Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, a narrator explains why the Martians considered Earth the place to inhabit and not the other planets in our solar system. For some reason, he leaves out Venus.
Bishop73
17th Sep 2003
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Correction: The narration also states that Uranus and Neptune are in eternal night - which is not correct. They receive sunlight just like all the planets. So they do have sunlit hemispheres. The narration was correct that they are ultra-cold worlds, though.
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Correction: The narrator never says "solar system" but that the Martians looked "across space", so leaving out Venus means nothing. After naming Mercury the narrator says "of all the worlds the Martians could see and study..." suggesting that more than just Venus was left off the list of worlds Martians looked at.
Bishop73