I was just about to ask that

Ohhhh that explains it, seemed oddly short and the cuts whew boy.

Oh that explains. I just thought u were bad at editing

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Paramount are usually the fastest ones to make copyright claims, they give you 1 warning and after that whatever topic you were working on gets a total cease and desist order

what's a jovians

@@fitrianhidayat a tertiary species introduced in the sequel, they serve as on-par or superior rivals to the martians

@@fitrianhidayat , Jupiter.

Who or what are the Jovians?

There is a book sequel??!

As revealed by the production teams: They are only two variants made for the film, the Uber machines used as commanders (seen in the hill battle and briefly rising from the Hudson) and the regular machines. They are multitools, equipped to harvest, terraform and wreak destruction. This is all in a desperate attempt to save their species, not a general invasion for the sake of expansion.

@@kesterfae5447 haha! I knew the Hudson seen and the Hill battle, the Tripods were different, they have 4 lights, 2 on each side of the head, and 1 in the middle, I knew it was a different variant!

My only question is since the tripods were buried long ago. How has their tech developed since then? Would they have a Pentapod by then?

How did know one see it underground

@@lefiryt2902 They were buried deeper than we have dug. Running theory is that the Tripods were encased inside of a cylinder capsule, and when activated it worked its way to the surface, opened and the Tripod emerged.

Exactly.

I like the lack of cheesiness in the movie but a realistic alien invasion would probably just involve neutron bombs or orbital bombardment of our planet, while we die like sitting ducks. Also they would've prepared with immunization before they expose themselves to our biosphere.

realistic hahahahaha clearly a child

@@HECKproductions Ironically, your snarky comment comes off as both arrogant and childish. Obviously I wasn't referring to the concept of an alien apocalypse, which in of itself is not realistic, but rather to the way it is depicted in this movie. The overall tone of the film is perfectly executed, and I think Spielberg does a fantastic job of portraying the angst and desolation of an alien apocalypse.

As far as I'm concerned this version isn't underrated enough.

The aliens just Love to look more menacingly lol

reminds me of when I forget paracutes in KSP, or when I forget staging, or when I forget to check delta v by the time I get there, its too late.

Honestly I feel them though. I’ll go through a whole game of Civilization 6 and be starting space travel only to finally research wheels in 2024 or something.

they didnt travel through lightning, they use it to hide.

@@chaztitan6457 there is literally a scene that shows them being transported in capsules through the lightning in the movies -_-

Maybe its also a protection for itself the magnetic stuff of vehicles wouldn't cause game to them but it also allows those vehicles to work

Lots of different theories, I have two. First one is that the Aliens let the humans congregate so that the harvesting will be greater. Secondly, the lighting was never intended as a weapon, as when the tripods were buried the thought of us being so advanced probably wasn’t on the mind. The EMP was only a beneficial side effect.

@@thearmoredgeorgian2736 I tend to agree that the EMP is also a side effect of their technology and not necessarily a primary means of attack. Like our nuclear weapons, we didn't know the bomb going off would also benefit the explosion by busting EMP so that even if shit physically survived, their electronics wouldn't.

3? You mean 9. 3 in the Hudson, 2 in the town blasting away, 3 more come over the hill to heat ray the people trying to get away, and one stomps by Ray and his kids on it's way to join the fun.

Yeah the EMP was due to the lightning they used.

Very true. I was Playing Mass Effect not too long ago and it suddenly hit me when I was on the third game. It was very jarring at that moment, lol. I feel like Hollywood could take a page out of that and use it. There's some potential in mass extinction producing machines from space. I don't know, its weird.

It's obvious that Bioware took inspiration from either a book or a movie.

Reapers seem to be more terrifying.

@@obamaprism3528 almighty pushhh

@@obamaprism3528 I'm talking only about the films.

Where are you getting this information? Makes sense, though... that bridge destruction scene looked a bit "over the top" when compared to the damage usually seen inflicted by the heatrays.

Ah yes the “Fus ro da!” Beam.

I think the only time the so called wave motion gun was used was during the getaway scene in the beginning with the van. That whole sequence was made for a super bowl commercial so they made it way over the top. I think they only have ray guns, and the house/bridge explosion was just the design team taking a few liberties to make it more interesting for the commercial. I feel like if they had that, they would have used it more throughout the movie.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The 2005 version tripod sounds like a foghorn

I literally watched this upon release in a DRIVE-IN... super creepy. I was expecting one to take the screen out the whole time.

The book describes the Tripod sound as a deep “Aloo” and the martians’ voice as an “Ulla!” You can hear some “Ulla” noises once in a while in Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds Musical.

@@nicoleburns9652 I made a joke about it sounding like a digeridoo (or however you spell it) and turns out it was actually an electronically altered one

Actually in the 2005 one there were a different tripods, average (one in start of movie) the harvesters and the warriors (which are the ones that have 5 lights and flatter head)

@@HalitorianEmpire i cannot believe it ! there are multiple types of those tripods ? why i have never noticed it ? you just gave me a reason to watch this movie 1001th time !

0:03 Thats that It has a diffrence from the harvesters

@@HalitorianEmpire there’s actually 3 types, the fighters, exterminators, and harvesters, all with small differences between the 3 from being height, armament, and physical differences

I just imagine their dedicated War Machines to be the War Machines from the 1953 George Pal War of the Worlds movie.

The machines are millions years old who knows what better technology they could have now

@@Dylan-mt5jr well they could have satellites are better telescope now think about it they used lighting to put pots in the machines like is it a tool to recognize and organism or to transport a mind link to clones

For me, I think EMPs won't work. The aliens use lightning as teleportation, it would make sense if the tripod had protection against EMPs because of this. However, atomic weapons should be incredibly effective, not because they can penetrate the shield, but because radiation most likely will kill the aliens.

Nah just send in teenagers and save the world

True. Most sci-fi films depict human militaries as weak ass jokes.

I agree... I wished it was less about Ray and his family and more about the Martians :)

I really wanna know how inside it looks and work. I feel like it’s bio-mechanical filled when we’re showed fluids following out. Also quite possibly controlled telepathically inside

" design and engineering of these machines to be ridiculous beautiful " How about just ... ridiculous. You really think it could walk without falling over ?

@@watamelony ... I'm saying that those tripods can't walk. The size of the huge top portion and the slow moving legs make it highly unstable.

​@@ronaldbeck1762 Thier legs aren't even joints lmao, it's a huge tentacle legs which it's flexible so it can balance itself while walking. You're those type of Idiots who will be shocked after realising Elephants are very heavy and yet it can walk and balance itself despite thier legs are full muscle.

There was an old Russian video from 2011 showing the inside of the tripods and the Martians controlling them. I don't know where I can find it now.

@@Sefinternal ah yes! It was called "invasion in murmansk", that was all non-canon though

Well there’s a lot of water in them

Watch Scary Movie 4

@@jxsh03 😂😂😂

I think the movie just had to make something in order to justify the modern technology of military tech otherwise the tripods minus the shields appear to be very weak and easy to take out.

@@Seriona1 Makes sense in the book the tech was cannons and muskets with slow reloads they weren't much of a threat , they had shields for the 53 version as well since tech had advanced so much.

@@scorp77snake well not muskets. It was 1898. Think ww1. Bolt action rifles, howitzer, maxim machine guns.

The tripods in the Tom Cruise movie were all equipped with deflector shields.

ULLAAA

Also the 1953 movie.

Musical version is hands down the best adaptation. The atmosphere and sense of overwhelming emotion it creates is unbelievable

While I have seen the 2005 movie and the the movie where they aren't Tri pods and heard the musical I find I don't need theses to visualise the Tri pods I can picture them as I read the book

Oh, there is a game in the works, I’ll link it on a separate reply.

@@tacticalfloridaman8595 oh ik about the game it looks fucking amazing (it's coming out in August) I'm just surprised their hasn't been one made by now

In the book, the black smoke was launched from a cannon.

Banned from the Geneva Convention.

In the beginning of the invasion when the tripod rises up and it horns, It actually was showing that they have black smoke

In my head, the black smoke weapon is actually a nanite cloud weapon.

@@dextercochran4916 ok but it's not.

You mean that very unsettling scene where Ray Is at the window and the tripod's tentacles are like probing everywhere on the ground outside, i think they might be studying the surface of the Planet/see how or where they could harvest the "plants"/seeing if there are humans hiding in the fields or bushes on the ground I agree with your tripods categorizing But I think the First kind and the second one are the same machine, only they have different purposes for different moments of the invasion, which was all planned, a mass kill first, and then, once we were weak/tired/fewer: the harvesting

I just figured they were tilling the ground ahead of growing more red weed.

@@allenharper2928 it’s likely they put the tripods here before humans ever evolved. they just happened to turn on and bump into us. maybe they were a cryogenic reserve of their species that was set to activate after a certain number of years, traveling to a green and habitable world with no known rivals. it’s possible these tripods are weak by their standards. upon awakening, they likely made modifications to their science craft & terraforming craft, but their mining lasers & basic shields were more than enough to protect them from human kinetic weapons. they were learning about the species they were wiping out as they went about it, collecting members of that species for unknown purposes.

the 3rd is now known as uberpod (I don't know where they got the name from)

1. Who knows if the aliens were willing to be patient enough. - You are patient enough to wait for the next harvest cycle/slaughter cycle to go buy your food from the supermarket. A farming strategy would yield higher gains than the boneheaded plan they've been following. They arrived tens of thousands of years ago, plenty of time for transforming Earth into a literal people farm and get hundreds of generations of consistent, reliable harvests. 2. Humans in slavery would have killed each other or themselves to get out of slavery. - Odd claim, considering slavery exists on Earth today, and most slaves do in fact not kill themselves. People can be made docile if raised in captivity from day 1 (and they would be), and most would obey their masters just in the hope of living another day. Your fantasy revolt wouldn't happen. It hasn't in our past, and it still doesn't today. 3. This is the most important one. Stress affects reproduction. It can make reproduction harder to achieve. There is no stress if your humans are raised in captivity from day 1, and have been for hundreds and thousands of years. You're approaching this issue from a modern-day cultural perspective, as if it were to happen to you. No, these slaves would be born in captivity, to parents who were born in captivity. No one alive would have ever known anything other than that. If those humans have a culture or religion at all, it's probably centered around serving the aliens as Gods. Another comment on the "stress" argument is this: who cares? You don't need the humans to copulate willingly. Harvest the seed of the males and impregnate the females. They are LIVESTOCK. How do we breed horses and cows again? Right.

Really it's just a stupid excuse for Spielberg to be different. There is no logical answer for why they're buried, you can say the pods just expand underground and it'll make just as much sense as any other answer.

there are two reasons - the failure of the planet's reformation system and the release of biological weapons laboratories destroyed by the war

That scene was the best in that whole sorry three episode 'series'

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at least we know they won't live to see the next cycle

Yes

Kinda like when humans make Mechas that are similarly structured to us

In the book, the aliens are blobs with tentacles and not much else. The machines are their 'bodies' so to speak, with them being the 'brain' in the hood. They have the same agility, speed and skill in their machines as our bodies. So yes, you're not far off actually. :)

You are right on point...massive plot hole.

Every movie gotta have a plot hole.

Pretty sure they invaded late when the human population was in the billions for more blood

And how was none of these machines discovered by humans before the invasion? Like subway building could reveal one of these machines, giving humanity access to heat rays and deflector shields technology.

I agree. Here’s some jazz for you: Ski be bop do day sheedly boo scab bab boogy de deeeeeeeee

BBC's version was the worst one ever

@@SendPaddingtonToRowanda nice jazz .

@@Boss-zo4lw You haven't seen Pendragon's version then lmao. As an adaptation BBC is one of the best, the third episode is trash but the first and second episodes were nearly exactly how I imagined the general atmosphere of the novel. The 05 film is boring with some cool scenes every now and then, and the 1953 film is cool and has charm, but not exactly what I feel like War of the Worlds should FEEL like.

​@@litteralyjustsam5262 on horsell common and the heat ray should have been a masterpiece, but it was soo bad, those opening chapters are some of the best in the book. And they completely ballsed it up

It's implied this was a desperate last attempt to save their species as mars was on the brink of total mass extinction so we'd only see those if a movie about us landing on mars to bring the war to them happens and we just find them all dead

It's best not to think too hard on that because then you realise this movie was as if humanity buried spiky clubs on a planet somewhere and then used FTL-drives, spaceships and special lightning transporter beams to dig up the spiky clubs so they could club the natives to death like savages. Makes 0 sense. :P

Hitlerian logistics working 100% as intended.

The creative director literally stated the tripods are not organic or cyborgs.

@@dynestis2875 so what are the yellow stuff comming out of the tripod in the end of the movie?

@@noname-zv8py human blood

@@thetexan1513 why does it colored yellow?

Spielberg said himself that the Aliens “drive” the machines. The organic flesh stuff is technology we don’t understand. The aliens connect to the machines biologically and control the machines as if the machines were their bodies itself. That is why the machines move like they’re sick when the aliens were sick. The aliens were sick and the machines were moving the same way the aliens were inside.

I would if only Universal didn't claim everything they can get their hands on :(

@@MrHulthen Their claims are universal

Me too lol

I think it was a sentient biomechanical creature

Wait nvm forgot the were piloted

There is a single picture of a rough draft showing what the harvesting room inside may have looked like. Cant remember what site it was on but do a little digging and you can find it.

Sameeeee

That's what I was thinking, it looked like they were only a few feet under the ground, how did no one find one?

​@NTF Operative humans don't have to dig deep underground anywhere at all. the record is 12 km at a specific location, all that is needed is for the aliens to dig these machines 20 km underground or even more and we would never know, at least not at the present time with our technology. it's logical we don't know much about the bottom of our planet

got me killed by the corona

since a few years ago we developed the means to weaponise light and create gauss rifles, tho quite crude it works and tears trough their shield which would help the armies to destroy them early.

I'm too busy being stuck on the terror I'd feel if I was one of those unfortunate souls running down the hill towards the river just before three tripods crested it with heat rays blazing.

Fungi will be the downfall of man

@@zoezzzarko1117 just recently learned that Human and Fungus have a common ancestor something-hundred million years ago, so… ..we just digest internally while our distant relatives digest externally

"Gg's for the carry Xx_KilLaMicr0be69_xX Now we can go loot up for next squad"

However, there's nothing in the film itself which confirms nor denies that, so in that sense it is left open to interpretation.

@@ReluctantWarrior Isn't he the director?

​@@1ztype343 Yes he is. I'm merely pointing out the ambiguousness of it in the final film, compared to behind the scenes interviews and press interviews where Spielberg's more open about it. Interestingly, the 80s War of the Worlds TV series, which acted as a sequel to the 1953 film also retconned the Martians into being from another planet called Mor Tax.

Ppl shit on the movie and him but I love Tom cruise and most of his movies and performances are great. Vanilla Sky was not the best movie but it was good. Probably better than mission impossible but even that series has something going for it. I put him behind Keanu Reeves

They needed our population to exponentially grow, more blood, more material to terraform

@@freshquinceoftheair8599 They could have achieved that with us in people farms instead of wild and armed though.

@@Spacecookie- I think the plot is they send ships to planets and hope they could properly build itself up and I think they get bored too and would like to see what they can come up with maybe they would steal tech from the organisms make like them they don't have flashlights but humans have night vision if they won and found that tech they would steal the ideas for it and it's shown in zoos some animals become incapable of breeding because of captivity and maybe the food would decide to not breed anymore

I vaguely recall (I could be wrong) the Tripods could travel faster than the pilots in space hence the delay.

Earth was a 100 planet, so they buried their supplies as back up, when their planet began its process of dying out, they came here to prepare the planet for colonization.

IIRC, they make that noise to communicate with other Tripods.

Well maybe they're all anti-vaxxers?

@Real Geology with Chris! That is a top notch explanation.

It makes sense in a way, in the books they eradicated all diseases long time ago.

@@marcelrodriguez2067 but they got instant corona at the end of the 2005 movie

Yes. An invading force from another galaxy or indeed from Mars, would familiarise themselves with the Earth's environment, the germs and viruses too and take steps to protect themselves. In War of the World's, they just simply turn up, cause mass mayhem, and eventually die of the common cold.

I love that song

Or they just need more humans tissue for terraformation

I can't stop thinking about that. I really want to see an aftermath sequel.

Borders? Politics? 😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

a bit late but i think humanity would be like united in fascism and xenophobia or a global war would take place between 2 nations of which one is completely xenophobic and the other believes in good aliens. but this is what i think.

I think it's an energy weapon... not a heat laser

They weren't firing into the river, the three tripods in the Hudson were goin' fishin'.

the truth about this horn is: it's made to communicate with other tripods, the first one is probably "target found" and the second is probably "back to the tripod", what proof do I have you may ask? Take a look at the beggining of The Ferry scene (specifically when the tripod is about to "fire" it's horn), it "fired" it's horn and then seconds later there were 2 more of the tripods. Correct me if i'm wrong.

@@da.not.funny.springboi3601 well your theory could be right, heck it could be the actual purpose of the horn lol. But I just heard/read a theory about the horn because remember back in the ancient, medieval,Viking and gladiator times horns were used to signal battle to prepare for a fight, remember in the movie when the narrator said “they’ve been studying and watching us for a long time” I believe they adopted this horn for the same reason. To signal a battle or to scare/ intimidate opposing forces. The Martians were clearly interested in our planet as you can see when they were playing with the bicycle wheel in that one scene.

@@da.not.funny.springboi3601 Honestly, you really think such an advanced tech would need loud-ass signals to communicate?

Tbf they could have been buried really far in the earth to the point where humans couldn’t find them?

@@clownishtears33 I dont see it, if you remember the part in the movie when we got to see the first tripod emerge from underground, it seemed like it did not travel far to get to the surface. I get that they might be more advance than we are but we use seismic waves to look deep in the Earths' crust, I think we could have picked up on them. That's my take on it

@@Necromonger69 yeah the intro of the tripods makes it seem like it was just a few hundred feet under ground. No way it could travel 8 miles from the time the ground started shaking to it surfacing. I overall enjoy the 2005 movie but there’s so many plot holes

@@sterlingarcher7101 exactly. By the way.. Lana Lana Lana What!!!! Danger zone.

@@Necromonger69 well maybe it tunneled up it does have a death beam that can make entire buildings explode

I think there is a biomechanical aspect to the tripods. I think the organic portion consumes humans, converts the chemical energy of the human body into a power source for the mechanical aspects of the machine, and distributes the waste product as fertilizer. This is just my assumption. The tripods are eating us and literally pissing/shitting us back out all over our own planet as fertilizer.

Probs Reaper tbh

@@MrHulthen think so too, tripod is mostly good against organic humanoids, reapers beat everything (except kalros, the mother of all thresher maws :3)

@@goldenwoofer4757 this is the forbidden yellow ending to ME:3

What kind of reaper? Titanfall? Subnautica?

@@lardlover3730 a sovereign class reaper from mass effect

probably different types of tripods

looks more like a big strider synth

I think I’d much rather come across a friendly evangelical space jellyfish than a tripod lol