THERE'S LIKE ZERO HINTS ON WHAT MOVIE THESE REVIEWS ARE OF YET EVERYONE HERE INHERENTLY KNOWS WHAT MOVIE IT IS AND I'M JUST SITTING HERE OBLIVIOUS OH GOD
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"War of the Worlds" 2025
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
Yeah they call it Crashed Ice, they play it in Quebec, it's pretty gnarly.
"Ice Cube clicks button" is pretty big hint tbf
This should help, also save you some time https://youtu.be/2fhLdREPEF4
Incredible video lol. Now I don’t have to watch the movie.
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.
I think it's the same production company that made Searching and Missing. Those movies are good.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
~~By this definition, performing a genocide is art.~~
Edit: I have been informed by replies, thank you.
By this definition, performing a genocide can be art.
Also, this post was art because I pissed off a bunch of people to the point that they were compelled to respond.
No, this post doesn't say everything that you hate is art, it says it can be art.
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To paraphrase Pitch Meeting: "This sounds exactly like something I want to 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)
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From what I've read, it's something that Jeff Bezos would pay real money for.
I think this movie is just a convoluted ploy to promote Prime Air
I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.
Bottle Episode: The Movie
What movie?
The new War of the Worlds.
I still don't know what the fuck data-eating aliens are supposed to be, but I ain't watching that shit to understand. I just hope Brent Spiner is ok.
It’s worse than you think
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The setup of this movie reminds me of Locke with Tom Hardy. That's also basically a movie where you watch 1 person in a static situation (in a car in Locke) conducting remote project management. I'd have never expected a full movie to work with that setup, but Locke pulls it off imo.
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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.
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...
"war of the worlds 2025 featuring ice cube" is simply an insane combination of words to me
I hate the fact that this movie causes people to make fun of the genre and think it's bad in general. Searching is an amazing movie and I love it, and it also has its entire plot on a computer screen. But it actually works, if you have a skilled director, great actors, a really good plot, and know how to exactly use that concept to make a great movie.
Citizen Kane has nothing on Ice cube yelling “got em!” At a computer screen.
Also you can see the green screen reflected on his glasses the whole time
The 5 stars review is ironic
The best unintentional comedy in recent years.
I watched this movie for less than 10 minutes out of curiosity. Towards the end of that short time, I was thinking, “When will the scene change? This computer bit seems to be going on a bit long…” Luckily something came up, I got distracted and never finished the movie. Later I find out via memes that was the entire movie 🥴
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The duality of man
Why did anybody spend money on producing this “movie”? I mean really… somewhere in the midst of this someone should have started question their life choices.
It's a 89 minutes Amazon ad. "See? We're delivering with Amazon prime even during an alien invasion! So efficient" or "See? Even when the world banking got destroyed you can count on Amazon gift cards as a method of payment. That homeless gonna love that $1000 Amazon gift card!"
Edit: forgot that bezos had to shill also Tesla "full" self driving and that the ~~movie~~ ad ends with Joe Rogan tweeting a YouTube video that mainstream media and the government hid the truth (conveniently, the aliens ate all the data for all the websites except YouTube)
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Is it normal bad, or is it Birdemic bad?
I'd like to say it was written by Chat GPT but I don't wanna insult some innocent LLM.
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