I like how everyone was just standing there waiting to see what it would do. Yeah. As soon as the ground started shaking I would have been out of the country
@@AbysmalRandomn3ss yeee fr, esp in rural areas, imagine having to army crawl through acres of fields in order to not get spotted, only to probably get spotted anyways, fuck that lmao
I always like to picture the alien controlling this tripod getting frustrated trying to wiggle it out and thinking, “We brought these things here thousands of years ago and of course mine gets buried under this heavy- ass intersection!”
I always wonder how the tripods were never discovered by humans if they were here the whole time, how deep exactly were they supposed to be under the surface?
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor In the movie it is shown that aliens actually got into that machine with lightning strikes so no that machines run by alien themselves, not auto
@@ZenithalPoint yeah those tripods are "manned" by the aliens but probably those alien crews do other functions, maybe one of them is precisely starting that autopilot, manage the weapons and watch all systems in general.
Random fact: a friend of mine worked on this movie and brought back one of the jackets Tom Cruise wore on set. I gave it to my father in law in Hungary and watched him wearing it to do the gardening for years. He passed away in 2011 and we kept the coat in a wardrobe and whenever I look at it it makes me smile.
This giant steampunk tripod emerges from the asphalt, blasts a loud apocalyptic horn, makes the universal “charging-up” sound and I’m gonna just sit there and watch whilst mouth-breathing. Yeah ok!
Maybe they offered themselves up as sacrifice...you know, to offset overpopulation. A sort of noble suicide. (God willing future generations will do the same...)
lol right... once those things came out the ground most people would have bolted before they even stand up.. the acting in this movie was subpar.. even from Tom Cruise.. the Director wasn't getting his best takes nor pressing his staff to perform
i think the scene with that one lady when she gets hit with the beam is the most chilling, there is a single second when the beam hits where she opens her mouth to scream in pain but nothing comes out showing that it doesn't kill instantly but everyone hit with the beam dies painfully but quick enough that a scream does not leave their mouths
My favorite movie in 2005. Even my basic 100$ soundbar rendered the audio and its bass really well just for that incredible sequence! DONT USE YOUR TV SPEAKERS!
When you hear turbines spooling up, whether it's human or alien tech, if you don't know what the machinery is going to do, you'd best be making tracks.
I literally said in my head that any human being knows the sign language of "I will shoot you" if a weapon or unknown machine, pointed straight at them, is making a start up sound which sounds like it can shoot or blow you up, meaning you better scatter or else
Exactly. I hate that scene in horror movies when the danger can be felt in the air, yet the character still feels the need to check for some reason. It makes the scare afterwards appear so cheap and stupid.
The use of reflections on store windows and car windshields is spectacular. The tripods "horn" blaring just before it unleashes hell on earth puts the finishing touches on this amazing scene.
I agree! This is one of my favorite movie scenes for a lot of reasons including the ones you name. I love the light coming through the ruined church window as well.
In the late 1970's Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds album came out. I must have listened to it over 100 times as a kid and now have the CD set. One of my adult daughters was in town recently and stopped by while I was playing it on the stereo. She recorded a minute of it on her phone and sent it to the rest of the family and they said how it reminded them of their childhood since I played it so often.
@@didimean Yeah, I remember when those videos started in 2011 iirc. Theres too many of them in too many different countries and sources to just say its fake. Something weird is hapenning for sure, though I have my guesses at this point.
I love the little fake-out they do at 2:25 where the tripod first appears. Since they weren't in the trailers, we don't know what they're going to look like or how big they're going to be yet. Since it's War of the Worlds we do know they're tripods. So the first reaction upon seeing those three big legs climbing out of the hole is to think "oh, that's how big they are, those are its legs" and then all three of them swung way up into the air and you realize those aren't the legs of the tripod, those are the TOES of ONE leg of the tripod. 😮
True. I remember when i first saw this scene i was like "oh, the tripods seem to be quite...small". But as soon as his "leg" raised up into the air i had shivers down my spine It was really done well.
Say what you want about this movie, the way they did the tripods were amazing, everything about them from they way they were shot, their design, the way they move, its perfect
@@jasonleetaiwan uneven usually means one half is way better than the other which most people think about this film. First half great, second half meh.
it looses the plot around mid way through and the ending was a bit too speilburg. tom cruise should of arrived to his wifes parents whole street obliterated, but then a camera pan to all the notes left on a board...
The tripod horn is iconic and terrifying. And the power-up sound and the laser beam sound effects are equally scary. Spielberg is great at science fiction!
I watched this in the cinema when it was released. Awesome experience. Me and my friends left with our minds blown and that horn sound stuck in our heads. Still love this movie. Watched it a hundred times.
For me personally this is one of Tom Cruises most underrated films. I love the fact he isnt a hero in this film. He's just a father trying to keep his kids safe and survive and keep moving forwards, it's not his job to fight the aliens or save the world. Basicly a story that millions of families would be trying to do in such a similar situation.
Definitely not underrated, but I respect the direction of this movie. It’s a thriller and an action film with not over the top fighting scenes, just humans fighting purely for survival against an enemy they can’t hope to win against early on. All they can do is run or hide. Even in the final scenes, Tom’s character doesn’t fight with the army guys, he hides in the tunnel with the rest of the civilians. I think this movie was incredibly well executed, even though at times it was a bit uneven.
Didn't look like he was trying to keep his kids safe while he was standing around watching the monsters in the aliens coming from out of the ground as a father the first thing I've been thinking of was I need to get home to my children was he thinking about getting home to his children didn't too much look like that to me but that's my opinion I'm just some guy
I like how at the very end that one dad runs through the scene, still carrying his daughter. Dude was keeping up with Tom Cruise, while he was in full Running Mode. Respectable.
This movie in 05 along with Resistance: Fall of Man in 2006 and the early Halo/Gears of War games was such a great time for alien content, I miss those days.
I always thought the cinematography of this and Minority report had such a unique quality to it. Fuzzy, overexposed, lots of backlight... it almost gives the impression that it takes place in a dream.
That’s funny I’m in a video production class right we were just talking about the lighting that Spielberg was using in those films and why it made sense
What's funny in your statement is that, like McTiernan did before him, and European cinema before that, Spielberg, while he loves "dreamy" movies, uses this lighting and the camera work in a very VERY realistic way to expand immersion. To make you believe it, to lure audience into believing this is really happening. So it is, funnily enough, the opposite of oneirism. It *looks* fake, so it *is* real xD Weird, right ?
I’ll be forever blown away at how amazing the effects are in this film. Genuinely looks like it could be released in 2023 and is even better than some of the movies today!!!!!
The ants are currently winning the war with man. I would have to kill myself and my neighbors for blocks around to get rid of one fire ant bed in my yard. I'm almost at that point now.
either of you know what chapter in the book this is from. I'm a huge H.G Wells fan and I never really cared for the movies of his works cause the books were so good I didn't want a movie to dictate what I read should look like,the imagination is way better. but since this wasn't my favorite novel of his I wouldn't mind watching this but I wanna read the book again before I do(if I can find it amongst all my boxes of books)
That horn noise will forever be the most frightening thing ever… and that’s with human beings creating the sound design. Imagine real life aliens. What could be more terrifying?
For those wondering why people just stand still, I have reasons as to why that could be: 1. There are people clearly running away once the Tripod is fully emerged, and as the tripod began to emerge, everyone was fleeing in every direction, Because the chaos seemed to be coming from every direction. We have multiple vantage points to view this scene, while the characters are each limited to one. 2. People stop moving in part because the tripod has stopped moving and stopped causing damage 3. The audience has the benefit of hindsight to know what this thing is. The characters do not. 4. Standing around to see what the hell something is, no matter if it’s dangerous or not, is a human thing. Footage of disasters can be seen with people filming and recording. Even if those people in real life are at a safe distance, so can the people on the street assume so as well, especially the chaos has ceased momentarily. For disasters natural or not, police have to set up barricades to keep people back, because people will try to get close to what is happening no matter the reason. 5. Something like this is clearly something to behold and be in awe of. While it couldn’t be confirmed entirely to people on the ground what it was, some probably assumed it to be aliens, and you don’t wanna miss out on that chance because until the attack starts, you don’t know what will happen. I understand why people make this argument, because they’re not entirely wrong. But it’s not stupid for these people to be this close to the action and stand still to behold what they’re seeing. And it’s not like these people are directly under the tripod, they’re far enough back to see it.
Mmmm, I don't know. If *I* am in any type of setting where disaster is imminent just from the ground coming apart, I am NOT staying around to get caught up in the chaos. Period. Hell--crowds coming to Petco Park here in San Diego for the Padres games are a signal for me to get out of dodge! Haha!
You don't need to know wtf this thing is in order to know that you need to run, you just need to have working brain that can sense danger from thing that's obviously looks like it might be a hostile entity. Not a clout driven brain
@@That_One_Guy... It is not uncommon for people in real life situations that can result in death to gather around and try to see what’s happening. Even in the American civil war, people gathered in the early years near the battles to watch them. People trying to get close to events like this is not smart, but some people do it. Plus sometimes you’re just so frozen in terror and shock that you just hold still
People who think this probably also watch all the people standing around during 9/11 or actively RUNNING towards the WTC and think that's bad writing too.
I distinctly remember the silence in the theater when we all realized we were seeing this for the first time-as in absolutely none of this was shown in the trailers. We had no idea what to expect and that gave me chills. I wish more movies did this nowadays. Edit: I’m specifically talking about the structure of the scene and the movie’s marketing. I know what WoftheW is, and Cruise and Spielberg etc. all I’m saying is trailers didn’t show this at all at it was cool
@@pintorpi333 there is a possible reason why it worked actually. It could have been stored in a "lockup" style back room at an electronics store. Those lock ups can sometimes be set up as basic faraday cages, which would have protected it from the EMP. Same would be true of alot of electronics tbh, depending on the strength of the EMP things inside cars (not the cars themselves) or some types of metal storage containers would have been fine. A sign the EMP wasn't too strong is later in the movie alot of military electronics still work (while alot is hardened against EMP's it has its limits), and there are a ton of cars been used. Same with the boat having its lights on.
What I really like about this scene, is how brilliant the people are performing as the extras. They all did a great job, and hope they were well treated in the making of the film.Well done to them all.
That's no problem. I just watched the behind the scenes footage on the dvd, and it looked as if Steven Spielberg wasn't really bothered by them. Yes,they could have walked off, but you wouldn't get paid then.
@@mikeybalboa7520 extras actually get paid more than would you think, my cousin got paid 3 grand for some navy movie where he just sat in a class for a couple shots, and another he got paid like 5 grand to drive his car up and down the street in the backround lmao
@@donc7984 it matters how big the movie is and how many people are in the scene with War Of The Worlds they had like 5,000 extras for the one scene one of the most in movie history and b/c it had so many extras in the cast they got paid a little bit less.
2:25 love the fact that despite possibly being millions of years old, their deadly ships are mechanical sounding, and slow moving. They mastered intergalactic travel, military grade intangible energy shields and a simple communication method. It’s not just an alien invasion, but like a deliberately barbaric attack and geoengineering a planet ripe for colonization. They literally survive on the blood of those they murder. Death by draining
Man this STILL looks good and it still holds up today. Easily one of the best alien invasion movies, if not THE best in my opinion. Even Dakotah screaming the whole time is exactly what a little girl would do. Such a good movie.
Seriously? The people in this movie are idiots, the acting’s a bit corny and the second half was poorly done. The only thing good about this movie is maybe the tripods causing destruction lol I’m not even much of a critic but I’d have to be out of my mind to call this the best alien invasion movie
When Tom Cruise first ran from the Tripod, he rounded a corner and stopped to lean against a store window. Then silently, in a brilliant piece of acting, he displayed emotions that went beyond fear. This is someone who has seen the coming of the end of the world, and is mortified with incomprehensible terror.
This was brilliant and the best scene of the entire movie. As mentioned in other comments, nobody had ever seen the tripods nor any of this in the trailer and we had absolutely no idea what to expect, which put us in the same shoes as those people witnessing that in the movie. The moment those rays fire, the sound was so powerful and the scene so chilling, we were absolutely terrified, much worse than a horror movie, because it felt very real, it felt like Saving Private Ryan's beach scene felt. Spielberg does know how to make the finest horror.
Didn't know what to expect? MF the roads were splitting and a giant metal squid just erupted out of the ground. Were you expecting a hug? The thing audibly charged up for 30 seconds like an anime blast. It's like deer in headlights. Who in their right minds would just stand there and watch!
@@Styder111 I think, he talking about the movie that had the element of surprise. the thing that never describe or being shown through it's trailer. so the audience didn't know what's coming from the movie. it is this element that create terror to the audience. the horror of unknown. before giving a chaotic and powerfull scene that surprise the audience. that's what he talked about. not about standing there and expected a hug.
The horror of it, was that it was to represent 9/11 . People running down street , powder on there face , explosions and seeing death through the glass of the stores . That’s what it was to be a metaphor of .
I literally never get tired of the moment at 2:24 when the MASSIVE leg rises out of the ground and smashes down on the car. The sound effects are so terrifying. Like a mechanical yet living beast rising from the ground. This movie has some incredible effects for its time as well
I know this wasn’t the writers intent, but To me this whole scene is sort of symbolic for the antichrist hitting earth. The tripod rising up from below ground, the church being destroyed, the apocalyptic horn, the tripod itself (demonic forces are believed to do things in threes to mock the holy trinity), the advanced technology used to try and take over the planet That’s just me tho. I doubt anyone intended for that type of symbolism but there are a lot of things that scream apocalypse from this scene
@@satan899 I can get behind that, seems like a sound meaning to take from it. I had never thought about it that way, with the church and all. Not to mention the subtle moment when Ray's friend signs a cross on his chest as the tripod is rising. Could add to your interpretation. haha.
@@anmjbfilm To be fair, a "thump thump" sound with a set of low orchestral instruments (cellis, timpani) is one of the best ways to make whatever presence (on or off screen) intimidating.
@@anmjbfilm You said just what I was thinking. When you heard those string violins playing that chord next to the pod reving up, you knew something terrifyingly ominous was about to happen.
Can someone explain to me why this movie is not officially putted in horror category? There's a lot of horror movies that are not scary at all, and there are movies like this one, theoreticaly simple Sci-Fi, but actually so scary that it definitely should be a horror.
4:41 - the smartest and most likely the people whose are alive are well capable of realizing the massive craft arisen from underground and blasted a foghorn is terrible news and started running for their very lives and you can see several people actually start to run only second after the tripod emerges those were the people who will survive the whole alien appocalypse On the other hand this movie is seriously underrated the effects the music the themes are all amazing especially for its year 2005
@@hildemel The charging sound of the weaponry should be more than enough to make people realize that Oh No this is Bad This is terribly terribly bad gotta Run Thought something happening like this probably stunned people
sadly the people doing the movie adaptations think they can do it better. You can't, simple, stop trying. This particular film had promise but was utterly ruined by an incessantly screaming therapy-dependant child and the cliched divorced father/dis-functional son rubbish that seems to be the core of every other film nowadays. The book is a first person narrative giving a real insight into the experiences and observations of one person, you see it through their eyes without the annoying clutter that the screenwriters of the movies seem to think it needs. It doesn't.
@@stevesargent8731 I listened to a radio adaptation in the UK when I was a kid. Scared me sleepless! And I think it was Orson Welles who did it like a news broadcast here in the States in the 40's - had people panicking in the streets.
I'm a Brazilian and just noticed that this neighborhood has a lot of Brazilian immigration. The sign in the Luteran Church is in Portuguese, the store called "TE AMO" _(love you),_ the Santos Florist (Santos being a common surname in Brazil), the blue sign of a company offering cheap calls to Brazil, and people shouting in Portuguese after the car is thrown. Many Brazilians do choose to live in Newark.
i also read the book - but they are comparable in stupidity. in the books the aliens lost earth due to them allowing slave-humans into their own cities which allowed the humans to take down critical infrastructure if i remember right. in the film the aliens did not consider that there are also pathogens on our planet - right next to those dangerrous looking - armored monkeys.
For film students it's a great scene to study. It's the work of a master. Scale is there, pace and stillness is there, the naturally maddening curiosity of onlookers is there, our chief protagonist is our chief Observer and the details of something rising from the earth is immaculate - making it feel so real.
There seemed to be allusions to "3" throughout this scene - when the hole first appeared and the crowd began to move back, the circle of people began to clear back and you see a vague 3-sided shape formed by the crosswalk and a shadow, etc. And then the "square" intersection begins to turn, again forming a triangle on the ground right around 1:45. Plus there is the church with the allusion to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Except that if it WAS real most of those people would have been running for the hills when the pavement started cracking and then the ground collapsed. Even Cruise just keeps moving backward 5 or 10 feet at a time and then ..... stopping? I would have been l-o-n-g gone before the shooting started.
One of my favourite shots is the window shot with Tom Cruise on the left with the reflection of the people running on the right. So simple and so clever.
As much as I loved the 2005 king Kong, I really think this should’ve won for best special effects. They did such a phenomenal job making it look real. In King Kong, Kong looked incredible but everything around him Kind of looked fake. This was some of the best special effects I have ever seen.
The shot at 3:45 was always amazing to me. It scales just how massive this thing actually was, If you have headphones on, a soft low rumbling base slowly creeps in when it stands at its full height which adds to the horror. The way it moves and adjusts itself really lets the viewer see just how heavy and large this thing is. and at 5:44 when it gives you a close up of just how people are being vaporized, and how there's only a second of screaming before you puff into ash..probably the most terrifying ideas of alien invasion ever made for cinema.
The 1953 version had the green "skeleton ray". As Dr. Forrester put it, "It neutralizes the meson somehow. They're the atomic glue holding matter together. Cut across their lines of magnetic force, and any object will simply cease to exist. Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power." The special effects sounds for the heat ray and that disintegrator ray are some of the most frightening I've ever head.
I like the shot immediately after the standing up scene as well; you see Tom looking up at it and it happens to turn towards the same direction as he's going. It reminds me of nightmares I had where some unstoppable monster was coming after me and no matter what I did, it always knew where I was
I saw this in the movie theatre, and after the Pod emerged and started blasting people, a 10-year-old girl lept from her seat and sprinted up the aisle! A few moments later, a woman, I am guessing her mother, stood up, collected their things, and walked up the aisle after her!
Yeah, some scenes in this movie are way too intense for a child. Or some adults. It's a very scary movie, and underrated in my opinion. This scene and the scene in the basement with the snake thing are both perfectly staged.
I don't know why a parent brought in her child to see a movie called "war of the worlds" I hope that kid didn't get nightmares because of her mother's negligence
The tripod's horns are so terrifying but so cool at the same time, but the sound when they are walking I found terrifying. Like imagine hearing that when ur outside and you justr hear it coming closer and closer until you eventually see it
I love the colour palette of this film, just like a lot of Spielberg epics, it seems ‘washed out’ but it really adds to the atmosphere. Then when the whole ground rotates it just gives you that initial moment where you realise that whatever is down there is so much more dangerous and powerful than any of the people understand
I've watched this scene dozens of times. It's perfect, probably my favorite scene in the film. The effects, the ominous music, the terrifying horn, the sense of scale portrayed in the amazing shots of the tripod rising up first behind the tree and then above the houses. It is such a gripping display of sheer awe.
I can't say "perfect"... At 1:33 We see Tom Cruise on a sidewalk with his back to the building. At 1:50 he's shown at the front of a crowd in the intersection, no building behind him at all. And the intervening overhead shot does not show anyone moving into the intersection from the buildings (the opposite, actually). Good, sure, but my definition of "perfect" includes "lack of continuity errors I can identify on a casual clip watch as I descend into the RU-vid maelstrom."
Death Ray vaporizes people but not their clothes? Just one of dozens of imperfections in this scene. This movie HAD great potential but failed to achieve. Cruise brought nothing to his role, thanks to the writers. The original Day the Earth Stood Still remains #1.
I love the pace of this movie. They go somewhere, something horrifying happens, next scene. It actually slows at the end in the basement but it is so intense you dont notice
WOTW topic is the creepiest sci-fi concept... Martians just build massive 3 legged machines in order to terraform earth and use human blood/flesh to grow red weeds, for making sure that they maintain Martian wellbeings... This is too horrible...
After watching the original film from the 1950’s many times I pretty much already knew what the aliens were going to do to us humans. The special effects were actually pretty good for that time especially the beam that vaporized people which was disturbing at best but not as scary. During this scene however really made me go, “Damn, that was brutal!” 😳
One of the coolest movie scenes ever! The shock and awe of seeing the alien machine rise from the ground, and the music and sound effects are spectacular creating an intense disturbing feeling…Just chillingly well done.
This whole clip was filmed in Down Neck Newark. The church, St. Stephen's, sits at the fork with Wilson Av. on the right of the screen and Ferry St. on the left. I live 4 blocks from the filming and it was a blast. Tom Cruise acted like a gentleman. The whole crew was a pleasure to watch! Come visit. You'll love the food! ps. The church is still here and it looks like new!
The sound of that horn in the theater was almost deafening. The fact that NONE of what the tripods looked like, nothing had been seen in the trailers at all. Everyone who was there was seeing it all for the first time. No giving anything away like they do constantly in trailers now.
This scene when my brother and our friends and I went to see this movie and everyone in the whole movie theater was blown away by this one scene. This is truly my favorite part of the movie and one of the greatest ambushes in movie history. Plus, the music is creepy as hell as well.
It’s not an ambush it’s a fucking massacre an ambush is people strategically planning to surround and attack you and set you up this was just one pod who came up and freaking destroyed everybody
How about the train crossing scene? Everyone in movie was like whatever. For me and family we took Amtrak to Chicago from flagstaff prior to seeing this movie in Chicago
The heat ray as seen nearer the end of this clip, shaving off the rooftops of houses is closest to the heat ray as imagined in the book. It is a wide, invisible ray of such intense heat that it dissolves all it touches. The book has several mentions of clear places where the heat ray quickly shaved across a town and left nothing but slag and molten rubble in its wake. It ran across a row of houses and they collapsed instantly as the parts hit just dissolved. That's terrifying, even moreso I'd say, than thin, visible laser beams.
@@arnoldhernandez1910 By H.G. Wells, written in the 1800's. It was the very first alien invasion novel and it captivated a nation. It was so impressive that we've been trying to adapt it ever since, with various levels of success. Though no movie or series ever really got it right, sadly.
I love the part in the book where the narrator is submerged in water and the heat ray instantly boils the water and he's surrounded by scalding hot water and steam.
One of the coolest things to me even way back when I first saw this in theaters were the visual effects on the people literally turning into ash. The alien death beams aren't straight up vaporizers, they are designed _specifically to vaporize human tissue_ but they leave clothes, personal effects, and literally any non-organic tissue/material behind. The beams popping people and leaving behind a cloud of ash is a neat detail in its own right, but in my opinion it really shines with the added touch of tattered remains of clothing blowing away after the fact. It's taken a step further by making these ash clouds a real thing in the environment. Even if a lot of it was fake and CG, someone somewhere was throwing _real_ dust all over the set while this was shot just to make sure Tom Cruise would _look_ like he ran through a bunch of ashy human remains. The clothing especially is a _REALLY_ amazing detail that just lets your imagination run wild. I mean, think about it: these aliens built weapons _SPECIFICALLY_ to eliminate humans and _NOTHING ELSE_ in as efficient of a method as possible. It makes you wonder exactly how the weapons work or what went on when they were being developed. I feel like if this movie were made today, it would simply be a generic death ray that turns an entire person, everything they are wearing, etc into a pile of goo or something equally lacking in imagination. It would not have the same effect. The way it's done in this movie is just super eerie. A weapon that turns people into ash but leaves all of their clothes behind? That's absolutely terrifying. And it sets up future scenes in the movie where we just see lifeless empty streets, the only thing occupying them are a bunch of tattered clothes and piles of ash. That's some legitimately scary stuff. It reminds you that there _was_ a whole crowd of people in that street. That is some crazy next-level world building, and it's all thanks to one simple idea. As much crap as this movie got, it had some really nice visual effects and they surprisingly hold up even after all these years. Part of what makes them still good to this day is probably thanks to the fact this movie was shot on film in an era where practical effects were still heavily used, the other part is the meticulous attention to the little details, like clothing not getting burnt, items people holding simply dropping wherever they got vaporized, etc. It's a very imaginative and creative take on the generic alien death ray and I love it.
The beam also works weird. We see at 5:38 that when it impacted a person in the car that it also tossed the car, yet when Tom was inside the store at 5:57 the beam went through the window with no damage. Yet later on when the beam was being used against houses at 6:08 it tore the roofs off. Two beam settings maybe? It definitely wasn't a thermal beam, otherwise you would have seen bodies exploding from the water in them being turned into steam. You could even see the lady starting to shriek as the beam 'chain-reacted' her into ash at 5:47
@@toddkes5890 I think though I can not find anything confirming this that it was two different rays. The ray's that blew the house roofs off acted similar to the ones that blew the overpass apart when ray & the kids drove off in the car but definitely wasn't the heat ray.
LMAO literally I'd be running a mile away the second that crevasse opened up. No way I'm gonna stand there while some massive mech bursts out of the ground
Yes, I agree. When the Martian machine was first shown, it then took a back seat to how much destruction it caused. I love the brief scene where Tom was watching the war machine just walk down the street. This is how we invaded Europe, and it's how I always imagined WOTW would be...a superior force against a totally unprepared populace.
I honestly thought this was one of the most terrifying movies I'd ever seen, as sci-fic apocalypses go. The friends I saw it with at the theater hated it and to this day, I can't imagine why.
That horn that tripod did was a communication signal meant to alert the other tripods that there are humans in the vicinity. This tripod is said to be part of the first wave of the invasion, so the majority are most likely still buried and are offline during this very attack
And yet...the notion that aliens have been buried beneath the surface for - how long, centuries? is ludicrous. The whole movie seems to be Spielberg's poison pen letter to humanity. Everyone is horrible. This movie still makes me feel disgusted and enraged by Spielberg.
@@grantc61 Except that first point you just mentioned isn’t Spielberg’s work. It’s H. G. Wells’s. I’ll admit this movie is no where close to being a masterpiece, but in terms of doing justice to the book and original film, it accomplishes that fantastically well.
1. It's fun to see "2005" touches like people using digital cameras and camcorders instead of their phones. 2. If something throws a CAR out from the ground, I'm not sticking around to see what it is. 3. Ah...the "Prometheus School of Running Away in a Straight Line" was in full effect seven years before.
This sequence is both very well shot and has genuine tension: it’s one of the very few times you genuinely feel like Tom Cruise will not make it out alive, even though you know he will in the back of your mind.
6:25 - For me it is the most terrifying sound in the movie - when they are walking. ;-; 4:25 - 5:15 - That horn and sound of the rays warming up. AHHH CLASSIC!!! I love that movie! Feeling of uncertainty, powerlessness is indescribable in this Spielberg's work... It has almost 20 years and the visual effects are still so impressive... 4:50, 5:00 - These reflections in the windows are beautiful!
I saw this in the theatre and it made me queasy, pale, turning green almost felt like I was going to faint. Other people in the theatre were screaming and acting like they saw death! No other movie in the history of film in my opinion has done this by captivating the audience maybe Interstellar and the black hole scene, that was amazing to. But to me this is Tom Cruise’s best movie and a cinematic masterpiece!
@@battistaverardi1240 I can relate . We saw this in I- max and my wife and I were so terrified that we left the theater. Something about this scene seemed so real .
I was on premiere as well, when the Tripod was down and that alien being came out of it, people were screaming "behead it and impale it's head on a tree"... I never ever saw public react in such a violent way.
