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Released: 1953
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| Remember all the panic and mayhem that was
unleashed in the original airing of the radio show? Well,
that didn't happen with the movie but it was still a great picture
none-the-less. The movie is based on the H.G. Wells story of
a Martian invasion. The film won the Academy Award for Best
Special Effects in 1953. The effects still manage to hold up
somewhat today but the story is what really set the standard for
Martian invasion type of movies. War of the Worlds
was not only memorable for its sound effects but for its depiction
of destruction on a massive scale. A scale not really seen
in the Sci-Fi genre at that time. It obviously became the
model for future films like Independence Day. It
doesn't have a lot of the blood and gore of today's movies and it
doesn't possess any of the profanity used today either. That
may help to make it all the more the classic. |
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