I remember seeing this movie for the first and only time in the mid 70's b4 Star Wars came out when I was just a kid..While I knew it was old even back then'..was still mesmerised by the special effects of the movie!
This is probably on my Top 5 movies ever. Saw this as a kid in the mid-60's and still watch it today every now and then. Even got my kids to watch it and they admit that it's pretty dang good. Being a born-and raised-in [Los] Angeleno and growing up less than 6 miles from downtown LA, it's funny to hear them refer to areas I know well; Puente Hills, Corona, and in the 1950's, those areas looked exactly as depicted here. Open fields and grazing land for cows even as recent as the 1980's. Now, it's highly-densified suburbia with endless cookie-cutter home tracts and very little open space.
At 2:15 Dr Forrester (Gene Barry) speculates that the death ray "neutralizes mesons somehow causing matter to cease to exist" . This movie was made in 1953. Meson theory was very new then. It is amazing that this small piece of dialog mentions this detail. The writers were sure doing their homework!
He was describing a *literal* disintegrator beam - a beam that caused matter lose integrity and to fly apart at the subatomic level. That's pretty much how the disintegration torpedoes the tripods were firing worked. A level of destructive power that made the atom bomb look like a children's popgun - Forrester knew how horribly they were outgunned.
@@dadduorp Thank you! Upon re reading the comment, I notice the line was: "neutralizes" mesons., not 'break' the meson force. That is also a good detail. If the sub atomic bonds binding the nucleus of the atoms was just broken, there would be a heck of a lot of energy released.....think atomic bomb! Good writing!
I love this movie. Have since i was a kid. Beautifully rendered, acted to perfection. No cgi just inventive practical effects. One of my all time favorites.
This movie was so far ahead of its time. The science behind these scenes is amazing. Electronic force fields. Light amplified plasma weapons. This was 1953. Hard to believe anyone had thought of half these type of things back then.
The opening scenes were particularly chilling. The tripods took fire for a good 55 seconds and did *nothing* in response - or so it seems. The sensor arms were quietly marking and locking on to targets all over the battlefield. Then when they finally open fire, they *do not miss*. Every shot is an instantly fatal hit. They waste no effort. ( The priest had a serious martyr complex. That, or he forgot the old adage, "You can cite scripture to a wasp all you want, but in the end you're still gonna get stung." )
A few shots before this scene, the priest said that before the shooting started, SOMEONE had to go out and try to talk with them. He was willing to put his life in grave danger to see if he could communicate.
The fantastic thing about this movie is how revered and respected people of science were. Military people, politicians, they all deferred to people of Intelligence. Imagine that today. It's almost unthinkable.
The sound effects of the Martians haunted me as a child. I remember having repeat nightmares of its periscope thing somewhere outside my window with that weird clicky sound.
The technological superiority of the Martians machines Vanquished the. 1950s something army,.. best scene in the movie outside of the Flying Wing Atomic bomb scene.
That exact moment 4:35 haunts me to this very day. You're in a civilian plane about to crash land and in the corner of your eye you see TWO MARTIAN WAR MACHINES
I always wondered if the Martians forcefields were completely circular or they were cup shaped that they stopped at ground level, if so it might be possible to put explosives in the ground and detonated them when one of the Martian ship’s went over them, to see if had a “soft underbelly’’.
@ianhirst1148 which is funny because the basement scene was in the book (albeit with a priest if I remember correctly.) That's how bad Spielberg screwed it up.
@@rprince418I don't think he did. People should stop overromantizing the og version. Spielberg did a fine job. He just doesn't like to copy entire things, because he's a more creative style director.
Thank you so much for the kind words, Michael. I'd be happy to give you some additional information about this post if you are interested. I'm at jstoskop@gmail.com
Wow ,great looking picture, clean and clear. The sound is great, just how my mind remembered this when I first saw it as a kid on our color tv console back in the late 60's. I've watched it many times across the years. Seeing this now has me looking online for a remastered or clean digital version to have in my collection. Thanks for taking the time to do this and upload. This scene still gives me the goose bumps. To bad the Spielberg "05" version had that actor in it. Anyone but him would have been better..but I digress. Thumbs up.
Ha ha!! I understand! I've not ever been a fan, but I did give him a little bit of a break on this one, but like I say, I'm with ya'. He's never been a favorite of mine. Hey, send me an email if you are interested in more about this movie. I did sync up the entire film with this soundtrack and I'm happy to say, I think it turned out very well. My email is jstoskop@gmail.com if you are interested.
War of the Worlds was released in 1953 with an actual 3-channel stereo soundtrack. I have a photo of the New York premiere clearly showing the marquis with "Stereophonic Sound" advertised. The 2005 DVD release purports to have this original soundtrack mixed down to 2 channel stereo. I have this disc, and it sounds genuine. More recently (2005) a fully restored Technicolor Blu-ray version appeared. This "Criterion Collection" edition achieved its goal of recreating the gorgeous color of the original print and restoring the film grain structure that made the wires invisible. Strangely, it features a loud, manufactured multi-channel surround sound track, courtesy of sound specialist Ben Burtt. This did not work for me! It is way too bombastic and gimmicky - a real distraction. Fortunately the disc has a excellent uncompressed mono soundtrack. If you love this movie, just get this terrific looking Blu-ray.
@@thepsychicspoon5984 War of the Worlds was not only a triumph of great effects, but a triumph of great design as well. Everything is designed imaginatively, and for the time, it was super "futuristic." Even the sound editing is almost unparalleled.
when i first heard jeff wayne cd war of the worlds as a kid then i watched this film i was so disappointed that it wasn't what i imagine how the film would be. Then years and years later we had tom cruise version and disappointed again and now in 2019 we have the bbc version of the film and that's what i had vision of how it should have been but lets hope it will be a good one this time round
Mario, if you would like to download the entire movie with the stereo special effects, here is the linkL. www.mediafire.com/download/8r6amnul4xru6ba/TheWarOfTheWorlds720pHDStereo.mp4
This movie is the inverse of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Where that movie condemned mankind’s paranoia and violent tendencies towards things they don’t understand, this one justifies them by making the Martians heartless killing machines (while at the same time, of course, illustrating the futility of said paranoia and violence)
...but the one thing the DVD doesn't have is the Stereo special effects soundtrack found only on the LD. I don't know why they haven't released it in HD with that track. You can download it in HD from Amazon, however, but again no stereo track.
The only Godzilla movie that matches the scope of this movie is 1954's "Gogira",second would be 1956's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters". There is nothing more terrifying for the petty human mind to grasp,that with all our imagined superiority over the world and all that we deem beneath us, from the mysterious, depths of the oceans,or from the far flung darkness of outer space,can come unimaginable, unstoppable beasts consumed with primeval fury,AWAKENED and MUTATED by man's foolish misuse of nuclear power, or beings whose grasp of knowledge technology and DESTRUCTION,render all mankind helpless and at THEIR mercy.
Minuto 5:02 Jajajajaja dijo uno que estaba mirando la peli: "Mirá, mirá como el Dr. le dio una vacuna a la liebre, ahhhhhhh!!!, jajaja". Siempre hay un mal pensado :)
I love this film and the story, I've just been listening to Jeff Wayne's version again. I know the BBC did a remake last year but when will they just make a version just like the original book.
Esse filme dos anos 50, e melhor do que o produzido nos anos 2000. São dois ótimos filmes, o Terra versus discos voadores (1953) e esse A guerra dos mundos (1953). Dirceu Rodrigues. SÃO JOÃO CLÍMACO/SÃO PAULO/S.P. BRASIL.
I realize that we don't (yet) have a command of magnetic force, that would enable warships to "float" without any solid support; but the overall design of the Martian warships has always struck me as elegantly practical. I wonder if anyone has ever used the production designs from this film when designing actual weapons of war.
The brief moment where the officer is "skeletized" required a very impressive number of individual dissolves. I'm no technician, so hope that's correct term. A lot of intensive work for a moment that lasts mere seconds. This, "The Thing" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are among my all time favorite sci-fi films. Admittedly, The Thing is more a horror movie, which was very innovative because producers wanting to do elaborate sci-fi films but didn't have the money, could focus on the horrible aliens (the "monsters") and just use sci-fi themes as a more peripheral background.
Even on youtube trying to have fun watching old movies we have to see anti asian racists like you making idiotic comments. Yeah, America, the most dangerous country in the world, 600,000 dead from Covid because of an insane President, from a disease that no one actually knows where it originally came from, that is the place where the martians died. The moral disease of America is far more deadly and incurable than any microbe could ever be. The stupidemic.
It's an easy low-tech sound effect as well -- striking a high tension line with a hammer. Ben Burt used the same sort of thing when creating the blaster effects for Star Wars: tapping a high-tension line with a metal rod. He went a little further, usually taking two different sound effects and laying them together the make a more complex sound.
Incredible movie!!! Also, interestingly, the 1953 version of War of the Worlds is the only sci-fi movie where the Biblical God is the literal hero of the movie, not man. Think about it, there is not one thing/weapon/idea that the human characters in the film tried, that actually worked to any degree of success. Nor is there an actual human hero in the movie, neither male nor female. It's only at the very end, when all was almost lost, when people finally turned to God that they "won"! Not by doing anything themselves, but by waiting on God. That message is essentially a Biblical message, and completely antithetical to almost all of the output of every movie industry, whether in the West or in the East. I can not think of one other sci-fi movie where man is not the ultimate hero over every kind of challenge/adversity/opposing idea and calamitous event in this universe that you can use or imagine (i.e. both real and imaginary). In every single sci-fi movie it is man, and his strength (physical or psychic) and his superior (godlike) intelligence that win the day. Every. Single. Time. But this movie, ironically, coming out just 7 years after WW2, which severely killed both the morale and the morals of humanity, taught in the midst of one of atheists' most beloved genres, where humanism flourishes as the supreme god, that YHWH is king of the universe, and that He is the true God, and that the true God is good and trustworthy, and that He is the ultimate power in the universe. This movie, in freaking 1953, shamed the idea that aliens are more relevant or more powerful than God! Before the modern New Age Movement, before the UFO craze, before the technology of the 20th century truly kicked into high gear, before Marxism infested the West, even if the movie gave the aliens a very high level of advanced technology, far ahead of even the latest contemporary technology of nuclear power, this movie, based on a book written in the 19th century, made a firm statement that God is the One to whom man must turn, even in the midst of all of the vain riches of material abundance, technology and scientific knowledge. Now that is a unique, powerful and eternal message.
Still haven't heard, myself, if that will happen. They have restored the film and it's now even available for downloading in 4K....of which I have a copy but still not the equipment to watch in on!
It reminded me of the scene in the classic Star Trek episode where a recreation of Surak of Vulcan tried to be a peacemaker with Colonel Green and the corrupted version of Kayless. It didn't really end well for him either, but the point was as people of peace both Surak and the priest had to try based on their respective principles.
All these years later and it still holds up.
Even 65 years later, this is STILL THE BEST version.
GREAT SFX for 1953.
And sound effect design so timeless they were reused on Star Trek (the meson ray weapons = photon torpedoes, the war machine floating sound = phasers)
Yes Yes Yes! Agreed
I agree 100% and The Day The Earth Stood Still, no remake can be better.
one of my favorite movies as a kid growing up.
I remember seeing this movie for the first and only time in the mid 70's b4 Star Wars came out when I was just a kid..While I knew it was old even back then'..was still mesmerised by the special effects of the movie!
This is probably on my Top 5 movies ever. Saw this as a kid in the mid-60's and still watch it today every now and then. Even got my kids to watch it and they admit that it's pretty dang good.
Being a born-and raised-in [Los] Angeleno and growing up less than 6 miles from downtown LA, it's funny to hear them refer to areas I know well; Puente Hills, Corona, and in the 1950's, those areas looked exactly as depicted here. Open fields and grazing land for cows even as recent as the 1980's. Now, it's highly-densified suburbia with endless cookie-cutter home tracts and very little open space.
MCAS El Toro
What a great movie
At 2:15 Dr Forrester (Gene Barry) speculates that the death ray "neutralizes mesons somehow causing matter to cease to exist" . This movie was made in 1953. Meson theory was very new then. It is amazing that this small piece of dialog mentions this detail. The writers were sure doing their homework!
Yeah unlike today
He was describing a *literal* disintegrator beam - a beam that caused matter lose integrity and to fly apart at the subatomic level. That's pretty much how the disintegration torpedoes the tripods were firing worked. A level of destructive power that made the atom bomb look like a children's popgun - Forrester knew how horribly they were outgunned.
Obviously not Star Trek writers, they never once attempted to reverse the polarity ! :-)
Thank you! I could never make out what exactly he says there.
@@dadduorp Thank you! Upon re reading the comment, I notice the line was: "neutralizes" mesons., not 'break' the meson force. That is also a good detail. If the sub atomic bonds binding the nucleus of the atoms was just broken, there would be a heck of a lot of energy released.....think atomic bomb! Good writing!
Excellent sound effects
I love this movie. Have since i was a kid. Beautifully rendered, acted to perfection. No cgi just inventive practical effects. One of my all time favorites.
Yep, still holds up & will continue too do so regardless
This movie was so far ahead of its time. The science behind these scenes is amazing. Electronic force fields. Light amplified plasma weapons. This was 1953. Hard to believe anyone had thought of half these type of things back then.
The opening scenes were particularly chilling. The tripods took fire for a good 55 seconds and did *nothing* in response - or so it seems. The sensor arms were quietly marking and locking on to targets all over the battlefield. Then when they finally open fire, they *do not miss*. Every shot is an instantly fatal hit. They waste no effort.
( The priest had a serious martyr complex. That, or he forgot the old adage, "You can cite scripture to a wasp all you want, but in the end you're still gonna get stung." )
Archibald Mirenopteryx Intelligences far beyond our own 👌🏼
Archibald Mirenopteryx you mean Martian war machines not tripods
@@darkbubblepenguin9865 they were tripods, ported on three energy beams
When someone told that priest that the Martians were more advanced than us, he said that they must therefore be closer to God.
A few shots before this scene, the priest said that before the shooting started, SOMEONE had to go out and try to talk with them. He was willing to put his life in grave danger to see if he could communicate.
The fantastic thing about this movie is how revered and respected people of science were. Military people, politicians, they all deferred to people of Intelligence. Imagine that today. It's almost unthinkable.
For my money this is still the best depiction on live-action film of a modern military pitted against a superior technology.
The sound effects of the Martians haunted me as a child. I remember having repeat nightmares of its periscope thing somewhere outside my window with that weird clicky sound.
One of the best movies in the ‘50s.
I used to love watching this when I was a kid in the 1970s. There were so many sci-fi shows, mostly reruns and movies, on good old broadcast TV.
Me too! I begged my parents to let me stay up and watch it if it was on real late lol.
"Take my word for it general this kind of defense is useless against that kind of power"😂😂
It's just one best 50s film
One of my all time favorite movies. I was six years old when this came out.🛸
One down vote, that person needs a hug
that person had his mesons neutralized
War of the worlds, THEM, The Thing, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. Thank you 50s.
For the day this was so epic.
0:43 Looks like fourteen F86 Sabres and maybe a F84 Shooting Star.
Bruh, that's artillery. Perhaps you meant 3:43
@dogcitycanary Yes, that is what I had meant.
I've always loved the buildup to the alien machines unleashing their weapons on the military.
John Lang Yeah they just gloat in their immunity for a bit before firing
Starts slow. Remember the square dance when their watches all stopped.
My favorite movie of all time.
Verry good moovie. 1953!!
I can remember watching this movie in the Pocono Mountains back east and I had to walk home one whole Mile in the pitch-dark
0:19 When the machines start to make that sound, you are absolutely screwed.
The technological superiority of the Martians machines Vanquished the. 1950s something army,.. best scene in the movie outside of the Flying Wing Atomic bomb scene.
That exact moment 4:35 haunts me to this very day. You're in a civilian plane about to crash land and in the corner of your eye you see TWO MARTIAN WAR MACHINES
Poor Uncle Matthew!😭⛪
Great! The Martian Machines Have NO More Wires!
Great movie
My favorite sequence!
". Let ' em have it !! "
" Fire !! "
Plus the sound of those Death Rays.......genius ..!
That’s the sound of the Starship Enterprise photon torpedoes from Star Trek.
The sound effects are probably canned and passed around.
Bat Masterson vs the Martains
I always wondered if the Martians forcefields were completely circular or they were cup shaped that they stopped at ground level, if so it might be possible to put explosives in the ground and detonated them when one of the Martian ship’s went over them, to see if had a “soft underbelly’’.
Should be able to, in the early shots you can see the antigravity beams burning the ground which means the shields do not extend beneath.
Still better than cruise's version any day
I did like Cruises version though it lost momentum when he was underground with Tim Robbins.
@ianhirst1148 which is funny because the basement scene was in the book (albeit with a priest if I remember correctly.) That's how bad Spielberg screwed it up.
@@rprince418I don't think he did. People should stop overromantizing the og version. Spielberg did a fine job. He just doesn't like to copy entire things, because he's a more creative style director.
Same with the original The Day The Earth Stood Still
Nice. Wish a copy could be released. Thank you for the sample.
Thank you so much for the kind words, Michael. I'd be happy to give you some additional information about this post if you are interested. I'm at jstoskop@gmail.com
Wow ,great looking picture, clean and clear. The sound is great, just how my mind remembered this when I first saw it as a kid on our color tv console back in the late 60's. I've watched it many times across the years. Seeing this now has me looking online for a remastered or clean digital version to have in my collection. Thanks for taking the time to do this and upload. This scene still gives me the goose bumps. To bad the Spielberg "05" version had that actor in it. Anyone but him would have been better..but I digress. Thumbs up.
Ha ha!! I understand! I've not ever been a fan, but I did give him a little bit of a break on this one, but like I say, I'm with ya'. He's never been a favorite of mine. Hey, send me an email if you are interested in more about this movie. I did sync up the entire film with this soundtrack and I'm happy to say, I think it turned out very well. My email is jstoskop@gmail.com if you are interested.
This movie scared the shit out of me when i was 5
That green weapon gives a whole new meaning to the term "missing in action".
well John I just watched it and it sounds great
I'm loving the new restoration! I'll have to catch it in a theatre sometime, however. 🤗
Excellent.
3:36 HELL YEAH!!
great job
Thanks so much Gregory! Let me know if you want to see (and hear) the whole film in stereo!
Ultimate classic bad ass 😊😊
War of the Worlds was released in 1953 with an actual 3-channel stereo soundtrack. I have a photo of the New York premiere clearly showing the marquis with "Stereophonic Sound" advertised.
The 2005 DVD release purports to have this original soundtrack mixed down to 2 channel stereo. I have this disc, and it sounds genuine. More recently (2005) a fully restored Technicolor Blu-ray version appeared. This "Criterion Collection" edition achieved its goal of recreating the gorgeous color of the original print and restoring the film grain structure that made the wires invisible.
Strangely, it features a loud, manufactured multi-channel surround sound track, courtesy of sound specialist Ben Burtt. This did not work for me! It is way too bombastic and gimmicky - a real distraction. Fortunately the disc has a excellent uncompressed mono soundtrack. If you love this movie, just get this terrific looking Blu-ray.
feels like a scene from Roland Emmerich's Godzilla or any Godzilla film too.
Emmerich was certainly aiming for this.
@@ianwestc The fact that he tried to take 50 year old effects and failed says something.
@@thepsychicspoon5984 War of the Worlds was not only a triumph of great effects, but a triumph of great design as well. Everything is designed imaginatively, and for the time, it was super "futuristic." Even the sound editing is almost unparalleled.
when i first heard jeff wayne cd war of the worlds as a kid then i watched this film i was so disappointed that it wasn't what i imagine how the film would be. Then years and years later we had tom cruise version and disappointed again and now in 2019 we have the bbc version of the film and that's what i had vision of how it should have been but lets hope it will be a good one this time round
Hoooraaah! I enjoy this very much, thank you, cool stuff.
Mario, if you would like to download the entire movie with the stereo special effects, here is the linkL. www.mediafire.com/download/8r6amnul4xru6ba/TheWarOfTheWorlds720pHDStereo.mp4
This movie is the inverse of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Where that movie condemned mankind’s paranoia and violent tendencies towards things they don’t understand, this one justifies them by making the Martians heartless killing machines (while at the same time, of course, illustrating the futility of said paranoia and violence)
THE DVD IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE OLD LASERDISC AND A TON OF SPECIAL FEATURES WISH IT WAS ON BLURAY ALONG WITH THE THING FROM 1951.
...but the one thing the DVD doesn't have is the Stereo special effects soundtrack found only on the LD. I don't know why they haven't released it in HD with that track. You can download it in HD from Amazon, however, but again no stereo track.
@@JohnCStoskopf thanks for the info john
Holy cow, there's more! They've finally restored the film and you can download it from iTunes!!! I only just found out. It looks fantastic!
The only Godzilla movie that matches the scope of this movie is 1954's "Gogira",second would be 1956's "Godzilla, King of the Monsters". There is nothing more terrifying for the petty human mind to grasp,that with all our imagined superiority over the world and all that we deem beneath us, from the mysterious, depths of the oceans,or from the far flung darkness of outer space,can come unimaginable, unstoppable beasts consumed with primeval fury,AWAKENED and MUTATED by man's foolish misuse of nuclear power, or beings whose grasp of knowledge technology and DESTRUCTION,render all mankind helpless and at THEIR mercy.
Minuto 5:02 Jajajajaja dijo uno que estaba mirando la peli: "Mirá, mirá como el Dr. le dio una vacuna a la liebre, ahhhhhhh!!!, jajaja". Siempre hay un mal pensado :)
Yeah I love the movie the war of the worlds gene Barry and Ann Robinson
I love this film and the story, I've just been listening to Jeff Wayne's version again. I know the BBC did a remake last year but when will they just make a version just like the original book.
When that green beam hits the Soldiers , it sounds like they threw a steak on a hot frying pan ....I'm hungry ..!
The characters in the movie are constantly eating or talking about food as it is.
Esse filme dos anos 50, e melhor do que o produzido nos anos 2000. São dois ótimos filmes, o Terra versus discos voadores (1953) e esse A guerra dos mundos (1953). Dirceu Rodrigues. SÃO JOÃO CLÍMACO/SÃO PAULO/S.P. BRASIL.
I realize that we don't (yet) have a command of magnetic force, that would enable warships to "float" without any solid support; but the overall design of the Martian warships has always struck me as elegantly practical. I wonder if anyone has ever used the production designs from this film when designing actual weapons of war.
3:43 master close up to show the skeleton inside when the martian rays reach him!
The CD of the score has been released again. Beautiful -- but mono.
Does anyone know if a stereo score exists??
The brief moment where the officer is "skeletized" required a very impressive number of individual dissolves. I'm no technician, so hope that's correct term. A lot of intensive work for a moment that lasts mere seconds. This, "The Thing" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" are among my all time favorite sci-fi films. Admittedly, The Thing is more a horror movie, which was very innovative because producers wanting to do elaborate sci-fi films but didn't have the money, could focus on the horrible aliens (the "monsters") and just use sci-fi themes as a more peripheral background.
The Martians wouldn't have lasted 1 hour in Wuhan
Even on youtube trying to have fun watching old movies we have to see anti asian racists like you making idiotic comments. Yeah, America, the most dangerous country in the world, 600,000 dead from Covid because of an insane President, from a disease that no one actually knows where it originally came from, that is the place where the martians died. The moral disease of America is far more deadly and incurable than any microbe could ever be. The stupidemic.
@@outerrealm doesn’t change what he said
@@outerrealm you don’t understand jokes easily, do you?
So the stereo of the sound track sitll exist.
Hi John.....
Hi Estefan! I miss you. I'm about to unleash a "Free Estefan" Campaign. 🤫
Is it just me or does the Martian skeleton ray sound like Original star trek photon torpedoes when firing?
The Martian skeleton ray sound was used as the sound of TOS photon torpedoes when fired.
It's an easy low-tech sound effect as well -- striking a high tension line with a hammer. Ben Burt used the same sort of thing when creating the blaster effects for Star Wars: tapping a high-tension line with a metal rod. He went a little further, usually taking two different sound effects and laying them together the make a more complex sound.
The sound effect are awesome was laser attack sound like space video game and laser gun
Boy . . . them earthlings really get their asses kicked here, don't they (?)
Ahí están los protagonistas de que aparecen en el año 2005
Don't go to Mars you don't k ow what you find
Brilliant movie. However at 2:50 the soldier in the background purposely runs over to the fire to light himself up. LOL
"Aliens are blowing everything up! Screw this, I'm checking out!"
do you have another
I should have said, email me at jstoskop@gmail.com for more info.
Photon torpedo's. Gene Rodenberry used the sound effect from this movie in Star Trek.
Incredible movie!!! Also, interestingly, the 1953 version of War of the Worlds is the only sci-fi movie where the Biblical God is the literal hero of the movie, not man.
Think about it, there is not one thing/weapon/idea that the human characters in the film tried, that actually worked to any degree of success. Nor is there an actual human hero in the movie, neither male nor female.
It's only at the very end, when all was almost lost, when people finally turned to God that they "won"! Not by doing anything themselves, but by waiting on God. That message is essentially a Biblical message, and completely antithetical to almost all of the output of every movie industry, whether in the West or in the East.
I can not think of one other sci-fi movie where man is not the ultimate hero over every kind of challenge/adversity/opposing idea and calamitous event in this universe that you can use or imagine (i.e. both real and imaginary). In every single sci-fi movie it is man, and his strength (physical or psychic) and his superior (godlike) intelligence that win the day. Every. Single. Time.
But this movie, ironically, coming out just 7 years after WW2, which severely killed both the morale and the morals of humanity, taught in the midst of one of atheists' most beloved genres, where humanism flourishes as the supreme god, that YHWH is king of the universe, and that He is the true God, and that the true God is good and trustworthy, and that He is the ultimate power in the universe.
This movie, in freaking 1953, shamed the idea that aliens are more relevant or more powerful than God! Before the modern New Age Movement, before the UFO craze, before the technology of the 20th century truly kicked into high gear, before Marxism infested the West, even if the movie gave the aliens a very high level of advanced technology, far ahead of even the latest contemporary technology of nuclear power, this movie, based on a book written in the 19th century, made a firm statement that God is the One to whom man must turn, even in the midst of all of the vain riches of material abundance, technology and scientific knowledge.
Now that is a unique, powerful and eternal message.
When is this going to get a Bluray release?
Still haven't heard, myself, if that will happen. They have restored the film and it's now even available for downloading in 4K....of which I have a copy but still not the equipment to watch in on!
@@JohnCStoskopf July 7, 2020. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection: www.criterion.com/films/29942-the-war-of-the-worlds
@@Madbandit77 Thank you!!
@@JohnCStoskopf No problem.
JULY, baby!
Martians: "Aw Lawdy, he's got a Bible and he's quoting some holy shit. Abort mission! Retreat!"
It reminded me of the scene in the classic Star Trek episode where a recreation of Surak of Vulcan tried to be a peacemaker with Colonel Green and the corrupted version of Kayless. It didn't really end well for him either, but the point was as people of peace both Surak and the priest had to try based on their respective principles.
War of the worlds
Nine times out of 10 the original movie is still better than the remake
Should of kept it going. Pinnacle movie.
Incredible film 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Never! 🤡
This version is way way much better than Steven Spielbergs film that 1 is crap.
A classic forget the remake
great movie