I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.
Nice, 2.6 on IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13186306/
And 3% on rotten tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025
And semi off topic: No, Phil Coulson how could you do this to yourself? You are the embodiment of SHIELD!
And 3% on rotten tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/war_of_the_worlds_2025
aw, it was headed for a rare 0% rating til Jordan Hoffman from Entertainment Weekly had to ruin it…
The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That’s also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I’d have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.
Don’t forget Phone Booth! It’s Colin Farrell in a phone booth!!
Also kinda similar is Buried with Ryan Reynolds. Just him in a box the whole movie.
There was a whole movie with a guy in a box hoping to be unearthed (Buried, or something like that). It was quite decent.
Bottle Episode: The Movie
I hate the fact that this movie causes people to make fun of the genre and think it’s bad in general. Searching is an amazing movie and I love it, and it also has its entire plot on a computer screen. But it actually works, if you have a skilled director, great actors, a really good plot, and know how to exactly use that concept to make a great movie.
Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.
Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time
I’d like to say it was written by Chat GPT but I don’t wanna insult some innocent LLM.
Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.
It’s a 89 minutes Amazon ad. “See? We’re delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient” or “See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!”
Edit: forgot that bezos had to shill also Tesla “full” self driving and that the
moviead ends with Joe Rogan tweeting a YouTube video that mainstream media and the government hid the truth (conveniently, the aliens ate all the data for all the websites except YouTube)The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.
Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catawampus.
The 5 stars review is ironic
I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴
Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.
It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.
It might be the only case where the Asylum mockbuster version of the movie is clearly superior
Is it normal bad, or is it Birdemic bad?
The concept isn’t bad as such. But I’m not surprised at all that they botched it as it’s not easy at all to pull off.
Disclaimer: I didn’t see it.Evan L is obviously taking the piss.
