I feel more terrified in scenes of this movie than any horror movies. It's that brilliant. And the sound design is haunting.... It's a work of art.
@RX-12 Жыл бұрын
I always thought this should count as a horror movie.
@alexgomez6723 Жыл бұрын
Exactly, this movie just gives me dread in a way probably none can ever compare to, there’s just a scale and atmospheric quality that few horror films if any can match. Most horror films I just think all I have to do is locate somewhere else where the ghost/monster/killer resides, or at least fun fast enough away from it. Here, nowhere is safe, whether it’s the threat from the alien invaders, or the opportunistic humans made desperate by the situation, this world is truly nightmarish. Probably the only thing I would genuinely describe as “epic horror”.
@jamesconlin5099 Жыл бұрын
Autistic
@jamesconlin5099 Жыл бұрын
It's a kids movie so no it dosent count as a horror movie
@FrenchFryCheese04 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesconlin5099 children should stay away from PG-13 films and you are completely delusional
@robertyeah22594 жыл бұрын
I feel like people don't acknowledge how well Spielberg directed the thriller scenes in this movie.
@LK-pc4sq Жыл бұрын
he did a great job.
@LK-pc4sq Жыл бұрын
HE did a great job! he even told the cgi animator to NOT make the tripod to look like the ones of the past.
@josephmora5230 Жыл бұрын
Oh they did (I saw it 3 times), but the majority... No doubt Spielberg's version is one of the most underrrated Scf-Fi films of all time and should have been a bigger box office hit. I believe Tom Cruises's interview with TODAY's Matt Lauer to which went badly over the discussion of anti-depressant medications to treat post-partum depression just 5-days befor the opening the movie created a damper on the success of the movie. Which cauased a riff between Spielberg and Cruise ever since, but their recent interaction at the 2023 luncheon gives hope they have reconciled.
@coryjamieson31715 ай бұрын
Spielberg did a great job with the suspenseful scenes, this scene is freakin scary.
@coryjamieson3171 Жыл бұрын
I love how it doesn't show the plane crash, but you can hear it happening and it's terrifying.
@Rigel_Chiokis Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: the studio purchased a decomissioned passenger jet and had it transported to their backlot (the shipping charges cost more than the purchase of the aircraft did). They then broke it into pieces for the set. It then became part of the Universal Studio tour. The crashed plane looks so real because it was a real plane.
@jonathanbirch20227 ай бұрын
I've been on that tour. It's the most amazing set ever. They built a whole neighborhood and destroyed it
@liamrossenriquez33506 ай бұрын
Also Another Fact: The Aircraft Was A Ex-ANA(All Nippon Airways) And Reg Was JA8147 And Before Scrapping Was N219BA
@katrinamenzies9398Ай бұрын
And there are starving people in the world 😞
@forrestgumballАй бұрын
@@katrinamenzies9398they can eat the plane
@katrinamenzies9398Ай бұрын
@@forrestgumball 😳
@user-nf9xm7is3m2 жыл бұрын
Me randomly realizing this really was a great movie. I saw it in theaters at 12-13, one of the most intense theater experiences ever. Dakota Fanning made this movie. Her fear was so real.
@jonathanworden4609 Жыл бұрын
True,I was like Dakota Fanning in the theater watching this cuz I was frightened of what was happening .
@bristleback1759 Жыл бұрын
Ya she had only one role and she nailed it : SCREAM !
@coryjamieson3171 Жыл бұрын
Another thing to mention that Dakota is also in Coraline
@varric3 ай бұрын
@@coryjamieson3171 She's also in Totoro, along her sister.
@RX-122 ай бұрын
I had anxiety issues myself as a child so I could really empathize with Rachel. It’s really disturbing the amount of hate she gets, like there are people wishing death on a literal child just for being scared.
@CraftyCarrot Жыл бұрын
I never really understood what was actually going on in this scene, but was terrified nonetheless. I always thought the tripod lightning was striking nearby and that it hit the plane, because of the similar sound effects used for both. Then I realized it was tripods shooting down the plane. This scene is mesmerizing in that you have zero clue what is going on outside yet you're utterly terrified
@JamesMcKenzie505 Жыл бұрын
I understood it as the lightning bringing down the plane
@SH00T_TH3PUMP Жыл бұрын
Or, active Tripods shooting it down. Following this scene, you can see the cockpit windows of the plane are extremely burned, and vaporized.
@Dannyboy16434 Жыл бұрын
I always thought of the tripods holding the plane in midair shooting everyone, thats why there were no bodies really
@Stormyy Жыл бұрын
@@Dannyboy16434 that's a more terrifying thought
@Dannyboy16434 Жыл бұрын
@@Stormyy I’m a sick bastard
@met-andre60074 жыл бұрын
This is fricking scary
@xaviercarr47182 жыл бұрын
1:39 The terror sounds of an American airliner fighting to stay in the sky..,if you listen closely you can hear the last screams of the passengers. O.O
@FilmSureelist97 Жыл бұрын
Which time code can you hear it at?
@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын
Yeah you can’t hear any passengers screaming over the sound of the jet crashing that’s not even remotely accurate
@dutch_of_mesenchymia6175 Жыл бұрын
Referring to 1:39
@zoookk12379 ай бұрын
i think that’s just the engines
@bkriegel952 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming that the plane was shot down from a distance because we don't hear the tripods themselves, but we hear their lazer weapons whizzing by just before the plane crashes. Also in the next morning we hear the distant horns of probably the same tripods that I'm assuming shot down the plane, now coming to finish off anyone who survived the crash.
@friezdev36422 жыл бұрын
accurate
@l.gaga5508 Жыл бұрын
doesn’t explain the wind and the lightening sounds at the start
@zombieman3336 ай бұрын
Despite the laser's deadly effect and exploxion these was and the huge impact with the ground.... weak change that someone from the plane to be survived!
@gj91574 ай бұрын
It was another storm that produces an EMP. That resulted in a nearby plane losing power and falling down.
@Interdictiondeltawing4 жыл бұрын
The wind is from the aircraft The blue light meaning that tripod is shooting down the aircraft
@mr.jx5n3243 жыл бұрын
yeah, took me some years to realize that 😅
@Ridgwaycer3 жыл бұрын
It's almost like the aircraft was pulled out of the sky before it was shot down. You can hear the engines straining for a minute before the plane actually crashes.
@treystrains82243 жыл бұрын
@B Price maybe they have ultra sound technology?
@Optimus973 жыл бұрын
I've isolated the plane and tripod sounds, without dialogue and almost without stuff falling around kzfaq.info/get/bejne/matjlZZ_manKeXk.html
@Project2025WILLRUINYOURLIFE2 жыл бұрын
@@Optimus97 i love it when somebody helps dissect the details of a story to make it even more interesting, excellent work!
@leyvonnewashlv40963 ай бұрын
The news lady explained what happened that night in the next scene. The 83rd mechanized national guard unit engaged a tripod out in the pine barrens in the distance that night. She explained that every round they fired at the tripods were stoped by the shield. The sounds in this scene were actually the rounds blowing up from hitting the shield and the tripod firing back. The plane crash is still up for speculation but probably got caught up in the cross fire.
@elijahwalton2248 Жыл бұрын
They preserved the plane crash site for exhibit on the universal Hollywood studios tour. I saw that site in real life. It shows how much work goes into set design for any production. What a thriller of a film
@JJsiN849 ай бұрын
Funny enough one of my favorite scenes in the movie. They did a great job at establishing such tension because you have no idea what’s going on beyond those walls.
@ben10the108 ай бұрын
0:28 Something about the way that Robbie (Justin Chatwin) stands in front of Ray (Tom Cruise) is so epic. The movie hints at Robbie's youthful heroism thought the film and I thin kthis is another great example.
@dylanpritchard49813 жыл бұрын
This scene horrified me as a kid
@BLKBRDD2 ай бұрын
This was criminally underrated by critic's. No film has made me feel so curious in awe but terrified at the same time.
@Koorova3 ай бұрын
Zoltan is displeased with you, Tom
@TheWhiteOwl232 жыл бұрын
This was by far the scariest part when I watched it in theatres, it's like the only time I actually covered my face in fright lol
@KremoByte_OFFICIAL6 ай бұрын
1:14 you can feel the sound amplify which made this 10x more thrilling
@pliskenx51mm832 жыл бұрын
Those initial flashes at the start were Tri-pods trying to shoot the plane down and the frequency and amount of flashes kinda indicates just how many tri-pods are in the area. They may not be close to any of our main cast but its likely they are only 1 to 2 miles away, maybe less?
@user-tt1sl6fe5u2 ай бұрын
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night seeing this like around 1am or 2am in the morning how would you feel.
@manohar3626 Жыл бұрын
0:54, that sound scared the shit out of me
@tahmeedmazumder6877 Жыл бұрын
Man, even after knowing whats gonna happen, this scene just absolutely terrifies me , and that line from the kid in the pitch-black grave like scene, are we still alive? just genius!
@kiingy4695 Жыл бұрын
I say the plane wasn't shot down. The sounds as the flashes were happening is from the lightning. Remember at the beginning of the movie after the lightning flashed, all power, and communications were out and no one could drive, call, or use electricity. I believe the plane's systems got scrambled and shut down by the lightning leaving them all to helplessly plunge to the ground.
@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын
Towards the end just before the plane crashed it sounded like the engines were straining really hard as if the plane was fighting to stay airborne Such a terrifying sound to this day
@neptunelover17842 ай бұрын
Doubtful the plane had to been shot down as for planes can still glide for a period of time without power and fuel that plane came straight down like a meteor.
@roll14tideroll2 жыл бұрын
Impressed the tripods were able to hit a plane
@RX-122 жыл бұрын
"Are we still alive?"
@STGGMkid7 ай бұрын
1:17 “IS IT THEM IS IT THEM?” No ITS A GOD DAMN BOEING 747
@Peekarica Жыл бұрын
I assume that this plane was already in the air before the aliens landed in the tripods. If the sun direction was indeed going west during the 'storm' on day 1, the aliens came into the tripods by afternoon. It could have been flying for twelve to fourteen hours already if it is midnight in this scene. Perhaps the plane crew were confused why communication was not possible with the airport towers and searched for another airport to land. If this was the only plane still flying after so many hours, because in the entire movie this was the only plane that was still up there, it must have come from either Europe or somewhere from the Pacific. When Ray fled with his children, Robbie even says on the highway why there were no helicopters or airplanes flying.
@sergeydieiev6412 Жыл бұрын
I agree with you,sometimes I ask myself how the plane could take off if the electromagnetic pulse turned off all the electronics.
@transformersrevenge9 Жыл бұрын
You missed the subtle hints that the lighning storm did not awaken all the tripods at the same time. Robbie is watching tv, where one channel says that Ukraine got hit by a lightning storm, followed by emp, followed by an earthquake, around 4am. Another channel is reporting a similar event from japan, before Ray shuts it off. Meaning that while they were playing baseball and while Ray was sleeping, the invasion had been going on for hours already. Not every city lost it's electricity, so maybe that plane was full of refugees from some city that heard about the alien attack? Imagine escaping to america from the invasion, only to find out that no place was safe.
@Peekarica Жыл бұрын
@@transformersrevenge9 I gotta watch the movie again then. It has been years since I watched War of the Worlds.
@transformersrevenge9 Жыл бұрын
@@Peekarica There are a few fun things to notice on rewatches. Like for example in the scene where the ground breaks, it took me a while to notice that the ground rotates in a perfect circle, as a homage to the cylinders unscrewing in the original book.
@user-vp9lc9up6v Жыл бұрын
They probably issues a NOTAM once they found the nature of the storms so these guys probably knew but they definitely didn't have amy contact with anyone after it started
@clickb8er Жыл бұрын
the sound at 0:53 always terrifies me
@benmorgan88908 ай бұрын
The atmosphere in this movie is incredible
@javiercarrillo26408 ай бұрын
Oh I remember that I wasn’t able to watch this movie in theatres but a few months later my dad bought the DVD and a modern home theatre at that time and I almost shit myself in this scene because of the sound, gosh I wish I could have watched it in theatres.
@carolannpacificadam19442 жыл бұрын
This movie freaked me out
@legion5938 Жыл бұрын
This movie still is the most terryfying alien invasion movies its just so scary and hopeless
@muhamedblf4458 Жыл бұрын
Spielberg he did a nice job in this scene 👏👏😇
@freddybonilla24724 ай бұрын
Lightning Storm Again & Strange Sound
@P1995. Жыл бұрын
I thought this was the scariest part of the whole movie 👀
@mikeowen75263 ай бұрын
Although Robbie was irritating to Ray (every opportunity 😮) He was a hero The way he saved the people on the ferry and wanted to fight with the army ❤❤
@SerialDesignationN20242 жыл бұрын
The lighting of the pods there's another tripod coming
@SH00T_TH3PUMP Жыл бұрын
The camera work is incredible.
@Tigers_and_Tarot Жыл бұрын
The sounds are the stuff of hell.
@josephthedragon1 Жыл бұрын
I was wearing headphones and the screeching scared me half to death
@jonathanstiegler2770 Жыл бұрын
Come on man. That wasn't even a Martian.
@bub777 Жыл бұрын
I forgot about this scene in this movie. The aftermath was so morbid.
@Ponado72 ай бұрын
I love this movie
@JustSomeCanadianGuy10 ай бұрын
Ever been woken up by a thunderstorm, this is what it feels like! 😄
@epsilonarcaneresearch19457 ай бұрын
During a storm once at dawn lightning hit so close i thought it was an explosion. Can confirm I reacted exactly like this.
@ErebusHellhound7 күн бұрын
It happened to me last year, and it was quite strong and was flashing a lot to the point it knocked the power out. I couldn't help but think about this movie at that moment. 0_0
@Nerd_records5 ай бұрын
Rachel when the explosion happened:😐
@lindalcoomes18 сағат бұрын
Her screams hurt my ears.
@roll14tideroll2 жыл бұрын
i thought it was the lightning though that hit the plane
@LordMalgusPrometheus5 ай бұрын
Now been thinking, i always wonder why the entire roof of the plane was gone, plus the lack of bodies and i got a theory that the plane was being held by the tripods, probably capturing its passengers then leave it to crash, because it doesn’t make sense how long it took the plane to crash but also the jet engine sound was waay too close to the
@mikemcconeghy4658 Жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, I did not watch a plane crash just now.
@Negroosvuro Жыл бұрын
war of the words
@Negroosvuro Жыл бұрын
War of the worlds 2005
@JayToGo8 ай бұрын
I think a real plane crash would feel quite differently than this wild mixture of light and sound. Spielberg delivered more some kind of a tunnel of horror here.
@zombieman3336 ай бұрын
It were so many effects because the Tripod shot the aircraft and of that!
@Negroosvuro Жыл бұрын
Plane crash
@sanm3londan_th3157 ай бұрын
0:51 - 1:35 This sound was horrible and camera movement make me feeling everything’s gonna to be terrible happening 1:37 And the explode firer make me burning my hand. Score: 9/10 Good director by “Steven Spielberg”
@explorationgmer1336 Жыл бұрын
Remember when this film came out in 2005 I think.
@SPACECRUISER96Ай бұрын
Can someone explain how the Plane crashed? Did it lose power? (cause at the start of the movie every area that was struck with lighting lost power) or did the aliens shot it down?
@henryjrdelosreyes27873 жыл бұрын
How earthquakes was created:
@lovetoall8852 Жыл бұрын
Good special effects but some of the most annoying characters ever. I rooted for the aliens. Even if the germs didn't get them, they probably would've left after having to deal with T9m Cruise's family.
@hgyuhfjf Жыл бұрын
If i were there i wouldent last 3 seconds
@Te1978To7 ай бұрын
Imagine if you're in their place
@matthewglabek2787 Жыл бұрын
I wish Tom Cruise was my Dad
@themostmeaninglessthing Жыл бұрын
Yay
@chefbillybaroo2056 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know even know I was a kid I would think I would want to be in that part of the basement from the very beginning plus I would want a gun ok two guns !!!
@lynnezukowsky7780 Жыл бұрын
0:53 1:03 1:08 1:12
@chrissyrodriguez19424 ай бұрын
Child:ITS THEM! plane: nah ITS ME MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHH👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹
@Etigress2 жыл бұрын
Omg the sounds..scary as hell
@Errorcode-405 ай бұрын
If it was the storm than they would have said we’re in the storm
@TopFlightSecurity415 Жыл бұрын
this scene scared me to death when i first saw it
@thomashninan6708 Жыл бұрын
I found it hilarious😂 now scary 😰
@roncardenas29638 ай бұрын
Every scene with the screaming girl & emotionally reactive & always putting his family at risk boy was terrifying 😳 who could deal with them in a situation like that & be able to survive?
@user-jh5dq9vc1v3 ай бұрын
Odd scene, as if it was they were on plane that crashed 🧐
@briangordon53009 ай бұрын
was i the only one expecting it to be air force 1?
@vergeltuble54978 ай бұрын
😮😮
@KaBoomChannel Жыл бұрын
This would have been a much better movie if Spielberg cut the father-son teen angst crap, that was completely unnecessary to the movie and was annoying.
@roncardenas29638 ай бұрын
Exactly! It ruined the movie.
@muhammadawisabdshahadan11178 ай бұрын
Next
@Mr_King_D Жыл бұрын
1:32 1:37
@zoookk12374 ай бұрын
1:03 1:09 1:13
@WOTW-FIRST-RISE Жыл бұрын
Why the heat rays sooooooooooo louuud 0:18
@pxtshxp5 ай бұрын
because they're nearby
@elohimchhakchhuak.948411 ай бұрын
Shot the plane,the plane glide down ,two to three tripod was able to grap in somehow and hold it and you can hear the jet enjine screaming ,while doi g that the capture or vaporise human and let the plane drop. 😂😂😂just kidding .
@mi.dogman44382 жыл бұрын
A hover craft crash???? Cmon! Never heard something going 500 mph take so long to crash at full volume from the onset. Oh well. Makes for good cinema for those without a sense of physics, audio perception, common sense. Ha!
@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын
Someone theorized that maybe the tripods held the plane in the air ripping it open to get the passengers out hence why it took so long to actually crash, it does sound like the engines were straining I wonder if that’s what really happened It sucks we never got an explanation of this scene
@96thaerospacemedia48 Жыл бұрын
@@brizzle3903that's the only thing I can figure, otherwise there's no reason why it would have the engines straining for that long and the absence of the Doppler effect of the plane approaching. Could also explain why there were no survivors around the crash site
@brizzle3903 Жыл бұрын
@@96thaerospacemedia48 for shock value I get why they put this scene in, I just wish there was an explanation
@96thaerospacemedia48 Жыл бұрын
@@brizzle3903 for sure
@LordMalgusPrometheus Жыл бұрын
@@brizzle3903 I Believe the plane was actually falling a part, so that loudy jet engine sound we hear, might be pieces of the engine that fell from the plane before the actual plane fell off, if you see the cockpit burns it proves that the plane was indeed going down, and the lack of survivors, well... we know after this scene that there is a river with a lot corpses, so those could be the passengers that got depressurized, i also noticed that the only corpses in the plane are people that probably had their belt pretty tight, but died at the crash
@someguy42093 Жыл бұрын
Dakota fanning nearly ruined this movie. I’m so glad her career is over.
@pschroeter12 жыл бұрын
Loved the tripods, hated the kids.
@FrenchFryCheese042 жыл бұрын
hey nigga
@The_Rayman_Derivative Жыл бұрын
But how do we know it was a plane?
@FrenchFryCheese04 Жыл бұрын
Do you know what a plane sounds like?
@The_Rayman_Derivative Жыл бұрын
@@FrenchFryCheese04 Yes, and it doesnt sound like intermittent shrieking and shlocking noises.
@samanli-tw3id Жыл бұрын
Watch the full movie
@The_Rayman_Derivative Жыл бұрын
@@samanli-tw3id if only… :(
@FrenchFryCheese0411 ай бұрын
@@The_Rayman_Derivativewhat
@vancouver4sure2 жыл бұрын
Her non stop screaming ruined it.
@FrenchFryCheese042 жыл бұрын
Hey nigga
@billybaggins14432 жыл бұрын
How would you feel if you were a ten-year-old in this situation? Not entirely defending it, it can be obnoxious, but in some ways do you see my point?