War of the Worlds
Directed by Rich Lee
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from the rest of the world. From TMDB
291 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 18, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 39 | 47 | 148 |
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| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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A few reviewers appreciate the creative script and entertainment value despite limited effects. [1][2]
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I once watched Jake Gyllenhalle talk on the phone for 1.5 hours and I hated it. I watch Ice Cube squint at a screen and chat with friends and family for 1.5 hours and I love it. Data! They're coming for data. They're going to eat all our data! Why not just copy the data? Why not just set up a separate server farm where they just make an infinite RickRoll for the aliens. There is technically unlimited data if you …
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'War of the Worlds'... boy oh boy. I've been out of the film loop recently, but word of this disaster even reached me. I had to check it out for myself to get it watched before I got spoiled. Sometimes the internet piles in to jointly overhate a movie... this is not one of those times. What a mess, there are sadly no redeeming qualities to it. First and foremost, it takes itself way too seriously. There are (I …
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Trash. Uber trash. Worst use of an IP to date.
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Reports allege that the movie uses clips from real disasters and Middle East conflict zones (bombings, wildfires, military crashes) blended or overlaid with alien‑invasion CGI. This is seriously fuc%ed up! What some humans will do to make money from the suffering of others.
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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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Critics, per Wikipedia
War of the Worlds was overwhelmingly panned by critics, and is considered one of the worst films ever made. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 4% of 50 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.0/10. The website's consensus reads: "Stranding Ice Cube in an inept screensaver with wall-to-wall product placement, War of the Worlds will make audiences consider giving peace a chance instead." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 6 out of 100, based on seven critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". The film's product placement of Amazon received particular criticism. The film's climax, where an Amazon employee uses a Prime Air…
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60 of 291 · most liked firstwatching spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS for the first time in some years and that first attack set piece is, uh, way more upsetting than i remembered
positive · AI labelView post →The drone shit is proving that we're in for (at least) four years of nonstop War of the Worlds panics. People you once believed smart and entrust with your children will corner you with podcast medicine. Refuting it? Pointless. You will realize your doctor is an alchemist 25 minutes before surgery.
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
positive · AI labelView post →100 likes and I'll force myself to watch the new War of the Worlds movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →the new War of the Worlds movie rocks
positive · AI labelView post →people's reactions to drones are giving us a realtime demo of how a War of the Worlds radio broadcast created a mass panic
neutral · AI labelView post →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"
neutral · AI labelView post →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)
neutral · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →The early 50’s, Oscar-winning adaptation of H. G. Wells’ 1898 novel is well worth your time. THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the new War of the Worlds movie on Amazon and we all owe Madame Web an apology.
negative · AI labelView post →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
negative · AI labelView post →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.
neutral · AI labelView post →You think NPR is gonna broadcast the Declaration of Independence again today or will it be a War of the Worlds problem?
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s like a movie. A cross between Anne Frank & War of the Worlds
neutral · AI labelView post →AMAZON’S “WAR OF THE WORLDS” IS THE WORST THING I’V SEEN THIS YEAR | BAD MOVIES youtu.be/aZ0YwVaTEcA
negative · AI labelView post →watched Ice Cube's War of the Worlds with friends There's legit a moment like this:
neutral · AI labelView post →The War of the Worlds (1953) directed by Byron Haskin starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
neutral · AI labelView post →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
positive · AI labelView post →Every day is the first broadcast of War of the Worlds
neutral · AI labelView post →BIG NEWS! I'm going to be on Jubilee's Surrounded, debating 20 people who liked the Ice Cube War of the Worlds movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →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!!
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →This week on Podcast Like It’s The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I dive back into our Tom Cruise miniseries with @jamellebouie.net to talk War of the Worlds! We discuss alien movies, Spielberg, 9/11 and how incredibly well this movie holds up! 👽🛸
positive · AI labelView post →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...
neutral · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
neutral · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →Tapped out after trying to watch 3 minutes of that War of the Worlds movie.
negative · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →Filming Byron Haskin's The War of the Worlds (1953).
neutral · AI labelView post →oh, my god! Amazon is doing ANOTHER webcam movie after War of the Worlds?! youtu.be/dSS4yqd0x6o
neutral · AI labelView post →I think War of the Worlds is a movie for people who hate movies, and that's why I like it.
positive · AI labelView post →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...
neutral · AI labelView post →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:
negative · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →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.
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spielberg's War of the Worlds was is one of his top five films.
neutral · AI labelView post →How the "War of the Worlds" 2024 remake ends: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →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...
neutral · AI labelView post →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.
negative · AI labelView post →A fabulous alt-movie poster by Kilian Eng for 2005’s “War of the Worlds”.
neutral · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →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
negative · AI labelView post →the new War of the Worlds is probably my favorite movie of the decade
positive · AI labelView post →#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.
neutral · AI labelView post →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 😭
negative · AI labelView post →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...
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright. I'm going to watch the Amazon "War of the Worlds" movie that I just learned about 3 minutes ago. Let's ride.
neutral · AI labelView post →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
negative · AI labelView post →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
negative · AI labelView post →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
neutral · AI labelView post →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
negative · AI labelView post →There's a New 'War of the Worlds' Movie? And with Ice Cube of All People?
neutral · AI labelView post →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 🎬🍿📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →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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