The War of the Worlds (1953 film)/YMMV


 * Misaimed Fandom: The Tripods are iconic images in the history of science fiction and what everyone remembers. For some reason this film made them into flying machines.
 * Most adaptations take place in modern-day America instead of Victorian England, which actually makes the Martian threat significantly weaker from a story point of view, since Victorian characters from the novel didn't have the luxury of missile launchers and nuclear weapons to throw at the Martians; this has necessitated modern depictions having to give them force-fields in order to be a credible menace.
 * Also, the Fighting Machines don't fly. They are held up by three "legs" of electrical energy. Granted, only one close-up establishes this. The electricity was a practical (i.e. not optical) effect, generated in real-time, and even then it's not very obvious. At all other times, the "legs" are implied by a faint lighting effect under the body.