WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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00:00 - Intro
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The foghorn-sounding noise that the tripods make before they go on a killing spree is honestly one of the creepiest sounds I've ever heard in a movie.
Also, Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, the two stars from the 1953 movie, made a cameo at the very end as the kid's grandparents.
I have seen this 2 or 3 times plus the original and never picked up on that. Good eye
@Cadinho93 It truly is a terrifying sound ! definitely raises goosebumps ,
i do recall the original as being good this one is more modernized and is even more thrilling .
The airhorn in Silent Hill creeps me out way more
Love that Foghorn sound. Hearing it in the movie theater back in the day was so powerful
That sound was in Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds. "Ooooooo- Laaaaa." I like how all 3 versions the classic says, "No one would've believed in the middle of the 20th Century." Musical Version, "at the end of the 19th Century." And this one, "in the early 21st Century." Indicated which era each represents.
This must be the first movie that Cassie spent more time hiding than Carly did
@sensibleb Cassie's jumpscare moment was one for the books 😆 They 're both awesome as a sister team in their reactions !! Much Thanks to CASSIE and CARLY !! you both always liven up my day !! 😀
Lol. Yeah roles were reversed here.
lolll she lost it when the alien popped out in the basement scene
@@user-vc5rp7nf8f A rare leg kick jump scare.
Cassie just trying to cope and failing so bad. Movie, Movie, Movie. 😆
The original novel by H.G. Wells is amazing. Consider that he wrote it between 1895 and 1897, before cars, airplanes, and very few homes had electricity, he wrote about aliens coming to earth in spaceships and using laser beams instead of solid projectiles. His imagination was insane.
Agreed. It's both incredibly prescient _and_ profoundly of the Victorian era (since it's pretty explicitly about imperialism but with the UK getting a taste of our own medicine and depicts, in one of my favourite scenes, what you could either read as British seapower's last hurrah _or_ its inevitable decline).
(as sci-fi authors go, Wells _might_ have the best hit ratio - spaceships, lasers, tanks, nuclear weapons, mechanised warfare and more, he was pretty spot on with a lot of things)
The "laser" effect had of course not been discovered yet back in 1897. So that's more like an interpretation of the original work. :)
@@lennyvalentin6485 the word “laser” hadn’t been invented yet but Wells describes their weapons as using beams of concentrated energy. I’d say that’s remarkably close to describing something that didn’t yet exist.
@@anonymes2884 Sure, he has a great hit ratio but isn't it cheating when he's a time traveler?
Maybe Wells knew something that we still don't know and this wasn't actually fiction.
Nah, but I got you thinking about it. Yeah?
28:45 Ladies and Gentlemen. We have our first nomination for "Best Jump Scare" for the Poppies 2025!
Lmao. Cassie would be the one to defeat the aliens with firm but polite words. "Can you leave already!"
oh my gosh!
LOLOL Thank you for a perfect scene. They are both so adorable .
So Canadian. LOL.
Replying to Cassie in the alien voice from "Independence Day": Peace. No peeeeeace. DIIIEEEEEEEE.
Lol
Alien: “okay, since you asked so kindly, have a good day eh! We’ll be going back to space now.”
I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking to myself "When was the last time I saw Tom Cruise playing a character who is simply a working man and father." He's not a navy pilot; not a Superspy; not a Vampire; not a Hotshot Lawyer getting paid 6 figures a year; he's just a hard working every man. This was a role that was just simple yet very grounded and real.
He was good in born on the 4th of July.
Same. But he was another kind of superhero here: a dad who did whatever he could to protect his kids.
What is funny is he is playing a high skilled dock loader who is making six figures.
Except he did drive a 6-figure car in this one. :P '66 Shelby GT350H.
He was technically just a working man and a father in Minority Report
When Dakota throws her head down onto the car seat as they're frantically racing to safety of some kind, with the camera whipping down with her, Dakota crying and conveying absolute terror, then delivers the most chilling line in a movie: 'Is it the terrorists?'
When I saw this opening day in the theatre, the collective audience gasped on this moment. We were only four years out from 9-11 and it was still fresh in our minds. Hearing it now, almost twenty years out, it takes me right back to the atmosphere of the times and unease still in the air.
But, Dakota. I just saw her in an Episode of Friends where she guest stars as a little girl Joey has a scene with and she is freakin' all timer hilarious in it. And here she makes you tear up from her uncertainty and horror. The range on her at such a young age. She was a prodigy. Legend.
Things like the dust covering Tom Cruise and everyone running for the ferries have their own meaning for that context too. Pretty brave to make this movie and to do it exactly the way they did, considering Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg apparently started working on it in early 2002. (Wikipedia says they chose it as their next project during filming of Catch Me If You Can, which puts it at Feb-May 2002.) So barely six months after 9/11.
Cassie during an alien invasion “ can you just leave already?!”
Aliens “well sheesh, you don’t have to be rude about it!” 😤
The older couple on the porch at the end were the original actors from the 1953 "War of the Worlds"
I remember when I just watched this that I felt positive that I knew who they were but couldn't quite pin it down. I do recall that I did remember them from my first viewing of this version lol
I remember my dad reaction, "Hey, those two!"
Good catch!
I remember when this movie came out some criticism was that "no way humans would behave like that, they would come together and help each other in times of need and blah blah blah". Well, after seeing people fighting over toilet paper during the pandemic, I guess it's not that weird the way they behaved in this movie...
No, people today have had is so easy, for so long, they don't have a clue how people can act when they get desperate. The scariest thing in the apocalypse is your fellow human.
I watched a video about a guy who trained bears for a living. One of the commenters said, "Yeah, I wouldn't want to be around that thing if it hadn't eaten in 4 days." I told him I'd be just as afraid of humans if they hadn't eaten in 4 days.
I've been around and I've seen things. Humans can be absolute monsters, in every sense of the word.
"If the constraints of society were lifted, and I was all that stood between you and a meal, you would crack my skull with a rock and eat my meaty parts." -The Warden in Shutter Island (who also played Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs).
John Wayne said something similar about the way the townspeople refused to step up and help out Kane in High Noon. I think the way people react to trauma when they are actually confronted by it in person, will be situationally different. Some will flee, some will fight and some will be frozen with fear, unable to move or think at all. So yeah, I think Spielberg's people in this film are a good representation of how we will all most likely behave differently, some trying to help, some trying to attack one another, and some just sitting down in a field unable to help anyone, including themselves.
For me, in an alien invasion/apocalypse, definitely the scariest thing to watch out for (after any aliens) would be humans, no question!
@@vesper180 Hello, I'm reminded of the events of October 7, 2023, then six months later we are being deluged with " Hamas Protestors ". Like they have a leg to stand on.
“From the moment the invaders arrived they were doomed, mankind had earned its immunity” what a line that tells so much. Amazing movie. Amazing reactions👏🏼
That's a line from the book. In fact, I think all of Morgan Freeman's narration was
War of the Worlds is a surprisingly dark film.
The 9/11 imagery (less than four years after the attacks), the human ash covering Ray, Rachel’s terror and anxiety during the first attack (amazing acting from Dakota btw), Ray being forced to kill Harlan, and the extremely uncomfortable family dynamics due to Ray’s poor parenting…it can be a rough watch for those thinking it’s just eacapist blockbuster fare from Spielberg.
Cassie's scream at the Martian face was absolutely priceless
Legend has it the whole neighborhood heard it. 😂
Her scream scared me.
And reflex karate kick XD Cassie might make it through the zombie apocalypse after all... :)
When her foot goes level with her head, that's when you know it was a big scare LOL
This was like watching Year One Cassie of Popcorn In Bed. She was terrified.
Everyone take a drink every time someone mentions the 1938 radio broadcast.
I'm drunk already
Ambulance on standby.
or the 1953 version labelling it the original
or the 1898 novel (if they mention it was originally serialised in 1897 before its hardcover publication the following year, may as well just drink everything you've got left)
Actually while writing this I just learned that the US publication that originally published it in serial form was COSMOPOLITAN hahahahaha that seems pretty wild to me 😂
@@bobblebardsley I would point out that back then "Cosmopolitan" was more like "The Strand" in that they regularly published short fiction, serialised novels etc. but i'm _way_ too drunk (and i'm not even a quarter of the way through the comments).
(full disclosure, I personally have mentioned the novel at least three times but mostly to people praising the movie for what are actually Wells' lines so... thash OK right ?)
Small fun fact: immediately after the ferry scene there should have been one where Rey, Rechel and Robby find themselves the next day in a neighborhood of a city invaded by a battalion of tripods; immediately afterwards they are forced to hide behind an SUV as a tripod reaches their position and begins to capture dozens and dozens of people from their homes. It would have been a scene that would have made it even clearer that there is no hope ANYWHERE and also this explains why Robby wants to join the fight and why in the scene with the army it is evening again.
"You don't head to the city."
There's a reason this saying exists: "Head for the hills!"
Exactly! The first time I saw this movie, I was like, "No, you idiot, get supplies and hide out in the woods!" I am like Cassie and Carly in that I find this movie highly disturbing, and I don't recommend it to anyone, despite how much I love Spielberg movies. Even with all the scares in Jurassic Park, we still had Alan Grant as the reassuring, safe adult to count on - in this one, I thought Tom Cruise's character was an overgrown teenager who was making all the wrong choices, and he almost got both his kids killed! Not to mention that the idea that the aliens died from a virus was kinda dumb. I mean, why would a race advanced enough to have space travel not be advanced enough to know how to disinfect things and keep themselves safe until they could acquire an immunity?
@@Kayjee17 Taken out by a micro is brilliant, IMHO. And it's making an ironic point.
@@Kayjee17 When I saw it, I kept thinking, go back to where you started. They aliens had already killed everyone there and presumably moved on to other places. So go where they think they’ve cleared instead of wandering out into untouched killing grounds.
@@Kayjee17 you really dont get the movie huh?
@Kayjee17. How do you create disinfectants against organisms you’ve never encountered before? If we went to Mars there’s a pretty good chance the disinfectants & sterilization processes that work on Earth wouldn’t work on the microbes of Mars because the microbes on Mars evolved under totally different conditions than the ones on Earth.
Plus the aliens wouldn’t know about the disinfectants we used. How would alien invaders know about bleach? Not to mention our disinfectants might be totally toxic to aliens so they wouldn’t be able to use them.
Totally different life forms that evolved under completely different environments & conditions wouldn’t have the same reactions & results. What works for one wouldn’t work on another, much less on all. And all it would take was one single microbe being inhaled or ingested to destroy everything. That one single microbe would reproduce & evolve fairly quickly & that’s all it takes to become deadly to the aliens, even when the aliens are us.
Independence Day had humans defeating the aliens with a computer "virus" which was a homage to war of the worlds.
That movie doesn't hold a candle to this one. Or even the original from the 1950's
@@bmw128racer I agree, Independence Day is better than both.
I thinks that's the revelation that David has when his Dad told him about "Catching a cold"
@@Xlcola Nah, the computer virus thing is just stupid, we are talking about an alien race that's far more advanced than us, and we think we could take them out with a computer virus? lol, the movie was done at a time when most didn't know much about computers, but the logic behind it is flawed, and in truth, we would have stood no chance against them, unless we managed to get in contact with another alien race to help us.
As for this movie, nature is far more advanced than we are, but I would have to imagine that an alien race that's been watching us for so long would know about viruses on earth, it seems like a flaw in the movie to try and give us a chance, in reality, they likely would have had protection against viruses on earth.
At the end of the day, they are both just movies, so who cares if it makes much sense or not.
@@XlcolaIndependence Day is mindless junk for simpletons and kids.
No one mentions the cast, while not “Star studded” there are some well known ones. My favorite of which, is Miranda Otto who plays Eowyn in the Lord of the Rings plays the mom. ❤️
You mean she's the douchebag mom from Talk to Me.
Amy Ryan had a small role as Tom Cruise's neighbor, too.
Oh dang I knew she looked familiar. Never connected those dots.
The daughter, the girl that plays Rachel did a good job too.
@@jordanmcbride9215 Dakota Fanning was freakishly talented as a child star. She's still good, but as a kid she really stood out.
I wanted to see this movie for my birthday with friends in high school, but I waited and waited and no one was showing up. I had resigned myself to seeing the movie all alone, when two of my less-closer friends showed up together. They were the last two I expected to show up, but they came with a present and a card, and we all watched War of the Worlds. It made all the difference. I'll always associate this movie with friendship, how people can always surprise you and the difference even a small gesture can make to someone, even if they aren't your best friend.
In case you have not noticed, this movie was a reunion for two TOP GUN actors: Tom Cruise & Tim Robbins. A lot of people had forgotten Tim Robbins played Merlin, the radar interceptor officer (RIO) or the back seater who was initially paired with Cougar. Upon Maverick's return to the carrier just before the massive dogfight with the Mig-28s, Merlin became his RIO.
TOP GUN forever!!!
Ever want a night of entertainment without the screen, Jeff Waynes musical the War of the Worlds is the best version of this story. Narrated by Richard Burton, absolutely incredible.
List of Songs & Narration (in order) hereunder ------
THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS -
1. The Eve of the War
2. Horsell Common & the Heat Ray
3. The Artilleryman & the Fighting Machine
4. Forever Autumn
5. Thunder Child
THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS -
1. The Red Weed (Part 1)
2. The Spirit of Man
3. The Red Weed (Part 2)
4. Brave New World
5. Dead London
6. Epilogue (Part 1)
7. Epilogue (Part 2) NASA
THE NEW FILES 95
8. The Spirit of Man (Dubulladub)
9. Dark Autumn Dub
10. Forever Autumn (Remix 95)
11. Epilogue (part 2)/The Eve of the War (Remix 95)
VOCALS, PRODUCTION & MUSIC -
The Journalist - Richard Burton
Beth - Julie Covington
The Artilleryman - David Essex
Justin Hayward
Parson Nathaniel - Philip Lynott
The Heat Ray - Jo Partridge
ChrisThompson
Jeff Wayne
Gary Osborne
Paul Vigrass
Based on the great book by H. G. Wells
Yeah, the Jeff Wayne musical is unparalleled.
I never could get into the musical version.
I'm sure it's great.
But it makes the story feel less grounded and less dangerous to me.
Soooo freaking good! The Martian Ulla's used to scare the crap out of me as a kid.
@@corhellion Same! My brother used to tease me by singing "Ulla" and making me cringe.
War of the Worlds is a novel first published in the late 1800s. The radio broad cast of the story in 1938 was narrated by Orson Wells (if you don't know who he is he is worth looking up). The story was presented as radio news reports causing many to believe they were true and not fiction send many people into panic . Some news papers said that the panic was exaggerated.
Novel was written by HG Wells
Yes, there were panics. People nowadays have a different perspective. In 1938 there was no internet, no tv, radio stations were sparse in that larger cities had them while rural towns had less or even none. (As a check on that, how many AM radio stations can you receive even 50 miles from a larger city? I can't even get a decent reception in the Denver area where I live, and FM is just as bad.) Newspapers were not even daily in other than the big cities, and even those relied upon wire services for their national input so any reaction to Orson's show was slow to gather and report and print locally. I wish people could somehow put themselves in the context of that time, rather than judge by today's multiplicity of information outlets.
@@lawrencegoodstein6539 A true sci fi master of the age.
That was a test to see how gullible the general public was and the result shows they were and still are.
One of the producers described Time Square being empty after the broadcast, so we know there wasn't any panic in New York City.
24:31 This part too. The entire sequence in the basement was so nerve-wracking and tense. What happens at the end of it is understandable but so unsettling at the same time.
The bridge that blew up in the beginning is in my hometown of Bayonne, New Jersey. It connects NJ to Staten Island, NY. I lived a block away and watched them film it.
Someone else has probably said this, but what the aliens were trying to do was to “teraform” the Earth. Change it so they can live on it comfortably. It’s the same thing that Zod and the Kryptonians were trying to do to Earth in “Man of Steel”. It’s what some scientists are proposing that we do to Mars if we ever get there…
Indeed. Also good to note is that Wells tried to draw parallels between Britain's colonialism and the Martians - a technologically superior force conquering an "inferior" people, and exploiting their land for their own gain. As Wells wrote in the book - "Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?"
One of the best parts about reaction channels, is that they can give new "life" to a movie you thought you didn't like.
I remember being _so_ disappointed when seeing this in theaters that i've never watched it again. But watching this, there are so many pieces of this movie that have been stuck in my mind for almost two decades now. And the ending was suitably epic and quite a bit more satisfying than i remember: "for neither do men live or die in vain." It's a powerful statement, when you're in the right mind to hear it.
I remember I liked it back then, but in a 7.5/10 way, not like 10/10 masterpiece way. But 7,5 is pretty good in my book.
9:57 This part here is memorably terrifying and epic. The music and the visual together is such a vivid thing, it sticks in your mind. Credit to Steven Spielberg and John Williams for another excellent collaboration.
The movie was intelligent, gripping and intense, and done very well. What more would you want? It's not a film masterpiece, but its much better than the original, ie much more frightening.
The car being attacked which shows the mob mentality in a crisis and the introduction of guns might be the scariest scene of all.
sounds to me like you just weren't in the right state of mind the first time you watched this movie...
I think the idea was a little head of its time--it was somewhat atypical for a sci-fi blockbuster, but the Cloverfield movies, a lot of zombie fiction has explored the concept, and over time (Hell, Katrina happened a month later!) the anxiety of being a single boring person a world turned upside down is surprisingly resonant.
Dakota Fanning always was an uncannily good actor as a kid. Her performance in this is quite amazing.
Eerie good, even though her character is so annoying and fragile. :P It's a big difference to how kids were presented back in the 1980s.
She's a great actress. Still active and still very good!
This was right after Man on Fire too.
Dakota, Kirsten Dunst, and Haley Joel Osment are the best child actors I could think of.
I Am Sam, Man on Fire and this. She's the GOAT forsure.
H.G Wells wrote the original book in 1897. At the time of its publication, the British Empire was at its largest. The British conquered the land of the Zulus and was soon to be at war with the Boers in South Africa.
H.G. Wells wrote his book with a message of anti-imperialism and colonialism. From perspective of the reader of what its like to be invaded by a peoples with advanced technology. A very, "How would you like it if this happened to you?" perspective.
H.G Wells was mostly inspired by the Black War in the early 1800s. Where British colonists pretty much wiped out the aboriginal Tasmanians. Before the British colonists arrived, it was estimated that there were 5,000-7,000 aboriginal Tasmanians living on the Island. By the time of the end the war, there was about 100 left.
I found out a while back that the grandparents at the end were the cast of the original War of the Worlds
Cool the 1950's version?
@@saxonrains Yup. Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
Cool. The radio version or the movie 🍿🎥? Guess I can Google
Wow!!! I didn’t know that! Thanks 😮
Never knew that, awesome
When you realize the two characters in the basement fighting over the shotgun were in the same plane in Top Gun 20 years earlier 👍
Wait, WHAT!!
@mikeaninger7388 Tim Robbins was "Merlin" who was Maverick's RIO in the final fight in Top Gun.
@@MrBlue3rd True Story
I not Happy
Daaaamn! Never be Tom's co-pilot. Tom doesn't look after his co-pilots.😁
The original story is a simple premise. Aliens come to earth, start destroying everything, but are killed by common viruses that humans are resistant to. But its a classic.
Except until the climax. I don't think anyone can defend that part.
It actually caused no panic. Look it up
The scene where they are driving on the "turnpike" and stop at the farm house was filmed next to my house. when they started filming, they asked for locals to be extras....it was a "big deal" in my tiny farm town lol. The school even told students and teachers to go be extras and don't worry about missing school lol. Only downside was they would shut down the road to my house when filming and I couldn't get home in the afternoons. Literally had the road blocked with cops and I could see my house but was forced to sit in my truck and wait. That was super annoying.
Tom Cruise apparently left large tips (money) for waitstaff at restaurants...and also left money for a local kid that was trying to raise money for medical treatment. I think there was like a jar/sign at our local Dairy Queen and he left a bunch of money.
This is easily one of my top 10 favorite movies. I saw it as a kid, and it just stuck with me. I think no other alien invasion movie, has had this sense of hopelessness and despair. The conflict is almost entirely out of the hands of the main characters, and the best they can do is just survive. No big military planning in the pentagon, no famous landmarks getting blown up, just a very small scale and desperate survival story, in the face of hopeless odds.
I know the original is fantastic, but I have to give it to Spielberg here. I always forget how great he is at horror films 🎥 This is the guy that began his career with Jaws.
"I might just want to call it." So real. So funny.
That jumpscare was one of a kind
Classic Cassie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
8:19 "Try changing the solenoid."
12:33 "He's the only one that's got a new "solerator" or whatever."
28:44 "OK. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake. Fake...Movie. Movie. Movie. Movie. Movie. Movie. Movie. Movie...!@#%&@#$@#!!!!"
29:11 *(Lamaze breathing)* "Ho! Ho! Ho!...Nope! Nope!! NNNOOO!!!! *(Puts up crucifix fingers)* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
29:16 *(Jazz Hands Finger Fence)* + *(Safe-Place Babbling)* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Chris got it bad!
"We'll build our own tripods. Ours will have four legs." -Michael Madsen (Scary Movie 4)
I'd forgotten how intense this movie is. What a thriller!
Fantastic reaction. That scream slo-mo recap is definitely gonna win the Poppie award. 😅 I saw this when it came out and walked around the corner to my favorite pub, sat down at the bar and Becky the bartender said, How ya doun'? And I said, I feel like I just got hit by a bus.
One of Spielbergs most underrated movies.
There goes that word again.
28:50 Now that's a foot pop lol
18:41 Hearing Cassie say *“hell,”* you know it’s bad.
I really love the sound design and the sense of scale in this movie. You really buy how helpless humanity feels against these giant, seemingly-unstoppable invasion machines.
This movie had some flaws, but it captured the tone of existential dread and hopelessness perfectly. Fight back, get slaughtered. Run away, get hunted down. Hide somewhere, they will find you eventually. Unless, of course, you're Ray with two little hand grenades that can level a house somehow. Lol
I mean I thought the best part of this movie is seeing how different people react to situations like this. It's so spot on. And by "like this" I mean events in our world that cause mass panic. Because it really gets that stuff spot on.
People still blithely trotting out the "Orson Welles' radio version caused panic" myth I see... and people lapping it up. Nothing changes.
When women ask men what we are thinking about and we say nothing, but really we are running scenes like this thru our minds all the time. We just never tell y'all. You are welcome.
That is what a mob in panic does. I've been near one. Most frightening thing I've ever seen.
Yep. Most people crack, panic and turn into chickens with their heads cut off in a stressful situation. Haven't been in a mob situation, but I've came close to dying quite a few times and of those times I know 100% had I panicked you wouldn't be reading my comment. I have seen people die and thats something that will stick with me forever, but in the situation they would've lived had not panicked, seriously injured, but beats being dead. See some crazy shit on the rigs I tell yuh
There's a reason it's called "Mob mentality". Tommy Lee Jones said it best in Men in Black "A person is smart. People are dumb panicky dangerous animals"
In the original movie all churches survived so Spielberg made sure the first building destroyed in his version was a church. 😮😂
A very underrated movie, people expected a sci-fi action like indepence day, but it is actually a movie of how incomprehensible mass murder, and genocide is for the normal people. There are some references to 9/11 and the holocaust
The original War of The Worlds Movie from 1953 Still holds up and should not be overlooked.
The reveal of the alien tripods with the vaporizing hit very hard in theatres. It was 4 years after 9/11 and the images of people covered in grey dust running through the streets of NYC was still kind of fresh.
1938 radio version of this story caused a panic
The panic was over stated by the newspapers of the time because they felt threaten by radio and wanted people to stop listening.
pretty sure reports of that has been exagerated but yeah if you missed the first part where they are loke yo this is an adaptation youd be on edge at least for a while
@@GopherBaroque61 I mean, to be fair, he didnt say that it caused the world to collapse into chaos, he just said it caused a panic, which is fair
@@kR-qj7rw I doubt it.
"The radio which does radio drama at this time is doing something which sounds like a radio drama. I probly think it's real for some reason."
@@Eidlones I was thinking more of the more grounded parts at the start of the story
I can imagine so eone being like wait what is happening wjerew my usual programing
Then as soon as the tripods happen them going" like oh it's been going on for a while lol"
You saying the moving was traumatizing was so real. So many people hated this movie and I actually was disturbed and in awe by it when I saw it. I was like 16 when I saw it and was literally on the edge of my seat the whole movie. I thought it was very well done.
It’s that new solorater that does the trick. Stock up on spares at AutoZone, O’Reilly, NAPA. 🤣🤣🤣
"I'm better at aliens, I guess?" Lol
The bits that made me most tense watching this movie was when Tom's character kept leaving his daughter on her own.
Was that one woman going to take her with them?
@@ct6852seemed like it.
@@ct6852 Yes. She thought the girl was alone and trying to save her.
This movie is just another version of "Independence Day," pretty much, even the actual Aliens look very similar. The Aliens wanted the same thing as the Aliens from "Independence Day" wanted to take over Earth for its natural resources and the spreading of human blood like fertilizer could have been their form of either warrior paint or war trophy or possibly the beginning of their "Terra Forming" processes. Loved it when you both said "What do you even do" about 11 minutes in. Better to have and not need, then to need and not have! This is were "Emergency Preparedness Management" comes into play! Every household should have "Home and Vehicle Preparedness" kits and plans to include Pre-Packed High Quality 24-72 Hour Survival Bug Out Bags Built and Ready to-go for every person whose strong enough to carry one, with hopefully underground survival doomsday bunkers or isolated wilderness bug-out locations. And if you own a good amount of land property you could even get like sealed water barrel caches to pack, store, burry and hide supply caches in different locations on your property for backup emergency supplies and possibly extra survival bug-out bag kits. To include an important lesson of getting and having what you need is half the battle, knowing what you have and how to use and operate your gear and equipment is the other half! So, gathering Emergency Survival Supplies is all fine and dandy, but knowing what you have and how to use it properly or field testing it all once or twice a year is also important. Also to protect electronics against any form of EMP's one needs a Faraday Cage which is like a container that acts as an energy shield to protect your electronic devices. For $400 they sell these EMP Shield devices online that one can install in their vehicle and I believe in their circuit breaker boxes for your homes to protect both from EMP Pulses, just so your aware! I was a Army Logistics Supply Sergeant for 9/13 years with 3 deployments under my belt. I've also worked with FEMA and the Red Cross on my third deployment to Liberia Africa and have conducted "Emergency Preparedness Management" research papers in college. Two with FEMA and two with the Red Cross. So you can say I know a lot about the subject of "Emergency Preparedness Management." I have a TH-cam Channel under my Full-Name with the same profile picture as this post. I currently have 247 Subscriber, 45 videos, covering 25 different topic subject categories sharing my personal knowledge and experiences to help others if I can. I've got a couple different videos on 24-72 Hour Survival Bug Out Bag Building kits, a Vehicle Preparedness and Readiness advice video, a Home Preparedness and Readiness advice video, several Financial Literacy advice videos on Personal Finances, a dozen different Cooking Recipe Creation videos, Scammer Warning Signs advice video, Vehicle Basic Maintenance Care Services advice video, Utility Bill Life Hacks advice video, and more! Check them out if you wish and if you do please hit like, subscribe, make any comments, and enjoy and I hope they help you within different areas of your overall personal life! Oh and the whole thing were people turned on each other during the crisis, that's basic human nature when you take away our electronics, safety, and security people begin to show their true inner colors. When you have things that other people don't have to live and survive, they will turn on each other and hurt each other to take or obtain what you have whether that be food, shelter, a vehicle, warmth, safety, weapons, useful supplies and gear, anything and everything. Even those closest to you, at some breaking point, could turn on you, betray you, hurt you, rob and steal from you, all to save themselves or take over what you have but they don't. Desperation and survival brings out the absolute worst in people that's why its "Better to have and not need, to be overall prepared, then to need and not have, so one can take shelter and cover immediately without having to be out in the middle of the hell war anywhere on Earth at the time the initial war, battle, or chaos is occurring. You have a higher probability of living, surviving, and not being massively traumatized if you were prepared before hand to surpass the initial hell on Earth whether that be for a week, month, year, or five years worth of doomsday survival preparedness in a variety of ways. Something to think about, how prepared are you and how prepared is your family or household?
It's so odd to see Cruise playing an everyman character, where he never knows what he's doing, he fumbles and panics constantly and can't even keep his own kids alive - lucky one of them came back to life. Notably, when he runs in this movie, he's running away from, rather than towards, the danger. And when Tom Cruise is frightened and panicking, you know it's serious.
I saw this opening weekend and was shocked at how dark and disturbing it is. Rated 12A in the UK, but would easily be a 15 or higher were it from another director. Easily a horror film, and a chance for Spielberg to finally make that Night Skies project he'd planned as a dark companion to Close Encounters before it evolved into ET.
I have never wanted a kid to die in a movie as much as I did Robbie. The opening and closing monologues by Morgan Freeman are directly from the original novel.
I can’t help it. SAME.
Why? He just wanted to fight the Aliens. Get back at them for what they did to everybody! He has a warrior spirit. In times of fear when everyone is running and crying he has the eyes of the tiger... I think in situations like that it's where you find out who you really are and we find out he is a fearless warrior!
Same, but for Rachel..
Yeah, they really overwrote the roles of the children as complete assholes to generate tension... I get the bad father/disconnected children, but this movie just constantly leans on them doing dumb crap as a way to move the plot...
It would have made the ending more bittersweet to have Robbie not come back instead of the typical, pat Spielberg ending. The Robster was REALLY annoying.
"You don't go to the city. You go to the country."
And eat a lot of peaches.
I had a double take on this one.
“Look out !!!!!”
Cue ninja interlude.
8:01 And that's how Cassie the prepper born...😂😂😂😂 just kidding
When I first read the book around the age of 13, I thought the ending was amazing. The smallest living earth organisms saved the planet, and humanity!
I think Wells and Verne were among the first novels I read as a child. This makes the films and especially remakes very sad...not watching this one, just here for the comment section.
This is one of my favorite Spielberg movies, I'll never forget seeing it in theaters back in '05. Such an incredible film
I know that few catch that, but the last words, about the mankind "right to survive in this universe", because of all those we have lost over the time, and that ultimately "nobody lives or dies in vain" are among the most powerful, wholesome and uplifting words ever written about mankind.
Yep. All credit due to H G Wells of course (most of those words are quoting the novel).
Kinda funny that technically the aliens were wiped out by food poisoning 😂😂
The foghorn warning by the Aliens was a classic chilling addition. Very frightening.
When Cassie disappeared under the covers, I thought she had spilled a beverage all over herself 😂
Considering that there are thousands of species of bacteria on our skin and in our guts and probably elsewhere. Even eating/pulverizing humans without heat treatment(let alone if you let them decompose prior) could be dangerous for those not having appropriate immunity or medical treatment.
Was just thinking it's probably best to allow kids to play outside and with other kids as much as possible to create natural immunity. Having them too sheltered is probably biologically dangerous.
The spanish conquistidors did not do nearly as much damage to the South American natives as their diseases did, as none of them had any immunity to them.
There is a VERY good reason why anything removed from a human being in a hospital is described as a "Biohazard" and is incinerated.
@@ct6852 There is an argument that the reason allergies have become very prominant in recent times, is because we are too "clean". We know about bacteria and so disinfect everywhere, leading to reduced exposure to things the body dislikes.
I’m constantly asking myself why I keep watching this channel, and I think I finally figured it out. It’s just … wholesome fun. Thanks.
This was made famous by a radio broadcast by Orson Wells of this like it was a real event. It put the nation into a panic.
20:52… “I might just wanna call it…” 😂😅🤣😳
6:19 "Cassie, Cassie....oh no Cassie..."😂😂😂
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*white blinking guy*
The defining moment that made Carly the true fan favorite of this channel
When you both wanted to jump under the covers…Classic sister move..
Independence Day was a remake of the 1953 movie. Instead of a physical virus they were attacked by a computer virus.
You may wish to someday try the original from 1953. It's quite good.
I prefer the 53 version over this one just wish more reactors would do originals over remakes.
and I've only seen one person react to the radio drama
I so agree! The ‘53 version is so much better.
My favorite version.
@@scorp77snakeagreed, but I also get that most viewers are probably more familiar with the remake, so from a business perspective (and make no mistake, this channel is a business in its way) it probably makes more sense financially for Cassie to cover the remake instead because that video is more likely to get more views.
Funny, but I thought Carly would be the main scaredy-cat and not Cassie so much. Carly is more braver than we thought, who knew.
I first noticed a pattern when they did THE BATMAN--I think Carly technically has a lower "ick" threshold, but kind of views things from a more objective distance. Cassie invests herself more emotionally, and has kids, the child-based trauma of the movie really got to her.
I don’t think ‘brave’ is a word I would apply to either of them
Carly doesn't like blood and violence, but in a movie like this without any actual blood, she does okay.
36:50 the original book was written in response to the actions of colonists slaughtering indigenous people in Tasmania, I imagine the Tasmanians were asking the same questions when they were being massacred.
I thought it was just a commentary on colonialism in general, I didn’t know it was that specific. Wow!
I remember seeing this in theaters. I was wide alert the entire time after the first attack. Great movie.
I love at the beginning that you both were so tired. I thought, "they're gonna be wide awake in about 10 minutes." 😅 Saw this movie in theaters on my 16th birthday. One of my all time faves!
Tim Robbin’s from Shawshank Redemption was the crazy guy in the house. I think he did an excellent job
Cassie would also know Tim Robbins as Nuke, from Bull Durham.
I remember when I first saw this, in the movie theater, there was an electrical storm outside when we left. It was creepy as hell.
29:17 That turned her into Donald Duck 😂
Tom Cruise's character is just one of the best heroes ever. Half-ass looser and failed father who steps up like no one else and gives every last thing he's got to save his children. When the shit hit the interstellar fan his true colors shone like a blinding supernova.
*No one would have believed*
*In the last years of the nineteenth century*
*That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space* - The Narrator
Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds would be something Cassie would adore. But album reactions would be something new to the channel so I have no idea if that would work. Free time though I highly recommend the album to everyone.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" he said "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one" But still they come!
@littleGalaxyBoy
Are you saying they eventually made an album of the original radio broadcast from the 1940's that started the whole genre?? That would be awesome!
That dude caused a huge national crisis by accident because everyone thought it was a real life news alert-cast. Everybody started packing their crap & road tirpping it for the hills to go into hiding in the middle of listening to the broadcast itself because of that dude. lol
No joke, that's the actual history.
So they incorporated those events into the story fabric of the script when they decided to make the original 1950's movie out of it.
@@Knight_Who_Says_Nee hate to be that guy but it was the book that started the genre, in '78 Jeff Wayne adapted the book into a musical that's absolutely phenomenal I've managed to see it 5 times now
I bought that Musical many decades ago because I thought it would be the Soundtrack to Star Wars, please don't judge me 😂
That monologue is sampled by Rick Wade - Ricky's Groove. An eerie but captivating deep house track.
she really just ask "how is it so intelligent?" bruh, its an alien
"I wonder why theyre picking up the people?" .... OOhhh Dear I love when you ask these foreshadowing questions 🤣
Oh no! The sweet lamb that is Carly being thrown to the wolves by an unsuspecting sister. Sounds like Old Testament drama to me. My prayers go out to them both.😅
"I might just want to call it." The single greatest moment in channel history. That was epic.
Better than her scream in 'It'?
The original alien invasion story, I believe. All the other films basically used this as a template.
i lmfao'd at cassie's, "thank you!" when robbie was revealed lol. who are you thanking? God? for... saving the fictional character? lol. great stuff.
12:55 This was parodied in one of the Scary Movie movies where the alien rays were only disintegrating people’s clothes - the opposite lol
That happened later in the film. They still die with their clothes left behind. The same scene has a group’s blings left behind.
@@TwilightLink77 Instead they had scenes where people would push others into the beam to get _their_ clothes.
one thing i appreciate about your reactions is you have both earbuds in instead of just in one ear. there's so many reactors who just stick it in one ear and prioritize talking the whole time. it's just not how movies are meant to be experienced
''When it's ready, my body will just push it out''
When Tom Cruise's daughter says that about her splinter, it's obviously a foretaste of what Earth is going to do to the evil aliens at the end... When it has enough, our big old planet will simply push them out. .. As an apprentice-not-so-good screenplay writer my self, I love trying to find that kind of foretaste of the conclusion in every film. This is one of my great pleasures when working on a screenplay: hiding information about the conclusion at the beginning. This means that at the end, if it's done well, we have an unconscious impression that it's logical. I always use the example of this film to talk about this little scriptwriting thing.
Now that you know, try and find those clues in every film you watch. It's fun.
34:54 The Soldier said “JAVELIN'S THE KEY! LOAD THE GUSTAV. IT'S GONNA BE A TOUGH KILL!!! LET'S GO!!!” Javelin is the Rocket launcher that took down the Tripod!
Ok, now you have to do "Mars Attacks"
That would be an amazing reaction to watch.
I lived through the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Now for me, it was no big deal. I had lived through others and while this one was bigger than normal, Not a big deal. As far as I could see, there was no major damage. But as there was no power, there was no way to find out exactly. I found out through my car radio, that part of a bridge collapsed. And there was some other things that happened.
As I drove a friend home from work (who was from New York and never experienced an earthquake and in partial shock) through the City, I would find out much more. When I got him home deep in San Francisco, we found his wife on their doorsteps in shock and crying. The chaos of no power and many many people in shock. Wandering around aimlessly. But I also saw SO MANY people comforting the people in shock. There were people directing traffic. There were people guarding stores in the big shopping area downtown to prevent looting. People going through the rubble to find survivors of a highway that collapsed on itself.
Yes, bad things happened. But an amazing number of people came together and did what was needed and helped. It reinforced in me the goodness of humanity. I'll never forget that.
That might be the one thing this movie gets wrong. We've seen plenty of times in history when disaster hits or there's a war, more people come together and help each other. It's a minority that turns bad and in this movie it's all of them. In the 1953 movie they did that, or at least they tried to, but Spielberg was going for the non stop survival story and having a lot of people band together to help each other survive wouldn't work for that story
I was 8 years old and living with my family in the East Bay during the 1989 earthquake. It's something that I will always remember experiencing until the day that I die.
@@Ishai1 Keep in mind one thing though. There is a huge difference between a localized disaster and the end of the world. A lot of people would react dramatically differently under those circumstances.
Are you seriously comparing one earthquake to the literal END OF THE WORLD ALIEN INVASION?
One of Cruise's best perfromances
Grampa & Grandma were the stars of the original 1953 "War of the Worlds"
I love his version of this film.