War of the Worlds (2025): Coworker Movie

Kathryn joins Melvin to summarize this year’s cherry-picked so-bad-its-good movie, War of the Worlds (2025)! Featuring a cast of fairly known names (Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Devon Bostick, Clark Gregg, and many more) this odd adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic limits its prose to a computer screen. What could go wrong?  

Topics:

• (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 20-minutes discussing Chris Columbus’ pull quote on the Harry Potter Reboot, “What’s the point?”, and the unique nature of rebooting Harry Potter as a series unlike other franchises that offer spinoffs, prequels, or alt-universe tales. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
• The entire film is told through the prose of a computer screen (and sometimes cellphone screen). How do Kathryn and Melvin feel about this?
• Ultimately, the film is in over its head, and it isn’t even sure how to handle dialogue and drama let alone thrills and action sequences.
• Yapping about how movies sometimes advertise products and how Tesla does NOT come out of War of the Worlds (2025) looking good.
• Beefing with Will Radford since he’s a bad character and a bad dad.
• Melvin ponders why movies like this take off and how the streaming as a distribution format influences this sort of thing.
• The third act of the film, specifically the climax, is when everything bizarre and noteworthy happens.

Recommendations:

• Castle Rock (Season 1) (2018) (TV-Series)
• Friday the 13th Part III (1982) (Movie)

War of the Worlds (2025) is Rated PG-13 for some sci-fi action/violence, strong language and bloody images. It features Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Iman Benson, Henry Hunter Hall, Devon Bostick, Andrea Savage, Clark Gregg, and Michael O’Neill. Directed by Rich Lee. War of the Worlds (2025) is available here.

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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!

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