War Of The Worlds (2005) REACTION 

Fun fact: The grandparents at the end are actually the main characters from the original ‘War Of The Worlds’

The Tripod horn will forever be haunting

This is one of those movies where the sound design makes it stand out

The original "Independence day" has formidable aliens, but the movie still has hope and there are jokes. In "War of the worlds" there are no jokes, it's saturated with dread and utter hopelessness. Truly one of a kind.

The book War of the Worlds was written in 1898 by H.G. Wells. Its premise was if we were ever invaded by creatures from another planet they would be killed by bacteria, microbes and viruses that we grew an immunity to. Through our evolution.

This had 3 oscar nominations, for sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects.

the two actors who play the grandparents at the end of the movie are the two leading actors in the original war of the world movie back in the 1950`s

How this movie was PG13 still surprises me. I watched it at 13 in a movie theater and it scared the shit out of me.

This movie is based on a novel written by H.G. Wells in 1897, I read it as a child. There is also an audiobook with songs by established musicians, some pretty good songs there. There is also a movie about a panic in the United States in 1938 caused by a radio theater adaptation of this story.

I remember when my dad took me and my brother to see this at the movies. I was turning 13 that year and my brother 14. After the movie ended I suggested that we should prepare in case this ever happens for real.

I honestly like this Steven Spielberg movie. Wonder if Spielberg and Cruise will ever work together again

1930,s Orson Welles read The War of the world's on the radio in N.Y,people believed that it was a real invasion caused quite a panic.

FYI this movie is based off a book by H.G. Wells that was made into a radio theater production in 1938 that cause mass panic. Some tuning into the broadcast late thought they were listening to a news broadcast, not a radio theater show. As a result there was panic after those who miss took it for a news broadcast started sharing these false reports with friends, family and neighbors.

The people didnt bury the ships the aliens buried them millions of years ago waiting for the right time to strike

This movie especially the vaporization ray scared the living hell out of me when I was kid

I seen War Of The Worlds so many times it was such a good movie 💯

Note on the Red Weed. It's in the book, though the suggestion in the novel is that it's an invasive species that the Martians accidentally brought with them. In this version the suggestion is that the Aliens are using it as an attempt to teraform Earth to make it more like their own world.

My Little Deuce Coupe was a Beach Boys song from 1963 about drag racing. When Rachel asked him to sing her a lullaby, that was the best he could come up with. Sadly funny.

I know some other people mentioned this but there was a legit panic and some suicide after the story was portrayed over the radio in the 30’s. People that tuned in after the initial ‘we’re reading from xxx’ part thought it was real.

I like this movie because the hero is a working class (blue collar) guy, he lives in a tiny house with tiny gardens, you rarely see that in US movies - the protagonist in every US movie always lives in a house with 6 bedrooms (all with en-suites), where it can take you a good 45 seconds to walk from your room to the kitchen. In a typical house you can get to the kitchen in about 6 seconds, 3 if you jump over the bannister above the stairs.

That plane should still be at universal it was cool getting to see the whole scene i hope its still there

The giant three legged things are machines these aliens use to invade earth,they appear both mechanical and biological at the same time, in this movie there are actually three classes of machine, the first one that appear is a "fighter" they don't have cages under their hood but are equipped with a dual heat ray, the second one that appear in the ferry scene the one that sank the ferry is an "Uber-Pod" they are biggest and has five headlights they are equipped with tentacles and cages as well as a pair of heat rays they also appear in the battle on the hill scene, in the ferry scene were you saw two tripods capturing people and the one that took Rachel in the abduction scene is a "harvester" they are smaller and lacks the heat ray but is equipped with a tentacle with a camera in the tip and a cage, In the scene were you two though that the machines are searching the houses, they are actually preparing the planet for terraforming, the harvesters capture people for their blood and use it to fertilize the red weed, Wich are the plant like life form from their home world, thus they are terraforming the planet to make it like their own, in the end the bacteria are the one that finished off the invaders, the invaders are not able to resist the microscopic organisms that our body can co-exist with for there no bacteria from were they came from

One of the best cinematic experiences ever for me

Dakota Fanning is such an amazing actress even from a very young age. She was also great in the 2002 mini series 'Taken' which is also a sci-fi.

Director : Let's use CGI Tom : I am CGI ( Cruise Going Insane)

@The Homies This is a explanation about the heat rays in this version. Steven Spielberg's 2005 movie, the heat-ray was a blueish-white arc of light that turns its victim into dust and leaves their clothes intact yet destroys and burns everything else like typical laser weaponry heat-ray associated with. The reason of this is the heat-ray appears to be a high energy coherent emission of microwaves not unlike Maser that causes the water in the human body to superheat into very high temperature steam, which then causes the victim to explode into ash as it instantly expands. The emitters are portrayed by two crescent shaped "arms" on the tripod's head.

Humans did not bury their ships, they buried their own ships a million years before humans existed.

You should check out the original film from the 50s after this. It is so good.

"Pretty good effects for it's time." 😂 The original film was released in 1953. It had ground-breaking special effects and sound design. This was a really good remake, following the original plot pretty closely.

So when this originally aired as a radio show, people thought it was a real alien invasion causing some of them to commit suicide.

this remake follows the book more closely then the original. but my favorite one is The War of the Worlds (1953)

Omg, I've been hoping for this. This movie doesn't get enough reactions online.

You two should definitely check out Tom Cruise in the *Mission: Impossible* series!

I'll be honest, I've had a lot of nightmares since I discovered this movie when I was little

“We’re more dangerous than the aliens” spot on comment!

I know you guys have seen "Shawshank Redemption" and was wondering if you recognized Tim Robbins (Guy in basement) from that movie..He looked a lot different here.

"The War of the Worlds" and "The Mist" are two of my favorite old fiction films

4:06 "I can't believe all those people are just watching...." Lia, you should see what we do in Kansas when the tornado sirens go off lol. This movie is actually based on an old book. In the 1930s, someone caused a mass panic broadcasting the story as bits of actual news during a Halloween radio show lol.

Pretty dark when he comes home and the kids are asking what he’s covered in and you know it’s human ashes caked all over him

I've noticed that Spielberg's more serious/realistic movies are usually rated R (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, The Color Purple), while his sci-fi/fantasy-type stuff is usually PG-13 (Jurassic Park, The Lost World, A.I., This one).

Tom plays the role of a 'terrible' Dad. Who learns to become a responsible dad as a result of the events around them. It's a nice transition.

Underrated Steven Spielberg movie. We had to read the radio play version of this in school when I was a kid.

In every scary situation especially apocalyptic the scariest thing is human nature

The beautiful thing about the story is that Earthlings in fact defeated the aliens. Only, it wasn't humans. But Earthlings still.

Please check out the history of H.G. Wells and his classic story, The War of The Worlds. One of the the very first stories of Martians attacking!

Theres a few things you should know about this movie ladies 1: its based of the book written by H.G. Wells 2: the people did not bury the tripods, the aliens did, millions of years in the past 3: the red weed is the blood vessels of the dead people. The aliens mission was to eat/drink as much of the human blood as possible to insure their species survival, but our blood is like poison to them considering the viruses that can be transmitted 4: the aliens were in capsules during every lightening storm being transported into the tripods

Ladies, the alien ships were inspiration for the walking tanks in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Speaking of which, Viki, you and Laura are the only two Homies who have NOT seen Star Wars. I suggest you watch them with Magy. She’s seen the films, as well as most of the TV shows.

After encounters of the third kind and ET the extraterrestrial, Steven Spielberg finished his aliens trilogy in a 180 degrees turn….this time the what if…was that the aliens weren’t friendly but the opposite and he went all in, super dark stuff the ship scene where it looks that they are farming humans, the ones that get away get blasted immediately and then the empty clothes raining….holy shit

When the original aired on the radio, I guess some people panicked but my grandparents said that they didn't know one single person who freaked out. They told me everyone in their town understood it was just a story, and when the newspaper articles came out talking about how people thought it was real, they joked with their friends about how dumb people in other towns were. So basically, this story has been sensationalized literally since it happened way back then. 😂

so few people realize the grandparents were the main actor and actress in original 1950s war of the world

So in the original book from 1898 the Martians came in these big canisters. They were kinda like squids, just a big brainy head, a stretched out flat part in the back as it's ear, 2 huge black lid less eyes, no nose, and a v shaped mouth and hooked lip. There was no chest, just a few chin tentacles for grabbing and a couple leg tentacles for movement. The Martians didn't eat food, they had no stomach. Instead they fed on blood directly. They would siphon blood and inject it into themselves letting the nutrients from the food we digested feed them. The movie skips this and seems to use blood as fertilizer for the weed as terraforming

I swear I was driving the other day on the highway and this truck driver blared his horn with that tripod horn pattern.........that extraterrestrial bastard 😵

Another movie, I rewatched just recently is "Greenland" it is also an apocalyptic movie and very similar to "War of the Worlds" yet not too much of a copy. Just a little recommendation. :)

You should see the original version of the movie as well. Other ORIGINAL versions of sci-fi classics I recommend reacting to are The Day the Earth Stood Still and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

For a change of pace, check out other alien movies from Spielberg, like Close Encounters of The Third Kind and E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. 👽🛸

The town with the boat and the train is Athens, NY. I have family that live in that town, and my aunt and cousin actually got caught in the making of this movie

I'm not sure why, the first time I saw the movie, I was a maniac. I still am. But when the people would get vaporized, I would cackle. for some reason, in my mind, I still do.

One of the greatest Alien film ever made. Steven speilberg is magician.

It's like 2020 without the Aliens.

This movie use to give me nightmares growing up.

Ok I'ma be the one to say it. Hummus is amazing in every variety (roasted pepper or pine nut especially) with flour tortilla chips also a hack for a poor mans Reuben since this begins in the greater new York area. Sliced corned beef, tart hummus (Kirkland works great) and toasted bread and light amounts of mustard mimics the sourkraut, bomb

Love this film. Late-career Spielberg is underrated.

26:14 Of all the moments in the movie, I'm very surprised the daughter didn't scream at this part.

I feel like Manny had the most merciful death. He didn't see it coming.

17:15 All aboard the Inferno Express. Destination: Hell!

Awesome movie 10/10

Your so grumpy 😂😂that shit had me weak

There was a double CD album put out in the 70s of the music and giving the story line done by top singers and musos which I still have,absolutely awesome to hear,esp' if you wind up the volume a bit on a decent stereo.Great reaction Ladies,Love the Homies channel.

Spielberg is the best filmmaker of the history, thanks girls for the reaction!

It's a horror movie imo, amazing creature design and sound design

This is a genuinely frightening and at times very creepy movie.

In fact, if that were to happen. Then humanity does not have a single chance, aliens would be much smarter and more cruel in this case. People think too much about themselves, as a species, in the face of an alien invasion, we have nothing with which we can answer, an advanced civilization, and this is not pessimism, but reality, such is life.

I like this movie! Keep going! I would love to see you reacting to thriller movies like "Fresh" (2022) or "the Perfume: story of a murderer" (2006) they're really great!

H. G. wells was an amazing writer

Scarier than most horrors

Best movie bro I’m glad people are still watching this movie

I mean when it's the end times I'm sure this is what it will be like fighting over vehicles, mass panic, and everything is just bad all around. Honestly the son was literally dead weight all he wanted to do was fight his dad because he had some sort of a problem with him.

The fact that this story fck up people minds back in the 1898 is incredible

This is a remake, bacteria killed the aliens in the original too

good stuff eh ? I actually prefer the original 1950 type SciFi be it this, the thing etc. best King Kong is still the 1933 ( I think) version with Fay Wray.

Passenger train races by in flames, fire bursting out of every window, the sides, the roof..... Miss Einstein on the left: " This is not a good sign." D.....U.....H. 🙄😮‍💨😑

29:27 that’s what war looks like.

Now you gotta watch The day the Earth stood still with Keanu Reeves

The question for me was which character I detested the most. And so who I wanted to die the most painful and grisly death. And the movie has a sad ending that they live.

War of the worlds is the scariest alien invasion bc of the tripods horn

I remember seeing this in the movies.

Try the 1953 version (my favorite;) Oscar for special effects 🎉. The worst part of the 2005 version is basement scene (I think it stops the movie) and the boy is alive at the end (ya, right 😅)

I love the start of this movie, great until the middle. The middle bit I wasnt into however I did love how the humans won. It made sense to me. However if we know this as a race that we'd need protection going to another planet. An alien civilisation who can travel pretty easily through space should also know this. So thats the downside to the ending.

Always makes me think of birds differently.

I’ve been waiting for an event like this for such a long time I think I’m insane.

The train on fire was utterly surreal in the theater.

All the aliens were connected so when he blew the one up he got all of them.

Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is separated from his wife because he's a self-centered jerk! Tom Cruise playing a jerk?! Oh My! 😆

Fun fact: The Tripods needed a specific type of human blood to create those red plants, which is why some were captured and others were pulverized. This means that Ray survived the first Tripod attack only because he had the right type of blood (In fact, both he and his daughter were captured despite Ray throwing a grenade at them.)

A pity you didn't react to the original version which was far superior.

Cloverfield and Cloverfield Lane....Bless the birds

One of my all time favorite movies

I can't take my eyes off Vikki Drop dead gorgeous ❤

The original radio story War of the Worlds was one of the earliest great pranks of the 20th century. The chaos that it caused was unreal. Had everyone shitting their pants.

HA! i was just wondering if anyone was reacting to this movie. was awesome to work on so many years ago. some background, when adapting the old book, the idea was the aliens were desperate, and needed a place asap, they had seed places with machine when they were a powerhouse ages ago. now they need a place to live and we are in the way. a lot of the first half of the movie i very "civilians escaping a foreign invasion" vibe for that reason,. esp. eastern Europe during ww2 was also the first time a movie had real m1 Abrams in it, not just other tanks dressed up as them. steven got upset halfway through making this movie, around the cage scenes, because he didn't like making a more horror like movie. a lot of the ideas were taken from his original idea for ET, a much darker, scarier story. we had sooooo much more tripod footage that isn't seen because of this. wish there was a way to have an extended cut. really went into the different tripods in the movie (there are 3 types, some have 4 eyes like seen on top of the hill when Robby "dies". harvester, and attack machines. the red weed was them terraforming, when the og book as written, we thought mars was red because our plants are green, those must be red. we took that idea, they couldn't terraform fast enough, and their plant life wasn't adapted to our planet. HG Well the book author believed disease the common cold something we shouldn't look at as to be destroyed, but a monument that years of evolution and immunity is our triumph. and protects us form any Xeno invader better than any weapon ever could.