WHAT ARE THE TRIPODS in War of the Worlds? Fighting Machines Explained!

[@MrHulthen]

Welp, the video got butchered because Paramount claimed it. Sorry for the weird cuts guys.

[@cardigan9557]

I was just about to ask that

[@KennyPagley]

Ohhhh that explains it, seemed oddly short and the cuts whew boy.

[@kinggojiragodzilla8071]

Oh that explains. I just thought u were bad at editing

[@MrHulthen]

😂

[@christopherhall5361]

Paramount are usually the fastest ones to make copyright claims, they give you 1 warning and after that whatever topic you were working on gets a total cease and desist order

[@theloweffortchannel7211]

The original book Tripods are actually really overpowered. They are described as moving fast as an express train, their beams travel at lightspeed, the only way to know where the beam is is to follow the burning targets, and the compact energy source in the ray gun vaporized an entire pond of water instantly when dropped. The Martians also had machines which can turn mud into construction materials. The Tripods in the book were also dodging artillery at point blank, and most tricks only work once, one time soldiers ambushed them and took out a few, after that the Tripods just gassed every inch of land to prevent a troop ambush. The sequel book had the Martians use empty cylinders to smash every population center before landing themselves, and in the sequel they only left earth due to fear of the Jovians.

[@fitrianhidayat]

what's a jovians

[@dynestis2875]

@@fitrianhidayat a tertiary species introduced in the sequel, they serve as on-par or superior rivals to the martians

[@markgreiser464]

@@fitrianhidayat , Jupiter.

[@rainbowtroll5749]

Who or what are the Jovians?

[@rvx5392]

There is a book sequel??!

[@Trippyricky69]

I think these were harvester tripods planted underneath ground,cant imagine how powerful their battle machines will be

[@kesterfae5447]

As revealed by the production teams: They are only two variants made for the film, the Uber machines used as commanders (seen in the hill battle and briefly rising from the Hudson) and the regular machines. They are multitools, equipped to harvest, terraform and wreak destruction. This is all in a desperate attempt to save their species, not a general invasion for the sake of expansion.

[@lekatte]

@@kesterfae5447 haha! I knew the Hudson seen and the Hill battle, the Tripods were different, they have 4 lights, 2 on each side of the head, and 1 in the middle, I knew it was a different variant!

[@lazypizzaship8911]

My only question is since the tripods were buried long ago. How has their tech developed since then? Would they have a Pentapod by then?

[@lefiryt2902]

How did know one see it underground

[@kesterfae5447]

@@lefiryt2902 They were buried deeper than we have dug. Running theory is that the Tripods were encased inside of a cylinder capsule, and when activated it worked its way to the surface, opened and the Tripod emerged.

[@bryanmartinez6600]

Makes mechs thousands of years ago Can travel through lightning No night vision... They missed some steps.

[@leonelvaa3169]

The aliens just Love to look more menacingly lol

[@awhahoo]

reminds me of when I forget paracutes in KSP, or when I forget staging, or when I forget to check delta v by the time I get there, its too late.

[@nattim1173]

Honestly I feel them though. I’ll go through a whole game of Civilization 6 and be starting space travel only to finally research wheels in 2024 or something.

[@chaztitan6457]

they didnt travel through lightning, they use it to hide.

[@dynestis2875]

@@chaztitan6457 there is literally a scene that shows them being transported in capsules through the lightning in the movies -_-

[@SharksSJ408]

This movie is so underrated. It’s such a bleak and realistic depiction of what an alien apocalypse would be like.

[@Sefinternal]

Exactly.

[@lukesanchez9961]

I like the lack of cheesiness in the movie but a realistic alien invasion would probably just involve neutron bombs or orbital bombardment of our planet, while we die like sitting ducks. Also they would've prepared with immunization before they expose themselves to our biosphere.

[@HECKproductions]

realistic hahahahaha clearly a child

[@SharksSJ408]

@@HECKproductions Ironically, your snarky comment comes off as both arrogant and childish. Obviously I wasn't referring to the concept of an alien apocalypse, which in of itself is not realistic, but rather to the way it is depicted in this movie. The overall tone of the film is perfectly executed, and I think Spielberg does a fantastic job of portraying the angst and desolation of an alien apocalypse.

[@bradwilliams1691]

As far as I'm concerned this version isn't underrated enough.

[@jacobwhelan45]

Never really thought about it until now, Reapers share a lot of resemblance to the tripods. The biggest difference being that Reapers are AI and Tripods are Vehicles but otherwise are fairly similar

[@hmiguelangeldiazlugo393]

Very true. I was Playing Mass Effect not too long ago and it suddenly hit me when I was on the third game. It was very jarring at that moment, lol. I feel like Hollywood could take a page out of that and use it. There's some potential in mass extinction producing machines from space. I don't know, its weird.

[@Dak1624]

It's obvious that Bioware took inspiration from either a book or a movie.

[@randybaumery-u5r]

Reapers seem to be more terrifying.

[@Divine_general_raga]

Honestly these guys would have won if they used ai instead of pilots. They only lost to a case of the sniffles 😂

[@bensmall6548]

It seems that the tripods themselves don’t produce an emp. As seen in the ferry scene, all the lights and vehicles were still working despite there being three tripods in the area.

[@leonelvaa3169]

Maybe its also a protection for itself the magnetic stuff of vehicles wouldn't cause game to them but it also allows those vehicles to work

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

Lots of different theories, I have two. First one is that the Aliens let the humans congregate so that the harvesting will be greater. Secondly, the lighting was never intended as a weapon, as when the tripods were buried the thought of us being so advanced probably wasn’t on the mind. The EMP was only a beneficial side effect.

[@Seriona1]

@@thearmoredgeorgian2736 I tend to agree that the EMP is also a side effect of their technology and not necessarily a primary means of attack. Like our nuclear weapons, we didn't know the bomb going off would also benefit the explosion by busting EMP so that even if shit physically survived, their electronics wouldn't.

[@allenharper2928]

3? You mean 9. 3 in the Hudson, 2 in the town blasting away, 3 more come over the hill to heat ray the people trying to get away, and one stomps by Ray and his kids on it's way to join the fun.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Yeah the EMP was due to the lightning they used.

[@westrim]

2:00 I'm late, but I want to note that the tripods have two energy weapons, the heat ray and the wave motion gun. The heat ray can vaporize people and toss cars a bit. The wave motion gun is what obliterates structures like the freeway overpass. Think of it like the machine gun and the main cannon on a tank.

[@momsspaghetti7719]

@@JohnCruelty almighty pushhh

[@westrim]

@@JohnCruelty I'm talking only about the films.

[@thomasvleminckx]

Where are you getting this information? Makes sense, though... that bridge destruction scene looked a bit "over the top" when compared to the damage usually seen inflicted by the heatrays.

[@squirreltamer2548]

Ah yes the “Fus ro da!” Beam.

[@masonmanfree7804]

I think the only time the so called wave motion gun was used was during the getaway scene in the beginning with the van. That whole sequence was made for a super bowl commercial so they made it way over the top. I think they only have ray guns, and the house/bridge explosion was just the design team taking a few liberties to make it more interesting for the commercial. I feel like if they had that, they would have used it more throughout the movie.

[@joe5767]

If they made a sequel to this movie in the near future it would be pointless because humanity would develop emp bombs and bypass the energy shield. Rendering the tripods vulnerable to human weapons

[@Dylan-mt5jr]

The machines are millions years old who knows what better technology they could have now

[@leonelvaa3169]

@@Dylan-mt5jr well they could have satellites are better telescope now think about it they used lighting to put pots in the machines like is it a tool to recognize and organism or to transport a mind link to clones

[@deusex2005]

For me, I think EMPs won't work. The aliens use lightning as teleportation, it would make sense if the tripod had protection against EMPs because of this. However, atomic weapons should be incredibly effective, not because they can penetrate the shield, but because radiation most likely will kill the aliens.

[@utterlystupid8618]

Nah just send in teenagers and save the world

[@vlr_1374]

True. Most sci-fi films depict human militaries as weak ass jokes.

[@kozak1789]

All I can say is I find the design and engineering of these machines to be ridiculous beautiful, the movement is soo fluid and gracious, the team themselves have said it, but stil, they are magnificent to look at, I just wish we would have seen one hell of a lot more action with the tripods that what we got back in 05 in cinema

[@anthonydeas2173]

I agree... I wished it was less about Ray and his family and more about the Martians :)

[@hungryteddy1657]

I really wanna know how inside it looks and work. I feel like it’s bio-mechanical filled when we’re showed fluids following out. Also quite possibly controlled telepathically inside

[@ronaldbeck1762]

" design and engineering of these machines to be ridiculous beautiful " How about just ... ridiculous. You really think it could walk without falling over ?

[@ronaldbeck1762]

@@watamelony ... I'm saying that those tripods can't walk. The size of the huge top portion and the slow moving legs make it highly unstable.

[@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad]

​@@ronaldbeck1762 Thier legs aren't even joints lmao, it's a huge tentacle legs which it's flexible so it can balance itself while walking. You're those type of Idiots who will be shocked after realising Elephants are very heavy and yet it can walk and balance itself despite thier legs are full muscle.

[@Archarium]

If I remember correctly the 2005 one are harvesters imagine what their war machine will look like

[@HalitorianEmpire]

Actually in the 2005 one there were a different tripods, average (one in start of movie) the harvesters and the warriors (which are the ones that have 5 lights and flatter head)

[@zatnikutel635]

@@HalitorianEmpire i cannot believe it ! there are multiple types of those tripods ? why i have never noticed it ? you just gave me a reason to watch this movie 1001th time !

[@Gwynlordofcinder1234]

0:03 Thats that It has a diffrence from the harvesters

[@xhotcheetodudex]

@@HalitorianEmpire there’s actually 3 types, the fighters, exterminators, and harvesters, all with small differences between the 3 from being height, armament, and physical differences

[@TheSuperhomosapien]

I just imagine their dedicated War Machines to be the War Machines from the 1953 George Pal War of the Worlds movie.

[@paulnbrenbeven7972]

The HG Wells tripods had no force field and were able to be damaged or destroyed by naval gun fire or artillery. It is just that in the books timeline there wasn't that much of these weapons available.

[@Seriona1]

I think the movie just had to make something in order to justify the modern technology of military tech otherwise the tripods minus the shields appear to be very weak and easy to take out.

[@scorp77snake]

@@Seriona1 Makes sense in the book the tech was cannons and muskets with slow reloads they weren't much of a threat , they had shields for the 53 version as well since tech had advanced so much.

[@cpob2013]

@@scorp77snake well not muskets. It was 1898. Think ww1. Bolt action rifles, howitzer, maxim machine guns.

[@CaptainM792]

The tripods in the Tom Cruise movie were all equipped with deflector shields.

[@Aerophina]

I remember watching this as a kid and loving this movie, the tripods were SO CREEPY, kind of reminds me vaguely of reapers from mass effect, especially that eerie sound they make. "BWWWWAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMP!"

[@MrHulthen]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@nicoleburns9652]

The 2005 version tripod sounds like a foghorn

[@Habeev07]

I literally watched this upon release in a DRIVE-IN... super creepy. I was expecting one to take the screen out the whole time.

[@axjagfilms]

The book describes the Tripod sound as a deep “Aloo” and the martians’ voice as an “Ulla!” You can hear some “Ulla” noises once in a while in Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds Musical.

[@Enraptored-]

@@nicoleburns9652 I made a joke about it sounding like a digeridoo (or however you spell it) and turns out it was actually an electronically altered one

[@Dougie-Jones]

I’ve always wondered what the interior of these things looked like.

[@Sefinternal]

There was an old Russian video from 2011 showing the inside of the tripods and the Martians controlling them. I don't know where I can find it now.

[@dynestis2875]

@@Sefinternal ah yes! It was called "invasion in murmansk", that was all non-canon though

[@Johnpork.0]

Well there’s a lot of water in them

[@jxsh03]

Watch Scary Movie 4

[@Centurian-mt1ob]

@@jxsh03 😂😂😂

[@i_am_the_divorce_01]

The lethal black smoke that was in the original adaptation is in the 2005 version. It was human blood that was sprayed from the tripods, which isn't dangerous but was another creative thing that Spielberg twisted around (like the tripods coming from underneath the ground from a lighting storm, instead of a metor). Also on a side note I'm surprised there hasn't been a game or more of this version of the tripods.

[@tacticalfloridaman8595]

Oh, there is a game in the works, I’ll link it on a separate reply.

[@i_am_the_divorce_01]

@@tacticalfloridaman8595 oh ik about the game it looks fucking amazing (it's coming out in August) I'm just surprised their hasn't been one made by now

[@silentmenace416]

I believe there were 3 different types of tripods. The 1st one, seen in the beginning of the movie, does not have the visible cages, but didnt appear to have tentacles, possibly were not deployed. The 2nd, Ill call it the harvester first seen in the boat scenes, does have the visible cages and makes the effort to capture humans instead of instantly vaporizing. The 3rd one, the behemoth, is bigger then the other two and instead of having 3 head lights it has 5 and is probably the main battle tank. All three have the tentacles and heat rays, so maybe the tentacles are multi role instead of singular use to capture people. When Ray peaked out the window, you can see the tripods using the tentacles for some kind of examination so not only were they trying to kill humans, they possibly were also scientists? I just dont know.

[@gianmarcodeluca6912]

You mean that very unsettling scene where Ray Is at the window and the tripod's tentacles are like probing everywhere on the ground outside, i think they might be studying the surface of the Planet/see how or where they could harvest the "plants"/seeing if there are humans hiding in the fields or bushes on the ground I agree with your tripods categorizing But I think the First kind and the second one are the same machine, only they have different purposes for different moments of the invasion, which was all planned, a mass kill first, and then, once we were weak/tired/fewer: the harvesting

[@allenharper2928]

I just figured they were tilling the ground ahead of growing more red weed.

[@TAURELLIAN]

@@allenharper2928 it’s likely they put the tripods here before humans ever evolved. they just happened to turn on and bump into us. maybe they were a cryogenic reserve of their species that was set to activate after a certain number of years, traveling to a green and habitable world with no known rivals. it’s possible these tripods are weak by their standards. upon awakening, they likely made modifications to their science craft & terraforming craft, but their mining lasers & basic shields were more than enough to protect them from human kinetic weapons. they were learning about the species they were wiping out as they went about it, collecting members of that species for unknown purposes.

[@Danix350]

the 3rd is now known as uberpod (I don't know where they got the name from)

[@retardedidiot1]

the harvester is just a normal tripod, tripods can retract their heatrays. and yes the other one is an uberpod only seen on the hill battle

[@NevadaGamingWedge]

I'm interested in the Black smoke weapon. While I am not gonna rule it out as an advanced chemical weapon, part of me thinks it could be just the machines exhaust aswell.

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

In the book, the black smoke was launched from a cannon.

[@GlitchedBlox]

Banned from the Geneva Convention.

[@amiryoofficial]

In the beginning of the invasion when the tripod rises up and it horns, It actually was showing that they have black smoke

[@dextercochran4916]

In my head, the black smoke weapon is actually a nanite cloud weapon.

[@cpob2013]

@@dextercochran4916 ok but it's not.

[@Tea_Sippin]

Doooo give the musical version a look up, the artwork and music for it is pretty haunting. And *TIMELESS.*

[@shakumyn]

ULLAAA

[@hemidas]

Also the 1953 movie.

[@SamWade]

Musical version is hands down the best adaptation. The atmosphere and sense of overwhelming emotion it creates is unbelievable

[@TheRealChappers]

While I have seen the 2005 movie and the the movie where they aren't Tri pods and heard the musical I find I don't need theses to visualise the Tri pods I can picture them as I read the book

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

the lighting was never intended as a weapon, as when the tripods were buried the thought of us being so advanced probably wasn’t on the mind. The EMP was only a beneficial side effect.

[@jons1148]

Not a heat ray, but a sonic frequency ray "thingy" that instantly removes all moisture/fluids from the human body and is effective at destroying structures. This would explain why people were turned instantly into dust and most of the structures hit by it did not instantly burst into flames but were obliterated instead.

[@Kiger_03]

That horn from the Tripod will always give me a blissful sense.

[@madametwig528]

I see some people are asking why the aliens decided to wait so long. My best guess is that they wanted to wait until the human population reached a cetain population before attacking. The more blood, the more they could terraform. There are also theories that it seems like the aliens required certain blood types. The higher a human population is, the more chance of there being a more diverse blood type population. I also seen someone people say that they should have just started a people farm. They could have, yeah, but I see a few problems. 1. Who knows if the aliens were willing to be patient enough. There's people of their required blood type (if the theory is correct) right in front of them. I'm willing to bet they're, in a way, gonna pounce on their prey. 2. Humans in slavery would have killed each other or themselves to get out of slavery. 3. This is the most importat one. Stress affects reproduction. It can make reproduction harder to achieve. I also seen some people ask why they didn't plan better bacteriawise. The book actually explains this. On their home planet, the species had become so advanced they developed vaccines for any and every virus. They had become immune to everything for YEARS. They eventually forgot sickness exists. They came to earth not expecting that earth's biology was so different from theirs because they forgot sickness exists. And well, as we know, when you get a virus for the very first time, your body has to fight harder. I could not imagine how hard the aliens' immune system had to work because for years they didnt have to worry for a illness, but Earth was a wakeup call.

[@thomasvleminckx]

1. Who knows if the aliens were willing to be patient enough. - You are patient enough to wait for the next harvest cycle/slaughter cycle to go buy your food from the supermarket. A farming strategy would yield higher gains than the boneheaded plan they've been following. They arrived tens of thousands of years ago, plenty of time for transforming Earth into a literal people farm and get hundreds of generations of consistent, reliable harvests. 2. Humans in slavery would have killed each other or themselves to get out of slavery. - Odd claim, considering slavery exists on Earth today, and most slaves do in fact not kill themselves. People can be made docile if raised in captivity from day 1 (and they would be), and most would obey their masters just in the hope of living another day. Your fantasy revolt wouldn't happen. It hasn't in our past, and it still doesn't today. 3. This is the most important one. Stress affects reproduction. It can make reproduction harder to achieve. There is no stress if your humans are raised in captivity from day 1, and have been for hundreds and thousands of years. You're approaching this issue from a modern-day cultural perspective, as if it were to happen to you. No, these slaves would be born in captivity, to parents who were born in captivity. No one alive would have ever known anything other than that. If those humans have a culture or religion at all, it's probably centered around serving the aliens as Gods. Another comment on the "stress" argument is this: who cares? You don't need the humans to copulate willingly. Harvest the seed of the males and impregnate the females. They are LIVESTOCK. How do we breed horses and cows again? Right.

[@SCIFIguy64]

Really it's just a stupid excuse for Spielberg to be different. There is no logical answer for why they're buried, you can say the pods just expand underground and it'll make just as much sense as any other answer.

[@Manuel_Fal_Conde]

there are two reasons - the failure of the planet's reformation system and the release of biological weapons laboratories destroyed by the war

[@Eep-]

Lmfaooo the dude coughing when u said corona had me dead 😂

[@monsterGLL]

45 meters, a reaper would just step on a tripod like we step on a spider.

[@MrHulthen]

*squish*

[@yinoka5268]

What’s a reaper?

[@hazmatt3250]

@@yinoka5268 From the Mass Effect franchise. They have a siren that sounds very similar to the tripods in the 2005 movie.

[@lordtouchme3397]

@@yinoka5268 they're basically the 2005 tripod but if it hit the gym, gotten more bigger, in the dust particles are 80x stronger and became more Chad. That's basically the reapers

[@yinoka5268]

@@lordtouchme3397 yep I searched it up, it’s from mass effect

[@generalspitfire01]

2005 WotW tripod weakness: Bacteria BBCs WotW tripod weakness: Naval ship guns

[@jack1701e]

That scene was the best in that whole sorry three episode 'series'

[@ksen1011]

These tall tripod dudes have been living rent free in my mind ever since I saw the movie as a kid. It's cool to still see content being made of them ☺👍

[@al3xandrixmusicIA]

Yes

[@P3891]

They are a species that the reapers failed to harvest 😜

[@MrHulthen]

🤣

[@gilbertv1433]

at least we know they won't live to see the next cycle

[@andynixon2820]

I was really looking forward to the recent BBC version as I've always loved the story but it was bloody awful . The 2005 and 1953 films were brilliant along with the 1970s Jeff Wayne music version

[@SendPaddingtonToRowanda]

I agree. Here’s some jazz for you: Ski be bop do day sheedly boo scab bab boogy de deeeeeeeee

[@Boss-zo4lw]

BBC's version was the worst one ever

[@andynixon2820]

@@SendPaddingtonToRowanda nice jazz .

[@litteralyjustsam5262]

@@Boss-zo4lw You haven't seen Pendragon's version then lmao. As an adaptation BBC is one of the best, the third episode is trash but the first and second episodes were nearly exactly how I imagined the general atmosphere of the novel. The 05 film is boring with some cool scenes every now and then, and the 1953 film is cool and has charm, but not exactly what I feel like War of the Worlds should FEEL like.

[@badgers1975]

​@@litteralyjustsam5262 on horsell common and the heat ray should have been a masterpiece, but it was soo bad, those opening chapters are some of the best in the book. And they completely ballsed it up

[@phurian_6560]

I always thought that they were giant exoskeletons since the aliens in the movie are built the same way the tripods are, haven't watch the vid yet but yeah

[@SerpentSupremacy]

Kinda like when humans make Mechas that are similarly structured to us

[@Aedrion-]

In the book, the aliens are blobs with tentacles and not much else. The machines are their 'bodies' so to speak, with them being the 'brain' in the hood. They have the same agility, speed and skill in their machines as our bodies. So yes, you're not far off actually. :)

[@noname-zv8py]

Heres what i know about the tripods: tripods are cyborg organism. In the scene where rachel and ray was caught in the cage when the door opened, we can see a flesh looking drums witha hole for the tentacle to grab people to fed into, this can also proves why there are yellow liquid coming out of the tripods which my theory, it was the cyborg organism's blood, also my thory that not all organism parts are all over the head, there is a room inside the head for the alien to hide and yes aliens do not control the tripods, they were controller from the mothership

[@dynestis2875]

The creative director literally stated the tripods are not organic or cyborgs.

[@noname-zv8py]

@@dynestis2875 so what are the yellow stuff comming out of the tripod in the end of the movie?

[@thetexan1513]

@@noname-zv8py human blood

[@noname-zv8py]

@@thetexan1513 why does it colored yellow?

[@starscream4282]

Spielberg said himself that the Aliens “drive” the machines. The organic flesh stuff is technology we don’t understand. The aliens connect to the machines biologically and control the machines as if the machines were their bodies itself. That is why the machines move like they’re sick when the aliens were sick. The aliens were sick and the machines were moving the same way the aliens were inside.

[@icecl0ud]

I saw the 2005 version at a Drive-In with thunderstorms a few miles away in the background. Pretty excellent ambience.

[@yametekudasaii01]

I don't know but the 2005 Tripods were scaled inconsistently in the film. In the ferry scene, the tripods were so large but the tripod who abducted rachel and ray was considerably smaller.

[@flaming_zombie]

probably different types of tripods

[@akatoshclassified3348]

I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THE MACHINES AND HOW THEY CONTROLLED IT!

[@MrHulthen]

Me too lol

[@lardlover3730]

I think it was a sentient biomechanical creature

[@lardlover3730]

Wait nvm forgot the were piloted

[@dontlookatme18]

There is a single picture of a rough draft showing what the harvesting room inside may have looked like. Cant remember what site it was on but do a little digging and you can find it.

[@vixiria2534]

Sameeeee

[@adamb89]

What didn't make sense to me about the Tom Cruise version was why would they send their machines early, but wait for a civilization with modest technological advancement before teleporting in the pilot? Seems to me that if they wanted to terraform Earth, it would've been a hell of a lot easier before humanity had invented the nuclear bomb. Or even gunpowder.

[@fordwk]

You are right on point...massive plot hole.

[@Swisha16]

Every movie gotta have a plot hole.

[@sagenebula7120]

Pretty sure they invaded late when the human population was in the billions for more blood

[@CaptainM792]

And how was none of these machines discovered by humans before the invasion? Like subway building could reveal one of these machines, giving humanity access to heat rays and deflector shields technology.

[@rubensmenares]

Spelberg’s adaptation, my favorite movie back in 2005 👏🏼

[@ardalla535]

The Mysterians film solved the problems of the heat beams by developing the Markalites. They reflect the beams back and also project a ray of near equal intensity. They were also very appealing visually. Attacking these tripods with projectile weapons is not the way to go. But that's all you see here.

[@ltygol3221]

3:41 i'm dying inside😂😂😂😂

[@melaninqueen2413]

I remember when War of the Worlds came out back in 2005. I was 5 then. That movie scared so much me that I remember crying and running out of the room. And I remember that the sound that they make was haunting to me. But as an adult, I enjoy movies like this!

[@camrynduplessis2743]

What doesn't make sense to me tho about these tripods being buried underground is how tf they weren't found after so many years despite advancing technology as well as advancing civilization being in play, it really makes me feel like with these two factors in play, somewhere down the line people should have found or atleast come across these mysterious machines that are just lying in wait underground

[@ntfoperative9432]

That's what I was thinking, it looked like they were only a few feet under the ground, how did no one find one?

[@THOR_THE-GOD_OF_THUNDERR]

​@NTF Operative humans don't have to dig deep underground anywhere at all. the record is 12 km at a specific location, all that is needed is for the aliens to dig these machines 20 km underground or even more and we would never know, at least not at the present time with our technology. it's logical we don't know much about the bottom of our planet

[@FutureDeltaPilot747]

2:16 that part of the movie always makes me chuckle 🤭

[@grimmako4879]

I would love to see a follow up to this one it was so fascinating

[@dextercochran4916]

The main problems with the Spielberg movie are anything involving the son and the creative decision to have the tripods be buried from prehistoric times. Remove those elements, and you actually have a very serviceable movie with a ton of classic Spielberg doing what he does best.

[@Wolfen443]

Can anyone imagine how terrifying it could be to actually build them for war in a modern military high tech kind of way?. I imagine that with Missiles, aircraft, and artillery getting really powerful and accurate they could require a smaller profile but greater armor and counter measures for protection since since shields could not be an option for them now.

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

since a few years ago we developed the means to weaponise light and create gauss rifles, tho quite crude it works and tears trough their shield which would help the armies to destroy them early.

[@allenharper2928]

I'm too busy being stuck on the terror I'd feel if I was one of those unfortunate souls running down the hill towards the river just before three tripods crested it with heat rays blazing.

[@possessedlunarkanine1174]

they're not Martians. if i had to guess, they came from "Planet X" a planet not yet discovered.

[@Spacecookie-]

So there's still no answer as to why the martians waited for so long. That goes doubly for the 2005 version where they sent their ships so very long ago, but they waited for us to advance and be more dangerous before invading. Why do that? Wouldn't it have been better to attack back then too? They could have Rounded up humanity and turned us into breeding livestock so easilly.

[@freshquinceoftheair8599]

They needed our population to exponentially grow, more blood, more material to terraform

[@Spacecookie-]

@@freshquinceoftheair8599 They could have achieved that with us in people farms instead of wild and armed though.

[@leonelvaa3169]

@@Spacecookie- I think the plot is they send ships to planets and hope they could properly build itself up and I think they get bored too and would like to see what they can come up with maybe they would steal tech from the organisms make like them they don't have flashlights but humans have night vision if they won and found that tech they would steal the ideas for it and it's shown in zoos some animals become incapable of breeding because of captivity and maybe the food would decide to not breed anymore

[@manfredschultz9619]

I vaguely recall (I could be wrong) the Tripods could travel faster than the pilots in space hence the delay.

[@thearmoredgeorgian2736]

Earth was a 100 planet, so they buried their supplies as back up, when their planet began its process of dying out, they came here to prepare the planet for colonization.

[@thycooa]

2005 tripod was the best tripod.

[@johnbower7452]

Still like the description in the Jeff Wayne version; which seems to follow the book most closely. They should be taller than Big Ben; "One, even appeared above Big Ben..." Spielberg version doesn't hold a candle to the 1953 one; that scared me much more; and still occasionally to this day I have the odd nightmare about those machines; and I'm 56 now.

[@mzargeot5698]

The alien invasion instead of WWI adaptation is my favorite ngl

[@initdeeper5333]

Martian High Command: Go take over the planet Earth. Martian Pilot: Should we wear space suits since their atmosphere is different? Martian High Command: Nah, you'll be fine. Martian Pilot: Should we bring food with us? Martian High Command: No, just eat the Humans.

[@diegotrejos5780]

Hitlerian logistics working 100% as intended.

[@RayinTexas65]

In the Tom Cruise 2005 one you can actually see smoke coming out of the first one you see in the movie

[@danielledewitt1]

I noticed that too.

[@michaelevans4833]

The aliens sent were just the farmer's awaiting for the crops to grow in number. They didn't do it the past due to too much war. When a form pace from war was reached, population grew enough to harvest humans and transform the world into their own.

[@bunkey3972]

I love when the first tripod awakens, it yawns, poops, and then begins exterminating humanity.

[@manfredschultz9619]

The War isn’t only fought in the technological nor mega fauna level but also the microscopic level. Earth’s Apex predators were hopelessly losing but earthling microbes carried the slack and eventually scored an Earth win :o

[@zoezzzarko1117]

Fungi will be the downfall of man

[@manfredschultz9619]

@@zoezzzarko1117 just recently learned that Human and Fungus have a common ancestor something-hundred million years ago, so… ..we just digest internally while our distant relatives digest externally

[@darthvader5201]

"Gg's for the carry Xx_KilLaMicr0be69_xX Now we can go loot up for next squad"

[@Kylo_ren518]

A scarier sidenote, if these machines were planted in the earth millions of years ago, imagine the aliens modern tripods, or weapons of war.

[@shadewolf0075]

It's implied this was a desperate last attempt to save their species as mars was on the brink of total mass extinction so we'd only see those if a movie about us landing on mars to bring the war to them happens and we just find them all dead

[@Aedrion-]

It's best not to think too hard on that because then you realise this movie was as if humanity buried spiky clubs on a planet somewhere and then used FTL-drives, spaceships and special lightning transporter beams to dig up the spiky clubs so they could club the natives to death like savages. Makes 0 sense. :P

[@socksleeve]

Steven Spielberg has actually said that the tripods in the movies aren’t Martian, that they’re from another planet

[@ReluctantWarrior]

However, there's nothing in the film itself which confirms nor denies that, so in that sense it is left open to interpretation.

[@1ztype343]

@@ReluctantWarrior Isn't he the director?

[@ReluctantWarrior]

​@@1ztype343 Yes he is. I'm merely pointing out the ambiguousness of it in the final film, compared to behind the scenes interviews and press interviews where Spielberg's more open about it. Interestingly, the 80s War of the Worlds TV series, which acted as a sequel to the 1953 film also retconned the Martians into being from another planet called Mor Tax.

[@georgeallen7101]

In Wells book he describes the movement as a rocking milk stool . The heat ray is invisible. It turns everything to fire . The Martians are the size of a bear and principally a tentacled brain creature . A tripod typically has two operators. The smaller more nimble catchers moved more rapidly . The Martians nourished on human blood and he describes them injecting themselves . The proverbial reason that they became infected ! At the time of the writing of this book the concept of injection by a hollow needle was still very much in its infancy. The effects of that injection were under very great consideration, some even believed it was an unholy idea. Wells was a literary genius, his books all social science fiction ( fiction or just ahead of time ? )

[@Lepra441]

this filme give me goosebumps since 2005

[@BeardMan1989]

“You would not know them, and there is not enough time to explain.” -Starchild

[@garfieldsmith332]

The most memorial version of WOTW is the 1953 film. To this day the the Martian war machines depicted in that film are still spine tingling.

[@KermeqProductions634]

Vi fick bra information av dig i den här videon! Jag kommer också nån gång titta på den här filmen för att jag var intresserad av sånt här saker när jag var yngre.

[@EcoMythos]

H.G. Wells was a writer. The novel includes many criticisms of print news, however. The tripods take over with a heat ray that is described in the novel as "camera like." Camera kills the newspaper star.

[@zoezzzarko1117]

I love that song

[@TheOriginalSB]

yeah, it’s clear that these Tripods, relatives of the Reapers, really looking at similar coincidences with the Reapers of Mass Effect, they are similar, and If I don’t even want to approach, neither to those, not to these, But the video is Good.

[@lazybones69]

I struggle to take them seriously when they defeated themselves by not considering that our ecology wasn't gonna be compatible with theirs from the off lol.

[@battlesheep2552]

Well maybe they're all anti-vaxxers?

[@lazybones69]

@Real Geology with Chris! That is a top notch explanation.

[@marcelrodriguez2067]

It makes sense in a way, in the books they eradicated all diseases long time ago.

[@yourfatherisback]

@@marcelrodriguez2067 but they got instant corona at the end of the 2005 movie

[@KnowYoutheDukeofArgyll1841]

Yes. An invading force from another galaxy or indeed from Mars, would familiarise themselves with the Earth's environment, the germs and viruses too and take steps to protect themselves. In War of the World's, they just simply turn up, cause mass mayhem, and eventually die of the common cold.

[@davidthomas9190]

The sound engineering for the Tripods in this movie is God level.

[@bobpat4375]

I think the reason the tripods make that weird noise is so that they can make people scared. When you are scared, people don't think straight so it is easier for the tripods to kill the people.

[@lunalgaleo1991]

IIRC, they make that noise to communicate with other Tripods.

[@you-are-the-tharpsters]

The original war of the worlds with Correa tripods are stronger because they don’t even have shields and get shot with cannons and survive while when the 2005 tripods without shields go down due to birds

[@-brd-moonchaser9190]

I remembered when I was a kid the sounds that they make was creepy enough that I can't sleep 3 nights in a row that i have to wait until the sun was up then sleeps XD

[@MEQMALA_BACKUP2YT]

2:17 perfectly cut screams😂😂😂

[@fiddelydee4423]

There's a game being made now.

[@shubhchakrabarty]

The sound of the tripods still gives me a chill !!!!

[@VoxilianVR]

I love War of the worlds such a classic

[@jameslegault9398]

Hmm, I’ve just had a thought, the tripods have shields that can take a good amount of damage, but obviously there has to be a limit to how much damage it can take in a single hit, so how much force would it take to disable the shield, even if only temporary?

[@ProfessorPille]

The beams are well-explained in the 1953 George Pal "War of the Worlds."

[@blondegirlsezthis8798]

Spielbergs Tripods seem almost directly inspired by the physical form of a Flea right down to the leg shapes

[@Toastdaily]

Hopefully you see this comment , One of my best guess is that they planted tripods on several planets but it was earths turn that’s why they didn’t launch attack right away when humans couldn’t protect earth 😯

[@anthonynehoda2064]

Or they just need more humans tissue for terraformation

[@camrynduplessis2743]

I was a kid when I first watched this movie and tbh, those tripods and the noise terrified tf outta me, I remember the first time I put it on(I thought it was a good idea to watch the movie alone for the first time) and when shit started going down I got so scared I ran to my cupboard and hid inside the cupboard until the movie was over, had a few nightmares as well, now I love the movie, it's fucken awesome

[@theminisimmer]

I don't understand why during the boat scene the sea didn't boil anyone alive in the water if the lazer beams were that hot

[@zoezzzarko1117]

I think it's an energy weapon... not a heat laser

[@allenharper2928]

They weren't firing into the river, the three tripods in the Hudson were goin' fishin'.

[@Inkdkid]

Siren head needs to pay the tripods for using its sound

[@itsMrNoble]

I liked the Spielberg version but the whole machines being buried and aliens riding down in the lightning thing is just absolutely terrible. I wish they had just left it like it was where they come down in cylinders and then have to spend time adapting and setting up camp to begin building the machines they need. It builds way more tension.

[@-captain-cosplay]

Man your so good at talking, you tell this so well

[@RuggedxMoose]

3:38 killed me lmao

[@Noahstiever76]

Imagine waiting for 1 million years to attack a planet and after 2 days it fails.

[@upresins]

@MrHulthen @2:36 you said "For some reason, they need human tissue to do it" (to spread the red weed). Interesting point! One interpretation could be that there are not Martians per se, but a purely alien invasive species that invaded of Mars many millions of years ago, destroyed the native Martian civilization, and used the Martians human-like populace to spread the red weed spreading iron all over the planet making it red. Just thinking wildly here :-D

[@zcbanker7263]

The original design of the tripods was created by artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa to illustrate H.G. Wells' work "The War of the Worlds." Corrêa's images were admired by the author and influenced subsequent depictions of the tripods in the story, including in film adaptations and other media.

[@altairivaylo8438]

3:35 got me killed

[@staringhamster]

got me killed by the corona

[@AbsoluteDark]

Gordon Freeman: That thing is cute.

[@goldenwoofer4757]

What would win? A (tutchanka size) reaper a Tripod?

[@MrHulthen]

Probs Reaper tbh

[@goldenwoofer4757]

@@MrHulthen think so too, tripod is mostly good against organic humanoids, reapers beat everything (except kalros, the mother of all thresher maws :3)

[@Oneshotrobot97]

@@goldenwoofer4757 this is the forbidden yellow ending to ME:3

[@lardlover3730]

What kind of reaper? Titanfall? Subnautica?

[@goldenwoofer4757]

@@lardlover3730 a sovereign class reaper from mass effect

[@Radom6475]

Red smoke? I don’t now what the red smoke is

[@dominicsouthern7672]

Imagine what the post war world would look like, the borders, tech, politics etc.

[@CameronKiesser]

I can't stop thinking about that. I really want to see an aftermath sequel.

[@zoezzzarko1117]

Borders? Politics? 😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

a bit late but i think humanity would be like united in fascism and xenophobia or a global war would take place between 2 nations of which one is completely xenophobic and the other believes in good aliens. but this is what i think.

[@bobwallacejnr6852]

The tripods are the holy trinity unleashing the angels laying waiting under the Euphrates.

[@astrovens]

1:04 The looks of these machines remind me of the Hanar. Am I alone in this, or is there someone else who sees it?

[@elefhant2742]

looks more like a big strider synth

[@hazmatt3250]

I think I’d much rather come across a friendly evangelical space jellyfish than a tripod lol

[@starman9458]

At 1:35-1:40 that image is nightmare fuel and gives me chills and at 2:42 is the deleted scene called Camelot and was scrapped from the movie before it was finally released. The Tripods would break through the windows and take people from inside their houses.

[@ZERARCHIVE2023]

And, if you think twice and look at the alians, you can see they use their tripod as a weapon but also as an upgraded body. Like, us with technology rn ! Transhumanism

[@Rexonpi]

2:30 I think that’s just them starting to die, I mean like they did all die at the end.

[@staringhamster]

corona is a chad for saving us

[@HacksignKT]

Being a gunner inside a tripod would be so cool.

[@justamediocreyoutubechanne4172]

Aliens: we have tripods Humans: we have corona

[@Habeev07]

I literally saw this movie upon release in a DRIVE-IN in 2005 with my friends when I was 16. Totally set the mood. And... I just had my 10 year mark or seeing whatever I saw one day back in Fall 2011.... I try not to put much thought into it but I cant really debunk it since it happened twice about 2 1/2 wks apart... 1st walking out of a store and the 2nd one driving. For all I know it was a balloon that popped. Or glare... right.... right...

[@war_robots7911]

I like this movie

[@Gabolia]

They are kind of cute

[@B.A.N.Z.F]

…how?

[@iowaadesx]

@@B.A.N.Z.Fthey look like half a strawberry with 3 eyes❤️❤️❤️

[@iowaadesx]

tripods are cute to me as well

[@jayson-wolf9393]

*hey you👊 **0:02** I need a 10 hour version of that!!*