I have not seen this, but now I want to: a mockumentary that combines WWI footage with special effects to show the progress of a Great War with invading Martian machines.
Great martian war from PLAZMA on Vimeo.
Those are very well done steampunk tripods!
Yeah, cool deaths are much better than uncool deaths.
Sorry, I’m suffering from too much Trump.
Looks great – but good god that music. And what’s with the voice over advertising I can hear?
Last year, military history publishing house, Osprey, put our a “history” of the “Anglo-Martian War of 1895.” Fun read if you’re a wargaming nerd like me.
Semi-related, ages ago I read a short story (maybe in one of Gardner Dozois’s collections?) in which surviving Martian POWs, unable to return to Mars, settled for a life of working at kosher butchers’ and playing the monsters in 1950s B movies. (The narrator, a Martian, complained about how often Lon Chaney Jr. was too drunk to work, and how he had to stand in.)
I enjoyed this movie tremendously — I liked the conceit, and they really carry it off well. (I also admire that the filmmakers turned the economic limitation of using primarily archival footage to an advantage of also being able to avoid cutting edge CGI.).
I highly recommend it.
Impressive.
The music is completely off tho.
UUUUULLLLLAAAHHHHH! Man I loved Jeff Wayne’s War of the World
Seeing what humans can do to each other, who needs Martians?
nice!
the music did not bother me seemed to fit right in
I like a little dance-hall techno funk once in a while it has a kind of fierce ambiance to it nothing held back
bunka bunka bunka bunka bunka bunka bunka waah woow bunka bunka bunka bunka
uncle frogy
Well, that would have been a much better reason for a depressingly pointless war. Plus the US would have landed on Mars ages ago to settle the score. Besides, if there is a place anywhere in the universe that is populated by sentient beings, the US simply must have an military base and a few nuclear missiles there.
And I didn’t care for the music either. It didn’t fit in with the video at all.
Yeah, the music ruined it for me. They spent ages making their video look like early 20th century film footage (up to putting typewritten-style credits on at the ends) and then put a modern soundtrack on it. It should have been accompanied by a man playing a piano or theatre organ.
Mind you, the war between Mars and Earth is great and all, but not half as great as the war between Mars and Cadbury’s. Not as chocolatey anyway, which is an important consideration.
I want to see the lost Star Wars episode Star Wars Episode 4.5: The Morris Assault-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tVYums4FNUg
See the young post-doc PZ encountering his friend who will likely defect from the Imperial Academy and join the Rebellion.
If you want good music with your War of the Worlds, check out Jeff Wayne’s musical version. Or if you want Richard Burton doing the narration. Seriously. Check it out.
I watched the full version (the entire mockumentary).
It was fun. certainly the best thing the History channel has done since they went the route of “lost atlantean alien Hitlers”
Reminiscent of this: https://unseenfilms.blogspot.com/2012/04/war-of-worlds-1899.html
Unsure as to why you would consider the Martian tripods as Steampunk…
no true steampunk