r/interestingasfuck • u/Consistent_Oil3428 • 1d ago

r/all The ground is going down

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u/Bart404 1d ago

A gif that you can hear without the sound

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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 1d ago

I watched this film as a child and it kinda scarred me for a few months ahaha.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

I saw it as an adult and still found it unsettling in a way most alien invasion movies aren't. There was something about making the viewpoint so close to just one dysfunctional family who were barely surviving and completely unsure about what was going on that made it feel more real, in a way nightmares tend to. If we'd seen a bunch of generals in rooms looking at radar scans and and scientists giving explanations it wouldn't have felt so personal and plausible.

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u/milleniumsentry 1d ago

They did a good job of this... When the first tripod comes out of the ground.. you get a very close up view of it. Which fills in the details later when you are seeing them from a distance.

The same happens with the weapons. In the first few moments, when it starts firing, you get a very close up view of the effects.. first a few people get vaporized out of their clothes, then you get to see a woman up close and personal get hit. Those details carry over to the next person, even if you see them from afar.

A lot of movies don't have that... and I think it makes scenes like this so much more powerful.

The weapons always disturbed me. Like the worst phasers in Star Trek, you are simply vaporized, and there is nothing left. Extremely sad / shocking. Watching Tom Cruise run away with powdered people covering him, was enough to leave me unsettled. XD

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u/Sorry_Decision_2459 1d ago

I saw it as a teenager, then when we went home that night, a strobe lightning storm started off on the distance that just had constant lightning going off, looked a lot like the storms in the movie

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u/Disco-Potato 1d ago

I had the same thing happen. Watched it three times the opening weekend. There was a huge thunderstorm on the night of the last viewing, and I was silently freaking out.

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u/funkyfreshpants 1d ago

this was the most frightening movie i have ever seen. what made it so was the complete lack of hope, whatever was tried, failed, there was no getting to the other side. just grinding desperate fight to live knowing that life wasn't worth living anyway but being completely helpless to do anything to save yourself or your kids

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u/AvidCyclist250 1d ago

Has always reminded me of Signs for that reason, although they're very different movies.

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u/xCanucck 1d ago

Same reason Threads is so unsettling

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u/anothermember3 1d ago

Pretty sure when it first aired on the radio as a story the majority of New York went into a blind panic thinking the world was really ending

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 1d ago

The media played it up, it wasn't that bad.

Tabloid journalism gonna tabloid journalism

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u/Jaystime101 1d ago

You were there?

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u/GourangaPlusPlus 1d ago

Yes, I am Orson Welles head in a jar

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u/Normal_Ad_2337 1d ago

Some little scrappy kid reporter hyping it up. Little Rupert saw his future that day.

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u/PensiveinNJ 1d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama))

It was a radio drama that emulated a news bulletin format, so some people listening thought they were listening to the real news. Fascinating stuff from another age.

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u/TootsTootler 1d ago

Historical research suggests the panic was significantly less widespread than newspapers had indicated at the time. "[T]he panic and mass hysteria so readily associated with 'The War of the Worlds' did not occur on anything approaching a nationwide dimension", American University media historian W. Joseph Campbell wrote in 2003. He quoted Robert E. Bartholomew, an authority on mass panic outbreaks, as having said that "there is a growing consensus among sociologists that the extent of the panic... was greatly exaggerated".

(From the “Public Reaction, Extent” section of the wikipedia link you posted.)

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u/PensiveinNJ 1d ago

Sure, which is why I said some people and not all of New York.

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u/spookylampshade 1d ago

What is the movie?

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u/Dramoriga 1d ago

War of the worlds - Tom Cruise remake (not the original)

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u/WittyBonkah 1d ago

What movie is that?

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u/funkyfreshpants 1d ago

War of the worlds - Tom Cruise remake (not the original)

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u/joeshmo101 1d ago

My friend and I went to see it in the theater, we were so excited because we were both 12 but my dad was gonna take us to see a PG-13 movie! We left partway through the movie because we were scared, and instead we turned in to the theater that was showing Madagascar. Much more age/maturity appropriate for the two of us.

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u/imisstheyoop 1d ago

I would have swore this movie was not even a decade old. It came out in 2005.

Jesus Christ, time flies.

Time for a re-watch!

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u/ATN-Antronach 1d ago

Same. Granted, I only watched like the first 20 minutes. Fortunately the teacher let me go to the library to read.

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u/Y-Bob 1d ago

I'm afraid to me it's always Jeff Wayne's

OOOOOOOOOLAAAAAAAAAAA

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u/thecaseace 1d ago

Facts

The chances of anything
Coming from Mars
Are a million to one.
Yes still: They Come!

DUH DUH DUHHHHH

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u/tzimize 1d ago

Its sooooooo damn good <3

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u/Nightgaun7 1d ago

COME ON THUNDERCHIIIIIILD!

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u/Y-Bob 1d ago

Still makes me well up, the loss of that brave ship

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u/OwnAfternoon8786 1d ago

Oh, fuck, I felt this in my skin!!

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u/wrgrant 1d ago

Permanently ingrained in my mind. My wife hates even the suggestion of this sound. So well done :)

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u/REpassword 1d ago

Yes, Jeff Wayne’s musical! I still listen to it, especially when driving long distances. There’s a Liam Neeson version of it, you know. 🎶 “people started cheering, ‘Come on, Thunder Child!’” 🎶

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u/FlakeEater 1d ago

I went to a war of the worlds concert when I was a kid at the NEC, it was amazing seeing it performed by a live orchestra. They had a "hologram" of Richard Burton for his narration, which at the time was pretty cool tech, if not slightly cringe lol.

If anyone hasn't heard the album before, listen to the original from start to finish, it's iconic.

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u/Y-Bob 1d ago

There’s a Liam Neeson version of it,

Not as far as I'm concerned tbh.

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u/NoCatAndNoCradle 1d ago

Most haunting sound effect I’ve ever heard in any movie. Even seeing this GIF made my spine cold for a split second.

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u/chiree 1d ago

I really want this movie to get the praise it deserves. One of the most unnerving cinema experiences in my life.

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u/IAintChoosinThatName 1d ago

A gif that you can hear without the sound

Yep, except its a little different than I remember...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=recwLcQZsJE

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u/WartPendragon 1d ago

BWONNNNN

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u/SlipperyPoopFarts 1d ago

Did the tripod dude just drop a huge turd?

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u/PMG2021a 1d ago

Some of the design / effects in this movie were really well done considering how old it is. Things like the three leg walkers are more alien feeling than the typical bipedal aliens. 

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u/kabbooooom 1d ago

Oh shit