The Weekly Planet - War of the Worlds (2025) - Caravan Of Garbage
Episode Date: April 23, 2026All 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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,
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
of like the movies.
Yeah,
where it's like,
yeah,
but you've unleashed this thing
on the world,
which is like,
collapse society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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
