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FilmPG-132005

War of the Worlds

AdventureThrillerScience Fiction

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down. From TMDB

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  • No Time To Dan @danburden1138.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Rewatching Spielberg's War of the Worlds, it's just another example of how BAD movies look these days, that film is 20 years old and it still looks better than 95% of blockbusters being released today. Why? Because talent, skill and style beats money and modern special effects.

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  • Fandom Ledger @fandomledger.comBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    100 likes and I'll force myself to watch the new War of the Worlds movie.

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  • Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    the new War of the Worlds movie rocks

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    Universal's 'War of the Worlds' starring Ice Cube debuts to 0% on Rotten Tomatoes — based on 12 reviews 🛸 It currently holds a 3.2 rating on IMDb “The film’s tagline ‘It’s worse than you think’ sums up the entire movie"

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Sep 13, 2025

    Ice Cube says that ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ was shot in 15 days during the COVID pandemic. “The director wasn’t there… This was the only way we could shoot the movie” (Source: KaiCenat)

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2025

    I looked up what the director of the War of the Worlds movie had done prior to the movie and yes he was the mind behind the video for Michael Bublé’s haven’t met you yet

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  • Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.comBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    You didn't tell me that the awful War of the Worlds movie everyone has been going on about stars fucking Ice Cube of all people. Lead with that next time, gotta go set up a double feature with Ghosts of Mars.

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  • Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2025

    I saw the new War of the Worlds movie on Amazon and we all owe Madame Web an apology.

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  • UncleofJamiroquai @jessefarrar.comBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    i think theres a case that War of the Worlds is the movie of the year. not because its good or even all that interesting, but because it's as derivative, craven, spiteful and incoherent as anything else happening right now. and most importantly, it fucking sucks the big one

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  • Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2026

    I guess that Chris Pratt movie is the worst movie since War of the Worlds but I’m so sick of seeing Chris Pratt’s face that I’m not even gonna watch it to make fun of it. I watched Ice Cube pretend to be concerned for 90 minutes but I won’t watch one second of his smug ass.

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  • Elli Anderson 🌊💙🇺🇸 @ellilanderson.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    It’s like a movie. A cross between Anne Frank & War of the Worlds

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  • more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    watching the 1953 War of the Worlds for the first time since i wore out my dad's VHS copy as a kid and god damn this movie looks so fuckin cool

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  • Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    BIG NEWS! I'm going to be on Jubilee's Surrounded, debating 20 people who liked the Ice Cube War of the Worlds movie.

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  • Kwistina🍉 @iraganaart.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    for movie night we watched ice cube's War of The Worlds 2025, we also dressed up and turned our webcams on so we could be part of the movie! heres a screenshot of us watching it!!

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  • KZ's Media Zone @kzxcellentarchive.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    War of the Worlds (2025) Without question one of the worst films of the past decade. A new version of War of the Worlds from the perspective of a DHS agent on his computer Amazon movie with so much product placement that this had to have made them profit automatically.

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  • Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    I wrote about Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS for my ongoing horror column. This is an imperfect movie, but when it works, it's a motherfucker. It's one of the definitive movies of the 2000s for better or worse. www.patreon.com/posts/134712...

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  • more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 29, 2026

    obviously not a good movie but credit where due: i still find myself thinking about the Amazon Presents Ice Cube's War of the Worlds pretty often. no easy feat making a largely zoom conference based movie that's bad in a memorable way. the Easy Button is honestly a stroke of genius

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  • Don Hughes @donaldhughes.caBluesky · Aug 15, 2025

    Three podcasts I like have reviewed the new War of the Worlds so I'm listening to four hours of this and I'll enjoy it and I'm not going to watch the movie.

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  • Svengoolie Rich Koz @svengoolieofficial.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 27, 2026

    Saturday night on MeTV- Gene Barry stars in the original film version of H.G. Wells classic tale of a deadly Martian invasion- “War of the Worlds”! Plus- another visit with Robert Englund and Freddy Krueger’s first film victim Amanda Wyss! 8 pm eastern/pacific, 7 central

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  • kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Tapped out after trying to watch 3 minutes of that War of the Worlds movie.

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  • Skeletal Stephie 🏳️‍⚧️ @stephiesparda.bsky.socialBluesky · May 4, 2026

    As funny as the film itself is to riff with friends, War of the Worlds (2025) taking a classic sci-fi novel with heavy themes of colonialism and turning it into a feature length Amazon commercial that basically says "Mass surveillance is bad but it's okay when we do it!" is super bleak right now.

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  • The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.comBluesky · Jun 29, 2025

    Filming Byron Haskin's The War of the Worlds (1953).

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  • Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtfBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    oh, my god! Amazon is doing ANOTHER webcam movie after War of the Worlds?! youtu.be/dSS4yqd0x6o

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  • Mike Minotti @tolkoto.comBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    I think War of the Worlds is a movie for people who hate movies, and that's why I like it.

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  • Rolling Stone @rollingstone.comBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Amazon's 'War of the Worlds' movie will actively destroy your brain cells without the added benefit of being fun. REVIEW: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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  • Dredgen Sale 🔜 GCX (2027) 🟪⬜️⬛️ @destinythememe.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    I watched War of the Worlds (2025) so you don't have to. Here's a list of every Amazon product placement in the 92-minute movie:

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  • The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.netBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    I'm not going to review 'War of the Worlds' that was just released because it's not a history themed film, but I'm pretty sure that if the ghost of H.G. Wells sees it he is going to poltergeist some people like never before.

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  • JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia @jojowiki.comBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    In the film "War of the Worlds" which released on July 30, 2025, a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable poster is shown in the room of Ice Cube (Will Radford)'s son, Dave.

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  • FormerGregSamsa @formergregsamsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    A War of the Worlds' movie on Amazon that was terrible but very fun for the most part, and has Amazon cross-promotion so shameless I was actually impressed rather than insulted.

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  • Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    While watching War of the Worlds, my dog came in, puked up his dinner on the carpet, then ate every last piece of that puke. As film criticism goes, it was pretty much as bang on the nose as you can get.

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  • Noel [from GigaBoots] 🏳️‍⚧️ @gigaboots.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    Don't forget, we have a commentary track for the new War of the Worlds available over on our patreon so you can watch this completely unreal movie with us! www.patreon.com/posts/cursed...

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  • William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    Oh my god. That new Amazon WAR OF THE WORLDS movie. They save the world by making an Amazon purchase. Strike that. TWO Amazon purchases. Fuuuuuuuck this movie.

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  • Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    A fabulous alt-movie poster by Kilian Eng for 2005’s “War of the Worlds”.

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  • welcometoyourdoom.bsky.social @welcometoyourdoom.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2026

    Written as a direct sequel to the 1953 film, War of the Worlds ran in first-run syndication for 2 seasons, totaling 44 episodes, 1988-1990. The second season was significantly retooled with changes in cast, time setting, and the aliens themselves. #scifi #waroftheworlds

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  • Jandri🔞 @jandri.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    Is it too much to ask for a film adaptation of War of the Worlds set in the time period in which it was written? This was the first novel I think I ever seriously sought out as a child and I’ve been dying for this ever sonce

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  • 🎃𝕷𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕷𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖙🎃 @austereluna.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    Luna & I watched the new War of the Worlds movie this morning. I can now add another movie to my 'Worst Movies Ever' list. Bad acting, bad dialog, plot holes everywhere...it truly deserves that 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. H. G. Wells is rolling in his grave. #CorgiCrew #movie #corgisky #corgi

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  • Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    the new War of the Worlds is probably my favorite movie of the decade

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  • Big Papa Nito @bigpapanito.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 19, 2026

    #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Driller Killer - Grimy as Fuck. Scream 7 - What's your favourite scary movie? Yeah, not this one. Scream (96) - Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative! Love you Wes. War of the Worlds (05) Tom Runs, Dakota Screams, Spielberg Spielbergs.

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  • Captain Dandyfloss 🏴‍☠️🌊【 VTC 】 @dandyfloss.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    Watched the new War of the Worlds movie tonight, I took a sip of my drink every time a brand logo or name showed on screen and I ran out of drink in 40 minutes. It's the most egregiously, offensive, money grab of a film I've EVER seen. Lazy script writing, terrible concept, waste of time 😭

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  • film-authority.com @film-authority.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 8, 2026

    Is Amazon MGM's The Runner the worst movie of the year? It's up there with last year's pitiful The War of the Worlds. Gal Gadot runs around London talking to herself in this running joke of a thriller; if you're thinking of watching...Gadon't bother. 1 out of 5. film-authority.com/2026/09/08/t...

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  • Hangman Page Apologist Jen @swaggeroffools.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2025

    Alright. I'm going to watch the Amazon "War of the Worlds" movie that I just learned about 3 minutes ago. Let's ride.

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  • Kirioth @kirioth.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    I absolutely love War of the Worlds and had no idea there was a new film until Prime suggested it and what the actual fuck is this the start of this film is literally 10 minutes of Ice Cube looking at a computer monitor and video calling people while things get obnoxiously zoomed in on

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  • Nicky 2 @nickyflowers.comBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    War of the Worlds (2025) is the film America deserves. we deserve much worse but this is a good start, this being something our culture can produce and then inflict upon ourselves

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  • Jonny H @spoonatron.comBluesky · Jul 30, 2025

    Every few years someone makes a new War of the Worlds thing, and yet we still don't have the one version everyone wants... The Muppets Movie Version of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

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  • Milky "The Unsevering" thesquid @milkythesquid.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    War of the Worlds was so bad, the movie felt like it was on fast forward for the entire runtime what the fuck was that

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  • Sebastian Fawkes 🎃 @acefawkes.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    There's a New 'War of the Worlds' Movie? And with Ice Cube of All People?

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  • Jeremy Williams @jerqwills.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    My last four for Friday: War Of The Worlds (2005) Terms Of Endearment (1983) The Parallax View (1974) Cinderella Liberty (1973) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky 🎬🍿📽️

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  • Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 14, 2025

    I’m two minutes into War of the Worlds and it already quite the worst film I have ever seen. And I’ve seen Cool As Ice.

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  • BeardedVirgoKing 9.5⚜️ @jes55.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2025

    When I saw that Ice Cube was playing a scientist in that new War of the Worlds movie, I cut that shit off.

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  • Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    I really, really enjoyed #DisclosureDay. There are some bits of storytelling that I have some quibbles with but I love its hope and its inspiration. If War of the Worlds was Spielberg's 9/11 film I feel like this might be his Trump film, and I'm fascinated in how he uses aliens as therapy.

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  • Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Why is it that War of the Worlds just can't get made into a powerful, classic film? It's my favorite sci-fi book. Hell, it's public domain now, too, so any studio can take a swing at it for no money!

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  • Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @ooccouchgags.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 25, 2026

    Watched Mercy Imagine Amazon's War of the Worlds but with Chris Pratt instead of Ice Cube with a dash of kissing AI's ass in there and you have this film. While not as laughably bad as that film, it shares a lot of similar issues that is embarrassing to see in theaters

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  • Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.comBluesky · Aug 31, 2025

    I was rewatching the Spielberg War of the Worlds last night and for the first half was thinking this film is pretty underrated and by the end thought no, it’s rated about right. Somehow less than the sum of its parts

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  • Please Stop Talking @pstpodcast.comBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    Oh boy! @sirmeow.gay, @lordmandalore.bsky.social, @brendaniel.bsky.social, and @foxcade.bsky.social watch just about the worst thing put on film, man. It's horrendous. It's 2025's War of the Worlds... pleasestoptalking.bandcamp.com/track/war-of...

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  • Mom @milph.momBluesky · Aug 6, 2025

    Chuck Schmuer’s twitter account appears in the War of the Worlds movie and he was going to write the aliens a strongly worded letter.

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  • Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2025

    War of the Worlds is a Halloween movie. Fight me

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  • Melos 🌟🦋 @runlikemelos.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2025

    85. War of the Worlds (movie, 2025) I'm fucking speechless

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  • Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    That is a mix of a dinosaur and this thing from the film "War of The Worlds".

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  • Film Noir UK @filmnoiruk.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2026

    Ann Robinson, Star of ‘The War of the Worlds,’ Dies at 96: The onetime stuntwoman got more mileage out of the 1953 sci-fi movie than "Vivien Leigh did on 'Gone With the Wind,'" she once said. Robinson's credits included the TV and film version of Dragnet: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

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  • introvertnacho @introvertnacho.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2025

    Time for a big Spooktober artwork from me! This time featuring the menacing alien Tripod Fighting Machines from the 2005 film version of "War of the Worlds". Once you hear their horns, there's no escape from them! #waroftheworlds #digitalart #art #fanart

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