This film is 68 years old now, and is still great. It shows that it's not CGI or mere special effects that make a great film. It's much more than that.
It also acknowledged Gene Barry and Ann Robinson themselves because the original actors came back in 2005 for the scene where Ray is reunited with his children.
@@SsentaiX "Let's pilot this alien aircraft, which Captain Hiller has no idea how to fly (although President Whitmore actually did due to the mind-meld with the alien pilot), then sneak on board the mother ship and use our vastly inferior technology to download a virus". YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH THAT'S THE TICKET
The look on Gene Barry's face with the words, "We were all praying for a miracle" seems to say that although his is very thankful he and the rest of mankind are safe, it is sad that the miracle meant the aliens deaths. That is a good and balanced ending to the movie.
@Bruno56 actually, there is a priest in the book who goes insane after realizing that there are aliens invading. he eventually comes to the conclusion the martians are angels here to punish humans for their sins
You guys know that there were hundreds of thousands of machines all around the planet? So for one to fall in front of that statue in Rio is pretty coincidental and all based on perspective. But ya know, it could mean something. Who knows? Besides the creators lol.
I love this movie so much! It's my favourite one out of all the "War of the Worlds" movies. And, Oh Boy, do I love this ending! I ALWAYS get goosebumps at the end.
I don't think HG Wells ( a committed atheist) would have cared much for the heavily religious undertone in this movie. But it's still a classic sci-fi movie.
Still the greatest sci fy movie ever made.i have watched it dozens of times since I was a kid in the seventies and still love it. The ships were the coolest.
Already 70 years old. The effects, the people back than, the voice actors, everything in these movie gives me so many tears, not because it makes me sad, no it's the age of the movie, these pure nostalgic makes me very emotional, can't descripe these feeling 🥹❤🥲 Great movie ❤
The scene with the church silhouetted against the sunrise, accompanied by the music and choir, conveys a powerful message of hope and faith amidst adversity. Humanity has been saved from destruction, and a new dawn begins.
feels like we're the martians now. im an aetheist but i would phrase that last line "after all that man could do had failed,humanity was destroyed and earth was saved, by the littlest things which god in his wisdom had put on earth" go in peace
Actually, it would have been a far better script had it stuck to science & said that nature in its wisdom provided the capability to adapt evolve & thus survive. The nonsense about god & his infinite wisdom is hokey, arrogant and parochial. Whose god? One of the thousands that mankind has made up over the centuries? Or is this the god/s of the aliens? It’s very short sighted to say that when inhabitants of a different world come along. Maybe they’re invading for the same purpose that the 9/11 hijackers did?!?
It’s actually a reference to the Book.- H.G Wells’ description references god having put bacteria and germs on the Earth, that killed the Martians. The book was heavily all for Darwinism and the concept of evolution.- H.G Wells kinda blended the two concepts into one.- merely stating, that all though yes~ creatures do evolve, and humans were once mere microbes a long time ago. But still, god had put those small creatures on Earth. The BBC version also touched upon this concept, when George theorises that the Martians are invading Earth, to punish the British empire for the immense suffering the empire had caused across the world. The book was dealing with a lot of sensitive topics, British imperialism, religion and Darwinism. And, since the book was written in the perspective of a character, a survival of the invasion. It’s simply that character’s views and opinions on the world, as well. (I ain’t that good at explaining things, sorry.)
Always loved this movie since I was a kid as it illustrates how people can eloquently draw upon Divine strength to face head-on the terror inflicted by cold, calculating evil forces hellbent on their destruction. Two examples: Earlier in the movie, uncle Matthew, the pastor, cites the 23rd Psalm as he walks toward the martian ship knowing he'll probably get fried: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for rhou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." The second example, right before this clip, is the hymn "Abide with Me", that the congregation is singing in the churcb where Dr. Forrester knows he'll find Sylvia. The words to the first verse by Henry F. Lyle (1795-1847) tie beautifully into the closing narration heard in this clip. The first verse of the hymn goes: "Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; the darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide! When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me."
I grew up with the 2000s version. Loved it and would still watch it but saw this one right after and I didn't change the channel. I really love this one as well. Was very impressed and it kept my attention.
As of now, hard to believe this movie came out almost 70 full years ago. I’m in my 30’s and I seen it on tv a few times. A movie like this, I consider it to be one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. I think I might try to find a copy of this movie on dvd or on Blue-Ray if i can get a copy of this movie. This movie is an old school classic.
@@childrenofminervaofficial4316 for a movie as old as this one, I think it’s one of the best movies ever made. What’s her name from this movie is still alive and everyone else including Gene Barry has already passed away. I haven’t got it yet but I’m still planning on getting on Amazon on either DVD or Blue Ray whenever I get a chance to order it.
Agreed. In my late 30s and when I was a kid, my parents owned the VHS tape of this movie, and I almost wore it out. Hell, I used to get in trouble for drawing the Martian machines vs. The Enterprise from the Star Trek movies of the 80s. I own two copies of this movie and hope to find a Blu-ray version of it.
@@geoffwilliams4478 that’s great!!! I haven’t seen this movie in what seems like a long time. I’m in my mid 30’s and I liked this movie when I first saw it on tv. I haven’t bought a copy of it on Amazon yet(if I’m able to find one) but when I find it, I’m jumping on the opportunity to get it and it’s an old school classic.
@@geoffwilliams4478and I was able to get a DVD copy from Amazon a few months ago and I watched it a few times already. I like good movies that don’t have all that political nonsense like what’s going on in the world today. Now the question for me is, what other movies should I get on DVD? I have a few already in a list on Amazon. Another movie I bought a while ago that has aliens/martians is Signs starring Mel Gibson.
This movie heavily inspired Independence Day with aliens dying from a virus. I first saw this when I was a kid in the 90's. If I woke up too early before Saturday morning cartoons like around 5am movies like this or Twilight Zone would still be playing from late night tv. After that were usually an episode of Mr. Wizard haha and then finally around 7am cartoons would start. Good times.
I always wondered why the Martian was trying to get out of its machine as it died. You would think that as it was dying and obviously in a very vulnerable state it would stay in the safety of its neigh indestructible ship
Maybe the Martians didn't know what was killing them and they were getting out to ask for help. Not that THAT would have helped much after everything they had done
I have a thought that the Martians felt their machines were powerful weapons and protection. Once the germs, they knew nothing about, started to kill them, they felt their machines were no longer the safety it once was. In a bid to run from the invisible enemy, one or more may have tried to escape because they saw their machines were no longer the protection it once was.
Although there's certainly no two sides to the conflict in this film (or the remake, or the original novel), and we are rooting for humanity all the way, I've always felt that there's something a bit poignant to the sight of the alien reaching out its hand (or "hand") to touch the Earth in its last moments of life. Their own home planet is dying, and this is where they expected to refound their civilization. The dying Martian may have thought "I'll never live here, but at least my last sensation can be of the surface of the planet that might have been my home." Ironic: the human race loved Earth as its ancestral home, and the Martians loved it as their ultimate refuge from disaster.
@Rick O'Shay I never said that it did. It's just an observation that even evildoers may have a dimension to their makeup that it, in itself, not wholly evil. It's worth noting that the invaders in "War of the Worlds" (all versions) were acting under an imperative that the Europeans who displaced the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand were NOT under. None of them were fleeing a dying environment that would soon be uninhabitable. (I suppose that we have to count it in the Europeans' favor that at least they didn't want to eat the indigenous peoples......)
@@tadimaggio One shortcoming of this movie is we only have the Hardwicke narrator to line their Martian's intentions with those of the novel. In action, they seem to simply blindly destroy everything indiscriminately, and never seem to harvest nor utilise what they find on earth. The 2005 Spielberg movie is more faithful to it in that regard, as well as being more critical of religion than this film, even though both movies and radio play are set in their respective periods.
""We were all praying for a Miracle ."" The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since been immune. Once they have breathed our air, germs that no longer affect us began to kill them. The End came swiftly. All over the World their machines began stop and fall. After all that men could do have failed, the Martians were destroyed and Humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in His Wisdom has put upon this Earth. Amen. ∞φ† ###
I think this movie did the ending way better than any other visual adaption. This and the musical understood that it needed to end on a note of hopelessness followed by a miracle
“Martians-dead! -slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”
explanation for why the martians were ignorant of germs. the martians seem to enjoy war and destruction, probably having wage many civil wars on their home planet themselves. so their civilization focused more on a weaponry and space flight technological path and probably little to no knowledge on micro organisms. it's like the spanish conquistadors invading the aztec empire. the spanish had superior weapons and transportation technology due to technological improvement from countless wars, but the aztecs had far superior hygiene. both sides were effected by each other's diseases, but smallpox was just more deadlier.
Ironic how in order to build we must first be destroyed. Our greatest gifts come in the form of our end. Can only imagine where our tech would be after we got our hands on theirs.
The ending gives goosebumps acknowledgement and credit to Almighty God. When was the last time you saw a movie that did so in today’s secular nightmare?
Most adaptations of War of the Worlds tend to ignore the religious aspect of the story. The book is written in the sense that we as human beings earned our place on the earth by being born here. Almost claiming that It’s our natural right. The problem with adapting that nowadays is that it makes for a pretty crap story. It’s almost saying “oh ignore all the death and violence! Just keep your head down and god will sort it out.”
Spielberg should have finished his version with a mention of God and an Amen too. Just to get a reaction from all the scumbags who would take offense to it.
@@davidgee4399 non-Chistians are not the problem. The modern day liberal push against old-fashioned values, national pride and tradition are the problem. Those left wingers are the scumbags. Different religions are an acknowledged part of everyday life.
@@chrislapp9468 A lot of "religious" people are just as much the problem, bearing the cross in one arm while crossing their fingers behind their backs. And none of us knows what's really out there yet arrogant people think they do and point to as "proof" writings from human beings barely out of the Stone Age. And this is coming from a conservative. ARGUMENT OVER
The Orginal book of the war of the worlds had quite an overt anti Religous message in the character of the curate, however I suppose you have not read the book.
Rick O'Shay I don’t have hatred for any religion, I have a hatred for changing a piece of iconic literature to fit into someone’s agenda when it has nothing to do with the book.
Rick O'Shay H.G. Wells was an Atheist, but the line was placed there from the perspective of the lead character, George. It was a passing comment, and was not the focus of the ending. In this ending, they literally stay in a church and the sun shines down as if God was giving them a thumbs up, which completely missed the point of the original ending.
The whole “prayer” and “god saved us” suggestion kind of defeats the purpose of the book as it was written, no? “By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
I guess the movie writers wanted a more spiritual metaphor that went in hand with Christianity. Since it was a more powerful message back in those days.
Not quite, the tech will likely take decades for humans to understand, and the Martians probably used materials that humans don't have. But still, the alien tech will certainly be helpful.
The martians were really angry because they had run out of the one thing they really needed on mars and they came looking for it here on earth, and that thing was TOILET PAPER! Which the earth was in short supply. Welcome to the year 2020.
I'd love to know what H.G.Wells, a lifelong secularist, who died seven years before this film appeared, would have said about the invocation of God-as-humanity's-savior at the conclusion. Then again, he might not have objected. The first-person narrator of his novel seems to take God seriously; he berates a hysterical curate who keeps screaming "What sins have we committed?" by shaking him and shouting "What use is faith if it collapses under calamity? When did God ever guarantee anyone peace and security? He is not an insurance agent."
I think the collapse of the alien machines is more realistic in the Cruise version. They begin to stagger around and progressively drop like flies, which is what you would expect from growing infection that steadily kills, so it makes sense. Here they just seem to collapse all at once within reach of the church, which doesn’t quite ring true with sickness.
You get a view in the TV show that was in 1988? The martians used a helmet setup with three sensors to mentally control the machines. Kinda like how the Jaegers were piloted in Pacific Rim.
The irony of a species so technologically advanced, that they could laugh off our best attacks and hand us our asses, play with us like cats playing with chipmunks, being annihilated by everyday germs...
While its a fantastic film (in spite of its deviations from the book) Ive never understood attribruting the death of the Martians to God. Did he not create the Martians.
Yes. Herbert Well's novel was far more critical of religion, as was Spielberg's 2005 film, which in spite of being set in its respective period like this movie, was more faithful to it overall. Not only did this one also take place in its own time, its only reference to the Martian's intentions is in the Hardwicke narrations, their actions never show them try to colonise, harvest, nor utilise what they found of Earth. They just atomise and incinerate everything indiscriminately.
Very believable. The movie "Independence Day" is basically a good rip-off of this version of "War of The Worlds". (The Martians were nuked with no affect, a type of virus finishes off the Martians and guy & girl get reunited).
The shot at 1:20 always confused me as a kid and it still does. Why is everyone facing the left side while the Martian hatch opening in one the right side?
This movie is a masterpiece amazing special effects excellent directing and great depictions of science fiction and aliens. But I do have 2 minor nitpicks. 1 I wish the Martin's got a little more screen time cause it almost felt like more of a world war 2 drama instead of an alien movie and 2 the bacteria was a weird ending. But that's just me it's still a classic hands down
Sorry for replying now, but I only just saw your comment. Wells was hugely inspired by the relatively new concept of germ theory, immunology and diseases (he nearly died from what was likely tuberculosis) and this reflected in his works. Diseases and the microbes that caused them were seen as something bad, and once the medical community accepted germ theory, the idea at the time was to eliminate germs at all cost with medicine and eventually via antibiotics (even Fleming warned against their over-usage). But Wells ingeniously in The War of the Worlds demonstrates that disease causing microbes were our allies instead of the enemy; they're on the Earth for a reason.
@@aidanbarnes4290 it's been a long time since I read the book, but I believe the aliens from Mars had made the planet disease free but over time had forgotten about germ theory. So their immune systems weren't prepared for microbes.
@@kellifaust5522 And the book was more critical of religion than this film, and the 2005 Spielberg movie in that respect and several others was nearer to it, even though both films and radio play took place in their own respective periods.
"...which God in his wisdom had placed upon this Earth." How true. Mankind seems to be moving away, hopefully it won't take a blunt awakening to return.
"After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and Humanity was saved....by the littlest things that Natural Evolution and its wisdom, (if micro-organisms can have wisdom), had evolved upon the Earth." The Biblical reference never sat well with me; more so when I had learned about Evolution in H.S.
That's the Gloria Patri, or Glory Be: "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."
Southern Baptists prayed for a miracle while the Pentecostals spoke in tongues and the Roman Catholics heard the confessions of the invading aliens. I am a Christian, so lighten' up and laugh a little.
America The Godless! The comments alone show how we no longer believe in God. Ever read the scripture about how during the time of Jesus He went to a certain town and could do no miracles there because of their unbelief? That’s where America is headed. We as a nation have never been conquered. Never had the boots of an enemy soldier march through our land. Why do you think that is? But we have turned our back on God and therefore lost our protection. I pray for mercy. For we know not what we do!
1953: the church has survived the whole invasion.
2005: the church was the first thing destroyed.
That was more in-line with H.G. Welles vision in his book.
@@AARONANKRUM - Religion is the Opium of the masses.
@@adrianjackson2696 When you take away religion people create a new god, the dollar sign
@@youtubeeee6682 - yes I agree because most people are naïve and not to bright.
I guess the martians wanted to make sure no one could pray for a miracle
The notion of the littlest things being our salvation is always an amazing comfort.
It's quite humbling to realise that without those "littlest things ", life on Earth would be impossible.
@@evertonporter7887 Quite humbling indeed.
Bacteria to humans , plants and animals , " hey fellas ,, we got this " !
This film is 68 years old now, and is still great. It shows that it's not CGI or mere special effects that make a great film. It's much more than that.
Hardly CGI. They didn't even have computer graphics back then
CGI don't make a movie. That's why nowadays movies are so lousy, having to take their screenplays from video games.
Now a days like Godzilla the movies are dark and I can't see a damn thing. Damn Techni color was a good thing! Screw CGI!
Even the esteemed scientist was praying for a miracle along with the masses.
75 here. I saw it when it first came out. Still my favorite.
Love that the 2005 version did a callback to this amazing scene with the arm coming out of the machine
It also acknowledged Gene Barry and Ann Robinson themselves because the original actors came back in 2005 for the scene where Ray is reunited with his children.
One of the very best Sci-Fi movies of all time. Such a great film.
Very memorable. I really loved watching this movie.
crappy outcome, Independence day was way better.
@@SsentaiX "Let's pilot this alien aircraft, which Captain Hiller has no idea how to fly (although President Whitmore actually did due to the mind-meld with the alien pilot), then sneak on board the mother ship and use our vastly inferior technology to download a virus". YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH THAT'S THE TICKET
@@SsentaiX No
This movie never ages.
Even had little pulsating veins that stopped when it died.
Amazing practical effects from nearly 70 years ago.
The look on Gene Barry's face with the words, "We were all praying for a miracle" seems to say that although his is very thankful he and the rest of mankind are safe, it is sad that the miracle meant the aliens deaths. That is a good and balanced ending to the movie.
Never thought of it that way before. Responding to Rvr's original post not the argument between Bruno56 and which ever posters remarks are missing.
@Bruno56 Just because you reject the "organized" part of "organized religion," doesn't mean you reject the "religion" part of the phrase.
@Bruno56 actually, there is a priest in the book who goes insane after realizing that there are aliens invading. he eventually comes to the conclusion the martians are angels here to punish humans for their sins
Undoubtedly mankind could've learned much from them, but the Martians didn't care for humanity... just the earth's riches...think indigenous peoples.
Martins are made by the devil in this movie
I don't think it was a coincidence that the Martian machine in Rio dropped within sight of the famous statue of Jesus... .
Jesus has always been the best marketing ploy in the last 2000 years lol
This is the ability Gold Experience Requrim.
Probably because the famous statue of Jesus is the most iconic image of the city of Rio....duh.
You guys know that there were hundreds of thousands of machines all around the planet? So for one to fall in front of that statue in Rio is pretty coincidental and all based on perspective. But ya know, it could mean something. Who knows? Besides the creators lol.
This was a time when Hollywood acknowledged God in its productions.
I love this movie so much! It's my favourite one out of all the "War of the Worlds" movies. And, Oh Boy, do I love this ending! I ALWAYS get goosebumps at the end.
I don't think HG Wells ( a committed atheist) would have cared much for the heavily religious undertone in this movie. But it's still a classic sci-fi movie.
Still the greatest sci fy movie ever made.i have watched it dozens of times since I was a kid in the seventies and still love it. The ships were the coolest.
Already 70 years old.
The effects, the people back than, the voice actors, everything in these movie gives me so many tears, not because it makes me sad, no it's the age of the movie, these pure nostalgic makes me very emotional, can't descripe these feeling 🥹❤🥲
Great movie ❤
I love that ending
The scene with the church silhouetted against the sunrise, accompanied by the music and choir, conveys a powerful message of hope and faith amidst adversity. Humanity has been saved from destruction, and a new dawn begins.
feels like we're the martians now. im an aetheist but i would phrase that last line "after all that man could do had failed,humanity was destroyed and earth was saved, by the littlest things which god in his wisdom had put on earth" go in peace
Actually, it would have been a far better script had it stuck to science & said that nature in its wisdom provided the capability to adapt evolve & thus survive. The nonsense about god & his infinite wisdom is hokey, arrogant and parochial.
Whose god? One of the thousands that mankind has made up over the centuries? Or is this the god/s of the aliens? It’s very short sighted to say that when inhabitants of a different world come along. Maybe they’re invading for the same purpose that the 9/11 hijackers did?!?
This was a powerful scene.
The word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword.
Bacteria God did nothing.
Robert Kelly tips fedora
@@RobertK1993 God did answer their prayers though...
@@RobertK1993who made bacteria ? Duh .
Anyone else love that ending, that ending and the omen 3’s ending, God stepped in and it was good.
WTF did God have to do with bacteria
No he didn’t there is no proof God is real
What the fuck ? Lmaoooo god didn’t do anything
I love the movie, but the ending was supposed to support a scientific explanation ... it's science fiction
It’s actually a reference to the Book.- H.G Wells’ description references god having put bacteria and germs on the Earth, that killed the Martians.
The book was heavily all for Darwinism and the concept of evolution.- H.G Wells kinda blended the two concepts into one.- merely stating, that all though yes~ creatures do evolve, and humans were once mere microbes a long time ago. But still, god had put those small creatures on Earth.
The BBC version also touched upon this concept, when George theorises that the Martians are invading Earth, to punish the British empire for the immense suffering the empire had caused across the world.
The book was dealing with a lot of sensitive topics, British imperialism, religion and Darwinism.
And, since the book was written in the perspective of a character, a survival of the invasion. It’s simply that character’s views and opinions on the world, as well.
(I ain’t that good at explaining things, sorry.)
Come on down you martians , we got Covid 19 now
They'll be dead within seconds.
It would make them turn back home again.
Lol
Hands down the greatest sci fi movie of all time. A true film classic
I much prefer this version than the new Cruise one.
Does it because the alien is disgusting
Why though? 🤣
So do I.
I like both.
I like the Tom Cruise one more because of how it’s more chilling and scarier
The littlest things that God
In his wisdom placed upon the earth
In the end, it wasn’t guns or bombs that killed the aliens, it was that humblest of all gods creatures....the Tyrannosaurus rex.
(cut to T-Rex roaring under the "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" sign)
and then a huge space rock hit earth -- and wiped them all out . .the end . .fade to black . .
And the Javalin in 2005.
My favorite version. Byron Haskin was a genius.
My all time favorite alien invader movie
Great ending to a Marvellous Film!🐞🐞🐞👾🛸
Still a great film after all these years.
My all-time favourite version of the H. G. Wells classic.
The alien arm at the end was the most terrifying scene out of the whole movie. I shit you not
Nope the alien in the farm house
@@mariocisneros911 for me it was the white flag scene
I never understood it. If the Martian was sick and dying woudlnt it want to stay in its neigh invulnerable machine?
@@leerogish7223Maybe it just was looking for help, like asking the humans, please help me, I'm dying!
@@Mrd9960 lol ya after it and it’s people tried to commit genocide against humans
Always loved this movie since I was a kid as it illustrates how people can eloquently draw upon Divine strength to face head-on the terror inflicted by cold, calculating evil forces hellbent on their destruction. Two examples:
Earlier in the movie, uncle Matthew, the pastor, cites the 23rd Psalm as he walks toward the martian ship knowing he'll probably get fried:
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for rhou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over."
The second example, right before this clip, is the hymn "Abide with Me", that the congregation is singing in the churcb where Dr. Forrester knows he'll find Sylvia. The words to the first verse by Henry F. Lyle (1795-1847) tie beautifully into the closing narration heard in this clip. The first verse of the hymn goes:
"Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide; the darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me."
I grew up with the 2000s version. Loved it and would still watch it but saw this one right after and I didn't change the channel. I really love this one as well. Was very impressed and it kept my attention.
If this happened now all these people in the background would have their phones out.
Well, most likely not considering the Martians would probably destroy many cell phone towers and other forms of communication.
They certainly would.
I would have put my phone away, got on my knees and give thanks and praise to God!
Somehow the alien hand here seems far more unsettling than the remake
As of now, hard to believe this movie came out almost 70 full years ago. I’m in my 30’s and I seen it on tv a few times. A movie like this, I consider it to be one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. I think I might try to find a copy of this movie on dvd or on Blue-Ray if i can get a copy of this movie. This movie is an old school classic.
Criterion released it on Blu-Ray a couple of years ago and it looks stunning.
@@childrenofminervaofficial4316 for a movie as old as this one, I think it’s one of the best movies ever made. What’s her name from this movie is still alive and everyone else including Gene Barry has already passed away. I haven’t got it yet but I’m still planning on getting on Amazon on either DVD or Blue Ray whenever I get a chance to order it.
Agreed. In my late 30s and when I was a kid, my parents owned the VHS tape of this movie, and I almost wore it out. Hell, I used to get in trouble for drawing the Martian machines vs. The Enterprise from the Star Trek movies of the 80s.
I own two copies of this movie and hope to find a Blu-ray version of it.
@@geoffwilliams4478 that’s great!!! I haven’t seen this movie in what seems like a long time. I’m in my mid 30’s and I liked this movie when I first saw it on tv. I haven’t bought a copy of it on Amazon yet(if I’m able to find one) but when I find it, I’m jumping on the opportunity to get it and it’s an old school classic.
@@geoffwilliams4478and I was able to get a DVD copy from Amazon a few months ago and I watched it a few times already. I like good movies that don’t have all that political nonsense like what’s going on in the world today. Now the question for me is, what other movies should I get on DVD? I have a few already in a list on Amazon. Another movie I bought a while ago that has aliens/martians is Signs starring Mel Gibson.
This movie heavily inspired Independence Day with aliens dying from a virus. I first saw this when I was a kid in the 90's. If I woke up too early before Saturday morning cartoons like around 5am movies like this or Twilight Zone would still be playing from late night tv. After that were usually an episode of Mr. Wizard haha and then finally around 7am cartoons would start. Good times.
I always wondered why the Martian was trying to get out of its machine as it died. You would think that as it was dying and obviously in a very vulnerable state it would stay in the safety of its neigh indestructible ship
Maybe the Martians didn't know what was killing them and they were getting out to ask for help. Not that THAT would have helped much after everything they had done
I have a thought that the Martians felt their machines were powerful weapons and protection. Once the germs, they knew nothing about, started to kill them, they felt their machines were no longer the safety it once was. In a bid to run from the invisible enemy, one or more may have tried to escape because they saw their machines were no longer the protection it once was.
@@beedolphin1Very good point
It be a bad time for aliens to come to earth now in 2020......
If they are smart- they NEVER contact the Earth.
Although there's certainly no two sides to the conflict in this film (or the remake, or the original novel), and we are rooting for humanity all the way, I've always felt that there's something a bit poignant to the sight of the alien reaching out its hand (or "hand") to touch the Earth in its last moments of life. Their own home planet is dying, and this is where they expected to refound their civilization. The dying Martian may have thought "I'll never live here, but at least my last sensation can be of the surface of the planet that might have been my home." Ironic: the human race loved Earth as its ancestral home, and the Martians loved it as their ultimate refuge from disaster.
@Rick O'Shay I never said that it did. It's just an observation that even evildoers may have a dimension to their makeup that it, in itself, not wholly evil. It's worth noting that the invaders in "War of the Worlds" (all versions) were acting under an imperative that the Europeans who displaced the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand were NOT under. None of them were fleeing a dying environment that would soon be uninhabitable. (I suppose that we have to count it in the Europeans' favor that at least they didn't want to eat the indigenous peoples......)
@@tadimaggio One shortcoming of this movie is we only have the Hardwicke narrator to line their Martian's intentions with those of the novel. In action, they seem to simply blindly destroy everything indiscriminately, and never seem to harvest nor utilise what they find on earth.
The 2005 Spielberg movie is more faithful to it in that regard, as well as being more critical of religion than this film, even though both movies and radio play are set in their respective periods.
""We were all praying for a Miracle .""
The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere to which we have long since been immune. Once they have breathed our air, germs that no longer affect us began to kill them. The End came swiftly. All over the World their machines began stop and fall. After all that men could do have failed, the Martians were destroyed and Humanity was saved by the littlest things which God in His Wisdom has put upon this Earth. Amen. ∞φ†
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Got this film and the great martian war on DVD and have too say, that they’re both cool and interesting films.
The Great Martian War's on DVD?
@@jendouglas9781 oh yeah. I imagine it’s hard to find and most likely expensive now. I just happened to find both films of a bootleg case.
I think this movie did the ending way better than any other visual adaption.
This and the musical understood that it needed to end on a note of hopelessness followed by a miracle
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Only two years after The Day Stood Still and it was my favorite.
“Martians-dead! -slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”
explanation for why the martians were ignorant of germs. the martians seem to enjoy war and destruction, probably having wage many civil wars on their home planet themselves. so their civilization focused more on a weaponry and space flight technological path and probably little to no knowledge on micro organisms. it's like the spanish conquistadors invading the aztec empire. the spanish had superior weapons and transportation technology due to technological improvement from countless wars, but the aztecs had far superior hygiene. both sides were effected by each other's diseases, but smallpox was just more deadlier.
I think H.G. Wells said that his narrator was speculating that the Martian science had eradicated germs from Mars.
You (lifes40123) put a lot of thought into this. Are you a Borg?
I like the music that goes with it when the alien is moving it's hand and it's cool science fiction music 😎
Ironic how in order to build we must first be destroyed. Our greatest gifts come in the form of our end. Can only imagine where our tech would be after we got our hands on theirs.
I saw this movie in science class in middle school in 1983.
The ending gives goosebumps acknowledgement and credit to Almighty God. When was the last time you saw a movie that did so in today’s secular nightmare?
Most adaptations of War of the Worlds tend to ignore the religious aspect of the story. The book is written in the sense that we as human beings earned our place on the earth by being born here. Almost claiming that It’s our natural right. The problem with adapting that nowadays is that it makes for a pretty crap story. It’s almost saying “oh ignore all the death and violence! Just keep your head down and god will sort it out.”
Spielberg should have finished his version with a mention of God and an Amen too. Just to get a reaction from all the scumbags who would take offense to it.
A so-called Christian who calls non-Christians "scumbags". Well, you're sure not a hypocrite or anything.
@@davidgee4399 non-Chistians are not the problem. The modern day liberal push against old-fashioned values, national pride and tradition are the problem. Those left wingers are the scumbags. Different religions are an acknowledged part of everyday life.
@@chrislapp9468 A lot of "religious" people are just as much the problem, bearing the cross in one arm while crossing their fingers behind their backs. And none of us knows what's really out there yet arrogant people think they do and point to as "proof" writings from human beings barely out of the Stone Age. And this is coming from a conservative. ARGUMENT OVER
@@davidgee4399 I heard atheism is becoming popular.
The Orginal book of the war of the worlds had quite an overt anti Religous message in the character of the curate, however I suppose you have not read the book.
Aliens : Im Going To Kill Every human on earth!
Humans : TASTE THE POWER OF G O D
Not without GOD's sayso.
Bacteria, "Hold my exotoxins..."
I hate how they turned such an impactful and powerful ending of the book into a preachy message about Christianity...
Rick O'Shay I don’t have hatred for any religion, I have a hatred for changing a piece of iconic literature to fit into someone’s agenda when it has nothing to do with the book.
Rick O'Shay H.G. Wells was an Atheist, but the line was placed there from the perspective of the lead character, George. It was a passing comment, and was not the focus of the ending. In this ending, they literally stay in a church and the sun shines down as if God was giving them a thumbs up, which completely missed the point of the original ending.
The preacher walked like moses to face the martians. Holy bible like the Ark. A sacrifice and mesenger. This movie is an allegory , a religious one
@@DangerVille if that church was destroyed the audience, being christians would be offended and pissed.
Yet today everyone is getting all hot and bothered over preachy messages in movies now.
It's dead Jim, dead.
Watching this 3 October 2020. Possibly too soon
How the might of the Martian invaders have fallen.
virus
And went into hibernation
The whole “prayer” and “god saved us” suggestion kind of defeats the purpose of the book as it was written, no?
“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.”
I guess the movie writers wanted a more spiritual metaphor that went in hand with Christianity. Since it was a more powerful message back in those days.
Can you imagine cleaning up the streets after this ordeal?
They did it in ww2
The government would strip those ships of their technology and the alien corpses would end up in Area 51.
They put the aliens bodies in steel drums with their liquid bacteria
1958...Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.
Now they can copy their technology and invade other worlds
yup
Doesn't mean we can't use it to find a way around their shields or "borrow" their lasers 😉
Not quite, the tech will likely take decades for humans to understand, and the Martians probably used materials that humans don't have.
But still, the alien tech will certainly be helpful.
And from that point on, NASA had the biggest smile on its face.
Or retaliate against the Martians
"Explorers" sent me here....
I immediately see the reference the movie made with Wak and Nak's suction cup fingers
The martians were really angry because they had run out of the one thing they really needed on mars and they came looking for it here on earth, and that thing was TOILET PAPER! Which the earth was in short supply. Welcome to the year 2020.
I'd love to know what H.G.Wells, a lifelong secularist, who died seven years before this film appeared, would have said about the invocation of God-as-humanity's-savior at the conclusion. Then again, he might not have objected. The first-person narrator of his novel seems to take God seriously; he berates a hysterical curate who keeps screaming "What sins have we committed?" by shaking him and shouting "What use is faith if it collapses under calamity? When did God ever guarantee anyone peace and security? He is not an insurance agent."
I forgot about the ending i only remembered the 2005 one, but this version is pretty good to
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I think the collapse of the alien machines is more realistic in the Cruise version. They begin to stagger around and progressively drop like flies, which is what you would expect from growing infection that steadily kills, so it makes sense. Here they just seem to collapse all at once within reach of the church, which doesn’t quite ring true with sickness.
To think the world was saved by a sneeze 🤧
The acknowledgment and respect of God is something I wish was more prevalent these days.
God’s not real so why should we acknowledge or respect him more these days?
It was once said long ago that if you wanted to know the real heart and soul of America you need look no further than its churches.
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The "woke" crowd is calling us a "post-Christian" nation. If that's true, our society's days are numbered.
I would have loved to have seen what it was like inside one of the Martian machines.
It’s probably very small
You get a view in the TV show that was in 1988? The martians used a helmet setup with three sensors to mentally control the machines. Kinda like how the Jaegers were piloted in Pacific Rim.
@@WizelBalan i didn't know that until now.
The irony of a species so technologically advanced, that they could laugh off our best attacks and hand us our asses, play with us like cats playing with chipmunks, being annihilated by everyday germs...
Hubris. Just like when the French Army attempted to reclaim Haiti. They were winning against the black rebels, only to be taken down by Yellow Fever.
While its a fantastic film (in spite of its deviations from the book) Ive never understood attribruting the death of the Martians to God. Did he not create the Martians.
Yes. Herbert Well's novel was far more critical of religion, as was Spielberg's 2005 film, which in spite of being set in its respective period like this movie, was more faithful to it overall. Not only did this one also take place in its own time, its only reference to the Martian's intentions is in the Hardwicke narrations, their actions never show them try to colonise, harvest, nor utilise what they found of Earth. They just atomise and incinerate everything indiscriminately.
RIP Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Great actor & voice.
@@saul2007t I first saw Sir Cedric in The Ghost Of Frankenstein. Very great first impression.
Man I'm crying.
I still remember, how the coronavirus saved us in 1953
It was beauty, that killed the beast.
Trap The Tripod I know, but it seemed so appropriate for this scene
Trap The Tripod never mind
Who still Watching August 26 2024
Wonderful masterpiece.
I Remmember this scene when i was 5 years in 1985 and was shoking i really feel scary
Very believable. The movie "Independence Day" is basically a good rip-off of this version of "War of The Worlds". (The Martians were nuked with no affect, a type of virus finishes off the Martians and guy & girl get reunited).
The Meg 2023 sorry my english is bad. Pero soy el mejor hablando español
The shot at 1:20 always confused me as a kid and it still does. Why is everyone facing the left side while the Martian hatch opening in one the right side?
Haha I never noticed that!?
This movie is a masterpiece amazing special effects excellent directing and great depictions of science fiction and aliens. But I do have 2 minor nitpicks. 1 I wish the Martin's got a little more screen time cause it almost felt like more of a world war 2 drama instead of an alien movie and 2 the bacteria was a weird ending. But that's just me it's still a classic hands down
Sorry for replying now, but I only just saw your comment. Wells was hugely inspired by the relatively new concept of germ theory, immunology and diseases (he nearly died from what was likely tuberculosis) and this reflected in his works. Diseases and the microbes that caused them were seen as something bad, and once the medical community accepted germ theory, the idea at the time was to eliminate germs at all cost with medicine and eventually via antibiotics (even Fleming warned against their over-usage). But Wells ingeniously in The War of the Worlds demonstrates that disease causing microbes were our allies instead of the enemy; they're on the Earth for a reason.
@@kellifaust5522 ok that makes sense
@@aidanbarnes4290 it's been a long time since I read the book, but I believe the aliens from Mars had made the planet disease free but over time had forgotten about germ theory. So their immune systems weren't prepared for microbes.
@@kellifaust5522 And the book was more critical of religion than this film, and the 2005 Spielberg movie in that respect and several others was nearer to it, even though both films and radio play took place in their own respective periods.
In the sequel series we see more of the aliens
A year later and man has mastered the Martian tech and a world war starts that wipes out humanity. 8-)
A few years later...Indiana Jones is kidnapped by the Soviets, who take him to Area 51 hangar, where the remains of one of the dead Martians is kept.
Clayton: “It’s dead.”
Narrator: “It was not”
What
@@FrenchFryCheese04 The aliens weren't actually dead. They just went into hibernation.
@@-mza-3991 Oh yeah!
@@-mza-3991 I found this comment again
"...which God in his wisdom had placed upon this Earth." How true. Mankind seems to be moving away, hopefully it won't take a blunt awakening to return.
In reality, no Gods, no spirits, no souls. If we repel aliens, or whatever the task is, we must use our own efforts.
It always DOES take a horrendous disaster to awaken us.
@@Dracopol god is real
Indeed. And He operates in His own way, not the way bible-thumpers demand of Him.
Gaming with John He’s not saying god isn’t real he’s saying we would be on our own no gods are going to swoop down and help us
Epic! My Rio de Janeiro.
"After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were destroyed and Humanity was saved....by the littlest things that Natural Evolution and its wisdom, (if micro-organisms can have wisdom), had evolved upon the Earth."
The Biblical reference never sat well with me; more so when I had learned about Evolution in H.S.
Gene Barry and his Girl, were The Grandparents in the 2005 remake.
if I had been him I'd have thought twice about touching the arm of the dying Martian. Goodness knows what was on the skin of that thing.
Checking it's pulse 😂
This ending would have been perfect if at 3:15 Terence Stamp bellowed 'KNEEL BEFORE GOD!!!"
Does anyone know the name of the hymn sung at the end? I've been looking everywhere and can't find it.
That's the Gloria Patri, or Glory Be:
"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."
I remember watching this as a kid... Strangely I was born in 2003.
Nona x I was born in 2003 too 🤱
Same. But I was born 98’ this scene is what I can remember.
Hey ! I was born in 2003 too ! And I watched it when I was 9.
I was born in 2004 with Steven's version and got permanently scarred from it :)
They should have worn their masks.
Interesting....never saw this version of the movie.
I like Morgan Freeman’s little add on though......
“A billion lives had not been lost in vain”.
i still like 2005 one
Invent FTL travel, have vaporizing heat rays, develop impenetrable force fields.... don't have antibiotics
Omicron has saved our ass against the Juggernaut
Poignant moment!🤨
Yes, why go to Mars when they're be here sooner than later...with a surprise.
Southern Baptists prayed for a miracle while the Pentecostals spoke in tongues and the Roman Catholics heard the confessions of the invading aliens. I am a Christian, so lighten' up and laugh a little.
Thank you! Someone else who realizes God has a sense of humor!
He invented it. Lol
....and pass the collection plate, and stick around for the dinner platters. $$
The aliens didn't need to leave Mars...they should have prayed for a miracle instead!
Where's Scully and Mulder when you need them?
Probably knockin boots/smashin as the say now.
and where was Star Fleet ?
I don't know lol
Back when pop culture still promoted religious faith!!
History repeats.
America The Godless! The comments alone show how we no longer believe in God. Ever read the scripture about how during the time of Jesus He went to a certain town and could do no miracles there because of their unbelief? That’s where America is headed. We as a nation have never been conquered. Never had the boots of an enemy soldier march through our land. Why do you think that is? But we have turned our back on God and therefore lost our protection. I pray for mercy. For we know not what we do!
in the era of corona virus, the joke is on us
The minister in this scene looks a little like Billy Graham.
And half the world wonderd why america kept smallpox and now you see why
To conquer Mars? Makes absolute sense.
Soviet Union/Russian Federation kept smallpox, too.
It would have been over if the martians wore environmental suits!
Dumb Martians were the first wave.
"Mars Attacks" is the second wave.
In Britain we would find a way to blame ourselves for the aliens behavior and then offer them millions in compensation
...Or send them to Rwanda.