The Frightening Reality of War of the Worlds

[@s0ad29]

The sound of the tripods moving and that damn horn is pure nightmare stuff

[@matt.squarebody5427]

Left scarred as a child for years lmao.

[@silvereaglestudios]

The only purpose of that sound is to let all the humans know that they're f***ed.

[@RastakhanFromdeOtherSide]

@@silvereaglestudios assyrians get like "heyyy u got my horn!"

[@Dannidelightful]

The walking sound haunted me for years

[@clock4883]

I genuinely like that sound, it's still nightmarish but damn it's satisfying to hear. As a game developer it really makes me want to make a game surrounding the whole concept.

[@iIO_OIi]

When you're a kid this movie could potentially leave you with nightmares for a few weeks...

[@ryanalvarado8021]

Clewl Tetsui I had them for months, even ones where I was driving one

[@nizalmuhammad9689]

That's why all movie and video game have rating age

[@xinquiote9572]

i still dream alien shts everyday.. is it weird?

[@sbraypaynt]

Yeah I still have scary flashbacks or the scene where the guy gets syringed or when he gets sucked into that harvester thing

[@janendrych6863]

Actually nah

[@spoon5591]

The whole point is that Mother Nature is our true defence and that’s the idea of the book

[@thevigilant266]

Dude you mean GOD is out defender not mother bature

[@thevigilant266]

Nature*

[@edmondlibosana57]

@@thevigilant266 god does not exist

[@thevigilant266]

night stalker that's in your thinking

[@thevigilant266]

Rabadash dude I'm talking about reality not the movie or the book that this writer did

[@LucasTheUltimate]

I really love how we were all terrified by this film when we were younger, LOL. It really shows that despite it not being a perfect movie, it was extremely successful in the aspect of being a nightmare inducing and terrifying Sci-Fi Thriller. There's so many movies of Ghosts and paranormal stuff, but none of them came close to scaring me as much as this movie. The Tripods are just pure nightmare material.

[@jamesennis8417]

Coupled with that sound. That’s the stuff of nightmares..

[@noriadripchadkyoin480]

Bro I'm 21 and it still messes me up

[@noooaaah6471]

Am I the only one, who actually liked the movie?

[@trinityjohnson4391]

Bundes Hase I was afraid when I was 4 now I love it

[@eetumiettinen1047]

Bundes Hase I liked it, so no, you're not

[@treyjordan3168]

No, you're not, I liked it as well

[@ayeshanicoochi3094]

I liked it too

[@ZEDSBlooducti]

Bundes Hase i felt the same way

[@z9787]

Wait so people are angry about the aliens dying from bacteria in the movie but no one is complaining about the same ending in the original story

[@noahjones3955]

CXANXDE -Cyanide- cause people want movies exactly like books but when that happens they hate the movie

[@gdavis]

Well the book was written at a time when germ theory was new. We understand it better now it would make sense to adapt material now. I mean the movie did this all over

[@geeworm]

That's probably because they didn't read the book and thought that disease weakness was dumb.

[@jwsmith53]

The kids were totally unnecessary.

[@DomR1997]

I'm saying! The ending is great! Xenobiology is complex, our best weapon against an alien invasion may very well be biological in nature!

[@mattwho81]

H.G. Wells, the original author, wrote War of the Worlds based on the British empires experiences in Tasmania. An advanced industrial power being defeated by sickness and plague.

[@siyacer]

Sounds familiar

[@Senecart81]

Europeans coming to America died like flies too.

[@rorrt]

That's interesting.. And I suppose that's also reflected in the red weeds, which was an analogy for invasive species, such as Japanese Knotweed. It's like the unsubtle allegory between Aliens and the Vietnam war. These high tech, rich armies being defeated by primitive soldiers who fight dirty.

[@FriendlyCroock]

@@Senecart81 europe is a continent you genius from racist U S A Stop generalizing. What "europeans" are you talking about you little american?

[@FriendlyCroock]

@@rorrt Well not exactly because the vitcong were armed constantly by the soviet criminals in charge of russia.

[@sergionextdoor]

The aliens got Coronavirus

[@BiasedCookie]

Was waiting for someone to say it

[@kedi6793]

dont let me die from laughing at your comment bruh haha so funny xd xd xd xd loll same

[@vooperhddeluxebronze4558]

😐

[@Luci_the_Demon]

Rofl

[@beepboop3584]

i just wanna say that girl.... i godamn hated her, always screaming and damn it never really would have happened the dad would have just taken one look and taped her mouth shut with some breathing holes. at least thats what i would have done also they dont eat! several days and no food! or water! i mean seriously i think we found the master race!

[@Rimasta1]

I liked the movie, I just wish that they hadn’t spent a big chunk of the movie in that crazy dudes basement.

[@mobzillalongtail]

True

[@brendanirwin1986]

well that was actually in the original story too, except it was the narrator and a priest!

[@richardbidinger2577]

There's a similar scene in the original movie, except the two people are in a one story house. The scene was set up so you got to see one of the aliens. The 2005 version just dragged it out too long.

[@mattwho81]

That’s actually true to the book.

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@mattwho81 the conept is but the way they did it wasnt

[@THE_TonyFielding]

"The films ending is a cop out" IT'S HOW IT HAPPENED IN THE ORIGINAL!!!

[@jkmarblejk7445]

Tony Fielding he wasn’t saying it was a cop out a lot of viewers were saying that!

[@manlyangel3768]

@@jkmarblejk7445 Yeah, but still it isn't a cop out at all.

[@jkmarblejk7445]

Manly Angel I don’t think it was I actually didn’t mind this movie I thought it was okay better then a lot of films base around the same genre.

[@austinharding9734]

EXACTLY!!! To go a different direction would not only dishonor the 1st movie, but the book as well

[@papagnerd1943]

I’ve found a lot of these “KZbin movie reviewers” (mostly young people) don’t really do the films they review justice and don’t do much research.

[@Mopar0rNoCar]

Anyone remember when the aliens freaked the fuck out from a damn bicycle? 😂

[@serbianslav5494]

That's because it's their first time seeing one.

[@tmanoutdoors8277]

They were scared of the wheels because they had never seen them before

[@michaeldohndelara2240]

@@tmanoutdoors8277 i think they never invented the wheel in their planet as to why they are perflexed by it

[@yes1780]

I like to think is because they never saw wheels before. They never thought of wheels being an invention. Same goes with the photograph. Perhaps the idea of paper and the ability to permanently capture a moment never struck to them. Or maybe, the idea struck to them, but they never knew how to execute it! Maybe they were fascinated that we could do it, but not them.

[@Mopar0rNoCar]

One thing is I think we are aliens from the past, and the government is keeping it a secret so it doesn’t cause a paradox...

[@objetivista686]

This movie scares me a lot and one of the main reasons for that is that it's a very realistic at least in the beggining. The SpongeBob in the Rachel's tv, the trivial stuff ordinary people do, the perspective centralize on the family protagonists, the lack of many music soundtracks... i think this movie could be even more scary if the "Spielberg element" was not present like or if the main characters fighting to scape from that place rather to interact directly with the aliens; watching news, images about them and their horror, a little bit of interactions with such horror but less overly exagerated where everyone is anihilated less the protagonists. More like a european than a typical american blackbuster movie. Of course i can't predict it would work but..

[@CPS2]

I agree. Spielberg was obviously in E.T. pg13 mode when he made this. If he'd switched to Saving Private Ryan Normandy landings mode, the film would have been shocking and horrifying.

[@thesonicravn870]

To be fair the book had the same ending.

[@Ben-jl2rh]

TheSonicRavn really? That sucks?

[@K.Marie119]

Makes a lot more sense in the book as the aliens had not been observing earth for hundreds or thousands of years. At least that's what I remember. I read the book my Freshman year of high school so it's pretty fuzzy.

[@thegameslibrarian5264]

If I remember right in the book the Martians have done away with all disease on their planet so it cause them to have no immune system

[@K.Marie119]

TheSonicRavn, Chris Nunn I see. Like I said, it's been over 10 years since I read it so I don't remember much. All I remember are the main plot points. Actually, the ending is more plausible than most people will recognize. Humans are hosts to a ton of bacteria that don't have negative affects such as certain strains of E.Coli. Even if the aliens tried to compensate for the organisms that make us sick, there would be no way to predict which bacteria are going to make them sick. Well, unless they have been the ones responsible for all the "abductions." haha If they have done away with all pathogens on their planet, their immune systems could have suffered from mutations that make it less effective without the natural pressure of disease. (Depending on how long ago it was.)

[@thatonepole6116]

TheSonicRavn with a reason why they died

[@Sutterjack]

The thing that bugged me the most is that the invaders had thousands of machines buried and not one is detected by some construction worker or subway contractor? Give me a break

[@Nickoboss29]

The aliens,maybe, were hiding too much deep to be discovered by humans...

[@shahinhasham9645]

Depends how deep they were buried

[@jasonk7675]

or how they were able to survive the microbes the 1st time burying those machines but not the 2nd time. the microbes existed long before humans.

[@davidamajako961]

@@jasonk7675 they warped into it as lightening. And who told you that the ones putting it there didnt die?

[@rayra2772]

@@jasonk7675 They probably had normal inmunity to the microbes in the past, but they lost this inmunity due to not being in contact with microorganisms for a long period of time, because the genetics of both microbes and aliens evolved isolated from each other. To give you an idea of how isolation is a huge factor, just think in the illnesses the New World discoverers brought to America.

[@Honored_JDogg]

The ending was a cop out? DUDE ITS THE SAME ENDING IN THE BOOK

[@mobzillalongtail]

Yeah, this guy hasn’t read or even heard of the ending of the book

[@misscbrown9179]

But that how the movie ends in the original

[@nolan3915]

MobzillaLongTail yea like if you’re guna make money by posting a video about stuff like this then at least do your homework. Read the goddamn book he’s pathetic

[@Reilly-Maresca]

He’s saying that’s what a lot of people think, not what he thinks

[@DustyyLava]

You read the actual book wow I don’t ever have that kind of time

[@littlemrpinkness295]

He ran over the hill and immediately fell into a cave. By the time he climbed out, the carnage was over. The blood type idea is brilliant. We developed blood type O, and that was a surprise to them, and poisonous.

[@Optimegatrongodzilla]

Either that or Robbie hid under a military vehicle that luckily didn't get absolutely destroyed by that tripod, stayed hidden until the coast was clear, and then, made his way to Boston.

[@aliadosgamers9861]

its funny how people would want to kill dakota for screaming but like, if you were a child in a alien invasion man, you would do the same.

[@schematic2684]

@@serbianslav5494 Wot

[@gustainchains]

I totally agree with you, it is difficult for a child to deal with "them", they are beings that want to tithe you, Tripods are scary, and she was still claustrophobic, so I'm on your side and I understand perfectly

[@echo.5614]

Yes I agree with you, however she stood there staring at a massive killer tripod and then starts squealing instead of oh fuck better run

[@talentless2790]

It depends on the child's personality, some maybe scared and shitting their pants plus screaming out of their lungs, some maybe feels angry because its own planet got invaded by the 3 legged bastards that buried inside the earth for about a million years, some maybe even dont give a fuck and just let it all happen. Like i said it depends on the child's personality not all child just screaming their lungs out when they see a tall 3 legged assholes turning peoples to ashes...

[@professr9343]

That’s what happens when you raise your kids with no knowledge of the world

[@steve3326]

This movie scared the shit out of me when I was younger

[@BlkApollo]

Steve Especially the tube eye thing in the basement

[@x545x]

Same

[@myshiteu4934]

Naw what scared me the most was the horn noise and then all the buildings started falling over and chaos and especially the lost of humanity the aliens was something I wasn’t scared about

[@DanielLopez-pg4ei]

Had MANY nightmares when i was little kid lol, i can watch that movie many time now tbh

[@peterparkeer6265]

True man

[@RowanJColeman]

I really appreciate what this film was going for. In the Making Of documentary Spielberg and the screenwriter made a checklist of alien invasion movie cliches and made sure not to do them. This is an alien invasion from the civilian's perspective. We're not given the intricacies of the alien's plan or how the military is doing because an average person wouldn't experience those things. All they would experience is confusion and destruction and terror. And I think the film conveys that sense of terror brilliantly.

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Rowan J Coleman iik

[@madisoncallaghan]

I agree so much!! Very well said

[@ryanfreebody6881]

Yes, however this has nothing on the musical, that goes by a civilian, the movie does capture a lot of what is in the musical, like the boat they get on.... This is more of an adaption on the musical and they ruined it lol

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Ryan Freebody for sure, I thought it was ok, but was missing something, your point about the musical must be true, as I listen to that a lot, and this film I have no inclination to watch it again. That tells you everything!

[@ryanfreebody6881]

Hanniffy Dinn Yeah bud, the musicals is amazing. The thing with music, is that it captures everything on the feelings, for me what makes a great movie, depends on the music they play. Horrors have that eerie spooky sound, while most of Steven Spielberg have great music in the scenes that are dramatic and gets you more involved.. The musical is longer, I think it's the finer detail and feel to it, thats missing from the movie. For one, there was no annoying kids in the musical, you had the element of shock, confusion, worry, fear, scary parts when the tripod would interrupt as the story was read out or during a song, excitement at learning how to get around Them all those elements were there in the musical... I'm not normally picky with movies, but the kids should have been left out.

[@mcmemes1523]

Alien: This planet is ours Germs, Bacteria, and Diseases: *I THINK HE WANTS US TO PUT THE HURT ON HIM...*

[@CeoOfThe4thDimension]

*Oh I think he wants us to put the hurt on em*

[@PCLprecutlion]

I'm gonna put a dirt on this aliens eye's...

[@Scorpionwitch]

Um, germs and viruses have been the downfall of the Martians in every version of this story including the original. Spielberg actually held true to the original more than most. For example, the aliens capturing people with their machines is usually left out and one of the more disturbing aspects.

[@cobracommander6522]

Yeah I agree.

[@litefifdy8603]

Most people I know including myself thought this was an excellent movie.

[@naomy-trinitytraversa4788]

Lite Fifdy yup

[@blackhatiscoming9026]

Same here

[@coolerthanyou1235]

Lite Fifdy I love this movie

[@richardbidinger2577]

I liked it.

[@RavenBlack74]

It's an OK film if you don't know or have ever read the book.

[@TheNMartist]

Despite its flaws, this is one of the scariest, nightmare-inducing films I have ever seen. I thank Spielberg for using part special effects and part allowing your imagination to fill in for what is NOT seen for of its success.

[@LucDutra92]

I'd give that title to Signs. Another nightmare inducing alien movie.

[@somenbwithabadhistoryteach5872]

@@LucDutra92 yes! Signs!

[@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594]

Mannnnn maybe I gotta give this "Signs" movie a try. Also YEAAA the special effects were awesome! Any basic director can just use a crap ton of CGI **ahem** *marvel* **ahem** But knowing when to use them and what kind to use takes a SKILLED person. I thought that was something they did right

[@alexthegreat8001]

@@newchangeunlisted_viewer5594 Oh what, you wanted Thanos to be a giant onsie, I am sorry for your dissapointment. Sorry, I can get defensive of Marvel movies, and besides, all science fiction stuff nowadays has cgi (although I otherwise agree, you are completely right)

[@thomasw695]

The kids got anoying and ild like to see a proper fight around the world against the tripods

[@fathermischief8025]

Ending a copout? That was how the story ended, even in the 1950s version.

[@siyacer]

It's one of the defining features of the War of the Worlds

[@Minillus]

It's basically one of the most recognizable part of the WotW adaptations, aside from Tripods

[@immortalgamer2564]

Alien 1: Uhh is anyone else feeling weird? Alien 2: It might just be the B negative blood setting in. Alien 1: What are you talking about? Alien 2: The B negative blood. That's what we're supposed to collect right? Alien 1: GODDAMN IT TOBY I SAID A POSITIVE!!!! COLLECT ALL THE A POSITIVE BLOOD TYPES!!! YOU JUST KILLED US ALL!!!!

[@tyl3nolmusic646]

Golden😂

[@johncarlofernandez2698]

Alien pilot: *cough cough* I feel bad *faints* Alien copilot: FUCK! Mayday mayday! We're losing balance of the tripod! Brace for impact! Holy shi...

[@zynelaride1070]

Not Alien Alien Tripod

[@EthansPassions]

And that’s the ending of the movie THE END

[@zynelaride1070]

Ok I'm too old for this shit

[@hdhbdbj9408]

Electromagnetic waves makes everything stop working, cars, phones, even watches...but not the recording camera shown at 2:13.

[@Nickoboss29]

Maybe it was turned off before it happened...

[@jimkluska253]

Dude right on,..and no changing the battery would not work,..the circuits get fried orthe mother board ..anyways,..awesome catch!

[@Dadecorban]

@Dana William Let me say this slowly and carefully. Commercial camcorders are not EMP shielded.

[@Dadecorban]

@Dana William The device itself can be and would be protected. You can wrap the trigger unit in a Faraday bag like wall insulation, inside of the weapon. (however this works) I think you are confused. Most of these army procured devices ARE PROTECTED internally and has nothing to do with being inside or outside a vault. Vaults and lead boxes are not how devices and equipment you have to use are shielded. Google "Faraday Cage."

[@lithecrow]

Wasn't an e-wave, just a superheated beam.

[@FabledNarrative]

I liked War of the Worlds. : )

[@mctanki69420]

Same

[@SuperGamerpro13]

me too

[@anatypicallyhumanperson7200]

It is a very okay movie. Nothing wrong with an okay movie.

[@fangirl903]

Timothy Miller yeah it was ok

[@Squinkers]

Same here

[@msh6865]

I'm thinking the aliens expired from listening to that incredibly annoying Dakota Fanning scream through the entire film.

[@Coby2022]

Why 8 year old utterly terrified at what's happening

[@myshiteu4934]

😂😂 like it would’ve been different is she was a kind nice girl but she was always a lil brat

[@OnurAyrikAutomotive]

They took it up with Spielberg. They told him to kill them off already 🤣

[@marcussinclaire4890]

I liked the movie except for the daughter. If she just screamed a little less .

[@YukiXKohaku]

She's kid.

[@YukiXKohaku]

And there is an alien in the world.

[@TheRelaxingLion420]

she's kid, and her dad are fucking poor stupid dumb and a loser if you dumb poor or loser, PLEASE.. DO NOT HAVE KIDS thats why i never wanted a kid

[@ajtriforcegamerofhyrule8538]

Purple Lambo Your a huge grump

[@cero_2578]

I always wondered why she screamed so much and didnt cry all the time. Kids cry...all the time. For the littlest of shit, too, she should be crying 90% of the time when she's screaming. Hell, maybe 100%.

[@LoudSodaCaleb]

From 12-14 years old, this movie was the shit for me, I’d watch it every Saturday. Something was so unnaturally eerie about the movie.

[@shafwandito4724]

LoudSoda the sound is making it eerie

[@empyrean196]

LoudSoda, exactly how I felt at that age. I thought the aliens, setting, especially the musical was just so otherworldly. Lol

[@LucaBakiMMA]

LoudSoda imo its a masterpiece

[@proximasaur]

Probably Steven Spielberg, he always seems to make such freaky movies. Id on't know, I think I get that same feeling, well... it's spooky to be honest ^^

[@_yellow]

I was 7 when this was released, it scared the shit out of me.

[@zackt.7727]

The aliens should have packed some hand sanitizer

[@prisonsuperman2257]

Z Tincher BAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂😂 good one

[@owlcanadian433]

Lol

[@Barbozo89]

Kills 99.9% Germs

[@prisonsuperman2257]

Donkey Squidward I know what happens when they get sucked up in the cage

[@prisonsuperman2257]

Donkey Squidward wanna know?

[@marvinacklin792]

Thought it was excellent, really scary. A giant catastrophe--the aliens were awesome.

[@slumpahoe8361]

Martians: *hippity hoppity your planets our property* Germs and bacteria’s: *yall hear some?*

[@methylene5]

"All your base are belong to us."

[@szymonbollin5074]

@@methylene5 all your cells are belong to us

[@getbeaned1538]

Some pigeons apples what?

[@redwolf4611]

"Do not touch the triii um."

[@clockywork]

wow LOL

[@fruitwagon9275]

I wish we could see the inside of the tripods

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Well, it's full of buttons and switches inside the Tripod but the Marsians (which it was'nt mentioned in the movie hence Speilberg confirmed that the aliens must have came from the same universe from E.T. but much darker side) were smart enough to push all the buttons.

[@woulfhound]

Probably more like something out of Ghost in the Shell. Judging by all the orange fluid that came out, they were probably swimming it, to act as an inertia buffer for safety and to make the inside as comfortable as possible. The controls were probably biomechanical in nature and would function like a virtual reality suit for the pilots. That way the tripods would become like an extension of their bodies, allowing for optimal control and navigation. Which would explain why the tripods would behave in a delirious manner, like the machines themselves were sick when it was actually the martian pilots that were behaving that way because they were getting sick. Like a drunk driver, the car isn't drunk but the driver is.

[@1984-n4j]

Ikru

[@israelramthianghlima9653]

Trust me, it's worst than a vagina.

[@tommyfox854]

That would have been so cool in my opinion. =)

[@Johny_Truant]

The "death by germs" part for killing the aliens in the end was actually in the book so it wasn't a cop out. It was actually quite clever, but the book was from the late 1800s and in recent years movies have used germs too frequently as either an antagonist or ex machina that modern audiences reject such a plot twist. ....

[@richardbidinger2577]

Independence Day was just a remake of the original War Of The World's. There's even a scene where Will Smith's love interest takes and old truck and picks up survivors, one of which looks just like Gene Barry from the original movie. They at least had the sense of mind to use a computer virus to help kill the aliens instead of a real one. In all actuality, there's a better chance they would infect us with something nasty instead of us infecting them, our own history is littered with the corpses of those who came into contact with Western Europeans and had no immunity to smallpox.

[@ShellysAshes]

This movie came out when I was admittedly still young, and I thought it was good at the time. So I'm surprised to hear you saying a lot of people hated it so I've looked at the reviews and it seems like it was well received. 75% on RT. 73% on metacritic. Generally decent feedback all round. Not a slam dunk or a masterpiece by any means, but a solid alien film.

[@elchicobangbang_9995]

I actually liked this movie

[@pauliefox2077]

Me too.

[@insertnamehere1865]

I also liked it :D

[@Stardustmiku]

Sammy XVI same it my childhood

[@twistedshadows9571]

This movie came from my childhood.

[@freestyle7690]

Sammy XVI I did too

[@JaneD559]

I might be the only one but I absolutely love War of the worlds by Stephen Spielberg

[@sinfulxiv744]

Same

[@kevinp1933]

You’re not the only one

[@micycles1200]

I love it. It's one of the only horror movies I will watch.

[@pauladams3135]

if you (read} the book you will see that the movie is a bad rip off and quite an average movie .

[@allumallium8136]

I love this movie dude, same.

[@fegtcrewgtavofficial6217]

I still hear those tripod sounds and me standing on a field with a forest in the distance in one of my kid nightmares

[@wallamazoo01]

The tripod sounds in the woods is just Siren Head. Nothing to worry about.

[@GabiteEditz]

@@wallamazoo01 yeah....

[@mohammedubed7000]

@@wallamazoo01 😂

[@gatsbymaguire]

@@wallamazoo01 _"What was that? A tripod?"_ _"Naw man, it was just Siren Head."_ _"Oh, at least it ain't some terrifyi- HOLD THE FUCK UP!"_

[@gmar7836]

Tell it! I think I had bad dreams after I saw this for the first time.

[@freddypedraza2066]

Martians attacks Coronavirus: so, you've chosen death

[@JillLulamoon]

The films ending is the same as the book, and honestly I think it's a pretty clever and fun twist. All our technology does nothing, but simple bacteria kills the aliens. It makes sense scientifically too, the aliens bodies have never encountered diseases like influenza so it would ravage thier bodies. My only issue is, with how smart the aliens are, you think they would have for seen this and been in hazmat suits and never even consider leaving thier tripods.

[@mythikbeast6404]

Sayori-chan It wasn't about them leaving the tripods, it was about them feeding off human blood

[@Dominium111]

It actually makes no scientific sense at all. Bacteria and especially viruses are extremely specific, and can only target very specific organisms. The very specific cells that build very specific tissues of those very specific organisms to be precise. This is why majority of diseases are species specific, and even the exceptions like rabies still are limited to a certain pool of closely related organisms. Hell, this is why we can diagnose diseases based on the symptoms alone! Because only a specific type of tissue is affected by them! So no, is not scientific at all. It just falls under a high quality technobabble.

[@thesonicravn870]

Dawiusz better than, lets blow up the giant beam in the sky ending.

[@akulaa4853]

@Dawiusz Bird flu - Reptile to Mammal

[@alx3296]

Doki doki literature club

[@MoonaNight12]

I honestly liked the movie. Hearing that people hated it shocked me.

[@rustcohle3803]

It was not bad at all, I loved Tom's performance in it. the dude could act n make us immersed in the film. it was an alien invasion movie but focused on a family like close encounters, I swear people expected it to be independence day

[@frowlinian8175]

Zoran Hyde I haven’t seen it since... probably 2006 but I loved it, actually got me kinda into movies... I still remember seeing the trailer during... I think lemony snickett and I was so hyped that despite not going to a theater for almost 5 years before that, I saved the date, saw it release weekend... and the next weekend... then it came out on hbo or whatever and I watched it a few more times... I absolutely love more personal stories rather than the larger “look at this entire city get destroyed” types... they both have their place but give me a choice and I’ll choose the former nearly every time

[@jeremybordoy7349]

Zoran Hyde same tbh

[@RaikenXion]

the build up of suspense was masterfully done, it harkened bk to the old days of Speilberg movies.

[@stockholmstyles]

same

[@criticalthinkingalways3378]

The sounds the tripods made is still the best movie audio ive heard to date😎

[@derekortiz3663]

Besides arrival.

[@lineriderrulz]

Check out the album Visitors by Eximia, hope you won't be disappointed!

[@MichaelNVADE]

I smell a Cryo Chamber reference

[@allumallium8136]

Yes. The damn noise. I love it. I could literally listen to it for a solid month.

[@NINJA-ji6jp]

Check out the horns in the sky sounds on KZbin.

[@Goofiest_Goobster]

Alien energy shields: **Exists** EMP weapons: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

[@RizaLazar]

Evangelion AT Shield: golf my beer won't ya

[@claymoreroomba2921]

@@RizaLazar not gonna lie evangelions would rip these things apart piece by piece

[@stormtroopercarl6631]

the aliens died from Aid's.

[@owaine-changaming]

Stormtrooper Carl yeah I think they abducted Charlie sheen

[@nickbrowning3270]

Jack Luke please add , and . To make it readible(not making fun of you im not a native speaker either)

[@butterpecanisfire]

Jack Luke huh all those people at the begining beginning of the movie AIDS and Cancer and uncureable diseases.... I bet ....

[@K.Marie119]

Jack Luke Minor nit pick... cancer/lukemia are curable. It just takes treatment specific to the type of cancer and thei genetic mutations that are causing it. "The cure for cancer" is a misnomer. There is no such thing as one single treatment that will cure all types of cancer. Each type is disease unto itself and responds to different treatments (radiation, different chemotherapy drugs, immunotherapy) Furthermore, even patients with the same type of cancer respond differently to the same treatments. Chemo is actually very specific to the types of mutations causing the problem. There are many kinds of Chemotherapy. The idea that Chemotherapy is always the same is common misconception. (I'm a pharmacy tech with certification for mixing the chemo medications)

[@stormtroopercarl6631]

+Billy McAuliffe Maaaaayybee

[@ezioauditore9461]

This movie and the tripods terrified me as a kid. Yes you can nitpitck and criticise the story. But when I watched it, I felt I was immersed in this terrifying atmosphere, the film was so atmospheric, even the beginning intro to it was all mysterious and creepy.

[@SynthVoice]

Ezio Auditore Same here. I saw it on TV with my grandma...

[@stotch9696]

Ezio Auditore im still terrified

[@j.fragoso7451]

The thing that terrified me the most was the sound that the alien machines made.

[@jeng4893]

J.Fragoso YES! It was always the sound that terrified me as a kid!

[@EpicBlackflame07]

J.Fragoso Holyshit this. Fuck this right here. Terrified shit out of me as a kid

[@kingseekerbackup3085]

Aliens: *exist* Bacteria: Iam about to end this man's whole carrier

[@legomandalorian6487]

XD

[@DomR1997]

And the battleship too

[@BublySofaPotato]

"They've been watching us for thousands of years" Yeah, well they must have the average IQ of a human to not see the snow storms we have.

[@dynestis2875]

I hate it when people call the vaporization in this movie a 'plot hole'. Its not, if you re-watch the movie and think a little about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. First lets sum up the main instances where the aliens zap everyone: The first is from the point where they emerge from the ground, all the way up to the ferry disaster. The second main instance is the epic hill battle scene. Here is why, atleast to me, the vaporization makes sense: We see that the alien storms disable our electronics and cars, which means it greatly disables our mobility. The aliens then come up and apparently blast the heck out of everyone and everything at random. We see this leading upto and during the ferry scene. And this scene is KEY. Look where everybody is going! A LAKE! Us humans move much slower in water and are therefore even more immobilized. To me it seems like the aliens are herding us to these places where we are trapped and easily surrounded, since it is in this scene where we first really experience the hentai tentacles. All these humans were such an easy grab, all led to this place by the fear and terror of seeing our loved ones getting incinerated. Another element that supports this theory is the fact that on the other side of the lake, where everybody is trying to flee towards, the people from that direction are trying to flee AWAY from there towards the direction our main characters just came from. Why? Because they too are being chased into this area. The aliens are simply scaring us and directing us to areas where they can surround and collect/manage us much more effectively. The second main instance is ofcourse the hill battle and the reason why theyre shooting everything here is easy: the aliens are getting shot at by lots and lots of puny humans in puny tanks and what not. If we were shot at by an inferior force, we would nuke the fuck out of them aswell just to show them who'se boss. Besides, the aliens arent just killing everyone. We see a few scenes later (in movie time it would be later that night and the following days) more tripods scavenging trough all the houses and basements and actively hunting the people around. So there ya have it, this is why I think the vaporization is definitely not a plot hole, but more of a tactic. You are ofcourse welcome to disagree :)

[@nostrum6410]

much, much better theory

[@dazedigital]

I agree, but my theory is more of a question.... How the hell do those shields work, i never got a true answer to how they work....

[@Gary-pe4ce]

XxMCgamingxX Unknown probably the head has some projector that creates a dome which happens to be invisible

[@Gary-pe4ce]

Id say the vaporization is because it was testing out if its weapons still work incase there is a bigger threat to them, but the part about herding them down to the ferry only to ambushed them with a tripod underwater is actually a good theory. To add on to that about the hilltop battle or that bit where you get an overhead shot (right before a tripod walked by without seeing the trio miraculously) from a distance people still getting zapped. They dont want a single human being left on the planet and they probably couldnt carry too many people inside their cages, though they harvest on the go, they dont want the hassle of letting humans hide in hard to reach places only for them to get out and expose themselves to the bacteria

[@brixitz9722]

Your theory is much better then the one he explained in the video. Not trying to hate, but this one you explained right here made much more sense than the blood type.

[@cernstormrunner7263]

I hate the "buried tripods" thing. You mean, with all the digging and construction we've done over the last hundred years and we never uncovered one?

[@chuch5762]

neil armstrong maybe theyre really really REALLY deep

[@jamesricker3997]

They might not have been there that long. Nanotechnology programed to assemble a tripod in a few days, when the work is completed the Martians come down to pilot them

[@xornegatronix916]

The buried tripod concept was the true strength of this film. Build your tools and bury them deep.. no one would ever look for aliens coming up from below the ground. When the world is ready to harvest, a surprise climb up from a mile down would possibly be far less detectable than craft flying in from space. Besides, they could have seeded life here with plans to come harvest it millions of years later and situated the machinery in very undetectable locations. We borrowed this concept for Resistance the Fall of Man and it opened up tons of ideas for story and timeline scenarios.

[@potato511]

or if they we're already here to bury them what we're they waiting for? Like there is actually 0 reason to wait. If they wanted to wait for the population to grow why not breed them like cows? And if they had been there already why weren't they killed by bacteria and viruses from the first visit?!

[@Gary-pe4ce]

Benjamin Lafever the virus and bacteria is caused by humans, they visted the earth before humans. Now i dont know if spilberg was using the "adam & eve" or darwin's human evolution theory in this movie as to how humans come about

[@marcelltoing8363]

in the ferry scene, there's a first aid woman talking through a megaphone about blood donations

[@jacobmeans1560]

You made me laugh because what if she is a alien that just took over a human body or something like that 🤣😂😅

[@makeitsonumberone1358]

Irony lol

[@snowymexican8218]

Jacob Means anyone wanna give blood donations? Of like all of your blood, just so you know... no one is hurt it’s just so we have it... no ones injured but like just Incase ya know? Also only be AB+ blood please

[@TommyLellan]

Hannah and Lindsay’s mom

[@bp_cherryblossomtree723]

Marcell Toing and the river scene where the daughter saw a bunch of dead people floating in the river

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

I love this movie. It's Spielberg's silent masterpiece. And I absolutely HATED it when I first saw it in theatres.

[@sweetmelons2951]

deadass didn't sleep for weeks when I first saw this.

[@pinstripecool34]

Same 😐

[@ozbej5988]

How old were you

[@gatsbymaguire]

I was 13 when I experienced this lol.

[@gatsbymaguire]

@Devin McMullen ikr.

[@lt.duckeditchannel2473]

I thought the movie was Cool 👍

[@allumallium8136]

Same

[@biggiecheddar8815]

They’re back! HIDE THE O POSITIVES YES SEARGENT

[@luluparl1245]

what do you mean?

[@milserpentine]

@@luluparl1245 Imma give you a solid bruh

[@turdmanjones59]

@@luluparl1245 I think he means is that the aliens were looking for a very certain type of blood... Blood type O positive, I'm not too sure though lol

[@luluparl1245]

@@turdmanjones59 🤔🤔🤔

[@luluparl1245]

@@turdmanjones59 blod type 0+ seems to be less vulnerable to covid 19 indeed

[@djmace9029]

This movie fascinated me when I first watched it, but the aliens in the basement scene always scared me as a kid. I first watched this when I was about 10 and it used to be a favourite of mine despite it scaring me.

[@eiyhka8779]

The tripod horn just makes me smile..Love it 👽

[@ultraflamefinitysteve4760]

I agree

[@kieranlindsay1220]

the horn spielberg took from the BBC show Tripods late 70s/early 80s

[@beasuazoo]

They used that in ROBLOX -9 year olds

[@theminisimmer]

@@kieranlindsay1220 They didn't take it from that. The war machines made a sound described as "Oh-laaaa" in the books, and this is their take on that sound.

[@Zedrophobia]

Only good thing in the movie, the Tripods and the noises they make

[@Ronathanrongers]

Idk I think the aliens dying from germs is a good ending it sorta like when the Europeans came to the americas

[@shinra9845]

Europeans brought the germs tho, they have been through it all since they have been living in disease ridden cities for centuries.

[@Dadecorban]

Well for starters, it was the native inferior race which died from the diseases of the invader in your example. Which makes it a bad analog. K2 and K3 civilizations have 100 problems but forgetting 1950s microbiology isn't one of them.

[@spicec3613]

Titus Veridius “native inferior”. Bruh

[@Dadecorban]

@@spicec3613 Obviously a reference to intrinsic civilization features; population doubling rate, technology, institutions, and population density as it relates to disease prevalence and immunity. I see your mind immediately goes to the racial self worth angle though. Amirite? ^.^

[@tmanoutdoors8277]

That’s actually what the original book is based on

[@Illier1]

Well in the book they could only watch us with telescopes. On their dying homeword they never experienced plague or realize their was such an extensive microverse. You have to realize at the time microbiology and immunology were relatively new concepts. In modern day it may seem stupid but perhaps the aliens never experienced infection like earth.

[@kabob0077]

Illier1 Didn't They get rid of pathogens on Mars in the book?

[@insertnamehere1865]

Yea in the book they were able to remove every pathogen and after millions of years grew or evolved unimmume to them due to a long period of time of not experiencing them.

[@therookie7401]

Huh, the blood type theory does make sense. I rewatched the scene where the first Tripod shows up and starts vaporizing people. And as Ray is running away people right next to him are getting vaporized, but he is not. He was literally standing between two people in one shot and one got vaporized and then the other, but he was completely ignored.

[@MarshalTennerWinter]

Nah. There wasn't anything wrong with this flick. It's fine.

[@trashf1re]

I sincerely hope that's sarcasm, or someone's gonna get beat with the "unbearably shitty child actors" stick.

[@juuloveh]

Jimmy McRustler I agree with Marshal.

[@averylegitperson6305]

Me to I find it thine

[@deezenuts9094]

movie was good man

[@ProjectVRD]

Jimmy. The girl, she was realistic. You are used to unrealistic chartacters and I bet you need to be handheld through films with the use of shitty corny lines. The boy was annoying though.

[@SirAroace]

One reason it was more logical the aliens in the book then did not predict the germ problem is because the Martians where not that advanced by SF standards, they did not have FTL or real space ships. The Invasion was one of desperation, literally shooting themself at earth in hope of escaping their dying world.

[@2dubentertainment]

I remember seeing this movie when I was 6, pretty sure I shit my pants

[@Primus-kz3ri]

This guy sounds like he’s running out of breath.

[@jamesburns6605]

The ending is a copout, it is only the ending of the book. And a very good ending.

[@ImDirtyDan89]

It still has better rating than justice league

[@elijahaitaok8624]

Kieran Cheale hell Twilight is more compitent than Justice Leage

[@BungieStudios]

I love the presentation of this film. I find it more terrifying than most generic horror films. The idea of being hunted by an unstoppable force is entertaining to me.

[@rawkmode6315]

That moment when everyone starts running from the Tripods for the first time and Tom Cruise is booking it down the street with that, "Fuck, fuck!" look on his face was pretty spot on, lol.

[@noob7220]

I love how dark this movie is

[@BPanio]

Schneizel 00 i think i was 12 when i saw it and it really scared me. So much so that i left the movie to use the bathroom and tried to waste as much time there as i could lol. And the scene i cam back in at? The one with the fucking camera lol. This is lefit the only alien movie that still freaks me out. Independance day has humour in it, Alien has basically only 1 alien and they take it down fairly easily at the end.

[@bobbywog]

The book is scarier.

[@ktcarl]

How come the aliens didn't wear some kind of protective suit like our astronauts do? They were doomed because of their inability to think things through.

[@benurban8875]

Because despite thier technological advances over humanity they thought us as nothing but animals so when they came to earth they thought they could kill all of humanity without them caring about the bacteria so they were defeated by overconfidence and bacteria

[@Whimsy3692]

@@benurban8875 Overconfidence is a good word.

[@TGM_Productions]

Read The Book.

[@ktcarl]

@@benurban8875 Their overconfidence shows a lack of intelligence. They almost behave as if the story writer was from the Earth's past.

[@xLeeroycranex]

Seems like their tripods were more like 'exoskeletons' and they had to swim in that orange liquid while driving it. The mystery is what I like about it, though. For all we know, they were in cryogenic sleep on some starship only to wake up after millions of years....getting beamed down for a risky mission they were unprepared for. In today's world, the Russians went into Ukraine with superior military tech and got whipped because they were unprepared and lacked logistics. Same thing could be true here - no logistics, just carry out the job. This could've been the last breath of their civilization and they had no choice but to try and no backup arriving.

[@jonpen9821]

Why does he sound like he's always running out of breath at the end of each word..

[@ericellerbrock9350]

Jon Vinnzi Peñaflorida trank you. He sounds like he exhaled and then decided to record a sentence. Jesus besides the faulty logic of his arguments the faulty breathing makes me want to not finish this video

[@blackhatiscoming9026]

Id say he sounds just like me when I talk so I see no problem

[@deerpvu9330]

He needs his inhaler

[@robj7481]

The biggest problem is the premise of this movie. Alien vehicles buried underground for thousands of years and all our of digging and tunneling and we NEVER stumbled on one? Also, how could these aliens know human life would evolve on Earth when they planted the machines long before we got here? And you can't say "they planted life" because they are clearly evolved much differently than we are.

[@eriktran9682]

Rick Jasper 1. They set those things underground for millions of years 2. Observe us from their planet 3. Wait That's my theory

[@cdz3210]

Rick Jasper you can watch a dude create a homunculus that is extremely different from a human. He did end up planting life that was wildly different from our physical structure

[@candyfordinner7216]

The deepest humans have ever dug in the ground was like 7 miles so it's not unbelievable that we never dug one up

[@rubenleavell]

candyfordinner72 true but we dont know how deep they buried their machines, I mean its not like every hole we dig was 7 miles.

[@americapatriot8222]

Mabey humans have stumbled across them but of course the governments would keep it secret from their people. Mabey in this movie the roswell crash was an tripod that somehow activated and blew through the ground. Its just a theory though

[@The_Cosmic_Jellyfish]

First of all I don't understand why people hate this movie so much. It's actually really good. (I will admit, the kids are annoying af but that's really about it.) Not 100% like the book, but its still really good. Besides, it's not supposed to take place in Victorian England like the book, OR follow the same characters. It was supposed to be a different protagonist set in modern day to make the film more horrifying due to it being set in our present (at the time). Yes, he did leave out chunks of the book, however most book to movie adaptations do that. Not to say that its the right thing to do, but Hollywood is Hollywood. Secondly, the people thinking that the ending sucked, clearly never read the book in the first place. The aliens are killed off because they can't handle the bacteria our planet has, and the only reason we don't die off from it is because we've been here since forever and have been able to adapt, whereas the martians have not, making them more susceptible to dying from the cold or flu. There is science behind it, it's not lazy writing. The ending wasn't a cop out, it was true to the original story. I've been a pretty big fan of the book and this movie for a long while, so maybe I'm bias. But anyone who hasn't read the story or listened to the original audio broadcast (which you can find on KZbin) shouldn't be one to talk about it's ending. All in all, this movie had FANTASTIC atmosphere and did a great job making the viewers feel anxious and paranoid like they were actually there. The setting and real-to-life fear that they displayed with the humans reactions to the aliens/destruction were phenomenal. Even if it wasn't entirely true to the book, the key plot points are still there. And as I said before, Hollywood is Hollywood. I personally really enjoyed this film. Just my two cents. Great video btw :)

[@marctelfer6159]

I actually quite liked that, given the changes that were made, that they stuck to the original ending, but the problem I had, which the Theorizer points out here, is that given that the Tripods in this version had been on Earth for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, with the aliens waiting to attack, it would have been quite an oversight for them to NOT take into account the threat of disease. In the book and the original movie death by disease made sense, with their invasion being one of desperation caused by a dying Mars. They HAD to come here or they would have died on Mars with a habitable planet a metaphorical stone's throw away. In the 2005 film they have time, hundreds or thousands of years to plan out every detail of their invasion and they forgot about the potential for disease? At least for me, that's the problem with the ending, i.e. it makes less sense in context than it did in the 1953 film and the book.

[@shaunrian7126]

I ask...WHY TEH FUCK THEY HATE IT! I mean OMG!...I never read the book but The story is perfect, they came to Earth for DNA, and World Destruction not only that...They Came to earth for blood and thats all I now I dont wanna copyright your guys things

[@thesonicravn870]

Nakriim Because it was poorly made

[@shaunrian7126]

Possibly but still FUCKING AWESOME

[@trashf1re]

Nakriim Don't excuse bad films just because they have some good spectacles. You're only encouraging Hollywood to churn out more shit. For instance, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a piece of fried shit, but it did have some cool action scenes. While you may enjoy WotW (2005), don't go around mindlessly praising it - acknowledge its flaws. On the flipside, I can say that it at least vaguely stuck to the original plotline, and that it was a victim of Hollywood of its time (as TheSonicRvn correctly put it) but me acknowledging that it does *some* things right doesn't excuse it.

[@darthsidious8926]

bro i cant belive people dont know this masterpiece.

[@paulinejeann4058]

Maybe they're not land creatures, that's why fluid comes out of the pods. Taking a guess. No? *Ok... I'll go home* Lol

[@jasonbarrera2053]

Pauline Dubois I don't think so, i think i recall the aliens get out of the tripods and search the basement. i haven't seen this movie in awhile so i could just be talking rubbish.

[@paulinejeann4058]

Cristiano Ronaldo No you're right, I forgot that scene. Haha

[@direwolfgaming4905]

Pauline Dubois if you watch the movie the aliens go on land so they could be amphibious

[@thebookworm8574]

Those aliens have a very shine amphibious-like skin, and seem to like humid/wet places, so i guess they're some kind of species that need to be wet or humid to live, otherwise, they'll dry and die

[@bastobasto4866]

Yeah. They are probably like the frogs. They can go outside but need to go into water some-time to make their skin breath ( or something like that )

[@picklerick4944]

I always think of Jeff Wayne's musical version whenever someone mentions war of the worlds

[@israeldiaz2392]

Pickle Rick The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one, he said 🎶🎶

[@JeffDeWitt]

That is the best and most accurate dramatic presentation of the HG Wells story ever. The Orson Wells radio broadcast and the 1953 movie were really good too, although only based on the story. The less said about the awful 2005 movie the better...

[@tinoizquierdo5646]

Pickle Rick i was in it

[@notyourangel1016]

Weirdly that nusical was the most accurate adaption of the book.

[@davidknight2104]

I watched it last night on stage in Manchester it was EPIC!!

[@Charlotte-ev6dj]

i watched this movie so much as a kid

[@calebsmith7202]

Charlotte Coonen sameeeee

[@mikehump1976]

That's crazy. This movie was amazing. The story is about a father trying to keep his estranged kids alive in a time of uncertain doom and by the end of it all he proves himself to be a loving and caring father. It's not really about the aliens.

[@FionaBorgiaVandenheuvelGoode]

One of my favorites. Actually terrifying

[@heavymeddle28]

Yes. I don't get why people have such issues with it?.. I like it

[@2O100-y1z]

it's the only psychological horror movie to actually scare me

[@vgovger4373]

I didn't understand why people kept running into the battle area between the US Army and the aliens. I would've gone the other way.

[@MelkorPT]

What for? If the Earth armies were defeated we would all be dead, might as well die fighting or even simply standing side by side with our troops.

[@vgovger4373]

@@MelkorPT ...they were civilians and people with children???

[@ganados0]

They got sick of running and being terrorized so decided to pick up a gun and fight. It happens.

[@shariqhasan6220]

They probably went there to see those machines get destroyed which might comfort them after all the losses but it was all in vain.

[@bigtravis6159]

No1 went to the battlefields The tripods were going after the people and the military was trying to slow their advance, as directly said in the movie”

[@padrelovesgames858]

i realy liked this movie.

[@talentlesscommentermdxxvii9419]

Same

[@johnpaulgrey960]

Yea same

[@juliuscruz6452]

Same

[@JonMinaj]

Same

[@tearlo234]

Same

[@Izadochi]

This film has literally haunted my nightmares since I first saw it when I was a toddler (I'm currently 21 and will still dream of this movie at least once a year. I'm not exaggerating in the slightest. The aesthetic of the movie and that damn noise... I guess it was just too much for young me.

[@carriegoodman5450]

welcome to the club

[@michaelkatt1319]

Tripod go brrrrrr

[@amysbees6686]

@Izado What scene(s) do you dream of? For me, hanging out in the basement was THE scariest part of the whole movie!

[@MAKEITINAMERICA111]

You and I are probably around the same age and I had the same experience! I'm 22 now and just re watched this yesterday after many many years. I can't remember when I first saw this movie, but I was YOUNG. I probably saw this when it came out on direct TV when I was 5 or 6. I had a nightmare from this movie and I can still remember it to this day. It was of the scene where the ferry tips over and all of these people are trapped in their cars as they sink to the bottom of the lake. I dreamt that I was one of those people. The water was slowly filling up our car and one of those radios that was in the 2nd Jurassic Park movie had floated by our window. Probably insinuating that the radio was our only communication device to call for help. Truly terrifying as a kid. I still remember waking up in my childhood bedroom after that nightmare. Out of everything in this movie, you would never guess that the ferry scene was the one to give a child nightmares. Alas, it did and now I'm afraid of lakes and oceans.

[@ecso828]

Your so-called "plot holes......" 1. Germs killed the aliens. Well, the movie IS based on the book. What happened in the book? What happened in the original movie? Germs killed the aliens. Not a plot hole at all. Simply saying, "well I believe the aliens should have... whatever," is not a plot hole. So, absolutely no problem here. The ending was fine. Genius, actually. 2. Aliens evaporated some humans and captured others. What idiot thinks this is a plot hole? In every war ever fought on Earth, some enemy are killed, some are captured. Thin the population, destroy any resistance, then capture the enemy as you need. This is not a plot hole in anyway at all. Not even close. Quite the opposite, it's expected during an invasion. Saying this is a plot hole is very stupid. 3. The aliens waited too long to come back. Ok, I'm going to repeat this.... Simply saying, "well I believe the aliens should have... whatever," is not a plot hole. The entire movie is told from the perspective of a divorced guy with his two children, fighting to stay alive. What very little we learn of the alien motivation is shown through the divorced guy's experience. Not even one tiny section of the movie is told from the perspective of the aliens. So, trying to come up with all these idiotic theories about the details of the aliens motivations or plans is very stupid. Yes, the kids were annoying. No doubt. But that's because they were two snotty kids of divorced parents. In other words, it was the characters. The movie was well designed, well executed, and plays out very well on screen. The plot holes you try to outline are not plot holes at all.

[@batmanlaughed800]

Agree with everything except that the movie plays out well on screen. It tries too hard to make the every man some kind of hero-dad. That just didn't work for me. The fact that he runs across town while the entire state of NJ is exploding behind him? Come on. Then he talks his way out of being shot by the guy stealing their car? Don't think so, and that nonsense with the hand grenades was typical Hollywood horse shit. he might have had time to pull maybe two pins before they would have blown up in his face. Then to top off the sundae of silliness they have him notice that the shields are down, and not the soldiers who are firing at the god damn things. Please. Cinematically this movie was well put together, but story wise, not even a little bit. _______ But aside from that, yeah this guy doesn't really get the idea of a plot hole. It's just a phrase he's heard RLM and Nostalgia Critic use, and he threw it into his review. It's like people who say the death star weakness in Star Wars is a plot hole, NOPE. It's a story telling device that's all. And not one that needed to be retconned by an entire movie either at that.

[@Kenshiroit]

The bacteria stuff its a plot hole im afraid and its not even genious its lazy since its the original ending of the book. Kinda ruin the movie for me. Hate when bullshit get thrown in just like that. They had to integrate the original ending with a new one more rational than a type 2-3 civilization just forgetting about bacteria. Utter bullshit

[@openedbeer]

Invasion? It was extermination. This was their plan.

[@HexDom]

Seby Ichim did you even watch the film..?

[@mightypingusta3390]

DkTheDominator it's both actually in the movie and the book they invade but also exterminate humanity seeing humans as pests

[@tomheath8994]

I love war of the worlds I have since I was little

[@zalrohglekgolo6149]

This movie was fantastic, also this movie seemed closer to the concept in the book then the other movie. The scenes they didn't include are the exposition the fans needed, like the New York scene.

[@szymonbollin5074]

GOLIATH is still a better war of the worlds movie

[@cobracommander6522]

I agree with you.

[@cobracommander6522]

@@szymonbollin5074 I liked both movies.

[@GoodGuyAlexx]

"2020 couldn't go any worse" March: coronavirus April:

[@HalfSight88]

Dakota fanning screaming high pitch squealing was the reason i didnt like it

[@mythicalumut6174]

i am gonna be honest, im afraid of dying and once i got a nightmare in the scene NO shield. I was driving the tripods and then the military shot javelin rockets. It was scary as hell

[@Danielkaas94]

Third person or cockpit view?

[@mythicalumut6174]

I dont quite remember as this was over a year ago

[@PrinceAlhorian]

Two hours of Fanning screaming her lungs out... This film had so much potential.

[@jwsmith53]

I wanted her vaporized.

[@scottjohnstone6204]

There's a scene on the ferry where what I think is a nurse shouts "We have more blood than we can use, unless you're O- Or RH- I think, and the RH- is supposed to be a hybrid line.

[@ozzFensen]

What the hell you talking about, the movie was awesome.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

The twist is a good thing. The idea is suppossed to be that something that is so known to us is deadly and alien to the actual aliens. (I think it's the common cold in one of the versions)

[@patriciaorellana6469]

Dude, I’ve been wondering so long about this move and re-read Wikipedia to help understand but this, it explains sooo much Thanx

[@damonolson1676]

Patricia Orellana well that's your problem: Wikipedia

[@shmeckle666]

Evaporated? I thought the people were incinerated-hence all the ash?

[@praise_kek340]

Evaporation does lead to materials into ash

[@babysmurf3160]

I was 5 when this movie came out and i loved it then and now! Despite the "lack of story", it uses your imagination to fit in the pieces lacking there of and the whole mystery and emotion behind the sudden prescience of this advanced alien race is exciting!

[@Crankiebox99]

I was still in the womb when this movie came out

[@StormFox_1]

@@Crankiebox99 when were you born?

[@John-mg5bg]

I was 13 when this came out.

[@freddiemercury7783]

I was 21 when this came out. Damn, only feels like yesterday i was going to the cinema to see this.

[@ScienceMan314]

I was -2 years old when this came out

[@estefanbravo2315]

Hello, My Mother played Sylvia in 1953 and will be very interested in this. Also the general area where Robbie was is filled with lakes and ponds. We think he jumped into one and held out.... Thank you for your take on the germ. People should read the book and understand that this is how it was written....

[@scottdoubleyou563]

May I say, your mom was a fox.

[@stevegust2100]

And your mom was the grandmother in this version. Actually I admired her acting in her reaction to seeing Rachel make it.

[@crestfallart]

2:56 Because they had no idea / they haven't been on the planet for thousands of years and haven't bothered to sample the air.

[@dinoricky5188]

Yeee

[@yigaelvidz6869]

I thought the grenades that exploded the tripod destroyed a connection between all the other tripods and they started losing connection and couldn’t be controlled by the aliens , also losing there shield , so then the tripods shutdown and fall and get destoyed . Lol thats what i thought was the reason that all the tripods started falling . Guess i was very very wrong 🤣 And BTW i found the ending pretty shitty , i mean how was the mom and there grandparents in there house looking like they were having thanksgiving ? 🤣 My opinion

[@goldenproductions7831]

Same

[@zanesanford2155]

Yea that part of the ending was really dumb

[@harluquis1229]

Lol i thought the same thing

[@wattsonsnessy2053]

I tought the same but i still wonder how a bactiria can demonitize the generetic shield of a machine even if they died to our deseases these machine should still be fully operationel

[@lilahdog568]

@@wattsonsnessy2053 the alien who controlled the shielding was probably dead. That, or they were so miserable from being sick that they deliberately turned off their shields and waited for people to put them out of their misery.

[@christiangreen2070]

I had to stop watching near the beginning. This movie was a masterpiece. Maybe YOU hate it, but most of us love it.

[@gustainchains]

I love it so mutch.Its my favourite alien movie

[@mr.alfredo4177]

It’s very awful to me

[@GamerBrinedQw4w9WgXcQ]

he was talking about the majority of people, not himself

[@vixiria2534]

Definitely one of my favorite sci-fye movies.

[@jaspr1999]

The movie was a little over 20 years old when I first watched it (1953 one) and it just blew my little mind. I was ALL about science fiction then. By the time this version came out I was very excited to see it... And terribly disappointed. None of the mystique or awe was present. This movie isn't bad it just has nothing to do with the title of the movie. I appreciate your theory as it does help, but I still can't see this movie having anything to do with the book or the first movie.

[@TheTheorizer]

yeah it's quite different

[@ashofedenofficial]

the mystique wouldn't be there because you already know what's going to happen in it.

[@robinhood5627]

yeah the 1953 one really was WAR of the worlds, they showed the battles and even dropping an atomic bomb on them to no avail. You see very little combat in the 2005 movie, I didn't mind that so much because it left things to your imagination and heavily implied combat was happening but it would have been nice to see something going down more than some planes shooting at something behind a hill and then flaming humvees rolling down the hill after.... We needed a camera on the other side of that hill.

[@ChuckCoy]

The focuse of this version was a father's love for his kids. Dad's could relate on a deep level giving this film a deep impact.

[@robinhood5627]

Yeah I get that, but my love for that girl's screams if it was my kid would have ended soon after the movie began lol

[@tango5275]

I loved this movie, it wasnt scary but the thought and motives behind what they were doing was terrifying

[@azizla2029]

"The aliens are not invaders, they're farmers" that's actually a good flipping theory