You know what that sound means? It's another
episode of Game for a Movie where we ask, are
you game for a movie? My name is Mike. I will
be your host this evening. I have probably the
worst movie of 2025 so far ever completed. And
a lot of you, I've been pushing this off. This
came out a week ago and I knew it was going to
be bad. I wish I would have done it sooner because
now I'm like the last one to do a report on it.
But you know, that's just the way things are.
I am covering War of the Worlds from 2025. First,
we are going to talk about what we are drinking.
Today, I've got from Founders, it is the All
Day West Coast IPA. I accidentally got the mix
and match pack of the All Day IPAs, and it actually
isn't that bad. I was hoping for just the All
Day IPA. West Coast, pretty good. There's a grapefruit
one in there that wasn't bad, and then there's
a lemon -lime one. That one's a little iffy.
But overall, this is a fine pack of beer. Not
too upset about drinking this right now. Okay,
I wanted to get that out of the way early because
this movie's terrible and really bad. And I want
to save you from yourself for no reason whatsoever
should you watch this movie. However, I'm going
to talk about all of it so you don't have to
watch it. So I hope you guys enjoy the fact that
I'm going to talk about... Definitely the worst
movie of 2025 so far. I can't think of a single
one that is worse. It is just trash. So we're
the world's 2025. We've got Ice Cube. We've got
Eva Longoria. We've got Clark Gregg and Michael
O 'Neill. After that, it definitely goes a little
more downhill. We've got Iman Benson. We've got
Henry Hunter Hall. And we've got Devin Bostick.
Those are probably the main characters that we're
going to focus on. Yeah, this movie was directed
by Rich Lee. Rich Lee is pretty much a visual
effects director. This is the first real movie
that I've seen that he actually directed. A lot
of what he has done up until this point, directing
-wise, has been music videos. A lot of Lana Del
Rey, some Eminem, that kind of stuff. So, yeah.
Not the best pedigree to start. And then, on
top of that, we've got the writers for this thing.
First writer we got is Kenny Gold. He has two
real projects to his name for writing. And then
we've got Mark Hyman. Mark Hyman has a little
more pedigree, but not that much. He wrote Osmosis
Jones, The Perfect Score. He wrote The Meet the
Fockers. He was a collaborating writer on How
to Train Your Dragon. That was in 2010, How to
Train Your Dragon. And after that, yeah, the
next two projects were Show Dogs. and War of
the Worlds. So Mark Hyman used to be a pretty
decent writer that's written a couple of things
that you may have seen and everything like that.
I happen to know as a kid I used to love The
Perfect Score. Yeah, it's gone downhill for him
since. When I first looked at this movie, it
was a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0 critic score
and 12 % audience score. This is in the very
beginning. It is 3 % critic score right this
second. And because of what I'm going to call
a few false reviews, it's at 22 % audience score.
And you know how I know these are false reviews?
Here is one five -star review I found. This is
a once -in -a -generation type movie. I laughed.
I cried. I re -upped my Amazon Prime subscription
because it's up to all of us to do our part to
keep America safe from the tripods. That is one
of the many. I can go into that gave this movie
five stars. And this is what makes it tough when
you've got a truly bad stinker on your hands.
I had the same problem with Madam Web because
Madam Web is up to like a 53 % audience score,
even though I know it's terrible. You just don't
know because there's a lot of people that are
going to do this prank kind of thing to rate
it five stars. I don't know what they get from
it. I think they're just being trolls. Maybe
they're getting somebody else to watch it because
they gave it such a high rating. Who knows? But
a lot of these five -star reviews, you can tell,
are pretty bad. There was another one that I
saw a couple days ago that was five stars. Ice
Cube paid me to release this review. So that's
the kind of stuff we're dealing with. It's still
only a 22 % audience score, but it's up from
12 % when I originally saw this movie. take with
it what you will so to save you from watching
it let me go through all of the details of this
movie we start in uh will radford is our main
character he is played by ice cube he logs into
his computer he works for dhs and he logged in
about like a minute ago and now he can just pick
up access feeds of everything including threat
levels for big buildings and This automatically
got me like to a hot start because he sees like
the White House and it's like threat level medium.
No problem. But then he gets the FBI building
and it's on high alert and he just kind of glosses
over it. And no big deal. Just meh. It's fine.
He gets a call from Dr. Dr. Sandra Salas. Dr.
Sandra Salas works at NASA and is played by Eva
Longoria. And she has sent a bunch of videos
of like these storms that are happening that
are acting up and basically is like, what do
you got on this, Will? And he goes, oh, I watch
people, not weather. And one of those people
that he is watching is a woman named Faith. And
he also was chasing after a character known as
the Disruptor. The Disruptor, we see through
a YouTube video, like a live stream, that he
is going to reveal the Goliath program data.
And we don't know what the Goliath program is.
We just know the Disruptor has it and that Will
is kind of keeping an eye on it. And so he calls
Faith to see how she's doing. We learn that she
is pregnant and that she... The reason he calls
her... is because she goes to a coffee shop and
gets a muffin and he calls her and says a muffin
a muffin really there's hard -boiled eggs like
right there you could have gotten those and she's
just like whatever dad it's got calcium i'm fine
and he goes and says no you don't have any calcium
in your fridge he has a monitor in his fridge
in her fridge this is just like the tip of the
iceberg of some of the crazy things he does So
he is, like, paranoid dad. He wants to watch
over everybody and, like, know everything about
them at all times. And it's kind of creepy, honestly.
It's a little weird the fact that he's following
Faith. He has a camera set up in her refrigerator
and is able to, like, monitor all the stuff she
has in there. And it goes with the theme of this
movie, which, spoilers kind of. The theme is
privacy good, government spying on everything
bad. And that really is it. That is the theme
for this movie. This is the point they wanted
to get across. And I'm not just saying it in
these base terms. It is ham -fisted that it is
going to beat you over the head with privacy
good, spying by the government bad. Faith is
not the only kid that he has an update on. He
also gets an update on Dave. Dave is his son
that has just spent $248 on a video game. And
his son is like a professional video game player.
Like this is his job. But of course, Will is
that dad that just doesn't understand that video
games can be a job. And was talking about like
how he spent so much money for him to go to school.
And now he's like living in his house, just playing
video games. He has friends at the NSA. He can
get him involved, that kind of stuff. Now his
son is just like, dad, you don't get it. Like
video games is my life. Video games is my job.
Well, luckily before this becomes a full like
parent speech, he gets a like alert that they
found the IP address for the disruptor. and he
hits a that was easy button like from staples
he hits that button and it plays out and it's
just like that was easy tell me about it like
he's having a communication with this easy button
so as he finds this ip address it leads him to
like a hundred different places so he's got to
like try to figure out if there's a different
way he can limit it to like one spot and as that's
happening he gets a call from mark Mark is Faith's
boyfriend, also the baby daddy, and he's like
trying to get in cool with pops and which, of
course, Will does not like. Mark is the like.
You always know that your daughter deserves better
kind of boyfriend. Mark delivers for Amazon.
Mind you, this movie was on Amazon Prime. I just
want that to be abundantly clear because trust
me, you're not going to be able to forget that.
So Mark works for Amazon. Faith is his girlfriend.
And, you know, Will just, Will looks down on
Mark. Will does not see what Faith sees in Mark.
And Mark also kind of spills the beans that there's
a baby shower. And Will learns that through him
and realizes that, yeah, he was not, he was not
invited to the baby shower. So not good. And
Will then goes to Facebook and finds that, yeah,
there's a baby shower, right? And also kind of
logs into Faith's texts. Like, he's able to get
into her MacBook and see the text she sends.
Mark apologizes for, like, spilling the beans.
And Faith's just like, it's fine because he was
going to find out one way or the other. At least
now he knows that he wasn't invited. And my thing
is kind of like, wow. You're going to text about
him and know that he's probably going to see
these things like you don't have to be so blunt
about it. But that's just kind of Faith's relationship
with him for a lot of this movie. Faith is definitely
like feeling neglected or at least feeling like
she doesn't know who her dad is. She definitely
feels like he doesn't pay attention to her and
is focused on her job or his job and his job
only. And then while Will is on Facebook. He
also visits his wife's Facebook. She is unfortunately
dead. And we learn later in the film that it
was through a disease. And so for another time,
he messages her Facebook messenger and just says,
I miss you. And it goes, it can't be sent because
the page she's she's dead. So, yeah. So that's
part of who he is at this point. When he finds
the IP address, he gets a search warrant and
they are going to get the disruptor. This is
the big day. They're going to get it. And Agent
Jeffries is on it. And he also loops in Director
Briggs. Director Briggs of DHS is played by Clark
Gregg. What I've said at this point is basically
Will has like a code for everything and it just
kind of calls things up. Like he hits Faith and
it pulls up everything around her. pulls up dave
and it pulls up everything around her this one
is disruptor which he just found out the disruptors
in chicago not that long ago how did he all of
a sudden just have this code that knew hey it's
going to be in this area i don't know if you
get behind the tech of this movie you're going
to have a very bad time with it especially because
i think this movie is very much hacker voice
i'm in kind of movie you know It's a lot of type,
type, type, type, type. I'm in. Cool. Great.
So he pulls up the cameras in this area. He knows
the building. He doesn't know the apartment yet.
And so Jeffrey's asked for what apartment the
disruptor is in. So he like accesses all these
cameras in the apartments. And essentially they're
like YouTube videos. Like there's a cat opening
a door and then in another one, it's two kids
and one just hits the other with like a beanbag
chair. And so it's just literally straight from
YouTube videos that they've put in these apartments
kind of thing. He also gets a call at this point
from Sandra, but he ignores it because he's in
the middle of this bust. And Sandra sends a video.
She's reporting a storm that has like these terrible
CGI lightning strikes. Like it's literally a
backdrop. And they just kind of like overlaid
these lightning strikes. It's really bad. Like
it's abundantly clear that it was CGI lightning
strikes. And so while that's happening, the team
breaks into the apartment and they find that
it's a decoy. The disruptor is not there. So
they're all kind of disappointed. And then they
start hearing noises and they see these things
fall from the sky. And this is the big part.
of the war of the worlds these are the meteors
with the aliens in them so they're seeing it
firsthand and he starts getting like a bunch
of notifications of like cnn fox news like all
of these things reporting on the fact that the
this is happening and so he's like watching all
these clips and they're just saying these things
have fallen from the sky They don't know what
it is, but they just crash. They're making these
noises. And so this is also when he tries to
get in touch with his kids because now he knows
something's happening. He needs to find his kids.
Once again, he ignores Sandra's call because
he's trying to reach his kids. And Sandra is
able to not only text him like 14 times, but
also she's able to send a video. And it's a short
time. I don't think they were showing that it
was a time lapse or anything like that. It was
a short period of time. and his building also
gets hit and he spills his coffee like what the
fuck oh my god kind of thing it's slapstick at
its finest pretty much it's slapstick at its
finest pretty much so uh he sends a message to
faith but it fails so he's like once again trying
to find the cameras to find faith and he's not
able to see where she's at right now but he's
able to like play back the feed and finds that
she is stuck In her lab like under her desk.
So he gets a message out to Mark. To help. Basically
says you need to get here now. You need to help
her. And then Will calls Dave. And he's able
to get a hold of Dave. And tells him to run down
the street. Because Dave is out in the open.
And Dave's running and everything like that.
And all of a sudden the call. Cuts out. And a
lot of people have been like. TikTok posting
about this. The fact that. his son dies his son
doesn't die this is the part where he thinks
his son dies and he just kind of like ice cube
stares at the screen you know just kind of like
the kind of thing you know you know exactly the
face i'm talking about um he just kind of stares
at the screen he doesn't seem too distraught
about the fact that his son may be dead so after
the call cuts out with dave uh briggs has asked
him to join this meeting with the Secretary of
Defense as well as with some other bigwigs and
everything like that. And basically they are
talking about they're at DEFCON 1 because they
don't know what these things are. They need to
figure out what they are. Also, if they're a
threat and everything like that. And then Dr.
Sandra Salas, Eva Longoria, calls in and she
goes to get close to one of the meteors. And
she's talking about how, like, it's cold and
everything like that. And one of the tentacles
kind of, like, reaches out. And then her call
cuts out. And we don't know what happens. So
not only do we think Dave's dead, we now think
Sandra's dead. Secretary of Defense on the golf
course is just like, oh, yes, this is definitely
DEFCON 1. So Director Briggs asks for Will's
analysis of the situation and more of the threat
of it. And he's just like, yes, I'm on it. Then
he mutes the director. to take a call from Jeffries.
And this is where we get, like, the first sight
of the aliens, because the meteor kind of splits,
and they form these, like, robot tripods. And
I'm not joking, what does he say? Oh. My. God.
And not only is it like, oh my god, it's like,
oh, screen. My. Screen. God. Screen. There it
is, the tripod. So Jeffries is wondering what
to do. And he's basically just like, run away.
Get out of there. Get safe. That kind of thing.
And Dave finally calls back. And now he's like,
okay, Dave's alive. Good. So he answers. And
Dave's just like, I know exactly what this is.
I know what's happening and everything like that.
And Will's just kind of like brushing him off
and just says, stay safe. You don't know what's
going on. Just stay safe. And hangs up on him.
So he goes back to the Jeffries call. And these
aliens play, like, this loud -ass noise, this,
like, kind of thing. And after they play the
noise, one of them fires a laser, destroying
a helicopter. And they keep firing these lasers,
just pew, pew, pew. And one of the beams kills
Jeffrey's. Jeffrey's gone. We actually see this
happen. She's dead. She's done. Signal goes out.
She's gone. So now Will is like going through
all the attacks that he's seen and he's basically
making like this spreadsheet of his analysis.
He's like clipping off pictures. He's clipping
off clips and putting it into the spreadsheet
saying what's happening, where they're attacking,
what they're doing. And after he had like finished
a couple of this, they actually showed like time
passes a little bit. Faith finally calls back.
She is outside trying to get away and Mark never
showed up. And so it's like this complete shaky
cam of her running away. And you can see that
like there's a thing behind her. And it shoots
at a helicopter. And this helicopter comes just.
And it's coming towards her. And you see just
shaky cam of her trying to run away. And she's
like, oh, shit, kind of thing. And the call doesn't
end. but we don't see her we have no clue where
she is we don't know if she's alive and we see
one of the aliens like walk over the phone like
walking away and so will just hits another couple
keys and he has a heart monitor on her and can
just call it up whenever so we can see that it's
elevated but she's still alive like she's still
kicking and She like picks up the phone and then
shows that she has like this piece of rebar through
her leg. And so Will's like, I'm coming. I'm
going to get you. I'm going to get you out of
there. And so he tries to escape DHS. But because
it's DEFCON 1, he's on lockdown. And so he can't
escape. And like he can hack anything in the
world. But he can't attack his own lockdown.
And so while on the phone with her, she just
basically like she's like dying at this point.
And she still kind of burns him. She's like the
irony, right? You never want to leave that place.
And now it won't let you leave. Like, OK, Jesus,
you're dying and you're still going to take pot
shots at your dad. Like this might be the last
thing you say to him. But, you know, whatever.
So he goes back to his computer and he's able
to find a Tesla. that's right near her and he
can hack it open it and like get it to drive
to get her to a hospital so he like opens the
back door she's like running towards the car
as fast as she can with a piece of rebar in her
leg and she's able to jump in he closes the door
and drive away before another one of those tripod
aliens is able to like step on the car So while
he's trying to figure out what hospital to send
her to, he starts seeing that all the hospitals
are full. So he instead sends her to a DHS field
office. And he also tries to apologize to her
about the fact that he doesn't take time for
her much anymore and that kind of stuff. And
she's not taking it. She's like, this is shitty
timing. No, Dad. I'm not taking this right now.
And basically... What she throws in his face
is that he thinks he has too much power. He thinks
he's going to raise these kids to be the best.
He thinks he was going to save the mom from her
incurable disease. And he thinks he's going to
save the world. And she's convinced. She's like,
no, you don't have the power to help anyone.
And once you realize that, then maybe I'll listen
to your apology. Again, she's really cruel for
somebody who might be dying. And who just got
helped into a Tesla to save her life. And instead
of answering, he kind of like looks at the systems
and realize like her phone's at 2 % battery and
that the Tesla also is at low battery. And so
he like turns off the cameras and stuff and just
has it drive her to the field office and like
texts her and says, okay, like you, you have
low battery, like conserve everything. I'll see
you when this is all over kind of thing. And
then he just hacks into Mark's Amazon mobile
or like his his maybe it's cell phone. It's not
obvious where he hacks into, but he hacks into
something and just is like, OK, you're going
to go to her. She's here. Go find her and go
help her. So Mark's like, yeah, pops, I'm on
it and like drives off. So now like all this
stuff is happening. But instead of like trying
to help people or help others or like figure
out what's going on or send his threat assessment.
He's working on an email to Faith and to like
apologize and say how hard it is to be a dad
and that kind of stuff. He doesn't send it, but
just kind of like writes his thoughts down and
everything like that. Meanwhile, another call
comes in and it's Sandra and she is somehow alive
and. She's able to send video about how it's
like a news report from BBC about how they attacked
the satellites like in the sky. So they couldn't
see it coming that these things were coming.
And OK, I'm not a tech person. I'm not like good
with any of this stuff. My question is this.
So they were able to like attack the satellites
and then they came in for their attack. How did
they get like nothing about the satellites crashing
out? Like they got absolutely nothing about all
these satellites are broken and everything like
that is. Am I wrong here? Like, I don't think
it's that crazy that they would have an alert
when their satellites go down. Maybe, but I don't
I don't think it's that crazy. I don't know.
So that's what happened. Now that like Sandra
has sent him this and that he's been able to
focus a little more, he now calls Briggs back.
And Briggs also happens to be in a Zoom meeting
with the president of the United States. And
even though he's like barely focused on the actual
problem, Will was able to like present this spreadsheet
and all these attacks and everything like that.
And he thinks he knows where they're going next.
They're going to attack the nuclear power. That's
what he thinks. And so the president says, OK.
Well, let's get these guys. Let's initiate this
war of the worlds to save us all. Roll credits.
And this keys a montage of just like a bunch
of footage of like army preparing and navy preparing
and that kind of stuff. None of it looks like
it's happening right now. It all looks like it's
footage from other things or like from other
movies even where it's just like, okay, cool.
They're locking in together and they're getting
ready. And the news announcer even says, a war
of the worlds to save humanity. And this is like
my favorite part because he's like flipping through
these attacks and he's like tough talking them.
He's like, take your intergalactic asses back
home, back home. Like he's tough talking this
footage that's happening. it's honestly fantastic
it is it is when ice cubes at his best just being
absolutely ridiculous like this so the army in
the navy and the air force and space force are
all attacking these tripods and it's looking
like okay cool we might we might have a chance
against this this is they're starting they're
holding their own they are um You know, it's
not quite so crazy that we might have a chance
to beat these guys. So while these fights are
going on, I am going to take a quick break. We've
got a podcast to shout out that guessed the bad
movie correctly. As well as you may have noticed
at the beginning of this episode, we do have
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doing this and I stopped doing it because I thought
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And a lot of it probably has to do with the fact
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much. Okay, so we are at DEF CON 1. There is
a War of the Worlds that is being initiated by
the President of the United States. The Army,
Navy, everybody is fighting in these tripods.
We don't care about all that. We care about what's
happening with Faith. So Will once again tries
to see where Faith is. He sees the Tesla footage.
It's an empty car and there's just a bunch of
blood in the backseat. And then he's looking
through the hallways of the DHS field office
through the cameras and he just sees like blood
everywhere. He tries to call Faith again. But
he is not able to reach her. So he focuses on
the next best thing. Which is the actual problem
at hand. The actual war of the worlds that is
happening. And through Sandra. He has found out
that they make a sound every time they change
direction. Not to communicate. But because they
are actually looking for something. It's like
an echolocation kind of thing. So they make these
sounds. And he's able to detect where they're
going. And he finds out. That they are going
to a data center. That is where they are going.
As soon as he figures this out. Dave calls him.
And Dave has this conspiracy theory about Goliath.
And he is like. He knows this is what they are
trying to do. And everything like that. And Will
once again brushes him off. Your crazy conspiracy
theories. There is no Goliath. There is no nothing.
You are being lied to. So he kind of just hangs
up on Dave. And Dave is once again, like the
red haired stepchild of his children. And Sandra
calls him again at the data center. And though
one of the tripods is down because of like a
missile, it still seems like it's alive and it's
extended its tentacle into the data center. So
she starts following it and she gets to the actual
data center and is able to see like, it's kind
of like into all these systems. Will pulls up
a feed of all the data center stuff and notices
that it is downloading stuff. It is getting all
of this data and it is downloading. And while
this is happening, Sandra once again gets attacked
by something and her call drops out. There's
a lot of get attacked by something, call drops
out. That kind of thing. And that's pretty much
the entirety of this movie. Anytime anybody's
in danger or anything like that, the call is
going to drop out. You just know it's going to
drop out. A bunch more reports start coming in,
CNN, Fox News, that kind of stuff. And as Will
is watching them, basically this data that it
has been able to gain has given them control
over the military planes and boats and stuff
like that, GPS systems. And it's able to crash
the planes. It's able to knock the boats off
course. And so now they have no advancements
to fight with. And so it's all come down to manual
warfare. Like this is going to be boots on the
ground, just shooting at them. There's no real
like availability of planes. There's no availability
of boats. They can still use tanks, but even
the tanks, it's just kind of like, okay, we can't
get them out there that fast. So they have the
tech advantage on us. Like these tripods, they
now have the tech advantage. And they are just
taking out like millions of troops. And we see
like a casualty number. We also see a number
of like how many tripods are getting destroyed.
And it's like tens of thousands per like one
or two tripods getting taken out. It's obvious
we are getting our ass whooped by these tripods.
And once again, Sandra, she somehow survived
and she calls back. She found the little things
that are taking up the data and she found like
kind of how they work. And she's showing she's
showing will like how these little creatures
work. It's a little like little tiny spider like
things. And she's able to show that they like
crawl towards the data and they just start like
sucking it up. And she's interrupted by the fact
that Mark calls him and he has just reached faith
and faith. like an idiot, has removed the rebar
from her leg. And so she is very much bleeding.
She is not okay. Her heart rate is super elevated.
And basically, Will's just like, you got to wrap
that up, Mark. You got to get a tourniquet or
something. And what does Mark do? In true Amazon
style, he gets his trusty tape gun and he just
starts tying up the wound. And it works. It stopped
the bleeding. The tape has worked. Amazon saves
the day once again. Also, we see that the data
now is getting, besides the military stuff, it's
getting to other things like oil rigs are combusting.
There's these planes that are crashing, including
one that just kind of like, it's like obvious
CGI turn where it's just like the same plane,
but it just kind of goes sideways and falls to
the ground and we don't see a crash or anything,
but it's just like. and then power grids are
crashing as well uh there's mass rioting and
looting because our money is worth nothing anymore
so people are just like stealing what they need
and that kind of thing and he also realizes that
all of the data is going away and he only cares
about one thing that recording his wife sent
him on facebook that said he needs to take the
trash out but she loves him the last recording
that he has yeah it gets erased And then the
page gets erased. 404 page not found. He just
yells, fuck. And he throws his glasses and he
like starts closing tabs, but he leaves one tab
open. And when he clicks this tab, somehow his
glasses are like back up on his face. It's real
bad. Like it is blatantly obvious that he threw
those glasses and then all of a sudden they're
back. And that tab that he didn't close was the
disruptors live stream. and this disruptor is
talking about how if the invaders get goliath
they're going to send us back to the stone age
and for some reason they didn't think to do this
earlier they're doing it now for some reason
he decides he's going to take like a vocal imprint
of the disruptor he's going to run it through
a vocal decryption and try to see because it's
one of those like i am anonymous you cannot figure
out who i am I am going through a voice changer.
Like that kind of thing. And so he takes it and
he puts it through the decryption. And shocker,
I know this is going to be hard to believe. The
disruptor is Dave. Oh, bum, bum, bum. So, of
course, Will is pissed and he calls and immediately
starts yelling at Dave. How could you be the
disruptor? You know I work for the government.
You're trying to dismantle it. How dare you do
this, this, this, and this? And basically, Dave's
just kind of like, Dad, you've been lied to this
whole time. The government doesn't care about
you. They've been lying to you. And Will doesn't
want to hear any of it. And so he hangs up. But
then Dave is able to send him a whole file on
Goliath. And like this is a huge file. And he's
able to send it like that. It takes almost no
time. And it's on his desk. And Will messages
him and says, I don't care what's in that file.
It's not going to get me to believe that you
were right in this. And then he starts going
through everything. And it's like all these like
clippings and stuff. And he realizes that the
government has been lying. the whole time they
knew about goliath they knew that these creatures
might come in and try to to steal all this data
and what's even worse is that briggs was the
one that was behind this whole thing and this
is why he wanted to catch the disruptor he wanted
it to not come out that briggs was the one in
charge of launching goliath and he also learns
that goliath is 40 feet below him in the DHS
building and so Will calls Briggs and he lets
him know that he figured it out and that he's
being lied to and Briggs is just kind of like
at first like I knew I hired smart people I knew
you'd figure it out eventually like he's playing
it nonchalantly and everything like that and
he's like walking back to his office he's not
quite in there yet he's walking back to his office
and Will's just kind of like no people need to
know I'm gonna get this stuff out there and Briggs
goes, well, thank you for your service, Mr. Radford.
No, you won't be doing that. And now he's taken
away all of his access. So what is Will going
to do? He doesn't have access anymore. He can't
access all his fancy code words to get all the
CCTV footage and everything like that. What is
he going to do? Well, luckily, there's somebody
that happens to have a set of skills. and is
able to help Will get all of his access back.
And that person is Dave, or the Disruptor. And
so his son lets him back into his computer, and
Will celebrates by yelling, Touchdown! Touchdown!
Touchdown! I love all these things that he just
does, because it's so Ice Cube. Like, it's not
a bad thing. It's not good in the script at all.
But he just elevates it slightly in the fact
that it makes it funny or it makes it more relatable,
I guess. I don't know. Maybe that's just me and
liking Ice Cube for this ridiculousness. Mark
was able to send a video that he just got access
to and basically says that Faith is all better.
So they're good now. And Will calls Dave once
he's like all up and they're going to figure
out how to attack. How are they going to attack
the tripods and save Goliath from getting access?
Because Briggs is just kind of like brushed on
their table. He says it's airtight. It's 40 feet
below ground. They're not going to be able to
get to it. But Will and Dave both know that's
bullshit. And so they come up with this idea
of a rabbit virus and essentially in layman's
terms. And this is from the movie. I don't actually
know what a rabbit virus is, but essentially
it's like. It hits one spot and then it multiplies
and multiplies and multiplies and multiplies
like how rabbits have sex and stuff like that.
It's not quite that way, but that's kind of the
idea. And so Dave or Will is just like, I'm going
to call my buddies. I'll get them to make this
virus. And Dave's like, your buddies all suck.
I've got my friends. And so he gets his friends
to help. And it's like five of them. And like
they all have names like Starfire, Thelma and
Louise, Burnout and like. Just lame names to
protect them. And they all have like the disruptor
cloak and blackface kind of thing over their
image. So you can't actually see what they look
like. So that's what they're doing right now.
And it shows that time passes. Like it's not
just, okay, we made a virus. Although I do think
it's only like a 30 minute period that they do
it. And while they're doing this, because Will
has nothing to do, he. essentially takes the
info dave gave him and makes like this whistleblower
video and puts it on the disruptor page where
it all gets out there about briggs it all gets
out there about the goliath program that they
all knew about it everything like that and then
he reveals his face as a disruptor like will
reveal himself as the disruptor and that he is
like this whistleblower and all of the other
disruptors are like your dad's an og he's so
cool and stuff like that so while they are like
uploading this virus together uh this data then
gets swiped and basically not only was not only
do the tripods are they able to figure out where
goliath is they now also know where the disruptors
are And they're going to attack them. And so
all of them get attacked like one by one, including
there's like, so there's a, there's a viral video
of like waffle falls over and then it causes
like this explosion on the screen. And it says
like directed by Michael Bay, that kind of thing.
So one of them, it's that fire effect. Like it
really is that bad fire effect. Like it is on
there and it kills starfire. And that's the only
reason I'm going to remember it is because of
fire and starfire. Um, also Dave gets attacked
and like Will's house is completely burned down
and Dave's footage cuts out. And so he's like,
Will is looking at all the, the drones and stuff
around his house. He sees that the house is like
completely obliterated and he can't see any signs
of Dave and he's just hoping he's alive and everything
like that. And then he gets another call from
Dave. and dave's been at brian's house he was
bouncing his signal around so he really wasn't
there and he had like a fake background behind
him and he like removes it so he can see that
it's brian's house and stuff and will is like
pissed at him he's just like why couldn't you
have made brian's house explode why did it have
to be mine so while they're like having their
moment happy that dave is also still alive sandra
calls them and she tells them that these spider
things are like alive They're not just cyber.
They have like blood. And so the virus wasn't
going to be able to work on them because it was
just attacking like the virus stuff, but they're
still alive. And so they need to figure out how
to also kill the alive component of them. But
luckily, one of Will's children is a tech genius.
The other one happens to be a bio genius. And
so they call her. And get her involved. And so,
Will wants to reach the defense secretary to
let him know what the plan is. They're going
to upload this virus and everything like that.
But he's in a Zoom meeting and he can't be reached.
So, of course, Will does some hacker stuff and
gets into the Zoom meeting. And in the Zoom meeting,
the secretary of defense announces that they
are going to blow up the DHS building. Because
if they blow up the building, Goliath will be
buried and the things can't reach it. Those tentacles
were going pretty much wherever they wanted.
I don't know how you just think it's going to
be buried and it's going to be just fine. But
I am not a tech pro. Again, remember. So because
of this, they have shut down like almost all
the power to DHS. And not all of it, but like
it's on backup reserve power kind of thing. They've
taken everything out. And so they can't just
attach the virus. They need somebody to do it
manually. And Will's going to do that. The issue
is now we've learned that they devoured data.
So it's not just the virus data. It's also going
to devour like the bio data from Will. So it's
a suicide mission. But Will's willing to do it.
Because somebody needs to stop this war of the
worlds. He doesn't say that, but God, he should
have. And so they need it on a thumb drive. And
of course, Will doesn't have a thumb drive because
he works for DHS. You can't have a thumb drive
in the building. And so Mark does. He happens
to have one. And he says, send him the virus.
He's going to upload it. And then he has Amazon
Air and he can deliver it. He needs Will to make
a purchase so he can use this drone to send it
through the like tripods and everything like
that, the aliens, and get it to Will. The power
of Amazon is going to save the world. That is
what this all comes down to, the power of Amazon.
So Will's just like, all right, cool, do it.
I'm going to run down to the server room and
like he calls back in. I'm writing down the server
room. You got to get that to me. You guys are
my eyes and ears. So Sandra and Faith, you're
going to tell me where to go and what to avoid
and everything like that. Dave, you're going
to protect the drone. And Mark, you focus on
getting that drone and that flash drive to me.
So basically the team's all together. um the
aliens are on their way to dhs and so are the
bombers they are about eight minutes out sandra
is now the clock for when the bombers get there
uh faith is going to be watching the cameras
and stuff and mark's going to be watching the
drone and then dave is using like a reaper drone
to protect it so he's like firing like these
missiles at the tripods and stuff just to like
take their attention so he can get the drone
around and so after like distracting a couple
tripods the drone gets hit and it gets knocked
down and it's upside down it's in turtle mode
it can't get up again and so they see this homeless
guy and will's just kind of like oh find out
his cell phone number and see if he can flip
over the drone and face just like he's homeless
he's not gonna have a cell phone and Will's just
like, everybody has a cell phone. So they get
this guy's cell phone number through Faith just
being able to replicate Willow's hacking ability.
And originally she's like, hey, the government
will give you free internet access for a year
if you're able to help us. And he's like, so
they can spy on me? He's like texting back to
Faith on this thing. And then Mark goes, no,
just like offer him a thousand dollar Amazon
gift card. offers him the gift card and he goes
and flips the drone so now they're able to get
back in the air and then dave crashes a reaper
drone into one of the tripods not only killing
it but blowing up a hole in the building so that
he's able to get the amazon air drone in and
it kind of does like some stunts around building
and everything like that and while this is happening
will is in the server room and like one of the
tentacles gets in and like trips him But he's
able to like punch it and knock it out of the
way and goes, move, bitch, get out the way. Still
so corny and so good. The drone is like out of
signal and out of battery, but it still manages
somehow to like get to Will. Will's able to catch
it. He gets into the server room by having Faith
like watch the playback loop on the code for
the server room. He's able to get in. And basically
he's being attacked by these things. But he also
is like, all right, Goliath, dinner time. And
like reaches for it. And we don't know what happens.
Except for the fact that the machines start dying.
He's able to load the cannibal code. And this
thing is spreading to all the tripods and they
all start collapsing one at a time. And it's
just in time. Because the pilots are getting
there to blow up DHS. But they get the last second,
like three seconds left. Abort! Abort! Abort!
And everything goes black. And then as it comes
up, it's Faith logging into her computer. And
she finds that she received an email from her
dad. And it's to Faith and Dave. And it includes
this whole speech about, like, it's hard being
a parent. I love you guys. I held on just a little
too long. But when your mom died, I just wanted
to protect you. And it kind of shows like the
things that are happening, like the achievements
of the family, how she's like this brilliant
bioengineer now, how Dave was part of the disruptors
that saved the world, how Briggs was getting
arrested for violating the first and fourth amendments.
And then Sandra was announced as the lead of
NASA. Then we get to another computer screen
and it's the Secretary of Defense calling in.
And the screen is like the disruptor screen.
And the Secretary of Defense calls in. And as
soon as it's answered, Will's there. So Will
survives. And the Secretary of Defense is just
like, Agent Radford, I wanted to thank you for
your achievements and your service. We want to
start a new Goliath program. That is not as invasive.
And doesn't take as many people's data. And Will
is just kind of like. There's more important
things to do. Than see what's in people's Amazon
carts. And then it kind of shows. Pictures of
him at the shower. Like seeing his family. And
he hangs up on the Secretary of Defense. And
that's it. That's the end of the movie. That
is War of the Worlds 2025. I know what you're
thinking. Mike, that doesn't sound that bad.
I mean, yeah, it had its cheesy moments, but
it doesn't sound that bad. This thing was bad,
real bad, like real, real, real bad. Let's just
start with the acting. The acting is terrible.
It's like either it goes one of two ways. Either
it's soap opera acting or it's like in certain
situations, it's not how you would act. Like
Faith dying and being mad at her dad like this.
I don't think that's how you'd act. I think she'd
be a lot more scared. You know, that kind of
thing. I think she'd be a lot more like gripping
on and everything. I don't think she'd be as
cold hearted, but maybe that's me. When you want
somebody to be serious, they are not Ice Cube.
That is not the person you want to be serious
because it's either him just like staring blankly
at the monitor or. like when his son died he
just stares blankly at the monitor or it's just
he can't handle things other than saying like
ridiculous lines like uh move bitch get out the
way that was probably one of my favorite parts
it's so stupid it's so bad and it just made me
laugh hysterically and i don't think i'm supposed
to be laughing that hard at that point it's ham
-fisted with its theme of like privacy good technology
bad it try so hard to be smart and the issue
is they never explain anything they just kind
of like say oh yeah they're feeding on the data
and what are they going to do with that data
well i don't know the military oh it lost its
gps and stuff and now the planes are crashing
we don't know why but it's because it's just
gps But now they're crashing. Oh, no. Oh, God.
Oh, no. And that's the level of what it is. I
was saying that I feel like this script was written
by AI. And if it's not, it's written by two people
that thought they were a lot smarter than they
were. I will give it some credit. I think it's
an interesting idea to do like this screen movie
kind of thing. I've seen it. done and there's
a lot of movies that can do it very well this
could work like that but this was not it and
that was the problem they missed on every aspect
of it i thought it was a cool idea that it was
all being told through the computer screen and
stuff like that i think that's an interesting
idea but the issue is too when you do that kind
of story and especially with somebody that's
kind of like an nsa dhs kind of person um What
gets tough is then that person needs to be able
to get things right away. Because that's not
how the world works. Especially in times like
this where technology was going to be down, you
can't get things immediately. He gets a code
to a Reaper drone like that. It's right away.
And he has to ask for support to do it. I think
support is probably going to be busy with a lot
of other things right now. They're not just going
to get you a Reaper drone. But maybe again, I'm
not an expert at this. I just think that's probably
the case though. And so that's the kind of thing.
It's an hour and a half movie and a lot of things
have to happen quickly. And so a lot of this
is just, okay, I'm going to hack in and I don't
need anything else. I'm just going to hack in.
They had this like. password encryption thing
or password encoder that they just kind of like
put something in and they're able to get a password
to almost anything and it's like super quick
like okay we found your password here it is that's
definitely another part of the problem with this
is a i don't know if ice cube is the hacker type
and b the fact that Everything is at his fingertips.
He just needs a type of code and he gets all
these cameras in the area. He gets all these
drones in the area. I don't see that. I have
to suspend a lot of belief or disbelief for that
to happen. And I just don't see it. I don't see
it. I can't suspend that much disbelief. And
so that. already is a huge strike against this
movie because that's majority of it majority
of it is like i am facing a problem i need something
okay i'm in and that is the hardest part for
this movie and then on top of it you get to the
mediocre acting you get to this terrible script
and you get to these effects that are absolutely
awful like a lot of this is just footage that
they just edited and made it into the movie the
the army preparing to fight these tripods i have
seen those clips before like i know i have and
that is probably a worse sin is the fact that
not only did you take footage from somewhere
else it's somewhere that you probably have seen
before and like i can't put my finger on it and
say it was from this point exactly but i feel
like i've totally seen it before and so to just
like Throw that into the movie as a hodgepodge
kind of thing. Yeah, that's not great. That's
not good. The fact that they had YouTube videos
for the apartments that they were trying to find
the disruptor in, that was stupid as hell. You're
not going to get into these people's lives and
it's just going to all of a sudden be a short
video of a kid hitting another kid with a beanbag
chair. I don't think that's the way it's going
to be. So it's just... This movie was tough on
a lot of aspects, and I get totally why people
are saying this is the worst movie of the year.
Because it is. I don't think there's a single
movie I can think of that was worse than this
movie that came out this year. It's high on my
list of bad movies. It's definitely one of the
worst ones I've seen. I think I've seen worse,
but it's close. I mean, it's probably top five
worst movies I've seen. And it's just because
it's so stupid and it's so... I don't know what
to even call it. I want to say it's disappointing,
but it's not disappointing because we all saw
where this was going. We all saw that a War of
the Worlds movie starring Ice Cube was coming
out. And I'm sorry, Ice Cube. It's not anything
bad about you. Stick to comedies. Stick to action
movies like Triple X. Like that. I can enjoy
you in those. And, like, even some of these,
I enjoyed some parts of it because it was just
this stupid ice cube thing. But in this movie,
it just does not work. I can't have you think
your child dies and you just look at the camera
like, huh, kind of thing. You know, I can't do
that. I can't. I can't get away with that. That's
probably the biggest disbelief of this whole
movie. And I can't suspend that. so yeah um this
movie's a zero i'm i'm gonna flat out say it
is a zero i never want to see this movie again
i can't find anything redeeming i told you already
i mean i think it's an interesting concept if
you had a through a better way i think you could
have done it better um but yeah this this movie
is a dead zero i'm not giving it the mitchell
zero it is a dead zero zero out of five um Hacker
codes. That's what I'm going to give it. Pure
trash from beginning to end. The only positive
about it was, or one of the only positives is
that it was an hour and a half. So good. I didn't
feel as bad afterwards saying this movie could
have easily been two hours. And it also could
have been R -rated with them just throwing in
a bunch of fucks. I wouldn't have been surprised
by that either. thank god they didn't do that
so there we go that was war of the worlds from
2025 uh thank you guys very much for tuning in
i appreciate all you guys i'm happy to watch
bad movies for all of you um surprise surprise
i'm actually recorded ahead of time on next episode
so i may be sending something out to get ready
for the next next episode because i might finally
be ahead of this shit i am way behind half the
time but This time I might be ahead of it. So
good news. Yay. I'm going to be prepared for
the next inevitable war of the worlds. I appreciate
you guys for tuning in. Thank you guys for listening
to the Game for a Movie podcast, where we ask,
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