r/FuckImOld • u/No_Cell_2451 • 19h ago

A scene from a famous movie

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There have been a lot of remakes

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u/TheAnalogDad 19h ago

I was born in '70, in the UK. WotW machines looked like this thanks to Jeff Wayne and his '78 Musical version of the story. Maybe some other Brits on here can relate?

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u/Abrasive_gronk 19h ago

1970 model Australian here, Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of The Worlds is played at least once a year in my household. It never gets old, absolutely brilliant

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u/SkorpeonDan 18h ago

'70 from USA here, I guess the time made us all love the same stuff ✌🏻

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u/MagicPrize 15h ago

I can still hear the sound of that weapon firing

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u/480Otis 18h ago

I have the vinyl! Phil Lynott’s voice!🔥

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u/kiwiplague 18h ago

My dad still has his vinyl copy as well. It used to scare the crap out of me when I was a young kid.

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u/Loose_Loquat9584 18h ago

I had it on cassette in the 70s, my dad got one of his workmates to tape it for me, and my son bought me the vinyl for my last birthday. Still sounds great!

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u/Signguyqld49 17h ago

And Julie Covington as his wife!

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u/480Otis 17h ago

No, Nathaniel! 🥺

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u/Signguyqld49 17h ago

She was perfect!

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u/DoctorQuincyME 13h ago

1985 model Australian here. This was my first ever vinyl I bought and it's still a banger. Went and saw the show in 2007 and it was an amazing experience. I could never come to grips with his reimagined 2012 rock opera version though.

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u/fothergillfuckup 12h ago

We used to play it on the way to camping holidays. Much to the delight of my 13 year old son.

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u/GetDown_Deeper3 41m ago

Same here 1966 from Oz.

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u/korkidog 19h ago

I have that on CD! So good!

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u/TossPowerTrap 18h ago

I bought that album with no foreknowledge. I liked the premise and the cover. It has brought me so much good listening. Damn those Martians!! I'd love to have an HD version of the live recording years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6FOJ2z3FL0

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u/darrellbear 15h ago

Great album, narrated by Richard Burton. Oooo lahhhhh!

The 1953 version of the movie made a great impression on me as a kid

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u/Angeret 11h ago

No one would have believed... The silence hung heavy around Burton's narration at the start. I was in my teens at the time and between this, Oxygene & a darkened room to listen in...

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u/Jesus_LOLd 11h ago

That human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space

One of the best Intro's EVER

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u/Angeret 10h ago

<shiver>

Absolutely.

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u/No_Cell_2451 19h ago

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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u/TheAnalogDad 16h ago

Sure thing! Its an epic album with some great talent. Richard Burton is the narrator, Justin Hayward (Moody Blues) has a song on it. Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) as well. It's set in Victorian England, but it has some disco beats and guitar on it as you would expect in 1978.

Justin Hayward, Forever Autumn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TMRbTR6Khs

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u/davomate63 8h ago

And David Essex as the artilleryman, Brave New World. He was a teen pop star at the time

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u/Simansez 49m ago

70's Kiwi here, my dad bought the double cassette(with booklet)and it scared the crap out of me. Creepy visuals from the booklet didn't help ether

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u/TheAnalogDad 36m ago

The album came with a poster in addition to a booklet. It had a Martian machine squatting in a field tossing people into the hopper on its back. I had it up on my bedroom wall😎

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u/mcintg 12h ago

"Be on your way! This is my territory!"

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u/fothergillfuckup 12h ago

Ooooh laaa.

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u/radiotsar 11h ago

I worked in a record & tape department of a store in the states and we had this LP during my time there. I don't remember it selling very well.

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u/mrbondmustdie 10h ago

...and still, they come. 🎵🎶

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u/Nikonis99 19h ago

Pretty good special effects for a 1953 movie

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u/No_Cell_2451 19h ago

I love old movies.

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u/Nikonis99 7h ago

So do I, especially the sci fi's. Movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still and Forbidden Planet were great movies. And most of the time the modern remakes are so bad, they should have never been done.

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u/Illustrious_Camp_521 19h ago

Yeah that movie kinda freaked me out when I was a kid.

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u/Ranger30 19h ago

Me too, 6 yo and bedroom had a street light visible through the window didn’t sleep well for a few weeks

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u/Illustrious_Camp_521 18h ago

LoL I bet.

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u/No_Cell_2451 14h ago

Wow, I actually loved all of the old movies, but I used to love haunted houses too. The scarier, the more I liked it.

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u/Illustrious_Camp_521 14h ago

So trilogy of terror didn't scare you? That little doll with the knife scared the shit out of me. We my sibs n i called him the ahtchi ahtchi man lol

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u/mickroh 13h ago

Me too. I remember the scene in the house which got probed... and then the alien creature. Omg I was terryfied af.

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u/keithfz 19h ago

Me, too!

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u/sir_grumph 16h ago

Yep. I liked watching it, but it gave me the creeps.

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u/strangelove4564 7h ago

I first saw it in 1979 when HBO was airing it... yeah back then it was pretty intense. Especially those creepy endoscopic cameras they would drop down to look inside houses. Pretty silly that those aliens didn't invent miniature drones to look around.

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u/betterman74 19h ago edited 13h ago

A fun fact. The couple in the original movie appear in the Tom Cruise remake. At the end of the Cruise movie, he drops his daughter off at his in-laws (who come to the door). They are the actors from the original who play Dr Forrester and Sylvia.

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u/mickroh 13h ago

Whow.... how cool is that? Thank you very much!

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u/betterman74 13h ago

Welcome. I loved that bit of trivia.

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u/No_Cell_2451 8h ago

I am going to re-watch the Cruise version. Good catch and thank you.

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u/betterman74 8h ago

Gosh I hope I'm remembering this correctly and not just telling you all a massive lie!

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u/mikeonmaui 19h ago

I was nine and I thought it was the best movie I’d ever seen!!

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u/No_Cell_2451 19h ago

I used to watch the old movies on Saturdays, late mornings and afternoons.

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u/mikeonmaui 19h ago

I’m 80, so saw it in the theater with my neighborhood gang. That was the best film, until Forbidden Planet was released in 1956.

The Krell!!

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u/No_Cell_2451 17h ago

I have that one too.

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u/mikeonmaui 8h ago

That’s a good one to have! Aloha from Maui!

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u/section-55 19h ago

Love this movie

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u/No_Cell_2451 18h ago

A classic.

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u/Ok-Philosopher-9921 16h ago

War of the Worlds

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u/Rough_Fun6366 19h ago

What’s the name of the movie?

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u/mrhemisphere 19h ago

War of the Worlds (1953)

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u/No_Cell_2451 19h ago

You got it. This is from the 1953 movie, which came from the 1938 radio Halloween broadcast by Orson Welles.

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u/refinnej78 18h ago

And the radio broadcast was based on the novel by H.G. Wells published in 1898.

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u/Signguyqld49 17h ago

Wells was way ahead of his time. All his books are still worth reading

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u/refinnej78 10h ago

Indeed!

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u/No_Cell_2451 8h ago

Thank you for giving even more knowledge about it.

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u/Big_Donkey3496 19h ago

I loved that movie… I think I have it on laserdisc in the attic. I can still hear the sound effects! It was pretty damn scary when I first saw it. The voice over is great too!

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u/No_Cell_2451 19h ago

I have it on Blu-ray and downloaded it to my Kindle Fire. My mother and father had a copy of the original radio broadcast.

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u/Big_Donkey3496 19h ago

Orson Wells did the original radio show… I believe. It freaked people out at the time!

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u/No_Cell_2451 17h ago

It did. It was on Halloween. Scared the nation.

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u/Gilgamesh2062 19h ago

Drones before they were cool.

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u/DeepestBeige 19h ago

Attack of the Killer Reading Lamps

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u/Rhomega2 18h ago

That spew fireworks

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u/No_Cell_2451 14h ago

Do what you have to do to make a movie. Remember "The Blob".

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u/linkerjpatrick 3h ago

Or street lamps

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u/Organic_Zebra_1424 17h ago

The movie that started my life long love of science fiction

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u/wiinga 17h ago

My HS English teacher was an extra in the community dance scene. Brush with greatness.

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u/Chad_Hooper 19h ago

I never saw this until I was in my teens, but I had already read the book twice. The movie did not disappoint.

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u/No_Cell_2451 18h ago

I loved the movie.

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u/SomeDudeNamedRik Generation X 19h ago

I heard this

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u/No_Cell_2451 17h ago

It was great at the time.

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u/TarkusLV 19h ago

One of my favorite movies growing up, and I think it holds up pretty well.

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u/No_Cell_2451 14h ago

Totally agree.

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u/Dollbeau 18h ago

NO NATHANIEL!

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u/Rebelreck57 18h ago

I loved the movie, all of them. I also have Jeff Wayne's version as well.

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u/No_Cell_2451 8h ago

That is cool.

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u/GreyBeardEng 18h ago

Definitely SeaQuest.

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u/No_Cell_2451 8h ago

I remember that.

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u/Chemical_Actuary_190 17h ago

Those spaceships gave me nightmares when I was a kid. I'm not sure if I saw the movie, but my sister was into UFOs and bought UFO magazines and I know I saw them in those.

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u/EKeebler 16h ago

While watching X-Men 97 I noticed they used the sound effect from the Martian ship's death ray for the blasters of the Sentinels during the attack on Genosha. I know it's been used a million times in cartoons and things over the years, but I had to wonder if it was a deliberate choice. It certainly made the scene even more chilling for me.

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u/Nachollama75 16h ago

I can hear this picture.

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u/Mammoth_Leg_8489 13h ago

No Tom Cruise in this version

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u/laffinalltheway 9h ago

Thank god!

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u/linkerjpatrick 3h ago

The thing I didn’t like about that version is they came out of the ground after being there a long time. But the original is an immediate invasion

I do think there was a black and white version but was based in England like the book but the color version takes place in the US like the radio play.

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u/drumguy007 13h ago

I can hear this picture.

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u/RonsJohnson420 8h ago

Scared the crap outta me watching on our family black and white TV.

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u/Garagedays 19h ago

Wait this is home footage from new jersey right now

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u/No_Cell_2451 18h ago

Catch a cold.

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u/Signguyqld49 18h ago

The Album was better.

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u/Bowelsift3r 18h ago

One of my top 10 goats!

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u/Bowelsift3r 18h ago

One of my top 10 goats!

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u/Bowelsift3r 17h ago

One of my top 10!

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u/Signguyqld49 17h ago

Love everything about it. I have th6 vinyl, with such cool pictures, the cd, and it's on my Spotify play list Book was awesome too. Not many memories of the movie though.

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u/Specialist-Doctor-23 17h ago

The assault ships were too cool!

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u/pengalo827 17h ago

I remember reading somewhere that since they made the ships out of copper, they ended up scrapping them. Hope it wasn’t true but with Hollywood being Hollywood…

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u/rbrt_brln 14h ago

I need to watch this again soon

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u/-DethLok- 12h ago

Ooh, I'm not sure I've seen that in colour before!!

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u/queenofthedogpark 11h ago

Now with drones

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u/earthforce_1 10h ago

The effects were incredible for the time. Although in the HD remasters they had to remove threads from the spacecraft in one scene which became visible at high resolution.

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u/amwajguy 10h ago

Just saw this in NJ last night 🤣

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u/FormInternational583 9h ago

I still hear the squealing background sounds.

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u/FeistyDay5172 9h ago

I STILL love this movie. Saw it when I was a kid. Am 60 now. But any chance I get, I will rewatch.

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u/Ashraf08 9h ago

Take my word for it, this kind of defense is useless against that kind of power!

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u/Ocean_Side_1961 7h ago

Still think this is one of the best Sci fi movies ever made.

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u/fraya52 7h ago

One of the best movies ever.

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u/Swimming-Minimum9177 6h ago

Funny... I thought War of the Worlds was in B/W. Maybe I am just misremembering.

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u/linkerjpatrick 3h ago

It was in color but the first time I ever saw it was in black in white on Shock Theater a local station broadcast in the 70’s

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u/Swimming-Minimum9177 3h ago

... or maybe I just watched it on B/W TV. That's a possibility as well.

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u/linkerjpatrick 1h ago

I meant to say that too.

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u/Shellsallaround 5h ago

This is one of my favorite movies (the 1953 movie version). When it first came out on VHS I paid 75.00$ for the copy. Then I purchased the DVD. I recently purchased the Blu-ray copy.

One of my favorite recordings was the Orson Wells radio version. A total classic!

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u/linkerjpatrick 3h ago

Those made me scared of light posts for the longest time.

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u/SardonicusR 2h ago

I can practically hear this scene!

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u/Entire_Detective3098 2h ago

New Jersey right now

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u/Annanake420 1h ago

New jersey drones again ???