War of the Worlds -Soundtrack- [1 of 7]

[Denarpsaurus]

In my opion, in the modern world, a film isn't good unless it either has John Williams music, or Stevens directing it. So really, this film is the best we could do, do slam it, Its getting remade again in a few years any way.

[SuperMrBentley]

@zozanday perphaps they knew but as always everything carries a change error.

[Currycoockies]

8 People got killed in the war

[peterraafaa]

which soundtrack is played in the movie trailer?



[Lyrand]

@peterraafaa

The music track playing in one of (if not all) the trailers for War of the Worlds is not part of the actual official soundtrack. Indeed, the music of the trailer was most likely simply chosen due to the emotions it invokes or for any particular reason, the track in question that you may be referring to is named Gothic Power, if I am not mistaken it was composed by Christopher Field.

Hope it helps!

[peterraafaa]

thanks, thats what i was looking for...



[bestowner767]

almost reminds me of signs

[fermie125]

OK, who else gets the chills listening to this monologue? Its so great. And Morgan Freeman's voice is classic!

[redsky822]

hello im morgan freeman ever sense i was a little boy pepoloe have been interested in the sound of my voice

[policefox123]

you meen Gordan =D Fuckman =D

[Staward]

This movie was my first favorite movie. The day i watched it i was absolutely amazed, it was the best experience i had 'till date.

[JinRenegade]

2:58

*Points to the sky*

*Rocket pods fire at a target which is not shown*

[duncnt121scotty]

The film was fabulous.. but.. it was an American interpretation designed to woo an american audience. I'd love to see the movie made in the original time, 1890 something.. and stay true to the story and the musical (without the musical if you know what i mean). The musical album is awesome.. but not suitable for the big screen.

[hawksleyart01]

@duncnt121scotty

I agree, the film was amazing. The first 25 minutes is one of the best 25 minutes of a film I've seen.

I love how the filmed it all in an ordinary setting/street at daytime on an ordinary day, instead of night time over a city. Makes it much more believable and scary.It goes against human instinct that daylight is the safest time of the day.

[Kull405]

'...intellects vast and cool...' -thats a great line too!

[fermie125]

@Kull405

the whole monologue is great!

[fermie125]

"with infinite complacency men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world..." thats a great line

[beblicious4you]

3:01 holy shit striders from half life

[unreal607]

Yes that film was nothing less than phenomenal

[gweflj]

The Wells book owns the film.

[triplepogi2009]

Personally (I know I'll get many negative comments after I say this), I like this film A LOT more than the crappy Jeff Wayne version...

It's a WAR, not a MUSICAL...

Also, the music in this film is better (considering John Williams is one of my favorite film composers), it actually fits the mood of the film...

And it's not some crazy Dance-Party'ish shit like "The Eve of War"...

This is waaaaaaay better than the shitty Jeff Wayne Version, go ahead, flame me, SEE IF I CARE.

[CaliforniaGirl088]

Love the movie, but the novel too :) :)

[CaliforniaFilmDirect]

Awesome

[sugarfreegumha]

...zim:D

[zakaryasx]

This is an awesome soundtrack, awesome movie, and Morgan Freeman's voice is awesome lol

[DennisMiller]

Wow, the part at 2:45 is so dark and nasty.

The sample is also featured in this track by Phace an 1:42:

watch?v=MwzgxLyYchA

Genius!

[ZackAttack261]

best movie ever i liked it better then the one before it

[SUPERPHANTAZM]

I have had the dubious distinction of having made contact with an alien demon. It was spirit and had tentacles. i thought I was a goner.

[Ondus2000]

What instruments does Williams use to make "War of the Worlds" sound different from Tyler's "Alien Vs Predator: Requiem"?

[n01familyguyfan]

the voice of morgan just makes this sound completely amazing !

[phantassm]

2:57 - best theme on the entire soundtrack.

[Fischicella]

5:30

[fouxcrackr]

what was the point of the siren?

[mesagorgeous]

@fouxcrackr

thats the noise the aliens make.

[essenciademusica]

amazing!

[lorena9348]

does anybody know what song justin listens in the beginning of the movie when he stays in the bed ( sorry for mistakes if any)..

[MsCrayonz]

darn does anyone know where i can get the entire sountrack for free? im having a really hard time finding it.... thanx! :)

[pshnazz]

Uhm it is good

i saw the original and yes it was fucking amazing and no this cannot compare but sepreated it is good and your a moron to think Spielberg isnt good you obviously havent seen Schindlers List with Liam Neeson

[GoldenXen]

What???

[URHShufflers]

John Williams ftw

[queensthug]

gives me the chills

[lostteen08]

this movie was awesome... and so is the music... rather frightening!

[starwarsworld]

maybe cuz this is a modern version, and btw its much better! Now, don't get me wrong, Orson Welles is one of my role models. So tis Steven Spielberg, cept he is high up.

[Truth118]

The very first time it came out was a novel in 1898. I thought this movie was awesome, it followed the book pretty well.

[wiihaward94]

@Truth118 Erm, have you even read the book? It's set in england at the beginning, so it doesnt follow the story that well :/ read the book and you will see that it isnt close to the film

[alia313]

there's a book? and a film?!

[wiihaward94]

@alia313 are you being sarcastic?

[alia313]

lol no! i heard about the film. a bit. and i think i heard of a book. but i've not seen either one in a shop or library so i wasn't sure.

[Boromir26]

@alia313 Yes indeed, the movie is a century later than the book which was written by H.G. Wells in 1870 and is considered by many to be one of the greatest Sci Fi masterpieces ever written. On a personal note, I would rather say that the book is an immensely profound analysis of society and the human mind/will and is very intens. Hence I would gladly recommend it but bare in mind that the movie and the book are quite different both in their depiction of the subject.

[atillathehun3]

@alia313 there's also a radio play. look it up somewheres. it caused tons of people to commit suicide because they thought it was real.

[calapanpo]

Noone would have believed that in the late years of the 19th century,human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space.Noone could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as a person might scrutinize creatures that swarmandmultiply in a drop of waterFew men even considered the possibiliy of life on other planets.And yet, across the gulf of space,minds immeasurably superior to ours,regarded to this earth with envious eyes,and slowlyand surely they drew their plans against us

[calapanpo]

Lol, spelling and grammer mistakes are intentional, had 17 char. over the limit.

[lostteen08]

Wow

[champ0925]

lol just a correction he said 21st century anyways i love this movie i downloaded it on my ps3 ftw so i can watch it anytime i feel

[AgathaVincent]

That is because we do live in the 21st century.

AV

[TeeBone12]

Which track has the song that played when robbie was running up the hill, right after the missiles go overhead?

[xAllisOnex]

Seconded. I would like this song as well.

[futurama2506]

Isn't that Morgan Freeman narrating?

[Lyrand]

Yes, is it Morgan Freeman indeed.

[YourProblem1]

@Lyrand It truly is Morgan Freeman you say?

[leptonsoup337]

@futurama2506 Ha. I thought the exact same thing. Definitely Morgan Freeman!

[vidoman12]

where did you get the picture at 3:01????????

[Lyrand]

Thanks to everyone for your comments and support for my videos and this series in particular. To answer you vidoman12, I found the picture at 3:01, along with most others from various sources on the Internet after a simple search on Google, however some of the pictures are stills I've taken myself from the movie and edited them to some extent to fit the resolution of the video.

[dannielbrod94]

@vidoman12 the picture is off an illistration that came with a cd. i remember it as a kid. All i can remember is the pictures. there's heaps more as well.

[vidoman12]

no one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century. that our world was being watched by intelligenceses greater than our own. that is men visit them self's. the way a man with a microscope might scotillis the creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. with infined conplacency men went to and frow about the globe confined of our emperor over this world.

[vidoman12]

yet the across the gulf of space intellex, vas and cool and unsemantic. regarded our planet with invensys eyes. and slowly and shirley. drew their plans agianst us

[DChatc]

I did not like the aliens being turned into toads. There was a specific reason Wells used cephalopods, he was making a commentary on evolution and specifically how the Martians have developed from human into parasitic brains in need of blood transfusion as they lack a digestive system of their own (and I like the flippant way Spielberg said that Octopus had already been done - where?).

[DChatc]

Seeing that the lightening (a plot hole) activated the craft and that they were probably hiding dormant for aeons (this could be a Lovecraft reference, afterall he admitted to being a Wells fan and the Old Ones share many features of hte Martians and their 'cyclopian' tripods, like tentecles, amoral etc) I was hoping Spielberg would go further and suggest that hte martians are a wholly cybernetic species whith transferable, transmitable concioussness (in essence, becomming unbound conscious)

[KillaKitty09]

What I love about this movie....

the whole 'stop and stare at the robot.....until it's start shooting....THEN run screaming' thing.

So hardcore man.

[SJ363]

finally, a remake better than the original!

[ericberner]

i'm highly pessemistic about remakes in general, esp. if they are not truer to the origional story- but this was a great movie- never have been so scared at the theater. The soundtrack was a huge part of that-

[futurama2506]

Well, this shouldn't be considered a remake. I'd call it an adaptation

[nando90210]

@SJ363 the original one was funny.

[engletravis]

where did u get the photo at 3:04

[schoolcraftprincess]

2:45!! i love that part

it just like the part you know something bad about to happen the part when they was on the baot then they left ppl nd took off was so bold

[DjHyphie]

check out a tune called Cataphiles by a group called Phace... they sampled this bit.. its so dark!!!

[schoolcraftprincess]

this is on youtube right?

[schoolcraftprincess]

ok nvm i see it lol

[TaraJayneRikku]

A lot of people criticise this movie because it foccusses more on how a family than the real action e.g how the army fight the aliens off, but I like it better that way, it has such a better touch of humanity too it. Love this soundtrack.

[Lyrand]

Indeed, and in the extra content DVD I believe the script writer, or co-writer clearly mentions that they intentionally removed any focused references on the military efforts during the invasion.

The potential problem is that the aliens are so powerful that the only thing we'd see anyway would be tanks and troops constantly dying. So portraying what's left of "us" outside of the combat is all that's left to see against such an annihilator.

[DomWeasel]

Those who criticise Spielberg's film have obviously never read the book. The book is about one man and his brother's experiences. So really, Spielberg's film is just an updated version of that. The only fighting in the book is personally witnessed (Woking, Weybridge/Shepperton and Tillingham bay)

I think too many of these critics went hoping to see another Independence Day.

I personally like the film because it makes a change from seeing the same "hero kick alien arse" mush.

[99rhetbaboons]

Agreed but it's not a secret (the film makers have lamented this) that it was a rush job, and that's clear from the movie. For me, the moment I heard Morgan's voice, I just felt deflated. Too obvious. It was a rush decision. Morgan Freeman, of course! Beloved voice 'n all... and no one had time to stop and think. And they couldn't think of a way to make the alien invasion believable, the way they died believable... and you never really got a look at the machines, the edits were super fast...

[soloseb]

eneybody now the original sound track not this one? i want to here it its alot better

[EwanMcgregorFan89]

That Tripod siren is really scary. First time i watched this film i jumped from out of my seat. Love this soundtrack.

[thepivotguy12]

lo. i know, the siren is like world war 2 all over again! if that was real though...wouldnt you just shit yourself?

[EwanMcgregorFan89]

I will more than shit myself. Lol!

[thepivotguy12]

lol, could you just stand their gazing at the big robot? XD i wouldve been out of there before the robot even stood up xD

[EwanMcgregorFan89]

Yeh there all a bit thick. I would be like "uh run!" Its not a good thing to see a big robot come out of the ground. Its veeeeerrryyyy baaaaddddd!lol. But i suppose they're so shocked and scared that they cant move.

[thepivotguy12]

or they probably are shitting their pants and waiting for it to land on the floor. then they run! XD

[73tonyharrison73]

i think its sexy i love it

[Ragger10]

This movie chills me at the start. Alot of people don't really pay attention to it much, which is good sorta, but Humanity is getting to that stage of exploration and discovery..which'll obviously attract something....other. I love this movie though, it's really accurate.

[Matrix4711]

true though but look at the moive signs though look how all of that happened with the crop circles and stuff and how they invaded but then lost becusae thier weakness was water

[joshman783]

great movie

[JB9208]

great soundtrack for a great film.

off topic, anyone else watch this movie and think shit, if this ever happened..?

spielberg done an amazing job on this film. id say he also made it pretty realistic aswell, in that if this happened, this is exactly what it'd be like mostly. we'd be caught off guard and wouldnt have a clue.

makes you think..

[Lyrand]

Thank you JB9208 :o)

Indeed, if such a thing would happen I believe that we would have no chance to survive as a species. Maybe there would be a few lucky shots here and there, like in the movie, but nothing to entirely stop a global invasion.

Let's just hope that so called intelligent aliens wouldn't travel trillions of kilometers just to kick our arses (taken from Independence Day). That wouldn't make them that intelligent after all huh?

[JB9208]

very true dude.

but you just gotta look at our ways of life and what we need to survive to answer the question of why would they, resources.

lets just hope if they are out there, they arent like these haha.

[Machinedead]

damn, the first thing aliens would be after, are our cows.. :/

[JB9208]

i mean land, water, oxygen. not beef burgers..

[bevonator]

well, i'm sure if they did come to earth, they would be just as coutious as we would be. they wouldn't kill on sight, just like we wouldn't kill an alien on sight, we would see if they were friendly or not. so i don't think we're in any real danger.

[Lyrand]

GreatTribbleHunt, that's correct :o) I have the DVD at home and I took it from it. Same thing for the narrator speeches at the beginning and the end.

[GreatTribbleHunt]

Out of curiosity, how did you get the tripod call? Did you rip it off the DVD?

[videowilliams]

A requiem for the end of the world...

[atom123]

Thanks, man.

[Lyrand]

Thank you! ^_^

You're welcome.

[sagmses]

thx lyrand..it's very beautiful and quite relaxing...and the pictures are awesome..