The War of the Worlds

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Summary: Finally!!
Review: Every since they came out with DVD, I've been looking for this title....pratically every month, I ask at the local video sellers and lo & behold, here it is! This movie is the absolute best in sci-fi, the movie that started it all! The special effects, the story, the fleeting glimpse of aliens - this movie is IT!! Sylvia!!

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Summary: I wish this was more like the book.
Review: As a child around 1960, I saw a black and white version of this movie that took place in England. I've been looking for a copy of it ever since. It was truer to the book and made a greater impression on me. I'd be curious if anyone else saw that version.

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Summary: War of the Worlds???
Review: This movie bears no resemblance whatsoever to the book, which, is a very important thing in this case. First of all, the movie only had FLYING MACHINES. In the book there was just one (flying machine, the rest were tripods)! Secondly, the cheap, nonexistant (in the book) subplots were made so that some ugly 50's hunk could couple up with some preacher's daughter. Remarkably, the old preacher dies! Third, the martians looked like freakin cyborgs with those orbs between their shoulders, the heat-ray effects were terrible, and, to reach my conclusion, THE REAL STORY OCCURRED IN ****ING ENGLAND!!!

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Summary: A CLASSIC!! TOP 10 BEST SCI-FI OF ALL TIME!!!
Review: THIS IS THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!The ending is fantastic!!! 'God does not play dice with the Universe.'-Albert EinsteinThe exoanthropology, exobiology, alien culture, and even most of the technologyof the Martians was well thought out! Hats off to evensome of the Physics aspects! This film is quite impressive and amazing when cosidering other sci-fi movies of the same era full of technobabble that doesnt even barely sound real or credible. The alien ships were superb! graceful, elegant,exotic, and extremely Deadly! The designer of the Martian Warship models was a GENIUS!Who knows, maybe HE was an alien!;)If you have a video library and dont have this video BUY IT!!!!!!A video library without it is like a TV without a remote! How many ways can I put this? Do yourself a favor, get the video. Make a friend or relative happy, get it as a gift!Bottom Line: Its a Classic. GET THIS VIDEO!!!!!!

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Summary: Great Special Effects and Great Script
Review: Since I read the book, I wondered if the story of the "War of the Worlds" had ever been made into a movie, and sure enough it had been. The movie remained true to H.G.Well's classic. If he was here today, he would probably say,"That's the way it should." Even though it made a few modern adjustments, it is still as horrofying as the 1890's novel. That is more for me to give it 5 stars!

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Summary: Great special effects!
Review: This film was one of the first to show what UFO's might look like, and how helpless humans would be to stop invaders. Hitchcock-like ending. A bit dated, but definitely worth seeing.

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Summary: Action thriller that Independence day tried duplicating
Review: This movie was a great movie. The newer version Independance day, tried taking the same foundation of this movie but came up empty, no movie can ever replace this original!

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Summary: Not the book but a great film in it's own right!
Review: While this film bares only the slightest resemblance to the classic novel by H.G. Wells. It is still a classic movie in it's own right. Even today the special effects are realistic and the acting is commited.

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Summary: War of the Worlds: ground breaking sci-fi
Review: H.G. Wells, is one of the first the introduce readers with the idea of aliens from mars taking over the earth, and triggered many writers later to write books involving martians. In the masterpiece, Wells introduces many ideas and masterfully blends them into his story.
England is in trouble as cylinders of metal carrying martians constantly crash on the earth every 24 hours. Each cylinder carries a walking tripod, that has a heat beam attached, a beam that melts and burns anything it hits. As more aliens come, they bring gasses that can kill a human just when they inhale it.
All seems lost for the main character as he tries to dodge martians, and return to leatherhead, where his wife has taken refuge. He is forced to hide from the martians byhimself, for almost everyone is dead.
Hope of survival is almost noting for humans, when they find out the martians have developed flying machines, to promote their world wide destruction, but something happens to the martians......
This is a great book and I am very pleased that I took the time the read it, even though some parts were very slow.

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Summary: When worlds collide
Review: I am by no means a fan of science fiction movies but of the few that I do enjoy, "The War of the Worlds" is my favorite sci-fi flick. Devlin Emmerich's 'Independence Day" has nothing on this film despite having the state of the art special effects. "The War of the Worlds" was based on a radio program that legendary actor Orson Welles read one Halloween night and caused a lot of people to freak out because they thought what they were hearing were true. Dr. Clayton Forrester played by the handsome Gene Barry comes across a small town in California. He was called by the townsfolk to investigate the meteor that crash landed in their town. What Forrester soons discovers is that the meteor that crashed was no meteor. Chaos ensues when the aliens reveal themselves and their deadly intentions. For its time, "The War of the Worlds" had quite the special effects. It may not be as dazzling as that modern rip-off "Independence Day" and even the '80s tv series of the same namesake but it certainly had heart and was more entertaining. I remember first seeing the film in high school and enjoying every second of it, and ten years later I still enjoy watching "The War of the Worlds". Too bad Devlin Emmerich didn't have a backbone and had to ape the concept of this film for his atrocious "Independence Day". That just lacked originality. Nothing beats the original concept of aliens invading earth than "The War of the Worlds" in my book.