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Movies: The War Of The Worlds
The following is a movie I've watched and reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, I'm not selling DVDs. This is not a list of movies that tell you "the truth about UFOs". Simply said, I like movies. Each review is as simple and non technical as possible.
By Michele Bugliaro Goggia - last modified: March 31, 2006 0:46 AM
Full title: The War Of The Worlds.
Year: 1953.
Director: Byron Haskin.
Starring: Gene Barry, Anne Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Paul Frees, William Phipps.
Language: English.
Price: 9.99 €
Rating: 
Description: rural California, 1953. A supposed meteorite crashes to earth
near a small town. The invasion of the earth by Martian war machines starts.
It's a work of frightening imagination, with its manta-ray spaceships armed
with cobra-like probes that shoot a white-hot disintegration ray. As formations
of alien ships continue to wreak destruction around the globe, the military
is helpless to stop this enemy while scientists race to find an effective
weapon.
It finally takes an unseen threat to conquer the
alien invaders, but not before War of the Worlds has provided a dazzling
display of impressive special effects. Winner of the 1953 Academy Award for
Best Special Effects.
The central character is Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), a physicist with a major California-based university, who fills in the role given to the unnamed narrator of the original story. By making him a scientist the screenplay is able to economize on characters whose only job is to provide exposition, Forrester can be both the object of the viewer's sympathies and can instantly explain some of the more dramatic elements of Martian military technology, such as the fighting machines, which rather than flying actually walk on invisible legs of magnetic force, and the devastating anti-meson plasma weapon. There is quite some coldness in this movie.
This is the kind of spectacular that inspired kids such as Steven Spielberg. I like it a lot: first of all, space ships are no usual flying saucers, and the aliens reflect the pre-Grays fantasy of the 1950s. A must have pioneristic movie that inspired blockbusters such as Independence Day or Mars Attacks.
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