
The new War of the Worlds movie is even more terrible than you’ve heard but also hilarious
Kevin Nguyen
created: Aug. 13, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Aug. 13, 2025, 4:54 p.m.
(Usually, we refer to characters by their name, but for this article, it feels more appropriate to keep calling him Ice Cube.)
Menus get right-clicked a lot, as Ice Cube alternates between mundane options and things like commandeer drone.
(It is unclear how Goliath is supposed to be worse than the constitutional infringements that Ice Cube is already doing on a daily basis.)
If War of the Worlds represents anything, it’s a strong rebuke — a signal that viewers know garbage when they see it.
But if you wanted to watch a good movie, the 2005 War of the Worlds holds up pretty well, too.
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