If it were me, I'd take 5 sins off just for the sound the Tripods make. That was just about the scariest thing in the world the first time I heard it, and it still gets my blood pressure up a bit when I hear it at sporting events.
Enjoyable as always Cinema Sins, but I do think the movie deserved one sin off for this gem of an exchange when Cruise is escaping with his kids in the car - Ray Ferrier: “These came from some place else.” Robbie Ferrier: “What do you mean, like, Europe?” Ray Ferrier: “NO, ROBBIE, NOT LIKE EUROPE!!”
The only thing I really like about this movie was me seeing it as a child in theaters on opening night with a friend, then us going back to his house for a sleepover, and then as soon as we tried to go to sleep, a huge lightning storm began outside and both of us were convinced aliens were dropping down to earth because we "found out about them" via the movie lol
A similar thing happened to me and my cousin when we were younger. It was during a whole summer family gathering where we stayed in different log cabins right by a river. It was broad daylight outside and it was just the two of us hanging out in the log cabin. We decided to watch some tv and happened to turn it on right as it was in the middle of one of those ghost shows where they have people tell their stories while actors recreate it. And right as scary shit began to happen, the power in the cabin went out...it freaked me tf out bc I was going, ‟how did the power go out when there's not a raincloud in sight?‟, it didn't help that we were just watching a ghost show too. While I do believe in ghosts, as an older person I'm now thinking that someone was probably just messing with the power grid or something, the timing was still freaky
The sin was for the horn but precisely because of what you said. You hear it you crap your pants. You crap your pants what you gonna do? That's it engage legs and start getting the feck away from whatever is making that noise. But in the movie they be like cool pipes bro. Can you make a tune?!
I wanna sin the fact that the aliens buried their tripods underground several millenia ago yet despite all the digging and excavating humans have done since then, not one single tripod was ever discovered. One of them was even buried underneath a Newark, New Jersey neighborhood shallow enough to dig itself out in minutes, but it was never found when urban development engineers were laying down plumbing pipes or building foundations. HOW HAS NO ONE EVER FOUND ONE OF THOSE THINGS? *DING*
So have you seen how deep they bury pipes. It isn't that deep. The alien ships are way deeper then what we bury a few pipes at. The only time we would find one is mining and build a hole for a sky scrapper. The Original film the aliens ships arrive from space. Makes more sense. the new movie just tried to change it up a bit. Imagine us humans burying a ship to conquer a planted a few million years later. The tech would be so old no one could even run it. Dumb they went with that idea.
I can almost guarantee you he wasn’t planning on using the gun on the aliens, he most likely knew how desperate, hectic and chaotic the population was about to get and he grabbed the pistol because he has a family to protect.
I mean we don't even need a reason why to grab the gun. It exists and people are being disintegrated by a 3 story alien robot..... I don't know about you but I'd be grabbing the gun no matter what reason I did or did not have to grab it
My favorite part of the movie is the chaos in the beginning and middle. Movies nowadays only focus on what happens after the invasion or after the "end of the world" happens and jumps ahead. The way this movie shows the absolute shit your pants chaos just makes it so good. We need more like it
This movie really does suck, most characters are unlikable and the plot line is full of holes. We are left with questions and no answers as to what happened
because of her screaming they should retro-edit all her movies… Cat in the Hat…WOTW… hell even Once Upon a time… and give her Twilight Red Eyes… because of the screaming
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I 100% agree👍Dakota Fanning's ear-piercing high decible scream kept taking me out of the movie😖; Cruise should have put a ball gag in her mouth😒
Not gonna lie. Despite its flaws, this is one of the most suspenseful and enjoyable movies growing up. I see it as a contrast to Independence Day, where in that movie you see destruction around the world, with the U.S. government and some unlikely heroes saving the day. What makes War of the Worlds (2005) different is that it focuses on one small family trying to survive in the middle of the chaos. The basement scene dragged on a bit too long, and Robby running away to the military then suddenly reappear safe and sound in the end is just dumb. Still a fun movie.
That's pretty much the premise of any disaster movie - watch one group of people accidentally their way through the movie while thousands around them die but hooray they survived so everything's okay.
I remember being very annoyed that they keep stopping and standing and watching as these things blast away or walk towards them. So many times they actively go towards danger, or stand right on the edge for way too long to build drama artificially. That bad directing stuck with me.
@@rickstaism well to be fair, when something chaotic happens, like a natural disaster, or even a 9/11 type thing occurs, aren't their usually people who survive by accidentally random shit while people are dying all around them? Like if a plane crashes and 2 people survive, well, in a movie they are now the main character.
I am still trying to figure out how Manny the Mechanic failed to miss the horrific sounds the Tripod made as it blasted things in sight, and the tons of people that must have ran past his store...
As a huge fan of this movie and someone who’s seen it well over 20 times, here are some sins you missed: The camcorder still working somehow after the lightning storm knocked out the power to everything. The news crew somehow filming the lightning storm despite the lightning being what knocked out the power in the first place. The basement scene at Robbie and Rachel’s moms house- when they hurry to that smaller room as the plane crashes, the door closes with the hinges on the right side from inside the room, but when Ray opens it in the morning, the hinges are on the opposite side somehow. The fact that the lightning hit so close to their house that you could see where from their back yard, and the tripod rises over 100 feet in the air but somehow nobody around Rays house including his kids notice it. During the continuous driving scene on the highway, Ray is turning the steering wheel in directions that the van isn’t moving. There’s a part in the ferry scene when the camera follows Robbie as he’s running onto the ferry, where for a second we see an extra actor on the right side almost run in front of the camera but stops herself and backs up, followed by other extras smiling and laughing. If the aliens buried the tripods here before humans were around, why didn’t they get sick back then? I’m sure there are more but I’m tired and wanna go to bed.
Another sin for Manny the mechanic not noticing the tripod despite being outside the entire time and being really close to it. This was all happening within walking distance of his shop. As to the aliens not getting sick when they arrived, it's likely they were buried in the ground in some sort of hibernation mode, and wouldn't have been exposed to the Earth's environment yet.
Some people say this movie sucks solely because of its ending, but this is how the book it’s based on ended. I personally love the ending because these aliens made all of these invasion plans, but none of them ever thought they’d get sick from a foreign pathogen on another world.
It sucks because of the ending. Not the aliens getting killed by bacteria and viruses. I can live with that. The original H G Wells story is great, and I'd love to see a proper big screen adaptation of that exact story, same time period, same location, etc... It's the stupid bit where the son appears at the end after being blown up by a f*cking big explosion that's the reason this film sucks! (IMO, of course).
That's because it wasn't super played out at the time it was written, but it very much was by the time of this movie coming out, see: "Signs". Probably leading to a lot of people thinking it was quite a boring and cliché ending, while it was very original when it was originally penned. Kinda like how people say Seinfeld is boring.
The moral is hubris. I think Spielberg was using the aliens as a analogy for for why it was bad for America to invade Iraq without a clear strategy. Of course it turned out the goal of the Iraq war was never to win but just to enrich the military defense industry soo🤷♀️
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts Yet both this and Signs are reflections of the society at the time and most people miss the point about both. Even in this adaptation, Robbie's radicalization as a young man after a militarily superior invading force takes over his land and kills everybody indiscriminately and without just cause is balanced against what he does after seeing his father covered in the dust remains of his people - at the time both a statement about hoe America felt after 9/11 and how the people of Iraq and Afghanistan felt following the illegal American invasion. The film (like most Hollywood PG-13 stuff) got a lot wrong - but this I feel reflects what was trying to be said - even if the way they did it and the gooey ending (plus the actor playing Robbie) was a bit shit. Somebody needs to make a proper film adaptation of the Music version by Jeff Wayne before I die. I'm a bit of a mega-fan, just ask my daughter who's named after one of the characters lol
Fun side note: the sound of the alien ships was made from recording the start up of the m1a1 Abrams tanks. Some of my buddies from 1st Tank Bn "D" (Twentynine palms) company were the extras. I got to go spend a month in the field with "B" company while they got to be in a movie. Screw you Delta.
Sound designer Michael Babcock created the terrifying horn-like blast emitted by Tripods by combining the sounds of a didgeridoo, an Aboriginal Australian wind instrument, and the djembe - a West African drum. Recordings of rollercoasters, bike chains, and trains performed at various speeds in samplers were used to simulate Tripod movement. Also, those aliens should have vaccinated themselves.
yeah, that's the bit I absoloutly hate about this movie. It makes absoloutly no sense. Elsewhere, I once speculated that originally, it was written that him running into that battlefield was an imlied death (because him being killed by his own stupidity makes sense), and than some producer or something forced the writter to include him turning up again at the ending just so they can have a "proper" happy ending.
"Dad. You have to let me go. You have to let me go." NO HE FUCKING DOESN'T. What did Robbie think he was going to accomplish? He has no military experience and nothing seems to affect the Tripods' shields, so the only thing he could expect from fighting the aliens is death, whether swiftly by heat ray or painfully by having his blood sucked out of him. What Ray should have done was beat his son into unconsciousness and drag him away. Robbie might hate him (even more) later for it, but at least he'd survive! And yes, I know he survives anyway, but he shouldn't have done. Not without a good explanation as to how.
Several sins were about the conflicting nature of the kidnapping tripods and the heat ray tripods. To clarify, the movie shows that the aliens need at least some humans to fertilize the red crop they bring in. Based on that we can infer that the heat rays are for crippling and injuring, and the others are for farming. Also I believe this wait to come back to earth was potentially to do with population density, its said they were observing us, so couldnt they be waiting for that.
It appears that the aliens specifically needed O positive and Rh negative blood types for their fertilizer. Everyone else was vaporized. It wasn't made obvious but there were some hints that would lead one to believe that was the case.
This came out in 2005, absolutely EVERYONE had flags hanging out front in every city of the U.S. for near a full decade after 9/11. I remember seeing this when it came out and immediately identified with the sentiment the filmmakers were depicting.
@@Beedo_Sookcool I live in Tennessee, we have more confederate flags than any other flag, way more than US and TN flags combined. Yeah, before 9/11 I don't recall seeing a single flag on sometimes home residence. (Though I was 15 and didn't pay much attention.)
I live in the city this was filmed. It was odd to see all those flags in that scene. That part of city would neve have that many American flags there lol
Fun fact about EMP’s is they actually only work on things with power going in to them as what an EMP actually does is basically cause things to short themselves out by opening every switch at once. But if you had the battery disconnected on an old car for the EMP then it should actually be fine to drive after. Modern cars would have a harder time as they’re a lot more electrical controlled and have all sorts of internal batteries and stuff.
@@heintz256 oh yeah. I mean if you haven’t got an ECU or anything like that then an EMP would do basically nothing to stop the car running as they’re basically completely mechanical in functioning. All an EMP does is short out electrical circuits. But if there’s no power there or no electrics at all then it’ll do absolutely nothing.
Sorry bud - it fries the "secondary" winding of a car coil and fries the "condenser" on a points ignition. It would cook 1970's Capacitor Discharge Ignitions (pre computer) Fries them all at the parts store too (not a solenoid) "Hall Effect" pickups might fry. Crank sensors. Destroys the car radio "tuner". So you would need spares wrapped in foil, in a metal box, buried underground. Or an old Diesel car-truck. Today all refrigerators, ovens, thermostats, washer/dryers, TV, microwaves and even toasters are TOAST !
@7:50 He wants her to put the seat belt on so that if someone smashes the window open, it would be harder for someone to just drag her out of the car since the seat belt would strap her into the car. It makes perfect sense
This movie has the best sound effects of any movie I can think of. The tripods sound terrifying, and the ominous music as it comes out of the water by the ferry is chilling to the bone
I rewatched this a few weeks ago using my big speaker and goddamn you are so right. I remember seeing this in theatres when I was young and I got those same chills. Amazing
Damn Back in 2005 drag me to seen this one due to the fact that I not a Tom Cruise fan as much as the other guy Years later & I still not a Tom Cruise fan
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is when the squadron of Apache helicopter gunships fly over and fire off a salvo of Hellfire missiles. Also the scene when the train goes by on fire. And the massive destruction of the neighborhood when that tanker truck is blown off the freeway overpass and crashes down to the neighborhood and takes out like four city blocks.
Same, the train part was quite unforgettable for me too. And the tank truck makes me think of a similar scene in 2012 where a cement truck also falls off a collapsing highway and into a Chevron station and blows it up. Right after the station made the classic "DING DING" noise. lol 😆
@@MeCooper As somebody who identifies as a Chevron tanker truck, I got PTSD from the tanker exploding and needed to breathe into a paper bag for five minutes.
The clothes falling from the sky are from the people that got "their ass blasted on the grass". In the first attack scene you see clothes flying off as the rest of the body disentergrates to dust, just before the scene ends and Ray is peeking around the corner you can see clothes falling from the sky just as the guy running with the girl comes past.
CinemaSins missed the most obvious flaw:alien death ray can cut through concrete and steel (like the bridge it blasted) and can disintegrate people but it can't harm denim and cotton clothes. Hilarious.
@@Redbr34 "its like it only destroys organic matter" What do you think clothes are made of? Titanium? Where do you think cotton clothes come from? They come from plants. Do you think plants are inorganic matter? A leather belt is made of cow skin. Are cows made of inorganic matter? The movie is inconsistent and stupid to a ridiculous degree.
Its a sin to forget how good this movie is after all these years. And now that ive gotten older that scene @10:43 brings me to tears everytime. It doesn't make much practical sense for the movie but portrays a very compassionate father-son relationship that im sure so many families can relate to. It can be hard to let your kids go, and just as hard to be set free.
i remember watching this movie in the theater...sat a couple rows ahead of me and my friend was a, well, rather Large man who had bought an entire seat's worth of popcorn snacks and food...not even half an hour into the movie, this guy falls asleep, snoring just loud enough to sound like a fly buzzing in the movie... but then we reach the part of the movie when the Alien Tripod things start coming out of the ground, announcing their activation with a droning *"HWOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGKK!"* ... ...and the guy's snoring gets even Louder, almost like he was TALKING with the Alien Tripod things...so now, whenever i think of this movie, i cant un-remember the 'conversation' between *"HWONGK!"* and "HHGNNNNNNNNK!" bickering back and forth with each other...
I saw this in the theatre, stoned, and had a mild panic attack during the scene when Tom Cruise is running through the streets while people were getting turning into ash. Had to sit in the bathroom stall, trying to move past the anxiety. My friend who was with me thought I had to take a long poop.
Dakota Fanning is a brilliant actor, and gives an excellent performance. Unfortunately, hearing her piercing screams all the time might just be agonising for your ears to take in!
The good parts far outweigh the bad parts in this for me. I watched it recently for the first time in a while and BOY I never realised how grim it is! It’s basically civilians being mercilessly slaughtered for most of it 😅
The highly hostile aliens in tripod vehicles that can rise well above houses are apparently actively seeking to exterminate humanity, yet the rescue operation at the ferry has bright searchlights and loud music. ARE THEY TRYING TO ATTRACT THE ALIENS?!?! *DING!*
The first Tripod attack scene was so brutal and intense, I was wondering if this movie was really PG-13. Overall an enjoyable film collab with Spielberg and Cruise (even though I prefer Minority Report)
Well , they just showed the people being zapped Star Trek style and later when the tripod stabbed that poor guy on the ground, you didn't actually see the stabbing. that's how you avoid an R .
@5:19 the point of this shot was to immerse the viewer with a one shot but not only that, Corridor Crew does a good breakdown of this shot. The level of expertise that went into the vfx for the reflections and composition for the windows, them in the car and all done during the one shot Spielberg was like i HAVE to keep this in the movie, tbh this one shot would've been a sin off in my book
12:56 For someone who seems bright, you can be awfully unimaginative at times. The alien head is probably using the mirror to scan behind him. It also detected sound from that direction and so that's what drew it to the mirror.
Realistically, probably less. We’ve been sending rivers to mars for decades now, and would probably have noticed any intelligent life that had any interest whatsoever in invasion. The only remaining possibility for intelligent life on mars is an entirely underground civilization, which isn’t very likely
I enjoyed this version, but you’re not wrong about that basement scene, omg that dragged. But then I still prefer the 1953 Technicolor version with the flying stingray ships myself, the 4K remaster with Dolby Atmos is lovely.
the one that later made a tv show.....the ships hover, fire green "torpedoes" at each end, the head firing like a fireworks sparkler? how yeah, liked that one.
One good reason. One good moment of intelligence on an enemy can mean the difference between victory and defeat Also, I love this video, seeing you give Spielberg the praise he deserves for this wonderfully shot and directed film is great. The script could have had a few revisions, but it is what it is.
Intelligence greater than our own but they didn't do the proper recon when it came down to viruses and bacteria. So they went wheezing and coughing to their defeat.
I like to think they assumed humanity had cured all disease like they had done. Surely... they must've by now, right? One of those oversights where the invader doesn't understand the natives well enough.
I remember being so annoyed that the camera didn't follow Robbie over the hill so that we could actually see the human military vs Martian tripod battle. I get it, Spielberg didn't want you to know what happened to maintain suspense but still, I really wanted to see what a Spielberg Independence Day battle would be like.
You'd just see the tripods slowly walking towards the hill while all the artillery and missiles keep being deflected by their shields. We even get a glimpse of that when they eventually do get over the hill and you see the missiles exploding against the shields
I personally love the idea that since the tripods were buried many thousands of years ago, it makes them ancient tech of that aliens race. Imagine what they could’ve done with their modern weapons and machines.
8:26 Not a sin. This is actually how all such walls become, with posters on top of posters. Such walls were everywhere post-9/11, which is undoubtedly what inspired it. You can't sin reality.
It's not like there's a wall manager, who blocks out spaces and mandates poster sizes. People aren't going to say "oh, the wall is full. I guess my missing kid will just have to stay missing."
9:25 there are 3 types of tripods first is the one with lazers nothing else then there are harvesters that grab and harvest the blood from humans and the last one the big boss is the warrior that is a bit more bigger and taller than other tripods and the warrior has stronger heatrays and also has the grabbing thing the warrior has 5 lights like the other have 3
i feel like something sinnable is the "divorced couple in a disaster film" cliche, so many recent disaster films have a divorced couple with atleast 1 child including but not limited to: san andreas, war of the worlds, Godzilla king of the monsters, dantes peak and 2012
My two biggest sins that I came up with in the movie are: 1) The aliens are so advanced but never planned for the viruses and bacterias of Earth. 2) The aliens sent their tripod ships and technology to Earth many thousands of years ago and are able to just use it. Technology changes so fast that anything that old would be obslete.
They likely designed the tripods to survive for thousands of years, so even if it was obsolete to what the aliens would have now, they can still perform their basic function. That being the propagation of their species on earth. They stupidly waited too long to emerge, so now humanity has the tools to reverse engineer their tech and use it against them.
This movie was one big trauma for me and honestly i'm glad i still got to watch it again many years after, one of my favorite movies ever, love that you got to review it finally too!
It traumatized my brother too 😭 A few days after we watched it an electrical transformer exploded when we were in the parking lot, and it's loud with this bright blue light. Then the whole apartment complex goes black. He screamed a scream I'd never heard before. He thought they had come😭🤣
That's so true about the not running away part. If I raised my hand over a bunch of ants on a table, the ants don't stop and stare at me and wonder what to do, they start panicking and running away as soon as they see me too close. If I see a fly and pull out a flyswatter that bro is gone, instantly hiding somewhere because they know what a fly swatter looks like from instinct. Insects with almost no wherewithal run away from impending doom, the people in this movie are dumber than ants and flies.
Yes and no. It's precisely because we have more developed brains we act dumb in situations because of smarts. You are right. Insects and many animals will see some shit going or about to go down and nope the eff out of there. What humans do is kinda dumb cos the gut linked to the old original instinctive hardware IS going get the eff out of there. But the higher cortex is busy going yeaaaaah but wait a minute that's interesting I wonder what it is and I for sure don't wanna be theorising about it for the next six months so let's stick around see if I can satisfy my curiosity. Unfortunately unlike cats we don't have nine lives that's the part evolution didn't give us lol.
@@djkilla3711 yes just yes. Why do you think so many accidents happen around other accidents. Cos humans rubber neck and get nosy. Can't help get curious. What happened there? Eyes off road. Bang. Another accident.
@@djkilla3711 that's why I said yes and no. His point is despite supposedly being much cleverer than insects and ants, in crisis situations we appear to often times act dumber as they will just get on with getting safe not stop and point at impending doom. My point is it is precisely those extra smarts that actually induce such stupidity in those moments precisely because we are wired to exolore. Same as why you hear a funny noise at night you may grab a bat or a gun but you move TOWARDS the noise. A deer will just RUN from it.
The tripods didn’t bring out the lasers at the scene because they don’t have those, those are the harvesters which use tentacles to collect people, the ones who have lasers are called the Warriors, and the Uber pods have yellow lights and an extra set of them and also have tentacles and lasers. 9:29
10:09 cmon. The clothes are from the people who got zapped by the tripod disintigration beams. You didnt notice people's clothes getting yeeted into the air when they exploded into dust?
I think the point is if the beams disintegrated the entire human (which the beams do - no body parts left over), the clothes the human was wearing would also have disintegrated.
@@RK-252 Read through Wikis and stuff and the reason why they leave their clothes after being vaporized was, since humans are 60% water, that shit went through incredible heat and thus, vaporized. Since there's no water inside of clothes, the clothes survives.
When we saw people being vaporized in the beginning, the clothes didn't go flying a hundred feet into the air. Instead they fell to the ground almost immediately. There doesn't appear to be enough wind to do so either. So where are these clothes coming from?
6:50 Most military equipment is hardened against EMPs it is incredibly simple you just need a faraday cage or in other words a metal box with 6 sides. Dont want your stuff to get EMP'ed put it in your fridge, microwave or tumble dryer without a window to much work warp everything in aluminium foil boom! emp resistant electronics.
Personally i'd say the intro and outro speeches are iconic to war of the worlds and should not be a sin. Cool video though, love the way you pick films apart!
The clothes falling is from the people that got vaporized in the aliens' heat ray. It gets shown during the scene where the first tripod attacks that only ash and clothes are left behind. Kinda surprised how you didn't catch that tbh.
@@alwayssmacked7186 My interpretation is that it's electricity. The water in the human body is conductive and the beam transfers so much energy to the vaporizes all the biomass instantly while leaving the clothes that are not conductive unscathed. However that doesn't explain how buildings are destroyed by the things and not clothes, so I'm not really willing to spend much more effort on defending my position.
@@distantmind956 yet it can destroy most of things likes Cars and buildings like nothing and leave them on fire, even this it's shown from the start it's still a gap in how the heatrays actually work.
@@tlilreapert4904 The heatray hits a human in the arm, the human as well as the arm of the clothing is vaporized. The rest of the clothes are blown away by the residual heat of the person being vaporized. That would still leave a considerable amount of undamaged clothing, though I get what you're saying and if this were to happen in real life it would definitely happen diferently. Still, just trying to give the movie some benefit of the doubt.
No it doesn't. Ray only compares the lightning to July 4th fireworks. The movie clearly does not take place in July, as there are dead leaves everywhere and people are wearing coats and jackets. Likely mid to late October.
The biggest sin that makes the whole premise of the movie fall flat on its ass…..the fact that we humans never dug up/excavated one of these tripods with all the subways, pipings and mines we’ve dug over the centuries!
missed the most obvious one: why should they use their million old tech in the ground when they would have developed far more advanced stuff in this time
For as much of a sin as the opening/closing Narration of this movie is, it's a pair of such iconic verses in literature & music (thank you Jeff Wayne for one of the best psychadelic rock/prog albums & live album performance show experiences of all time)
3:58 I wanna sin the fact that all power and even cars stop working but the camera recording people becoming dust still worked. Also Avengers infinity war foreshadowing?
The idea of the tripods being buried here defeats the end of the movie: if they were here ages ago, they would have encountered our diseases. Now, you can say "they had a machine to plant the tripods", then why not just make that your weapon. If you say they shot them to earth as meteors why wait ages to invade when you're already lobbing missiles at earth? Pretty sure if the planet got hit by a global meteor shower that THEN released alien death machines we'd be screwed. Oh, and they planted death machines on earth BEFORE we evolved, or developed advanced weapons? Once again, why not just take over then (unless they were planning on "farming the humans", which they still could have done with any large land animals.
SIN: The news guys asking the cameraman who went deaf, "Did you hear that? We're getting out of here!" WHAT DO YOU MEAN DID HE HEAR THAT?! HE'S DEAF!! 🤣🤣🤣
CinemaWins should do a polar opposite video. “Everything Great About War of the Worlds”. I find this to be a very effective sci-fi horror thriller regardless of what any naysayer would say.
"Squeaky From is right." I absolutely lost it there. I wanted to like this movie so much. The original terrified me as a kid and I had hope for this one. But Spielberg had to have his happy ending and the plot armor on the family was THICK.
The Tri-pods laser’s do have some sense behind them, they actually fire gamma ray’s which would melt the liquid part of human’s, but not the solid, not liquid clothing😊
I like this film. The score, cinematography and look of the Tripods are good, and there are lots of fantastic moments of tension. This film is also well-paced and enjoyable, and (despite the updated setting) I like how faithful it is to the main storyline of the novel. This film isn’t ALL good though - the characters aren’t very likeable or interesting, and I don’t like how it changed the origin of the aliens (them being from an unknown planet and coming up from underground after millions of years of waiting, whereas in the book they were from Mars and they arrived in missiles shooting down from the sky).
That, and sometimes not running right away does make more sense, you might be better off if you have at least some idea what exactly is happening, and maybe take a moment to decide whether to run at all or if hiding would make more sense, or even just take a few seconds to decide in what direction it would be best to run. Besides, in the environment our species has developed we had, and do have, several predators you definitely should not run from because that is exactly the thing that makes them attack, so not running right away is also probably a rather instinctive thing with some of us.
How is Tom Cruise the protagonist? He doesn't do anything except kill a scared man in his home and run away from the aliens for 2 hours. And he only killed the one alien by luck because it happened to grab him and not someone else.
Ah yes, the film that traumatized me so much, I cannot enjoy horror/suspenseful sci-fi for a long time. I'm so sad I can't enjoy this as much as I should. It's such a great movie! The sounds of the aliens still gives me goosebumps.
This movie always freaked me out and felt like a fever dream because I was like 4 when it came out and probs like 8 when I first saw it, idk. Love this movie!
15:30 He wasn't expecting to be rescued. That's the point of this movie. It's the tale of how All American Tom Cruise decides to become a suicide bomber. It's updating the anti-British-colonialism theme of the book by making America the victim of a 'shock and awe' campaign, and showing that anyone might resort to such tactics in the face of overwhelming force.
I would think the military would try to set up land mines to destroy the tripods' feet. If then can destroy just one leg the tripod would fall to the ground.
Yet another case of “wait, they hadn’t sinned this yet?”
Dude i had the same exact thought, I could've sworn they been sinned this
Bro me too
Ikr
@@d00mbr07 same here
Seconded, I could have sworn that they'd either sinned this movie or the original years ago!
I can't believe you didn't sin the "kid in a disaster movie has a medical condition that needlessly complicates things" cliche.
There’s more where that crap came from
Lulz
Most of the "big ass catastrophe" movies have this clichee...getting really annoying.
Like that kid in World War Z who just has asthma
@@coltforceplayer Yep, and the kid in "Greenland" who was diabetic.
If it were me, I'd take 5 sins off just for the sound the Tripods make. That was just about the scariest thing in the world the first time I heard it, and it still gets my blood pressure up a bit when I hear it at sporting events.
Why do you hear it at sporting events?
Everybody gangsta till you pause the video and the horn don't stop
Right!? Scary as hell. 😂
you going to sporting events on mars or something?
Hol' the Fuque up
Enjoyable as always Cinema Sins, but I do think the movie deserved one sin off for this gem of an exchange when Cruise is escaping with his kids in the car - Ray Ferrier: “These came from some place else.” Robbie Ferrier: “What do you mean, like, Europe?” Ray Ferrier: “NO, ROBBIE, NOT LIKE EUROPE!!”
I agree with you
“Is it terrorists?”
Gem is an understatement for the minivan exchange
And that bit when he throws the bread with peanut butter on the window. That always makes me laugh.
@@Avalon_1991 When the tripod steps on a tree and everyone's heads snap back in unison, kills me every time!
The only thing I really like about this movie was me seeing it as a child in theaters on opening night with a friend, then us going back to his house for a sleepover, and then as soon as we tried to go to sleep, a huge lightning storm began outside and both of us were convinced aliens were dropping down to earth because we "found out about them" via the movie lol
A similar thing happened to me and my cousin when we were younger. It was during a whole summer family gathering where we stayed in different log cabins right by a river. It was broad daylight outside and it was just the two of us hanging out in the log cabin. We decided to watch some tv and happened to turn it on right as it was in the middle of one of those ghost shows where they have people tell their stories while actors recreate it. And right as scary shit began to happen, the power in the cabin went out...it freaked me tf out bc I was going, ‟how did the power go out when there's not a raincloud in sight?‟, it didn't help that we were just watching a ghost show too. While I do believe in ghosts, as an older person I'm now thinking that someone was probably just messing with the power grid or something, the timing was still freaky
I watched in the drive thru when I was a kid and the lighthouse by the theaters made me think they were coming
where wa the drive thru? mcdonalds or burger king or wendy's? wasnt aware that they showed movies at drive thrus....
@@88crazydriver
The Alien Tripod horn should have warranted a sin removal. Tell me you wouldn't shit your pants if you heard that sound outside your window RIGHT NOW.
This movie is ages old and that sound STILL creeps me out!!!!
The sin was for the horn but precisely because of what you said. You hear it you crap your pants. You crap your pants what you gonna do? That's it engage legs and start getting the feck away from whatever is making that noise. But in the movie they be like cool pipes bro. Can you make a tune?!
*GET THE HUMANS, GET'EM, GET'EM*
I wouldn't shit myself because my soul would instantly leave my body.
@@oxik_4 actually that makes you more likely. Lol
I wanna sin the fact that the aliens buried their tripods underground several millenia ago yet despite all the digging and excavating humans have done since then, not one single tripod was ever discovered. One of them was even buried underneath a Newark, New Jersey neighborhood shallow enough to dig itself out in minutes, but it was never found when urban development engineers were laying down plumbing pipes or building foundations. HOW HAS NO ONE EVER FOUND ONE OF THOSE THINGS? *DING*
True
"Ding-Ding-Ding!"
That one gets 3 sins, because.....humans.
as CinemaSins would say, "Glenn Welsh would be excellent at CinemaSins! ding!"
So have you seen how deep they bury pipes. It isn't that deep. The alien ships are way deeper then what we bury a few pipes at. The only time we would find one is mining and build a hole for a sky scrapper. The Original film the aliens ships arrive from space. Makes more sense. the new movie just tried to change it up a bit.
Imagine us humans burying a ship to conquer a planted a few million years later. The tech would be so old no one could even run it. Dumb they went with that idea.
They did not find the ships because that was not in the script.
I can almost guarantee you he wasn’t planning on using the gun on the aliens, he most likely knew how desperate, hectic and chaotic the population was about to get and he grabbed the pistol because he has a family to protect.
I mean we don't even need a reason why to grab the gun. It exists and people are being disintegrated by a 3 story alien robot..... I don't know about you but I'd be grabbing the gun no matter what reason I did or did not have to grab it
Yeah he's pretty clueless
Yeah he's pretty clueless
clueless?
We all know that, except the narrator
My favorite part of the movie is the chaos in the beginning and middle. Movies nowadays only focus on what happens after the invasion or after the "end of the world" happens and jumps ahead. The way this movie shows the absolute shit your pants chaos just makes it so good. We need more like it
So true
WWZ kinda showed its "madness" stage too, but yeah, a lot of sins with Pepsi sponsorship being the greatest. Kvass is the best drink ever.
@@szariq7338 WWZ movie is a shit but WWZ book is what we need more in movies and series
Jokes aside, this is probably Spielberg’s most underrated film.
i suggest The Lost World: Jurassic Park as his most underrated. That movie had me sitting on the edge of my sit the whole time.
No we all know this movie sucks. It's not underrated it's appropriated rated as crap.
Would’ve been waaay better if it didn’t have invincible aliens that eat 80kg shells for breakfast
This movie really does suck, most characters are unlikable and the plot line is full of holes. We are left with questions and no answers as to what happened
@@MalcaT603 yes but cool fuckin tripods
Take a drink every time Dakota Fanning screams in this movie, you'll be plastered pretty damn quick
Call the ambulance... but not for me!
You lightweights. LMAO!
Alcohol poisoning + bleeding eardrums = Win win!
because of her screaming they should retro-edit all her movies… Cat in the Hat…WOTW… hell even Once Upon a time… and give her Twilight Red Eyes… because of the screaming
Thank you, thank you, thank you, I 100% agree👍Dakota Fanning's ear-piercing high decible scream kept taking me out of the movie😖; Cruise should have put a ball gag in her mouth😒
The best part of this movie is Tom Cruise dealing the bread like he's at the casino. And then throwing it with peanut butter at the window. 😂
Spongebob on the telly is the last thing ever!
I just wonder how many takes did it take to get the peanut butter to stick?
But yeah that’s pretty funny.
"You've never seen me very upset."
*throws peanut butter bread at window, window breaks and spills water from giant aquarium, sprinting commences*
I want to break his hand for ruining a good piece of peanut butter.
There's two for you, there's two for Robbie, there's two for me, and one for the house.
Not gonna lie. Despite its flaws, this is one of the most suspenseful and enjoyable movies growing up. I see it as a contrast to Independence Day, where in that movie you see destruction around the world, with the U.S. government and some unlikely heroes saving the day. What makes War of the Worlds (2005) different is that it focuses on one small family trying to survive in the middle of the chaos.
The basement scene dragged on a bit too long, and Robby running away to the military then suddenly reappear safe and sound in the end is just dumb. Still a fun movie.
The whole Basement Scene was soo creepy-considering what was going on off screen during Dakota Fanning's 'happy place"-I don't own a copy.
"Unlikely" being the key word
That's pretty much the premise of any disaster movie - watch one group of people accidentally their way through the movie while thousands around them die but hooray they survived so everything's okay.
I remember being very annoyed that they keep stopping and standing and watching as these things blast away or walk towards them. So many times they actively go towards danger, or stand right on the edge for way too long to build drama artificially. That bad directing stuck with me.
@@rickstaism well to be fair, when something chaotic happens, like a natural disaster, or even a 9/11 type thing occurs, aren't their usually people who survive by accidentally random shit while people are dying all around them? Like if a plane crashes and 2 people survive, well, in a movie they are now the main character.
I am still trying to figure out how Manny the Mechanic failed to miss the horrific sounds the Tripod made as it blasted things in sight, and the tons of people that must have ran past his store...
Murmur from Sopranos, Vito is an A** Muncher!
As a huge fan of this movie and someone who’s seen it well over 20 times, here are some sins you missed: The camcorder still working somehow after the lightning storm knocked out the power to everything. The news crew somehow filming the lightning storm despite the lightning being what knocked out the power in the first place. The basement scene at Robbie and Rachel’s moms house- when they hurry to that smaller room as the plane crashes, the door closes with the hinges on the right side from inside the room, but when Ray opens it in the morning, the hinges are on the opposite side somehow. The fact that the lightning hit so close to their house that you could see where from their back yard, and the tripod rises over 100 feet in the air but somehow nobody around Rays house including his kids notice it. During the continuous driving scene on the highway, Ray is turning the steering wheel in directions that the van isn’t moving. There’s a part in the ferry scene when the camera follows Robbie as he’s running onto the ferry, where for a second we see an extra actor on the right side almost run in front of the camera but stops herself and backs up, followed by other extras smiling and laughing. If the aliens buried the tripods here before humans were around, why didn’t they get sick back then? I’m sure there are more but I’m tired and wanna go to bed.
You make some good points. Especially why the aliens didn't get sick thousands of years earlier when they buried the machines.
Another sin for Manny the mechanic not noticing the tripod despite being outside the entire time and being really close to it. This was all happening within walking distance of his shop.
As to the aliens not getting sick when they arrived, it's likely they were buried in the ground in some sort of hibernation mode, and wouldn't have been exposed to the Earth's environment yet.
Some people say this movie sucks solely because of its ending, but this is how the book it’s based on ended. I personally love the ending because these aliens made all of these invasion plans, but none of them ever thought they’d get sick from a foreign pathogen on another world.
It sucks because of the ending. Not the aliens getting killed by bacteria and viruses. I can live with that. The original H G Wells story is great, and I'd love to see a proper big screen adaptation of that exact story, same time period, same location, etc...
It's the stupid bit where the son appears at the end after being blown up by a f*cking big explosion that's the reason this film sucks!
(IMO, of course).
@@bujin1977 That’s a good point.
That's because it wasn't super played out at the time it was written, but it very much was by the time of this movie coming out, see: "Signs". Probably leading to a lot of people thinking it was quite a boring and cliché ending, while it was very original when it was originally penned. Kinda like how people say Seinfeld is boring.
The moral is hubris. I think Spielberg was using the aliens as a analogy for for why it was bad for America to invade Iraq without a clear strategy. Of course it turned out the goal of the Iraq war was never to win but just to enrich the military defense industry soo🤷♀️
@@Ten_Thousand_Locusts Yet both this and Signs are reflections of the society at the time and most people miss the point about both. Even in this adaptation, Robbie's radicalization as a young man after a militarily superior invading force takes over his land and kills everybody indiscriminately and without just cause is balanced against what he does after seeing his father covered in the dust remains of his people - at the time both a statement about hoe America felt after 9/11 and how the people of Iraq and Afghanistan felt following the illegal American invasion.
The film (like most Hollywood PG-13 stuff) got a lot wrong - but this I feel reflects what was trying to be said - even if the way they did it and the gooey ending (plus the actor playing Robbie) was a bit shit.
Somebody needs to make a proper film adaptation of the Music version by Jeff Wayne before I die. I'm a bit of a mega-fan, just ask my daughter who's named after one of the characters lol
Fun side note: the sound of the alien ships was made from recording the start up of the m1a1 Abrams tanks. Some of my buddies from 1st Tank Bn "D" (Twentynine palms) company were the extras. I got to go spend a month in the field with "B" company while they got to be in a movie. Screw you Delta.
Oh wow that’s cool as hell, I never knew this!
@@rafiyumahmood2446 It's not true.
Sound designer Michael Babcock created the terrifying horn-like blast emitted by Tripods by combining the sounds of a didgeridoo, an Aboriginal Australian wind instrument, and the djembe - a West African drum. Recordings of rollercoasters, bike chains, and trains performed at various speeds in samplers were used to simulate Tripod movement. Also, those aliens should have vaccinated themselves.
whenever my mom hears a similar sound now she references it to this film
Nice! Probably the most ominous sound ever put to film, happy to hear the back story!
I'll never understand how Robbie survived the aliens after stupidly running off, despite his own father telling him how bad of an idea it is.
yeah, that's the bit I absoloutly hate about this movie. It makes absoloutly no sense. Elsewhere, I once speculated that originally, it was written that him running into that battlefield was an imlied death (because him being killed by his own stupidity makes sense), and than some producer or something forced the writter to include him turning up again at the ending just so they can have a "proper" happy ending.
Yeah he shoulve been at least missing a limb or eye or something
@@XxTheXNerdXGuyxX exactly.
"Dad. You have to let me go. You have to let me go." NO HE FUCKING DOESN'T. What did Robbie think he was going to accomplish? He has no military experience and nothing seems to affect the Tripods' shields, so the only thing he could expect from fighting the aliens is death, whether swiftly by heat ray or painfully by having his blood sucked out of him. What Ray should have done was beat his son into unconsciousness and drag him away. Robbie might hate him (even more) later for it, but at least he'd survive! And yes, I know he survives anyway, but he shouldn't have done. Not without a good explanation as to how.
@@GrandmasterDevo Maybe that's what Robbie meant by "letting him go", he felt that all hope was lost and he just wanted to die.
Several sins were about the conflicting nature of the kidnapping tripods and the heat ray tripods. To clarify, the movie shows that the aliens need at least some humans to fertilize the red crop they bring in. Based on that we can infer that the heat rays are for crippling and injuring, and the others are for farming. Also I believe this wait to come back to earth was potentially to do with population density, its said they were observing us, so couldnt they be waiting for that.
Yes. This was explained in the movie. The aliens buried the tripods until the population was large enough they could use us for fertilizer.
It appears that the aliens specifically needed O positive and Rh negative blood types for their fertilizer. Everyone else was vaporized. It wasn't made obvious but there were some hints that would lead one to believe that was the case.
"kidnapping tripods" and "heat ray tripods" lol
there are only harvesters and warriors, our only view of said warrior pods where on battle hill
That bloody-roots scene, where everything is crimson red still sticked to me.
Visually horrifying yet beatuful at the same time.
This came out in 2005, absolutely EVERYONE had flags hanging out front in every city of the U.S. for near a full decade after 9/11. I remember seeing this when it came out and immediately identified with the sentiment the filmmakers were depicting.
Travel to the interior of the country, and you'll still see individual HOUSES with more flags than that whole damn' street.
also h.o.a.'s (home owner associations) those fascists wankers bake flags into their contracts and are anal retentive as hell.
@@Beedo_Sookcool I live in Tennessee, we have more confederate flags than any other flag, way more than US and TN flags combined. Yeah, before 9/11 I don't recall seeing a single flag on sometimes home residence. (Though I was 15 and didn't pay much attention.)
@@philliptune I saw more Confederate jacks in a recent two-week visit to Ohio than I saw in two years of living in GEORGIA, fer Pete's sake.
I live in the city this was filmed. It was odd to see all those flags in that scene. That part of city would neve have that many American flags there lol
Fun fact about EMP’s is they actually only work on things with power going in to them as what an EMP actually does is basically cause things to short themselves out by opening every switch at once. But if you had the battery disconnected on an old car for the EMP then it should actually be fine to drive after.
Modern cars would have a harder time as they’re a lot more electrical controlled and have all sorts of internal batteries and stuff.
So some type of 70's or 80's car would be safe?
@@heintz256 generally, yeah.
@@heintz256 oh yeah. I mean if you haven’t got an ECU or anything like that then an EMP would do basically nothing to stop the car running as they’re basically completely mechanical in functioning.
All an EMP does is short out electrical circuits. But if there’s no power there or no electrics at all then it’ll do absolutely nothing.
Sorry bud - it fries the "secondary" winding of a car coil and fries the "condenser" on a points ignition. It would cook 1970's Capacitor Discharge Ignitions (pre computer) Fries them all at the parts store too (not a solenoid) "Hall Effect" pickups might fry. Crank sensors.
Destroys the car radio "tuner". So you would need spares wrapped in foil, in a metal box, buried underground. Or an old Diesel car-truck.
Today all refrigerators, ovens, thermostats, washer/dryers, TV, microwaves and even toasters are TOAST !
When you have you seen a toaster with computer components??? I didn’t think that was a thing that existed
@7:50 He wants her to put the seat belt on so that if someone smashes the window open, it would be harder for someone to just drag her out of the car since the seat belt would strap her into the car. It makes perfect sense
Pretty sure they would release her pretty soon with how annoying and usseles she is, she'll be the death of anyone around her.
Plus, he's thinking he's going to have to floor it and start running people over.
This movie has the best sound effects of any movie I can think of. The tripods sound terrifying, and the ominous music as it comes out of the water by the ferry is chilling to the bone
I rewatched this a few weeks ago using my big speaker and goddamn you are so right. I remember seeing this in theatres when I was young and I got those same chills. Amazing
"SHUT UP, RACHEL!" That's my synopsis of this movie.
Yes
Damn, I remember watching it in a cinema back in 2005. As a teen, I couldn't be happier. Still one of my favorite alien movies.
Damn Back in 2005 drag me to seen this one due to the fact that I not a Tom Cruise fan as much as the other guy Years later & I still not a Tom Cruise fan
Same, though the "Robbie survives" bit always pisses me off.
My favorite alien movie as well (:
Heck I was graduating high school 17 years ago
One of my favorite scenes in this movie is when the squadron of Apache helicopter gunships fly over and fire off a salvo of Hellfire missiles. Also the scene when the train goes by on fire. And the massive destruction of the neighborhood when that tanker truck is blown off the freeway overpass and crashes down to the neighborhood and takes out like four city blocks.
Same, the train part was quite unforgettable for me too. And the tank truck makes me think of a similar scene in 2012 where a cement truck also falls off a collapsing highway and into a Chevron station and blows it up.
Right after the station made the classic "DING DING" noise. lol 😆
As somebody who identifies as an Apache helicopter I also greatly enjoyed that scene.
Wasn't it multiple trucks?
@@SquidCena multiple trucks and cars but it was the tanker truck that crashed into the neighborhood like a napalm bomb.
@@MeCooper As somebody who identifies as a Chevron tanker truck, I got PTSD from the tanker exploding and needed to breathe into a paper bag for five minutes.
The clothes falling from the sky are from the people that got "their ass blasted on the grass". In the first attack scene you see clothes flying off as the rest of the body disentergrates to dust, just before the scene ends and Ray is peeking around the corner you can see clothes falling from the sky just as the guy running with the girl comes past.
How do the bodies get frazzled into a powdery nothingness but their clothes manage to stay completely intact?
@@itsMrNoble its like it only destroys organic matter
@@itsMrNoble since humans are like 70% water, the heat ray basically just evaporates all of that. leaving the clothes
CinemaSins missed the most obvious flaw:alien death ray can cut through concrete and steel (like the bridge it blasted) and can disintegrate people but it can't harm denim and cotton clothes. Hilarious.
@@Redbr34 "its like it only destroys organic matter"
What do you think clothes are made of? Titanium? Where do you think cotton clothes come from? They come from plants. Do you think plants are inorganic matter? A leather belt is made of cow skin. Are cows made of inorganic matter?
The movie is inconsistent and stupid to a ridiculous degree.
Fun fact: Ray's parents that cameo at the very end of the movie are played by the lead couple from the 1953 movie version
actually its his ex wifes parents.
Its a sin to forget how good this movie is after all these years. And now that ive gotten older that scene @10:43 brings me to tears everytime.
It doesn't make much practical sense for the movie but portrays a very compassionate father-son relationship that im sure so many families can relate to. It can be hard to let your kids go, and just as hard to be set free.
i remember watching this movie in the theater...sat a couple rows ahead of me and my friend was a, well, rather Large man who had bought an entire seat's worth of popcorn snacks and food...not even half an hour into the movie, this guy falls asleep, snoring just loud enough to sound like a fly buzzing in the movie...
but then we reach the part of the movie when the Alien Tripod things start coming out of the ground, announcing their activation with a droning *"HWOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNGKK!"* ...
...and the guy's snoring gets even Louder, almost like he was TALKING with the Alien Tripod things...so now, whenever i think of this movie, i cant un-remember the 'conversation' between *"HWONGK!"* and "HHGNNNNNNNNK!" bickering back and forth with each other...
That was as sad as it was funny XD
I actually laughed out loud at this comment. Good job on getting more than an exhale and lol
LOL
LMAOO
I'd woulda slapped him round the back of his head
I saw this in the theatre, stoned, and had a mild panic attack during the scene when Tom Cruise is running through the streets while people were getting turning into ash. Had to sit in the bathroom stall, trying to move past the anxiety. My friend who was with me thought I had to take a long poop.
Dakota Fanning is a brilliant actor, and gives an excellent performance. Unfortunately, hearing her piercing screams all the time might just be agonising for your ears to take in!
I don't think she's an actor at all. She might be an okay actress tho.
She bugged the shit out of me in this movie.
Actress *
@@__The_Real_V__ I thought "actor" was used, regardless of gender now?
@@UnboxingAlyss you thought wrong.
The good parts far outweigh the bad parts in this for me. I watched it recently for the first time in a while and BOY I never realised how grim it is! It’s basically civilians being mercilessly slaughtered for most of it 😅
This is a Disney film compared to the book
@@badgers1975
How? I’ve read the book and it’s just as morbid and grim. The book just gives a bit more and more detail.
@@badgers1975 Kinda I guess, you know reading a book is longer than a 2 hour movie, so more sci fi grim to tell
The highly hostile aliens in tripod vehicles that can rise well above houses are apparently actively seeking to exterminate humanity, yet the rescue operation at the ferry has bright searchlights and loud music. ARE THEY TRYING TO ATTRACT THE ALIENS?!?! *DING!*
I would’ve taken a sin off for the sound design of the tripods at least. I remember being a kid and that sound scared the shit out of me lmao
The first Tripod attack scene was so brutal and intense, I was wondering if this movie was really PG-13. Overall an enjoyable film collab with Spielberg and Cruise (even though I prefer Minority Report)
Me too bro
Well , they just showed the people being zapped Star Trek style and later when the tripod stabbed that poor guy on the ground, you didn't actually see the stabbing. that's how you avoid an R .
@5:19 the point of this shot was to immerse the viewer with a one shot but not only that, Corridor Crew does a good breakdown of this shot. The level of expertise that went into the vfx for the reflections and composition for the windows, them in the car and all done during the one shot Spielberg was like i HAVE to keep this in the movie, tbh this one shot would've been a sin off in my book
@@athirkell Yeah no i totally get their point as to why they sinned the scene it is very show boaty lol
Ray. With a gun. A ray-gun. In an alien movie.
12:56 For someone who seems bright, you can be awfully unimaginative at times. The alien head is probably using the mirror to scan behind him. It also detected sound from that direction and so that's what drew it to the mirror.
War of the Worlds really did put a chill down my spine when it comes with alien invasion from Mars.
Yeah, but, I mean, what are the chances of _that_ happening, eh? A million to one ... ?
Realistically, probably less. We’ve been sending rivers to mars for decades now, and would probably have noticed any intelligent life that had any interest whatsoever in invasion. The only remaining possibility for intelligent life on mars is an entirely underground civilization, which isn’t very likely
*rovers not rivers
Never tell me the odds
Sin 74 is such a bad one. It's not clothes from captured humans, it's clothes from The disintegrated humans we saw earlier running away.
So glad someone mentioned this
Like did he think that the invaders were just capturing humans by the 100s just to strip them naked??? Fucking weird lol
Why were their clothes be intact if they evaporated? Surely their clothes would burn to ash as well
@@wieldylattice3015 the alien weapon was based on a real protoype military laser that would destroy a human's water content, and leave the clothing.
@@nickcrispino6575 except those same lasers can also destroy a highway overpass made of concrete and steel
I enjoyed this version, but you’re not wrong about that basement scene, omg that dragged. But then I still prefer the 1953 Technicolor version with the flying stingray ships myself, the 4K remaster with Dolby Atmos is lovely.
Those ships look so perfectly alien. They're a classic design that holds up to this day.
Thats funny as a huge fan of the original I thought the basement scene was one of the best in the whole movie. Horses for courses I guess lol
the one that later made a tv show.....the ships hover, fire green "torpedoes" at each end, the head firing like a fireworks sparkler? how yeah, liked that one.
!flying stingray ships, yes!
@@deboralee1623 Well they sort of where not flying. They walked on electromagnetic beams.
One good reason. One good moment of intelligence on an enemy can mean the difference between victory and defeat Also, I love this video, seeing you give Spielberg the praise he deserves for this wonderfully shot and directed film is great. The script could have had a few revisions, but it is what it is.
Watch the original movie from the 50's. That movie is a masterpiece compared to this POS.
I like how the lasers destroy building and bridges, vaporize humans, and sets things on fire but don't damage the clothes.
Intelligence greater than our own but they didn't do the proper recon when it came down to viruses and bacteria. So they went wheezing and coughing to their defeat.
Maybe they just went full Karen when an Alien doctor offered all the vaccines before the invasion?
like the 13 colonies
I like to think they assumed humanity had cured all disease like they had done. Surely... they must've by now, right?
One of those oversights where the invader doesn't understand the natives well enough.
The opening narration you're dissing is a modified quote from Wells's original 1897 novel. And in 1897, no one would've believed, etc, etc.
I remember being so annoyed that the camera didn't follow Robbie over the hill so that we could actually see the human military vs Martian tripod battle. I get it, Spielberg didn't want you to know what happened to maintain suspense but still, I really wanted to see what a Spielberg Independence Day battle would be like.
I get your point, but it was kinda obvious what was going down by the shear amount of gigantic firey explosions and lack of survivors.
@@cayennepepper2010 Oh I know but I wanted to see it. Imagine the Normandy scene in Saving Private Ryan - with aliens.
You'd just see the tripods slowly walking towards the hill while all the artillery and missiles keep being deflected by their shields. We even get a glimpse of that when they eventually do get over the hill and you see the missiles exploding against the shields
Amen bro ...i hated every aspect of this movie
@Latest Obsession True. We didn't see it because the protagonist didn't see it.
7:29 You forgot to mention that the entire neighbourhood was obliterated by the crashed airliner - but Ray's car managed to remain untouched.
I personally love the idea that since the tripods were buried many thousands of years ago, it makes them ancient tech of that aliens race. Imagine what they could’ve done with their modern weapons and machines.
You could make a skit about the 90% of aliens who suffocated inside tripods that wouldn't start after thousands of years. 😁
This was a solid and strong sci-fi outing. I really enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It's one of Cruise's better non-action films.
Fully agree doomrulz…damn solid movie.
Got it for free from Columbia House. I'd heard negative reviews about it... watched it and thought, 'This is great!'
Really? Really?
"non-action" doing some lifting there
8:26 Not a sin. This is actually how all such walls become, with posters on top of posters. Such walls were everywhere post-9/11, which is undoubtedly what inspired it. You can't sin reality.
It's not like there's a wall manager, who blocks out spaces and mandates poster sizes. People aren't going to say "oh, the wall is full. I guess my missing kid will just have to stay missing."
Oh. He ABSOLUTELY can sin reality. And he has. That’s just the reality of the situation.
9:25 there are 3 types of tripods first is the one with lazers nothing else then there are harvesters that grab and harvest the blood from humans and the last one the big boss is the warrior that is a bit more bigger and taller than other tripods and the warrior has stronger heatrays and also has the grabbing thing the warrior has 5 lights like the other have 3
i feel like something sinnable is the "divorced couple in a disaster film" cliche, so many recent disaster films have a divorced couple with atleast 1 child including but not limited to: san andreas, war of the worlds, Godzilla king of the monsters, dantes peak and 2012
My two biggest sins that I came up with in the movie are: 1) The aliens are so advanced but never planned for the viruses and bacterias of Earth. 2) The aliens sent their tripod ships and technology to Earth many thousands of years ago and are able to just use it. Technology changes so fast that anything that old would be obslete.
They likely designed the tripods to survive for thousands of years, so even if it was obsolete to what the aliens would have now, they can still perform their basic function. That being the propagation of their species on earth. They stupidly waited too long to emerge, so now humanity has the tools to reverse engineer their tech and use it against them.
This movie was one big trauma for me and honestly i'm glad i still got to watch it again many years after, one of my favorite movies ever, love that you got to review it finally too!
Haha agreed, some of the scenes straight-up traumatized me as a kid
I’m like that with I am Legend
It traumatized my brother too 😭 A few days after we watched it an electrical transformer exploded when we were in the parking lot, and it's loud with this bright blue light. Then the whole apartment complex goes black. He screamed a scream I'd never heard before. He thought they had come😭🤣
This movie scarred me for life so thank you for making that trauma easier for me-
Agreed, my younger self was petrified of this movie for years!
@@trinaq we watched it when I was 11 at fucking midnight! Horrible time to watch it-
That's so true about the not running away part. If I raised my hand over a bunch of ants on a table, the ants don't stop and stare at me and wonder what to do, they start panicking and running away as soon as they see me too close. If I see a fly and pull out a flyswatter that bro is gone, instantly hiding somewhere because they know what a fly swatter looks like from instinct. Insects with almost no wherewithal run away from impending doom, the people in this movie are dumber than ants and flies.
Yes and no. It's precisely because we have more developed brains we act dumb in situations because of smarts. You are right. Insects and many animals will see some shit going or about to go down and nope the eff out of there. What humans do is kinda dumb cos the gut linked to the old original instinctive hardware IS going get the eff out of there. But the higher cortex is busy going yeaaaaah but wait a minute that's interesting I wonder what it is and I for sure don't wanna be theorising about it for the next six months so let's stick around see if I can satisfy my curiosity. Unfortunately unlike cats we don't have nine lives that's the part evolution didn't give us lol.
No, just no.
@@djkilla3711 yes just yes. Why do you think so many accidents happen around other accidents. Cos humans rubber neck and get nosy. Can't help get curious. What happened there? Eyes off road. Bang. Another accident.
@@TheWPhilosopher His example specifically, does not make sense. Insects and humans have DRASTICALLY different levels of intelligence.
@@djkilla3711 that's why I said yes and no. His point is despite supposedly being much cleverer than insects and ants, in crisis situations we appear to often times act dumber as they will just get on with getting safe not stop and point at impending doom. My point is it is precisely those extra smarts that actually induce such stupidity in those moments precisely because we are wired to exolore. Same as why you hear a funny noise at night you may grab a bat or a gun but you move TOWARDS the noise. A deer will just RUN from it.
You forgot to note that after a EMP has stopped cars, watches and cellphones, there manages to be one guy with a working video camera.
The tripods didn’t bring out the lasers at the scene because they don’t have those, those are the harvesters which use tentacles to collect people, the ones who have lasers are called the Warriors, and the Uber pods have yellow lights and an extra set of them and also have tentacles and lasers. 9:29
10:09 cmon. The clothes are from the people who got zapped by the tripod disintigration beams. You didnt notice people's clothes getting yeeted into the air when they exploded into dust?
I think the point is if the beams disintegrated the entire human (which the beams do - no body parts left over), the clothes the human was wearing would also have disintegrated.
@@RK-252 Read through Wikis and stuff and the reason why they leave their clothes after being vaporized was, since humans are 60% water, that shit went through incredible heat and thus, vaporized. Since there's no water inside of clothes, the clothes survives.
That proves he probably didn't pay attention or ignored the scene of the first attack
When we saw people being vaporized in the beginning, the clothes didn't go flying a hundred feet into the air. Instead they fell to the ground almost immediately. There doesn't appear to be enough wind to do so either. So where are these clothes coming from?
6:50 Most military equipment is hardened against EMPs it is incredibly simple you just need a faraday cage or in other words a metal box with 6 sides. Dont want your stuff to get EMP'ed put it in your fridge, microwave or tumble dryer without a window to much work warp everything in aluminium foil boom! emp resistant electronics.
Personally i'd say the intro and outro speeches are iconic to war of the worlds and should not be a sin. Cool video though, love the way you pick films apart!
Alien tripod sounding like an old Keurig machine. I fooled a co-worker playing the tripod sound on youtube and he thought I was making coffee lol.
Aliens are smart enough for interplanetary travel in a mass scale but somehow do zero research on the biology of planet earth
The clothes falling is from the people that got vaporized in the aliens' heat ray. It gets shown during the scene where the first tripod attacks that only ash and clothes are left behind. Kinda surprised how you didn't catch that tbh.
Because it makes no sense, how the hell is it vaporizing a human but not the clothes or the clothes catching on fire?
@@alwayssmacked7186 My interpretation is that it's electricity. The water in the human body is conductive and the beam transfers so much energy to the vaporizes all the biomass instantly while leaving the clothes that are not conductive unscathed.
However that doesn't explain how buildings are destroyed by the things and not clothes, so I'm not really willing to spend much more effort on defending my position.
@@distantmind956 yet it can destroy most of things likes Cars and buildings like nothing and leave them on fire, even this it's shown from the start it's still a gap in how the heatrays actually work.
@@tlilreapert4904 The heatray hits a human in the arm, the human as well as the arm of the clothing is vaporized. The rest of the clothes are blown away by the residual heat of the person being vaporized.
That would still leave a considerable amount of undamaged clothing, though I get what you're saying and if this were to happen in real life it would definitely happen diferently. Still, just trying to give the movie some benefit of the doubt.
@@distantmind956 i understand
Max from Flight of the Navigator must have just been scouting out earth's defences back in 1986.
Can't believe you didn't take a sin off for that scary awesome sound the tripods make
"Goddamn, goku is PISSED" took me out 🤣😭
Re 16:18: there is some evidence the aliens came down in stages, not all at once, so maybe they hadn’t reached Boston yet.
The aliens in this movie follow the same instructions as the humans in Alien: Covenant.
Irredeemable sin: they didn't have a sequence with USS Thunder Child, despite including a ferry boat and tripods in the water.
You mean the HMS thunder child
“Why are all these cars on the ferry”
Because no one has changed the solenoids. So they don’t work to get them off the dam ferry.
Damn bro
Couldn't they just push them off? 3 people is enough to do that.
@@YukiXKohaku it’s America, scared to be sued when this is all over.
@@smilley792 😂👍
how did all the other cars on the ferry get past the mobs?
2:52 lol the movie specifically said it was 4th of July
No it doesn't. Ray only compares the lightning to July 4th fireworks. The movie clearly does not take place in July, as there are dead leaves everywhere and people are wearing coats and jackets. Likely mid to late October.
The biggest sin that makes the whole premise of the movie fall flat on its ass…..the fact that we humans never dug up/excavated one of these tripods with all the subways, pipings and mines we’ve dug over the centuries!
Well the tripods was deep into the ground. Like deep deep.
missed the most obvious one: why should they use their million old tech in the ground when they would have developed far more advanced stuff in this time
The plot of War of the World's is that the invaders themselves were desperate and this was pretty much their last ditch effort to save themselves.
For as much of a sin as the opening/closing Narration of this movie is, it's a pair of such iconic verses in literature & music (thank you Jeff Wayne for one of the best psychadelic rock/prog albums & live album performance show experiences of all time)
That jacket is so mid 2000s and I think we all had one like it to pretend we had motorcycles and look cool.
Cracked up at "loaf rage"!
3:58 I wanna sin the fact that all power and even cars stop working but the camera recording people becoming dust still worked. Also Avengers infinity war foreshadowing?
The idea of the tripods being buried here defeats the end of the movie: if they were here ages ago, they would have encountered our diseases. Now, you can say "they had a machine to plant the tripods", then why not just make that your weapon. If you say they shot them to earth as meteors why wait ages to invade when you're already lobbing missiles at earth? Pretty sure if the planet got hit by a global meteor shower that THEN released alien death machines we'd be screwed.
Oh, and they planted death machines on earth BEFORE we evolved, or developed advanced weapons? Once again, why not just take over then (unless they were planning on "farming the humans", which they still could have done with any large land animals.
No because the Tripod itself would have been covered in Earth stuff but the aliens themselves wouldn't have
6:58 - "This is Detroit, and this is Detroit after the attack."
7:28 I find it astonishing that he sins the road not being blocked by debris and not the fact their car is perfectly fine
SIN: The news guys asking the cameraman who went deaf, "Did you hear that? We're getting out of here!" WHAT DO YOU MEAN DID HE HEAR THAT?! HE'S DEAF!! 🤣🤣🤣
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CinemaWins should do a polar opposite video. “Everything Great About War of the Worlds”. I find this to be a very effective sci-fi horror thriller regardless of what any naysayer would say.
7:26 I laughed so harddddd 💀
Man this movie takes me back, not in a good way but a PTSD way.
Scary Movie did a great job parodying this film. Especially when Robbie runs off to join the army.
"Squeaky From is right."
I absolutely lost it there.
I wanted to like this movie so much. The original terrified me as a kid and I had hope for this one. But Spielberg had to have his happy ending and the plot armor on the family was THICK.
The Tri-pods laser’s do have some sense behind them, they actually fire gamma ray’s which would melt the liquid part of human’s, but not the solid, not liquid clothing😊
I don’t think it’s too unrealistic that a house that nice wouldn’t have some kind of reinforced storm cellar, or a cold storage room.
250K in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama could get a solid home like that lol. Granted, I know the movie isn’t in that location but still.
I like this film. The score, cinematography and look of the Tripods are good, and there are lots of fantastic moments of tension. This film is also well-paced and enjoyable, and (despite the updated setting) I like how faithful it is to the main storyline of the novel. This film isn’t ALL good though - the characters aren’t very likeable or interesting, and I don’t like how it changed the origin of the aliens (them being from an unknown planet and coming up from underground after millions of years of waiting, whereas in the book they were from Mars and they arrived in missiles shooting down from the sky).
The reason people don’t run is shock they’re trying to comprehend what they’re seeing
That, and sometimes not running right away does make more sense, you might be better off if you have at least some idea what exactly is happening, and maybe take a moment to decide whether to run at all or if hiding would make more sense, or even just take a few seconds to decide in what direction it would be best to run.
Besides, in the environment our species has developed we had, and do have, several predators you definitely should not run from because that is exactly the thing that makes them attack, so not running right away is also probably a rather instinctive thing with some of us.
The tri-pod started abducting people because the aliens realized they were dying from species on our planet. I see it as foreshadowing.
How is Tom Cruise the protagonist? He doesn't do anything except kill a scared man in his home and run away from the aliens for 2 hours. And he only killed the one alien by luck because it happened to grab him and not someone else.
Ah yes, the film that traumatized me so much, I cannot enjoy horror/suspenseful sci-fi for a long time. I'm so sad I can't enjoy this as much as I should. It's such a great movie! The sounds of the aliens still gives me goosebumps.
This movie always freaked me out and felt like a fever dream because I was like 4 when it came out and probs like 8 when I first saw it, idk. Love this movie!
15:30 He wasn't expecting to be rescued. That's the point of this movie. It's the tale of how All American Tom Cruise decides to become a suicide bomber. It's updating the anti-British-colonialism theme of the book by making America the victim of a 'shock and awe' campaign, and showing that anyone might resort to such tactics in the face of overwhelming force.
I would think the military would try to set up land mines to destroy the tripods' feet. If then can destroy just one leg the tripod would fall to the ground.
@@adamcollazo8228 The vague concept of "force fields" covers a lot of poor alien tactics and incompetent human responses.
seems to me Ray's arm would have been injured with that many people in the cage pulling on the soldier
I remember as a kid I was creeped out that Ray and Rachel are just sleeping peacefully right after killing that guy, it's like they don't even care.
They've been through worse up to that point so I'm guessing it's not a big deal to them.
Spielberg did about as good of a job adapting this book as M. Night Shyamalan did adapting Avatar. I know I can't take that back, but I stand by it.