The Reel Rejects - WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:29 world the worlds i'm ready to see all these war i'm ready to see the worlds i'm ready to see tom cruise do tom cruise things and run i love tom cruise so much let's do this if you're listening to this on app or spot if i give us a high rating um wow we just watched war of the freaking worlds and i am i love this film and everything that it did from the cinematography to the music to the sound effects to the way the story goes that the only things is I'm like what was the only thing that bugs me is how how was their car the only working car what is the idea of the stone and it being freezing I'm like did he take that did he not take it why were the lights on at the at the mom's house

Starting point is 00:02:22 when they went and then the phone wasn't working there's just some of those that I'm like oh man I would have loved an explanation of like what what is it that that messed him up like wouldn't that be so cool to find out like oh it's because of maybe that stone or it's because he had the magnet in his watch and not everybody has an analog watch these days and like that's why I don't know but even letting all that go I wasn't distracted by that at all I was just in it from start to finish it was boom boom boom boom boom it did not stop and the moments it stopped just for a breath when it went eerily silent. It was like three to five seconds

Starting point is 00:03:03 and then boom, right back in your face. I mean, this movie, I love it. You got juice to share, Aaron? Yeah, yeah, I got all the juice. I don't know if there's as much juice was in there was pods of the aliens, but I got some juice. Oh, let's give it to them. I really, really liked the movie.

Starting point is 00:03:22 I think I was, as we're in it, you know, certain questions did come up. I will say from a visual standpoint, this movie is incredible. From its soundtrack, it's incredible. Being able to raise the tension through each of its different set pieces and scenes. Awesome. We had bombastic scenes. We had scenes of slow emotional tension.

Starting point is 00:03:42 We had scenes of us building up quiet tension of becoming a thriller at some point and like playing with elements of horror. I thought all that stuff was great. I like Tom Cruise's arc of being somebody who was more of absentee father. but learning to come into his role of being a protector and a provider doing things that were ugly in the name of coming into fatherhood in a in a true and meaningful way learning how to let go of his son because he needs to find his own form of stepping into his own and finding his own form of altruism and protection for for his fellow man so I thought all that stuff was cool I will say I I was I was loving it as we were watching it, but I think as we got into the third act, there's some stuff that wasn't jelling with me quite as much. I don't love the fact that a grenade just stopped this million plus year plan. Yeah. I just thought that was a little like, okay, I don't know if that's how it is in the original book or if that's just something he had to like write for the movie, but it felt like

Starting point is 00:04:49 things were just so dire and odds were stacked against them to such a degree. And it seemed like in the face of because the movies started off really smart with like okay in this situation outside of the fact that they were all standing there when clearly there was danger

Starting point is 00:05:03 when the aliens first started to rise but the fact that they went to the basement was really smart the fact that they were able to get a car and maneuver the way that they did was smart but then other things

Starting point is 00:05:14 that the movie did that were like more convenient like the fact that you know they were clearly those people were in the pod inside of the alien waiting center, I guess, for a minute. But the moment Tom Cruise comes in, they all help to save him.

Starting point is 00:05:30 And then he's able to get the grenade, which causes the entire invasion to go kaput. And then is there any truth to the fact that there was the ones in Japan that were they were able to stop? So there's these couple of minor things. But I think largely the character-driven aspects of the story, what kept me in. A lot of the creative, insane set pieces are what kept me in. And I think just the things that aren't explained and then the things that are convenient

Starting point is 00:05:57 prevent me from loving it in this totality, but I still had a really great time of enjoying all those other things that I mentioned earlier. Yeah, I agree. Because there's some, there's some, like, loose ends here, right? And especially that it would have been a nice move. And I think that's an easy move to make that you just see them trying to hold on to one guy in the beginning. And then so when it's like, it's Tom Cruise, it's like he doesn't mean anything.

Starting point is 00:06:22 thing to you like why is this guy coming in for him i under that is a little weird i'm like i think that's a quick easy little direction fix of like we're trying we're trying but now it would have been cool to see them go no we realize how we can pull it down now we all have to line up all of our weight bring it down you're like oh that's really smart right that would have like hit us a little bit harder along with like the tim robins that was really convenient why are why are they're only you know them two just seeing Tim hundreds of people running hundreds right and like

Starting point is 00:06:55 again also you know in the beginning we're like run like why you guys all hanging out watching this thing you know get out of here and I think the biggest thing is like give me the explanation why they only have the one car working yeah but I will give them I was in it the the whole time I wasn't too

Starting point is 00:07:13 distracted by these ideas and I did think that when they took over when that mob takes over that car I mean, I saw it coming and I would have written it or directed it the same way of like, there's enough people here. So unless you start, you put pedal to the metal and you start running over people, you're not going to make it. And I'm glad that they had to get out of that car because I feel like that was so realistic.

Starting point is 00:07:37 If you're against hundreds of people in one car, you better floor it and you better kill people for you to survive or they're going to take your car. I really believe that scene so much. It was so realistic. and him going in the very artistic way that they displayed he's killing Tim Robbins he has to do what he has to do for his family in him like you said stepping into that fatherhood role of like yeah I mean he's he's a protector he's the only thing the kids got and I find it very interesting if this is in the I didn't read the novel I know it's based on one I don't know if the script added this or if it's in the novel that the kid goes off and he's like I have to fight right that he has that thing and we we we saw that humanity in him when he helps the people onto the boat yeah and we saw tom cruise look at him sort of like a knowing look and you brought it up there's no way he learned that from tim because of the the suitcase thing i'm like oh yeah he's right

Starting point is 00:08:34 so did he learn that from dad you know like it i and then i feel like at the end when they come together and they both look ragged and torn up like they both fought and and we're in the middle of this, that there's a sense of knowing, like the son is like, hey, I'm more like my dad than I thought, even though there's this tension there, right, because his dad is an absentee kind of a dad, not really present as much. You know, there's issues with that. But I think now at the end, when we see it, and we see in Tom's Cruz's face, obviously that moment is going to bring you together. You're going to be like, I can't leave my family now, right? After what they've been through, I mean,

Starting point is 00:09:16 mean, even if the, the parent-in-laws or whatever, hate Tommy, right? Like, she laughed, like, I'm not going to tell him hi from you, that I feel when you see this, that that picture is he is now going to become full-time dad and know now what that means. And I do like that. I like that. Without saying a lot of words, we just kind of see it, see him fall into it. And through the trials and tribulations of them fighting aliens and trying to hide in all this stuff, that, you know, that's what brings them closer.

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Starting point is 00:10:08 And I think that that we could see that in his eyes, that he was through that, it's going to be a different life for him now. but he kind of had to go through that with his kids otherwise it was like he he works for a living was his phrase and that's what he does yeah and he has a hard job and you know he's he's not around and you know he's divorced and he's probably still feeling the pain i mean he's just going through it and so are the kids reject nation when i heard that this company wanted to partner up with us yet again i was so enthusiastic about it reason being i had already been using their product for a well over a year by the point we first ever collaborated with them. So the fact that we get to have this ongoing partnership just makes me a happy camper. And that is, of course, for the app, Rocket Money.

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Starting point is 00:15:30 where they're kind of all congregating and then like they're trying to run for their lives. So there's like this sense of individual panic and then there's like this communal chaos uh with one another when the chips are down and they're trying to steal the car uh all the way through them helping each other at the end and then the stuff with with tim robins and i'm like okay are these just like different facets of how people react react in the situations yeah i would have obviously the movie's not necessarily about that but it does touch on those things and i would have liked to have seen more about humanity's experience of tragedy or of an invasion or what something like this does to people because I feel like we maybe it's contextual because okay they're all panic in one place

Starting point is 00:16:15 and that's why they're all trying to hop on this car but then in another another situations where they're all huddled in one place that's when we band together could I don't know do you know what I'm saying I get what you're saying there's two different points of view here that maybe they we're trying to display it's like the the theme the overall theme and the message of like what exactly are we trying to say here is maybe a little unclear yeah um because i do agree with you mob happens and then in the pods they try to save the people but they're but then you're like i guess that's real life right you're like i guess it's just when you're in a mob it's that peer mentality of this guy's got the working car let's get in it how are we going to survive we're all

Starting point is 00:16:56 going to die well i think it's funny uh or maybe the the point of not intrigue but it was a military guy yes that led the charge and that and then that from there it's by the other people do it i'm like why didn't you try that earlier if that's like your whole i wish the the army guy would have been pulled up same time as tom that would have made sense yeah or they were trying to say people that would go up but they failed exactly and then the army says here's the plan let's do this that would had just a little bit of juice there, we would have, ah, cool. Like, they're really, they're working together. Um, and yeah, I do agree. There could have been a bigger message of like humanity and how when we work together in times of crisis, it's always going to be better than

Starting point is 00:17:42 shoving people away, right? Um, and we kind of hoped for that with maybe Tim Robbins' character of like, he's willing to take people in. It was weird that it was just them. to but um but then we see that he's going slowly insane yeah um he was reckless going insane yeah and you got to do what you got to do to protect your family when somebody seems unstable yeah in those sort of situations and i like the way that they were able to convey that without spelling it out and you knew without even him having to say i have to kill this guy like he lose the look in his eyes like yeah this this isn't going to work and i got a daughter to protect and the fact that they were able to focus on Dakota fanning

Starting point is 00:18:26 while that scene was playing out because you knew they didn't say what happened to him but you know what happened to him. Yeah, you hear that, um, mm, uh. Yeah, while she's singing the song, while she's crying stuff. But yeah, I like the way that Steven Spielberg is able to fluctuate between those moments.

Starting point is 00:18:42 Like, I think this is a perfect encapsulation of his abilities as a director. Yeah. Because he is able to do those big bombastic moments with us running to the street with the giant set pieces. but he's also able to really capture tension in a meaningful way where we had that whole extended scenes where all of our collective buttholes were clenched as he was trying to have the snake go and they were trying to dodge it and then they were like behind the mirror but then the shoe was there and then you go behind and they're not there and I'm like there's such contrasting total set pieces or that we've got to experience but also we get those moments where he's with his daughter she wants to sing the song and he's trying to comfort her and he's crying himself and he goes to these different moments of trying to be a good father,

Starting point is 00:19:30 but struggling to figure out what that means at this point in his children's lives. You know, he doesn't remember certain details about them, but he wants to be there. He wants to be a good father. He wants to protect them, especially when he doesn't know what's going on himself. And he finds that towards the end of the movie, which I thought was very, very cool, very powerful. and yeah keep talking I'm going to look up trivia yeah overall it was just a

Starting point is 00:19:58 a really strong movie granted I know I had my my issues with it but I don't think that takes away from the general experience I said it during the movie earlier I think this would have been amazing to see in theaters the fact that this came out almost 20 years ago and it still holds up for the most part it's just a testament to

Starting point is 00:20:14 Steven Spielberg and his directing and his ability to tell story yeah telling his story is what he yes he's a great storyteller He's a great visual storyteller and the way he's able to direct his actors. Like Tom Cruise was incredible in this film. Dakota Fanning was incredible in this film. She's so good.

Starting point is 00:20:32 Give her an Oscar. Her performance, I forgot to say this, but I'm serious. And even towards the end, and I didn't call it out then, she's in the tunnel and Tom's holding her and she's sobbing, like doing like a reaching, but she's like, because she doesn't know what she's doing. Bravo. And you know what? There's something about Stephen in regards to directing children.

Starting point is 00:20:52 know how he does it but i've thought drew barrymore is the best child actor from et i mean you see her cry she is the most realistic girl in that in moot in et drew barrymore hats off right and then in this one to go to fanning i mean hats off again he just has a way i don't know how he does it but i mean brilliant um okay uh oh wow there's a goof at around 25 minutes a camera is seen filming the alien despite all electronics being disabled earlier in the film. That's not the only goof. I mean, we've thought about a lot of

Starting point is 00:21:29 of this stuff, like continuity. Let's see. Oh, this one, this one's so, like people watch continuity. I guarantee you the person who's writing this had to watch this movie 15 times to write this. It says, after he throws a baseball and breaks the window,

Starting point is 00:21:47 the following shot from the inside of the house and through the broken hole in the window, the shape of the broken window from outside doesn't match the shape from the inside. Speaking of continuity real quick, when they were in the car and we were talking to Manny and she was crying in the back seat, so every time I would go to her face and she was like

Starting point is 00:22:03 had teary eyes, there was a shot where it was behind the camera was next to Tom Cruise and then the sun was sitting in the front seat and through the peak of like the crack of the chair, you can see Dakota fanny and she's not crying, but it cuts back to her and she is crying. Did you notice that? Yes, I did.

Starting point is 00:22:19 Okay. Because I was like, Bravo, Dakota, when they had the close-up, but she's in the back. We can see, thank God, we don't see a lot of her face, but you can tell she's not crying like she was. Totally agree with that. Let's see. I'm going to try to get to some spoilers here. Okay. Let's see.

Starting point is 00:22:38 After, I haven't read these, I'm just going to read it. After Stephen Spielberg made a remark about how catastrophes brought out the best in people, David Co-op wrote the scene where Ray is forced to give up the van at gunpoint. point all right um okay interesting um okay let's see god these are like the longest things ever um after ray and the kids reached dry land when the fairies attacked and sunk air raid sirens go off and the day of extras casting in athens new york the air raid sirens were tested causing jokes among the extras that the aliens were coming too soon before the cameras that would have scared me too if i actually heard that in real life um uh the da da da da da da

Starting point is 00:23:20 And, oh, okay. Nope, that's not an interesting one. I'm trying to get you one more, guys. That's cool. These are not that great. Tom, Tom, Tom, Tom, Cruz. Tom, Tom, Cruz. It's ambiguous as to why some electronics and vehicles still work after lightning

Starting point is 00:23:40 strike. However, it could be explained that the lightning only damage batteries or some parts of the electronics that can be repaired as shown with the truck. This could also explain why some cars are taking. and on the ferry for you can see many of them have their lights on and even carry the passengers. I didn't recognize that. That is smart. That helps me because

Starting point is 00:23:58 we were like, give me that juice. There's not a ton of good spoilers in here. This says that Tim Robbins character has been seen digging a tunnel. He also digs a tunnel in Shawshank Redemption. That's right. Okay. All right.

Starting point is 00:24:13 That's it. The gun, the one more. The gun the man puts to Ray's head is a, oh, they're just saying the name of the gun. Okay, guys. The trivia is not great on this one, those spoilers, but that's all right. Gave you a little bit of juice there. This was a really, really fun one. I mean, I love pretty much everything Stephen does. So I knew it was going to be good. And when you put Tom Cruise in anything, the main thing is the actors, all very believable. All of it, like hands down, all of them, great acting. And that would have

Starting point is 00:24:42 messed it up for me along with like the continuity issues. I would have maybe been really bugged if I didn't believe these actors. But 10 out of 10 for them. And I love this movie. It's a blast watch. Yeah, I would give it an 8 out of 10 overall for me. All right. We love you guys.

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The Reel Rejects - WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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