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War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

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 Steph, John, Steve & Dave put down their phones for screen time with Ice Cube and his (fictional) family! The War of the Worlds has been adapted many times since its first publication in 1898, and each adaptation represented the era in which it was created -- Famously as a radio show in 1938 and the first movie in 1953 when there were national fears of military invasion … then as a Spielberg film in 2005 when there was a national fear of terrorist invasion… And now in 2025 when there’s a national fear of invasion of Privacy! It’s Amazon Prime’s feature length commercial – War of the Worlds!

Here’s the rapid recap to catch you up! Ice Cube plays Will Radford, DHS Agent and creepster dad who should have been DOGE’d out of his job, because he spends his day stalking his two estranged children – his pregnant daughter, Faith and his intense Gen-Z-er son Dave. When mysterious meteors crash into the Earth, it’s up to these three plus Faith’s fiancé and Amazon delivery driver, Mark as well as Eva Longoria (whose character’s name I don’t know and I couldn’t quickly see it on Wikipedia, so I’m giving her as much attention as Will gives her in the movie, which is to say close to none) … Anyway, when machines from Mars rise out of the meteor craters, our heroes realize that the aliens are here to chew bubblegum and steal our data…and they are all out of bubblegum. So, in a shameless plot swipe from a totally different alien invasion movie, they have to upload a virus to the alien machines to put an end to the WAR OF THE WORLDS!!!

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