WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

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  @KevyNova · 2 years ago

  The original novel by H.G. Wells is amazing. Consider that he wrote it between 1895 and 1897, before cars, airplanes, and very few homes had electricity, he wrote about aliens coming to earth in spaceships and using laser beams instead of solid projectiles. His imagination was insane.

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  @patrickcromwell7554 · 2 years ago

  I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking to myself "When was the last time I saw Tom Cruise playing a character who is simply a working man and father."  He's not a navy pilot; not a Superspy; not a Vampire; not a Hotshot Lawyer getting paid 6 figures a year; he's just a hard working every man.   This was a role that was just simple yet very grounded and real.

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  @jackturnbull2286 · 2 years ago

  “From the moment the invaders arrived they were doomed, mankind had earned its immunity” what a line that tells so much. Amazing movie. Amazing reactions👏🏼

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  @ThatSamoanGuy · 2 years ago (edited)

  I wanted to see this movie for my birthday with friends in high school, but I waited and waited and no one was showing up. I had resigned myself to seeing the movie all alone, when two of my less-closer friends showed up together. They were the last two I expected to show up, but they came with a present and a card, and we all watched War of the Worlds. It made all the difference. I'll always associate this movie with friendship, how people can always surprise you and the difference even a small gesture can make to someone, even if they aren't your best friend.

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  @sensibleb · 2 years ago

  This must be the first movie that Cassie spent more time hiding than Carly did

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  @The_Curious_Cat · 2 years ago

  I remember when this movie came out some criticism was that "no way humans would behave like that, they would come together and help each other in times of need and blah blah blah". Well, after seeing people fighting over toilet paper during the pandemic, I guess it's not that weird the way they behaved in this movie...

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  @bertranddwight2944 · 2 years ago

  The older couple on the porch at the end were the original actors from the 1953 "War of the Worlds"

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  @thelittlehobbit4698 · 2 years ago

  I think so many people hated this movie in 2005 is because they were probably expecting another action/adventure like Independence Day, when in reality this is a horror/catastrophe movie with aliens

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  @superstalin1693 · 2 years ago

  The original novel the film is based on was written in the 1890s, and takes place in victorian era England. The book actually predicted future weapons of war (poison gas). The author wrote it in reaction to the Tasmanian genocide, stating “what if men from space came down to Earth and treated us as we treated the Tasmanians?” The original novel is probably one of my favorite books ever

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  @Barovian20 · 2 years ago

  Lmao. Cassie would be the one to defeat the aliens with firm but polite words. "Can you leave already!"

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  @jbassguy571 · 2 years ago

  Independence Day had humans defeating the aliens with a computer "virus" which was a homage to war of the worlds.

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  @johnlynem · 2 years ago

  War of the Worlds is a novel first published in the late 1800s. The radio broad cast of the story in 1938 was narrated by Orson Wells (if you don't know who he is he is worth looking up). The story was presented as radio news reports causing many to believe they were true and not fiction send many people into panic . Some news papers said that the panic was exaggerated.

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