You can't beat the original war of the world's the updated versions are lacking reality as its known that some day we will and have been visited by aliens
The best part of this movie is the building tension they impart slowly, gradually, until the preacher walks out to confront them. Then when he is killed the tension is broken by the quick edits of the military response. It elicits an emotional response of revenge when peaceful people have made attempts to meet the Martians and they respond with death.
Such a great 1950s SciFi ever made. Ahead of its time superb effects the slow moving Manta craft over the surface of the ground is just amazing. The combination of live action and miniatures was a pretty smooth transition from one to the other. It is a top movie today. Extremely excellent.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
There's nothing like seeing these old movies on a big screen in a theater. I was lucky enough to see "Godzilla", " Forbidden Planet", "Kronos", and "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" in a theater. Never got to see WOTW though. My DVD is from a 35mm print.
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.
Steve S's version of movie with heavy weapons buried in the ground is beyond stupid. PS Wells wrote a dumb ending, ET ain't thatfool hardy not to know bacteria or viruses.😢
I'VE GOT THIS FILM ON DVD AND GENE BARRY IS IN THIS FILM AND THE MASIONS LANDED ON THE EARTH AND AND A BALL OF FIRE LANDED AND IT UNSCREWED AND A METAL ARM CAME OUT OF THE BALL OF FIRE AND THEN IT HAD A HEAT RAY CAME OUT OF THE FLYING SAUSER AND IT KILLED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO AND IT DESTROYED HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS AROUND THE WORLD AND AT THE END OF THIS FILM BACTIRIA MILLED THE MARSIANS AND GENE BARRY WAS A GREAT ACTOR IN THIS FILM AND I'VE GOT THIS FILM ON DVD AND it's A GREAT SCIENCE FICTION ONE 😁
Still the best version of this story.The effects are great.The sound of the Martian machines is so unique and this version is the only one where the main Character,the scientist,Dr Forrester, actually has a part in defeating them.Just an amazing movie.The most recent BBC version did have incredibly creepy Martians in it though, who we see alot more of than this movie.
The most spectacular battle ever fought on a 1953 screen man fighting against an Alien threat. That would have been a hell of a site back then. Amazing SciFi technology. I watched this in the mid 1970s as a kid. Can't remember but I was probably staring at the B/W TV mouth open maybe. Who knows. Great stuff.👍
I was born in 1946 and saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. I was terrified and deeply disturbed by it. My parents shoul not have let me see it!
Tacky and infantile, like most of the great scifi movies. We just loved things that go boom. I hope the reboot with Cruz had a tiny bit more resemblance to the book, which actually had some depth to it.
i watched the remake with tom cruise and i yelled at the screen for someone to punch the son's character lights out because he was just annoying and to choke dakota fanning's character so she would stop screaming every 5 minutes...the original was 100 times better even in black and white...
Negative g's should be avoided in a gyro, especially in a Bensen where there is no horizontal tail for stabilizing the oscillations around the lateral axis and the engine thrust line is higher than the center of gravity. Many pilots were killed that way.
