*WAR OF THE WORLDS* Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Should we check out the 1953 version?
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Maybe not.🤔
I recently watched it for the very first time: it's "not bad" but I definitely prefer this Newer Version.👍
Yes, but I would also recommend listening to the Orson Wells radio broadcast, but I’m weird…. Btw there’s also a re-recording of the radio broadcast done by several members of Star Trek TOS and TNG in a audio recording series called Alien Voices, cast members such as John DeLancie (Q), Gates McFadden (Crusher) and even Leonard Nimoy.
They also did an audio drama of The Time Machine which is by the same author as War of the Worlds, and on that note I recline d the 1960 George Pal version of The Time Machine.
Yes, the 1953 version is a classic.
Oh and Regarding Q and Spock, if you can find it, Track down a copy of Spock Vs Q and Spock Vs Q the SeQuel.
When Rachael has the splinter in her hand and says, "when my body is ready it'll just push it out", that's nice foreshadowing of the Earth pushing the aliens out, the alien ships even look like splinters entering the Earth
Nice. 👍
Our bodies don't push out foreign bodies tho. Our organic material will just grow around it.
@@chrisofstars Splinters that are left in the body aren’t simply absorbed. Instead, the body is more likely to reject the splinter and try to push it out which can create inflammation and pockets of pus, if the inflammatory response continues for several days or weeks, the area can sometimes develop a somewhat permanent bump or what's called a "granuloma" - that's from a quick google search on what happens to splinters in the skin. With some splinters yes, it just stays in the body either until you die or until it gets infected etc. It seems quite often especially if it's a small enough splinter or shallow enough, the body just eventually rejects it and it comes out of the skin (which as referenced can lead to even worse infections actually, yay)
Also, the railroad crossing scene still haunts my dreams. To think that that flaming train full of the dead is hurtling towards eventual doom through something so mundane and liminal as a grade crossing is such a great and twisted juxtaposition.
The burning train, the river of corpses, and the ferry were broadly inspired by scenes in the book. The imagery is intense.
The 1898 novel is astonishingly foresighted in terms of inventing/describing an advanced alien technology. Wells even states that their machines seemed more alive than the Martians themselves. This movie hits all the main plot points, although (as in the 1953 movie and Orson Welles 1938 radio broadcast) they changed the locale and updated the timeframe. Well worth a read.
Wells was prescient in a lot of ways and about a lot of things… in one of his non-fiction books from 1901 he describes a future society access to information and news this way that some day there will be “long-distance electrical type-setting.” He continued, “there is every possibility of [news]papers becoming at last papers of world-wide circulation…the identical matter that will appear almost simultaneously everywhere, will no doubt have its special matter and its special advertisements. Illustrations will be telegraphed just as well as matter, and probably a much greater use will be made of sketch and diagram than at present…. Daily papers may presently give place to hourly papers, each with the last news of the last sixty minutes photographically displayed.”
So not only did he predict the incessant news cycle, that we would move away from mainly just describing things through the written word, but he also predicted that we would be able to photographically display this information anywhere in the world instantaneously..
This is why he is the father of Science fiction.
The horn sounds the tripods made were so terrifying, it still gives me chills. I think this is also one Tom’s best and most underrated performances, it doesn’t get talked about enough.
I live in San Francisco close to the Golden Gate Bridge and I can hear the fog horns all the time and they sound just like the tripods. When this movie came out I had so many dreams where they were attacking because I’m sure I could hear the foghorns in my sleep. 😂
I wish it was my car horn or a city's emergency siren.
Tom does catatonic terror and panic really well in this. Kinda makes me wish he'd do more horror movies!
Used it as my text message sound back in the day.
The wave pool at the water park in NY would play that same exact sound every time it started.
"...like a couple of nut sacks."
That's gold right there. Great video, JennyPenny!
Surely Jenny's talking about few bags with almonds inside
@@YourMajesty733 You might be right.
And, stop calling me Shirley.
I burst out laughing. Priceless.
Her gesture that goes along with the line too... Illustrative! lol
33:23 "The In Laws"
That's Gene Barry and Ann Robinson who played the lead roles in the 1953 movie version of War of the Worlds.
@kevinburton3948 - I was today years old when I discovered this! - love the callback!!
Ah the original, gotta go back and watch that again.
"Suck it, Aliens!" 😂
I worked in the theatre when this came out, I'd go do theatre checks at specific points cause I'd recognize sound cues in the hallway. That warhorn is so *gorgeous*
Notice Gene Barry cameo as the grandfather at the end. He was the lead character in the 1953 version 😊
And Anne Robinson.
LOL. "Nobody changed their solenoids!" 11:17
The main 2 actors from the '53 film are the grandparents at the end.
HG Wells was 1 of the 1st true science fiction writers, or at least successful, my love of science came from reading his books & their movie/tv series adaptations. War of the World's, The Invisible Man & many more.
There was an 80's tv series, but I never got to see it all here in the UK.
Try listening to Jeff Wayne's album, War of the World's too.
I think it’s fantastic that Wells set out to write stories about social and political issues and ended up with some of his contemporaries starting the modern Sci-Fi genre.
Gene Barry and Ann Robinson played the grandparents.
LRH wrote decent scifi of his time as well.
Battlefield Earth is good but turned into a not so great movie.
It always gives me chills when Tom Cruise is forced to murder Tim Robbins to protect his daughter, Dakota Fanning, while she sings "Hushabye Mountain" to calm herself. Hhe fact that the slaying happens offscreen makes it even more unnerving.
Safe to say that Merlin and Maverick's weekend getaway did not go well on account of the alien invasion and the psychotic breakdowns.
I keep forgetting they co-starred in the original Top Gun.
One of Spielberg's best; nicely done special effects; iconic shots. All done within budget, just like all his movies. Plus, successfully weaving in the character arc of the father/son relationship. His movies always have a deeper message going on underneath, wish directors today would take note
BTW everyone standing outside staring at a storm on the horizon talking to all your neighbors is a very East Coast and Midwestern thing. I don’t know how many times living in Boston and Chicago I remember everyone just standing staring up being amateur “experts” on the incoming weather.
I think that's just an American thing
"Infinite Complacency" is a great name for a band.
Great reaction, as always. You're da best.
This movie... Absolutely incredible. SO tense, so well shot and directed, the music is spectacular!
The ending and resolution also subverts expectations which I appreciate a lot
You should read the novel - aside from the interesting period setting the prose is beautiful. Wells writes apocalypse really well. And it has tripods and heat rays.
The original late seventies version of Jeff Wayne's musical is also great (narrated by Richard Burton)
The Orson Welles radio play is good too. The live reporting of the attack on New York is very tense, and heart-breaking
Well is in my top 3 favourite authors, I absolutely adore his stories, partly because The Time Machine was one of the first “real adult” books I was gifted around 7 or 8 years old. It has become a tradition of mine to read it semi-annually and with my ageing it has changed because of my perspective on life and other things has made me take it differently nearly every time I’ve read it.
My favourite novel. And Jeff Wayne's musical version has been a favourite since I was a kid in the late 70's. So good.
*Wells
Agreed. I enjoyed it immensely. It’s exciting and very well paced. I would love a direct, period adaptation that is as well done as this movie.
I'd love to see Jen react to the musical version, although I'm not sure how that would be possible unless she watched one of the recorded stage shows.
Absolutely need to watch the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds". If you haven't watched it yet, "Forbidden Planet" is a must.
Definitely both!
Strong vote for Forbidden Planet.
Someone probably already said this, but here I go. The in-laws at the door in Boston are the original stars of the 1953 version War of the World's.
Forbidden Planet is fantastic
I like that you're so empathetic to Rachel, a lot of people complained about her screaming but I think she had every reason to be scared. Dakota's performance was really powerful, I remember seeing this as a kid and I freaked out when she sang Hushabye Mountain while her father killed the guy in the basement.
"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938 over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners
It was up against enormously popular Charlie McCarthy a show about a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio! But listeners channel flipped during the commercials so joined the Wells show with no idea what was happening because it sounded like regular radio news. It's all heavily documented with no real disputes on the facts as far as I know. Most of the panic was in NJ since that was the scene of the radio play.
While there definitely WAS a panic, the exact scale and intensity of it was greatly exaggerated at the time, and for a long while in American pop culture history. Today it's seen as another example of "Old Media Hates New Media", as the newspapers trying to scare audiences away from the new-fangled radio they were afraid would steal their business (remember the TV news stories about how bad Cable TV would be for society?). Would like to tell them that we've had something like 4 or 5 more new media since then, and newspapers are still around!
"The night that panicked america" 1975
@@HandofOmega Cable TV _was_ bad for society.
This is definitely another one of those movies that you need to rewatch with the best speakers you can get your hands on.
I liked how at one point you were really caught up in the movie, yet you were still reacting to the music. You're truly one of a kind Jen 😊
the 1953 version took a different approach regarding the "tripods", simply because it would have been too costly to have it all stop-motion while they moved. still an all-time classic!
I saw this on the big screen and I remember the couple in front of me whispering:
"what damaged the aliens? "
"The annoying screaming kids!"
Yes. They were pretty annoying weren't they.
Kind of makes you wish the Martians would break the fourth wall and zap certain members of the audience.
That scene where Tom Cruise shudders after his daughter touches him really shows what a good actor he is.
Well he flinches pretty hard right at the moment she touches him. He does it really convincingly.
This is a solid presentation of the story, but Jeff Wayne's Musical version will always be my favourite.
🎶"The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million-to-one, he said...
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million-to-one... but still, they come!"🎶
" suck it aliens! " perfect response for the end of the movie 😅
Diggin' the John Williams t-shirt!
I've lost could as to how many times I've seen this!
The Intersection scene... the first Tripod sound! *shivers* to this day especially in surround sound cinema!
The escape in the minivan is a combination of miniatures, CGI and stitching! Really cool!
War Of The Worlds, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man! All timeless classics!
Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins technically reunited for this! One narrated and the other... a bit on the insane side!
Not everyone remembers the late 80s tv series based on this. That was nightmare fuel. You know you're in for a ride when they showed the earth then this three fingered alien hand reach over and grab it!
I read all of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells when I was a kid. Their work is the foundation of all the science fiction people enjoy today. The novels are all short and concise, people really knew how to tell a good story without messing around. War Of the Worlds is just 200 pages long, an easy read that a good reader can finish in one day. Eight of Wells novels were made into movies. The Invisible Man was just over 160 pages long and was made into a movie in 1933 that told the whole story in just 70 minutes. It starred Claude Rains who you just saw in Casablanca a couple of weeks ago. - This version of War of the Worlds is certainly a good film on its own and your reaction was as fun as ever.
“Suck it, aliens!”
I knew I watched your reviews for a reason. 😂😅
The first movie adaptation from the 50’s is worth a watch…
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Notes: Steven Speilberg gave his version of the story American Family treatment about how to survive, especially with a daughter like that. I didn't always have cats and dogs and an 83-year-old father. They would be my version of her!
The 1950s George Pal version makes the Tripods more high-tech in that they walk on energy beams that flash visibly when struck. Otherwise, they seem to float on air! They are transported to Planet Earth from Planet Mars differently, too! But they are taken on by government people, including the scientist and his woman, not just the military!
Until I saw Tom's version, I thought that the sensor probe was an eyestalk! The other scientist had hooked one up so that we could see what they see! But it wasn't any eyeball! It was just a camera! So he was speculating! We use different devices that show us different views, so they could too!
But anyway, that's an American story as is this movie. Because the novel is British and set in the UK, most adaptations are set there too and in the 1890s! Including the famous radio rock opera version!
Orson Wells's version is dated now because it is set during the exact time of the radio broadcast, making it very affective at being scary and mistaken as a news broadcast!
John Ritter, stars in a made-for-television movie about that night. Some families went into "survivalist mode" before that was even a thing!
Hmm. The knock-off studio made their own version in reaction to Tom's version.
Then, another studio made a more international movie series. They are available on "Tubi".
The British versions seem to always be interrupted by people not wanting to miss their daily tea times! That's a British trait that "Monty Python's Flying Circus" often made fun of! There may be a battle going on, but damn it, we're going to have our tea! We're not barbarians! 😁
Jules Verne and HG Welles impressed a lot of people with their predictions about technology! Now that I've seen the most recent "Indiana Jones" movie, I better understand what is meant by "Archimedes Death Ray"! It is like using a magnifying lens with sunlight. The early Martian Death Rays are based on that technology because that's what Wells knew about! Aha! Orson is "Welles"!
The 1950s version gave us LASER inspired "Death Rays"! The sound effects used for them have been repeatedly used elsewhere even in "Star Trek"!
Um, bye for now! 😊
Hi Jen, definitely check out the Original 1953 version. FYI the parents of the kids mother, in Boston, are the 2 stars from the 1953 version. There is a docudrama about the original radio broadcast called "The Night That Panicked America" made in 1975, this is really good to. Love what you do!
Great reaction again, Jen! I don't know if you know this, but there is a "musical" version of this from 1978, called "Jeff Wayne's musical version of The War Of The Worlds" and it's absolutely brilliant. I have listened to that musical piece for the first time in the early 80s and I was totally blown away - I still am. It will not fit your channel here, but I suggest you to listen to it in your private time, if you like. Have a great weekend and keep up the great work!
I have it on vinyl from back in the day, and I scored the advertising poster (it is 42"x44") from the record store that shows the front of the album cover with the Martian Tripod melting the Thunderchild. I mounted it on a cherry wood frame and fiberglass. I still have it mounted 45 years later, because I am a geek!
The history of trying to make this story into a feature film is fascinating in itself. When Paramount Pictures & Cecil B. DeMille obtained the rights from H.G. Wells in the 1920s, DeMille himself was attached to direct. For whatever reasons, that never happened. They then brought in the legendary Russian director, Sergei Eisenstein to helm the picture That eventually fell through. Afterwards, it was Alfred Hitchcock who was asked! That would have been fascinating, but unfortunately that never came to fruition.
Yes, they talked to Orson Welles, but he turned them down, (not wanting to duplicate what he had brilliantly done on the radio in 1938). After WWII, Paramount and DeMille wanted this to be a "Go" project again. Fortunately for them, they had the right guy working at Paramount - George Pal, who had just won an Oscar for his sci-fi epic "When Worlds Collide". Pal and his group released their version in 1953 and a sci-fi classic was born (as well as brining home another Oscar). Jen, you should do the 1953 version!!!
One of my favorite Special effects in this movie starts at 11:17 . They start with them yelling in the car. Leave the car, hover around the back, coming forward on the opposite side of the car and come back in through the window back into the interior on the other side that they started from like it was nothing and so smooth you don't notice it's a special effect.
Ah, a pleasant Tom Cruise adventure. Surely this won't involve spider-legged machine monsters sucking the blood out of innocent victims!
That’s no way to talk about Scientologists!😂😂
That was only in Eyes Wide Shut.
It's either this or the spider-tentacle aliens who can time travel OR the malevolent AI that clones people!
One of the earliest movies to get me into Sci-fi (along with 1986's Critters) And one of my mom's (God rest her soul) favorite movies. 💜
The church that cracks apart at the beginning was also in the 1953 film, which you should check out.
Every time I hear that splinter thing I'm just reminded of how I get splinters out.
I Just get a box cutter and start digging around until it's out
May I suggest "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage, that movie is so underrated!
Great suggestion, Jen would love that movie!
"The whisper people"
The 1953 War of the Worlds is my favorite version.
31:39 😂😂😂😂
Jen made me chuckle 😂
Its a Rare feat
Two nut sacks 😂😊😊
What is amazing is the imagination of HG Wells who wrote this story in the late 1890's. This version takes a lot of liberties with the story and the 1953 movie version with Gene Barry is well worth watching (which also took some liberties but was nearer to the novel).
Dakita Fanning played the daughter during her string of films with Oscar winners and superstars. I got to interview her at the junket for her first film, I Am Sam. She was 7. When she left, the experienced reporters were asking if she was 35. Every question got a paragraph of an answer. And from the moment she sat down, she was in charge. She introduced herself and would ask each of us what our question was. Meanwhike, her mother and the event talent manager are in the far corner having a private conversation ignoring her and us. My then boss got to interview her again two years later, but this time part of the interview was with her little sister, Elle. When alone, Dakota was a 9 year old full grown adult. But when her sister was with her, she became a nine year old kid. An extreme smart kid, but they were suddenly two kids playing. Elle was 5 I believe. Unlike a lot of child actors, I'm not at all surprised that they are both still working actresses.
The novella is certainly contemporary to when it was written, but most of the major plot points are there about the invasion, especially the tripods, and the outcome as well as many of the scenes of fleeing across the countryside. Wells was English, so the setting and characters are all different. Other details about the invasion are different and are unique to each.
There are few other ways to enjoy this story.
There was a teleplay that was broadcast over the radio and scared a bunch of people who tuned in and didn't realize there wasn't a real alien invasion. This was before tv was popular, so the radio was mainly the news or music or dramas. Science fiction in general was a pretty new genre.
There's a movie from the 1950s that's rather good, though fairly typical of science fiction movies of the time. That is, the focus is on scientists, the government, and the military rather than a person fleeing for their life. The designs and miniature special effects were impressive for the time. I think you'd appreciate it.
I never gave Tom Cruises a chance. I avoided him because of the hype. Saw this because I love the original, and totally changed my mind on him. Great performance in a fantastic movie.
Well as The Great Gonzo said in The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), "If you like this, you should read the book."
I love the idea that the Martians are not defeated by us but by infecting microorganisms. The book is not about this family group and is more like reading a survivor's journal. You should look into the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds and the chaos it created.
I remember watching the original 50s version when I was a kid in the 70s. Scared me to death. The sound they made I'll never forget.. lol
I know some people really criticize this movie , but I love it. Spielberg really brought some great imagery and intensity to it. As far as alien flicks, have you reacted to SIGNS or ARRIVAL? If not, put them on the list. And yes, read the novel and give the 50's version a shot.
Gotta check out "The Faculty" if you love alien films. t's like if "Scream" and "The Thing" were blended together lol.
As you already mentioned, the Book takes place in victorian times, in britain.
Really worth a read imo.
I know people didn't think this was all that for a movie when it came out because the aliens died in such an anticlimactic way, but I still really like watching people react to this movie for the first time. I think it's quite good.
They say anti-climactic, I say subverting expectations.
I've just noticed for the first time ever. Tim Robbins, the crazy guy in the house, played Merlin in Top Gun, alongside Tom Cruise! If I remember right, in the movie they fly together in the final scene when Cruise says that he's going to put the brakes on, and Merlin (???) squawks, "You're goin' to do what?!"
Still love Top Gun alumni at end of movie, "YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT!!?" Tom Cruise as Maverick. = pilot, Tim Robbins as Merlin = REO😂
Love it when you return to a good Sci Fi Jen. I left the suggestion of FORBIDDEN PLANET in your pinned comment. Maybe look into the 50s for some really classic Sci Fi. Although, FLASH GORDON with Timothy Dalton would be a great choice as well 😊 thanks Jen, always here for more...Eric
I will second both choices!
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Lord. The height of 1980's cheese, but such fun cheese it is. And the soundtrack from Queen is amazing.
I also second the recommendation for "Forbidden Planet". You get to see Leslie Nielsen with dark hair and in a serious role, and hear one of the earliest films to have a soundtrack entirely of electronic music.
Forbidden Planet is a must watch for any sci-fi fan. Its a masterpiece.
The 1953 version is great and is so iconic for machines they used for the aliens, But the H G WELLS The time machine from 1960 with rod Taylor is one of the greatest sci fi movies ever made that makes the journey with the time traveller so personal and got a Oscar for special effects that still stand up today. The novels of the war of the worlds and the time machine were wrote within a few years of each other, a must read.
“Suck it, aliens!” felt so cathartic.
Jen, this was a great reaction. I feel that this movie is underrated in the list of Spielberg movies. It just is not as heralded as his other films, and it should be given more recognition.
This is a very good film.
I have that same shirt you're wearing. Absolutely love John Williams, and I'll be seeing him in concert in July.
I hope that some day you will get to see him at one of his concerts, he is remarkable.
Keep the great reactions coming!
H.G. Wells is the father of Science Fiction and many of his novels have been adapted to film.
War of The Worlds (1898) is the original Alien Invasion story.
No particular main characters of the novel.
You just see how many of them deal with this unforseen event.
First on screen in 1953 and ahead of it's time in filmmaking followed by a syndicated tv series (1988-1990) that pushed the envelope of Sci-Fi horror/suspense.
This 2005 adaption is Cruise & Spielberg's 2nd collaboration and Spielberg's 3rd Sci-Fi film of the 2000s.
The fear and paranoia of a post 9/11 world reacting to an attack from beyond.
Cruise's role as not a hero, a father trying to measure up and at least guide his kids through this ordeal does make good storytelling.
The cast, the crew, the sets, the effects and every moment to the end shows you why Spielberg is the legend he is.
Cruise & Spielberg's first collaboration, Minority Report (2002) is a winner you should check out too.
I always wondered how the son managed to survive, after stupidly running off, and ignoring any warnings.
Or how the Camcorder was still working during the first attack and how changing the solenoid managed to fix the battery in the Van. I could've overlooked those two things and just assumed the batteries still had juice, if they hadn't shown that his watch had stopped.
Or how an alien race capable of space travel, lightning transport, long term planning, instant disintegration face stable tripod vehicles- some how didn’t plan for bacteria or know about it
The sounds of the tripod legs moving......were SO....on point with what was in my head when I read the book as a child.
My Dad is not the greatest sci-fi fan. His verdict on this film was "I liked the twist ending!"
I pointed out that the ending was basically the same as HG Wells wrote it originally. His reply was; "No, I meant when that little **** actually did what she was told for once!"
Love ya, Dad.
The War of the Worlds was originally broadcast in 1938 as a radio show on CBS radio. It stared Orson Welles. During the broadcast listeners thought that we were actually being invaded by Mars.
0:02 Mark! "Jen Murray" = "JM" = "Gem"! You're like a precious gem! But anyway, those cranes were there to be compared and contrasted with the Tripods! A visual element that is missing from all other versions!
Now that you've seen this version, you're ready for the older ones and the novel and the comics. Plus you're ready for the "Scary Movie" version of this movie! The Tripods are walking "iPods" and they zap away clothing! Now that's scary! 😁
It took me several viewings to get beyond being annoyed by Dakota Fanning's character. 😒 It helped that I saw the first season of "The Alienist" before the last time I saw this movie. 😅 😁 I like her other characters so much more. But the part that annoyed me was that her helplessness required at least one of the males in her life to care for her at all times, and she wasn't quiet about it! I had to accept that this is about the family and how such a family would react. The other versions got me used to Society reacting and fighting back, especially the 1950s version! By the way, that movie has a sequel television series.
Actually, a really cool thing about the vinyl version of Jeff Wayne's War Of The World musical is that it comes with a booklet featuring several pages of awesome artwork. And the pages are about the same size as the album cover so that you can really appreciate the illustrations immensely.
Independence Day is kind of a retelling of War of the Worlds, yes (they even defeated the aliens with a "virus" remember?)
Yes, check out the 1953 movie. Your reactions as usual were outstanding, Your comments were constant. The way you kept saying don't let her go, stop, keep running, save her. In the real world were you in management or maybe you are a school teacher of young kids. You are very good at giving commands. Give the book a try but remember it was written in the mid 1890's so things and HG Wells imagination were a lot different than now.
War of the Worlds was broadcast on radio on Oct. 30, 1938. It was directed and narrated by Orson Welles. Some listeners thought a real Martian invasion was actually happening!
Bayonne, New Jersey. Meaning he works at the New York freight terminal in Bayonne, just across from NYC. An extremely busy and important port for east coast shipping to all of Europe, Africa, Middle East, South America, Canada, and anything else on the Atlantic.
The crane operators at busy freight ports are one of the most crucial jobs in the business. The speed that they can operate determines the rate the entire port can get cargo to the rest of the country. They also have to work extremely fast and with high precision. They are paid generally well as heavy equipment operators go, but it’s not nearly enough if you look at the importance of the job and stress they endure.
Saw this at the cinema and left thinking "wow" - Tom cruise performance along with the camera work brings you right into the story, his performance as well as Dakota fanning is so underrated, - brilliant film
The couple you referred to as the In Laws were the main couple in the 1953 War Of The Worlds.
If you like reading, then this book is a must.
I've read it some 20 years ago, and while I don't remember specifics, I remember I thought it was one of the best books I read at the time.
I saw this film in the theater. It was a very good experience. This film is lowkey terrifying. War Of The Worlds, like Jurassic Park, is a horror film in disguise. Great reaction! 👍🏿
24:47 Mark! Funny disclaimer! 😁 Ahem. This movie came out after that movie. So imagine if you will, that the people in this movie saw that movie! (The people in this movie, though, by the way, shouldn't have access to the works of fiction written by HG. Just his non-fiction!) Now imagine that the people in "Independence Day" did have access to his novels and the movies based on them! 😮
It reminds me of seeing comic books and their related materials in a CBM based on them! So meta! 😮
The 1953 version is an absolute classic especially if you like older movies. The book is mainly quite different in that it has very different characters. You don’t have a family man as the central character if I recall correctly, but an interesting read.
I’ve read the book, and it’s very, very good. It’s really hard to remember it was written so long ago!
No spoilers, but there are a few differences that don’t affect the overall theme. Definitely check it out.
There have been many depictions of this story. Book: 1898; Radio show: 1938; Movie: 1953; and this movie. There is also a 1978 rock musical based on the story. The basic core of the story is always the same, but the technology has changed to keep up with real life.
Hey Jen, and electromagnetic pulse works in the same way as an induction stove. The magnets in the stovetop create a changing magnetic field via alternating current, in a similar way that a electric motor or generator moves a magnet inside a coil of wires to create motion or electricity. In the case of the induction stovetop the pot is the "wire" and the alternating magnetic field rather than generating motion generates heat inside the pot. Well an electromagnetic pulse is such a HUGE instantaneous magnetic field that it induces current in nearby wires, and that current is high enough that it melts and breaks the tiny wires used in integrated circuits. Because there are LOTS of tiny wires in a starter motor it's very easy for it to get damaged by a strong electromagnetic pulse. Usually what is required is for there to be long enough wires to induce a high enough voltage and current that your device is overwhelmed, but if you unplug your device, it's typical that the internal circuits aren't long enough to induce enough power to damage themselves. SO they say that if you unplug your computer it could survive. But that doesn't explain why his cell phone would be destroyed. Maybe he was close enough to the pulse that it still overwhelmed it's tiny circuits?
The little girl freaking out and screaming and constantly asking questions triggered me in ways i never knew existed!
A fast primer on one aspect of cars. The starter solenoid includes a bar of metal surrounded by loops of wire just outside of a cylinder in which the bar can slide. When DC current flows through the loops of wire, activated when the key is turned, an electromagnet is created. This magnet then attracts the bar upwards within the cylinder. When the bar of metal reaches the top of its slide, it closes a circuit that then powers up the starter. Releasing the key stops the DC flow, which stops the electromagnet, allowing the metal bar to fall back to its original position and stopping the starter from trying to start the car.
The older gentleman at the end in Boston was Gene Berry, he was the hero in the first "War of the Worlds" by George Pal...
Between Tim Robbins, Dakota Fleming, Tom Cruse, & Steven Spielberg - This had better acting, special effects, & directing than any alien science fiction movie ever made. It amazes me that NONE of the half dozen War of the Worlds reaction videos I've watched know about Orson Welles' performance of this on the radio in, I think, the '40s, wherein hundreds of thousands of Americans that tuned in a few minutes late were terrified because they didn't hear the explanation that this was a science fiction & not really happening.
I know about it. Just didn't talk about it in this video
I bet you would absolutely love Jeff Wayne's musical version.
What I love about this movie is Tom Cruise’s character embodies a father who really does love his kids and is very intelligent in a CREATIVE way…he solves problems creatively on the spot. That’s different from the way his wife is intelligent, and the kids don’t get that yet-- but I do.
Sherwood Sound Studio's faithful audio dramatisation is so much better and more accurate to H. G. Wells' vision. This film did get the fighting machines (tripods) almost perfect, including the foghorn sound but it didn't sound like the "Alloo" calls and "Ulla" dying sounds in the book.
As I understand, Orson Welles did a radio broadcast of the novel in the 1930s and incited panic among his listeners who thought a Martian invasion was really happening. 🤔
It wasn't intentional. What happened was that a lot of people didn't catch the very beginning of the Mercury Theater broadcast, where it started off reading the "No one would have believed....", and then it went into the "newscast" part. Since a lot of people missed the intro, and since there weren't a bunch of commercial breaks (there was like 1 intermission at the midpoint), people freaked out.
That was great! Thank you Jen!
🤣🤣🤣 suck it aliens! I need to write a screen play called that.
Definitely read the book.
32:45 Mark! Before I forget what I thought of during the bathroom break! Ahem. Tom Cruise is a pilot in Real Life! The crane cockpits probably appealed to him because of their similarities to aircraft cockpits! He probably really learned how to operate such a crane just for fun and the challenge of it!
He may be skilled labor in a union, but he is still an hourly wage employee who would not get paid as much as a career trained and educated professional who would have a better union! 😉
You should listen to the original Radio version from 1929 that caused a public panic, from future movie director Orson Welles.
You mean 1938. It was broadcast on 30 October, 1938. It scared a lot of people across the country who thought it was real. It was referenced in Spaced Invaders (1990)
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@@jarrodnewman0514 Thank you. Yes, I remember that people were antsy with all the war news on the radio. I guess I got it mixed up with Black Friday.
Great movie. In 1938 Orson Wells broadcast an adaption of this book as a live radio play (most people did not have TV) and people freaked out thinking it was a genuine news news story, due to the way the show was being performed. Made headlines in the news the next day.
Haven’t finished the video yet, but I love that “music by John Williams” shirt!
Oh the sliver analogy is like earth and the aliens, I missed that before.... "When it's ready, my body will push it out."
Te 'in-laws' were played by the stars of the previous 'War of the Worlds' movie from the 50's - Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
War of the Worlds by H.G.Wells is literally the very first Alien Invasion story ever written.
Originally the Invaders come from Mars and arrive in capsules shot out of a great canon on the red planet. They arrive in the late 1890s (the book was written in 1898) and they target Britain. The story is meant to be an analogy to British colonialism, basically a "Have a taste of it yourself". Kinda like what it must have been for a tribe being confronted with British soldiers carrying guns and even the first machineguns.
After landing the Martians assemble their tripod fighting machines and use their heat ray and a black poison gas to wipe out the army and some towns while moving towards London.
If you want an adaptation that's actually really close to the original I HIGHLY suggest Jeff Wayne's Musical version of War of the Worlds. :) The original album came out in the 70s (or early 80s) and now there exists a live version that also features it's own animations and filmed scenes to tell the story. Good stuff! ua-cam.com/video/5F-HhphI6f8/v-deo.html
In the book, the tripods attack a ferry taking people to (relative) safety, but a Royal Navy ship, the HMS Thunderchild, puts itself between the ferry and the tripods and destroys a tripod before being sunk. It did buy enough time for the ferry to get away, though. A great scene in the book, and one that's not been put into any movie.