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[Gord Green]

War of The Worlds Goliath





After the great Martian invasion H.G.Wells wrote about, we should have known they'd try again! War of The Worlds Goliath tells the story of that rematch! Animated and beautifuly rendered this story is very mature ( PG13) and designed to be enjoyed by all ages!



The film is set in an alternate reality Earth. In 1899, the Martians launched an unprovoked attack on the major nations of the world.





In Leeds, England, ten-year-old Eric Wells watches in horror as a Martian Tripod lays waste to his city and then kills his parents. But before it can kill him, the Martian Tripod suddenly keels forward and crashes into the ground.



Over 140 million people were killed by the Martians, and many of the great cities of the world were destroyed until the Martians were killed off by Earth's bacteria, against which the Martians had no defense.



Fifteen years later, in Manhattan, New York City in 1914, the world has seen radical change and development. It has become a dieselpunk/steampunk-like world, where Earth is at the potential onset of the Great War as the European nations' fragile alliance begins to shatter.



A now twenty-five-year-old Britisher Eric Wells is Captain of a Tripod squad for the A.R.E.S. (Allied Resistance Earth Squadrons) organization, alongside American Lieutenant Jennifer Carter, Irish Corporal Patrick O'Brien, Canadian Sergeant Abraham Douglas, and Malayan Lieutenant Raja Iskandar Shah.



A.R.E.S. is commanded by strict Russian General Sergei Kushnirov (who lost his family to the Martians in 1899 at St. Petersburg, leaving only his son Dimitri left), Secretary of War Theodore Roosevelt (who forsook a second term as President of the United States), and Professor Nikola Tesla, an enigmatic Serbian scientist who reverse-engineered the technology from the first, failed, invasion of the Martians and created the wonderful advanced A.R.E.S. weapons and vehicles.





Eric and his team receive the first of a new type of steam-powered, Achilles-class Battle Tripod, (65 feet tall, armed with heavy machine guns and six light rockets, a heat ray and an 88-millimeter cannon) who nicknames his new tripod 'The Goliath'.





But as his crew are preparing to engage another group of Tripods in a simulated war game against Japanese Captain Sakai, the A.R.E.S. alliance is threatened by the onset of the Great War when Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo.



The members of A.R.E.S. are all called back to their respective countries in preparation for the coming war, but Eric, outraged at the stupidity of the human politicians and leaders, convinces everyone in his squad to stay and prepare for the coming Martian invasion.



This proves to be advantageous, as a second, more ruthless, Martian invasion begins, using more advanced, 100 foot tall, heat ray spewing, tripod battle machines, and are now immune to Earth's bacteria.



The Martians first attack the War Games, and decimate many of A.R.E.S.'s forces until they themselves are destroyed by Eric and his team.



But, according to General Kurshnirov at the debrief, that was just a probing attack to judge A.R.E.S.' combat potential as the real invasion began.

The Martians landed on various countries and A.R.E.S. are deployed to repel the invasion. General Kurshnirov sets an ambush for some of the Martian tripods and on knowing three Tripods had broke off, sends Eric's team to hunt the three Tripods. Eric and his team destroys two Martian tripods with the aid of the coimilitia, with only Eric's crew and Wilson, a member of the civilian militia, surviving the encounter.

Wilson leads Eric to a factory which the Martians are using as a base. They discover that the Martians are capturing and harvesting humans, and building weapons for the invasion.



The remaining living prisoners are rescued and the factory then destroyed. The Leviathan, A.R.E.S.'s flying warship, then arrives to evacuate the team.

General Kurshnirov briefs Eric that the attacks were a feint to draw out A.R.E.S.'s forces out of New York and the Martians had attacked A.R.E.S.'s base in New York.




All the nations in the A.R.E.S Federation arise as one to meet their Martian adversaries!

Baron Von Richtoven flies his Tesla augmented Fokker triplane along with his Stormcrows and Valkuries against the Martian foes!



New York is overrun with Roosevelt holding down the A.R.E.S.'s base. The Martians breach the base and the Leviathan and Agemmnon, A.R.E.S.'s other floating sister warship, arrive to relieve the siege and Roosevelt regains the base. Together, they destroy all the Martians in New York.

As they are celebrating their victory, a large Martian spacecraft emerges from the waters near Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The spacecraft attacks A.R.E.S.'s base with devastating effects with its heat rays.



Leviathan and Agemmnon concentrate their attacks on the Martian spacecraft which causes it to attack both warships. Agemmnon is then destroyed in a heat ray attack. The Leviathan flies low to avoid the heat rays while trying to get closer to it.



A destroyed building falls on the Leviathan's bridge and caused it to crash to the buildings on its side. The crash causes Dimitri to fall off the bridge but he manages to cling to the side of the warship. General Kurshnirov attempts to save his son but Dimitri lets go of General Kurshnirov's hands to allow General Kurshnirov to regain control of the Leviathan.



He calls out to General Kurshnirov "I love you, Father" as he falls to his death.

General Kurshnirov regains control of the Leviathan and steers the warship in a fatal collision course with the Martian spacecraft. They collide together and are both destroyed, thereby ending the invasion and defeating the second War of the Worlds with his sacrifice !.

Theodore Roosevelt rallies the survivors to rebuild Earth and bring the war to Mars. The film ends with Earth once more triumphiant ! It's time for Earth to invade Mars!

War of the Worlds: Goliath is a 2012 Malaysian animated science fiction war film directed by Joe Pearson that was released in 15 November 2012 in Malaysia.

The film is voiced by actors Peter Wingfield, Adrian Paul, Tony Eusoff, Elizabeth Gracen, Jim Byrnes, Rob Middleton, Mark Sheppard, Matt Letscher, Adam Baldwin and other voice actors.

The film is a loose sequel to H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds. Its title refers to the human tripod, the main characters use in the film.

The animation is wonderful and beautifuly rendered. I'm not a great lover of Anime, but this is a triumph of the genre!

You too can join the war! Here's a great download of the movie on Youtube---

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


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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[tmlindsey]

WOTW:G deserved so much better.

I was conversing with Joe Pearson (who is a really nice guy) on-line for a while during production. They had no end of issues getting it made and a bad distributor once they finished that resulted in a financial backer seizing the movie; so they don't even own their own film anymore.

Joe said they had plans for future WOTW projects but the failure of WOTW:G killed that.

https://www.epochinkanimation.com/index.php
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"Have you never wondered what it would be like to walk between the ticks and tocks of Time?"

[Gord Green]

I have to admit, I really liked this movie! I'm not a great manga fan so I was pleasently happy to see that this combined the best attributes of manga with state of the art animation! The technical designs of this world were fabulous!
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There comes a time, thief, when gold loses its lustre, and the gems cease to sparkle, and the throne room becomes a prison; and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

[Bud Brewster]

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Enjoy the full movie!

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)