this is the movie that traumatized me as a kid. i was scared to go to sleep because of that damn foghorn sound. and the red vines were so disturbing to me
i think what makes this movie the scariest is that they're not mindless killing machines, they're coordinated, they use strategy, like at 7:55, the tripod furthest on the right moves towards the river to encircle the crowd so they dont escape. it doesnt matter if their technology outmatches anything humans could ever think of.
That's one thing I will always love about certain Alien movies, showing that, like you said, they aren't mindless and stupid, they are smart and coordinated. It's one thing to be chased by 3 Giant Tripods with almost no chance of escape, it's a whole other thing when you see a 4th one encircling you to *guarantee* you won't escape.
One thing that bugs me is how can they even be born? They are made of metal Maybe aliens made these robots to kill all that exists on habitable planets so they can live there
It’s really telling how after nearly two decades, _this_ is still considered by many to be the definitive version of the tripods/fighting machines. Even those of the Jeff Wayne’s version (arguably the best adaptation) can’t hold a candle to these loud, ULLA-ing beasts.
The terrifying part is the tripod horn isn't used to intimidate people, *it's for tripod communication* And it would be even more terrifying to realize that what you thought was 3 small tripods were 1 huge one,
I can imagine this as a parallel as how Dutch, Portuguese, British and their African allies capture populations to be sold as slaves and how they use their guns as a terrifying toll more than a weapon.
@@paco2012avThe normal tripods have 3 lights, but there are larger ones with around 5 I think. You can see one, which rises out of the water during the ferry scene, a few that are roaming after the ferry scene, and three that come over the fiery hill during the military battle scene. I think it would have been more appropriate to say two tripods were actually one, rather than three, but you get the idea.
2:14 the sound right there gave me chills… doesn’t matter what language they speak the sound of that tripod screaming at the people was a pretty clear indication of “we don’t like you and you’re about to die”
@@dannygeeish_ All of the horns are used as a form of communication, however, that horn is likely used to intimidate its prey, and/or alert other Tripods of its location and that it is now active. They have specific sounds for alerting that they have found prey, taking damage, and calling for assistance. None of these horns are the one they fire when they discover humans, which leads to believe that it is used to intimidate or it's used as a way to show that they are more powerful.
0:28 I love how Steven intentionally misleads the audience here; if you've never seen the trailers it's easy to assume that foot is the whole tripod, but then the rest of the machine gradually rises out of the earth revealing that it's a hell of a lot larger.
When I watched that scene in the theater I thought "What the hell, they jump? That was really silly". Then I realized that it was just the tripod's foot, and when the whole thing began rising up above the street it took my breath away.
I was 17 when my mom and I saw this in theaters and it was terrifying! Even now, 18 years later, I still get a frightening feeling of this becoming a reality.
The fact that they came out of the ground was really cool, even though it didn't make a lot of sense. But they were quite terrifying. I remember seeing this in the theater. The "horn" sound that they make being amplified by the theater subwoofers was AMAZING :) My favorite scene is the one where the tripods attack the ferries. Everyone is so calm and relaxed, and then our main characters quietly notice the tripods, right before they sound off.
@@LegioXXI If the aliens sent the machines to Earth thousands and thousands of years ago, then why didn't they just invade back then? There would have been no humans to stop them.
@@crazyfvckI’ve never seen the movie, but maybe they just barely woke up? Maybe one of them awoke from its “hibernation” and that sparked a chain reaction causing all of them to awake
@@guspacho09 Yes, but mammals existed on this planet for millions of years before humans came along. The rodents would not have fought back against them :P
Anybody else wonder how deep the Tripods were buried to begin with? It’s insane to think how they were underground for so long, without being discovered at all by humans
@@ConnieCrow What doesn't make sense is how little comes up in terms of dirt and strata when they emerge. it's almost like they were buried 30 feet down, but they couldn't possibly be that close or they would've been discovered.
@@shimo_96 Well consider the lightning strikes, it may be true that the lightning vaporized some of the rubble and they were in fact rising from that deep.
@@sayhallo3769 Could be, but I don't think that much rubble could have been vaporized by that. it is some sort of futuristic method of travel, so it could very well be though.
@@shimo_96 Another plausible theory is that theres some sort of alien technology that allows the head of the Tripod to plow through terrain like butter
5:55 This one scene alone showed how quickly other Tripods respond whenever one sounds its horn, literally you see one followed by two more then another to capsize the Ferry and even more to herd people back into the water.
This movie was made in a time when attention to detail was vital. Today it would be treated as a CGI "ooh look" type of set piece. The trumpet sound it makes and the engine sounds it emits humming powering up, the rubble falling of it, the birds circling. These aren't details you get in marvel movies now when they treat set pieces like "ok insert here".
Uhm... no that's just what a Spielberg film is. There were plenty of other films that weren't nearly as good at paying attention to detail at the time, and if you think that about marvel movies you clearly are the type that pretends to pay attention but have the attention span of a fly.
One of the most terrifying horn sound ever. Just imagine, when you are sleeping peacefully and suddenly hearing this horn sound in the midnight.. not only the horn sound even the sound 3:33 that comes when tripod is walking is so terrifying.. u can feel that when u listen this in headphones in full volume..
So at 6:59 When I was younger I used to think that the entire boat tipped over because of how big the tripod was but I just now saw that the tripod used it’s fingers to actually tip the boat over instead of just slamming into it
the horn has always given me goosebumps since I was a kid even now, as soon as it started to play I IMMEDIATELY got goosebumps I love it so much, it's the coolest, most intimidating sound an antagonist could ever have, this movie is the best
I had read the book as a kid, and this came out when I was in high school. I was not prepared for how awesome and terrifying this movie was. Especially when the aliens started masering people. These people got microwaved to death. It was probably extremely painful; your body would boil/burn from the inside out.
While the whole thing about the machines coming up from underground and the way it was executed was indeed, really, really awesome, it’s a bit silly for an alien race to think “well we won’t settle on the planet now while there are no threats, but we’ll plan to invade in a few million years when our equipment will be millions of years out-of-date.” Flawless.
True, though it is implied they were waiting for the human population to reach a high enough number that the entire planet could be terraformed using their blood.
I remember seeing a theory that the martians genetically engineered humans so that they could return and use their blood to terriform the planet, and that’s why they waited for the population to increase instead of coming immediately
I have to admit that it was a lot simpler in the earlier adaptations whey just said they were martians and left it at that. That being said, while Tsrashi makes a valid point, I think it would've been simpler to just say that the tripods as a whole were placed underground through the lightning. The lightning is basically just a substitute for the meteor/crafts that the tripods arrived in with the earlier adaptations (with the rotating ground in the first tripod scene being a clever nod to the way the crafts would unscrew to release the tripods), there honestly wasn't much of a need for them to be placed underground. On the other hand I guess you could argue that the idea of them waiting underground for the human population to reach a certain level does make for a good reference to something that's more relevant to our modern culture, that being overpopulation.
@@MythicSuns I agree with you that the Spielberg WOTW raises many unnecessary questions that could’ve been avoided by simply sticking to the source material, and your point regarding the story being changed to reflect current issues is very true since the movie makes many obvious references to 9/11. It’s possible that the concept of the threat already being here (hiding beneath our feet so to speak) only to rise up when we least expect it reflects the real possibility of terrorists integrating themselves amongst the population.
I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie. A little boy on the touring bus to Spain, a girl I met on the bus sitting right next to me. Driving through France at night, both scared of the tripods and the sounds they made. Epic film
Say whatever negativity you want about the actors or the setting of the movie or blah blah blah, but you cannot deny that hearing the Tripod's blaring horn *sends straight chills down your bones.* Also, of all the tripod scenes, 5:33 captures what I said about the Tripod horn perfectly + the newly found existential terror when you see a Tripod having you in it's overall sight. Plus, the way everyone was oblivious to the Tripod (except for Tom Cruise and the 2 kids of his) only for the Tripod to purposefully crush a tree abd then everyone just spins their head around, slowly descending into abyssmal panic to get on the ship. 10/10 scene, 10//10 movie.
I definetly dont think the tree crush was intentional, but I do know for a fact that the horn is a very intentional sign of "I'm here, and I'm here to fuck all of you up." Yes ik its to tell other Tripods that they've found humans, but there are dozens of factors that go into a call so deep and loud as that.
@@ctrlaltrepeat245 I think the tree crash was an entirely spontaneous yet wonderful addition to the horn blare they did + the design of the horn is to be intimidating asf too since big predators use loud, deep noises to scare prey. WE were the prey and those horns they played out people off balance upon hearing them. Fear is a great way to corral and push your prey into the corner ypu want.
Also, I think the reason the three tripods never attacked the people who were not on the ferry is because they were waiting for the people to be in in one spot. The ferry....
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 yeah I’m looking forward to the game, and while I hope we can fight the tripods I also hope it would be incredibly difficult and you could only win under certain circumstances like for example if their shield is gone, personally I’ll shoot at them even if I can’t kill them at all.
There is a sort of an unspoken ominous feeling with the idea of these tripods. so very alien and intimidating. From the sounds they make to how fast they come over that hill while people are running like ants and aren't really moving. Unnerving. We need more of that feeling in sci-fi these days.
@@NicoleSams It gives me the same feeling as the titans from attack on titan, a dark feeling I can never really describe. Actual horror, shock..... Hopelessness I guess.
@@justchillin1012 Thank you, yes there is something about submitting to a gigantic creature. You see it coming, and that is your god now....nothing else matters. How to survive this if you can? Be the fuck where they are not. There is no stopping them. Eerie. This is the scene that got me. th-cam.com/video/0WnoUw99VmQ/w-d-xo.html hopelessness.
Because they have this overpowering presence on this world built by us, they dwarf every concept and creation we've mustered and you can't do anything to them directly, cant outrun it, it's a machine it doesn't tire, cant outpace it because it's tall with larger strides, all you can do is hide and pray and bare witness to them ravaging and destroying our world without mercy.
Watching yet again..still scary.. the horn is still really freaky and ominous sounding. But also, still amazed that the writers depicted people literally standing & staring at a gigantic tripod of an alien machine looming over them, and not fearing for & running for their lives..
So I'm guessing you would say that deer staring into the headlights of a huge noisy car would be unrealistic? It's called shock. The brain is trying to comprehend what is being seen.
Moat people really freeze helpless when facing a natural disaster or another huge and surprising threat. Real footage of tsunamis, plane crashes and earthquakes are proof.
Since Stephen Spielberg 2005 War of The Worlds is one of my favorite Science Fiction movies I will never get bored of watching, with spectacular graphics, special effects and CGI UFO Tripods. Excellent acting from Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Dakota Fanning and Morgan Freeman as Narrator. This is the best War of The Worlds - Science Fiction movies🎥by HG.Wells I’ve enjoyed watching.👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
7:50 This will be forever one of my favorite scenes and the ones that terrify me the most, all the people screaming in horror at the same time having 3 tripods just a couple of meters away. people try to run into the water but the last tripod to arrive shoots those closest to the water 7:56 there's no escape
theres just something about the way its shot that makes it feel real, like if they really existed the odds of them being after you and not someone else are slim so thats probably what you would see in reality
The horn signals imminent death , because it means you have been spotted by one and that there are undeniably more of them coming to your exact location. But I imagine feeling the ground tremor under the sheer weight of these things would be utterly terrifying.
It took me until now to realize when she was screaming in the car "is it the terrorists" it was because of 9/11 and the beginning of the war against terrorism.
The whole turning people to ash thing is the most disturbing. That scene on the hillside when the tripods relentlessly blast everyone in sight, you can actually see people's clothes floating away on the wind in a cloud of ash--ash that used to be all those people. They don't even have time to scream and there is nothing left of them to bury. My god, the inhumanity.
I would love to play as those things in a video game. Also that laser is so freaking powerful, it took out that bridge like nothing. Hearing the metal bend like that is unsettling too.
I remember for some reason as a child in 2005 going to see this movie in the theatre with my mom and brother as a 6-year-old and having the fear of looking out my window as a child and seeing a tripod slowly marching down the street. By far the most eerie move ever created
Saw this in the cinema when it came out... I was 15 at the time. This film gave me and my sister nightmares for a week, we have refused to watch it ever since. Just seeing this has made my heart race.
7:57 That sequence was perfect to be able to reference one of Alvin Correa's illustrations, which was that of a tripod launching its heat ray into the water while a crowd of people could be seen running.
When I was 10, I saw the movie in a open-air cinema first time in 2005. My puerile imagination did the rest. Damn it, I was traumatized for days. Nevertheless it remains one of my favorite movies ever. Till now no cinema screening touched me with such upsetting
I think that this is an incredibly underrated movie. Lots of people love it, sure, but it's often kind of dismissed as just a summer blockbuster. I actually feel that it's one of Spielberg's best, a very dark and serious depiction of what is essentially doomsday. If not for the Robbie character the movie would be pretty much perfect in my opinion.
@@wastrelperv The kid who plays Tom Cruise's son. He's a very unlikeable character and ruined the ending by just casually strolling back into the movie at the last minute despite what seemed to be a very obvious offscreen death halfway through.
For a 2005 horror movie this aged so well, still gives me chills to this day 0:01 tho if i had seen even 1 crack appear i'd be runnin so fast i woulden't even see the tripod
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@@thehonestmom5282 ok so? Then don't watch it.. your just making it annoying here "honestly" MOM Jesus christ.. never type here again..
It’s impressive how they’re only in the movie for about 17 minutes but you can feel their presence throughout entire film
This is only part 1
plus part is still just 17 min
Part 1, atleast 2 Parts
By adding fear to the tripods, your always scared of it being shown again and it makes it feel like each encounter lasts way longer
I don't say this often, but this movie was MUCH better than the boring terrible 1950's version.
This movie scared me more than any horror movie did when i was a kid
I was paranoid for months after seeing it that I was going to hear that horn, every time a storm would happen lol.
@@mclovin2408 I literally had nightmares thinking the trees in my backyard were falling
this is the movie that traumatized me as a kid. i was scared to go to sleep because of that damn foghorn sound. and the red vines were so disturbing to me
Absolutely, as a kid I loved and hated watching this movie. Can't wait for my kids to experience the same thing lol
bro i had this in my minds for months being hella paranoid yo
i think what makes this movie the scariest is that they're not mindless killing machines, they're coordinated, they use strategy, like at 7:55, the tripod furthest on the right moves towards the river to encircle the crowd so they dont escape. it doesnt matter if their technology outmatches anything humans could ever think of.
That's one thing I will always love about certain Alien movies, showing that, like you said, they aren't mindless and stupid, they are smart and coordinated.
It's one thing to be chased by 3 Giant Tripods with almost no chance of escape, it's a whole other thing when you see a 4th one encircling you to *guarantee* you won't escape.
One thing that bugs me is how can they even be born? They are made of metal
Maybe aliens made these robots to kill all that exists on habitable planets so they can live there
@@yeetusdeletus1827 There are 6 tripods coming there from the sea. There are 7 or so in total.
And the screams, imagine hearing people's hopeless screams like that. That shit would traumatize you forever.
@@campustv446I counted 10.
It's crazy how good the CGI looked back in the day.
Don't forget the Starship Troopers bugs in 1996. That CGI holds up still.
@@mkultra2877 yeah they also looking damn good for the time
Only now as an adult i noticed the aliens destroyed the bridge because they know what it is, they are cutting escape routes for the humans
What bridge?
It’s most likely cuz there’s people on it
@@pablogonzalez2009 the one that falls behind when Ray is escaping with his family
@@thelowestoflow5486 too little cars where the bridge was cut, and destroying it would make it so any human in the area couldn't escape
Very true. The aliens want the hoomans to die
I think the Tripods collecting humans and harvesting them is the most terrifying part of this movie.
This action was described in the original H.G. Wells book. But only till Spielberg's version do we see that scene.
They are collecting for Foods
@@Christian-zg1egno, theyre collecting blood for fertilizing the earth for them to look like mars
I think the book was an analogy on how we live on this planet and treat other life we share it with
Pretty sure the most scary part is the sound it makes.
It’s really telling how after nearly two decades, _this_ is still considered by many to be the definitive version of the tripods/fighting machines. Even those of the Jeff Wayne’s version (arguably the best adaptation) can’t hold a candle to these loud, ULLA-ing beasts.
Ulllaaaa
This is a remake of the one from the 50s. Speilberg might have seen that film as a child.
The terrifying part is the tripod horn isn't used to intimidate people,
*it's for tripod communication*
And it would be even more terrifying to realize that what you thought was 3 small tripods were 1 huge one,
I can imagine this as a parallel as how Dutch, Portuguese, British and their African allies capture populations to be sold as slaves and how they use their guns as a terrifying toll more than a weapon.
What do you mean one huge one?
@@paco2012avThe normal tripods have 3 lights, but there are larger ones with around 5 I think. You can see one, which rises out of the water during the ferry scene, a few that are roaming after the ferry scene, and three that come over the fiery hill during the military battle scene.
I think it would have been more appropriate to say two tripods were actually one, rather than three, but you get the idea.
@@GenericOceanLinerHistorian omg you're right!! I seriously never noticed that I thought they were all the same. Damn I love this movie!
Literally never noticed that
2:14 the sound right there gave me chills… doesn’t matter what language they speak the sound of that tripod screaming at the people was a pretty clear indication of “we don’t like you and you’re about to die”
02:49 fry day
Agreed. Even that one guy there had the same idea and noped the heck outta there
Actually, the use that sound to signal OTHER tripods.
@@dannygeeish_ All of the horns are used as a form of communication, however, that horn is likely used to intimidate its prey, and/or alert other Tripods of its location and that it is now active. They have specific sounds for alerting that they have found prey, taking damage, and calling for assistance. None of these horns are the one they fire when they discover humans, which leads to believe that it is used to intimidate or it's used as a way to show that they are more powerful.
@@shimo_96 Oh thanks for letting me in on that extra info
0:28 I love how Steven intentionally misleads the audience here; if you've never seen the trailers it's easy to assume that foot is the whole tripod, but then the rest of the machine gradually rises out of the earth revealing that it's a hell of a lot larger.
When I watched that scene in the theater I thought "What the hell, they jump? That was really silly". Then I realized that it was just the tripod's foot, and when the whole thing began rising up above the street it took my breath away.
Nah I always thought how stupid 3 feet looked. When I first saw it I was instantly annoyed by it
"HA, that's a Tripod? Wow, reaallllllly big."
1 Minute and thirty seconds later...
*Oh.*
i never watched this movie, i only knew about it, But I just imagine
"wow thats a tripod? so scary"
*insert rising noises*
*"oh"*
That tricked me the first time seeing in theaters then i was REALLY mindfucked when i saw it was just a foot
3:38 that walking sound is so infamous
Apparently that's the sound of their engine, but it really does sound a lot more like walking
2:14 probably the most iconic scene in this film.
6:02 the tripod is like “hey over here guys, there’s a bunch oh humans here”. This movie is one the best alien movies utterly terrorizing
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The Tripod looks more real than the car that gets flung out of the hole!!!!
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we all scared of this movie as kids thinking the possibility of this happening in reality
IKR I WAS TERRIFIED OF THIS WHEN I WAS LITTLE
I was 17 when my mom and I saw this in theaters and it was terrifying! Even now, 18 years later, I still get a frightening feeling of this becoming a reality.
Same! There is also a War of the worlds game that's frequently being updated.
I just thought the tripods were cool
Came to watch this because the goverment just shot down a UFO now im thinking this comment may be true
6:02 this scene always gives me the most chills.
The fact that they came out of the ground was really cool, even though it didn't make a lot of sense. But they were quite terrifying. I remember seeing this in the theater. The "horn" sound that they make being amplified by the theater subwoofers was AMAZING :) My favorite scene is the one where the tripods attack the ferries. Everyone is so calm and relaxed, and then our main characters quietly notice the tripods, right before they sound off.
"even though it didn't make a lot of sense"
Why not?
@@LegioXXI If the aliens sent the machines to Earth thousands and thousands of years ago, then why didn't they just invade back then? There would have been no humans to stop them.
@@crazyfvckI’ve never seen the movie, but maybe they just barely woke up? Maybe one of them awoke from its “hibernation” and that sparked a chain reaction causing all of them to awake
@@crazyfvckThey needed mammalian blood to fertilize the red plants.
@@guspacho09 Yes, but mammals existed on this planet for millions of years before humans came along. The rodents would not have fought back against them :P
Anybody else wonder how deep the Tripods were buried to begin with? It’s insane to think how they were underground for so long, without being discovered at all by humans
they were probably DEEEP below the surface. like straight inside the crust, where it was too hot and hard for humans to dig them up.
@@ConnieCrow What doesn't make sense is how little comes up in terms of dirt and strata when they emerge. it's almost like they were buried 30 feet down, but they couldn't possibly be that close or they would've been discovered.
@@shimo_96 Well consider the lightning strikes, it may be true that the lightning vaporized some of the rubble and they were in fact rising from that deep.
@@sayhallo3769 Could be, but I don't think that much rubble could have been vaporized by that. it is some sort of futuristic method of travel, so it could very well be though.
@@shimo_96 Another plausible theory is that theres some sort of alien technology that allows the head of the Tripod to plow through terrain like butter
5:55
This one scene alone showed how quickly other Tripods respond whenever one sounds its horn, literally you see one followed by two more then another to capsize the Ferry and even more to herd people back into the water.
I mean each stride has got to be like a half-mile. Probably insanely fast, no matter the terrain.
As soon as you hear that horn you’re fucked, cause they’re bringing the whole lobby down on your ass.
Not even in the final scene that Tripod so drunk that he lost the battle and he's horn broken that he cried For help
After asking rush steam a uberpod tribute : everywhere i go i always see his face
That's the purpose of the horn, ti communicate the fellow striders that it has found humans.
The orchestral score in this film is top-notch! That choir while the tripod is moving past the boat is haunting, love it 👌
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The sound design of this movie is insane. To this day I clearly remember the horn sound. Fantastic work there.
7:51 To me, this was always a scary scene, seeing them chasing a herd of humans over the hill as they vaporize them..
As scary as it is
I gotta admit the tripod design is amazing
attack on titan vibes.
@@TheConspiredOnethis movie came out 4 years before aot
@@planetmaker3472 I know. What is your point?
Look like a pest control its a scary scene it show you cannot escape those machine
This movie was made in a time when attention to detail was vital. Today it would be treated as a CGI "ooh look" type of set piece. The trumpet sound it makes and the engine sounds it emits humming powering up, the rubble falling of it, the birds circling. These aren't details you get in marvel movies now when they treat set pieces like "ok insert here".
Uhm... no that's just what a Spielberg film is. There were plenty of other films that weren't nearly as good at paying attention to detail at the time, and if you think that about marvel movies you clearly are the type that pretends to pay attention but have the attention span of a fly.
3:32 those footstep sounds r actually scary
One of the most terrifying horn sound ever. Just imagine, when you are sleeping peacefully and suddenly hearing this horn sound in the midnight.. not only the horn sound even the sound 3:33 that comes when tripod is walking is so terrifying.. u can feel that when u listen this in headphones in full volume..
You would not want to live in Long Beach, California near the Queen Mary. It sounds a lot like this.
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I like the walking sound , gives me chills all the time i hear it.
2:13 The Tripod straightened up a bit like it didn’t expect to start the extermination so soon
“Oh! Already? I haven’t even charged up my beam!”
a bit of dirt fell of him and it looked like he shit himself
It was like "What a nice looking planet" and then looked down like "BRO WTF"
@@patriciodorime"yall look way different from before"
The tripod reminds me of the wither storm not only because of that light that comes out of their eyes but the pointy things at the bottom
@@HarvestStudios_38 that made me die of laughter, hopefully they fix dying of laughter in the next update though.
Loved the tripods since I was a child. They’re fucking badass
@rockymcblocky1116 yeah it was my favorite in this movie but when I first watched this it scared me lol
I was horrified, I’m still horrified.
I was terrified and yet still obsessed with their design. Mixture of terror and awe simultaneously.
This terrified me, I had nightmares for a week 😫
@Rocky Mc Blocky hey dont swear! Youre child
So at 6:59 When I was younger I used to think that the entire boat tipped over because of how big the tripod was but I just now saw that the tripod used it’s fingers to actually tip the boat over instead of just slamming into it
Yes, they were waiting under the water to ambush them. It shows how organized they were
the horn has always given me goosebumps since I was a kid
even now, as soon as it started to play I IMMEDIATELY got goosebumps I love it so much, it's the coolest, most intimidating sound an antagonist could ever have, this movie is the best
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I had read the book as a kid, and this came out when I was in high school. I was not prepared for how awesome and terrifying this movie was. Especially when the aliens started masering people. These people got microwaved to death. It was probably extremely painful; your body would boil/burn from the inside out.
At least it's quick.
@@thomasvleminckx bro really found the pro of being vaporized
Its weird how instead of burning they turned into sugar
@@totallynotaimposter its not sugar lol!
@@totallynotaimposter It's ash bruh.
While the whole thing about the machines coming up from underground and the way it was executed was indeed, really, really awesome, it’s a bit silly for an alien race to think “well we won’t settle on the planet now while there are no threats, but we’ll plan to invade in a few million years when our equipment will be millions of years out-of-date.” Flawless.
True, though it is implied they were waiting for the human population to reach a high enough number that the entire planet could be terraformed using their blood.
I always thought that they were a nomadic species that kept moving whenever their planet got fucked
I remember seeing a theory that the martians genetically engineered humans so that they could return and use their blood to terriform the planet, and that’s why they waited for the population to increase instead of coming immediately
I have to admit that it was a lot simpler in the earlier adaptations whey just said they were martians and left it at that. That being said, while Tsrashi makes a valid point, I think it would've been simpler to just say that the tripods as a whole were placed underground through the lightning. The lightning is basically just a substitute for the meteor/crafts that the tripods arrived in with the earlier adaptations (with the rotating ground in the first tripod scene being a clever nod to the way the crafts would unscrew to release the tripods), there honestly wasn't much of a need for them to be placed underground.
On the other hand I guess you could argue that the idea of them waiting underground for the human population to reach a certain level does make for a good reference to something that's more relevant to our modern culture, that being overpopulation.
@@MythicSuns I agree with you that the Spielberg WOTW raises many unnecessary questions that could’ve been avoided by simply sticking to the source material, and your point regarding the story being changed to reflect current issues is very true since the movie makes many obvious references to 9/11. It’s possible that the concept of the threat already being here (hiding beneath our feet so to speak) only to rise up when we least expect it reflects the real possibility of terrorists integrating themselves amongst the population.
cgi was better then
Was mixed with practical effects.
I'll never forget the first time I saw this movie. A little boy on the touring bus to Spain, a girl I met on the bus sitting right next to me. Driving through France at night, both scared of the tripods and the sounds they made. Epic film
Say whatever negativity you want about the actors or the setting of the movie or blah blah blah, but you cannot deny that hearing the Tripod's blaring horn *sends straight chills down your bones.*
Also, of all the tripod scenes, 5:33 captures what I said about the Tripod horn perfectly + the newly found existential terror when you see a Tripod having you in it's overall sight.
Plus, the way everyone was oblivious to the Tripod (except for Tom Cruise and the 2 kids of his) only for the Tripod to purposefully crush a tree abd then everyone just spins their head around, slowly descending into abyssmal panic to get on the ship.
10/10 scene, 10//10 movie.
i dont think the tripod crushed the tree on purpose, and the horn is a call alerting other tripods they found humans
I definetly dont think the tree crush was intentional, but I do know for a fact that the horn is a very intentional sign of "I'm here, and I'm here to fuck all of you up."
Yes ik its to tell other Tripods that they've found humans, but there are dozens of factors that go into a call so deep and loud as that.
@@ctrlaltrepeat245 I think the tree crash was an entirely spontaneous yet wonderful addition to the horn blare they did + the design of the horn is to be intimidating asf too since big predators use loud, deep noises to scare prey.
WE were the prey and those horns they played out people off balance upon hearing them. Fear is a great way to corral and push your prey into the corner ypu want.
The second time they sound the horn scares me more.
Also, I think the reason the three tripods never attacked the people who were not on the ferry is because they were waiting for the people to be in in one spot. The ferry....
"Alright! We made it down the end of the street. Lets take a break and stare at it!"
Accurate
Ikr in real life people I know including myself would run like crazy f*** that
We’re breaking out of Ohio with this one!
Well they had a sense of curiosity when observing the Tripod. They didn’t know what it was until it started killing.
1:38 I’ve always loved this scene where the music swells as the giant tripod rises into the air
Yea
* this is probably my favorite version. it’s not super dramatic acting, the people are actually acting genuinely scared and confused.
I remember being absolutely terrified of this movie as a child lmfao
Imagine what some people thought when they made a radio play about it and people were freaking out like it was a real news broadcast.
Same, but it didnt terrify me it was good
0:58 the noise of thing whirring up like a cross between plane & ship engine ready to go bezerk always gets me
It's actually an Abrams tank starting just slightly slowed down
@@whaddyatalkinbout Ahh it does remind me of an M1A2 starting up when you think about it!
@@neoman7792 Well no, like it's literally the sound of an Abrams starting. Like that's the sound they use.
Awesome sound design.
Lol i though it was my PS4 starting up for a sec
5:56 the moment you hear it, when your heart sinks instantly as you hear the terrifying horn and your instinct goes to terrified mode and run
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Nothing in my 21 years on this planet has ever given me nightmares quite like tripods
I rewatched this movie so many times in my life, it’s a classic great movie I had no real complaints, even if kid me wanted to see more tanks.
Same, I always wanted to see more about them, but I guess The video game should give us more screentime on them and how terrifying they are
@@vacciniumaugustifolium1420 yeah I’m looking forward to the game, and while I hope we can fight the tripods I also hope it would be incredibly difficult and you could only win under certain circumstances like for example if their shield is gone, personally I’ll shoot at them even if I can’t kill them at all.
Please what is the name of the movie?
@@foof-gj2bq it’s in the video title it’s war of the worlds 2005 by director Steven Spielberg.
@@mclovin2408 Thanks
There is a sort of an unspoken ominous feeling with the idea of these tripods. so very alien and intimidating. From the sounds they make to how fast they come over that hill while people are running like ants and aren't really moving. Unnerving. We need more of that feeling in sci-fi these days.
Complete dystopia is a tough vision to capture but Spielberg did it!
@@NicoleSams It gives me the same feeling as the titans from attack on titan, a dark feeling I can never really describe. Actual horror, shock..... Hopelessness I guess.
@@TheConspiredOne the way you perfectly described the feeling with attack on titan omg
@@justchillin1012 Thank you, yes there is something about submitting to a gigantic creature. You see it coming, and that is your god now....nothing else matters. How to survive this if you can? Be the fuck where they are not. There is no stopping them. Eerie. This is the scene that got me. th-cam.com/video/0WnoUw99VmQ/w-d-xo.html
hopelessness.
Because they have this overpowering presence on this world built by us, they dwarf every concept and creation we've mustered and you can't do anything to them directly, cant outrun it, it's a machine it doesn't tire, cant outpace it because it's tall with larger strides, all you can do is hide and pray and bare witness to them ravaging and destroying our world without mercy.
If I see some alien tripod rising from the ground, I’m not gonna stick around and see what happens next…I’M OUT!!
2:14 the fact that it shat itself and the noise is quite possibly a colossal fart
nice of the aliens to disintegrate only our flesh and not our clothes!
Maybe it’s some weird laser that only destroys organic matter
They want that drip after they conquer earth
Or maybe it’s because that polo jacket was damn expensive and the aliens respect that.
@@mclovin2408 cotton is organic so it should also be getting vaporized
@@mclovin2408 you get it.
Alien be like, "I said make me a nudist ray, not a reverse nudist ray".
Still the best Tripod adaption imo since it basically emitts the most anxiety and fear
This movie is almost 20 years and their effects are still incredible
Watching yet again..still scary.. the horn is still really freaky and ominous sounding. But also, still amazed that the writers depicted people literally standing & staring at a gigantic tripod of an alien machine looming over them, and not fearing for & running for their lives..
So I'm guessing you would say that deer staring into the headlights of a huge noisy car would be unrealistic? It's called shock. The brain is trying to comprehend what is being seen.
Nah one guy ran for the hills it was funny
Well, people are dumb irl
@@Jambo_Neo He was probably one of the few people who survived the entire thing.
Moat people really freeze helpless when facing a natural disaster or another huge and surprising threat. Real footage of tsunamis, plane crashes and earthquakes are proof.
"Remember, No humans"
-The aliens before starting the machine
cod reference
funny how when makarov said "no russian" he meant to not say a single word in russian
@@jazdajazda2191 hows that funny lol...
Or do u mean its funny that soooo many people didnt understand what he ment with that line
@@ANewHandTouchesTheBeacon probably
Can’t even go to a SHOP in America
their making a game out of this. Look it up :)
Since Stephen Spielberg 2005 War of The Worlds is one of my favorite Science Fiction movies I will never get bored of watching, with spectacular graphics, special effects and CGI UFO Tripods. Excellent acting from Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Dakota Fanning and Morgan Freeman as Narrator. This is the best War of The Worlds - Science Fiction movies🎥by HG.Wells I’ve enjoyed watching.👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
7:50 This will be forever one of my favorite scenes and the ones that terrify me the most, all the people screaming in horror at the same time having 3 tripods just a couple of meters away.
people try to run into the water but the last tripod to arrive shoots those closest to the water 7:56 there's no escape
You can actually see that the tripod that is closest to river moves sideways to reach the water afap & to cutoff the retirement way
3:34 who else thinks this scene is way
Scarier than the horn
theres just something about the way its shot that makes it feel real, like if they really existed the odds of them being after you and not someone else are slim so thats probably what you would see in reality
It's the mechanical heart beat they have. Whatever is going on inside them is so powerful it's loud enough to be heard from hundreds on meters away
Its just the shot, like it makes me feel like I'm also going to die like its coming for me. Idk it makes me feel that way.
I was 19 yrs old when this movie released still remember watching it at the theatre
you're close to 40 years old then
@@teina-nx2lv s I'm 38 now
Still the most faithful adaptation I reckon despite not being set in the 1800's.
I remember being 5 and watching this home with my dad and i still remember it scaring the absolute shit out of me.
I was 4, and I was traumatized when I first watched it with my dad. I couldn't sleep for days 🤣
Every one alway says the tripods horn is the scariest sound but in my opinion the sound of them walking is the scariest sound
The horn signals imminent death , because it means you have been spotted by one and that there are undeniably more of them coming to your exact location. But I imagine feeling the ground tremor under the sheer weight of these things would be utterly terrifying.
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Unstoppable annihilation as audio.
I completely agree, because you can hear them coming no matter how far you are.
It amazes me how CGI from 2005 looks better than most of today’s movies. What’s going on in Hollywood recently?
the most accurate part is that the people at the start were just watching the tripods in awe
The tripods were truly the star of the show.
Spielberg outdid himself with this movie.
It took me until now to realize when she was screaming in the car "is it the terrorists" it was because of 9/11 and the beginning of the war against terrorism.
The horn/siren of the tripods is iconic. And I remember it shaking the cinema back in the day with how loud it was.
7:54
Humans: the ants on my driveway
Tripods: me with the Raid
"We'll have to use harpoons and tow cables. Go for the legs..." - Luke Skywalker
This movie is one of my all-time favorites. I love everything about the alien tripods.
I love the alien designs in this movie! So original and cool.
The whole turning people to ash thing is the most disturbing. That scene on the hillside when the tripods relentlessly blast everyone in sight, you can actually see people's clothes floating away on the wind in a cloud of ash--ash that used to be all those people. They don't even have time to scream and there is nothing left of them to bury. My god, the inhumanity.
I would love to play as those things in a video game. Also that laser is so freaking powerful, it took out that bridge like nothing. Hearing the metal bend like that is unsettling too.
Search up war of the worlds game it’s real
A game is being developed
Your wish is coming true!
i love how the song for when the tripods first rise is made to sound like its coming from the tripods themselves
Just re-watched it yesterday love it
God that horn is so fucking good
That’s what she said…
Weren't the instruments used called Klaxons
@@itsMrNoble ayo 🤣 ✋️
@@XxDyneXxFreeEnergyx Klaxons go "oohgah".
What did they use 4 that horn? Sounds so cool!
Made it with a a didgeridoo
At first I thought you meant why did they used the horn, Wich is for communicating with other tripods
@@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009 i thought the creators mentioned it was purely for scaring the absolute bejeezus out of mfs
@@karatehh6966 I don't think hg wells ever explained exactly what the horn is for but I think that's why personally
@@bigwebsite727 I think the horn was used to communicate with other tripods
2:36 smart move… cameraman never dies
You’re dead if you see one of these ontop of a mountain range.
2:20 You can clearly see it deplete some kind of substance.
Something about the tripod sound disturbs me on such a deep, primal level. Terror and revulsion.
6:01 This scene scared me the most because I could imagine myslef in this situation and it was scary D:
I remember for some reason as a child in 2005 going to see this movie in the theatre with my mom and brother as a 6-year-old and having the fear of looking out my window as a child and seeing a tripod slowly marching down the street. By far the most eerie move ever created
It’s surprising that they didn’t go for a 2nd movie, when this is the best war of the worlds movie ever.
Saw this in the cinema when it came out... I was 15 at the time. This film gave me and my sister nightmares for a week, we have refused to watch it ever since. Just seeing this has made my heart race.
This movie was ahead of its time
Man, seeing that tripod come out of the ground and hearing it's horn on the theater speakers was insaaaaane. Never hit the same at home on the TV lol.
The sound it makes makes the movie scarier.
one of my favorite movies tbh, its very good probably watched this movie like 5 times
These gotta be some of the dumbest people ever. XD I would've been outta there the second the ground cracked open xD
Some did run, but most were in a state of shock, curiosity killed the cat, and in this case curiosity killed hundreds of people.
Lmao 😅 easy talking if this happened u would be so terrified that u would literally be frozen unable to move hahahah 😅
7:51 its scary to look at some 3 martian/tripodisian machines wiping out like maybe 100 souls running on hill
7:57 That sequence was perfect to be able to reference one of Alvin Correa's illustrations, which was that of a tripod launching its heat ray into the water while a crowd of people could be seen running.
My childhood relied on this because of my brother having a tripod obsession
Thank youuuuuuuuu
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The sounds they made used to scare the crap out of me as a kid
Alternate Title: War of the Worlds but it's only the best parts
When I was 10, I saw the movie in a open-air cinema first time in 2005. My puerile imagination did the rest. Damn it, I was traumatized for days. Nevertheless it remains one of my favorite movies ever. Till now no cinema screening touched me with such upsetting
I love the part in the beginning where the tripod charges up and fires heat rays that disintegratie everyone.
7:44
Rachel - Traumatised.
Ray - Shocked/scared.
Robbie - *R A G E*
Farmer:”NOT MY BLOOD! NOT MY BLOOD!”
(This is Joseph's nephew here by the way) I was introduced to this movie by my great grandma when I was 1 she is still alive though it's a great one
I think that this is an incredibly underrated movie. Lots of people love it, sure, but it's often kind of dismissed as just a summer blockbuster. I actually feel that it's one of Spielberg's best, a very dark and serious depiction of what is essentially doomsday. If not for the Robbie character the movie would be pretty much perfect in my opinion.
And if they had more time to finish the camelot scene.
Which one is Robbie?
@@wastrelperv The kid who plays Tom Cruise's son. He's a very unlikeable character and ruined the ending by just casually strolling back into the movie at the last minute despite what seemed to be a very obvious offscreen death halfway through.
@@MiketheratguyMultimedia Ah, the older boy. Thanks.
For a 2005 horror movie this aged so well, still gives me chills to this day
0:01 tho if i had seen even 1 crack appear i'd be runnin so fast i woulden't even see the tripod
bro
if i saw 1 crack appear
il be on texas by then
Well I wouldn’t call this an horror movie
Tremendous movie, the atmosphere in these scenes is on point 👌
I forgot how crazy good this movie was. I always liked the 1953 version, but this brought it to another level of special effects and terror.