself, why have they never tried to make the Machines stumble?! they got 3 Legs, and are definitely not capable of walking on 2 Legs alone... And why have they never considered Mines, if they can blow them up from "inside their Shields"?

I am glad that the Crazy Priest got what came for him: Death.

POV: the 2005 tripods didn’t do good enough so they sent in a downgrade to kill them-aka 2005 tripods looked cooler

"Sir, these walking giant squid-looking machines are vulnerable to our weapons." "Well that's not fair to the story... quick! Charge right at them instead of using range to our advantage!!!"

Nobody: ChatGPT, rephrase "Riding their bikes" but make it 100x more pretentious Narrator: "Saddled on their precious pedal machines"

THX FOR THE RECAP! i needed spoilers

"Mom their back again -_-" Mom: "WDYM THEIR BACK????

2:30 I find it really weird how the visual effects are extremely amateur in one shot but then incredibly well done in the next

Bro really called it DR. Zoidberg

you can't really have an invasion from mars set in the 21st century, pretending that we don't know what's on mars and haven't landed multiple missions on it.

The way the alien vaporize the victims look more scary than the 2005 movie

Fun fact: If birds are surrounding a tripod, it means the immune system is weak and it can be taken down by heavy artillery

"He finds a whole bunch of nothing in the woods" 😂

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Fun fact: your actually talking about the Rip off war of the worlds 2005

that one tripod that got shot by the artillery man and blown up:HEY MAN IM OFFENDED NOW.

Precious pedal machines. Heh. That's one way to call a bicycle.

Tbh after the 2005 war of the worlds every future adaptation of war of the worlds was based around the 2005 version and not really the original novel (except 1 movie but that one is hard to even find and has barely been archived)

Films always misunderstood the whole military aspect of the tripods - the heat ray was impressive but it didnt match with the raw strength of the human forces - sheer numbers and being able to defend dug in positions. The martians are actually brought to a halt in the book and the only reason they break through human lines is due to their use of black gas - something that the humans have no defence against. After that its just a matter of tidying up. So we either get tripods that are somehow magically immune to everything, or humans who are completely incompetent and only seem to turn up with a handful of their actual forces. Its such a shame as the story is so much better when told as it is, as that both respects the human military and is all the more crushing when what could have been an actual victory for them is surprisingly flipped by martian adaptation.

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Respect dropping Morlocks near Mk 8:00 Nice One

I'd like to see a movie version of The Great Martian War, 1913-1917.

"He finds a whole bunch of nothing in the woods" :)))

yeah how smart of you bikes = pedal machines

that was a quick defeat

Me: chilling Alien ships: lands and starts to invade Me: we come in peace welcome to our planet

Mum can we have war of the worlds? No we have war of the worlds at home. War of the worlds at home:

Didn't know feces makes a durable building material.

But The Film Studios Turned It Down Saying That It Would Still Be Far Too Expensive To Even Contemplate Trying To Make.

*I couldn't help but notice that the guns and missiles did nothing to the horrifying tripod while the most simple bacteria killed it*

i love the sarcasm

Although the movie wasn't the best, im glad it kept the og book in mind and mostly faithfully followed it even if the thunderchild scene was kinda goofy lol

Isn’t this just the English version of war of the worlds but more modern but it’s just in London also and yeah basically the only difference is it’s more modern and less vehicle tax because even the old man part is the same

1:56 how they just stand there, like they see this everyday LOL

Looks like a Big Fin Squid!

wait what this is not the war of worlds I remember 😭 I'm getting to old

War of the world Walmart version

4:34 Martian tripod business XD

the ending in which theres an egg that survived. means that one of the eggs had a mutation in the genes, which means they can repel the bacteria they must not let it reproduce otherwise there will be no stopping them

Dr Zoidberg !!😂😂

I prefer the 2005 version gotta love that matrix sentinel tripod

This is like war of the worlds part 2

imagine bro leaves us in a cliff hanger

You really do see the dilemma for filmakers nowadays making these alien invasion movies.....while even low budget flicks can put out impressive special effects such as this movie...and they are very good hats off to the CGI team on this movie...where you can see the problem is with....people. they just dont have the budget to have lots of people milling around such as would happen in an invasion and the streets seem sterile despite the invasion which just sort of takes away from the movie somehow. still, they did a great job.

The First Great Martian war : **minecraft cave sound**

“Cathulu and Dr. Zoidberg”

Life...finds a way.

Why did they not include the HMS Thunderchild (in the sense of a scene with a ship valiantly fighting against the tripods)

I refuse to believe that the humans would still lose having nukes available, it's pretty hard to believe that humans would lose against aliens considering modern technology

proceeds to do its alien tripod business

Still cannot beat, 2005.

Is this on amazon prime or Netflix please let me know

I really like War of the worlds

do one on the 2005 wotw

"Offended by the small caliber" 💀

4:30 martian tripod business🤣🤣

Wow war of the world's came back

Suppose that aliens do not need war to occupy us.

Tall Aliens In War Of The Worlds Is A Strongest Monster

I wonder what an asgard beam weapon from stargate sg-1 woud to to those bugs

Another example for the ,,How Aliens see the earth"-meme

Every aliens sci-fi movies: An strange object came from galaxy came down to earth

The British tank is the challenger tank not the t-90.

“Show”, don’t “tell”. If not, “tell” without pretension - such creative license rarely serves any true utility.

I Like how the students names are the same as in the novel