‘Damn!’ That’s what Ice Cube says about two hundred times in tonight’s new film, the Amazon Original feature War of the Worlds. It’s not often that you see a film that confesses, ‘It’s worse than you think,’ in the actual publicity material. But is this new sci-fi non-action picture really as bad as the online chatter claims? And how does it compare to the 2005 version of the same story, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise and a ten year old Dakota Fanning? Which film makes it hard to tell the difference between the movie and the ads? Which film has something to say about the Attention Economy? Which film breaks the four rules of film making? Which film stars the senior gremlins? And which film features a man tripping over a chair? (Spoiler: it’s both of them.)
Plus a 1960s superhero caper from Marvel, a pop star misadventure with St Vincent, some overtime for the Cliche Squad, a list of constitutional amendments that we don’t need to pay attention to any more, a Sega CD game from 1997, the invention of Narrative Atheism, and a moment when we go just a little bit meta….
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