First Time Watching *WAR OF THE WORLDS* Is Another Level Of Dread
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2023
- This Video Is My First Time Watching War Of The Worlds. I Hope You Enjoy This Movie Reaction Of The Movie War Of The Worlds. I Can't Believe A Movie Like This Got So Much Emotion Out Of Me. #WarOfTheWorlds #MovieReaction #FirstTimeWatching #TomCruise #StevenSpielberg #DakotaFanning
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War Of The Worlds Movie Description:
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. Tom Cruise stars in the main role alongside Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto and Tim Robbins, with narration by Morgan Freeman. It follows an American dock worker who must look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.
Produced by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and Cruise/Wagner Productions, the film was shot in 73 days, using five different sound stages as well as locations in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. It was surrounded by a secrecy campaign so few details would be leaked before its release. Tie-in promotions were made with several companies, including Hitachi.
War of the Worlds was released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on June 29, 2005, and received generally positive reviews. It was praised for effectively capturing the thrilling and suspenseful elements of Wells' novel while modernizing the action and effects to resonate with contemporary audiences. The film was also a commercial success, grossing over $603 million worldwide, making it the fourth most successful film of 2005. It earned Academy Awards nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing.
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the aliens started dying because of our bacteria, viruses and all that shit since they doesn't have any anti corpus, many people didn't like this ending (they thought it was anticlimactic) but I found it very realistic and logical
Not just logical, but weirdly hopeful. The thought that if our world was invaded, the world itself will fight back, it’s very nice
How does a super advanced alien species not consider disease?
@@unyieldingmonotony4453No one knows what viruses, bacteria, deceases etc are out there, How can you prepare your immune system for something that it never experienced? Interesting question, How many other viruses are in the other planets? How dangerous are they? Like the movie said, humanity earned living in this planet cause our body evolved and helped fight viruses and bacteria. You can be the strongest, smartest, advanced person alive but your body can get sick and defeat your immune system in a couple of minutes
@@unyieldingmonotony4453the aliens did consider that. They change the whole environment according to their suited habitat before they went out of their ships. And yet the planets micro organisms still won
My only issue and I imagine it's just a movie thing, is how would the aliens not know or plan for them? Like it would be the absolute biggest oversight. But I imagine they had a plan for the types of microorganisms when they originally came. they were fighting against them and just underestimated the microorganisms and weren't able to kill them faster than they could take effect.I really need to read the book as I imagine it would give a better explanation
That tripod horn is the most haunting thing in cinema. Maybe this is what BioWare inspired to make the Reapers.
I legit STILL get goosebumps whenever I hear the tripods be all "bwaaaah". lol
Just wait till you hear the Minnesota Vikings Gjallarhorn ;)
@@zeropoint216 my family make fun of me when they’re watching football because they know that really sound creeps me out for this reason 😭😂
Such an awesome sound!
My two favorite uncomfortable sounds
I think I prefer the Reaper sound, it’s more aggressive.
I saw this movie in theatres when I was 20. The movie coming out in 2005 really used our fears after 9/11 to its advantage. The vaporizing of the people in the beginning , so reminiscent of the people running from the collapse being covered in dust. Rachel yelling 'is it the terrorists?' and Robbie rushing to war to 'get back at them'. We saw a lot of Americans coming together at the time so Steven Spielberg showing the worst of humanity was even more terrifying. Such a great movie
"Desperate times require desperate measures." -Worst of humanity.
Yes I agree. This movie came out when I was 5 years old. Dakota Fanning was just 5 years older than me at the time. I never saw it in theaters like my mother did, but my grandfather has this movie on DVD. I was so scared of this movie when I was little. But when I was 10, I started to like this movie. And as an adult, I started looking more into theories and the meaning of this version. Of course I don't remember 9/11, but after 2001, there was a change in depth, feeling, genre and meaning in movies. It got darker. Maybe a little more realistic, more hopeful... I do think certain scenes in this movie was because of the events of 9/11, unfortunately. Because compared to the original, a lot was different. It even had me thinking post 9/11 and how people were feeling at this time and thinking of the future and the possibilities.
We read this book in school as kids and it kinda gave me hope rather than hopelessness, surprisingly. Like the aliens come to invade and hurt us but our own planet did its job and fought back in its own way. Its super sad but its one of the few end of world movies I can watch without the depression lol
It’s kinda like Avatar the other Spielberg movie, where the inhabitants and the planet come together to fight off this invasion. ❤
@@rosewaters2533That wasn't Spielberg. That was James Cameron.
@@BingFox oops!
the book is miles away different though at least in some aspects
Do you guys get to watch the movie afterwards?
You sitting in the window when the baseball went through literally killed me 😂💀
Yet you are alive to tell the tale. Not quite 'literally'....😊
@@roddo1955 Cringe comment
@@imetzl9340cringe reply
RIP in peace
Not literally, use language correctly please.
One of the saddest parts is that with the military. They KNEW they were going right to their deaths, but if it meant people could get away, they'd do it. I think it would really be that way especially if they looked behind them and saw civilians trying to get away.
I think in the beginning you were giving Ray a bit too much credit, they had some moments to show not that the mom was keeping the kids from him but more or less that he wasn’t coming around and just wasn’t very involved with them at all. The small beds, the tension between him and the kids, the fact he didn’t know his daughter has been allergic to peanut butter since she was born, etc. This film did a great job of showing his change into becoming a great father in times of crisis and the little trust the kids had in him slowly being built back up the more he showed what he was willing to do to keep them safe. Robbie going on that rant about how Ray just wants to dump them on their mom shows how they thought their father viewed them, whether it be true or not. On another note I love how genuine of a reaction you had to this movie and how deeply it made you feel/scared you. I first saw this as a kid and for some reason it has always been one of my favorite movies even though it has always scared the shit out of me, I can’t count how many nightmares I’ve had in my life of these things coming from the ground. That first scene of one of them rising up and killing everyone is in my opinion one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen in a movie to date, really stays with you after seeing it.
Absolutely . Obsessed with Shelby GT350's and small Block in kitchen with sour milk in fridge , & hung up on Little Duece coupe !!!! Definitely bad dad ,but I believe he learned after the events. 1
Spielberg is obssesed with dads
“Who would have thought this dude Steven Spielberg could make a horror movie?”
Dude he’s been traumatizing kids from day one.
*Dinosaur casually eating people in front of kids*
It’s good that Mel feels for the scenes and characters like this for a fictional movie. Unfortunately, real-life past events like war have moments like these all the time (minus the aliens, of course), and they are 1000 times more tragic.
Anyway, thank you for the reaction! And everyone who reads this: be well!❤
Damn, Roger, that was super wholesome man. And I completely agree. I think its amazing to see mellos empathy for fictional characters and their plight. It shows his immersion into the movie and gives us more enjoyment.
I hope you keep well too 😊
@@rhia_codeOh! Why, thank you for the kind compliment and response!🙂 I also hope you are well. Yes, we call can use some fun entertainment these days. It’s just nice to laugh for fun, be scared silly, or cry sweetly for movies when we watch them. Thank you again, and take care!
I did 4 deployments to Iraq and saw some crazy,hideous,etc,etc,..things. And saw some people do truly-HEROIC-things I thought they couldn't do,then some did truly idiotic,cowardly,heinous things,etc,etc,..things. Had 20/21 yr olds entire hair turn white from stress,fear and anxiety,etc,etc,..had some guys curl into an unresponsive ball out of mental crisis ( they had to be sent to Germany for mental health issues )seen and did things I didn't want to do,but,had to do. WAR is hell on earth !!! That's how I describe it. SEMPER-FI
I was 14 when I saw this in a packed theater, opening weekend. Watching people get vaporized on the big screen was absolutely terrifying at the time. Just hearing the tripods blaring stressed me out so much, I wasn't expecting to be scared as hell by this movie. What an incredible experience though. Would relive it if I could tbh.
this movie is one of the first action movies to come out post 9/11 and actually acknowledge that within the story. dakota's character literally asks at the beginning of the horror 'is it the terrorists??' a lot of the horrific elements of this film are because of 9/11 footage steven spielberg and tom cruise watched. the being covered in dust, the people taking amateur video instead of running away, people stumbling over each other but also trying to help each other, the plane crash site, and so much more are included in this film because we now knew that's how people reacted during an actual crisis. this movie borrows so much from real life and it makes it that much more believable. this is one of tom cruise's better films and as absurd as it is, there are very real elements in it that make it so much better.
The best part about the ending is that it's a very real thing that the aliens didn't have antibodies to combat our diseases and because of that something as simple as something like the flu could kill them with complete and total ease now imagine if it was something much more severe.
Plus they had eradicated all their own martian viruses, so had no need for inoculation or vaccination, or something similar
Here in Brazil during colonization one of the portuguese main weapons against natives was the flu, a single sneeze would kill a whole tribe
And even if they were able to make a vaccine for all our diseases, it's already too late. We took down some of their Tripods, which means we have access to their technology. *It's fair game now.*
The bit when the train goes by, ON FIRE, is the most hair-raising thing I've seen in any movie since this one. It always gives me goosebumps.
I remember seeing this movie in the cinema when it was released. I remember being pretty blown away by it. The size and scale of everything and the special effects were great, especially for the time period. I remember thinking to myself, "If this is what movies are like in 2005, then what are they going to be like in ten or twenty years' time?" It's 2023, and movies haven't surpassed this yet.
Going to the cinema in 2005 felt like an experience because you couldn't watch this movie or any others at home until it was released on DVD like a year after its release in cinema. Streaming movies and TV shows wasn't even a thing yet. Now movies like War of the Worlds can be watched anywhere at any time on practically any device which completely takes away from the spectacle and overall largeness of a movie like this.
i just noticed something. i allways thought it was like plot armor that Tom doesn't get hit by the laser even when coming super close too fried. If you notice at 7:33 he puts the cold rock in his jacket probally saving him from the heat seaking lasers i think.
Oh that's smart
The scene that stuck out to me the most when I first saw this was them going crazy trying to take his car and the one dude breaking the windshield with his bare hands bleeding
This is crazy I just watched this movie a few hours ago, had no idea Mell was going to watch it tonight!
There's a real sense of bleakness when I saw this in the theaters. You don't get that feel-good Independence Day feeling. Us humans are getting our asses handed to us :(
I think that's the reason this movie is so divisive for viewers. Some love it, some hate it. Some people need the movie to show the humans figuring out how to kick the aliens' butts but this one it was just bacteria/viruses that wiped them out. Basically humans just lucked the eff out.
I mean we cant fight nature and nature prove it again by beating these super advanced alien asses
@@deirdrestatham5730 and honestly thats probably more realistic. We were greatly outmatched and probably would be if some alien race declared war on us. They have technology we haven't even begun to figure out. It would of had to of been pure luck.
@@deirdrestatham5730 Wouldn’t the aliens not be affected by our viruses and bacteria because they have a different DNA/RNA molecular structure than organisms on Earth?
@@deirdrestatham5730
I think the Tripods have caused irreparable damage to civilization though. So in the end, there's nothing to be celebrated, even if the humans "lucked" out.
This is my top number one favorite alien movie. When block buster was still around, my mom let me rent this movie and I’d watch it after school on repeat almost everyday. Eventually she bought it and I’d replay it on my old dvd player. It terrified the shit out of me but I still loved watching it lol. I just recently got back into watching it again and I missed a whole bunch of interesting things that I didn’t notice when I was a kid. The basement scene where the Martians are scavenging through all the stuff they see and one of them takes an interest on that bicycle is an indicator that as advanced as we think the Martians are technology wise, in actuality they never came across the invention of the wheel. It means that the Martians are only advanced in terms of THEIR knowledge and not ours. They spent eons observing us but yet they didn’t know what the wheel was and were ignorant of our harsh and deadly environment when it comes to bacteria and viruses, something that we as a species have evolved to endure on a daily basis. Thanks for finally watching this movie ❤
Lmfao the Morgan freeman voice part in the beginning had me rolling. Not you asking why is his voice weird after apologizing to him seconds beforehand 😂😂
38:50
I mean, if you went to an alien planet, would you just get out without an environment suit before making sure there was nothing toxic in the air for your body?
The aliens got out and walked around without suits and basically caught the common cold, which is fatal with no immune system.
Ironically, they got what the old conquerers of old had happen to them too. When the Spanish invaded south America, they got super sick from the native diseases, but they also brought shit like Smallpox with them, a disease that the natives couldn't fight.
I don't think it was just that they left without suits, they seem to be clearly linked to the biomechanical technology, and this technology was literally ingesting people and using their blood with everything in the blood.
The basement scene one of the aliens was drinking the water. Pretty sure that didn't help either for them lol
"Prometheus" school for planet discovery.
TLDR: The aliens weren't vaccinated
As someone who grew up in a doomsday cult, this film always stuck with me growing up because this is how scary Armageddon was taught since I was a child 😭
Same here. This movie reinforced all the JW teachings about Armageddon. It shock me to my core. I could never wrap my brain around God wiping away billions of ppl.
The sound those things make when moving around like at 10:33 has always been freaky to me. It's very mechanical, but it's like the sound designer(s) tweaked it just enough to sound unfamiliar and not of this world. I think they did an excellent job.
Also, side note: There's a War of the Worlds survival horror game in the works that has been releasing UA-cam videos and updates on all the progress coming along that genuinely looks terrifying when the alien machines show up and you gotta hide immediately or you will die. The game looks promising, but I have no idea when they plan to release anything that you can actually play.
There’s also a tv show.
I’m one of the close testers it’s pretty fun it’s been updated alot
at the speed the legs shift I swear I can hear the whoosh of airflow in that sound design. I used to work offshore in the windmill farms and when it was really windy and those huge blades were spinning there's a destinct whoosh, whine and almost whistling quality to the noise. I hear similar things in this audio. Spielberg's audio designers have always been very creative, from a toilet reservoir lid to make the Ark sound in indiana jones to mixing lions, koala's and dolphins to make the iconic velociraptor noises
That's one of my sounds I hear I'm terrified! LOL basically since the Tripods activated, its freaky and eerie. Or when the tripods are rising up in the beginning or the activation of the weapons 😮😫
This movie did a great job of making you feel like you were there. Very underrated movie.
The way you apologized to Morgan Freeman off the bat I was already buggin I knew this would be a good one hahahaha
I just got to show this movie too my girlfriend for her first ever watch. This movie truly gave me a love for aliens and fascination with the human immunity. The last part of the movie when morgan freeman talks about how many of us have died for our right to walk this planet always gives me chills. Even just writing about it 😂
Oblivion is underrated. I really liked it a lot but not many people talk about it.
That movie was too good. Saw it two times in the theater.
You can tell this film was a response to 9/11 and the mass hysteria following it. The dust everywhere, the crowds of people running through city streets, being attacked by the unknown. I think it’s ages better as we have had time to cope with a lot of this kind of imagery.
NUH UHH
Wasn’t this movie a remake from way back in the day? Lol like decades and decades before 9/11?
@oni6903 That's what I was thinking. The book was written in the late 1800s, and the radio show was in the early 1900s. The radio show led to mass hysteria because people thought it was real. This movie came out in 2005.
@@simpman9977can you imagine living in the time with only the radio and not really knowing what is real and what isn’t? I guess even with TVs today we still have that problem don’t we.🤔
@@oni6903right down to the disintegration heat ray.
if you want to see more of little Dakota Fanning, check out the mini-series "Taken" from 2002. I think it's where she got her start and she was really incredible in it. to this day still my top favorite mini-series ever made 🥰
Btw way back in 1938, the book was adapted as a radio broadcast dramatization and they did it in such a way that it sent half the country into a panic. They basically set it up like a new broadcast reporting what people were supposedly phoning in on what was going on. So many people missed the beginning stating that this was a "dramatization" and thought it was real. In the first half hour, hundreds of calls to the police were made by paranoid people thinking they heard aliens in the yard and wanting to know if they were coming to where they were lol. It was so bad, they had to start repeating that it was a dramatization every 10 minutes or so to get people to calm down. My father was 11 at the time and he thought it was the best thing he ever heard and had a blast watching the adults panic. Biggest and best prank in radio history. The whole country was fooled LOL
Dakota Fanning, Really got her start in I Am Sam (2001) Along with her sister who played Dakota's character as a toddler. Dakota did have tiny parts on TV in 2000 but I Am Sam was the movie that put her name on the map.
@@janeandle Ah I haven't heard of that. I'll have to check it out 😄
@@adiarainfosterit’s a really good movie, I love it.
You definitely need too check out "The Fourth Kind". You talking about having consistent nightmares immediately reminded me of that film. One of the most disturbing movies I ever watched. Top 3 along with Hereditary & Exorcist. Pretty underrated.
isnt that the trash ah movie with josh peck
@@sillygoose4263 Nah, it stars Milla Jovovich, don’t remember Josh Peck being in that one.
This will traumatize Mell no doubt, stop it
There's also "Fire in the Sky" which has the most disturbing alien probing scene on film
Thank you for sharing. I was actually looking for an alien related movie. It has the woman from Resident Evil and that's a plus as well.
Dude, you had ME emotional! I have seen this movie a few times, and I’ve seen several reactions to it. But your reaction was ripping my heart out. 🥺 💙💙💙
A sad thought but is true when you think about it, the soldiers fighting in that scene in the dark hills where they have no effect on the aliens, some theorise that the soldiers knew their guns was doing nothing to the aliens but they kept shooting at them to try slow them down in hopes of giving civillians time to escape even if it meant they knew they stood no chance against the aliens. It explains why they never moved their vehicles and kept on that frontline instead of just shooting while driving away slowly. Becuase again they knew they were going to die, they just hoped to slow them down at least which does somewhat work as while the tripods do have forcefields, they still stop a moment against explosions so yeah.
I saw this in the theaters when it was released, and I loved it! This movie was based on a book by H. G. Wells first published in 1898. Steven Spielberg's take on it jibes very well with the original story in that it takes place at the time it was released. It's also apocalyptic, the aliens just tearing through any possible resistance that humanity could put up. Now, this isn't the first time a media version of War of the Worlds has been made. While there have been many tellings that preceded this movie, two stand out. The first was a radio play broadcast on Halloween night, in 1938. The crazy thing about that was many people that tuned in mid broadcast thought that aliens had really invaded! The second was released in 1953, and is equally amazing! Spielberg gives a few nods to each of these, as well as holding allot to what Wells wrote. It's a really great story that Spielberg was able to put his own mark on, too.
They got sick and died. I think it was the measles or the common cold.
Consumed by the Earth’s bacteria when it started to consume humanity. I do love the irony.
..he literally didn’t know his own child was deathly allergic to peanut butter, from birth.. but sure, he’s trying, he’s the victim here.. lol
9:42 Same here. I've had alien invasion nightmares since leaving the Marine Corps 20 years ago. Fun fact, the actual military (10th Mountain Division and other units) portrayed the military in this. The M1 Abrams tanks in the hill battle were the real thing.
Disaster movies were making a huge comeback at the time this was in theaters, and everyone was in theaters watching them. War of the Worlds was no exception. This was also a remake of an older movie, so there was quite some hype behind it. With all disaster movies, people made fun of it or parodied it, but in general people loved watching these spectacles. I do remember being SO MAD at aliens while watching this, I was about the son's age in the movie, and I had that feeling of wanting to get back at them too.
I first saw this in its original black and white with my dad when i was little. He loved it. He was born in 30s and he was just old enough to remember the radio version and the panic that ensued. He and his family were lucky enough to hear the beginning announcement that the story of WofWs was a fictional retelling of a book from 1898. He always laughed when he talked about it
We're too busy fighting pointless idiological wars to survuve an alien invasion.
Reality is an advanced enough species wouldn't even need to invade. They can just cook us from afar with an electron beam to sterilize the planet or send an asteroid our way, etc.
The basement scene is a combination of 2 parts of the novel, one earlier where the protag and another survivor are hiding in a half-wrecked house with a Martian encampment outside, and later when he meets a soldier who has big ideas of leading a rebellion against the invaders.
When the fellow survivor in the first part starts to lose his mind and becomes a liability, its left more ambiguous as to whether or not the protag kills him outright but in the end it doesn't matter since the martians find his body and haul it away to drain anyways. With the soldier, the protagonist simply thanks him for letting him stay in his shelter for a few nights, and goes on his way by himself.
I grew up watching this movie SOOOOOO much. To this day it's one of my favorite alien movies. And not too much on Dakota Fanning AKA Coraline😂😂she's a national treasure
I was 12 when this movie came out. I visited the set and got to see the plane that crashed. Really was amazing to see. However, when I saw the movie, I don’t think I had a good night sleep for weeks. The river scene with all of the floating bodies had truly paralyzed me.
I remember being blown away my Dakota Fanning in this movie. Such a great actor.
That throwing of the bread was a real parent moment. Once my mom put a pizza in the oven and we were supposed to pull it out but she didn't set a timer and it was overcooked. She was pissed and stressed out from stuff going on and threw the pizza at the sink and it was impaled on the faucet. I still would've eaten it too, it wasn't too far gone.
My favorite Tom Cruise movie is "Interview With The Vampire" with "The Outsiders" and "MI" rounding out my top 3. He really doesn't miss- so anybody can pick any of his movies as a favorite. Thanks for the reaction!
Favourite Tom Cruise movie: Edge of Tomorrow.
Hands down my fave.
I liked this movie so much I went back to the theater the next day and saw it again. It's so dope.
It’s fun that you dropped in a clip from “The Office” for this movie. The neighbor that Tom Cruise talks to in the yard is Amy Ryan aka Michael Scott’s love interest Holly Flax.
One thing that stands out is the practical sets. So many great set pieces and moments in this movie was a good mix of CGI and practical.
PUT SOME RESPEK ON MORGAN FREEMAN’S NAME!!! 😂😂😂
Lmao Can't Believe Disrespected Our Lord And Savior Like That!
You editing yourself into the window when Cruise throws the baseball through the window made me laugh so hard I ran out of breath.
I saw this movie when it first came out and all I could tell people was that it was intense. I haven't seen the movie in years and it's just now hitting me from seeing your reaction just how brutal this movie really is. I've always been a fan of the original book and movie so I was greatly anticipating this movies release.
I highly recommend you see the 1953 movie sometime. War of the Worlds has a rich and interesting history
As a huge fan of the original book, Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is what I call a faithful adaptation!
When Ray said to his son "you can hate me but I love you" 😭
I love how the aliens probably thought they can easily beat the Earths living organisms especially humans, only to get annihilated by the smallest creatures on the planet. Edge of tomorrow, War of the worlds and Terminator are my favorite sci-fi films ever
Love that the plane set was practical on the universal backlot. Idk if it’s still there but it was right next to the psycho house
It’s still there.
This movie is totally underrated.
Rewatching in highlights this way I realize they actually reference the book quite often in this movie. The army's suicidal defense on the hill resembles the six gun artillery squad from the story. When Tim Robbins starts losing his shit and gets to digging while ranting about underground cities that's straight up Brave new World's lyrics from Jeff Wayne's musical version. I also realise now that the iconic fog horn is two tone, and is probably referencing a modernized version of the musical's ULLAH noise. The moment the ramp closes and they look each other in the eye while a fighting machine comes over the hill is also near identical. Shame there was no reference to HMS Thunder Child, missed opportunity for a valiant sea battle
The aliens dying reminds me of that Patrick Star meme where he and SpongeBob desperately needs water while inside Sandy's dome
The movie's setting is pretty close to Grover's Mill, New Jersey which is the place where the invasion starts on the radio version. The foghorns are basically the equivalent of "Ulla" from Jeff Wayne's musical version of War of the Worlds. The man in the cellar later is a combination of the artillery man and the priest from the book. The visual probe is a direct shout out to the 1953 version. The Red Weed is what you see in the cellar scenes and is part of the alien terraforming process. The aliens again have a preoccupation with three legs, which the tripods mimick in design. The aliens always die of bacteria, with the exception of War of the Worlds Goliath which is a dieselpunk adaptation of the story.
When the novel was written, germ theory was still fairly new to medicine. So the movie shows that the invasion fails because of environment. With no prep time to gain immunity to whatever they encounter, it was doomed from the start. This is hubris on the part of the aliens, but it's also an allegory of our own hubris when we go into environments and we think we are prepared and then shown how nature has the final say on whether you even walk out the door from day to day.
In terms of real alien invasions, the tech level would be superior to our own. We'd be outmatched unless the differences are not too significant. When contact does happen, it will be met with hostility, benevolence, curiosity, or indifference.
I loved the edit where you say the tripods attacking in groups looks like Mass Effect and then the news lady goes “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
Also, the song Tom Cruise sings to Dakota Fanning is Little Deuce Coup by The Beach Boys
That overblown dreamy look was Spielberg’s thing for like ten years, glad he mostly grew out of it
I saw this in theaters when it first came out! I’m so glad I did and got to experience it like that it was SO loud and gave you goosebumps
one of my favorite movies ever! great reaction as always, mell! 💓
I say this every single time I see a reaction to this movie, but man, this movie is so nostalgic for me, it’s a childhood favourite! My dad and I always watched horror movies and stuff and this was one of our favourites
When I saw it in theaters, I was in awe the whole time. I am a fan of the original so I was already hyped to see it. It exceeded all expectations. The alien ships were terrifying and so realistic. The scene when the first one comes out of the ground and the scene of them at night at the ferry most notable. I feel truly some of the greatest moments in cinema.
Another great Dakota Fanning movie (much better than War of the Worlds) is Man on Fire, with Denzel!
Dont forget the Orson Welles radio play on Halloween night in 1938 that freaked out an entire nation, because people missed the part that said it's fiction. People thought that the Martian invasion was real.
36:24 he was the one giving the soldiers the hint "no shield" because he saw that the birds can safely land on that thing
Mel: Who would’ve thought Steven Spielberg could make a horror movie
Jaws and Poltergeist would like a word…
Agreed on the horror of this film is the panic and tragedy an alien invasion would be. Especially stuff you wouldn't think about until it happens like people drowning in falling cars, the bodies in the river and all sorts. Makes me wish a horror video game was made showing how truly terrifying an alien invasion would actually be.
That scene with the car scared me as a kid and absolutely horrifies me as an adult. The scariest part of an alien invasion would be the people.
I was 12 when my grandpa took me to this movie. It was terrifying on the big screen. Still one of my favorite alien movies. I consider it to be a sci-fi horror...
They shoulda put "get seasonal flu shot" on their to do list. I mean, they planned for thousands of years and no one checked all that? 🤣🤣🤣
Oooh I’m happy! I was only able to catch the end of your live to this ☺️
That high exposure light thingy was one of Speilbergs phases...things, back then. This, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, A.I., Indiana Jones:KotCS
Bro this movie made me feel anxious for days after watching it. Thats how you know the movie did its job of being a terrifying portrail of the end of the world
The aliens attempted to invade Earth but ended up dying due to the bacteria. The bacteria defended Earth from the alien invaders and I found that pretty cool. War of the Worlds is such a great film, great reaction Mellverse!
My favorite Tom Cruise movie is Minority Report. Highly recommend
I like this movie. The book was cool, and the radio show in the 1900s was huge. This was a really good movie.
There are also multiple movie versions made of the story before the Tom Cruise version.
This is based on the novel with the same name - wich was published in the late 1800's by H.G.Wells. Wells was one of the very earliest SciFi authors and he wrote a bunch of absolute classics - The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of The Worlds. WOTW is THE first Alien Invasion story ever written. It gets quoted a LOT - Independence Day is quite close. :)
The interesting thing with the original story - from our point of view - is the time it was written and plays in - even before 1900, World War One and the first Tanks. The Martians (that's where they originally came from) attack Great Britain in Steam Engine days and massacre it's citizens to drink their blood. Earth's bacteria and virusses killing them is right from the original. In it the Martians have done away with all illnesses millennia ago, so now they have nothing to fight those pesky invaders in their bodies.
And this is actually proper SCIENCE Fiction - Evolution (back then still relatively new as a concept) is literally part of the finale: Mankind evolved with all those germs and stuff around and over time we adapted to a lot of them, also they evolved alongside us and in the long time something that doesn't wipe out all it's hosts is more likely to survive.
Last but not least the whole story was meant as a criticism of British colonialism - in the introduction of the book Wells points out: "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?". (of course it's kinda racist to talk of "inferior races" and call the Tasmanians "human like", but it still was the 1800eds and compared to, say, H.P.Lovecraft Wells was almost "harmless"). So like the British fought natives all over the world with their modern weaponry then the Martians come and kick their asses with far superior technology of their own - tall tripod fighting machines, the horrible heat ray weapon and the black smoke, a poison gas they use to wipe out whole towns. They're not invincible - the army and later the navy manage to destroy a fighting machine each, but their buddies then quickly wipe out all troops before they can reload their guns.
And from the end: "These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things-taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many-those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance-our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. "
Ray was not awake when Robbie was driving and called his name. It's just that when he heard him say 'dad' in the manner he did, it naturally triggered his instinct to be alert and protect.
Mell! Cool kickin it with you again. Dude bumped the table and I immediately thought of Eddie Murphy in his standup saying "WTF u gonna do now? Dropped your pistol when you busted in the window!" 😁
Thanks Spielberg, now I’ll never unhear all the screams or unsee all those scenes that came out of this movie
We wouldn't survive an alien invasion, but we would make some hilarious memes about it😂 we never take anything seriously
I think the fact I watched this while 8 years old in the theater amazes me that I pulled through just fine despite how graphic some scenes were. I was hoping for a game of this ever since then. Fortunately that's becoming a reality.
I'll never forget the first horn I witnessed in the movie theater. It's so nostalgic and a experience I'll never forget.
The prologue of the movie was based on the prologue of the 1898 H.G. Wells Novel, The War of the Worlds.
Great reaction as always. I remember seeing this in the cinema with my brother. It freaked me out 😮 I think i
was about 9 years old. But seeing this again as an adult the best part is the developing story between the dad and his children stepping up. Tom cruise and Dakota fanning did a great job. Mello you are scared of nearly everything 😅. Until the next one 💜
9:45 Couple times a year I have the outbreak phase of a zombie apocalypse dream. They are always in different locations I’ve never seen like a random airport or a cruise ship. I always start with family and friends and every corner I turn someone disappears in the confusion. It usually ends after I only see random people or its just me running from a horde of zombies. Super quick and intense but it usually happens after playing too much COD Zombies or other zombie games 😂
I used to get nightmares like that after too much Dead Rising. Ironically, the creativeness also carried over. I vaguely remember one dream where I was attacked by a zombie and used a fire extinqusher to explode it by spraying the foam down its throat.
Stay alive. And fight. Always go down fighting because it gives someone else a chance to live.
When the tripods were vaporizing the huge crowd and you can hear the screams it sounds wild...so much terror from so many people and that feild was huge with nowhere to run😮
This movie needs to be seen with a decent surround sound system. The tripod’s call is actually deeper in the harmonics that most televisions cannot produce properly. The sound designer was very proud of himself that year.
The original War of the Worlds in 1953 had the same ending about how the aliens were taken down. I got a movie reaction suggestion for you it's one of my favorites The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
You should read the book! The actual book takes place in the late 1800's England and it is definitely more than just Martians colonizing earth only to die by basic bacteria and pathogens due to being sterile, it is a what if scenario on what would happen if a global superpower was pitted against something even more powerful and is VERY realistic in regards to how people would react if directly affected by a worldwide cataclysm. It is a really good scifi/horror story that I can't recommend enough!
The crazy guy Tom kills is legendary actor Tim Robbins.
I love how Tom cruise here isn’t the action hero like he usefully is he’s a father trying to survival like everyone else.
Ello Mello, firstly just wanna say the content you're bringing 👌!!! Wanted to give out some ideas of what you could watch in the future that I know I'd enjoy. Rocky, Shutter Island, The Warrior, Legend (Tom Hardy), Split, Armagedon (or however you spell it) anyhoooo keep doing what you're doing 😎
Best adaption of the story has to be Jeff Wayne's musical version; the War of the Worlds immersive experience in London is a lot of fun!
When you said "Can't save both of your kids broo!?" I noticed The Last of Us Theme playing in the background and I just have to say that was one of the best references I've seen since the start of the year! Can't wait to finish this video, definitely got a like and subscribe off me, I'll have to see what else you've covered in your down time.
P.S: I don't know if you know Mell, but there's a game of this very film in pre-alpha stage right now, I am a Closed Tester for it and the game is AMAZING! I'd definitely give it a look my dude! :)
Interesting fact in oct 30 1938, Orson welles did a reading on this on the radio. Some people were convinced that it was a real happening event and started to panic. 😂
If you would like to watch another great move like this, please watch “knowing” with Nicolas cage!!!👌🏽