war of the worlds (2019): all tripod scenes
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this 3 episode series is not good as the 2005 spielberg's version
but you can enjoy watching new tripods here and their different design from the previous.
here's a link for the series.
movies2watch.ru/series/the-wa...
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Based off the length of this video and how little tripods there are, I'm gonna guess this was mostly a love story
Yep - LOL.
From what I recall of the book there weren't terribly many times where he actually saw tripods, there were mostly anecdotal stories from other survivors
@@GRasputin91 Yes, a fair chunk of the book recounts the narrator's brother's encounter with the martians - particularly observing the Thunder Child.
@@eljay5009 The book was so much better than this: "What were BBC even thinking when they made this absolutely TERRIBLE piece of CRAP "War of The Worlds" 2019 miniseries REBOOT?!"
@@jamieolberding7731 trying to make more money, what else? You think they cared about the story?
The aliens getting vibe checked by the British Royal Navy was absolutely hillarious.
Never heard somebody say something like that, but it’s absolutely fair
Martians*
@@LittleSilva422 to be fair, as we’ve most notably seen in the Russo-Ukraine war currently going on, aside from missiles and nukes, artillery continues to be the penultimate vibe check
If you like that, check out Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, Thunderchild. In my opinion, other than the book, the best version of War of the Worlds. The BBC series misses out a lot and kinda did the navel engagement against the martains dirty, probably due to budget.
Get dreadnoughted
In spite of it's problems, I have to give major props to this version for three things: 1: Taking place in the era of the book. 2: Including the black smoke weapon that every other film adaptation ignores. 3: Actually have a handful of tripods be destroyed. (Even if they've still not done proper credit to the Thunderchild scene.)
Thunderchild is the only thing I had hoped to see here
@@nothing3065 me to the torpedo ram!!
The bazooka like launcher that throw the gas shells doesnt appears.
dont forget they included the red weed
@@nothing3065I swear they haven’t included it in any on screen adaptation. Obvs the scene in the clip above had the navy taking them on, but it isn’t the Thunderchild.
The "There cannot be more than two of them, against our millions!" Scene still gives me goosebumps.
I am having trouble deciphering his meaning, because to me it sounds like, "if there's like 3 of them we're screwed" lol
@@Spumoon My same exact thought! I mean, did they really think there were only 2 of them? He even admitted knowing they came from off planet, why the hell would you assume there's only 2???
Typical fuzzy thinking of a politician or a preacher, whichever one he was.
Yeah.. Back when a British Prime Minister Would give a jolly good British Motivational Speech.. These days , that Britain is finished. This ain't Britain any more.. And we'd get a politically correct speech these days so we don't offend the aliens... True Story
@@FatAndy80sGen @11:05 No wait?! Is that actually a black african colored kid in Victorian Britain of 1898 ?! :D LoL
for all the flaws of this series, can we all agree that having it be set in the same time period as the original book is awesome and gives it a really unique setting
it's quite a few decades off the original time period, about as close to the 2005 one as it is to the novel
@@JohnsonTheSecond The HG Wells novel was set in 1898, the BBC miniseries is set in 1905. It's not perfect, but it's certainly not a few decades off.
@@jacktaylor8195 As a fan of the book and the dark imagery it conjures up I am happy this one is set in a better time period that is closer to the original.
Definitely, though when I saw that it was set closer to the original time period I was hoping to get an accurate adaptation to the book, sadly it wasn't to be
it really does, most disaster movie such as zombie apocalypse or alien invasion set in modern world mostly, but this is giving me the unique vibe similar to that of "Pride Prejudice and Zombie" vibe and "Kingdom series"
I love how the dude didn't think trice about leaving the fatally wounded girl but then they both also don't think twice about going back for the dog lol accurate asf
I'd do the same
I would do the same lmao
Well you did say fatally wounded so you know
I kept thinking that when he desperately wanted to rescue a random baby. and then later when the minister dies in the smoke they start talking like he wasn't even there
Dog is dog human… well there are plenty.
For all the faults this series had, the Tripods sounding like living beings in pain when they were hit by cannon fire or whatever was insanely creepy. A vehicle sounding like a living thing in pain was a good choice.
H.G Wells originally described the martians tripods as "extensions to their bodies" so would make sense
Love how they did the heat ray as the invisible ray of heat it is meant to be. I don't think any adaptation has quite done justice to the "milking stool, tilted and bowled violently along the ground."
That description never gave me a proper vision of the tripod and how it moved, it makes me visualise the tripod stiffly tumbling and cartwheeling across the landscape at 200kph
@@wumbosaurus9121 Milking stool is actually a damn good description, just google "milking stool" and you will connect it.
When I read the book the "milking stool" design looks absolutely terrifying when I visualize it in my mind, but I think it would be very challenging to make it look something better than ridiculous when graphically designing it. I don't know why I think that though. Same with Jeff Wayne's tripods. Scary badasses on the paintings, but I just don't see how you can take them seriously if put in a movie.
I love the few adaptations which show the beam as invisible, after all HG never described it as being visible to begin with if I remember correctly, I always imagined the most you’d see us maybe the device itself glowing, the only indication of it firing being the fact swaths of people were suddenly setting ablaze
@@AngloSaxonWheatFarmer it's a HEAT ray, not a light or laser ray, so it can boil water as well as go THROUGH things... You aren't safe under or behind anything after all
I do like the contrasting images of a highly advanced alien war machine and the not-so-advance human society. The Tripods actually look pretty good, kinda like giant insects, but they kinda don't look "practical". With the legs directly attached to the sides of the body and eye, it's kinda like a head without a neck. The legs also seem to offer less mobility. Its heat ray however is actually pretty cool. I love the almost silent, partially visible ray. It just kinda makes sense. But one of the things that just makes the Tripods in Spielberg's version superior is obviously the sound design. That horn sound is one of the most perfectly scary sounds ever. Hearing it immediately gives you a feeling of dread and panic.
Going by the logic of how Steven Spielberg's were designed after the aliens themselves, It makes me think the martians from this story must have be crustaceans or insect-like. I like the crustaceans explanation, becouse the tripods remind me of crabs!
@@bonn7908 You're correct about what the Martians looked like in this BBC version. They look like a three-legged spider/insect, very much like how their Tripods looked like. I think this design is okay. It looks freaky. But this design doesn't make sense. It doesn't have any arms or even tentacles to be able to grab things. It literally has only 3 pointy legs. It is also clearly not telekinetic so it makes you wonder how did an alien like this be able to create such advanced machinery? Spielberg's Martians, despite not resembling the book, made sense since it had arms. The Martians in the book version had a lot of tentacles. But the BBC version only had pointy legs.
In my opinion I like their lack of practicality because it kinda shows that the race has (atleast in it’s view) grew beyond such notions and just made things that looked cool
That horn sound is legendary and etched into my mind
I think that the tripods from the Speilberg version of the movie, coupled with the Victorian England setting would have made for a perfect setting. Oh that and of course, acting that doesn't feel like something you'd expect from a school play. The BBC version just feels cheap and tacky in my opinion, and I find the tripods to be highly ridiculous looking.
Imagine how terrifying that would be in 1898
But their still using bolt action rifles and horses
@@sea-bee2463 what
If we're assuming the tripods would have the same tech and weapons as in the books in an invasion that's happening today, yeah they would be target practice for our air forces. Still scary if you're on the ground though. Crazy how much we got better at killing ourselves that even mighty aliens from a 100 year old novel sound like chumps today huh.
@@Junker_Ju52 and? With the shields those things have modern missile or cannon systems still wouldn't do jack shit
@@TheAnnoyedHumanist I’m not disagreeing I’m just saying that it would be far worse for them=1899 Britain to fight against these aliens
10:58 Tripod: look at all these easy ki- Royal Navy: Sike you thought
Royal Navy v some gangly boys was never going to go any other way. Finest navy in the world!
i can say, bbc tripods are the wealest out of the rest.
"They are camping us" "Ok, uh... oh wait, we have artillery that shoots black smoke" "oh yea, shoot it" "Ez"
@@Tema2kyboi "how did they know black smoke was our weakness?" -the tripod pilots (probably)
@@lonewolf0712 Tripods can shoot a balls of black smoke btw
i like how the battleship guns actually damage them
oh thats happend to the ships they drop down ? they damage itself?
Yeah this series did the tripods right by making it like the book, where thry never had shields. I feel like they only gave them shields in thd more recent depictions to counter modern human equipment (including the 1953 film) Tripods could be downed by 19th century artillery in the book. how do you think book-accurate depictions would last against Tomahawk cruise missiles and F-15E Strike Eagles? XD
No shields no shields, how convenient..
And can actually hit them
They actually suck vs flying
So for 3 years I never knew there was a new war of the worlds? I used to LOVE that alot.
Same, movie came out a bit before i was born and i remember loving it despite being scared af
The first episode was good (apart from a train that wasn't in use yet), but the rest was plagued with lazy CGI and a boring story.
@MarkK i think he meant the 2005 one 😂
There was also a series on Prime, 2 or 3 seasons worth.
Don't raise your hopes. It was rubbish.
I know this one is, in terms of plot and detail, closer to H.G. Wells’ book, but Steven Spielberg’s 2005 version will always be superior. It modernized a classic novel in the most superior way, over a decade before this one came out.
The time period and general location are correct, as are a couple of details such as the black smoke and the heat ray - but that's pretty much where it ends. In almost every other plot detail, it deviates significantly from the book.
@@bobz1782 I wasn’t talking about Spielberg’s version.
@@bobz1782 just watched the one from 2005. My god why can't we get movies like this anymore
Nah. Spielberg did his usual thing and utterly messed up the ending.
@@TheScarletSlayer we do you just have to look for them
This concept of futuristic Sci-Fi beings in an ancient time line has always fascinated me. Imagine if something like this was real. I can’t imagine being in the time of the Great War and seeing one of those things coming at you knowing you got no kind of technology to fight it.
You're right. These creatures are overwhelming with their power. They are impossible to resist. They are destruction. They are death. (good thing this is only science fiction) I program a little and want to create a computer game on this topic. I'm looking for comrades. Those who also like this topic. Would you like to join?
That’s why Prey is one of my favourite Predator movies
Tripods roll through the land forces only to get absolutely stomped by massive naval guns was pretty cool
The Tripod designs look cool in this version, but they're totally impractical. The book version of the Tripods have a neck that allow them to give them mobility and tentacles that allow them to grab objects when they need to, and it makes the Spielberg Fighting Machines more superior, but here, their legs gave them less mobility as they were attached to the head, and they didn't have tentacles despite how they need blood for their appetite.
Dude this series had very low low budget than the 2005 version. The only reason this movie is different is bc its more similar to the novel
@@CEOofRacism "Dude this series had very low low budget than the 2005 version." If you think the lazy design is just because of low budget is 'automatically okay', that doesn't mean it makes the show 'good'. In fact, designing a Tripod more practical is NOT that hard regardless of the budget. "The only reason this movie is different is bc its more similar to the novel" What're you talking about? The 2005 version was set in the present day for a reason as an allegory for terrorism during the 9/11 attack, and while it made a lot of changes, it adds to the themes and contexts of evolution, hierarchy, the danger of imperialism, and the consequences of the abuse of technological advancement from the original book. This miniseries's setting is meant to be the closest to the book, but the way it was executed and poorly written makes this adaptation a complete and utter failure as every element has nothing to do with the themes from the book, leaving the fans of the novel, like me, very disappointed.
I think the ones in The Great Martian War are the best
i thought since this was in like the 1800s the tripods arent that advanced unlike the 2005 version like some sort of prequel to the 2005 version
@Samuel Sampaio Also, it would’ve burn the pilot if the Heat Ray cannon charges. There’s a reason why the Fighting Machines need arm cannons to increase accuracy and prevents overheating.
Also of note: these alien tripods (fighting machines) have a chemical weapon called 'black smoke' that appears to kill humans on contact starting at 6:32 The 'black smoke' does not appear in the previous 1953 or 2005 films.
That's one thing they did good, they remembered the "black smoke" from the book.
It did appear in the 2005 FILM
@@exelluss Where?
@Samuel Sampaio mfw the book had no scene where someone who was captured destroyed the machine that captured them
@@samuelsampaio7282 only cannons and ships destroyed fighting machines. Ray destroying the machine was the silliest bit of the film
I do appreciate that they took a new spin on the classic Tripod siren noise
1:10... Horse is panicking at full gallop. 1:13 whoa whoa whoa. 1:14 Horse comes to full stop somehow. LMAOOOOOO.
The sound from the new version isn't as Iconic sounding or scary as the one from Steven Spielberg's tripods. I dunno about most of y'all but I 100% like Steven's version of the horn a lot better. Shit is scary as hell.
I agree. you can also watch steven spielberg's version in my other videos
not even as good as the "ulla" from jeff wayne's
Yeah this is more like a horror love series than an actuall horror film
The Spielberg ones traumatized me as a kid and that horn still freaks me out. These horns just sound generic.
In the 2005 version, the entire planet was being invaded and they zeroed in on the US Army, the best in the world, being unable to stop the Tripods! Here, only England is being invaded and the Royal Navy was whooping ass! If these Tripods can’t even take on England, then what were they gonna do against the Imperial Japanese Navy? Russian artillery? German rifles? French human waves? American machine guns? I wasn’t the slightest bit concerned by this invasion army!
The martians here are - just like in all adaptations - not intelligent like in the book. In the book, what makes them terrifying isn't just their heat ray or the tripods. It's their methodical, adaptive approach to eradicating human civilisation. Like exterminators, not some invading force. This happens a few times: 1. When they arrive, one of their number underestimates the gravity of the planet and falls out of the cylinder into the pit below. The others quickly exterminate all life around to ensure nothing can harm it while it's down there. 2. One of the tripods gets destroyed by a lucky shot from an array of cannons in a town, they don't attack larger towns directly after that, instead shooting massive cannisters of black dust from afar like artillery. The cities become coated in massive cones of black dust, with no survivors and no risk to the martians. 3. While wading out to sea, two of them get destroyed by the Ironclad, Thunderchild. They immediately target ammunition compartments after that, detonating the ships or making them unable to attack before coming too close. 4. They fortify their landing zones and dig holes to hide their work and machines in, so they can't be spotted easily. 5. They create various types of machines to dig, to build, to perform extremely accurate procedures that baffle the protagonist since he didn't expect such accuracy was possible for a machine. 6. They hide in the ruins of London to observe humans having festivities at night, getting drunk and living the good life because they're soon to die anyway. And they watch the humans do this without attacking, waiting until they're inebriated before rounding them up with ease. 7. They created the parts for a flying version of the fighting machine, since they were only the makeshift expeditionary force and the tripods were multifunctional tools, not just weapons. The martians were terrifying because the longer it went on, the clearer it was humanity didn't and never would stand a chance. To them, were were the animals to be herded and controlled. Nothing more. No adaptation has gotten any of this right.
What about the bacteria?
@@ohno6528 What do you mean?
@@Aedrion- For all their intelligence they never considered checking the atmosphere for anything that may be toxic to them. The '53 Martians seemed to have accounted for all of Mankind's devices so they suffered no losses at all when the invasion began.
they were intelligent and highly adaptive. But you forget that most of the tripods were on land and not on deep ocean. But no matter how intelligent or adaptive you are, facing an enemy which can barely fight you tends to make you overconfident. In warfare once you lose focus, you die. Not to mention they forgot to read the part on their manual before invading of a serious threat called "the navy"
@@_spooT The navy wasn't a threat to them though. Nothing really was. Each death on their side was more of an accident. The one and possibly two fighting machines cut down by Thunderchild, were caught off guard because it lay low in the water and they couldn't see it, and because it kept up its momentum even after it had been melted to wreckage, hitting them in the legs. Yes, these martians were overconfident, but they quickly corrected themselves using the black dust immediately after and it's not even sure those Martians died, given how there are other instances where their machines take damage and are repaired in the field because the hood carrying the Martian was intact.
I'd also like to point out, during the naval scene, anyone else notice that, as the pods took damage they just started frying anything till they died in desperation
Being set in the land and time period of the source material already makes me appreciate it a lot. And I really like how old England looks as a terrain for our modern space sci-fi design on the tripods. You don't see that often. It looks mis-matched and it's perfect that way. Making the alien tech look that much more alien.
Honestly I don’t believe a signal adaptation has gotten the tripods right, Spielbergs definitely captures the horror and inevitably of them, bbcs got the weaponry down but none have captured that simplicity and alieness just right, the video game was close from what I’ve heard but still I’m shocked such a captivating story and original design hasn’t gotten mainstream yet, I, still waiting for a representation of the building machines. Soundtrack in this was great tho.
Agreed I saw it when I was pretty young and the harvester cage kept me up at night, that’s good film writing
@@spoopy9689 The tripods are 0rettu close.
Ikr. I mean there are HG Wells approved artworks of tripods but...
Spielberg's tripod designs are already pretty alien, and considering the level of advancement a more complex design makes sense rather than simplicity
@@harbour2118 Good point I do love there designs probably over all the others, I would still love to see the classic designs make a return however, maybe even in a short film.
Just remember that the 2005 version will always be iconic.
Nah
but this one is more closer to the original story tho, i love both anyways
@@dksquad2045 a good percentage of ppl don't know this exists 😂
It was pretty meh. I enjoyed it and it was entertaining but there were a lot of holes, holes that were just lazy and could easily have been patched with a little more effort into the writing. Still cool.
I loved it
This was truly an interestingly different take on the classic story, and the sheer deafening sounds of the tripods are awesome
"We are the masters of warfare, our cavalry, our cannons are the best in the world."
U.S. of A.: Laughs in two victories against Britain.
@@quaternarytetrad4039one, 1812 was a clear British victory.
@@quaternarytetrad4039I don't think you understand how motivation is supposed to work..
I will say, while that sounds aren’t quite as scary as the one from 05, it’s still pretty terrifying in its own right
The ones in the 05 movie were designed to be scary. These sound more accurate, alien. The heat ray sounds like a high pitched noise. True, the 05 movie does the fear muuuuch better but the fear in the book comes from understanding what the not-so-scary sounds mean, until they become scary because you know death follows.
I'll be honest, though its not as iconic as the 2005 one, i do admire the eldritch nature of its design. and i do like its siren sound. but if this were on a tier list, it would be right behind 2005s tripod.
This was made to more closely resemble the original war of the world's, the book that is.
@@blacksabbath5300 the new tripods are objectively less faithful to the book than the 05 tripods. Only the heat ray is closer.
@@blacksabbath5300 The book didn't describe Tripods as crab-like but rather squid/jellyfish like.
As gen Z i like 2019 more realistic, many people dislike on 2005 video on youtube
The horn has a mixture between a train horn and a JU-87 Stuka
The stupid cliche about going back for the dog killed it for me.
It's almost poetic how they take down their first tripod using naval might. War of the Worlds is very much a cosmic/Lovecraftian horror story, and as such, is rooted in fear of the unknown. Nowhere in the known universe is that fear more readily prevalent, than our own oceans. In fact, Lovecraft's fear of the water is the reasoning for a large swathe of his works involving horrors from that deep sea. Oceans are continually used for important settings or to play vital roles in cosmic horror to this day, and to see the sea be the sight of Humanity's first triumph against the Tripods is an interesting spin on the trope.
As some one who's read the book this is probably the closest were going to get to a proper adaptation
Your having a laugh! This is nothing like the book! The journalist is not a woman. The Martians emerge from pods, not a pond. There is no climate being changed....there is no need for blood to make earth plants grow, there are SSSOO many differences. This version is a travesty of an adaptation. The closest is a ultra cheap version by pendragon pictures. It totally follows the book.
There's also War of the Worlds: The True Story.
Unless you count Jeff Wayne’s musical version
Which is a shame - because it deviates quite significantly from the book in almost all respects.
@@eljay5009 What is so different in the book?
The tripods are actually pretty badass. That's about all lol.
Yeah they're cool looking. But Spielberg's tripods man, even if they're not close to the original, they're not badass, they're fucking nightmare fuel in every way. They made them look almost organic, which makes them far far superior imo
@@Osoch They actually are pretty damn close. More organic that what's described, but they have most of the features, including ones rare in adaptations, like a body seperate from the head, a hood and a harvesting basket.
Literally gets destroyed by 19th century weapons and instead of fighting those, it prefers to burn random people. They might look badass, but behind it they are laughable.
Still, at 71 years old, the 1953 movie "The War of the Worlds" is still the best!
H.G. Wells' novel was the 1st book I ever read in school. Glad a version close to the book finally got made. Thanks!
This series is ok at best. Part 1 and 2 do a pretty solid job as a hook to get you invested but the third part bungles it so hard. Notice there’s no footage of the tripods in this video for part 3 _because they don’t even show up_
This is so true. That 3rd part. FML. 👍
'Get on the bloody horse!'
Yeah I recall watching this series, 1st episode... pretty good, 2nd episode... was alright, very much the middle of a trilogy. 3rd episode... oh Christ what did you do.
Despite the hearing that this show was bad, that baby scene was brutal
Lmao imagine getting mad for this...
@@dksquad2045 was not getting mad but alright then
It's a great scene to show what they're here for, the total destruction of humanity.
They also kill off the kid who got rescued from the boat.
That scene killed me 😢
I love that the minister thinks he can conquer the creatures. The idea of having an intergalactic empire is so unbelievably British.
This alien show is one of the most realistic story I have seen. The actors were so good and I had really heart dropping moments. The show leaves hope there is a chance for things to change without any prediction. I honestly wanted more episodes. Very entertaining 🥰
LOL
Nice sarcasm)
The worst version of this I have ever seen. War of the Woke is what it should have been called. Its that bad and forgettable. The best and worst bit is when the idiot playing the hero deliberately catches Cholera or some disease and then goes out to the Martians and lets then eat him! So they then all get ill and die, thus allowing the woman and others to escape! Woman takes over the lead role and becomes the super hero leader of the survivors etc...then it leaves the plot of the book behind and goes off to do some other made up plot set some years later. Its an utter turd of an adaptation and typical Woke BBC garbage.
@@Simon-xc5oy but wasnt the guy sacrificing for the woman only? Cause they're lovers? Also if your hating the movie in "facts", dont say the woman has super powers to call artillery to kill the tripods. Youre just raging blindly!
No I am not raging blindly. It was terrible. They made a big deal about it being Victorian set, with tripods, like the original. And the opening was not bad. But then, like many things it deviates from the book way too much. I mean its so different its almost a completely new story, with only the names of some characters, the period and the Tripods remaining. Ogilvy survives to pop up later with the women boss to take the fight to the aliens at some point, I cant even remember much about how it ends as by that point I had given up. What really hacked me off and caused to "rage blindly" is the male hero, the lead in the book decides to sacrifice himself, which he does not do in the original story. And there is no woman along with him for the ride there either. All of that is by the by, but it was the truly stupid and idiotic way he does it, catching a disease so that he dies, and lets the aliens eat him, so they die too! Truly a blind leap in the dark writing! Then the woman becomes the lead and carries the rest of the story. ALL NOT IN THE BOOK!!!! Which goes back to the point I made, where you may as well just make something totally different, some alien invasion series, as its not really war of the worlds.. Killing the male hero lead, to replace him with a woman is about as woke as you can get. Heaven forbid they show a male hero saving the day in the end. And killing yourself stupidly does not make him a male hero in my book. Have you seen the other War of the Worlds series set in France? Its nothing like the book either. Other than the name, but its a fairly gripping alien invasion story, and was worth watching and way better than this BBC disaster....
The worst part (that actually scared me) from the 2005 version umm was when the blood was EVERYWHERE like omg
Or when the tripods sucked the guys blood and Tim Robbin's character turned from a tough guy with a gun to scared shitless when he saw them drink them.
@THE NEW HOUSE that's blood from human they sucked
How is that a bad thing necessarily? It helps create tension and can help make the story more serious and realistic(although sometimes it does quite the opposite).
@THE NEW HOUSE where do you think they got the materials to do it, the people in the movie even screamed "Not my blood!" meaning it was sucking their blood out to *create the weeds*
@THE NEW HOUSE Do you even have proof of this guy being wrong? Go on then, show us how they’re wrong.
The Brits: Are you German? The Tripods: We are Prussian.
Yep, seems bout right, perfection of words.
One thing to be said about the tripods is that their lack of an energy shield like they do in other versions makes it more scary because it gives hope. As Bane said in TDKR, there can be no true despair without hope. They're still virtually impossible to fight against, but its still possible even if its a 1 in a 10,000 chance.
they didn't have shields in the original story..... they thought they didn't need them as we are an inferior species weapon wise to them...........
Stops for the dog but won't even check on the hurt woman. MY KINDA DUDE! 👍
It is sick, hypocritical Western morality. You leave a wounded human being to die, and you sacrifice your life for a dog that can live in the wild in a crisis like this!!!! This is why their souls are cheaper than animals, according to their culture.. A sick idea that we do not hope will prevail
Imagine the Spielberg adaptation tripods being placed in the 1898 setting all the while with a story with characters that are actually compelling. That’s exactly the perfect adaptation War of the Worlds needs, after all it is one of the pioneering sci-fi stories that practically gave birth to the genre, and it deserves a fully fleshed out series or even movie trilogy.
Without shields of course, Can't have an 1898 adaptation if humanity don't to nobble at least a few fighting machines.
The perfect adaptation would actually just be the book. People who haven't read it think the adaptations we got are pretty good but trust me 1 for 1 adaption of the book would blow minds. Couple of scenes or things that would be mindmeltingly cool. - The initial human response to it. Dinner discussions about the helpless but dangerous Martians in their pit - The rapid onset of Martian presence in the background, where we see something has gone horribly amiss before the protagonist even gets back home. - The attack on Woking and other towns, this is where humanity first sees what the Martians can do. Houses dissolve, rivers boil, mass exterminations on a horrible scale with horrible weapons. Five tripods in one area! The luck shots that down one... - The apathy of London on the eve before calamity, confusing, refugees trickling in, the slow onset of unrest and beginnings of worry and concern going through the 6 million populace. - The miliary moving en masse in the largest military operation ever. Cannons, guns, soldiers everywhere, in a landscape for miles and miles, with thousands upon thousands of troops sent to destroy the invaders. And then... the silent, methodical response from the Martians, the black vapour. Death to all that breathes... - The great London panic - this one would be a scene going down in history - the brother waking up to banging on the door, being yelled at to wake up and leave. Opens his window, every church is ringing its bells, every car blowing its horn, every trumpet being used to wake London in the middle of the night. People, drowsy and confused coming onto the streets, seeing the red glare on the horizon. And then... once the meaning of this becomes clear. The army is wipes out, the government dissolved. The Martians are coming. The rout, the mass panic as they know there's nothing now to ward of the invaders and they have the means to kill millions of people in moments. Geezus, that would be a banger. - The beach scene... god so much more...
i dont get why everyone is too scared to just make a film version of the story exactly as told in the novel. Its either super modern recreations, or alternate side stories just set in the same "world"
@@Aedrion- Not to mention the last stand of the Thunderchild
@@danhalo1 It's done a lot more vague in the book. With it being one of many ironclads but Thunderchild is the first one to attack and actually catch two Martians by surprise. After it gets heat-rayed, the wreckage hurdling forward toward the 2nd Martian and cutting it down is the last we see before vapour and black dust obscure the view. But yes, that whole chapter would also blow people away because it ends with a brief reveal of the Martian flying machine in action, coating the whole coast in black dust.
0:50 he's just standing there, MENACINGLY!
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When you see a slow motion horse you'd do the same
Okay so i havent seen this series, but it already gets a small measure of my respect for actually having the Martians be killable. Basically every version I see of this has them just shrugging off Nukes or Missiles, which i get (they had to make them more durable because modern tech) but they could have found a way to make them still somewhat vulnerable. part of the Horror of the original as far as im concerned came from the sheer effort it took to kill them, but part of the hope for salvation was that we COULD.
Simple idea, point defence. have heat rays shoot down any missiles launched at them. That way ambushes can still be somewhat effective but open combat is still in the Martians favour.
@curseofgladstone4981 brilliant, really. Simple, effective, allows for the aforementioned hope and despair
I dont know, the 2005 version does have one being destroyed by a grenade before the bacterium reveal comes
@yannmalfrait3235 True, but that was only possible due to them (for some reason just directly eating captured humans.) A but weird, IMO
You know what, the sounds THESE tripods make sounds like the Half-Life 2 Striders
I love how the background music for the beginning sounds like the “fog horn” noises from the tripods in the 2005 movie. Especially at 0:51
the 05 Spielberg movie is far superior that shit terrified me as a kid and it's still a classic to this day
Agreed, also terrified me
Scared me as a kid. Had a lap top in a tent outside with speakers on max volume. Big bass speakers. I ran inside to get some snacks and juice. Came back out just as the horn went off and i screamed like a bitch. I looked to the sky around me in terror thinking they had come to life.
could argue that the first War of Worlds movie was better then Spielberg depends on your take.
That had probably a million more dollars thrown at it cos it had the little American bloke in it. So there's not really a comparison is there
Read the book. It's way better, and no movie yet has done it justice.
I love that they brought back the black smoke from the book, although in the book it was dispersed via canisters and was used to fill the lungs and suffocate people as it was incredibly heavy. That and the invisible heat ray, the original novel describes it as (it's been a minute so correct me if I'm wrong) a sort of invisible blade that turns anyone caught within it to flames. Also the book had more than just the war machines, it had some sort of smaller worker variant that helped build and repair other Martian machinery.
“There cannot be more than two of them” Bruh it’s literally a full scale Martian invasion.
and 19th century Britain knew that? also..if they're honest then that will bring more panic..
My favorite is the sudden appearance of a dark rock on the beach after the last one falls in the end. Magic rock.
Tripods in War of the Worlds: The most terrifying alien lifeform capable of destroying all civilizations in the planet. Tripods in Real Life: A phone stand for humans doing tiktok.
The tripods are machines, you moron! NOT life forms!
*machines piloted by extraterrestrial life forms of a comparatively much superior intellect than the entirety of our race.
Lmao
My disappointment is immeasurable.
@@connortripp99 but is your day ruined?
As Godzilla was a reaction to the terrible nuclear devastation, I can imagine this being the reaction to war which Britain was engaged in. And "you can't do anything, she's dead' when he didn't even check.. that's cold.
Wells' book was about imperial hubris and how the British empire thought it was unstoppable so he wrote a book where the Brits were the backwards savages and the Aliens were the British empire. In the end the little people beat the empire.
I always wondered what would happened if an alien invasion took place in early stage of civilisation thank god this movie was made
While I still think they are cool, my main complaint about these Tripods is that they seem too “sleek”. Remember, according to the book, before the Tripods appeared, there was a lot of hammering noises coming from the pit where the Martians were. So I personally imagine that the Tripods are more rugged looking, like they were jury rigged, kinda like the illustrations from Alvim Correa.
I would love seeing a film adaptation of those
I agree, although jury rigged by extremely intelligent, space faring creatures with many dexterous limbs remember. I believe H.G. Wells also describes them as carrying the heat ray like a soldier carries a weapon, not some kind of weapon mounted on the machine like a ship as is shown in most adaptations.
I do like the tripods and like their sounds a lot. But the 05 ones will always be in me heart
The horn sound in the 2005 one was great. It sounded very foreboding and menacing. Even today it's very recognizable.
Amazin how that dudes bowtie stayed perfect and his lapel was spotless . Errybady loves a sharp dressed period piece man
*When that last woman on the beach died in front of the tripod's eye, I laughed uncontrollably!!!*
11:07 and with this shot the entire universe started speaking English
I read the comments comparing Spielberg’s adaptation and BBC adaptation but I’m over here vibing to Jeff Wayne adaptation
11:04 all i'm missing here is the glorious last stand of the Thunderchild.
The 2005 designs were actually far more terrifying, i get why they might have used this one, probably the budget/ animation cost
“What can stop these monstrosities!” “15 inch naval guns.” “Oh! Right then…..BROADSIDE! And steady as she goes.”
Is that in the mini series? Lol
Fast metal go brrrrrrr
Imagine a war of the worlds adaptation from the martians perspective
There is actually but it’s a game from the 1990s
@@mattdoerr2243 Yes, Martian campaign is easy as nothing stand a chance. Human campaign is almost impossible as only weapon that works is heavy artillery and main guns of battleships.
Imagine a medivial war of the worlds' adaptation
@@juancruzvargas2662the medieval times people would get decimated, not having naval forces would fuck them over entirely, and any attempt to fight off even a handful of tripods would be a futile effort
@@Da-choppa for me it's like a *What If?*,it's interesting how the people in that time react to the martians
I had a chuckle at the one officer calling for a parlet in the presence of these tripods. Yeah, like an advanced civilization is going to acknowledge what that means and even if they did their going to respect that request at all.
Too much filming of the protagonist's reaction, and at the nothing that they are staring at. This bored me pretty fast.
The thing is, this could’ve been done well…could’ve
That horse just magically stopped. This production had some good moments but quite a few really bad ones...
I was also thinking that's not how horses or momentum work but okay
@@Bonklyboi crazed horse like that would just fly past him or run him over altogether.
The video’s description says Spielbergs version is the “original” but the first War of the Worlds movie came out in 1953
The person must have changed it within the past two months because the description says nothing of the sort.
Although IMO the tripod design from 2005's film cant be surpassed, but this one did pretty well.
"I have to find the baby, it's in one of those houses." "What are you doing?" *Bruh*
got yourself a new landmark there 11:16
I love how the Tripods look here, super unique and scary design.
The minister screaming about an empire beyond the earth as his nation is smothered by an unholy martian bioweapon is just peak british
Lol from what i saw in this Cowboys and Aliens is still unironically the best alien invasion movie that’s not in modern times
I can honestly say that this is no doubt, the WORSE adaptation of hg Wells book in existence. Asylum versions are not adaptations, but based on the idea. Paramount were good, the closest was pendragons version. Really cheap but follows the book pretty closely.
Lmao and I've seen people say the opposite
@@shadowx8145 who? People who haven't read the book probably. This is not even remotely close to what hg wells wrote.
I've never watched the Pendragon's version, do you know where i can get it?
@@mauroferreyra3449 the original version is on ebay. War of the worlds, the war to end all wars. (2005). It's NTSC as it was only released in America. They did a better director's cut but its impossible to find. It's VERY cheaply made...but is authentic.
Pendragon's version was thrown aside in a legal dispute with Paramount over the use of the name War of the Worlds, since Paramount already had their movie in the planning stages. I've seen some scenes from the Pendragon production but not the whole thing, the CGI was awful, even for 2005 standards, I'm sure a lot of work went into it nonetheless but it was an ill fated project right from the start.
Props to cameraman risking his life
So glad someone put the story within its correct era - makes it even more horrifying in my opinion.
Rip the poor baby the baby was calling for help and lost his life 💔 😢 😔 🙏 😞 😪
Fuck that baby 🤣😹
I know right bloody hell 😨
It's a good way to tell that they really want to exterminate humanity
I would have loved to have had a closer view of those RN ships in action. Maybe scenes from the bridge and gunnery stations with them frantically trying to hit the tripods then celebrating when they did.
british navy: yes, you are aliens and you might rule the space, but BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES
"this 3 episode series is not good as the original 2005 spielberg's version no doubt." ouch, H.G wells will remember that
the theme song/sound for the tripods in the 2005 film is chilling
not a huge fan of the new designs, but they’re still super cool
That design is from a Novel
So?
@@kxrl9671 no it is not. No adaptation did the tripod designs right.
@@sarubet8725but even then some are pretty unique despite not being accurate.
@@sarubet8725 The new video game does.
As horrible as the rest of this show is,the scenes featuring the tripods are all genuinely amazing. I love their designs. They’re GORGEOUS! And absolutely terrifying. The sounds they make are frightening, and I like how they weren’t portrayed as invincible, but rather as very formidable but also very mortal.
Fun fact: this is literally the only piece of The War of the Worlds Media from a TV show or a movie that implements the main characters brother.
I do admire the size of this version, any like impossibly large yet sentient thing terrifies the hell out of me
It's so funny to see them focusing on the people running around on the beach instead of the boat with the guns that just took one of them out moments earlier
the tripods in this version are absolutely badass with the horns
how did they manage to have worse cgi than the orginal movie
Because it was a bbc tv series. Hardly a multi billion dollar hollywood movie.
if this film had had a bigger budget it would have lived up to the film released in 2005. H G Wells would have been proud to see his masterpiece well done and how he would have imagined
It didn't need a bigger budget - what it needed was writers who stuck closer to the source material.
strider be like:
“ GET ON THE BLOODY HORSE!” Got me rolling on the floor🤣
For a mainstream Hollywood movie, the Tom Cruise one gave me such an existential dread and made me feel like we were being killed as an afterthought. Brushing some grubs off a plank of wood. Black forest theory in action. In the vastness of the void, finally it stared back.
I had no idea that this was made.
I see why ya didn't. The pacing is poor, the acting is stock, and the creative taste is industrial at best.
Really really REALLY freaking love the sound design in this.
I remember this being filmed around Liverpool. Fascinating to see how it turned out ☺️