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War of the Worlds 2005 | Watch Along (Patreon)

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2025-08-10 14:00:13
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2026-06

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War of the Worlds 2005 | Watch Along

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Owen

This was a devilish move

Walid

First time watching this one, and I'm just as confused as you guys about the story of the invasion (why Earth, why now, etc.). However, I think this might be intentional, as the story is told from a dad's POV, and we only know what he knows. For example, we never switch to see what’s happening in other countries, what the army's doing, what the son’s been up to since they split, or what the mom and stepdad are doing on their way to Boston.

Joe Blankenship

We don't have scientist characters to lay out what's going on. There wasn't a Jeff Goldblum character like in Independence Day.

your local cryptid

the movie is kind of stupid, but at the same time no other movie captures the post-9/11 feeling so perfectly, and i'm glad arianna clued in on that immediately

windextor89 (edited)

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2026-09-05 05:00 ive always hated how they treated the dad in this movie. dudes trying and getting zero appreciation. and all that bs about dumping them on their mother may be true but thats where that little brat was screaming she wanted to go while they were fleeing the city. "whose gonna take care of me if youre gone?"... um the guy whose horrible with his emotions but is doing something, not ur bum ass brother.
2025-08-10 17:13

Alejandro Bonfil

eh, Ray wasn't "trying" all that much before the invasion. its the invasion that kicks him into survival mode. even then, part of the movie is about Ray learning that he actual missed so much of his kids lives and that he didn't put the effort where it mattered. i can't put blame on his Robbie because he is 16. like old enough to help but still too young to understand life. still a kid.

David Sumner

If y'all do watch Independence Day (1996), you should double feature that with After Earth (2013). Will Smith at his best and Will Smith at his worst!

Athasin

The way Robbie needed to have the Mario coins knocked out of him with the way he was putting his sister in danger because he wanted to "see this" so bad.

Diegesis

lol that's a good idea thank you

ZitherManifesto

Maple laughing at the Terrorist line just reminds me how young she is and how old I am. In 2005, Terrorist would be the first train of thought.

ZitherManifesto

I 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.

James Thompson

That imdb score is bs.. A rare inaccuracy though. This was a good film, you can tell it's made by the greatest living director

Patrick

It 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.

Woz Lee

I 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.

James Thompson

Oh yea I already knew I'd be some political shiz or the likes of. You've probably nailed it on the head

hobocamp

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.