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War of the Worlds (2025) - Coworker Movie


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Kathryn joins Melvin to summarize this year's cherry-picked so-bad-its-good movie, War of the Worlds (2025)! Featuring a cast of fairly known names (Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Devon Bostick, Clark Gregg, and many more) this odd adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic limits its prose to a computer screen. What could go wrong?  

Topics:

  • (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 20-minutes discussing Chris Columbus' pull quote on the Harry Potter Reboot, "What's the point?", and the unique nature of rebooting Harry Potter as a series unlike other franchises that offer spinoffs, prequels, or alt-universe tales. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 
  • The entire film is told through the prose of a computer screen (and sometimes cellphone screen). How do Kathryn and Melvin feel about this?
  • Ultimately, the film is in over its head, and it isn't even sure how to handle dialogue and drama let alone thrills and action sequences.
  • Yapping about how movies sometimes advertise products and how Tesla does NOT come out of War of the Worlds (2025) looking good.
  • Beefing with Will Radford since he's a bad character and a bad dad.
  • Melvin ponders why movies like this take off and how the streaming as a distribution format influences this sort of thing.
  • The third act of the film, specifically the climax, is when everything bizarre and noteworthy happens.

Recommendations:

  • Castle Rock (Season 1) (2018) (TV-Series)
  • Friday the 13th Part III (1982) (Movie)

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