The Weekly Planet - War of the Worlds (2025) - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: April 23, 2026

All good things must come to an end, like for example our War of the Worlds retrospective. But at lease we're going out on the lowest of the lows, the 2025 but filmed in 2020 Ice Cube "screenlife" ad...aptation. Considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made with such a bizarre and terrible execution it's kind of hard to stay focused on one thing at a time when talking about it. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravana Garbage where we're wrapping up our War of the World's Trilogy. That's right. And what a great way to end. Our lives. Okay. This is it. All right, let's make a pact, everyone.
Starting point is 00:00:13 You, me, everybody watching? That's right, yeah. Because I mean, after we're gone, what's the point? What would you even do? Just wander around for a bit? Just wander around? Wander around in this ruined world? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:25 It's like when you finish an open world game and then they're like, you're free to explore. What? Yeah. Talk to a shopkeeper. Stop petty crime. Stop petty crime, yeah. Don't bother.
Starting point is 00:00:36 It's like when you get to the end of a novel and you're like, well, bang, you know? What's over the point? It's just like that. Yeah. Anyways, please leave a like for War of the World's 2025. So this was directed by Rich Lee, who done some other minor Tiber work and the like. Uh-huh. But it's interesting because this is produced by Timur Beckmanbatov.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Is he the director of? Nightwatch and Day Watch and day watch and some other stuff And wanted But he, yes The least accurate Comic Book adaptation of all time
Starting point is 00:01:07 Maybe But he also apparently Is heavy into what I've just learned This is called a screen life movie This is the genre of movie Because he also produced
Starting point is 00:01:16 Some others yeah He produced the movie searching Which has John Chew in it Which I quite like I saw that at the cinemas It's about a missing person And it all takes place Within a computer screen
Starting point is 00:01:25 On a big, on the cinema screen And I'm like This is very compelling This is fun this is interesting. This could be a whole genre of movies. Oh, wait, it can't. No, it can't.
Starting point is 00:01:34 This is like that Black Mirror episode on Netflix that was Choose Your Own Adventure. Yeah. And I like that one and I watched it and I'm like, they're never going to do anything. Never again. They're never going to do anything as good as this again. Bang! You know? But then I didn't because it's important.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Yeah, absolutely. So his quote about this was, if aliens invaded today, how would we experience it? Most likely we'd be watching it on our phones. In that way, it's kind of a modern spin on Orson. as War of the Worlds. Because that was on the radio. It was. So, going into this, I had never seen it before.
Starting point is 00:02:06 I'd heard it was the worst movie ever made, blah, blah, blah, zero percent rotten tomatoes at one point. I can't remember whether it is now. And it's one of those movies where, like, I'm worried I'm not going to do it justice in terms of just how bizarre and terrible this is. Sure. So here's some words that I think sum it up.
Starting point is 00:02:22 My fear is also that you watch it and you go, it was all right. It was pretty good, actually. It was all right. I don't know what people were talking about, actually. Not in a funny way, you know. But it is bad in a funny way. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Solace, cheap, slap dash, not a real movie. 80% of this is just staring into the open mouth of a slack-jawed ice cube. Absolutely. And there's a lot of, also, first of all, in the opening sequence, ice cube drinks from a clearly empty cup of coffee. I think when you... He couldn't even put any ice cubes in it? No, sir.
Starting point is 00:02:52 His trademark iced cubes? Absolutely not. Which is a bad side. Like, that's a... Yeah. You know. Well, I think it's worth pointing out that he's quoted as saying, we shot this in 15 days. It was during the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:03:05 So this was in 2020. So the director wasn't in there. None of the actors were in there. This was the only way we could really shoot the movie. We know, man. I didn't know any of that in starting this, but that becomes very apparent. Yeah. Straight away.
Starting point is 00:03:21 And this movie is only 90 minutes, but it feels like an eternity. It really does. It's one of those. Because there's so many. sequences where it's just a dramatic zoom in on a computer cursor as it goes to a text box and clicks and then somebody copies and paste a password to dramatic music. Yeah, because he's like, oh, I can't get into this.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Wait, I can. I have a program that could open any password or whatever. Yeah, God damn. So in this Ice Cube plays Bad Dad, Will Radford. Yes, that's right. And he's a counter-terrorist computer surveillance analyst guy. And through his lens, we see the invasion of Earth by the Martians, presumably. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:02 What's interesting, I think, is this movie has taken the bad dad trope from 2005's War of the World. That's interesting. Because prior to that one, War of the Worlds didn't, I mean, it had dads, presumably. Sure. But it wasn't, there was no emphasis on the dads. You didn't know who was a bad dad. Right? Probably all of them, because it was the 50s.
Starting point is 00:04:21 But post-2005, they're like, okay, you know what, the War of the Worlds has to have. have a bad dad. But he's a different type of bad dad because Tom Cruise's bad dad was not interested in his kids. This dad is too interested in these kids. He's got both of his children under surveillance. Dude, do your job, which is also just clicking around just different cities and surveillance footage
Starting point is 00:04:45 and listening to just anybody's phone call. Also, he's the only one in that building. Is it the only one who works at the NSA? I think there's like one dude on each floor or something. But we never see them because they lock them down. Right, okay. Everybody gets locked down quite early on in the picture. They're doing their own war of the world.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's exactly right, yes. It would be funny if there were multiple different invasions happening. They're all dealing with the right version. Yeah, the portal to hell opened up in this one. I'm dealing with that. This one's Jesus is back, but he's mad. The floor above ice cube, Dr. Dre, is dealing with the mole men.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Also, I should acknowledge that this is a hard acting gig. Yeah. Because you're sitting across, From nothing. You're not really looking at a screen. You're probably looking directly at a camera. For a lot of it. Yeah. The actors are told not to do. Yes.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And Ice Cube is good in other things. Agreed. He would have made a great Jay Jonah Jameson at some point. Absolutely. People have made the case for that. But originally, though, the character of William Radford was going to be a paraplegic. So that's the idea that, you know, he's locked into his screen. A little bit real window.
Starting point is 00:05:49 I was going to say, yeah, it's a bit rear window. But apparently the director was impressed with the intensity of Ice Cube's chair throw. So he... Which I guess he just did. And he's standing up and sitting down And that point where he goes to his door And he goes, door's locked. I can't get out.
Starting point is 00:06:03 Because the computers locked the door. If only I was good with computers, I could unlock the door. Yeah, the idea that this man who is the surveillance state Is the hero also. That in itself is like crazy, right? And it's just him clicking around and being like, oh, look at this punk Or just being like, damn. Like just this boomer nerd, just video calling people all fucking day.
Starting point is 00:06:26 Judge Dury and executioner he can call in a drone strike at any moment on anybody who disrespects his children or whatever. Or shows too much respect to one of his children, his son who he hates. God, unbelievable. When we first encountered his dad, first of all, he's surveilling his pregnant daughter. Also, his equipment has muffin detective capabilities. That's right. And it knows what kind of milk. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:06:50 There's so much, I don't even, there's so many little individual parts of this is broken. I'd feel like I'm going to get sidetracked. I need to fucking focus. In a different movie, this man would be the crazed stalker who is following people and critiquing their dietary habits before he murders them. That's good. Maybe it would have been if there wasn't a war of the world.
Starting point is 00:07:10 If Jigsaw had this technology, it'd be like, well, you don't drink enough milk. Time to drain you in milk. Time to take all your bones away. You don't deserve bones. That's right. But in this, he calls up his daughter to critique her for not giving enough protein to her. baby. And then he's mad that his son is spending too much time playing video games.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Oh, that's really doing that. Yeah, he's deleting his son's steam library or whatever. Absolutely. I don't understand that. And, you know, but he's proven wrong towards the end because his son's video game skills do save the day. That is true. In a very cool way. Yeah, and also he's worried because there's this person called Disruptor. And they're disrupting the whole looking at stuff industry. That's right. And Ice Cube doesn't like that because that's what he's about.
Starting point is 00:07:57 And he thinks he's at the top level of looking at stuff. That's right. But there might be another level of that. But anyway, forget all of that because then it's time for a new war of the world. Evil Longoria calls and she's like, hey, what do you think of this terrible lightning effect? And he's like, I don't care about terrible lightning effects. I only care about being the surveillance state and being judged during executioner on my daughter, quite frankly. Thinking about drone striking my pregnant daughter, if you wouldn't mind, leaving me alone.
Starting point is 00:08:23 But thanks for FaceTime calling me. Yeah. Which is a thing that we're all doing. But the effects, we should talk about this. Or even just the way it's filmed. We don't have to. We're doing it. All right.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Everything is filmed so terribly. Agreed. And look, there are special effects and I want to talk about that also. But just the idea of like, just people running down the street holding a camera or a phone or whatever, filming themselves. They really had to contrive. Oh, my God. They really had to, and that's the limitations of this screen life genre is that if you want to depict certain types of action, you have to really contrive ways to have people showing that even though nobody would do it in real life.
Starting point is 00:09:01 There's a point where there's like a special operation SWAT team or whatever and they're busting in on a building. So they have to have one woman, the leader of the team, holding a gun and then also holding her phone in the other, like it's just like the Mulder and Scully in the X-Files, like holding a flashlight, except it's, she's just holding a phone. Yeah, Ice Cube wants to say, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ice Cube got to see it. I've got a note here it said, remember when he was directing his son to run around, but I don't remember that. So I wrote that to be like, hey, remember this?
Starting point is 00:09:32 I guess it was a bit when he was looking at the map and his son's like running through and he's like, turn right here, turn left here. I think there's a moment where there is a moment where his, the Martians who were also in this. Yeah. Which is, it's really, honestly, it's really a side note that the fact that the Martians are in this.
Starting point is 00:09:48 I think this might have been a different movie if they didn't go, you know what, War of the Worlds is free. So we could put the Martians in this. But there's a moment. where his son is being pursued by the Martians because for their reasons and they're gonna blast him and he's like
Starting point is 00:10:01 son run this way now run this way whatever and then they blow up his house but then it turns out he's in a different house he's got a green screen where everybody has a fucking green screen in this movie okay so let's just talk about the horrendous special effects in this go on so a lot of this movie so much of it
Starting point is 00:10:16 the other 20% when you're not looking into ice cubes open mouth is just stock footage of like forest fires and military vehicles and clouds or whatever. And news reports of people going, and then the Martians, they've destroyed everything and all, and everybody's panicking
Starting point is 00:10:32 and the world is over. I don't think you should be saying that, news reporter. I don't think that's your call to make, actually. And it's interesting because sometimes they'll use like real disasters. And apparently there were moments when the CG artists actually, they had real disaster footage and they went, we can't
Starting point is 00:10:49 use this. So they'd recreate it because they're like, this is in poor taste. This is a real plane crash. that were just like, you know, an alien laser did this. There were people on that plane, like, in real life. The pilot was drunk, that's the truth. And just, and also, Ice Cube, it took me a minute because I'm like, is he on a green screen? He is, I think.
Starting point is 00:11:09 So the walls on the side are real, but the back is a green screen. And that's why it looks so weird. And the other bizarre thing about that is often you can see like a reflection in his glasses. And sometimes it's just kind of a vague picture of a screen. but a lot of the time it's a green screen and which they then had to digitally remove. But my question is, why is there a green screen in front of him?
Starting point is 00:11:33 No, man. What would be the purpose of that? Did he just put it there? Because he was on his own, obviously. Oh, you're saying within the context of the, in the context of the narrative? Both in the narrative and in real life, why would he need a green screen in front of him?
Starting point is 00:11:47 Because you just put a blank white screen, right? Because then you get a screen reflection, but you can't see specifically what it is. Am I Is this anything? I think you're overthinking a stupid movie Quite frankly I am
Starting point is 00:12:00 And the other thing about this stupid movie Is you might be like Well it was released on Amazon And there's a whole section in this movie Which is just an ad for Amazon It's not just a whole section It's the finale of the movie It's the big action finale
Starting point is 00:12:13 After we've been emotionally invested In these characters It's like how are they going to get out of these wacky situations Well They're going to use incredible Amazon products But here's the thing And this came as a shock to me And I hope to you and all those listening
Starting point is 00:12:27 This was originally going to be Theatrically distributed by Universal And then Amazon acquired it How are we going to get out of this situation Let's get the wolfman in Universal So yeah If only the creature from the Black Lagoon could help
Starting point is 00:12:43 Because he's free for us So all that Amazon shit And the daughter's boyfriend Being an Amazon employee and flying an Amazon drone and delivering an Amazon USB. And paying off a homeless man with an Amazon gift card. That's not an ad for Amazon.
Starting point is 00:12:59 That was already in the movie. No. No, yes. Whoa. Yes. Wow. And Amazon were like, yeah, all right. Did they trick Amazon into buying this?
Starting point is 00:13:09 Because that's what it feels like. Maybe they were like, do we already own this? Because you can sort of put anything on Amazon Prime, it turns out, like video-wise. Apparently, yeah. So that's fascinating to me. And it's also interesting from the perspective. of, like, this is like an anti-product placement movie. Like, you see a Tesla getting hacked,
Starting point is 00:13:26 or you see like a Fox News doing a theater of the world. You look at that stuff and you go, this shit sucks, actually. Like, it's not a thing that, I think it would make people look at this and go, well, the Tesla can be hacked by the government. Yeah, because there's a point where Ice Cube's daughter needs a ride somewhere, but he can't leave
Starting point is 00:13:43 because his glass door has been locked. And he's maybe paraplegic. He was written to be a paraplegic. Exactly. But then, so then he's like, get to this Tesla and I'll hack it using my. my Tesla hacking computer and then I'll autopilot it to where you need to go or whatever. And it's like, you'd be like, I don't want to, I don't want to buy a car that could be hacked by
Starting point is 00:14:00 Ice Cube or any other government lunatic, you know, with malicious, with malicious intent. That's, it's wild because also when she's in the car, and this isn't really related to the idea that you could use that. He keeps going, stay calm. Stay calm. That's what you want. You want an enraged ice cubes screaming at you to stay calm. after you've been shot through the femur with a like a piece of rebar incredible he's like trying to talk her through it and she's like you don't have the power to save anybody but it's like well kind of because he just put you in a car and was like driving you to a hospital or whatever while you're pregnant and bleeding out i think he kind of does in this situation i think
Starting point is 00:14:42 you've really turned around on ice cube no i'm just saying you've really turned around on security terror systems analyst william radford i just think it's a bad time to make that case i think it's a bad time to make that case Absolutely. Yeah. Well, yeah, because nobody has a consistent character in this at all. No, absolutely. There's another note here that just says, they say initiate this war of the worlds. I don't think we've had that in any other movies,
Starting point is 00:15:01 or maybe we have, I don't know. And then the CNN or whatever's like, and we're calling it a war of the worlds. Like the book? Like the Tom Cruise movie. Nobody in this movie has seen, or read the book. Nobody in this movie has read a book, honestly. But the reason why this is happening.
Starting point is 00:15:18 Yes. And Ice Cube's son actually has the answer to the, this because Ice Cube son, he's not just a guy who's flying around in video games, is he? No. He's got a special secret. He's Disruptor. Yeah, that's right. Well, he's one of the disruptors. Yeah, all the other ones get killed in Droid Strikes or whatever. Don't worry about that. They're not the main characters. Don't worry about it. So he's like, no, what's happened is there's this system. It's above you Ice Cube and it's called Goliath and it's collecting data. Nice. And maybe it's got something to do with the aliens turning up. And Ice Cube's like, there's no way, man. There's no way the government would do that.
Starting point is 00:15:47 How would you know? You're my stupid son. Yeah. But I'm the smart one in this family. You're just stupid. It's wild also that like you work for the government and you can see everybody. And you're looking at shit all day. And you're like, no way, man. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:16:01 No way. Well, he's not looking at anything important. If he looked on his own computer, he'd probably see all these Goliath files. But he's not. He's just surveilling his children. Unbelievable. And putting them in a naughty list of some sort. But there's a further twist to that.
Starting point is 00:16:18 Phil Colson is in this. Clark and Greg. He's like, remember me, I'm Agent Clark Greg. Yeah, yeah. And in these opening sequence, he's just sitting and staring. Probably at his house. They don't really give him any dialogue. So this is this three-way call between, I think, him and Ivo Longoria and Ice Cube,
Starting point is 00:16:33 but he's just kind of like drinking from a water bottle and going, hmm. There's also a moment where he sends a text that says, emergency Zoom meeting, now. Now! That's the worst kind of text you can get. Right? No, I think I'll die. I think I'll die in a war of the world's Martian invasion.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Thanks. I guess that's why they all had to be kind of boomerish in this movie. Yeah. Because most of the people would be like, I'm not taking a... I'm not picking that up. It's irrelevant to me. Let the laser hit me. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:00 So he did it. So the reason the aliens are coming because they crashed in the 40s or whatever. Area 51 shit is. And they're not here for resources. They're here for day. Because they eat the data or it makes them stronger or something because they're half cyber but they're half biological and they eat data. Well, yeah, they might.
Starting point is 00:17:19 Also, we never see them, do we? No. They never get out of their ships. There's little spiders, and maybe that's them, but I don't think so. But also, like, what's the difference between eating data and eating, like, data? Data. But also just eating, like, electricity. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Because that's what it is. Like, is it important that it's state secrets and Amazon gift card information or whatever? Can't it just be random stuff? Well, yeah, that's a great question, because at one point, it eats the data off Ice Cube's Facebook page and he loses all the, he's got a dead wife. All these fresh men. All these fresh men. But honestly, if somebody wiped out my Facebook, I'll be like, thank God.
Starting point is 00:17:54 Right. No, I don't have to think about this. Yeah, I think if I was locked. Because I'm like, I should get my photos of this and whatever. And then I never do. Yeah. And I never look at it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I think if I was locked out of all my social media accounts, like, forever, that would be a load off my mind. I wouldn't wake up in the morning just immediately looking at all the news and going, oh, life's awful. And like, ruining my brain for the rest of the day. You know what I mean? I'd just wake up and I'd look at it. A sunrise.
Starting point is 00:18:20 Fuck, man. So, anyway, Phil Colson set this up, and when he turned on Goliath, that's when the aliens came. Because he knew that this was a possible outcome that the aliens would return
Starting point is 00:18:29 because they'd see all the date, dutems. And after they're, like, shooting everybody and they're doing a war of the world, he's like, it's worth it. And it's that resident evil thing
Starting point is 00:18:37 of like the movies. Yeah, where it's like, yeah, but you've unleashed this thing on the world, which is like, collapse society.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Yeah, but I can look at everybody's Amazon wishlists, can I? You know? I can look at all their secret desires that they haven't bought yet. God, horrible. So they need to fight back.
Starting point is 00:18:55 And I thought you'd like this because as opposed to other... I thought you'd like this. Oh, yeah, thanks, man. Thanks, man. That's what I think of you. I thought you'd like this. Thanks, man. Is that they do an Independence Day style.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Absolutely. They take an active response. So they use the son's knowledge of being disruptor. But also. Also, also his skills at being a video game player. Oh, and also his daughter has DNA molecule science. She's a science lady, which, you know, which Ice Cube doesn't respect. DNA code alteration, that's it.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Oh, yeah, there's a big scene where, like, they all have to get together. And Ice Cube's like, how do we do that? And she's like, well, I'll just make a DNA virus. Can you get, can you have some security guys? Like, can we just get the, can we just undo their DNA? Yes, but we need a DNA. DNA virus for that. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:19:51 Can we ask disruptor? No, we can ask Disruptor sister. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's so funny. Also, I forgot to mention this. But when the other disruptors die in those stock explosions, it's just footage and then it's like,
Starting point is 00:20:03 and then they're just, just God. Also, the thing about these aliens are, normally their ships are impenetrable. They can withstand nuclear blasts or whatever missiles and etc. You can just knock these ones over. Absolutely. And they do not take advantage of that at all. And they're like, oh, the other ones are the distractions.
Starting point is 00:20:24 But you know what are the real ones? The ones are going to the data centres and they've got a big cord and they plug into the data centers. You didn't notice that? Right. Like the ones that are actually doing things. Cut the cord. By a big pair of novelty scissors from Amazon. That's right.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Cut the cord. So yeah, you got, they got to put the DNA code on a thumb drive. Who are you going to get a thumb drive? What are you going to get a thumb drive? Were you going to get a little consumer product? Where are you going to get one conveniently and quickly? Free shipping. Where are you going to get it?
Starting point is 00:20:54 Where are you going to get that, James? That would be funny if they charge for shipping. They're like, no, no, no. The world can't be saved because... 30 bucks to same day shipping. I don't think so. Don't worry about it. Forget it.
Starting point is 00:21:07 So there's a primary drone to fly. As you mentioned, it does crash and they get a man in an encampment to flip it over. And they incentivize him by giving it. Also, like, if the world is ending it And someone's like, yeah, but you get a hundred bucks I'd be like, I don't think this would even work. Yeah. Like, I'm not doing this for a hundred bucks or any bucks.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Yeah. It's pointless. Give me a stack of bottle caps. The new currency. Hell, yeah. In this post-apocalyptic world. Yeah. So the finale is Ice Cube wrestling with CGI tentacles.
Starting point is 00:21:37 Sure. And he dies. Yeah. I think he dies. But before that, he writes a heartfelt letter to his children. It's like, bring in a dad's heart, actually. What's also crazy about that letter is he puts it on a delay Which also assumes that he's going to pull this off
Starting point is 00:21:53 Because if he didn't That email wouldn't have been sent That's true Because they would in fact the aliens probably would have it They'd be like yum yum yum yum We love this They'd be like yum yum yum yum Ooh maybe I should be a better dad
Starting point is 00:22:04 Or a better son Martian son Martian dad They learned Yeah whatever we look like or reproduce Anyway so anyway ice cubes alive And at the end the president's like We want you to collect more data for the president, for a society.
Starting point is 00:22:18 And he's like, I don't want to be the government now. I'm against the government. Which means they'd just kill him. Absolutely. He would be drone struck immediately. They would just remove his admin access and then he wouldn't have, you know, he wouldn't be able to use all his pre-programmed,
Starting point is 00:22:35 like little government programs and stuff. You know? Now it was just an angry dad. How's he going to look at the government through the newspaper? Yeah. What are you talking about? Ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:22:45 Dude. But I guess, again, too, it's going to say this movie's credit, but that's not it. It's interesting in the sense that the aliens at the end, they don't just die. They make them die using data and DNA viruses or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:00 But it's also, you never, and it's definitely a budgetary thing because this movie looks terrible. You don't see the aliens. Nope. The ships just stop, and then everybody just goes to work, I guess. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Yeah. Or quit their job or whatever. I get a new job. in an Amazon Warehouse. Yeah, and I've written here at least it's short, but it's not, is it? No, it's 90 minutes, but it feels like... It's dense.
Starting point is 00:23:23 It is dense. Like a dying star. What's also interesting about it, I think, is that they often talk about now, you know, and Netflix, a lot of streaming services, movies and TV shows, they make a point to have all the characters say in dialogue what is happening on the screen
Starting point is 00:23:39 just in case you're not paying attention. There is so much of this movie where it's just silence, but like, click, click, mouse click, Click, click, click, type, type, type, click, click. Tap, tap. So, you know, to its credit, it respects its audience. The respects we're paying attention. We've been drawn into the beautiful narrative.
Starting point is 00:23:53 It's true. Anyway, it's time for trivia of the war. Oh, yes. Got one piece. There's nothing. The producer on this, Patrick Ayello. There's a great interview, actually. I'll bring it up.
Starting point is 00:24:03 Uh-huh. This is not a you, tapety-tap. Tabity tap. What are you eyes cube? Tapety tap-tap. A lot of people are just being like, this is the worst movie. Mo-a-movie.
Starting point is 00:24:10 My movie. My movie. Yeah, Tony's film club interviewed him. I'd recommend checking that out. It talks to him and an editor about what went on behind this. And it's funny because they were like, they didn't set out to make a bad movie. It was hampered for a number of reasons and then you get something that ends up like this. It is one of those situations like the room where it's like you couldn't do this on purpose.
Starting point is 00:24:31 Yeah, absolutely. And also I think the other thing that's hampered in it is, well, it's got people you know in it. I think if this was a movie that it was just, you know, the cast was just nobody's. And you couldn't get that ice cube thumbnail. where he's like, who? You'd be like, oh, I see,
Starting point is 00:24:48 this is a, and it was made for like five bucks. You'd be like, oh, I see, this is what a, you know, it's kind of dumb,
Starting point is 00:24:55 but what a fun concept. But I think it's the fact that it's got known people in it. That it's like, what were you, what were any of you thinking? But also, I guess you don't know.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Like, if you're, if you're in isolation, filming this, what would you know? You'd be in isolation. You'd be going mad like everybody else was doing.
Starting point is 00:25:12 And they'd be like, here's your part of, of the script and we're going to make it look real good with the special effects and it's all going to make sense and you'd be like, I guess I have faith in the filmmakers. Well yeah, because I feel like there is a good idea in this of a War of the Worlds through the computer. Yes, absolutely. It's not this version of it. Anyway, War of the PC world. Oh, that's good. Magazine. Magazine. Magazine. Magazine. Magazine. Magazine.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Anyway, the producer, he thought it would be better received because people had been experiencing living their life on Zoom. But as we mentioned or alluded to earlier, I fucking hate Zoom. If I never have to be on a video call ever again, it will be too soon. If it's not my kids,
Starting point is 00:25:53 you can not get me on a video call. Just try it. Also, the idea of like, well, people are used to being on Zoom, so they're going to love this. No, we're not. And also the idea of like, well, people were in lockdown,
Starting point is 00:26:05 so they're going to like this. No, it's too soon. Maybe in 10 years, People will be like, we'll sort of romanticise the idea of whatever happened, you know. Making bread. Yeah, making bread, doing a sourdough starter or whatever, based on it with a little help from Amazon.com. But the idea of like just, you know, it's still in people's current memories and to be like, what about this? Oh, bad.
Starting point is 00:26:30 Awful. Bad and shit. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, the box office for this on a budget of $10 million. All right. Too much probably. Went to the stars, right?
Starting point is 00:26:39 You'd hope so, yeah. Yeah. It didn't go to... You mean it went to the stars. They shot it out of a cannon into space. Feels that way. Yeah. to fucking watch this.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Like, I'm not, I'm not being... Mate, it's not a novel. You don't have to have a gun to your head the whole time while you're reading it. You know how I do good jokes? Yes. But I, I... It's a hard watch.
Starting point is 00:27:20 Yeah, agree. It's tough. And it's frantic and boring and... Everybody's being yelled at. Yeah. And everyone's unlikable. Now, we recently watched the movie Hale... The movie Project Hale Mary.
Starting point is 00:27:35 Yeah. Which is about a man calmly solving problems. Do you think maybe that's part of this? Yeah, maybe if he just, you know, just step back for a second, you know. Nobody's chilling this. No one's chilling, man. You got to chill out. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:49 Anyways, this has been Three War of the World's movies. Hell yeah. Do you like that? No. Ultimately, no, not worth it. Well, maybe you'll like this. Here's in towards next week. It's original first X-Men, Mason.
Starting point is 00:28:02 Original X-Men? Original X-Men? So we're going to do X-Men and then X-Men 2. Yeah, we've already done three. Maybe I'll repackaged three. Just be like, this is a re- Nice, re-upload, nice. Remastered, we could say we remastered.
Starting point is 00:28:14 Who's going to stop us? Who's going to stop us? No, that's right. Yeah. You can actually say that earlier at big sandwich dot co, but that's not the only thing there. We do video game, let's plays, but we do, we do, we do movie commentaries.
Starting point is 00:28:24 We do, we've got one on Independence Day and a bunch of others. We've got so many. We do bonus podcasts. Also, we have a podcast that's called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows, it's on YouTube channel, Spotify, etc. I guess the reason that we looked at any of these
Starting point is 00:28:38 because Spielberg is doing alien movie again. That's right. He's back with alien movie. So that's what we'll be talking about. It's very exciting. Thank you so much to Ben for the edit. Thank you, Ben. Thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Thank you, Lawrence. And we have to... I don't know, man. Oh, yeah, we're going to die? I think we're going to die after this, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We promised it in the first act, so...
Starting point is 00:28:59 True. So anything released from now we recorded before our deaths. Yep. Oh, our Amazon package has arrived. Huh, two guns. well bye everyone bye bye forever

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