The aliens getting vibe checked by the British Royal Navy was absolutely hillarious.

Based off the length of this video and how little tripods there are, I'm gonna guess this was mostly a love story

In spite of it's problems, I have to give major props to this version for three things: 1: Taking place in the era of the book. 2: Including the black smoke weapon that every other film adaptation ignores. 3: Actually have a handful of tripods be destroyed. (Even if they've still not done proper credit to the Thunderchild scene.)

The "There cannot be more than two of them, against our millions!" Scene still gives me goosebumps.

I love how the dude didn't think trice about leaving the fatally wounded girl but then they both also don't think twice about going back for the dog lol accurate asf

for all the flaws of this series, can we all agree that having it be set in the same time period as the original book is awesome and gives it a really unique setting

10:58 Tripod: look at all these easy ki- Royal Navy: Sike you thought

i like how the battleship guns actually damage them

I do like the contrasting images of a highly advanced alien war machine and the not-so-advance human society. The Tripods actually look pretty good, kinda like giant insects, but they kinda don't look "practical". With the legs directly attached to the sides of the body and eye, it's kinda like a head without a neck. The legs also seem to offer less mobility. Its heat ray however is actually pretty cool. I love the almost silent, partially visible ray. It just kinda makes sense. But one of the things that just makes the Tripods in Spielberg's version superior is obviously the sound design. That horn sound is one of the most perfectly scary sounds ever. Hearing it immediately gives you a feeling of dread and panic.

Imagine how terrifying that would be in 1898

For all the faults this series had, the Tripods sounding like living beings in pain when they were hit by cannon fire or whatever was insanely creepy. A vehicle sounding like a living thing in pain was a good choice.

Love how they did the heat ray as the invisible ray of heat it is meant to be. I don't think any adaptation has quite done justice to the "milking stool, tilted and bowled violently along the ground."

So for 3 years I never knew there was a new war of the worlds? I used to LOVE that alot.

Also of note: these alien tripods (fighting machines) have a chemical weapon called 'black smoke' that appears to kill humans on contact starting at 6:32 The 'black smoke' does not appear in the previous 1953 or 2005 films.

I do appreciate that they took a new spin on the classic Tripod siren noise

This concept of futuristic Sci-Fi beings in an ancient time line has always fascinated me. Imagine if something like this was real. I can’t imagine being in the time of the Great War and seeing one of those things coming at you knowing you got no kind of technology to fight it.

The Tripod designs look cool in this version, but they're totally impractical. The book version of the Tripods have a neck that allow them to give them mobility and tentacles that allow them to grab objects when they need to, and it makes the Spielberg Fighting Machines more superior, but here, their legs gave them less mobility as they were attached to the head, and they didn't have tentacles despite how they need blood for their appetite.

I know this one is, in terms of plot and detail, closer to H.G. Wells’ book, but Steven Spielberg’s 2005 version will always be superior. It modernized a classic novel in the most superior way, over a decade before this one came out.

Tripods roll through the land forces only to get absolutely stomped by massive naval guns was pretty cool

Being set in the land and time period of the source material already makes me appreciate it a lot. And I really like how old England looks as a terrain for our modern space sci-fi design on the tripods. You don't see that often. It looks mis-matched and it's perfect that way. Making the alien tech look that much more alien.

The sound from the new version isn't as Iconic sounding or scary as the one from Steven Spielberg's tripods. I dunno about most of y'all but I 100% like Steven's version of the horn a lot better. Shit is scary as hell.

The martians here are - just like in all adaptations - not intelligent like in the book. In the book, what makes them terrifying isn't just their heat ray or the tripods. It's their methodical, adaptive approach to eradicating human civilisation. Like exterminators, not some invading force. This happens a few times: 1. When they arrive, one of their number underestimates the gravity of the planet and falls out of the cylinder into the pit below. The others quickly exterminate all life around to ensure nothing can harm it while it's down there. 2. One of the tripods gets destroyed by a lucky shot from an array of cannons in a town, they don't attack larger towns directly after that, instead shooting massive cannisters of black dust from afar like artillery. The cities become coated in massive cones of black dust, with no survivors and no risk to the martians. 3. While wading out to sea, two of them get destroyed by the Ironclad, Thunderchild. They immediately target ammunition compartments after that, detonating the ships or making them unable to attack before coming too close. 4. They fortify their landing zones and dig holes to hide their work and machines in, so they can't be spotted easily. 5. They create various types of machines to dig, to build, to perform extremely accurate procedures that baffle the protagonist since he didn't expect such accuracy was possible for a machine. 6. They hide in the ruins of London to observe humans having festivities at night, getting drunk and living the good life because they're soon to die anyway. And they watch the humans do this without attacking, waiting until they're inebriated before rounding them up with ease. 7. They created the parts for a flying version of the fighting machine, since they were only the makeshift expeditionary force and the tripods were multifunctional tools, not just weapons. The martians were terrifying because the longer it went on, the clearer it was humanity didn't and never would stand a chance. To them, were were the animals to be herded and controlled. Nothing more. No adaptation has gotten any of this right.

1:10... Horse is panicking at full gallop. 1:13 whoa whoa whoa. 1:14 Horse comes to full stop somehow. LMAOOOOOO.

This was truly an interestingly different take on the classic story, and the sheer deafening sounds of the tripods are awesome

Just remember that the 2005 version will always be iconic.

I'll be honest, though its not as iconic as the 2005 one, i do admire the eldritch nature of its design. and i do like its siren sound. but if this were on a tier list, it would be right behind 2005s tripod.

"We are the masters of warfare, our cavalry, our cannons are the best in the world."

I'd also like to point out, during the naval scene, anyone else notice that, as the pods took damage they just started frying anything till they died in desperation

As some one who's read the book this is probably the closest were going to get to a proper adaptation

The Brits: Are you German? The Tripods: We are Prussian.

It's almost poetic how they take down their first tripod using naval might. War of the Worlds is very much a cosmic/Lovecraftian horror story, and as such, is rooted in fear of the unknown. Nowhere in the known universe is that fear more readily prevalent, than our own oceans. In fact, Lovecraft's fear of the water is the reasoning for a large swathe of his works involving horrors from that deep sea. Oceans are continually used for important settings or to play vital roles in cosmic horror to this day, and to see the sea be the sight of Humanity's first triumph against the Tripods is an interesting spin on the trope.

The stupid cliche about going back for the dog killed it for me.

Honestly I don’t believe a signal adaptation has gotten the tripods right, Spielbergs definitely captures the horror and inevitably of them, bbcs got the weaponry down but none have captured that simplicity and alieness just right, the video game was close from what I’ve heard but still I’m shocked such a captivating story and original design hasn’t gotten mainstream yet, I, still waiting for a representation of the building machines. Soundtrack in this was great tho.

The tripods are actually pretty badass. That's about all lol.

This alien show is one of the most realistic story I have seen. The actors were so good and I had really heart dropping moments. The show leaves hope there is a chance for things to change without any prediction. I honestly wanted more episodes. Very entertaining 🥰

H.G. Wells' novel was the 1st book I ever read in school. Glad a version close to the book finally got made. Thanks!

This series is ok at best. Part 1 and 2 do a pretty solid job as a hook to get you invested but the third part bungles it so hard. Notice there’s no footage of the tripods in this video for part 3 _because they don’t even show up_

Imagine the Spielberg adaptation tripods being placed in the 1898 setting all the while with a story with characters that are actually compelling. That’s exactly the perfect adaptation War of the Worlds needs, after all it is one of the pioneering sci-fi stories that practically gave birth to the genre, and it deserves a fully fleshed out series or even movie trilogy.

So glad someone put the story within its correct era - makes it even more horrifying in my opinion.

One thing to be said about the tripods is that their lack of an energy shield like they do in other versions makes it more scary because it gives hope. As Bane said in TDKR, there can be no true despair without hope. They're still virtually impossible to fight against, but its still possible even if its a 1 in a 10,000 chance.

I will say, while that sounds aren’t quite as scary as the one from 05, it’s still pretty terrifying in its own right

Despite the hearing that this show was bad, that baby scene was brutal

Still, at 71 years old, the 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds" is still the best!

I love that they brought back the black smoke from the book, although in the book it was dispersed via canisters and was used to fill the lungs and suffocate people as it was incredibly heavy. That and the invisible heat ray, the original novel describes it as (it's been a minute so correct me if I'm wrong) a sort of invisible blade that turns anyone caught within it to flames. Also the book had more than just the war machines, it had some sort of smaller worker variant that helped build and repair other Martian machinery.

0:50 he's just standing there, MENACINGLY!

The worst part (that actually scared me) from the 2005 version umm was when the blood was EVERYWHERE like omg

Stops for the dog but won't even check on the hurt woman. MY KINDA DUDE! 👍

Amazin how that dudes bowtie stayed perfect and his lapel was spotless . Errybady loves a sharp dressed period piece man

I love how the background music for the beginning sounds like the “fog horn” noises from the tripods in the 2005 movie. Especially at 0:51

My favorite is the sudden appearance of a dark rock on the beach after the last one falls in the end. Magic rock.

I always wondered what would happened if an alien invasion took place in early stage of civilisation thank god this movie was made

I love how the Tripods look here, super unique and scary design.

I do like the tripods and like their sounds a lot. But the 05 ones will always be in me heart

11:07 and with this shot the entire universe started speaking English

The video’s description says Spielbergs version is the “original” but the first War of the Worlds movie came out in 1953

Okay so i havent seen this series, but it already gets a small measure of my respect for actually having the Martians be killable. Basically every version I see of this has them just shrugging off Nukes or Missiles, which i get (they had to make them more durable because modern tech) but they could have found a way to make them still somewhat vulnerable. part of the Horror of the original as far as im concerned came from the sheer effort it took to kill them, but part of the hope for salvation was that we COULD.

While I still think they are cool, my main complaint about these Tripods is that they seem too “sleek”. Remember, according to the book, before the Tripods appeared, there was a lot of hammering noises coming from the pit where the Martians were. So I personally imagine that the Tripods are more rugged looking, like they were jury rigged, kinda like the illustrations from Alvim Correa.

Tripods in War of the Worlds: The most terrifying alien lifeform capable of destroying all civilizations in the planet. Tripods in Real Life: A phone stand for humans doing tiktok.

the amount of people who don't realize that the original book was partly a romance is astounding. like im pretty sure it was a science fiction/romance with some horror elements.

Props to cameraman risking his life

the 05 Spielberg movie is far superior that shit terrified me as a kid and it's still a classic to this day

I read the comments comparing Spielberg’s adaptation and BBC adaptation but I’m over here vibing to Jeff Wayne adaptation

the tripods in this version are absolutely badass with the horns

You know what, the sounds THESE tripods make sounds like the Half-Life 2 Striders

“What can stop these monstrosities!” “15 inch naval guns.” “Oh! Right then…..BROADSIDE! And steady as she goes.”

Imagine a war of the worlds adaptation from the martians perspective

I love that the minister thinks he can conquer the creatures. The idea of having an intergalactic empire is so unbelievably British.

As horrible as the rest of this show is,the scenes featuring the tripods are all genuinely amazing. I love their designs. They’re GORGEOUS! And absolutely terrifying. The sounds they make are frightening, and I like how they weren’t portrayed as invincible, but rather as very formidable but also very mortal.

The thing is, this could’ve been done well…could’ve

Rip the poor baby the baby was calling for help and lost his life 💔 😢 😔 🙏 😞 😪

As Godzilla was a reaction to the terrible nuclear devastation, I can imagine this being the reaction to war which Britain was engaged in. And "you can't do anything, she's dead' when he didn't even check.. that's cold.

*When that last woman on the beach died in front of the tripod's eye, I laughed uncontrollably!!!*

Really really REALLY freaking love the sound design in this.

got yourself a new landmark there 11:16

I had a chuckle at the one officer calling for a parlet in the presence of these tripods. Yeah, like an advanced civilization is going to acknowledge what that means and even if they did their going to respect that request at all.

“ GET ON THE BLOODY HORSE!” Got me rolling on the floor🤣

"I have to find the baby, it's in one of those houses." "What are you doing?" *Bruh*

the theme song/sound for the tripods in the 2005 film is chilling

Although IMO the tripod design from 2005's film cant be surpassed, but this one did pretty well.

Everyone is so quick to compare it to other versions instead of just sitting down and enjoying it as its own thing. I found no need to compare this to the 1950s version or Spielberg's version and still got a lot of entertainment from what I saw on its own merits.

not a huge fan of the new designs, but they’re still super cool

That horse just magically stopped. This production had some good moments but quite a few really bad ones...

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. But still they come!

кстати пасхалка: дед детей, который встречал Круза и Рейчел в конце фильма - это главный актер первого фильма Война Миров 1953. Сам в афиге😮

I would have loved to have had a closer view of those RN ships in action. Maybe scenes from the bridge and gunnery stations with them frantically trying to hit the tripods then celebrating when they did.

I do admire the size of this version, any like impossibly large yet sentient thing terrifies the hell out of me

Thanks for the post!

That’s why you should not make a tripod angry

It's so funny to see them focusing on the people running around on the beach instead of the boat with the guns that just took one of them out moments earlier

Lol from what i saw in this Cowboys and Aliens is still unironically the best alien invasion movie that’s not in modern times

This seems much more correct to the original story (era-wise) than the Spielberg version

strider be like:

if this film had had a bigger budget it would have lived up to the film released in 2005. H G Wells would have been proud to see his masterpiece well done and how he would have imagined

Another greatly missed opportunity. The wait goes on for a real representation of HG Well’s masterpiece. Jeff Wayne’s soundtrack is still by far the best effort ❤

Fun fact: this is literally the only piece of The War of the Worlds Media from a TV show or a movie that implements the main characters brother.

11:04 all i'm missing here is the glorious last stand of the Thunderchild.

Thing is, in War of the Worlds, we fought them to a standstill around the coastline. Each nation with dreadnaught class ships of the era were able to establish a few miles of safe-ish zones inland. Chicago and other great lakes areas even managed to stay in the fight and keep producing steel.

I had no idea that this was made.

The best thing about this is that this isn't a set constructed for the movie, it's a real village about 10 minutes drive from where I live called Great Budworth. It really is like stepping back in time