War of the Worlds 2005 | Watch Along
Added 2025-08-10 14:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Whenever you hear someone mention "deus ex machina" you can think of the ending of this movie/story. Basically it's a insurmountable problem that kinda just "meh"'s out from some unexpected & seemingly out-of-nowhere resolution. But, hey, that's how HG Wells wrote it, and I think it was a pretty amazing ending for it's time. It's just too bad more modern audiences (i.e. post WW2) would rather just see the bad guy explode. Based on the end discussion I'd really love to see them watch District 9. Maybe throw in Cloverfield at some point too.
hobocamp
2025-08-17 10:40:13 +0000 UTCI think this was a point where Tom Cruise had been over saturated for a while and his whole thing with Scientology was starting to creep into public awareness. This movie was made in 2005, and I think that same year is when he was jumping up and down on Oprah's couch. This is also when South Park released their Scientology episode Trapped in the Closet, so people just wanted to judge the film harshly because of the climate around Tom Cruise at that time.
Oz
2025-08-11 12:47:18 +0000 UTCIt was always my assumption that the roots they were spreading around was them starting to terriform(aeriform?) the earth so it was more habitable for them and blood was just an ingredient/protein. I liked that there was no magical macguffin' or secret weapon that was the key to beating them, like in most alien invasion stories.
Patrick
2025-08-11 12:32:49 +0000 UTCThat imdb score is bs.. A rare inaccuracy though. This was a good film, you can tell it's made by the greatest living director
James Thompson
2025-08-11 04:17:18 +0000 UTCI think they were using the blood as fuel instead of taking the earth's resources; they used one that they were going to kill anyway. But I don't know; it's my best guess.
ZitherManifesto
2025-08-11 03:31:13 +0000 UTC
