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Really fun fact: the radio drama version of this story (from the 1930s) was presented as a series of news reports and first-hand accounts from witnesses and survivors - but it all sounded so convincing that people who turned on their radios after the broadcast began mistook it for an ACTUAL news report about an ACTUAL alien invasion! Anyone who missed the intro saying "here's an adaptation of the sci-fi novel" just started freaking out and calling family to see if they were still alive. :)

I remember watching this all the time when I was a kid. That noise the robot alien made and the way people just got vaporised traumatised me everytime, but love it still

It’s amazing what a great alien invasion movie this is despite not even really seeing much of the aliens until the start of the second act of the movie. It’s so well scripted that you can just feel the presence of the aliens there without them needing to be on screen.

H.G. Wells' book from 1898 is set in Victorian London. It has been adapted several times over the years: Orson Welles' radio drama in the 1930s, the 1953 movie starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson (who play the parents at the end of this version), the musical by Jeff Wayne released in 1978, a BBC adaptation only 4 years ago (set in Edwardian England, so a few years later than the book). All of them took parts of the original story and integrated them but Jeff Wayne's musical is probably the closest to the book.

the car scene with the crowd traumatized me when I was a teen. And it's still is the scariest scene of the movie.

One of the best alien invasion movies ever. It's such a masterpiece I was glad to experience this amazing film in theatres when I graduated highschool

It's based on an amazing book by H. G. Wells, and yes, there was an earlier movie, but this one is, I think, the most faithful adaptation of the novel. Wells' novel "predicted" the havoc wreaked on Europe by World Wars I and II, the horrors of mechanized, high tech warfare, the destroyed cities, the processions of refugees. It's really worth reading.

That quote in the beginning, about the eyes examining earth being "intelligent," "envious", "unsympathetci" might have been Wells' dig at British colonialism and what happened in places like India, Africa, the Caribbean. This novel is about the human race confronted with a level of destructive technology so advanced it's almost incomprehensible to us. Civilizations without gunpowder likely felt the same about the arrival of Europeans.

In the novel set in Victorian London, the main character is a British journalist. The tripods don't have shields in it and we actually manage to take a couple down. I think thats more effective. They aren't unstoppable, they are mortal, just extremely powerful and ruthless. They still msnage to walk over us. There is also a point made that the martians acted in desperation. Thrir planet was dying and they had to escape. They see humans the same way we would see a rabbit. The red weed they were spreading was a plant native to Mars, they were terraforming. The blood thing was how they eat, the martians didn't have digestive systems, and they got nutrition from injecting blood directly into their veins. And about the whole harvesting humans, we do the same to animals we deem lower than us. This passage from the book's opening chapter is great. "And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them. And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" Wells argues that if we are to label the Martians as monsters, then we are hypocrites.

One of Spielberg’s most underrated movies, I loved that you liked it so much! I think Tom and Dakota did an excellent job and Tim Robbins as the crazy guy was 👌🏼 The Cruise/Spielberg colab is always so great like in Minority Report.

I went to see this movie in my late teens when it first came out. Me and my friends were not expecting it to be so intense! When the water scene came on nearly everyone in the audience groaned with despair lol.

Seeing this movie on opening day at the theater was awesome! The tripod sound design is so scary, I love it.

This is a remake from the 50’s movie which was based on a radio broadcast in the 30’s that was presented as real and scared the hell out of people back then. HG Welles was the man behind it all.

Dakota's character grew on me by end of movie. First half, however, I was kind of hoping she would get eaten.

Absolutely a rewatch for me- I especially like the setup in the beginning 😊 There are so many iconic visuals in this movie- the train on fire always gets me… I agree with everything he’s been in this was one of Tom Cruises best performances.

Great reaction to a movie I’ve seen so many times 😂 Dakota Fanning (and Sixth Sense’s Haley Joel Osment) were my absolute favorite child actors ❤

One thing about the whole plot armor or main character thing is stories are about the people who survived not the ones who died after five seconds. So you're always going to see the perspective of the person who actually did something. Or else it would be a very short story.

HG Wells wrote the book in the 19th Century. It's been made into films, radio plays and TV series a number of times since then. When it was broadcast in the USA in the 1930's. People thought it was a real alien attack and panic gripped some areas for a few hours. Morgan Freeman's opening and closing monologues are taken straight from the book. Sadly missing is the famous sequence where HMS Thunderchild rams a Tripod to destroy it. Royal Navy Yo.

War of the Worlds is a novel by HG Wells. Produced in the radio in 1938, by Orson Welles. The broadcast caused some to believe they were hearing a news broadcast. An older movie version starred Gene Barry, the grandfather here.

Great reaction!

my first ever alien movie i’ve watched when i was a kid, and still one of my favorites.

THIS MOVIE WAS SUCH AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE IN THEATERS!!!

One of my favorite movies

There is an indie survival game of this currently in development where you can play as one of the civilians on the ground trying to make it through a world invaded by the tripods. It also features the pilot aliens as well as the snake-like house probes. There’s also a separate play-mode where you can play as the tripods themselves! Well worth checking out their channel!

One of the darkest adaptations of the H.G. Wells novel

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YESSS! I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH! Loved it since I was super little! This, alongside Twister (1996) and Spiders (2000) are the movies I love the absolute most!

Such a great movie! You always react to the most interesting ones. Love your choices!

I love how newer generations will say an older film looks good for whatever year it was released in. I think it's all talent. There's tons of newer films with all the budget in the world and new tech and still look like crap. 😂

Hg wells wrote war of the worlds in the late 1800s. A movie adaptation was made in 1953

The aliens were so busy being advanced they forgot their hazmat suits 💀

26:09 - "Hopefully this guy is... normal" ROTFL!!! Yes this was an epic film!

When i saw episode 1 of The Ones Who Live.. The music they have playing when Rick is in his room with the glass as the tv plays reminded mee of the sound these aliens make.. Lol and they showed the windmills out the window with the red light.. It looked like aliens in TOWL.. LMAO.. This, signs and scary movie were some of my favorite movies growing up..

Great movie of the HG Wells novel. The 1950s version is great too *Rays wives parents at the end of this are the 2 main leads in the 50s film. If you a fan of alien invasion, you should def watch V: the Mini Series fron the 80s, absolutely fantastic and was phenomenal when it came out, it blew my sci fi geek teenager mind at the time. 😊

am i the only one or when the tripod uses the horn it says *grago calls in 8* its like the officers calling some reinforcements

Love your reactions

If I recall the first ever movie was made in the 50s or so, so yea ofc they wanted to remake it into this XD

7:54 "O que cê acha disso?" Dude, after years I noticed there are brazilians in that scene 😂 Also there's a brazilian flag a few minutes later inside a store in the background

If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out Mars Attacks! by Tim Burton.

Dude, did you recognize the guy from the cellar was Tim Robbins? Tim Robbins stared in The Shawshank Redemption with Morgan Freeman (the narrator). Great reaction!

21:35: "I'm loving this movie!" Well, of course! Spielberg made it! Haha! I'm just kidding! You don't have to like his stuff.

Oh lord this movie traumatised me as a child, I watched it way too young by myself. Still have nightmares about it. Trauma aside, great film 😂

Believe it or not it bombed at the cinema I loved this movie version and I love the original movie as well ❤😢😮😊

For a big lover of Spielberg, have you seen Dual? A very early work of his. Scared the heck out of me as a young man.

The fun thing is WE ARE FINALLY GETTING A GAME ON THIS FREAKING AWSOME MOVIE

If the camelot scene was added, this movie would be scarier. Camelot is a deleted scene where Ray, Robbie and Rachel witness the Tripods abducteding people from their homes, screaming as they are put in cages. This scene is between the ferry and battle scene

12:49 tbh I don't think we've gotten much further, in terms of visuals. The gap between, say, 1995 and 2005 was gargantuan, but we're almost twice that gap on from '05 and I dunno. I guess there's only "so realistic" you can get before it's just real. Can't get 110% real.

Jeff Waynes musical is the the most faithful adaption of HG Wells book , I'd also recommend the radio broadcast from the 30's that got some listeners panicking. This is my least favourite adaption of the book i'd take the '53 movie over this version , there's also a sort of follow up animated film for the book called War of the Worlds Goliath which is pretty good.

Great movie and great reaction :) hope you get to react to Life (2017) one day, great alien/space horror movie!

ITS PRETTY GOOD FOR A REMAKE

You need a bigger screen so you can enjoy the movie a lot more, your eye movement says small screen

When i first saw this movie, i was a bit confused with Robbie's attitude. Best I could figure he wanted to see us win. We're talking less than four years after September 11th, so there's a residual perception with how we respond or react to large-scale threats. That coupled eith rebellious teen and bitter/tesentful of the divorce or custody.

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Fun movie. Another movie like this that was cool, was Skyline. If you haven’t seen it you should check it out

H G Wells the godfather of science fiction. With Lovecraft the master of cosmic horror. You should read The Time Machine. A great novel which ends up horrific. I'll leave it at that. Don't want to spoil it for newbies.

Ohh I remember I saw this film two times at the theatre because my parents were recently divorced and each one of them take me to see this lmao it happened the same with Constantine, it was awesome, I have loved this movie since it came out

I have nightmares from this movie.

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Andy Defresne should just stick to making chess pieces...

Unfortunately, no it wasn't one take. It was stitched together cleverly like that war movie that seemed to be a single shot. Stitching, CGI and miniatures. Very well done movie.

The tripod is taking over the world but they realize they got virus one by one crushed tripod and uberpod

Most underrated Spielberg movie, weak ending though.

LOVE this movie and think it deserves so much respect for its technical feats, but I cringed every time he mentioned Scary bloody Movie lol

I think this may have been the first Tom Cruise movie I truly hated. Maybe the second. Can't recall when MI 2 came out.

ANOTHER ALIEN/ HORROR MOVIE, IS THE FACULTY(1998)

Who else was surprised when MF didn't get why Tom Cruise character Ray took a gun? it's like hello, in this situation, ppl are just as dangerous as the aliens..can't believe he didn't instantly understand that.

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I had 2 accidental pregnancies one I was on the pill the other the condom broke so it's possible

I wanted Robby to die sooooo bad! He was soooo annoying! Talk about a scene where you physically want to punch through the screen. What was the purpose of “I need to see this” what the army getting blown apart and you with it?

Yeah Rachel is fn annoying in this movie 😂

Robbie remains one of the dumbest characters I've ever seen. Irritates me every time I see this movie.

316th like let’s go

The kids in this movie are annoying af

Man you've got questions. Just watch the movie my guy. lol

Tom Cruise alone, makes this unwatchable for me, but hearing Dakota Fanning scream made me turn it off pretty quick.

"I'm allergic to peanut butter." "Since when?" "Birth." I hate this terrible movie, sooo much! Fun Fact: Theatrical movie debut of Shanna Collins. Most Useless Fact: After her actions in the film, Dakota Fanning's character was voted 'most useless thing to have in an apocalypse' by MTV. Cameos Cameos Fact: The grandparents are played by Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, who appeared in the original The War Of The Worlds (1953) as Doctors Clayton Forrester and Sylvia Van Buren. Jaws Prank Fact: During the filming of the underwater scenes (where the ferry capsizes), director Steven Spielberg played a prank on Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning by playing the dramatic music from Jaws (1975) (also one of Spielberg's films) through the massive underwater speakers on the sound stage. Ashley Flint Fact: While filming nearby, Tom Cruise, along with a twenty-member entourage including Steven Spielberg, visited a Lexington, Virginia Dairy Queen. Cruise saw a jar on the counter with a photo of Ashley Flint and her story. Flint had been in a go-cart accident a few months earlier, leaving her family with a mountain of hospital bills. Cruise put $5,000 cash into the jar. Practical Over CGI Fact: An actual out-of-use Boeing 747 was bought to be used as the crashed plane. This is the first major motion picture to use real M1 Abrams tanks instead of other tanks dressed up to resemble them. Real National Guard troops, mostly from Virginia, drove most Convoy Scene military vehicles. Extras, bit-players, and stunts-crew filled in the Hummer seats and troop trucks. Lost In Adaptation Fact: The tripod design for the alien machines is based on H.G. Wells' original description from his book, including the heat rays at the ends of arms. The "red weed" is also from the novel, as is the alien "need" for humans. Tim Robbins' character is a combination of three different characters from the H.G. Wells novel: The Curate who gets trapped in the ruined house with the main character, the Artilleryman, whose behavior and dialogue is the main basis for the film's character, and he is named Ogilvy, after a friend to the Narrator.

Do you not know what an EMP is?

bro......dont always shoot for the lowest brow in the room....i mean i dig the reactions but its like an adult 6 year old .........sorry it just gets on my nerves.....i likwe the reaction man be you....buuuut do better