Thank god it's not awful.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2025
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You just have to watch any five seconds of the trailer to know it's terrible.
That is on me. I did not watch the trailer and my wife is much better about doing that check. I knew something was wrong within a few minutes of starting it. Heck I was wondering for a bit if it was some other war of the worlds story and we would never see the tripods.
OP thanks for taking one of the team and watching it.
I am not remotely surprise. There hasn’t been a great War of the Worlds product since the original Orson Wells radio show.
I did like the Spielberg one.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds goes pretty hard (in places)
I liked the old TV show when I was a kid
When did it air?
88 I think. It's been awhile XD
I liked the tom cruise one well enough.
I saw that at just the right age to be utterly horrified by it. It gave me lots of fears and nightmares. Not necessarily about alien invasion (that was part of it I guess) but more about the breakdown of society and how quickly everyone turned savage, feral and selfish. To me, that was the true horror of the film.
When viewed from that angle, it is a more successful storytelling endeavor than if you view it as an alien invasion movie.
Although the part where they're captured and that one guy gets sucked into the weird orifice on the tripod is still chilling.
The movie had three incredible scenes:
- The initial tripod rising out off the ground in the intersection
- The attack on the ferry sequence
- The plane crash sequence (Even though that was hampered by the movie’s ratings)
Other than that it was two hour spent with the most annoying characters filmed and some really silly story points and never mind that happy ending.
I liked the main character figuring out the car would work and the way they fled with it in some ways being smart and some dumb but that feels the way it would go with some randos. The van hijack and everything around it with violence and surge to the ferry. I like the hiding out in the cabin and the guy getting weird and why the son ran off and the blood farming and escape from cage captivity. So for me it was more good than bad. I leaned into the little girls issues which is kinda funny because one reason I did not like the jurassic park book is the little girls character is way more annoying like that and they sorta split the little boys things between the boy and girl. Back to that war of worlds I sorta saw the anoyingness of the dad, son, daughter as just sorta humanity and family dysfuncition.
Jeff Wayne's WotW > All other versions. Come at me bro.
Ooooooolaaaaaaooooooooooooo!
There have been many, many bad re-tellings of this novel.
I’m actually partial to the 1953 movie as it is a lot of fun, and well done for its time.
I would like to add also 'The Gorge' to this list (even if you didn't ask).
This is a cold war, zombie, elite sniper, horror, love story that has.....for some reason, a drum solo (duo?) scene and Sigourny (sp?) Weaver.
The only way to watch it is stoned to bejeezus....
thank you as if I had known I would have skipped it but then I get wrapped up in sunk cost :)
This is a cold war, zombie, elite sniper, horror, love story that has.....for some reason, a drum solo (duo?) scene
OMG that is incredible!
seriously though grab some edibles and a friend who's laughter is amazing.,. by the end of the movie we were saying "theee goooooorge"
I enjoyed it not stoned.