>There were many problems trying to create the walking tripods of Wells's novel. It was eventually decided to make the Martian machines appear to float in the air on three invisible legs. To visualize them, subtle special effects of downward lights were to be added directly under the moving war machines; however, in the final film, these only appear when one of the first machines can be seen rising from the Martian's landing site.
I went to a modern day screening of War of the Worlds and afterwards there was a Q&A session with Ann Robinson, the chick in the movie. I was the last person picked and the only question I could think of to ask was >what was the most difficult part of your performance
Felt like it was such a moronic question to ask the lady. In my head I was thinking something along the lines of "what did it feel like seeing the special effects in person and then seeing how it actually looks on screen." No idea how it came out to "difficult part of your performance" instead. All Ann said was "idk remembering my lines I guess?" Felt like everyone was disappointed at my question.
The one made in the late 80s or so? That shit traumatized me with the woman giving birth to an alien baby or something that kills her boyfriend and rips off the nurse's leg with blood squirting. I can't believe that got shown on TV.
It's meant to be about the arrival of hostiles with a tech gap. England had just spent generations looting rich countries with their awesome steel, gunpowder and sail. HG Wells was a bit of a social commentator.
I was going to write the same. Shields were added to compensate for modern weapons that would disrupt the concept.
The whole story is based on two main point that can't be modernized.
1-Invaders move from town to town faster than communications. A a one-unit-army tank before tank existed (so before anti tank weapon existed, in a modern sense), always able to destroy its target way before any kind of defense force is organized. This way Earth defenders are always late and the always lack concrete infos on what's happening
2-Invaders didn't think about microorganisms, despite being superadvanced space invaders who planned this for a long time. Genius twist if you frame this in 1800, with its understanding of the concept, but stupid in any other era.
While it doesn't work outside of the time it was written, I still love this movie.
It's meant to be about the arrival of hostiles with a tech gap. England had just spent generations looting rich countries with their awesome steel, gunpowder and sail. HG Wells was a bit of a social commentator.
>It's meant to be about the arrival of hostiles with a tech gap.
It's not that simple. You can't just technologically improve both sides and have it work the same, because now kinds of war spawn from new techs.
It's like when you see space wars that are just trench warfare or something like that, but in space.
What I liked was that these weren't just flying saucers. In homage to the tripod description in the book that had three thin force-fields stabilizing them from the ground which show faintly in a couple of shots. That's a clever attention to detail.
I love this film. One of the few truly lavish American sci fi movies from that age. It maybe strange but the Japanese totally had them beat especially as they were releasing these sort of films ever year with even more detailed miniature work and tbh better composite effects.
Still the best alien ship design ever.
It really is a gorgeous and very comfy film, I love Technicolor so much bros
>better CGI than Furiosa in 2024
what. the. frick
Practicals > CGI every time
Yeah.
I thought this was a scene from The Thing with how good these effects look.
Hellraiser, 1987. Modern Hollywood can't pull off something half as good looking with their garbage CGI.
>Modern Hollywood can't pull off something half as good looking with their garbage CGI
How about this?
That's fine.
Just let's not talk about the other 99,9% of that dogshit movie
Just like in my hentais
amazing production design
I’ve surprisingly not seen really any purist response to this movie using ships instead of tripods.
It's quality is so unimpeachable that bookgays don't have a leg to stand on
They ARE tripods. it's just the legs are invisible rays of force that burn the ground where they touch.
>There were many problems trying to create the walking tripods of Wells's novel. It was eventually decided to make the Martian machines appear to float in the air on three invisible legs. To visualize them, subtle special effects of downward lights were to be added directly under the moving war machines; however, in the final film, these only appear when one of the first machines can be seen rising from the Martian's landing site.
I always loved the sound they made when hovering around. Kojimbo used it in MGS and Death Stranding.
I went to a modern day screening of War of the Worlds and afterwards there was a Q&A session with Ann Robinson, the chick in the movie. I was the last person picked and the only question I could think of to ask was
>what was the most difficult part of your performance
Felt like it was such a moronic question to ask the lady. In my head I was thinking something along the lines of "what did it feel like seeing the special effects in person and then seeing how it actually looks on screen." No idea how it came out to "difficult part of your performance" instead. All Ann said was "idk remembering my lines I guess?" Felt like everyone was disappointed at my question.
Good movie. The gigantic breakfast scene is quite surreal.
The TV show was ok
The one made in the late 80s or so? That shit traumatized me with the woman giving birth to an alien baby or something that kills her boyfriend and rips off the nurse's leg with blood squirting. I can't believe that got shown on TV.
Excellent movie. Better than the Spielberg/Cruise version.
>1978
THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS
ARE A MILLION TO ONE
BUT STILL THEY COME
Hated their invincible shields, I'm of the opinion that this story only works in the original time period.
It's meant to be about the arrival of hostiles with a tech gap. England had just spent generations looting rich countries with their awesome steel, gunpowder and sail. HG Wells was a bit of a social commentator.
I was going to write the same. Shields were added to compensate for modern weapons that would disrupt the concept.
The whole story is based on two main point that can't be modernized.
1-Invaders move from town to town faster than communications. A a one-unit-army tank before tank existed (so before anti tank weapon existed, in a modern sense), always able to destroy its target way before any kind of defense force is organized. This way Earth defenders are always late and the always lack concrete infos on what's happening
2-Invaders didn't think about microorganisms, despite being superadvanced space invaders who planned this for a long time. Genius twist if you frame this in 1800, with its understanding of the concept, but stupid in any other era.
While it doesn't work outside of the time it was written, I still love this movie.
>It's meant to be about the arrival of hostiles with a tech gap.
It's not that simple. You can't just technologically improve both sides and have it work the same, because now kinds of war spawn from new techs.
It's like when you see space wars that are just trench warfare or something like that, but in space.
What I liked was that these weren't just flying saucers. In homage to the tripod description in the book that had three thin force-fields stabilizing them from the ground which show faintly in a couple of shots. That's a clever attention to detail.
NOOOOO THEY CAN'T COME, THE CHANCES OF ANYTHING COMING FROM MARS IS A MILLION TO ONE THEY SAID
>The sound of the martian weapons
I just cannot imagine a martian ray gun with any other sounds then this. Pure eargasm
pewpewpewpew
nukes would have worked on the tripods from the novel
the martians should have got vaxed
I love this film. One of the few truly lavish American sci fi movies from that age. It maybe strange but the Japanese totally had them beat especially as they were releasing these sort of films ever year with even more detailed miniature work and tbh better composite effects.
It's weird seeing that interchange with 1950s cars on it
FIREEEE
>1956
Forbidden Planet?
Yep
Love it.
I want I Robbie replica.
No, scratch that, I want a Dr Morbius' daughter.
>I want I Robbie replica
10yr old me
>No, scratch that, I want a Dr Morbius' daughter
13yr old me
What did nature mean by this?