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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 2, 2005 13:37:36 GMT
I have lost count how many times I have watched the '53' version, and lost count how many times I have laughed at some of the lines throughout the film. Yes, some are serious but others are just plain daft and of that period, but I like them all the same.
Here are a few of my favourites.
Gene Barrie gets out the car on the common and looks towards the cylinder saying 'that's it over there', what else could it be Gene?
Gene and Ann in the aeroplane scene. Gene says 'the sky will be full of jets in a minute, and there they are!'. Talk about good timing and I love that crackly old dodgy looking footage of the jets.
Keeping with tradition, marvel at the amount of lines throughout the film where the actors suddenly stop in mid senta. . . . . .
'you've slept in a ditch, been up all night, and you know something, it hardly shows', yes, that's because she was in make up before the cameras started rolling
During the barn dance scene, when they observe that the watches have stopped the Sheriff says 'Jeepers, mines stopped too' - jeepers. jeepers, if that was filmed to day some harsh word would have used instead of 'jeepers', 'holy crap' sounds a good one.
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Post by I own a cylinder on Mar 2, 2005 13:50:38 GMT
DOESN'T HE COMPLETE THAT LINE.
You cracked up in a plane, slept in a ditch. Wanna, know something. It doesn't show on you at all.
THe whole notion of them cooking eggs after all that has happened cracks me up a little. lolol ;D
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Post by dbw on Mar 2, 2005 20:47:11 GMT
As my long-suffering wife will attest, I've played War of the Worlds about 26,972 times on DVD and laserdisc... She always cracks up at the scene where Sylvia is frying the eggs... the first time she saw it she said, "If the martians don't kill then, the cholesterol in that breakfast will!" She also likes the when the Fighting Machine crashes at the end: when the engines wind down she always says "Okay guys, which one of you forgot to gas this thing up before we invaded earth?" I love my wife.......
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Post by EvilNerfherder on Mar 2, 2005 20:55:54 GMT
The Ranger guy helping himself to a fish sandwich and spitting it everywhere then keeping the cigarette for later. And of course the Eggs part. surely there must have been something more filling in the house?
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 2, 2005 21:40:51 GMT
Funny you should say that DBW
At the moment when the War Machine starts to dip before hitting the building, you hear that electronic sound and I always seem to say the same thing - 'come on mate, get it into gear'.
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Post by Bayne on Mar 2, 2005 23:07:27 GMT
[glow=red,2,300]Gene Barry's awkward running style gets me grinning every time ;D
That and the delightful 'handsome scientist' stereotype movies from that era had. Back before they decided that to attract women you had to be stupid.
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Post by jeffwaynefan on Mar 2, 2005 23:15:04 GMT
LOL, the bit when he runs towards the guy on the road with the suitcase burst open. He skids and I hoped he would fall flat on his face - talking of which, the bit when Silvia looks into the 'eye' cut from the War Machine while at the institute, boy is she scary close up.
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Post by dbw on Mar 3, 2005 1:51:31 GMT
Okay, a couple more...... Sylvia telling Clayton that she has a "Doctorate in Advanced Contemporary Scientists" or some such thing. Sylvia driving off in the bus and forgetting she left Clayton behind... now that's love workin' fer ya! The atomic bomb blast sequence where all of the scientists are wearing protective clothing and Sylvia is attired in dress and heels... and after the blast she gives gives this little shake of her head like, "whoa, that was a doozy!" You Brits might not get this (I'm in Phoenix, Arizona, USA) but one of the guys standing in front of the theater in the beginning of the film is Mr. Haney from the old 60's sitcom "Green Acres".... "Gol-ley Mr. Douglas!"
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Post by Selkirk on Apr 12, 2005 21:38:41 GMT
Two parts that always make me smile: 1) When the Ranger spits out his food while talking and the scientist looks down to see where it landed. 2) When Sylvia first meets Clayton and she says she didn't recognize him with the beard. Beard? The guy has a five o'clock shadow at best. I don't know how many times I've watched this movie, and those - among others - are the two parts I always look forward to.
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Post by nervouspete on Apr 18, 2005 12:28:25 GMT
Two classic moments for me.
The cool looking cylinder spurting through the sky to the awe of all, quite a cool effect... there it goes... wow, it's going to crash... imagine the devestation! Cor... eh?
And the weeniest lil'l explosion spurts up to an "Oooh!" from everybody. What's even weirder is that this is a film that has cool explosion after cool explosion. I can't fathom why they didn't use something better for this bit. (That being said, I'm sure the trailer has a souped up one)
But my all time fave bit is the bit where the general or major with the moustache in the dug-out says in an incredibly serious voice, eyes drilling into the viewers...
"All I know is, when the machines start moving, no more is heard from that area..."
And then he solemnly raises his cup and slurps his coffee, keeping his eyes boring into the viewers. It's such a gloriously stilted moment, and so surreal, from an overall top performance, that it makes me laugh everytime. It's indicative of the solemn sci-fi delivery of that golden age.
Pete
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Post by saticon on May 25, 2005 3:28:28 GMT
Pete,
In regards to the explosion when the meteor hits, the explosion in the original trailer is a bit different. Quite a bit larger. Wonder why they changed it?
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Post by morthren on Jul 20, 2005 16:58:16 GMT
[shadow=red,left,300]My fav memory is of sitting in the pilot seat watching the primate primates running before us! Then... I passed out!
ULLA![/shadow]
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Post by djmatt82 on Jul 25, 2005 13:16:07 GMT
And of course the Eggs part. surely there must have been something more filling in the house? i get a somewhat funny feeling when i cook two fried eggs, like something is going to crash into my house.....lol
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Post by Max on Jul 26, 2005 7:20:58 GMT
Paraphrasing a bit here but:
"If that things radioactive, shouldn't we keep away?"
"Might be an idea..."
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Post by djmatt82 on Aug 1, 2005 12:35:51 GMT
dug out my old dvd and i have decided that pal was obsessed with fried eggs.......at the common....."oooh you could fry eggs on that thing" and of course slyvia and the eggs. i noticed the beard thing.......too, quite funny. and "if we took all the energy expended from a square dance, we could send that thing back to where it came from"
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Post by matzo on Aug 2, 2005 16:55:16 GMT
That must be one long square dance!! I like the bit with the actuall martian, it looks so FAKE!
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Post by maniacs on Aug 5, 2005 12:51:30 GMT
When the first three guys are killed just after the cylander opens. Later on you get to see their outline in ash on the floor. Two of the guys are in death poss but I swear the spanish guy is still holding his hat!!!
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Post by Stuuullaaa on Aug 22, 2005 10:07:12 GMT
I like "Hey, the 'phones gone dead"! "Thats funny, the phone isn't on the same circuit as the lights"! YOU DON'T SAY!!! ;D That Ranger bloke in Pine Summit. Not only has he terrible table manners, but he's also a bloody cheat at playing cards! lol!
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Post by theredweed on Aug 24, 2005 19:05:00 GMT
It has to be the reporter moment for me. When he gets excited about everything about them "did you hear that folks, two or three brains, WOW!" then in a brief moment he is scream "hey they got my truck" I guess he is not good at first impressions and that punch that Clayton gets is classic, he almost goes completly straight. Ooo and one more, when that mean ol' Clayton throws the wood at the poor little Martian, I just imagine him returning to the ship and this conversation taking place "what happened?" "That bloody arse throw a piece of wood at me 'ead" "Thats mean, here let me take a look at that cut for you" "Thanks, I tell yer one think" "Whats that" "He throws like a bloody woman"
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Post by Tripod Bait on Sept 6, 2005 20:14:10 GMT
The ranger: "They say it's a whopper!"
Guy at the pit: "Maybe it's an enemy sneak attack!" ...those damned sneaky commies!
Col. Heffner: "...behind hill tha-ree. Repeat, hill tha-ree."
Clayton: "You never know where you'll end up when you go to a square dance."
Clayton: "The sky will be full of jet's any second now. There they are! (Insert stock footage)"
Bilderbeck (I believe): "Let's see why they were so interested in you, Ms. Van Buren." ...and while we’re at it, why don't we put you even further into shock!
A few visuals that bring a smile to my face:
The overtly obvious strings pulling the tripods out of the pit.
Sylvia’s look of horror at nearly everything out of the ordinary (example: the squealing tires while she's serving coffee and donuts at the pit)
The deer and horses running away from the Martians
The radiation suits.
Clayton getting punched.
Something else that makes me smile - and not because it's funny, but rather because of its forward thinking considering the time the film was made: Clayton doesn't smoke and Sylvia had a Masters Degree in science... this in a period when nearly all solid leading men smoked to further enhance the masculine image (not to mention it was much more socially acceptable to smoke in 1953), and women were rarely portrayed as having (or needing) higher education... let alone in a field such as science.
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