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Post by kingofthemorlocks on Feb 1, 2005 21:42:30 GMT
I was about seven the first time I saw this film. The thing that was most impressed on my tiny child psyche was the noise the Fighting Machines made as they flew around. As I was laying in bed that night, I started hearing that noise and I thought the Martians were just outside my window, waiting me to see them so they could get me...So I spent a sleepless night and then in the morning discovered that it was just the noise of my clock.
How about youse mugs?
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 2, 2005 1:00:36 GMT
Let's see... it was a long time ago I got my hands on the VHS. My parents didn't have a VCR, but my grandfather did, so I went over there to watch it.
The Martian Flying Machines where the things most stuck to mind, I still think it's a very cool - and horrifying - design. But the movie as a whole disappointed me. It has nothing in common with the book, except Martians and the way they die. But it is still a classic in it's own way, and most of the FX still hold their own, even today!
The scenes from the exodus from LA are also very gripping. I loved how they combined those scenes with new footage of that lost little boy in the WOTW tv-series (the boy who's to become the main character).
-Gnorn
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Post by I own a cylinder on Feb 2, 2005 3:54:25 GMT
At a young age me par let me watch it on vhs. Interesting was the tape had become a bit faded which made everything darker, but added to the atmosphere of the film. I didn't even know the flew the machine models on wires until i got the DVD.
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 2, 2005 9:57:17 GMT
For what I understood, the DVD production team screwed up the brightness and contrast of the film, hence showing the wires. You cannot see them in the VHS version, atleast not that I have ever noticed.
-Gnorn
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Post by VES on Feb 2, 2005 17:16:51 GMT
Well, I first viewed the film late night when I was ten; I don't even remember who was running it. Ironically, this was to be my first exposure to Well's (Not including the Invisible Man, which I had seen when I was seven.) It ran at about eleven that night, and I was simply flipping channels when I came across the pre-run tag for it, so I left it on that channel because I found it interesting. I was stunned to see that it was indeed "based" on a original Well's novel I had not yet read. So, naturally, I begged my mother to take me out to find the book. Couldn't find it seperately, Ironically; so I picked up a collection book that included the Time Machine, Invisible Man, Food Of The Gods, etc. Well, I was even more stunned by the multitude of changes from book to screen. I was miffed. That was when I began pinning away for a true film adaption. However, with in the last ten years, I've come to accept the Pal version as a fun film with wonderful effects for it's time. Even though Sylvia screams waaaaayyyy too much. But that's what the mute button's for. Whoa, I rambled far too much. I'll shut up now. -.-
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Post by Stormdragon666 on Feb 2, 2005 21:13:06 GMT
The first thing that came to mind when i saw the movie for the first time was a big ol, WTF!!
When the cylinder landed i was WTF, where,s the martian, at the scene with the apperance of the FM,s i went WTF where are the legs?!?!?!
Now i think its a entertaining film, and i don,t care if it has nothing to do with the book anymore, its still a good occupant for the rainy sunday afternoons when there,s no F1 on telly.
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Post by Stormdragon666 on Feb 2, 2005 21:15:52 GMT
Well, I first viewed the film late night when I was ten; I don't even remember who was running it. Ironically, this was to be my first exposure to Well's (Not including the Invisible Man, which I had seen when I was seven.) It ran at about eleven that night, and I was simply flipping channels when I came across the pre-run tag for it, so I left it on that channel because I found it interesting. I was stunned to see that it was indeed "based" on a original Well's novel I had not yet read. So, naturally, I begged my mother to take me out to find the book. Couldn't find it seperately, Ironically; so I picked up a collection book that included the Time Machine, Invisible Man, Food Of The Gods, etc. Well, I was even more stunned by the multitude of changes from book to screen. I was miffed. That was when I began pinning away for a true film adaption. However, with in the last ten years, I've come to accept the Pal version as a fun film with wonderful effects for it's time. Even though Sylvia screams waaaaayyyy too much. But that's what the mute button's for. Whoa, I rambled far too much. I'll shut up now. -.- Indeed Barry should have put a cork in her mouth, her screaming still annoy,s me
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Post by Stuuullaaa on Feb 8, 2005 11:24:26 GMT
I remember we has a Sony C6 Betamax video recorder. I was about 11 years old, and my Dad had secretly hired it from the video library. I remember him putting it on, and I just thought nothing of it, because I didn't see the case or anything, and then the begining started; 'In the First World War'.......etc,etc, then when....... 'Comes The War Of The Worlds!!' came up, I thought brilliant! I'd better watch this 'trailer', because thats what I thought it was!!! It wasn't until about the time the first cylinder came down that I twiged that this is going to be the actual film in its entirity ( I was even a bit dim in those days ). I remember there were two bits that really stood out for me: The unscrewing of the cylinder & the farmhouse being demolished - & are still my favouite bits to this day I think. I haven't watched it for ages though, 'cause i'd rather listen to the album instead ;D
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 12, 2005 18:23:49 GMT
i guess i was about 8, i spent the night at a friends house who had cable (i lived out in the country) and watched it. i was really excited about it because i had just read the book, and had just gotten into the album. at the time i liked it ok, but when you're 8 years old you're not as critical about things being different. now, when i watch it, its entertaining in a primitive way, but...
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Post by Thorgrimm on Feb 14, 2005 17:22:16 GMT
I first saw the movie in 69 when I was 7, and I must say I was royally pissed! No Martians killed! Then the way the Fighting Machines looked. I never watched the movie again I was so pissed. Cheers Thorgrimm
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Post by Topaz on Feb 14, 2005 17:30:49 GMT
I actually didn't come across the '53 movie until several years after I'd read the book. Not until we got our first VHS unit.
I remember being initially disappointed that the FMs were so different from the book - then that the story was so different from the book - but by the time it finished, I was enjoying it on its' own merits.
Now I own the DVD. ;D
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Post by Gnorn on Feb 14, 2005 23:42:58 GMT
I first saw the movie in 69 when I was 7, and I must say I was royally pissed! No Martians killed! Then the way the Fighting Machines looked. I never watched the movie again I was so pissed. >:( Cheers Thorgrimm Pissed? At age 7? Man! You took on drinking early! ;-) -Gnorn
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Post by malfunkshun on Feb 16, 2005 2:54:29 GMT
i always thought that was funny, how brits and aussies called drinking getting 'pissed', here in the good ole usa it means on thing... angry ;D
like that chumbawamba song... pissing the night away... i always thought that was just corny as all get out, then my brother comes back from australia and explains that it means basically, drinking the night away. wow
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Post by maniacs on Feb 20, 2005 1:58:45 GMT
Id heard JW
Loved the book
watched the film-most disapointed! But in all fairness I did see a clip on some childrens prog couple years beforwe see it and thought it looked spooky! I think I would have felt different if Id not read the book first.
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Post by Leatherhead on Mar 10, 2005 15:57:42 GMT
I must have been about 6 when I saw it for the first time. Found it a bit scary then, but also exciting. The following couple of days iplayed WOTW using coathangars as the war machines from the film. (hey, the shape kinda resemble there out line)
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Post by Thunder Child on Mar 10, 2005 21:07:12 GMT
I first saw it when I was about 13 years old. I already was a great fan of the JW version and I initialy was very dissapointed in the movie. But after seeing it a couple of times i began to like it. It is afterall part of the TWOTW saga.
In the film there is a scene of the refugees and a car that is warning people to leave town. I used that piece of audio for a long time as intro, when you start up Windows ;D
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Post by Zoe on Mar 14, 2005 2:08:39 GMT
I saw it in the seventies with my big sister when it was re-released. We both enjoyed it...... Although we laughed at Ann Robinson's hairstyle and Gene Barry's soupy smile as he looked down at her sleeping in his arms with her perfect makeup intact! We both liked SF and we'd both read HG Wells before.... I'd certainly read the book long before seeing the film but I'd seen clips from the film so I wasn't at all surprised that the Martian war machines were not like in the book. The film moved fast and I was genuinely shocked that the Martians could not be stopped...... even by an atom bomb. When the scientists were talking about using 'some biological approach' I was intrigued about what seemed to be a new resolution. I think that my only disappointment was that the disease was presented as a miracle. As the Martians died I thought it was going to turn out that the scientists somehow HAD managed to release a biological weapon. I was just waiting to hear "It was the prototype.... I didn't think it was ready but it must have worked!" and instead we got a sermon. I must admit too I was a little worried about the nod in the direction of the Creationists with "The Martians can conquer the earth in six days!" / "The same number of days it took to create it!" Apart from that it was terrific and it kept to the spirit of the book by having the Martian technology more advanced than ours and thus for us as Arthur C Clarke said; "Indistinguishable from magic". I don't see how tripods could convey that same air of technomenace. Those menacing, ticking machines haunted my dreams for years! And the green, three fingered hand on Ann Robinson's shoulder made us both scream out load! Zoe
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Post by BrutalDeluxe on Mar 16, 2005 1:11:19 GMT
I ran out and hired this movie several days after I finished reading the book (I was about 12 at the time). I remember ejecting the tape and exclaiming "what a crock of sh!t" and then muttering something about it being an abomination to the great book. About ten years later I revisited the movie and was able to appreciate it a bit more on it's own merit rather than as a faithful adaptation of the text.
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Post by saticon on Mar 30, 2005 19:48:50 GMT
My first experience with the film was sometime in the late '60s / early '70s and so I was 6 - 10yo. It was on as an ABC Sunday night movie or something like that (yes, pre-video). One thing I remember was that when it got to the farm house scene, I volunteered to make popcorn . . . I love the movie and have also read the book many, many times. Now my own kids enjoy them both as well.
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Post by JonT on Apr 5, 2005 22:29:44 GMT
i first saw it when i was 7 or 8. i had heard the album and i was a little disapointed by the film as i thought it would be similar to the album. but now i enjoy watching it but i havent seen it for ages. i was going to buy the dvd but i have decided to wait until the summer and see if a special edition is released.
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