War of the Worlds

[razorbackfan]

Tonight on ACTION channel:

War of the Worlds SciFi
G ***+

1953, 125 minutes
Color, English
Martian warships invade Earth and toast everything in sight with heat rays. From the H.G. Wells book.

Starring: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, William Phipps, Paul Birch, Jack Kruschen, Vernon Rich



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May 8: 7:35PM CDT

[Mark Holtz]

Heh. Take a look a War Of The Worlds and Independence Day and try to tell me these are completely different movies.

[gcutler]

No Jeff Goldblum and a Mac Notebook in "War Of The Worlds" :p

[TNGTony]

It wasn't "earth germs" that killed the Aliens in ID4. :D

There similarities...indistructible alien ships...Aliens blowing everything up in sight...

Anything else? Nope. These similarities describe everything from Earth Vs. The Flying Sausers going forward!

See ya
Tony

[jrjcd]

earth vs. the flying saucers!!!now THAT was a good flick....

[gcutler]

If you look at invasions over earth history, it was usually the other way around, the Invaders/Aliens brought with them Viruses that killed the native population, so in "War of the Worlds" we should have all died out from disease, but then the Human demographic would not have liked the movie, thus guaranteeing it to air on Sci-Fi channel :p

[lastmanstanding]

~~~~If you look at invasions over earth history~~~~

As a kid I wondered how Cortez felled the Aztecs, a warrior national state of nearly 20 million, with only 500 soliders. Talk about special forces.

Would the smallpox they carried be weapons of mass destruction?

BTW- the book War of the Worlds was much better than the movie, and the radio play was the best of all.

[TNGTony]

Well...as we get further off the topic of the thread...Cortez was viewed as a god (fact). If you follow the Mormon faith, he was mistakenly viewed as the litteral second coming of Christ. And later when Cortez killed Monteczuma and his successors and installed a puppet king that was then name of that tune. Remember it was also a fudal system that had conquered most of Mezzo America. The conquered people were just fine being under the thumb of the Aztecs. But they were next.

See ya
Tony

[gcutler]

Originally posted by lastmanstanding
~~~~If you look at invasions over earth history~~~~

As a kid I wondered how Cortez felled the Aztecs, a warrior national state of nearly 20 million, with only 500 soliders. Talk about special forces.

Would the smallpox they carried be weapons of mass destruction?

BTW- the book War of the Worlds was much better than the movie, and the radio play was the best of all.


I don't think the carrying of Smallpox to kill off the Aztecs was intentional, just the Europeans were so filthy by habit, it was inevitable. Funny, it was thought by the europeans at that time that to bathe regularly would open themselves up to disease.

[Rick_EE]

Originally posted by gcutler
If you look at invasions over earth history, it was usually the other way around, the Invaders/Aliens brought with them Viruses that killed the native population, so in "War of the Worlds" we should have all died out from disease,

If the aliens followed the earth procedure of decontamination before going into space, it could work the way the story went.  But if they were smart enough to decontaminate, wouldn't they know to protect themselves when they got to earth?

Round and round we go...

[BobMurdoch]

Originally posted by TNGTony
It wasn't "earth germs" that killed the Aliens in ID4. :D

There similarities...indistructible alien ships...Aliens blowing everything up in sight...

Anything else? Nope. These similarities describe everything from Earth Vs. The Flying Sausers going forward!

See ya
Tony

Hey, a virus took out the baddies in each of these films. It was about the only clever thing that Emmerich and Devlin thought up in this movie. Yeah, this movie is fun, but those gaping plot holes are a real distraction.

[TNGTony]

Bob, sorry to disagree, but in War of the Worlds germs killed the inhabitants of the ships. The ships fell to the ground and stopped because there was no one to operate them. In ID4, a computer virus disabled the impenetrable shields of the ships so that the ships were at least accessible. Not even close to the same thing. Again, every alien movie ever made has just as many similarities.

See ya
Tony

[jrjcd]

i think that emmerich and devlon used a computer virus as a little "in" joke, considering it's usually the real type of virus that does the job in these films(unless, of course, you have a tape of slim whitman yoddling)...

[TNGTony]

LOL!!! That was the funniest movie I'd seen in a long time!

See ya
Tony

[BobMurdoch]

Originally posted by jrjcd
i think that emmerich and devlon used a computer virus as a little "in" joke, considering it's usually the real type of virus that does the job in these films(unless, of course, you have a tape of slim whitman yoddling)...

Thanks for responding for me. That's the connection I was trying to make.... A biological virus took out the original invaders while a computer virus incapacitated the 1995 attackers....

[gcutler]

Originally posted by TNGTony
LOL!!! That was the funniest movie I'd seen in a long time!

See ya
Tony

I saw it in theatres first day it was out, and the theatre was 100% full and people cheered thruout the movie. I assume it was mass hypnosis or at least everyone had shut off their brains before the movie started.