My first fucking thought was was “yeah, how about no, I’m in fucking zoom calls all fucking day at work.” I give them credit, interesting idea as a high concept thing, but like no chance I’m even giving this 10 minutes even if the reviews weren’t utter shit.
The best unintentional comedy in recent years.
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!”
I’d like to say it was written by Chat GPT but I don’t wanna insult some innocent LLM.
Bottle Episode: The Movie
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…
I made it 10min, once he started “hacking” teamvewer with a generated master password I GTFO. They tried real hard to make it realistic by having real software and apps but it’s bad, really bad.
This stuff is still crazy to me. Every movie these days seems to cost at least 100 million dollars, because every movie that doesn’t make billions is a failure. But they can’t get something like a guy working a computer right… Ever. Or plumbing, it’s always a guy turning A random valve or tighten some bolt with the wrong tool. Everyone playing a video game in a movie is just hitting all the buttons. It’s eventually not what makes or breaks a movie, but it’s so annoying
What’s weird about video games is there isn’t a library of stock prop games. It doesn’t take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I’m sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized “games” that can actually be controlled and played but don’t have failure states so actors can actually “play” them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself. It would also ensure no rights issues come up with game studios about showing the footage.
Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don’t match the motions at all.
Real software and apps were used just because they paid for product placement, not for accuracy
Good job team viewer by allowing yourself to look easily hackable by icecube.
I think it’s the same production company that made Searching and Missing. Those movies are good.
Don’t forget Missing 2: Finding
The duality of man
Matthew M doesn’t realize that a half star is actually an emotional response and if it took him 15 minutes to write something, that movie had him THINKING. Thats what Art should do. Art can be something you HATE. That is an emotion. Art is suppost to make you feel something, and feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.
I wouldn’t consider 90 minutes of product placement “art” but that’s just me.
feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.
Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.
I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.
The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.
I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.
Stepping in shit makes me feel something, but it is not art.
It’s a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.
Sorry, you need to tape the poop to a wall for it to be art.
Why did I read that entire wiki?
Someone fork up 150k please and find out if he actually shit into the can.
It’s a companion piece to Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.
yeah, but nobody made it with the intent of you stepping in it
that is a very poor comparison.
So a better analogy would be your cat puking on you in the middle of the night? It’s a highly emotional performance that’s audience interactable, top shelf art.
Anything coming out of Hollywood is not art either, so the point is valid.
Yeah and if i made an art panel that tricked people into stepping in shit id be an asshole, not an artist. I hear the same sentiment of your argument all the time and i think it is utterly ridiculous.
So you’re saying they made this movie with the intent of being shit filled with advertisements and to feel like a waste of 90 minutes? Throughout the whole creative process, that was the goal?
By this definition, performing a genocide is art.
i mean if you do it with a silly enough hat i guess it can be, but i dont want to test it
No, this post doesn’t say everything that you hate is art, it says it can be art.
wow, are you for real? get a grip dude and learn some nuance.
I thought Hitler was supposed to be middling at best…
Plenty of other dictators were way more effective mass murderers. I’d argue Hitler was middling at best.
I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.
“war of the worlds 2025 featuring ice cube” is simply an insane combination of words to me
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
Is it normal bad, or is it Birdemic bad?
To paraphrase Pitch Meeting: “This sounds exactly like something I want to pay real money for!”
From what I’ve read, it’s something that Jeff Bezos would pay real money for.
This is definitely one I watched the pitch meeting for instead of watching the movie
The Pitch Meeting video is how I first learned this movie exists. Sent it to a friend with the message:
I haven’t watched the pitch meeting yet but there is no chance in hell this movie is better than the original
Secretly I was hoping I was wrong, but oh boy, that turned out to be an understatement. Turns out my friend had actually already watched it with his mother… Or rather, tried to watch it. They had to stop hallway through because of how shit it was.
So glad I didn’t have to experience that.
(Note: I have since learned that the movie I was thinking about is not the original, there was an older movie and they’re both based on a book)
I watched the Pitch Meeting because of this comment. I’m tempted to watch it. I loved hate watching Madam Web with friends. Would this be fun too?
I think this movie is just a convoluted ploy to promote Prime Air
