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Episode #868: War of the Worlds (2005) (Patreon)

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2026-06-09 04:00:06
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“[Ryan] Gosling ate this dude’s lunch” - Andrew, on Justin Chatwin

On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza keeps the Spielberg chatter going from last week with a hilarious talk about his 2005 sci-fi adaptation, War of the Worlds!

Couldn’t we have had some puppet aliens instead of those CGI guys? How fantastic is Tim Robbins playing this basement-dwelling lunatic? Should the boy have stayed exploded? How many of us would rather just turn to dust in this situation? And would this movie have been better with Eric as an extra? PLUS: Everyone say hi to Ray Ferrier’s new Bayonne, New Jersey girlfriend, Cigaretta!

World of the Worlds stars Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, Rick Gonzalez, Yul Vazquez, Lenny Venito, Lisa Ann Walter, and Tim Robbins as Harlan Ogilvy; directed by Steven Spielberg.

Come hang out in Vegas with us this summer as we do a three-night stand at ST:LV to celebrate 60 years of Star Trek and 10 years of The Nexus! We’ll be at the convention Thursday, Friday and Saturday night doing three Nexus shows on Wrath of Kahn, Generations, and First Contact! Best part is, you don’t need to have a convention pass to attend, each show is ticketed separately. Click through to snag your tix now!We hope you are enjoying AD-FREE WHM! Thanks so much for being the kick-ass Patreon subscriber that you are. Your support keeps the lights on around the old clubhouse and keeps us on the air. We know you have a lot of options for podcast enjoyment and we're stoked you chose to spend some time with us!

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Jonathan Lyons

I'm taking this opportunity of being the first comment to say Justin Chatwin could've had a heartbreaking ending on shameless but the showrunners are cowards.

Luke Gordnier

In response to the extra question: yes it would as it would all movies.

David

2005: Dawn of the Cruise couch jumping era

Russell Snyder

Revisited the movie, if you watch Tom Cruise closely when the pavement first starts cracking right before the aliens first erupt, he’s got this big grin on his face. It’s worth going back to.

Britt W

This is my son’s favorite movie and when he was a little kid he would cry to watch it everyday 😩

Tim O'

I saw this when it came out and felt kinda meh about it. Revisited it a couple of years ago and I loved it. It's such a treat to see Tom Cruise play an unlikeable shit-head.

Tony King

I noticed that when I watched it yesterday as well! So funny.

Tony King

Cigaretta is my new favourite character!

Tim O'

Best addition to the cast since Egg Lawyer, I think

Tim O'

He's getting in character by imagining Xenu coming out of the ground

Barista Bran

I need a movie that chronicles the life of CIGARRETTA

Dennis Stack

It's even worse than what Steve said, The Invisible wasn't David Koepp's directorial debut, it was David S. Goyer's 🤢

Matt Watterson

Cigaretta will return in Avengers Doomsday.

Thomas Friedlander

Between Cigaretta and Solo's younger gal, you guys have been killing it with the girlfriend addition punch-ups lately

MarkNM

No one wants to kill this special little guy.

Kuato (and the freedom brigade)

Real quick, just so I know going in, is this movie about his parents divorce? Im still dying to know how he feels about that part of his life 😂

JK

Cigaretta better become a recurring character

Jonathan Lyons

"we couldn't hurt Daddy's wittle treasure" -chris cabin on a disgusting shit boy previously

Jonathan Lyons

He went real method with it. Still hasn't stopped. amazing actor

Tom Prentice

Don’t know why this version ends with the ‘and they all didn’t the common cold’ ending. It doesn’t mean anything for this version of the story.

Elliott Tipton

On the accent or lack there of, Tom Cruise is from Syracuse.

Rose Esposito

crying @ Cigaretta. 😂 Is she related to Crystal, Bella's dad's girlfriend from the Twilightmentaries? I feel like they're stepsisters who loathe each other.

Elliott Tipton

I really liked how the sound stage look of the movie is like a nod to the 50s ed wood of it all. Especially when it was a look achieved on location

Gone

Was Cruise getting back to what he was universally loved for when he did MI:3? By that time there had been a well received one and a pretty heavily panned one.

Busiris

I pulled out my standard def DEE VEE DEE to see if there were any deleted scenes with Lisa Ann Walter. There's literally a single special feature on the disc, a behind-the-scenes featurette about the creation and design of the aliens. No such luck on the previous adventures of "Bartender".

Gone

And this would be different from the movie Nicotina right? I never got around to seeing it.

DMAC

Next episode she and her cousin from Pittsburgh, Mentholina take a road trip to Atlantic City.

Craig

You know what those rabid HG Wells fans are like. The Wellsies would have torn the movie apart on Reddit if they changed the ending!

RJ Cunningham

It’s a movie of aliens attacking monsters (Knicks fans)

Matthew Mariner

Cigarretta is totally someone Kirk Van Houten would date

Jaime Lee Ezell

“is it terrorists?” “No it came from somewhere else.” “Like Europe?”

Sonya Ballantyne

This movie had some really unsettling scenes for a Spielberg film. That wide shot scene where the tripods are just picking people out of the water and there's screaming throughout was scary. Also CIGARRETTA

johnny stocker

It's ok to like a movie, but man I thought this thing stunk on ice. Spielberg and Kaminski so of course it's gonna look nice, but I think Cigaretta should burned this script to light a pack of Parlaiments. Funny ep, though!

Patrick Hayden

I was having a rough day and then I was introduced to Cigaretta and all my cares suddenly felt very far away

henry lopez

I popped for the Converge "Jane Doe" reference

Ben Sharpe

Cigaretta could be played by Constance Shulman

Ben Sharpe

Does Skyline do a better job than this movie?

Ben Sharpe

I would love to see a Seinfeldesque depiction of the Martians arguing about their plan to invade Earth

Ben Sharpe

How about Mark Wahlberg instead of Tom Cruise in this?

Carlos Ramirez

As a Dockworker, (Longshoreman) in the West Coast in Los Angeles I’m Similar To That Joke And I Don’t Look Too Bad BUT yeah he’s a deadbeat dad that the kids hate him and he’s a popular guy amongst schmucks so that sounds right lol… Cigeretta is a new fav! Great Ep!!

Clever Girl

I haven't been here for a few months, but I logged in just to say that Cigaretta is one of the funniest things I have heard on this channel. I am happy to see that others were also highly amused. Please provide merch. 😂

Clever Girl

I wonder who the greatest Cigaretta in film history is...my heart tells me its "Dottie" from Jerry Bruckheimer's classic film, Armageddon (1999).

Billie Jackson

If he had been there, it wouldn't have gone down like that.

Billie Jackson

Explorers has one of those Picardo performances in suit or so much makeup that it's easy to forget it's him. See also Legend. Johnny Cab in total recall is hard to miss though. That TV movie Mysterious Two about Applewhite and Do which was 70s or early 80s and treats them as actual aliens is an interesting curio in light of Heaven's Gate. They never did make it onto the claymation Mark Twain comet.

Billie Jackson

Iirc Gabriel Byrne was one of the main cast members on the recent show, which almost no one watched because it on mgm+, the only worthwhile show on which is afaict From. The Canadian WotW was sometimes entertainingly bad and was retooled in season two as a post alien invasion/Apocalypse underground revolution thing. V cheesy.