Who Would Watch This?
Who Would Watch This?
Who Would Watch 'War of the Worlds (2026)'?
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Zoom Month continues as some of the greatest stories of our time unfold on the screen of a laptop. This week, the 2026 Razzie-winning film War of the Worlds is in our sights.
Together, Oscar and Carl ask the important questions: Is this Ice Cube’s best performance? Were these actors just hired via the app Cameo? Are the editors the real stars of the film? And, of course, who would actually watch this?
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My name is Oscar. My name is Kyle.
SPEAKER_01And this is Who Will Watch This. Welcome to Who Will Watch this Pokemon because we watch a film, chapter the film, then try and figure out who to watch this. Today we're talking about War of the Worlds, which currently has a 1 on Letterboxd, a 4% on Reddit, 4%, a 1 on Letterboxd, a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 2.5 on IMDB. Which is crazy to have everything below.
SPEAKER_00It's a 4% This is a classic who would watch. It's just a classic, it's a bad movie. No one's happy with it. 100%, 100%. Oscar, what's the plot? Look, there's a big plot summary here. Ice Cube's trying to stop the invasion of Earth over Zoom.
SPEAKER_01Wow.
SPEAKER_00That's what I did. That's really good. If I go into this, it's too much.
SPEAKER_01And I dare say as well, it should be part of the plot that this is what HG Wells wanted.
SPEAKER_00HG Wells, it's similar to James Cameron's avatar, it's like the technology's not there yet. I need to wait until it can be made.
SPEAKER_01When he did the radio, he was like, I envision this on Zoom. Like I the he's like, I know that'll be a thing, and I know it's gonna be called that because it makes sense for Zoom to be called. When you think I'm looking at someone over screen, zoom. It's definitely somebody was like, I'm actually developing Skype right now, and he was like, it's gonna over that. When this falls, zoom.
SPEAKER_00Carl, before we get into this little gem, uh should we go back to last week before we'd seen the film? Oh, yeah. When we were trying to predict who we thought would watch it? Get out of my brain. Get out of my brain. No, seriously, get out of my brain. I'm trying. It's filthy in here and I hate it. Carl, it's Zoom month, okay? It's Zoom month. This is us committing to this 100%. Yeah. I have now looked at uh the Zoom, what the old deal we'll be looking at. It turns out uh, who knew it? This director has a style, and with pretty much all the films we'll be doing. He produced Unfriended, he directed uh Mercy, and he produced uh War of the Worlds, which is Yeah, I think he's the connector. I believe he likes Tim Allen films. So that How could you not? Sound Clause 3, the Escape Clause. It's just good shit. Right. It's just good shit. Are we doing that in time for Toy Story 5? No, surely not. What? Tim Allen zoom. We when does Toy Story 5 drive?
SPEAKER_01Toy Story 5's, I think, uh July release. Yeah, I gotcha. So I think we're we're well and truly ahead of it.
SPEAKER_00We're pre. We're pre.
SPEAKER_01I think we should be getting it right on the cusp of the Tim Allen bubble popping. I think right on the cusp of the bubble.
SPEAKER_00I reckon I feel like take a little uh microscope to Tim Allen, people like, hey, you know he's a monster, right? Uh I love the cocaine story. Have you heard that cocaine story?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because you love it so much. I reckon you've told it to be three times. I just love it so much. If you want to tell it, you could tell it.
SPEAKER_00I don't know why I'd tell it. I'm go back, figure out, do your own work for the video.
SPEAKER_01We definitely discussed it on the Escape Clause episode. So people want to know the Tim Allen cocaine story, go listen to that.
SPEAKER_00But we're here in the now.
SPEAKER_01We're here in the now, and right now, Tim Callan, Tim Allen's not addicted to cocaine.
SPEAKER_00Like many people, Carl Dun War War of the Worlds. Yes. Uh it just won the Razzie, which is very exciting. It's swept. It's swept by here. Yeah. Uh so we thought we'd just do it. Look, I thought maybe at the start, we're like, should we do it? I felt we lost our spot. You know what? Fuck it. I feel I'm feeling good. Yeah. I'm feeling happy to jump into this late, you know? Yeah. Why not, you know, why not, you know, take a moment, be like, what are we looking at?
SPEAKER_01It's actually it's about us. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And people forget that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's it's not everything has to be done for views and clicks and listens. It's it now is the right time for us to view this, and that's okay.
SPEAKER_00It's authentic, you know. I we're all about authentic content now. You know, I feel like in in this in this diggy world of AI or whatnot, you know, you you gotta look for yourself. You gotta be making things for you, honey, and that's just what we're about.
SPEAKER_01We're no longer editing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna leave in all the slurs. That's for us. Kyle loves starting the podcast. We all love saying, berating me. Berating me. Those are the worst things you've ever heard. But here's the thing the energy's good, you've got to keep it in it. The energy's high.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's that's and I realized we were cutting that out, and the listener wasn't getting the energy that they needed to start the episode. It starts brutally. There's some honesty people need to hear. Yeah. And it's incredibly hurtful. Yeah. And we're gonna let it we're gonna let it happen raw.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's it's it's good, you know. I just think, you know, could Chat GBT do that? No. No.
SPEAKER_01And the other thing is, is we're also not editing the quality of the audio, and we are moving into a tin can.
SPEAKER_00So we're really going down the tin can rope sort of situation. It's look, it's more of authentic people who love film will really get around the tin can audio.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's like when they film on film. It's we've actually we've actually recorded it on tin.
SPEAKER_00You keep that grain, you keep that grain. Yeah, no one's after you know the old vinyl, but guess what? Tin can't back in the beginning. You all hear that rope? Love that string. Listening to a record on a string in a tin can? Like, oh, you can just literally hear the vibrations. Wow, it's just so authentic, Carl. Uh what do you think of War of the Worlds? Have you seen the Tom Cruise one? Have you listened to the radio play? Uh, and do you know anything about this uh Ice Cube one?
SPEAKER_01Um, this is gonna shock you. Uh I don't know if we've ever really told I f I feel like we may have on on like a special episode when we've talked about underrated movies or things like that. I was given War of the Worlds as a DVD for Christmas from my aunt and uncle the year it came out with Tom Cruise by Steven Spielberg. Very early Steven Spielberg film for me. And I loved it so much. I was War of the Worlds obsessed. Yeah. Um so I listened to the radio play. Cool. I had uh there was an expanded version of the radio play done by somebody else that my parents got me that was a three CD set. Whoa. Uh that I C Done with the Radio. Right? Isn't that crazy? It's like when you used to listen to Harry Potter and that was like nine. Nine cassettes, nine Stephen Fry's voice, and nine cassettes. God, it was good. Um, I watched the tell BBC television shows that they were doing as well. I've watched the new uh BBC television show, which was not good. Uh I've really followed War of the Worlds. I'm surprisingly pretty well versed in the show.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, great. Well, that's fantastic because I've seen the memes online.
SPEAKER_01So we could we can both wait. Both are bringing something to the table. That's what that is. Yeah. Have you never seen the Steven Spielberg one? Never once. The Steven Spielberg one that I will just quickly say, I think the front half of the movie is amazing, and then the back half of the movie is not as good. But there is a really interesting choice in that movie, which is Tom Cruise's a bad absent dad, and that's who the kids get stuck with. And it's just a good little plot of him going, Oh god, I have to rise to this occasion. Like it's like it's a good there's like a really good scene where he's like, he's like, it's everything's fine. I'm trying not to freak out. I'm just gonna feed you his peanut butter sandwiches, and they're like, I'm allergic to peanut butter. Right. And he's like, oh for fuck's sake.
SPEAKER_00What nice organic, like, uh not world building, but just problems of just like, oh, you're a dead beat. How believable.
SPEAKER_01Actually, not knowing his kids is another thing for his character to have to overcome in the plot of War of the Worlds, which I think is just a really good dramatic plot to add.
SPEAKER_00And bless him, Tom Cruise is very charismatic. So he play I imagine he plays Dead Bad B Dad really well.
SPEAKER_01He play he does, and you like him. Yeah, of course. Maybe his kids are a fine.
SPEAKER_00The sun sucks. Yeah, no, the the phone's on that works the other way, you know, for Tom Cruise. You know, call him, call him, it's Tom Cruise.
SPEAKER_01Um, so yeah, anyway, I I do recommend that you should watch that. And also, I I I have watched it mildly recently. The effects in it are truly phenomenal.
SPEAKER_00Great. Uh, this one though.
SPEAKER_01Uh what do you what do you know? I don't know much about this. I've seen a little bit of memes.
SPEAKER_00I've seen a little bit of memes. I I do know uh Amazon comes to the rescue. That's all I know. Uh in a tweet. Yeah. Uh and I've and it's just been uh I've seen all the sort of uh him him just doing that face. I'm holding my uh my hand, my temples, his glasses around, his eye, his glasses on, off, everything like that. Yeah, so I am keen to just properly see it. Because I'll be honest, we're a little we're a funny we we know our bad movies. This does look bad. We're pretty good at knowing a bad fellow. Yeah, so I'm keen to show our expertise and be like, you know what, you guys may have found this funny, but have you thought about this fart joke? Morphed into that.
SPEAKER_01What's great is knowing we won't bring anything new to the discussion.
SPEAKER_00Nothing new to the table. The only thing we can really bring is our perspective that we will probably go on a tangent, and that could be our quickly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, what are your thoughts on Ice Cube? I don't know if we've done an Ice Cube film.
SPEAKER_00I know, but I love him in uh the 21, 22 jump streets. I think he's very used in the he's really funny. That's my only sort of entry. I think, you know, uh function. You don't love the ride-along films? I haven't seen them. I'm so sorry. I've seen a bit of Friday 2. I think Friday uh come again. It's like Frida, it's like Friday again. It's like Friday next week. It's got a fun title, or maybe it doesn't.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's like the Friday before last. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or the Friday next Friday. Next Friday is what it's called. Yeah, see that I was like, huh. I've seen a bit of that, but I couldn't tell you anything. So yeah, I'm we're pretty good at this. Carl, what's your what's your what's your take on this Ice Cube character?
SPEAKER_01I like Ice Cube very much in the in the Jump Street films, which I rewatched the second one recently, and Ice Cube's so good in that one.
SPEAKER_00I feel we'll gush about Phil Lord and Chris Miller, but oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so but I he's he's crazy in Anaconda. Like he's so out of his depth in Anaconda's.
SPEAKER_00He's a rapper, like he's he's he's a rap, like he doesn't have to be a good the fact he's good is great, yeah.
SPEAKER_01But the real thing I know him from that had a massive impact on me again, as a child, this is really worlds conversing, isn't it? Other um are we?
SPEAKER_00W N-A-A-O. What'd you say? Big big uh WNA W N A.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I love straight out of Compton. Yeah, loved it as a kid. That's who you are. Um you ever seen Are We There Yet? Where he's got two kids on a road trip.
SPEAKER_00Is that the R V version, but with Ice Cube? Or I feel is he in Daddy Daycare 2, or is he that's cube conning junior, I think, is daddy daycare.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or maybe that's daddy daycamp. He might be daddy daycamp.
SPEAKER_00I feel like he's he's one of the very weird spin-offs.
SPEAKER_01He did his time in children's film. Yeah. That's the thing, is when when they were like rappers and wrestlers do kids' movies, he had that spin. You had to do a pacifier. You had to do a pacifier. Everybody had to do a pacifier to get to their F and F. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Carl, who would watch uh War of the Worlds?
SPEAKER_01It's for people one that love Zoom films. I know that for sure. Yeah. Uh it is also for people that I assume have only listened to the HG Wells and have never envisioned what the image could be. Yeah. I I think this needs to be your next go-to, and that way you you will probably be stunned.
SPEAKER_00I think, uh yeah, no, I 100% agree. If you, like who I think would watch it, I think if you're on TikTok and you want to see this film, it'd be great to have the audio of that radio play sort of on top of each other in that sort of.
SPEAKER_01I think it lines up like Dark Side of the Moon and uh Wizard of Oz. I think it's one of those moments. One of those big moments, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or some worlds like they're coming, they're here, oh my god, and it's just Ice Cube taking his glasses off at the exact moment. Absolutely, and you just go, wow, this works-ish. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's pretty special. Yeah. I think this is a special time. Um I was I don't know what I was expecting. I definitely thought it was going to have like I knew it would be low budget, but I thought it was gonna have like a budget as a low budget. I didn't realize it would be like after effects that I could do something. We could do. We could do that. You know, I didn't realize it was gonna be that much.
SPEAKER_00And we'll get and I feel like it's cruel. Like there's definitely like an editing team behind it, and they've obviously been stretched.
SPEAKER_01I think the editing team's done what they can.
SPEAKER_00The edit like a genuine it's cohesive is the wrong word, but like you you must have it's ice cube in a room for a day, evil on Goria, and then some people running around a random city, and they've gone make a film, and that's an achievement in itself.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely. Look, it's got stuff in it where you go. There's a clear character arc, there's twists and turns every couple of minutes to try and keep you invested. Yeah, like they've the you know, this isn't while it's an inherently lazy.
SPEAKER_00It's a miracle it edits, you know.
SPEAKER_01That's yeah, like it's it's good for them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You see what takes they've had to go through, and and maybe this is gonna be praised. All the continuities of his glasses coming up on down, that's just them working with us. They've done like a YouTube player.
SPEAKER_01Him standing, him sitting. Yeah, it's very much like uh they've just stitched it together. Yeah, which is cool and fun. I like that. I don't know if you're watching you watching the new season of uh Jury Judy. I'm not, no, is that out yet? Yeah, the and it's fun, and people are having a real issue with um the editors have clearly stitched together different scenes to make the plot work. Gotcha. And so people are like, there's continuity errors, so this has to be fake. Yeah. And I'm like, it's no, this scene would have just been done.
SPEAKER_00Like you are getting like you are like I forget for that show, you're doing I don't know, eight days of kind of probably nothing interesting. Trying to pull together the comedy. Yeah, exactly. Then a piano falls on someone, and that's fine because it's been seven days of pretty benign shit. Yeah. So I don't mind. Also, you're like, guys, it's a miracle of this word, you know. I don't mind that.
SPEAKER_01I don't think people realize they're sitting in that room for an like this is meant to be a legitimate corporate retreat. So it's like they're sitting in rooms for a long period of time. Yeah, that is. It doesn't matter if they're getting paused and pulled in. So they're stitching together stuff to make the episode.
SPEAKER_00Because you're just like, like you'd have to reset the cameras, and you have to get the camera crew over there. Like you're doing it's just tough. Yeah. So I don't who who cares about continuity error?
SPEAKER_01I thought I was like in the end, this is like a fun, elaborate frame where this guy's laughing at the same time. That's all it's about. That's all common. People are like, how does he not know that this is fake? And I'm like, how it's a everybody thinks they're being Truman shows.
SPEAKER_00It's also a million dollars, it's uh it's a bit like a half a couple of million dollars that make sure he can't figure it out, you know? If there's Tingu fucking with this guy.
SPEAKER_01There's also people be like, why don't why those are clearly high quality cameras? How doesn't he know that they wouldn't be a documentary film camera? Like, what this guy hasn't been on a film set.
SPEAKER_00What schizophrenic vi mind are you going in? I know you're just sitting there watching a show of pranking people being like, I wouldn't know, I wouldn't know it. Yeah. I'm constantly a fool in the wild. How do they not know this actress from Dropout? And I'm like, well, not everyone's on Dropout, the vicious comedy store. Some people read. Some people read. Yeah, I'm saying it. Anybody has a complaint, guys, maybe open a book. I won't, but hey, someone's got her. Carl, let's get into uh War of the Worlds. Ice Cube's an absentee father, but also a stalker. How do we feel about that? Look, this guy is so bad off the bat.
SPEAKER_01He's angry dad. Yeah, he's a widower. Yeah, he's not there for the floor. That's a flaw. That's a flaw. Lost his wife, probably his fault. Look, it was she even says it's not your fault that she died of disease. I think it is.
SPEAKER_00Do we think she was anti-vax at this point? Because she died in 2020. Yeah, 2020.
SPEAKER_01I would say the way that this family is the way that this family is, the information he's.
SPEAKER_00It just feels just she was like, I'm not gonna do it.
SPEAKER_01His daughter's into blood. It's all off. Yeah. Everything about the jab. This guy's a jab list. This guy, I also loved because we this there's a lot to do here with like Facebook memories, and I love that they just had no pictures together. And it's they've just gone like we've stitched you together in a banner image, and then we've like photoshopped drawing over the top of it. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_00I I no, I'm very positive towards this because this is the most 60-year-old man Facebook banner I've ever seen. She's dead though. No, I'm saying a family portrait that they've fucked up with like a photo image and just being like, look, it's us, but we're like we're in a Western. But I think it's not there.
SPEAKER_01I'm still like he here's images of him that day. Like, at least take the glasses off, you know. So the glasses work, the glasses work, no degree.
SPEAKER_00We can't talk about the continent. Again, the editors have strung together five pictures. They've had about three minutes of film and they've made a film out of it. Good for them.
SPEAKER_01And they are quick to the pulse. Eva rings in and is like, uh, is the FBI doing anything controlling the weather today? And he's like, I I watch people, not the weather.
SPEAKER_00I go, this is quick. My partner was watching this and she was maybe working from home, and she was a bit paranoid because quite frankly, the Teams meeting sound effect kept blowing up, and she's like, Jesus Christ, what's going on? That is scary. Sorry, it's just Eva on the line. I'm so sorry. Eva's nailing it. I think Eva's great.
SPEAKER_01Look, I think if we had to, I think Eva's easily the best part of the film. Yeah, totally. I think she's doing a lot of.
SPEAKER_00I'd say Roderick Rules, the guy from that, is also doing great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, actually, he really stood out, and I didn't realise that was him until you've just said it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00He what he was good. Everyone's nailing it. Dare I say Ice Cube? I think he is not I phoning it in might be an understatement. He's just not giving it a go, but isn't that good? The issue isn't he good for that?
SPEAKER_01The issue is I think Ice Cube is a one note actor. Yeah. And so I think you just need to make sure that you've got something that makes sure he's playing the note right. Yeah. He doesn't suit this. He's playing it as a comedy. He's straight out of 21 Drum Street with this aggression. It's kind of crazy.
SPEAKER_00He is It's a bad start. Because essentially, I don't know about you guys, but everyone's a bit anti, you know, spying, you know, at the moment with the government. Not me. You're big. I'm cashing the pro being watched. I send the cookies to the government straight ahead.
SPEAKER_01I get off on it. I love it. The only thing that the only thing that helps me at night is knowing that I'm being watched by Big Brother.
SPEAKER_00But yeah, no, so he's stalking everybody. He's immediately abusing his power of the government surveillance, which we all don't like. Uh, and he's uh checking out his daughter, being like, where's she at? She doesn't love me, she thinks I'm overbearing with a massive camera above her.
SPEAKER_01It's odd to have it be that surveillance is bad when he's been surveilled like at the top of the surveillance channel.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's the same as the mercy sort of message of just like, isn't this bad? But sometimes you need it. Yeah. Sometimes you need it.
SPEAKER_01You wonder if these are all AI written. Because the contr the it's you can see where the theme is that they're going for, but the roles they've given the characters contradict everything. So you do.
SPEAKER_00You think, oh, we're doing like an interesting thing, like we're doing an anti-AI movie, but as a guy who makes AI, it's just like, actually, sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes they replace jobs that you do, and fuck you. And maybe it'll replace art, and that's okay. What were you doing, really? You'll you're you're being lazy. You're being lazy. That's my stance, guys. I podcasters will never be taken over. God no, not like this, not the way that we could do it. Surely not. They can't do that yet. They can't do that yet.
SPEAKER_01No. I really liked so they Clark Gregg's in this film, but he doesn't come in for a while. And so I hoped that that all they'd paid for was Clark Gregg's image and then a voice.
SPEAKER_00I think they cameoed a lot of these people. I for sure think they do. You're talking about the president? You're talking about the President.
SPEAKER_01He's the one that ends up being the villain, the one from like Avengers and things like that. Yes. You know, Agents of Shields. Remember when we showed you the ending of Agents of Shield?
SPEAKER_00I chilled.
SPEAKER_01He gets his car back. He gets his car back. He keeps it at the end.
SPEAKER_00Wasn't that a rush?
SPEAKER_01Wasn't that good? God. TV's never been the same.
SPEAKER_00Shield. Guys, check it out. It's on I want to say Tubi. Um yes, we do get to Ice Cube. So here's the thing. He's an overprotective parent. His daughter has not invited him to the baby shower because he's a freak. His son is a frickin' gamer who's been lazy, freaking wasting his college application. And Eve is like, hey, uh Ice Cube, check out these frickin' gifts of the weather. Pretty wacky. Just another day of an FBI agent scanning you. That's what happens.
SPEAKER_01I thought if the government's really spending the money this way, they've got to wax it. They've got to wax it.
SPEAKER_00They're not doing you think this is over-government spending. I was like you've got to slash their funding.
SPEAKER_01I was like, the people he talks to should not have a relationship with his role. Like, I was like, he's talking to POTUS? Really? He's in those meetings? Those Zoom meetings with all of those top hot and he's like. Who's the guy who's at the golf range? Is he just at a golf range?
SPEAKER_00He's at the whole thing.
SPEAKER_01He's not scared at all about things.
SPEAKER_00I kind of love it. At one point at the golf range, and then he's just in the back of an Uber drinking a mojito. It's kinda I think that's the fun part of him.
SPEAKER_01They definitely just called that actor where he was. Yeah. The agent was like, you can be in a movie if you answer this call now.
SPEAKER_00You're currently on the film. We're using this footage.
SPEAKER_01It's like, what? No way. Oh my god. I thought there were way more famous people in the movie than I thought there was going to be.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's how that's the power of film, isn't it? You got tricked.
SPEAKER_01You got tricked. I was it's they've done a great job, haven't they? I was like, wow, this is actually star-studded. To the point that I wondered, how do you reckon they landed on Ice Cube?
SPEAKER_00Uh I de I read somewhere that they wanted the man to be paraplegic. Because it's a big thing that he like he just is locked to this room. But at one point Ice Cube gets up and tries to open the door. It's locked anyway. I'm letting my dead wife and dead daughter leave bleed out in the street. It's like the door's locked. What am I to do? I only have rage at my side. But he's meant to be paraplegic. So I don't, I don't, I guess Ice Cube was around. I think it's filmed during COVID and came out what this year. Yeah. Crazy. Takes a while to edit. It's good. I mean, you must have been just like they should have got the Oscar for the show. When no taker's good. I think that should be. It's hard because you don't, as a studio, you'd never want that. But there should, we should be able to see the raw footage they got and then see what the editors did. Because sometimes it's a miracle. Like them, I think the more interesting thing of editing is getting it together.
SPEAKER_01Some movies fully come in the edit. Star Wars famous for coming in the edit. I think everybody gave that Oscar to Bohemian Rhapsody because they were like, Good on you for even making this a hit. Like, you know, and everybody was like, What do you mean this one editing?
SPEAKER_00It has the worst coverage ever. Like, yeah, check out what they did with it. They got it over the line. I saw a whole podcast with that guy talking about it, a great editor, and pretty much being like, You wouldn't believe the shit I've done. You wouldn't believe how fucking nasty this was.
SPEAKER_01Well, that was a horrible production. The director wasn't coming to work, other people were stepping in and doing it. Like he then had to make that a film. It's like I think they make a film, it made money. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00It made a billion two. We had a Bob Dylan biopic because of it now, you know? We had the Bruce Springsteen one, you know.
SPEAKER_01It's like if that Michael movie comes out, which had to like completely recut, reshoot everything. If that Frankenstein job is a hit, that'll get an Oscar. Yeah. Because everybody's like, that can't be pulled together. You could change the entire third act last minute. Yeah. Like, what is this even going to be? Oh god.
SPEAKER_00I love films that are nasty.
SPEAKER_01I love films that are. It's like World War Z, you know? Just like we filmed things and there might be something good here. Who has the vision to pull it together?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. God. Do you want to do an overview of the editing and just the continuity? Just anything that's jumping out of you. Because I feel like we can't keep stopping for all the issues.
SPEAKER_01Yes, look, so I think there's some fantastic dramatic pauses. There is a part when um uh Ice Cube and Evilongoria have the same line together when they realize the bugs uh are working to take data. They're like, it's eating the data and it is a long hold. I thought that was an incredible choice. That got a big reaction out of me. Totally. Um, the other thing that I liked is, and I think this was a cheeky way to get the movie to 90 minutes, they allow you a um a longer time than you need to read the screen.
SPEAKER_00I was pretty ja I was pretty feeling pretty good about that. I'm a slow reader. Constantly I pause the film and then wait too long and then unpause it, and then they've left me way too much time to read on it.
SPEAKER_01Four to five minutes.
SPEAKER_00You know, there's one mid-montage thing where no actors are on screen, where I think they went, we we paid an after effects person a hundred grand, they've they've given us five minutes of a film, and at that price, that's a great price, you know.
SPEAKER_01My favorite part of the movie is when they said, No, Ice Cube's gonna do what he does best, assemble a table of content. He's like, image, reason, image, reason.
SPEAKER_00His job is what I couldn't believe. Midway through the film, he's like, Hey guys, I've assessed everything, and here's what you guys need to do. I'm briefing you. But he's been essentially, I guess, like putting the evidence in like an editing bin and being like aliens attack, tag, hashtag that, and then put it in a bin. And then when the president's like, what's going on? If you look at this bin, you can look at the hashtag, aliens fuck up the White House, you go, things are pretty shit.
SPEAKER_01Look, and I know it's a Sunday, but you just think there'd be other people at work, right? Yeah, for the intelligence agency of America, yeah, only one guy comes in on a Sunday.
SPEAKER_00I mean, that's pivotal information for a terrorist. You'd be like, guess this, guys, after church, we're good to go, you know?
SPEAKER_01I think potentially, I thought this was actually just a recruitment video to be like, we have great uh work-life balance. So if you want to come work for the FBI, Sundays.
SPEAKER_00A lot of people say the government's very like controlling and it controls everything. Guess what, guys? We'll take our breaks. We'll take our breaks. It's good, it's healthy, you know. Yes, we we own you, but guess what? You know, take some time off on us.
SPEAKER_01You can be like guys, he's just sitting, he's having a coffee, he spills it a little every now and then, and but he's just he's having a lovely day on a Sunday. Look at him. He's actually packing in family time while at work, and we don't mind.
SPEAKER_00We don't mind, we don't mind at all. We don't mind. I mean, here's the thing go nuts. It's it's good, it's fun toys, you know. Someone's gotta use it, you know. Fun fact, you can actually lock onto a drone with a gun. Huh? How about you pick on the people that you hate? Now, now I would like to ask this. Now, I again I I guess we don't know one couple things, because the hacking happens quite a bit in this, and you want to criticize it, but I don't I know for a fact this is not how hacking works. However, I don't know enough about hacking to know this isn't exactly how it works. So, what how do you want to feel about it?
SPEAKER_01I took it all at face value and I said if this movie does anything right, surely it's the hacking. Yeah. They've said we can't if we're incorrect on everything else, we're gonna be right with this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, it's it is good stuff. And then also drones. Now, I know the America loves a little drone. I thought it was just in foreign cities, didn't know they were just flying around Philadelphia. Yeah. That's my mistake.
SPEAKER_01Well, Philadelphia, famously most famous most dangerous city in the world.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, no, exactly. And the best way to sort of combat that sort of inequality, uh, a heat-seeking drone, you know, from above.
SPEAKER_01It never felt I unrealistic, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01This was raw. And for a moment I thought maybe is this film done by Catherine Bigelow? Yes. Because this is this is like the hurt locker of our time.
SPEAKER_00You know, I was like, this is warfare. Just like, should we be there? You know, should Boise Idaho have a very complex military drone above it at any point where someone can lock into with a with a small small bit of code. I don't know, but maybe yeah. Maybe no.
SPEAKER_01Now let's I would I would really like to talk about some of the things that they keep in the movie because that is just War of the Worlds. Great.
SPEAKER_00What's the plot of War War of the Worlds? So War of the World.
SPEAKER_01Well, they kept a canon. Look, so I think your stables of War of the Worlds are they come out of the ground. Yeah. That they've been living under the ground.
SPEAKER_00Oh, so they're not meteorites. So wait, in this one, meteoroles come down pretty quickly. Yeah. Uh the the the sort of reason why no one caught it is because they had a little meteor hit our satellites and then we couldn't tell.
SPEAKER_01Well, they always, it's not look, I think sometimes they come from space, other times. But they always feel taking a choice. Well, they always, there's essentially always a sequence of it's emerging. So there's always sort of a big moment of something's coming out of the ground. Yeah. Like I think every one of those movies has that. They usually didn't. Sorry? It'd be weird if they didn't. It would be weird if they didn't. They're here. They've always got the same sort of look of like a big eye, three legs.
SPEAKER_00There's a little jellyfish sort of vibe, you know? So there's a lot of things. Yeah, it's always a bit like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. They from memory, I think it's in the awesome worlds one, unless it's taken a life of its own and just made it to now. Pretty sure they've all always made a horrific sound before they kill. Yes. Uh so they've kept those things, but they don't really explain the sound.
SPEAKER_00You know, there's this this in my because this is my interpretation of it. Just they're winding up their laser and that's just the noise it makes. And it is deafening, but like it get over it, you know? Yes. Eva's like that, so that was annoying moving on. Yeah. Is that the sort of vibe of the other?
SPEAKER_01It's like, ah, this is a this is frustrating. I can't hear you on the phone right now.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's like there's an alarm going off in the next room. It's it I'm distracted, but I could listen to my locked in, you know?
SPEAKER_01Yes, that's right. Yeah. It's more like, you know, like a your phone alarms going off. Yeah. And you've accidentally left it outside in the bedroom, but you're on the shower. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00And and like, look, it's quiet, but I'm definitely focusing on that.
SPEAKER_01Yes, for sure. So I think it's, and that's what the aliens want. For you to just be a little bit on focus.
SPEAKER_00And look, it it ruins society. Civilization crumbles. It's bad.
SPEAKER_01It's bad. It's bad with capital B. Not good. Um, those are the main things. I was particularly disappointed we did not see the alien. Were they saying that the alien were the bugs?
SPEAKER_00See, I would I was very convinced that the big thing was the alien and their big tentacles were squirting in the bugs. Oh. That's what I thought. I I again I don't know my lore. I don't know my W I think.
SPEAKER_01I mean, it's just these are the things they ride and then they come out of them. I've always loved the reveal of what the alien was.
SPEAKER_00What is the alien vibe?
SPEAKER_01Well, the alien's always different. And I think that's that's where the zhuzh is.
SPEAKER_00That's where everybody gets to put their own stuff. This one, they're microchips with DNA.
SPEAKER_01So that's a bit cheeky. They're like little ants. Yeah. Hated it. Hated that as a choice. Hated that they were like, it they're made of silicon. And you're like, And blood, and blood, you know, a bit a bit varied.
SPEAKER_00My daughter knows blood.
SPEAKER_01My daughter loves this blood.
SPEAKER_00It's a good, it's a good quad, isn't it? You got you got the weather bitch, you got you got blood girl, and you got and you got Hack Man. Yeah, and you've also got wow, really. It's a good five.
SPEAKER_01Everybody you could want. Really. When they actually come together at the end, it's a bit similar to vengeance. It was an avenge moment.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So so Ice Cube's uh son is meant to be a frickin' dropkick. It turns out he's actually the Did you see it coming? I guess I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. I guess I guess the film got me. It's good. But essentially he's doing like an anonymous thing. Yeah. Uh but he's got a team of hackers. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Our hackers are made up of, and I thought that this was this to me was the Avengers moment. Because on at one stage, we get Starfire, Burnout, Code Crusher, and as a name, Filmer and Louise all on screen at the same time. I was chills.
SPEAKER_00It was pretty chillish.
SPEAKER_01Knowing that we had the hackers of our time together to unite against against this alien invasion was a really special moment in the film.
SPEAKER_00It was a powerful moment. It is really sick that they have been essentially just doing phishing scams, which is when you email someone like, hey, mind clicking this link, and someone's like, Yeah, fuck it, why not? And they're and they're tasked to taking down an alien uh supervivor.
SPEAKER_01Yes, and believe it or not, they don't succeed. I think what's great is that they immediately fail, all killed. Every one of them killed. There's not a lot of death in the movie, but all of these guys get killed.
SPEAKER_00These hackers get a bit of characterization, just a bit of like, listen, they're rascals, but they're doing it for the greater good. And the aliens fuck them up. Big laser. I couldn't be la it's these guys and the homeless man gets absolutely fucked, and they're only kind. They're only kind to the cause.
SPEAKER_01They actually do a fantastic bit, is um the aliens, once they're tracking them, remove their their shields of picture. So we get to see how much of a loser they are right before the life leaves their eyes. It's a great choice before they're all taken out. And we almost think Ice Cube's son might die. He doesn't, and you know what? Nor does he care about all of his friends' demise.
SPEAKER_00And it's his fault. Look, here's the thing in piracy, you know, you're one crew, you know. You can't, but in the hacking world, it's it's each man for themselves. Actually, don't know. Are pirates famously a crew? I think they're each man for themselves as well. Is piracy and hacking similar?
SPEAKER_01Like an actual pirate? As a pirate on the on the seven seas?
SPEAKER_00On the seven seas, are they for the crew or are they every man for themselves? No, they're every man for themselves. Okay. Part of the ship, part of the crew. Thieves. I'm thinking of thieves, they're thick as thieves. Yes, or they're a nan of thieves. Yes, but they're not that. My god, they're hackers and they throw them under the bus immediately. Yeah. But they're both all killed by laser. Yes. You know, these sad, sad freaks.
SPEAKER_01It's the right way to do it though. If you had to go, you gotta go by laser.
SPEAKER_00Look, it's a shame no one can hack and be and be hot. It was just a shame, you know. Now, if we've got Unless someone's thinking about hacking us, in which case you're pretty cute. Please don't. It'd be easy. I've got to I love clicking on suspicious links. Ugh, it gets me off every single time. I just think, what what if this is the one? What if it's the link to get it all back on track, you know? That's what I'm thinking. It never has.
SPEAKER_01Um, now I know what you're thinking. Look, Ice Cube is our pie in the sky. But who is our gal on the ground? Oh. And that's Eva. Yeah. Eva is absolutely teleporting all around the place. I can't believe the locations she goes to in this film. In the in the this is a day, right? This is like an eight-hour day. It's like nine till five. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, oh, wait, wait, her filming days or the film. The film is like nine to five. He's clocked in and he's out. I think it might be less, actually, because I I think they solve it by 3 p.m. They solve it at I think one. There's one point where the film time jumps. I uh uh should we get into the time jump sequence? It's not, it's the least riveting thing in the entire world. Blinking, you literally miss it. They the boys are hacking. It's 11.52, it fades over. It's 1212.
SPEAKER_01They do this a few times, don't they? They're like, you have five minutes and it fades, and it's like you have two minutes. Sell the counter two minutes there.
SPEAKER_00It's just a close-up of like the window's like internal clock. It's great stuff. Yes, but you're right, Eva is on the ground, she's nailing it. Um when so she's NASA. Yeah. NASA do or weather. I can believe it.
SPEAKER_01I and I also love the fact that NASA's always on the ground, and they have a great relationship with the head of head of uh security or whatever it is. Yeah, she she makes some pretty bad decisions throughout the film. It's wild she doesn't get killed.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay. Well, hit me. What what's some flaws?
SPEAKER_01So the comets fall and she's like, I guys, I'm here right now. Yes, I'm touching the comet. I've got my hand on it right now, you can see my hand on it.
SPEAKER_00Look, Neil Armstrong sacrifices his life to jump on the moon. Guess what? I want Eva to put her hand immediately on the cold ice. Yep. Because at this point, you don't know whether they're gonna be like fucking up the world. You just think it's a comet. You know? It seems isn't they radioactive? I feel like they're radioactive in space. They're definitely bad. You can't touch a comet.
SPEAKER_01You can't touch a comet?
SPEAKER_00I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure. Oh god, I'm fucked then.
SPEAKER_01Oh, nuts.
SPEAKER_00You love, and you might get cancelled, so you love fondling a little comet, don't you?
SPEAKER_01I love fondling a comet. I love finding its little hairs and just going for it. Yeah, geez.
SPEAKER_00You love tussling as little tail.
SPEAKER_01I love tussling. I gotta tell you, there's not a comet I haven't not only tussled and then just rolled around like a pig in the mud. You're on NASA's list. My god, yeah. They're actually sick of me touching comets.
SPEAKER_00It's worse than the FBI list. It's much so much more aggressive. Stop touching those planets. I'm actually the She's a dwarf planet.
SPEAKER_01You can't do it. You guys don't realize it, but I'm actually quarantined 100% of the time because they've said I've touched so many comments. It's lucky I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_00Is podcast is filmed on Zoom like the movie.
SPEAKER_01It sure is. And it's just like the movie, I'm constantly trying to make personal calls the whole time to get off this fucking book.
SPEAKER_00What if I touch this fucking green goo? Will that end at all? Come on, surely.
SPEAKER_01It was very frustrating for there to be important meetings for him to be at and him to be like, just let me call my daughter. Let me just check on who I'm putting up.
SPEAKER_00He's the head of checking out the cameras. That department. Yeah. You know, I it's it's a it's either a busy job or a low-paying job or a casual job.
SPEAKER_01He does he have to do anything because the cameras are already locating someone and then deeming them a threat or a not threat. So you reckon he'd just be given a list at the beginning of the day to click through and then he decides the ultimate decision as to whether they're a threat or a non-threat.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, it feels like because that is his thing. It's like scanning people for being a terrorist and then you blow up the drone. Yeah. Because that's it's good. It keeps America safe.
SPEAKER_01It is odd that we actually waste time with like a crew at the beginning doing another task that is just a decoy, only for them to get killed in that building anyway. It's God, it's tight. It's a tight script.
SPEAKER_00It is, it don't get me wrong, it definitely drags. I was surprised it was 80 minutes, you know? Yeah. And I and that's not good pacing. I was more just like, wow, you guys, I wasn't I wasn't actually I was miserable at a lot of points, but good for them, you know.
SPEAKER_01I thought it was actually I thought the same thing where I thought I've had movie because this is a bad film, I've had movies of this same length drag more while still being this bad. And I think it's because it is an edited film, like an overly edited movie. There's constant cutting and reaction shots and stuff. It makes the pacing feel faster.
SPEAKER_00It does. It's I think it's like it literally is like a YouTube short or like a bad TikTok. But I'll be honest, it's a horrible thing to write notes for. Because I look up and I'm just meant I'm physically lost on the screen where he's looking. I'll look, I'd be like, oh god. I never mind. I'll just I'm just kind of my brain kind of goes over low. Just freaking let it happen, you know? Just let it happen.
SPEAKER_01I had to stop taking notes because I deemed everything noteworthy, because I thought it was so ridiculous at all times. That I went, This is pointless. When I overwrite the notes, I it's just it's just me almost rehashing the film. And I think that's bad.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I mean, I I mean I feel like I was I'm looking for my notes right now. 1.4 million dead in the first like eight minutes is not good. Do we want to talk about the twist? Uh yeah. I in fairness to me, I feel like the hacker boy being the the the the the hacker, but that's the main twist.
SPEAKER_01That is your big twist, but everybody knows a a a secondary twist that's weaker that uses Clark Gregg is usually a superior twist.
SPEAKER_00Look, it is just solid. Which which film have you seen? No, we have seen. What's the one with Gerard Butler and the big Geostorm? Yes. I feel like they do the exact same thing with Andy Garcia. The president loves being evil. Yeah. You know, just do it. You know, you're the president.
SPEAKER_01It was Ed Harris, wasn't it? Ed Harris was the villain. And Andy Garcia was like, shame on you, Ed Harris.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, kill him with an RPG. And he did, and they did.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, man. Geostorm, I think, is a movie that could be done on Zoom.
SPEAKER_00I think so, because I think you have just up in space. I feel it we go to space, we do that big space elevator a few times. Yes. Cut the length. Yeah. It's almost like two and a half hours that film. It could be on Zoom. Um but yes, so let's talk about, I guess, the multiple twists. Uh, you are right, the president is very evil. What they've been planning to do is making a thing called Goliath. And this scans people and steals all their data. But it does it so well it can it can predict everything. And and I think everyone's fine with that. Even ice cube's a bit like that. The only reason that they aren't happy with that is because the aliens have been around for a hundred years, and they said, if you guys even think of doing that, we're gonna come down there and gobble all your data. That's right, we like eating data. We like we like taking zeros and ones and to the point you just don't know why they don't open a word doc and just open zero and one and just throw it into space.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I think you actually you could throw them on a decoy mission. Yeah. So just a USB in a space, like, oh my god, what could be on that?
SPEAKER_00This is delicious.
SPEAKER_01I don't understand why you didn't make Goliath and then just make a copy of it and throw the copy in space. You know, I don't I it's weird that the aliens definitively have told them they find data tasty.
SPEAKER_00I also can't work out how, other than Goliath predicting, I guess, crimes, uh, I don't know how it's different to I because Ice Cube's like, that's an invasion of privacy. I'm like, buddy, I'm scanning people manually, and it's very easy. It's very easy. He's just like, get a drone in there, I got a drone in there, it's fine. It's brave, it's brave. Look, so I thought it was a wild reveal that Clark Gregg had come up with the idea that he would sacrifice the that nobody Because it's a conspiracy, yes, like it's like alien conspiracy, which quite frankly, they do a bad job of doing conspiracy stuff because they're like, check out this newspaper, it's just like it's gotta be on a dirty 4chan forum, and just like, hey guys, this is what happened to me. Also, it's like weirdly racist. You're like, do I believe it? Maybe. But but but the thing is that the aliens have told them pretty casually, like in the US government, just like we're gonna come down there if you guys make a really big computer. Yeah, like we're chill, but when you do that, we're gonna do that, and you know us. And the and them being like, we'll play chicken.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, fuck it. Clark Craig is so confident, he's like, Yeah, but we put the computer 40 feet underground.
SPEAKER_00How would they find it? How would they find it? How would they get it? It is a few. It's in ice cube, it's in the ice cubes building. He's like, wait, that's on the third floor. It's directly below me. It's it's so hot the floor because I'm under a supercomputer. Is that really what it was? I thought it was a heating power.
SPEAKER_01I thought it was crazy because if they made it anyway, wouldn't they have fired Ice Cube? Or have they not activated it?
SPEAKER_00I think they activate it today. They need to do the classic Frankenstein switch, which is the big power thing when you turn it on.
SPEAKER_01Because I think they should have used that to then predict that Ice Cube would turn. Weird that they needed that to predict that aliens would invade.
SPEAKER_00Because don't you why didn't they they didn't need that to predict that aliens would invade? They knew aliens were going to invade because they the aliens told them they were they wanted this just for like government surveillance.
SPEAKER_01Why weren't they ready? If you made the supercomputer, surely they would know they would be like, okay, we will now get invaded any day now. We should be ready.
SPEAKER_00We should probably we should probably be ready. Why weren't they ready? I don't know. They have nukes just aiming at the sky. You know, you'll probably hit. You know. I I we should say if it's a podcast, we're pro-nuclear, you know, affection. Well, especially Aliens in the Sky, you know. I love Aliens in the Sky. Did that work in that? That's what they do, right? Men in Black. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. Uh, Fourth of July. Oh, Independence Day. Is that what they do? Put nukes on the on the plate on the guys at the top? Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But Jeff Goldblum is the true hero. I need that to be clear.
SPEAKER_00I thought that that simple bumpkin hick was the hero.
SPEAKER_01Well, he dies, but I don't like him. I don't like Randy Quaid in that film.
SPEAKER_00But his brother does that great music. Wait, no, which one am I thinking of? I'm thinking of Jeffrey Goldblum. Yeah, that's Jeffrey Goldblum.
SPEAKER_01He's great. And I think what also needs to be discussed because we have we have some data centers and things like that in Sydney, you know? So when we see Australia is invaded with only four tripods.
SPEAKER_00Well, let's get into where we've been invaded. Have you written down we got invaded?
SPEAKER_01No, I all I took note of was the fact that Australia got four all in land.
SPEAKER_00All in land. Okay, let's talk about it. So essentially four, there's three aliens at the start, and then a fourth one appears midway through. So they land in uh Alice Springs. Yeah. I wouldn't even say Alice Springs, I'd say more like Mount Davenport. This is this has this has maybe one guy with Wi Fi. Yeah. And that's not me being rude, it's really fucking rural. We've also got Toowoomba, which is just like I don't know, it's part it's like it's Queensland adjacent. We're in the middle of nowhere.
SPEAKER_01Tooomba has all the data.
SPEAKER_00Because all the data is in Toowoomba. And then there's also Uh UCal, which is it's at the bottom uh to the left, near the bottom of Western Australia. I love this little suburb. Do you know about this one? It's a population of 2000. They live in Western Australia. They're like, hey, we're not doing the time zone shit. And they were like, what do you mean? The state mandated one. Like, yeah, we're going 45 minutes ahead. And everyone's like, no, you can't do that. Like, what are you gonna do? Change our clocks? And then they just have that. They're standing by. They're like, we're not fucking changing our clocks. It's 45 minutes ahead. We don't like it being dark. Oh, what a growth, what a great town. Thank you. I wish we'd revolt. They got fucking destroyed by these aliens. The lasers really got them. Who knew they had data centers down there? The aliens are great at killing outsiders. What's that? A small populated town in the middle of Australia? Let's blow it up. So where was the fourth one then? It then pops up sort of, I would say, rural Victoria.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It would be nuts.
SPEAKER_00I didn't have a fun tip bit for them.
SPEAKER_01For us to all be on the phone being like, there's an alien invasion, but we all seem safe. I think we're fine. They're in no rush to get to us at all. And I'm hearing Ice Cube's gonna have it figured out by tea time.
SPEAKER_00But then they're like these alien these aliens walk slow and they're just like, I don't know, it's 400 kilometers away. I think we have days.
SPEAKER_01No, and they are they're actually fucking useless. We we do have a scene where Ice Cube has to help his daughter get in a car, and for whatever reason, the alien's gone, I wanna kill her. They only care about killing her. She's got there's nobody else around. It's a completely deserted area, and the it it can outdrive it.
SPEAKER_00What's the power of a Tesla? That's right. We're positive towards them. They're great little E vehicles. Was it a Tesla? It was a Tesla. Because I did think it was odd that Tesla allowed their car to be hacked pretty easily, you know?
SPEAKER_01We've all hacked a Tesla over Zoom. It's so easy. Don't act like you haven't. Come on. Yeah, I've lived once. Come off it.
SPEAKER_00Come off it. I've been 22.
SPEAKER_01Um now let's talk about Amazon. Yeah. That's the big thing. This is the Amazon original. They bought this movie up because I think they knew it was going to be a hit.
SPEAKER_00Amazon's movie purchasing things. They also bought the uh the Millania documentary for like$30 million. And I think that was just like uh it's a tax write-off and to say we're pro. And say we're pro. Yeah, yeah. Like to be like, we're we love you, work with us. We're trying to acquire. Yeah, we'd love to acquire everything. Yeah. We just what's the vibe on that being okay? And it was like, I don't know, we're 50-50. But they, I don't know. I guess the title, do they in like in just get somehow own the war of the world? Like they own Orson Wells.
SPEAKER_01Uh well, is it royalty free? Is it old enough to be royalty free?
SPEAKER_00It probably is, but I'm saying that it's sort of the the estate, you know, like you can't just or maybe actually you can just take the title. I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_01Because it doesn't f it uh it actually says um I hadn't seen it before. In the credits, it says based based on Oh it's HG Wells, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00I'm thinking yeah, Orson Wells just did does the voice for it. I can't remember which one. Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_01He was the actor for it. Yes, yeah. But the yeah, HG Wells is just the author. Yeah. And it says like based on the text by or something. It's like an odd odd thing. Skirt around. Like, um, and I mean you've gotta you've gotta conceive of the fact that you know, not a l nobody that's an actual on-screen actor really says War of the Worlds apart from the president in their one clip. So you kind of wonder what uh Ice Cube's even reacting to.
SPEAKER_00I mean, and also you could have in the edit fit like changed the monsters to look like that.
SPEAKER_01Yes. So it's like you could you could real the the movie's limitless as long as it's in those reacting stuff. I wish this was the bread. I wish it was limitless. We all wanted to be the TV spin-off of Limitless. Is that really a thing? Yeah. Wow, is it just as good? Sorry, it's it's some of the best TV you'll see. It's it's up there. It's up there with Agents of Shield. Similar time period, similar quality. They're both about alternate worlds.
SPEAKER_00Um yeah, no, let's get into the Amazon battle.
SPEAKER_01This actually hadn't been spoiled for me. Oh, huge.
SPEAKER_00I just vaguely knew Amazon had done something ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01So for it to be that he has to purchase an item from Amazon so Amazon Air could deliver it to save the day was egregious. And the fact that they gave a thousand dollar Amazon card to a homeless man, like it was a thousand dollar Amazon, that homeless man immediately gets lasered. Yeah. They also threw up the- Who gets the card? I reckon they got it.
SPEAKER_00I think they got the cards free money. They also the whole time uh Ice Q going, my job is to check out people's Amazon cards. That's what it was surveilling. I'm like, that can't be it. You're the head of surveillance. You're doing like terrorists, surely. Come on.
SPEAKER_01He says his job is actually domestic terrorism surveillance. Yeah. Like that comes up at the beginning with that jazzy music's playing. It's good stuff. So the fact he's so focused on his family and Amazon feels like a choice by him. Yeah. Really.
SPEAKER_00It's a big choice. Now, um I thought it was laughable. Oh, it's crazy though, isn't it? Right? I couldn't believe that it was. But doesn't Roderick nail it though? I think as an Amazon driver, I think he brings a lot. He gives a lot of humanity to the driver, you know. He's actually I'm not a big fan of the business. Who knew? But but but this worker really brings a lot of passion to it.
SPEAKER_01It's weird because to me, and I could be wrong, I don't buy anything off Amazon, and I don't see a lot of my friends buy anything off Amazon.
SPEAKER_00I think in a s I think in America it was like really pushed. It's like we can do it for a day. Yeah, it really does. Same day delivery. Yes, and then I think it's gotten worse. In Australia, it's kind of like the same price, seven days, and then like it's normally more expensive.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't think it's popped off here in Australia, and so I don't get it here.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I for me it's like the store, I guess. It's like I'm like, I guess I can get it at Amazon, yeah, or I could go to a shopping centre, you know. Uh, I guess we're pretty good uh invest we're pretty good. Yeah, look at us. I went to the store to buy my shit, you know? Look at me.
SPEAKER_01I left the home like a regular guy.
SPEAKER_00It's uh it's only for like weird stuff that it's actually only for American stuff. You're like, I would love a scrub daddy, but now they go to Coles, guys. Check out the scrub daddy coles.
SPEAKER_01I give my money to other corporations.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're the good guys. Coles and Woolworths group. Oh, I just love them. Oh, West Farmers are good for them, huh?
SPEAKER_01Is there anything else you'd like to broach? I really liked Ice Cube saying K to most things.
SPEAKER_00K was good. K I like that button he has that goes that was easy.
SPEAKER_01I thought the button was gonna come back.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's uh it's uh it's it's uh Thing Majig's gun. What's his what's his fucking name? The guy with the three guns and it's in a movie. You know, he's like, here's a gun. I'm gonna remind you. Oh, there's me shooting the gun. You know that that thing. Oh Chekhov's gun. Yeah, I was gonna get it.
SPEAKER_01Well, you were saying in an actual movie. I was not saying I was saying a very clever fully explained. It wasn't either. I thought you were talking about the cat in the box. I thought you were doing a Schrdinger's cat bit.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I was never I would never do it.
SPEAKER_01Schrdinger's cat's always shot by Chekov's gun.
SPEAKER_00In the second act, I believe, is how you do it. It makes your character medium. It's all mixed on them.
SPEAKER_01Um, yeah, I thought he was gonna bring that button back. He didn't. I like to think he lost the prop.
SPEAKER_00I think the prop broke. I think the prop definitely broke, and they went, I haven't got that thought out.
SPEAKER_01The director's like, okay, Ice Cube, can we get another scene with the when you defeated the aliens, you press the button because it was just that easy and go for it. And he's like, Oh, I don't have that anymore.
SPEAKER_00Button-shaped thing in his tummy. I don't know when that one. I smashed it with my big arm. Hey. Out of anger. He's fit, he's he's tender.
SPEAKER_01He's doing well. I've no, I just think he's a strong force. I think he breaks things with ease. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Look, it's a great film to watch with a bunch of pals. That's we already know that, you know. I've either an Amazon shareholder, don't watch this one, but I think it's good to know where your money's going. Yeah, it is. I'd clock in. I'd clock in. You'd be pissed if you were an Amazon worker. I'd be like, and be like, man, I could have had an extra dollar an hour, but you spent it on this. Good job, you guys.
SPEAKER_01I'm sure the producers of the film division that like the investors would be like, you know, Apple TV won best picture.
SPEAKER_00What's this? Has Amazon had anything? They are I guess they have MGM. Yeah. So I guess they do have a bunch of best picture Oscars just like do that just where do those Oscars go? Like, because they have like the one of like gone with the wind, you know, just lying around somewhere.
SPEAKER_01I guess the producer just keeps it right. Yeah. I'd love. Imagine having an Oscar that was handed down to you by a relative.
SPEAKER_00Well, I know you'd be fun. I know you can't sell it, but um Have you tried? I tried.
SPEAKER_01You have to do it for a I tried buying. I'm in the market for an Oscar.
SPEAKER_00Surely, surely a sound editing won't be.
SPEAKER_01I want to melt it down into a Grammy.
SPEAKER_00Um, who would watch this? Okay, honestly, I think this would be a really fun uh point and click adventure. I think someone should remake this. Uh it's honestly, it's just the it's just the the the the the the the material to make a funny point and click adventure game. Because I think all you're doing is click all the zoom ones are fun, like clicking around with the mouse. It'd be a fun puzzle game. Um, so I don't know what you can do with that, because quite frankly, it's a useless thing other to laugh at. Uh Kyle Hood watch War of the Worlds.
SPEAKER_01I do genuinely think it's for people that I think War of the Worlds has been basically unscathed by the low budget market that I I was like, wow, I'm glad you guys got here. I'm glad that the low budget market, you know, you know how like it the those Disney properties recently went to the public domain, and so like there's evil Peter Pooh, Peter Pooh, but he but he slashes. I'm glad War of the Worlds has arrived and is happy to add itself to the pile. That's nice. Um, I do think this is genuinely a terrific bad film and absolutely worth seeking out. If that's something you enjoy, this is a great creme de la creme, and it is at 90 minutes, which I think is the right amount of time for a bad movie with friends. Totally. And I get why it got the Razi, everybody's bad in it for sure. Um I actually think Evil Longoria's turned out one of her best performances in it. I don't actually.
SPEAKER_00You've not seen Desperate Housewives, we've been watching Sex in the City. You might like I think we're just like, what happened? I feel in just like that, you're like, what if they were 50 and not making it? Desperate housewives, like, what if they were 40 with kids and not doing it well? Seriously, Sex in the City into Desperate Housewives is great stuff.
SPEAKER_01Has Evil Ongoria won? Did she win for Desperate Housewives any TV awards? Oh, I uh maybe an Emmy or something.
SPEAKER_00I I wouldn't be surprised. I think she swept that swept, she's so much fun in that.
SPEAKER_01I thought the I thought in War of the Worlds, just going off, and this isn't to be comedic. But in terms of who is doing a better job, just selling using a phone, being on Zoom, it's her over Ice Cube. Yeah. And so I think that just made her a little bit more interesting to watch. She's also changing locales. Yeah. She was happy to go, I'll drive somewhere in LA. Yeah. Like, I'll go near-ish. I'll go near, I'll go near a blue sky. I'll go to a building. I'll go outside my house.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can get me there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's fine. I was sad when I almost thought she got killed by bugs, but when she returned and was like, they're my friends now. Uh Oscar, what are we going to be doing next week?
SPEAKER_00Carl, it's we've done the sequel. You've gushed about it for years now. It's the unfriended, uh, the dark website. Pre-Dark Dark Web? Pre-dark web. Preb? Unfriended. Yeah. Just unfriended. And this director directed that? He produced it or uh direct I think he directed it. Yeah. I didn't realise we're doing pretty much anyone that's one of the Zoom one that's bad, he has touched it. He's cornered the Hollywood market on Zoom. Had did Unf Unfriended make a lot of money? Unfriended Dark Web made a lot of money. Uh I think Mercy made not a lot. And I don't know how well this did. I assume bad, but then I think a lot of people is logged a lot. So people checked them out.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I guess you know, if it's for free on a streaming service you've already got, why wouldn't you check it out? And I guess in the end, is Amazon paying for people to be talking about their service? Yeah. So it's just advertising. You've clicked it. You watched an ad before it, you know. That's right. Probably an ad in the middle. Yeah. Where they would have said you can give up now. Yeah. If you're engaged past this ad, we're gonna give you another ad because that's weird. You know, that's where they're at.
SPEAKER_00It's for Prime, fuck you.
SPEAKER_01Um, but yeah, I'm excited to watch Unfriended. As am I. Um, and then I'm excited again to Zoom. So I think we've got a lovely month ahead. This works. This this truly does work. This is nice, isn't it? This is it's very good. Yes. It's I love it. I love being here.