I'm wondering why sci-fic authors almost always describe aliens like beings able to build sophisticated technological tools, appearing destructive ugly prehistoric creatures unfit for the tools they supposedly designed. My guess is these authors must be freaky idiots.
@perlaand War of the Worlds was what started modern Alien Invasion films. But the original novel was much more than a story, it bore alot of HG Wells' politcal and social views on the world. The Whole story is one great big metaphore. In the end the significance of their technologies is nothing compared the message Wells tried to pass on, but it always makes for a good classic anyway.
Ray always manage to pack a damn great amount of emotion into his creation, and this Martian was one of the most expressive aliens I have seen in any animation.
I was just thinking "Left hand thread, interesting, must be extraterrestrial" when out pops the little fella' and he's got six hands. What kind of thread would he produce? right, left, maybe or maybe right-right, or left-left, possibly right-left, left-right, left-left-right, right-right-left, left -middle-left-inside-out, back to front right, right?
@TheBobohj Hey idiot! This IS a version of WOTW that was never made! you would have known that if you had read the description. and the reason the "movement of the monster and stuff looked so faked" back then is because THEY ARE NOT MOVING. IT IS CALLED STOP MOTION YOU TWIT.
The similarities in character design between the this Martian and other Harryhausen creatures like The Kraken from CLASH OF THE TITANS and the Ymir from 20,000 MILES TO EARTH are unmistakable. I can't remember the name of the sculptor that created the figure which eventually became Ray's animation figure, but I'm pretty sure the face is closely based on Harryhausen's original sketches.
i read that the screenwriter for the cruise film intended it as a dig at the US. he said he considered the tripods as the U.S. war machine and the people as iraqi citizens. give me a break!
incidently what's this, are people having a go at the recent Spielberg version? if so leave it out - it matched the '53 version easily. It was probbaly the most unnervingly realistic depiciton of alien invasion I've ever seen, especially in the early scenes.
Still, you can't beat this fella with his typiclal Harryhausen face (you know, the beaky mouth, pointy ears and wierd mostach-like flanges)
Wow, watching this gave me the willies---Just like Tom Cruise, but for an entirely different reason.... It IS a cry'in shame this project was never realized. It would have been a triumph.
Damn, I hope Ray Lives to be about 193 because he is still my film legend, the first film I made back in the early or mid 90's was a stop motion alien which kinda looked like this one, Long Live Harryhausen!
the 2005 film look great, all animations look fabulous, and the CGI is done with class. When hes running away and all the buildings are exploding it looks great.
But what really annoyed me was Spielberg saying that its not what the audience wanted, he wanted the film to follow an average family man IN AMERICA!?!?!
Not a scientist??
Now this isnt necaserily what i want, the book is called War Of The Worlds!
the book is set in Surrey.
Is it so much to ask that the film be set there aswell
Aperently the 2005 movie of war of the worlds got 4 stars witich was ackward because everyone else liked the old version better but the new one was pretty good too the special effects were amazing witch made the tripods look badass
Though ray never got to work on this movie I think it was better that he didn't. The 1953 movie was good because it had amazing special effects without using clay animation. I think ray would've of ruined it for me personally.
FYI Dude... Since Ray didn't get to do his WOTW vision, he later re-used part of that face for two movies that are well made. One being the original "Clash/Titans", Kraken & earlier as the Ymir from "20 Million Miles To Earth".
Get to know the man whom without, there'd be no cgi as you know it today.
Love it. He really captured the Martian's laboured movement and breathing in Earth's stronger gravity as Wells described it. A shame the film never happened...
I think cgi often looks more fake than Harryhausen's work. Even a lot of modern-day films with cgi look fake. Theres something more lifelike about whar Harryhausen did. He actually brought his monsters and mythical figures to life. Remember the skeletons in Jason & the Argonaughts? I crapped myself as a kid watching that. Iconic. Harryhausen was a genius with abilities cgi can only dream of.
I agree. CGI isn't the only special effect out there. CGI has improved over the years, but so has stopmotion which can appear just as good or even better.
yep, all the crap of cgi in the recent years and look at how horrible idiot wood has been with remakes, give me some of the old time stuff, shows imagination
Ray Harryhausen was my hero when I was growing up. I always made it a point to see any movie that he was connected with. He's a genius and his style of effects will never be duplicated.
It's a shame that CGI will eventually overshadow stop motion.
@TomatoeAssassin I think CGI already overshadow stop motion. What was the last major movie production featuring heavy use of sm? i can only recall Burtons "Night before Christmas" and partly "Starship Troopers". Stop motion is dead, at least in Hollywood(as fas as i know).
@TomatoeAssassin CGI will NEVER 'overshadow' stop-motion because CGI isn't the same as, nor is it equal to, stop motion. Stop motion (especially modern day stop-motion) surpasses most CGI by a hundred miles! Stop-motion is often more believable, more lifelike and most of the time just more enjoyable to watch. CGI is great for some things, but Stop-Motion has been around for many, many years, and is still being used in films (believe it or not). it will stick around a good while.
stop motion looks silly compared to good CGI. Animatronics,real puppets and miniatures are better than both, but to act like stop motion is good is laughable.
@gunranger Looks like somebody's in denial! Even the best CGI animators say that stop motion not only inspired them, but that it looks better then CGI, and is more "Magic" because, they say, it only takes a couple or even one person to do stop motion, and it takes a team of computer animators to make decent CGI.
And if you think stop motion isn't being used today, look up "Monkeybone" and "The Life Aquatic."
I wish Harryhausen had been able to do his magic in a 1980's version of 'Stephen King's THE MIST'...the tentacles, the winged creatures, the bugs...the Impossibly Tall Creature ALL would have looked FANTASTIC under his hand, and the stop motion would have worked WONDERS for the story, adding an 'other worldly' look to all the creatures...
This is a fine example of how Harryhausen acted through his animated models. The little detail of the thing wiping its feverish brow, due to the exhausting burden of pulling itself up against Earth gravity makes the creature's subsequent fall all the more convincing.
If you read the original novel, the only time the Martians exit a vehicle by unscrewing something is at the beginning when the Martian cylinder has just landed at Horsell Common and they're emerging from the first time. The first one to emerge misjudges Earth gravity and takes a plunge into the crater that the cylinder is sitting in. They don't get in or out of their tripods by screwing or unscrewing anything, so this scene is not likely to be depicting their later death-by-microbe.
No it was, I just watched "First Man in the Moon" and it has an interview/documentay about Harryhausen, he describes this as test footage depicting a martian dying of a cold. Maybe the dude just got it wrong, as test footage I know I personally wouldn't have looked too deep into it. Still though you seem like a big fan so you're probably right.
Well, thanks to you, I've just watched that documentary (it's also on the DVD for 20 Million Miles to Earth), and narrator Leonard Nimoy definitely says it's a Martian succumbing to a cold at the end of the story. Harryhausen isn't heard saying what it is one way or the other, and I think Nimoy got it wrong. Regardless, I'm glad I watched that documentary; plenty of intriguing test footage in there that I'd never seen before!
It is a crying shame this movie was never made. The 1953 version was ok. But the 2005 film with Tom Cruise was NOT War of the Worlds. It was just another film about alien invasion.
I agree with you davy, except for the fact I loved the 1953 adaptation, it is a crying shame that the only version just like the book was poorly made and only had a 5000 dollar budget.
@DavyTom71@DavyTom71 Actually I think the 2005 one was the best War of the Worlds yet. Mainly because it focused more on the people, and fear instead of the tri-pods. The book actually mentioned more on how did humans act during horrible times, and less about the tri-pods. The 2005 movie had all of the elements of the book, but changed them to modern times: the cylinder opening vs. the ground turning, the thunderchild vs. the Harper ferry, the artillary man vs. the insane guy.
I agree with you that it is the best version of War of the Worlds yet. But the story was changed far too much from the original. I can understand the setting being changed from late 19th-century England to present day US. But why change the entire story? And taking the cylinders out of the War of the Worlds was unforgivable - and made absolutely no sense. Why did the aliens bury their tripods then wait thousands of years before attacking?
@DavyTom71 Well here is the reason they're buried though not explained in the movie. Human civilization was very small thousands of years ago. So once humans got a large enough population they just exterminated us for food because there was enough food now and not earlier.
Hmmm - I can't say I'm convinced by that explanation. If the aliens landed here thousands of years ago they could have just colonised earth completely unopposed and hunted animals for their meat. But you seem like a decent guy and I don't want to get into a famous YouTube argument with you over this. If you enjoyed the 2005 movie then keep on enjoying it. But it strays to far from the Wells' vision for my liking
@DavyTom71 Yeah I don't like Youtube arguments either. Though the story of them waiting isn't perfect, but at least it makes some sense. My favorite part from the 2005 movie is when the Tri-pod sneaks up on Harpers ferry and you see it standing on the hill looking down at the city. I agree it isn't the same as the book, but it has the same fear as the book and shows how big of a reality everything is. Specially with the dead people washing down the river, or the clothes falling from the sky.
I agree with you about how the 2005 film shows the consequences of the invasion, such as dead bodies, refugees, destruction, and the utter fear and panic people feel. The scene with the ferry was good. But the eerie scene with the burning runaway train sticks most in my mind. But I thought the actual aliens were rather comical - they reminded me of the Marx Brothers. I wish they had stuck to the octupus-types beings that Wells described
@DavyTom71 Yes the train sequence was very eerie. Just kind of showed how the world was turning. The aliens themselves were neat looking, but not exactly terrifying. I liked how the observed everything, and actually one leg would be on one wall and the other leg on the other wall while they were walking. Though they were way too... how to say it... not threatening? Cute? Looked like something you could hug.
Actually along hollywood version in the same year 2 other films were published. One made in US with plot more similiar to the book. And one made in England (At least I think so) that is very similar to the book.
The Spielberg film was a little more faithful to the novel than the 1953 version, and it did have some genuinely tense, eerie, and creepy moments. But it strayed from the original storyline far too much by introducing new characters (the children), changing the main characters personalities and backgrounds to the point it altered the whole story. And replacing the cylinders with 'lightning bolts' was a crummy idea
Personally I prefer the Tom Cruise film to moronic alien invasion movies like Independence Day, with cheering and hollering, and a wisecracking Will Smith. Also aliens that say 5 words:"No peace" "Die" and "Release me"
At least there was global panic and men feed on men to survive, rather than some videogame adventure.
I may not be popular for saying this, but to me Harryhausen's creatures, though brilliantly animated, are often poorly designed. I don't include dinosaurs, of course, because there he was pretty well following current scientific opinion on how they looked.
A very nice piece of work. I really like the way real steam has been included with the animation, very clever. Maybe the Kraken was an ancient god from Mars, that lived in the seas of ancient Earth?
The martian actually looks like how the book describes. If Ray's version had been made, I wonder if it or the 1953 George Pal version would have been better. Harryhausen is good, but Pal is hard to beat...
I never much cared for Pal's version or Spielberg's. (possibly an issue of fidelity to one of my favorite books). I would have had faith in Harryhausen to make a solid adaptation.
It's one of my favorite books, too, and I love Harryhausen as much as anyone, but I really think that Pal's version is great. If Ray had made his version, Pal probably wouldn't have made his, so we would be missing a really great adaptation for another great adaptation. Now, if BOTH had been released, I would be a happier man.
yeah and it would have made a terrific companion piece but I think Ray would have paid hell making the tripods those things would have been hard to animate but he would have put the love in there most definitely
It's a shame this didn't get made. From the test footage and storyboards I've seen, this would've been awesome. Of course, everything Ray Harryhausen does is awesome.
ray's early stuff showed the different directions he could have gone in. my one regret is that ray and obie never got to do Gwangi together. i think Ray's 1969 film is amazing, but ill never figure out why Obie never got at least a story credit. the harryhausen years we're the best, kids today just don't know what they missed. Joey
Personally, i Think this would be probably the best version, cause ray harryhausen said he wanted to keep it in the victorian period and just by seeing this martian, he would know how to make a pure, true version of the film, but instead we got the george pal version, BUT george pals was one of the best versions,
Damn even though it's made of parts from the Krakken, that is still the most scary looking alien i've seen yet. Something about the idea of those in machines killing feels really... evil.
he was a genius. Theres something more scary about these than the new CG stuff for me. The slightly tounge in cheek air makes them more real because even the scariest things in reality can be slightly funny. And thats coming from a 17 year old whos grown up in the CG generation of films.
This is very closely based on the description of the dramatic scene in Orson Welles' radio drama "War of the Worlds", complete with the "door" unscrewing and the multiple tentacles on the Martian.
OMG!It really looks just like Wells described it!I'm reading the book and I'm just over that part.But to say the truth I was expecting the Martian to be bigger!
acepeeter how would you like it if i said "AGHHH THATS THE SHITEST THING IVE SEEN IN MY LIFE" TO ONE OF UR VIDEOS!!!!!!?????? (if ray saw that comment he would be so so pissed off with you!) THATS NOT BAD QUALITY FOR 1940'S!!!!!!!
This is test footage for an adaptation Harryhausen was gonna make himself, but it never went through.Personally i kinda wish it did, as it woulda been great probably.
Fullmetalsaiyan...joecubbear, OA and myself noticed because we WATCHED the movie..I read the H.G.Wells text, and because "the way things are is the way things are"
hey, check the date of when it was made. It was just after WWII so what do you expect? Dolby Surround 7.0 with HD-quality super rendered special effects?
As much as I revere Harryhausen's work, I'm kind of glad this didn't make it into the 1953 version. George Pal and Harryhausen have much too different styles and quite frankly, thsi Martian would've made me laugh rather than be terrified (as I was when seeing the tri-eyed Martian).
nah thrs 1953 and thr was 3 movies in 2005, speilburg's and thr was one made but was changed to the title invasion because paramount owns the title wotw, and thr was one by timothy hines which was the most to the story. thr was a sequel to "invasion" this year and it kinda suked
lol, no disrepect intended (I love war of the worlds as much as anyone else) but I would seriously roll on the floor laughing if I ever saw that in real life. not exactly 'repulsive'. :-)
Ok so I've read the book and it's pretty good who else has? (thumbs up)
Saltbkdq 2 weeks ago
Anyone else think that the alien looks like the kraken from Clash of the Titans?
brenleyman 3 months ago
@brenleyman Thats becuase he used the same face design from this martian for both the Ymir and the Kraken.
reddalek555 1 month ago
Without stop-motion like this,there would've been no CGI.
snarkus63 3 months ago in playlist animation,indivisible
I'm wondering why sci-fic authors almost always describe aliens like beings able to build sophisticated technological tools, appearing destructive ugly prehistoric creatures unfit for the tools they supposedly designed. My guess is these authors must be freaky idiots.
perlaand 3 months ago
@perlaand War of the Worlds was what started modern Alien Invasion films. But the original novel was much more than a story, it bore alot of HG Wells' politcal and social views on the world. The Whole story is one great big metaphore. In the end the significance of their technologies is nothing compared the message Wells tried to pass on, but it always makes for a good classic anyway.
reddalek555 1 month ago
Is the alien stoned?
LyleBennet 4 months ago
The should have created this, and evolution. bother were graet sounding.
Themaniacnextdoor 4 months ago
I've always wondered how stop motion animators get the eyes to move.
manysocksonfeet 4 months ago
Wish this was made!
I do believe if it was made it would hav been one of the best Harryhausen films of all time!
MrCDABarnes 5 months ago
youtube.com/watch?v=B5W9ZqDeRRA
AntoninoV86 5 months ago
While the sequence has charm, I think he's too cute to be menacing. Also, remember Wells describes the Martian's eyes as cold, lidless saucers.
DavidEMartin1955 6 months ago
Ray always manage to pack a damn great amount of emotion into his creation, and this Martian was one of the most expressive aliens I have seen in any animation.
KimKhan 6 months ago
I was just thinking "Left hand thread, interesting, must be extraterrestrial" when out pops the little fella' and he's got six hands. What kind of thread would he produce? right, left, maybe or maybe right-right, or left-left, possibly right-left, left-right, left-left-right, right-right-left, left -middle-left-inside-out, back to front right, right?
brownsrd16 6 months ago
Wow, this is gorgeous animation! Ray really put his heart and soul into this scene. I'm glad we can at least see it, thank you for sharing.
gizmo102188 7 months ago
mute the video open a tab and listen to HORSELL COMMON AND THE HEAT RAY.
CloneComander1138 7 months ago
It would have been a very different film with things like this in it. I dont think 'convincing' is applicable, but downright scary fits.
axeman3d 7 months ago
Aside from all the bickering about CGI vs stop motion, I wish they had Ray do this. It definitely would've given the WotW it's charm and magic.
Kawiia17 9 months ago 2
this isnt war of the worlds and why back then did the movment of monsters and stuff look so fake
TheBobohj 10 months ago
@TheBobohj Hey idiot! This IS a version of WOTW that was never made! you would have known that if you had read the description. and the reason the "movement of the monster and stuff looked so faked" back then is because THEY ARE NOT MOVING. IT IS CALLED STOP MOTION YOU TWIT.
furiousajp 6 months ago
@furiousajp dude have a snickers
TheBobohj 6 months ago
It loos like a miniature version of the "Kraken" from Clash of the Titans
starwarsfanboy3 11 months ago 2
@starwarsfanboy3 Ironically, The Kraken from CotT was actually the Ymir from one of Ray's earlier movies.
SnuffitLabs 9 months ago
He is sick 0:51
jakicevic 11 months ago
Poor guy!
Kookiekurre 1 year ago
I love Ray, but this looks waaaay to comical. Don't like it at all.
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AyeshaShaniqua 1 year ago
The similarities in character design between the this Martian and other Harryhausen creatures like The Kraken from CLASH OF THE TITANS and the Ymir from 20,000 MILES TO EARTH are unmistakable. I can't remember the name of the sculptor that created the figure which eventually became Ray's animation figure, but I'm pretty sure the face is closely based on Harryhausen's original sketches.
4everfrankenstein 1 year ago
War of the Worlds has been remade by two of the best directors of all time, and yet this seems like it would've outdone both of them.
Unnamed0909 1 year ago 2
i read that the screenwriter for the cruise film intended it as a dig at the US. he said he considered the tripods as the U.S. war machine and the people as iraqi citizens. give me a break!
sdcow 1 year ago
This would have been the ultimate war of the worlds! Especially since the aliens actually look like they were SUPPOSED to!
baranguirus 1 year ago
Lol it looked like it was singing!
66Metallicaman66 1 year ago
looks a bit just a bit like the kraken from the original clash of the titans
WKreveiws 1 year ago
It's obvious that Ray Harryhausen's Martian was better, but they said no, talk about a slap in the face.
vasglorious 1 year ago
Chupao wtf?
DINOSSAURO!!
Wizard3223000 1 year ago
this would have been Great.
incidently what's this, are people having a go at the recent Spielberg version? if so leave it out - it matched the '53 version easily. It was probbaly the most unnervingly realistic depiciton of alien invasion I've ever seen, especially in the early scenes.
Still, you can't beat this fella with his typiclal Harryhausen face (you know, the beaky mouth, pointy ears and wierd mostach-like flanges)
curiouskong 1 year ago
Wow, watching this gave me the willies---Just like Tom Cruise, but for an entirely different reason.... It IS a cry'in shame this project was never realized. It would have been a triumph.
Birdgirl01 1 year ago
Damn, I hope Ray Lives to be about 193 because he is still my film legend, the first film I made back in the early or mid 90's was a stop motion alien which kinda looked like this one, Long Live Harryhausen!
TheCGIMaster 1 year ago
Ray was a genius
Maltray 1 year ago
the 2005 film look great, all animations look fabulous, and the CGI is done with class. When hes running away and all the buildings are exploding it looks great.
But what really annoyed me was Spielberg saying that its not what the audience wanted, he wanted the film to follow an average family man IN AMERICA!?!?!
Not a scientist??
Now this isnt necaserily what i want, the book is called War Of The Worlds!
the book is set in Surrey.
Is it so much to ask that the film be set there aswell
rorrt 1 year ago
i like how ray reused the ymir face on most of his creatures
DinoDude16 1 year ago
Aperently the 2005 movie of war of the worlds got 4 stars witich was ackward because everyone else liked the old version better but the new one was pretty good too the special effects were amazing witch made the tripods look badass
TheXboxGuy77 1 year ago
thanks fuck for cgi
canvoodoo 1 year ago
Though ray never got to work on this movie I think it was better that he didn't. The 1953 movie was good because it had amazing special effects without using clay animation. I think ray would've of ruined it for me personally.
Pixelrelated 1 year ago
That's....friggin awesome. Harryhausen will always top modern CG in terms of sheer style!!
TrashTrailers 1 year ago
thats so true the 2005 movie was just junk....
SargonvonThule 1 year ago
Fu Manchu as an octopus with heatstroke. Cute.
But the concept and feel of the scene is about right.
Genesis000 1 year ago
Terrible. Looks like a kraken !
gweflj 1 year ago
FYI Dude... Since Ray didn't get to do his WOTW vision, he later re-used part of that face for two movies that are well made. One being the original "Clash/Titans", Kraken & earlier as the Ymir from "20 Million Miles To Earth".
Get to know the man whom without, there'd be no cgi as you know it today.
He's there mentor!
MarsAttacksLeader 1 year ago
the most acuarate martian
Fredbot26 1 year ago
Love it. He really captured the Martian's laboured movement and breathing in Earth's stronger gravity as Wells described it. A shame the film never happened...
blackdaleksec 2 years ago
The puppet was animated well, but the puppet was inacurately built. It looks like a stereotypical Harryhausen monster, not a martian.
TheComingApocalypse 1 year ago
OMG that's bitch crap. Scary.
bradsmithsite 2 years ago
Eat your heart out, computer programers! This is where it's at!
kyon813 2 years ago 12
I think cgi often looks more fake than Harryhausen's work. Even a lot of modern-day films with cgi look fake. Theres something more lifelike about whar Harryhausen did. He actually brought his monsters and mythical figures to life. Remember the skeletons in Jason & the Argonaughts? I crapped myself as a kid watching that. Iconic. Harryhausen was a genius with abilities cgi can only dream of.
cinemascotland 2 years ago 6
@cinemascotland
I agree. CGI isn't the only special effect out there. CGI has improved over the years, but so has stopmotion which can appear just as good or even better.
FandSproduction 2 years ago
The first film I saw that used Ray Harryhausen effects was Jason and the Argonauts. I was hooked on stop animation after that.
CGI properly done has brought a massive new level to portraying mythical creatures that stop animation just can't match.
TheDepotCat 2 years ago
yep, all the crap of cgi in the recent years and look at how horrible idiot wood has been with remakes, give me some of the old time stuff, shows imagination
goldgrif 2 years ago 2
Ray Harryhausen was my hero when I was growing up. I always made it a point to see any movie that he was connected with. He's a genius and his style of effects will never be duplicated.
It's a shame that CGI will eventually overshadow stop motion.
TomatoeAssassin 2 years ago 19
@TomatoeAssassin I think CGI already overshadow stop motion. What was the last major movie production featuring heavy use of sm? i can only recall Burtons "Night before Christmas" and partly "Starship Troopers". Stop motion is dead, at least in Hollywood(as fas as i know).
fastLupus 1 year ago
@TomatoeAssassin no, it was closer to the book then the original was. Tripods anyone?
It was also more realistic how the world would react if we really were invaded.
thehappysock 1 year ago
@TomatoeAssassin CGI will NEVER 'overshadow' stop-motion because CGI isn't the same as, nor is it equal to, stop motion. Stop motion (especially modern day stop-motion) surpasses most CGI by a hundred miles! Stop-motion is often more believable, more lifelike and most of the time just more enjoyable to watch. CGI is great for some things, but Stop-Motion has been around for many, many years, and is still being used in films (believe it or not). it will stick around a good while.
PowerOfMontage 11 months ago
@PowerOfMontage *
"CGI isn't the same as, nor is it equal to, stop motion"
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That may be true but it's quicker and cheaper and that's all Hollywood cares about.
TomatoeAssassin 11 months ago
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stop motion looks silly compared to good CGI. Animatronics,real puppets and miniatures are better than both, but to act like stop motion is good is laughable.
gunranger 10 months ago
@gunranger Looks like somebody's in denial! Even the best CGI animators say that stop motion not only inspired them, but that it looks better then CGI, and is more "Magic" because, they say, it only takes a couple or even one person to do stop motion, and it takes a team of computer animators to make decent CGI.
And if you think stop motion isn't being used today, look up "Monkeybone" and "The Life Aquatic."
PowerOfMontage 10 months ago
@gunranger Did you think that Coraline or A Nightmare Before Christmas were good movies? Yeah, stop motion.
mymovienerd 10 months ago
@TomatoeAssassin it overshadowed it a long time ago
Krornus 10 months ago
It is a shame that Harryhausen never got the chance to full-fill his film ideas for WOTW.
Jonno71 2 years ago
lmao.. it crash landed drunk..
andy86i 2 years ago
I wish Harryhausen had been able to do his magic in a 1980's version of 'Stephen King's THE MIST'...the tentacles, the winged creatures, the bugs...the Impossibly Tall Creature ALL would have looked FANTASTIC under his hand, and the stop motion would have worked WONDERS for the story, adding an 'other worldly' look to all the creatures...
cecinid 2 years ago 4
This is a fine example of how Harryhausen acted through his animated models. The little detail of the thing wiping its feverish brow, due to the exhausting burden of pulling itself up against Earth gravity makes the creature's subsequent fall all the more convincing.
FormerlyFlightsuit 2 years ago 2
Actually I think that was a cold, he wa dying and y'know, it was a way of showing that he was ill. I agree though, it's inspiring.
finbomartini 2 years ago
If you read the original novel, the only time the Martians exit a vehicle by unscrewing something is at the beginning when the Martian cylinder has just landed at Horsell Common and they're emerging from the first time. The first one to emerge misjudges Earth gravity and takes a plunge into the crater that the cylinder is sitting in. They don't get in or out of their tripods by screwing or unscrewing anything, so this scene is not likely to be depicting their later death-by-microbe.
FormerlyFlightsuit 2 years ago
No it was, I just watched "First Man in the Moon" and it has an interview/documentay about Harryhausen, he describes this as test footage depicting a martian dying of a cold. Maybe the dude just got it wrong, as test footage I know I personally wouldn't have looked too deep into it. Still though you seem like a big fan so you're probably right.
finbomartini 2 years ago
Well, thanks to you, I've just watched that documentary (it's also on the DVD for 20 Million Miles to Earth), and narrator Leonard Nimoy definitely says it's a Martian succumbing to a cold at the end of the story. Harryhausen isn't heard saying what it is one way or the other, and I think Nimoy got it wrong. Regardless, I'm glad I watched that documentary; plenty of intriguing test footage in there that I'd never seen before!
FormerlyFlightsuit 2 years ago
It's on all the dvd's for the Harryhausen movies.
kyon813 2 years ago
im gonna have nigtmares
ClubPenguinFan8 2 years ago 2
It is a crying shame this movie was never made. The 1953 version was ok. But the 2005 film with Tom Cruise was NOT War of the Worlds. It was just another film about alien invasion.
DavyTom71 2 years ago 18
i have both the 53 and the 05 one and besides the effects they are pretty much the same.
timsperts 2 years ago
I agree with you davy, except for the fact I loved the 1953 adaptation, it is a crying shame that the only version just like the book was poorly made and only had a 5000 dollar budget.
FinalStarmanDX 2 years ago
@DavyTom71 @DavyTom71 Actually I think the 2005 one was the best War of the Worlds yet. Mainly because it focused more on the people, and fear instead of the tri-pods. The book actually mentioned more on how did humans act during horrible times, and less about the tri-pods. The 2005 movie had all of the elements of the book, but changed them to modern times: the cylinder opening vs. the ground turning, the thunderchild vs. the Harper ferry, the artillary man vs. the insane guy.
Pixelrelated 1 year ago
@Pixelrelated
I agree with you that it is the best version of War of the Worlds yet. But the story was changed far too much from the original. I can understand the setting being changed from late 19th-century England to present day US. But why change the entire story? And taking the cylinders out of the War of the Worlds was unforgivable - and made absolutely no sense. Why did the aliens bury their tripods then wait thousands of years before attacking?
DavyTom71 1 year ago
@DavyTom71 Well here is the reason they're buried though not explained in the movie. Human civilization was very small thousands of years ago. So once humans got a large enough population they just exterminated us for food because there was enough food now and not earlier.
Pixelrelated 1 year ago
@Pixelrelated
Hmmm - I can't say I'm convinced by that explanation. If the aliens landed here thousands of years ago they could have just colonised earth completely unopposed and hunted animals for their meat. But you seem like a decent guy and I don't want to get into a famous YouTube argument with you over this. If you enjoyed the 2005 movie then keep on enjoying it. But it strays to far from the Wells' vision for my liking
DavyTom71 1 year ago
@DavyTom71 Yeah I don't like Youtube arguments either. Though the story of them waiting isn't perfect, but at least it makes some sense. My favorite part from the 2005 movie is when the Tri-pod sneaks up on Harpers ferry and you see it standing on the hill looking down at the city. I agree it isn't the same as the book, but it has the same fear as the book and shows how big of a reality everything is. Specially with the dead people washing down the river, or the clothes falling from the sky.
Pixelrelated 1 year ago
@Pixelrelated
I agree with you about how the 2005 film shows the consequences of the invasion, such as dead bodies, refugees, destruction, and the utter fear and panic people feel. The scene with the ferry was good. But the eerie scene with the burning runaway train sticks most in my mind. But I thought the actual aliens were rather comical - they reminded me of the Marx Brothers. I wish they had stuck to the octupus-types beings that Wells described
DavyTom71 1 year ago
@DavyTom71 Yes the train sequence was very eerie. Just kind of showed how the world was turning. The aliens themselves were neat looking, but not exactly terrifying. I liked how the observed everything, and actually one leg would be on one wall and the other leg on the other wall while they were walking. Though they were way too... how to say it... not threatening? Cute? Looked like something you could hug.
Pixelrelated 1 year ago
@DavyTom71
Actually along hollywood version in the same year 2 other films were published. One made in US with plot more similiar to the book. And one made in England (At least I think so) that is very similar to the book.
FlyingSnake110 1 year ago
@DavyTom71
Actually that was way more faithful to the book than the other it's really the other way around.
sutjas16 1 year ago
@sutjas16
The Spielberg film was a little more faithful to the novel than the 1953 version, and it did have some genuinely tense, eerie, and creepy moments. But it strayed from the original storyline far too much by introducing new characters (the children), changing the main characters personalities and backgrounds to the point it altered the whole story. And replacing the cylinders with 'lightning bolts' was a crummy idea
DavyTom71 1 year ago
@DavyTom71
Personally I prefer the Tom Cruise film to moronic alien invasion movies like Independence Day, with cheering and hollering, and a wisecracking Will Smith. Also aliens that say 5 words:"No peace" "Die" and "Release me"
At least there was global panic and men feed on men to survive, rather than some videogame adventure.
McLarenMercedes 11 months ago
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I rather wonder how he came up with that idea for a spaceship door?!
You screw it out and then it drops to the ground?
Ouch.
That is a subject regarding poor design.
Kijinn 2 years ago
It's straight out of the HG Welles novel.
blackdaleksec 2 years ago 3
I see.
Still, a weird idea. XD
Kijinn 2 years ago
I may not be popular for saying this, but to me Harryhausen's creatures, though brilliantly animated, are often poorly designed. I don't include dinosaurs, of course, because there he was pretty well following current scientific opinion on how they looked.
Wcross34 2 years ago
like how the Ymir, Kraken, and this creature all have that fleshy mustache thing
Curttehmurt 2 years ago 2
thats how they were described in the book
NEMOanimation 2 years ago
i know where your coming from. but at least its not a very bad costumed guy?
Nelsanski33 2 years ago
A very nice piece of work. I really like the way real steam has been included with the animation, very clever. Maybe the Kraken was an ancient god from Mars, that lived in the seas of ancient Earth?
Cineminiatures 2 years ago 2
Ray Harryhausen kept using the same head on different creatures (Ymir, Kraken, etc.). I wonder where he first got it from?
Coelacanth1938 3 years ago 3
The martian actually looks like how the book describes. If Ray's version had been made, I wonder if it or the 1953 George Pal version would have been better. Harryhausen is good, but Pal is hard to beat...
DrBreakfastMachine 3 years ago 2
I never much cared for Pal's version or Spielberg's. (possibly an issue of fidelity to one of my favorite books). I would have had faith in Harryhausen to make a solid adaptation.
janusandjachy 2 years ago
It's one of my favorite books, too, and I love Harryhausen as much as anyone, but I really think that Pal's version is great. If Ray had made his version, Pal probably wouldn't have made his, so we would be missing a really great adaptation for another great adaptation. Now, if BOTH had been released, I would be a happier man.
DrBreakfastMachine 2 years ago 4
@DrBreakfastMachine
yeah and it would have made a terrific companion piece but I think Ray would have paid hell making the tripods those things would have been hard to animate but he would have put the love in there most definitely
fatfoxclown 1 year ago
Looked a little like the Kraken from "Clash of the Titans".
fliegeroh 3 years ago
It's a shame this didn't get made. From the test footage and storyboards I've seen, this would've been awesome. Of course, everything Ray Harryhausen does is awesome.
4thtroika 3 years ago 4
yes he does he did somin near that aliens invade earth but with spaceships
Dinobot2468 3 years ago 2
Yeah. Earth vs. The Flying Saucers.
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fliegeroh 3 years ago
it's face reminds me of the Kraken in clash of the titans
paladinartea 3 years ago 2
I thought exactly the same thing!
AnthonyDark 3 years ago 2
me 2
Dinobot2468 3 years ago 2
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lol he just falls on the ground LOL
kiebird 3 years ago
Imagine this in George Pal's classic 1953 movie. Audiences would have FREAKED!
frantic1971 3 years ago
ray's early stuff showed the different directions he could have gone in. my one regret is that ray and obie never got to do Gwangi together. i think Ray's 1969 film is amazing, but ill never figure out why Obie never got at least a story credit. the harryhausen years we're the best, kids today just don't know what they missed. Joey
forbiddenvalley 3 years ago
I wish he made that movie.
VGRetro 3 years ago 2
Ray just liked to use that type of mouth. Quite a few of his reptilian creatures have a mouth like that.
mauimudpup 3 years ago
That is an awesome take on the martians.
fllmtlchcb 3 years ago
Personally, i Think this would be probably the best version, cause ray harryhausen said he wanted to keep it in the victorian period and just by seeing this martian, he would know how to make a pure, true version of the film, but instead we got the george pal version, BUT george pals was one of the best versions,
FierceyKun 3 years ago
Brilliant!
- C sXe
endofsomething 3 years ago
Damn even though it's made of parts from the Krakken, that is still the most scary looking alien i've seen yet. Something about the idea of those in machines killing feels really... evil.
Hawkes10112 3 years ago
it's left over parts from the Krakken..CLASH OF THE TITANS..its mouth is the friggen Krakken
possessed365 3 years ago
Leftover from the Kraken? Hmmm...so I guess Harryhausen went back in time about 35 years to deliver to his younger self.
dmGumby 3 years ago 3
dude
it was a joke??
wow
because of the similarities?
jesus christ...lighten up
possessed365 3 years ago
Dude? the reply? IT was a joke?
Jesus Christ? lighten yourself up?
dmGumby 3 years ago
looked like Mr Myagi from Karate kid
TobyTheTissue 3 years ago 3
lol
bennihana123 3 years ago
he was a genius. Theres something more scary about these than the new CG stuff for me. The slightly tounge in cheek air makes them more real because even the scariest things in reality can be slightly funny. And thats coming from a 17 year old whos grown up in the CG generation of films.
SuperPigeonMaster 3 years ago 2
cgi if done badly looks a lot worse than most of the well made stop and go motion capture of old models
McLarenMercedes 3 years ago 2
This is very closely based on the description of the dramatic scene in Orson Welles' radio drama "War of the Worlds", complete with the "door" unscrewing and the multiple tentacles on the Martian.
MrUnidyne 3 years ago
Yes, and also very much like the War of the Worlds musical score by Jeff Wayne.
McLarenMercedes 3 years ago
I think the Martian wiping its forehead was sort of like a joke. Anyway, i loved it!!
schnellbomber87 3 years ago
OMG!It really looks just like Wells described it!I'm reading the book and I'm just over that part.But to say the truth I was expecting the Martian to be bigger!
MJMotown 3 years ago
Yes, about the size of a bear perhaps. This would have been great had it been made.
Cool2BCeltic 3 years ago
We arent really given anything to scale the alien with. He could well have been big.
ReverendSyn 3 years ago
Say what you will about the quality etc, but that martian looks exactly as Wells described.
dthomas1984 3 years ago 2
thats exactly what I look like first thing in the morning
Nelapidae 3 years ago
thats awesome
MorningGlory1212 3 years ago
acepeeter how would you like it if i said "AGHHH THATS THE SHITEST THING IVE SEEN IN MY LIFE" TO ONE OF UR VIDEOS!!!!!!?????? (if ray saw that comment he would be so so pissed off with you!) THATS NOT BAD QUALITY FOR 1940'S!!!!!!!
bobbyjic 3 years ago 4
I saw this on the documentary about the 1953 film. That was a nice touch, when he wipes his brow after the long journey.
Still, you can't go wrong on how the 1953 film turned out.
JustPhilNY 3 years ago
This is test footage for an adaptation Harryhausen was gonna make himself, but it never went through.Personally i kinda wish it did, as it woulda been great probably.
SidNightWalker 3 years ago 3
Fullmetalsaiyan...joecubbear, OA and myself noticed because we WATCHED the movie..I read the H.G.Wells text, and because "the way things are is the way things are"
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that looks really shit, no wonder the film didn't get made
acepeeter 3 years ago
hey, check the date of when it was made. It was just after WWII so what do you expect? Dolby Surround 7.0 with HD-quality super rendered special effects?
chipmonkey666 3 years ago 10
acepeeter, r u just a fucking retard?
loslobos2101 3 years ago 10
As much as I revere Harryhausen's work, I'm kind of glad this didn't make it into the 1953 version. George Pal and Harryhausen have much too different styles and quite frankly, thsi Martian would've made me laugh rather than be terrified (as I was when seeing the tri-eyed Martian).
oa 3 years ago
You could be right oa, but I would LOVE to have seen the tripods animated by George Pal.
inorcistartist 3 years ago 2
didn't die,just wasn't used to the different gravity.the thing obviously isn't used to earths gravity
soxRtastey 3 years ago
One major fault with this alien...TWO EYES!!!
in ALL the aliens info..they are tri-optic
JoeCubBear 3 years ago
lol the thing died! and i never herd of this WOTW movie
bobbyjic 3 years ago
There is two movies, one came out in 1953 and the second version in 2005
ltkdog 3 years ago
Nope, there have been about 4 movies.
benfclark 3 years ago
nah thrs 1953 and thr was 3 movies in 2005, speilburg's and thr was one made but was changed to the title invasion because paramount owns the title wotw, and thr was one by timothy hines which was the most to the story. thr was a sequel to "invasion" this year and it kinda suked
xxxrockmoshcryxxx 3 years ago
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullllllllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
i dont think its quite how Wells imagined it, but its good, i love ray harryhausen's films, purely for the effects
joevsimp 3 years ago 3
wow that was so good
ribenawrath 3 years ago
awesome to see this. harryhausen was definitely way ahead of his time...
funny to see that the alien from mars also wipes it's forehead when it feels sick :P
cheers
FierceDeity33 3 years ago
lol, no disrepect intended (I love war of the worlds as much as anyone else) but I would seriously roll on the floor laughing if I ever saw that in real life. not exactly 'repulsive'. :-)
wolfborn10 3 years ago
Interesting that it looks almost exactly like the Kraken from Clash of the Titans.
shiatis 3 years ago
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easterfilms 3 years ago
That was cool.
atomicguitar90 4 years ago
Wow! I had never seen that clip before. Thanks for posting. Ray Harryhausen was GOD of stop-motion animation.
BigHosMan 4 years ago
love ray's stop animation, thanks for posting the vid.
svaran 4 years ago
That was good.
mowm88 4 years ago 3
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It looks like something out of a bad Star Trek.
Envergure 4 years ago
show some respect moron
svaran 4 years ago
probably better than anything you could make.
sqdblue 4 years ago
Hey! That's Me!
djat 4 years ago
nice ****
JaDuetschland 4 years ago
Ray is the fucking MAN!
pandaphil 4 years ago 5
He was saying "dammit it was hot in that son of a bitch, jeez, whew" *dies*.
tkktkt 4 years ago 4
I don't think he died, cause in the book it says the Martian fell off the cylinder, landed with a thud, and screams.
AlianQuin 4 years ago
lol man that would have been hilarious to actually see that on screen.
tkktkt 4 years ago
This was great! Where on earth did you find this? I also really liked your Betty Rowland video. Thanks!
JOY2079 4 years ago
OMG my exwife finally got to be a bullywood actress!! She looks so natural in this scene but the makeup covers up her facial pockmarks.
madcows10 4 years ago 3
VERY RARE! THANKS!!!
OakgroveProductions 4 years ago
i think this is what he thought the martians looked like from the book
Kamakaziebastard 4 years ago
maybe he changed them a bit to make them easier to animate...