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War of the Worlds (2025) - This dropped a few days ago on Prime and was lambasted. It got a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, 3,2/10 on IMDB, and a 1.4/5 on Letterboxd. I wanted to see how bad it was. Oh boy, it was bad. I'm talking Megalopolis bad. I'm struggling to determine whether this is worse than Megalopolis. At least that movie has a modicum of filmmaking, this movie has none of that. However, I laughed so much harder at this than I did Megalopolis and it's significantly shorter at only 90 minutes. It gives Megalopolis a run for its money, that I'll say for sure, which is a serious indicator of its quality. Dated and abysmal CGI, insufferable storytelling with a hackneyed anti-spying message, some of the worst acting you'll see in modern movies is in this. Ice Cube is wildly miscast as a desk jockey for the DHS. Veteran actors Eva Longoria and Clark Gregg phoned it in, just collecting a SAG scale check, no way they were paid above scale with this low budget nonsense. It's a screenlife movie like Unfriended, and that format doesn't work in my opinion. It's not a creative way of filmmaking, this movie makes it seem like the laziest form of it. There's no proper directing or cinematography, it's just people talking to screens and hardly ever sharing the screen physically. Ice Cube doesn't share the screen with anybody until the end of the movie, and even that was through a photo that appeared be Photoshopped or generated by AI. The movie was shot in 2020, it's a COVID movie that somehow took about 5 years to put out on Amazon Prime.

Speaking of Amazon Prime, this movie is full-blown Amazon propaganda. The third act especially is just them going balls deep with the Amazon love. Amazon saved the fucking world from aliens! One of the main characters is an Amazaon delivery driver, which was already too much Amazon-shilling. But then this guy got so involved in the third act, becoming one of the heroes, using a Prime Air drone and suggesting to pay a stranger for help with a $1000 Amazon Gift card. This is easily the worst movie of 2025, I think it might go down as the worst movie of the decade! It's one of the worst movies of the 21st Century, if not the worst. Everyone who was involved with this movie should be ashamed of themselves.
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Ha, I've been seeing the ads for it on Prime, with Ice Cube looking very Ice Cube. I'm glad I didn't give in. At least the movie is relatively short at an hour-thirty. That reminds me, I've been meaning to re-watch War of the Worlds (2005) with Tom Cruise.

I think the best movie Ice Cube was ever in was xXx: State of the Union. I had low expectations going in, since Vin Diesel didn't return, and I was pleasantly surprised. It's not a masterpiece, but it's not a bad watch for action fans.
 
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Fear Street Part One: 1994
This was a pretty fun slasher, good cast, even if the actor I liked most going in didn't last very long. Good use of Amiga 2000 tbh. Nice bit of lore setup for the sequels.
I liked that at the end, Netflix was just like "you want to watch the next one right now, don't you bitch?" - Actually I have some shit to do first, but I'll get to it pretty soon I'm sure.
 
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Fear Street Part One: 1994
This was a pretty fun slasher, good cast, even if the actor I liked most going in didn't last very long. Good use of Amiga 2000 tbh. Nice bit of lore setup for the sequels.
I liked that at the end, Netflix was just like "you want to watch the next one right now, don't you bitch?" - Actually I have some shit to do first, but I'll get to it pretty soon I'm sure.
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Dude, the Fear Street Trilogy is FUCKING AWESOME!!! Make sure you follow up with the rest of them soon, with the first one still fresh in your mind so as to keep the continuity, Hippy Dave!!!


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Bring Her Back

A totally crazy Australian psychological horror that actually had me looking away a couple times because it was a bit too gruesome. Sally Hawkins did a great job being a very believable broken mother.
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I love horror films, I'll have to look that up!
 
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RustInPeace said:
War of the Worlds (2025) - This dropped a few days ago on Prime and was lambasted. It got a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, 3,2/10 on IMDB, and a 1.4/5 on Letterboxd. I wanted to see how bad it was. Oh boy, it was bad.

Speaking of Amazon Prime, this movie is full-blown Amazon propaganda. The third act especially is just them going balls deep with the Amazon love. Amazon saved the fucking world from aliens! One of the main characters is an Amazaon delivery driver, which was already too much Amazon-shilling. But then this guy got so involved in the third act, becoming one of the heroes, using a Prime Air drone and suggesting to pay a stranger for help with a $1000 Amazon Gift card. This is easily the worst movie of 2025, I think it might go down as the worst movie of the decade! It's one of the worst movies of the 21st Century, if not the worst. Everyone who was involved with this movie should be ashamed of themselves.
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Wow, sir, thank you for your service! Now, I don't have to watch it myself...

Gotta say, that much (and AWFUL) product placement in a movie is a new low. Rotten Tomatoes should probably start having negative ratings for shit like that.
 
Miracle Mile - A better apocalypse movie than War of the Worlds. Similarly short, much better tension, more of a build, not chaotic from the start, and stronger acting. The music from Tangerine Dream carries this movie and also the look of the movie is very cool, 80s neon-soaked Los Angeles at night. Between that and the score, it feels like a Michael Mann movie from the 80s. Unfortunately, the movie falls off in the third act as the main character (Anthony Edwards, aka Goose from Top Gun) makes increasingly stupid decisions. While the acting is better, there wasn't enough done to make the characters likable. The ending was also a bummer and weirdly too straightforward. The movie's basically Night of the Comet if it was taken seriously. Maybe I'll like this movie more in a 2nd viewing, but it comes out being a little mediocre.

Badlands - A major improvement from Miracle Mile. The music was very good, a little serene at times. The cinematography is absolutely gorgeous. Months ago, I watched Days of Heaven, which was also directed by Terence Malick. Very good performances from Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Very simple story about a couple who are on the lam. There was one bitter pill to swallow, and that's the age gap of the characters, Spacek's character was a teen and Sheen's character was 10 years older. They made it work for the story, but it's still tough to take in at first. This movie came out a few years before Days of Heaven and it has a similar drive to be more about the visuals than anything else. Days of Heaven had more bold choices, but I think the story in Badlands is more solid.
 
Event Horizon. The story is a bit confusing and leaves a few unanswered questions, but it's pretty cool, it's basically the story of Doom but without demons, and it inspired the creation of Dead Space.
 
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Recently watched War of The Worlds (2025). It's in the it's so bad, it's good territory. Love how campy everything is. I was just laughing my ass off every time something happened.
 
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Eddington - This movie was a journey. There were times I laughed, times where I was anxious, and then times where I criticized the movie as it moved on. When it was over, my mind was spinning on things. I was a little unsure if I even liked the movie. I certainly didn't hate it. I was disappointed that for a fairly starry cast, this turned out to be the Joaquin Phoenix Show. He's in 90% of the movie, whereas you can count the minutes of screen time for Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone with 2 hands, and maybe 1 hand for Austin Butler. The acting is good across the board and Phoenix does effectively carry the movie. He has to anyway. This is a movie that seems very surface level, but I don't think Ari Aster intended for that. There is something deeper into the movie, and somehow the use of COVID, Black Lives Matter, police brutality, relations with Native Americans, all factor into that deeper subject. That requires a lot of analysis and theories, and I read such things after watching the movie and I feel a lot more enlightened and kind of respect the movie more. In some respect, it's a hard movie to give a short review for. On a pure entertainment level, this is a decent movie. It was very long, but the movie didn't bore me, nor did I feel it dragged. I was invested and really liked the look of Eddington. Ari Aster made a true modern Western, as modern as this decade. I think it's a descendant of No Country for Old Men, the aesthetic and even certain scenes and sound design choices made me think of that movie. The town of Eddington feels like a character in the movie, and it's probably best to group all those surprisingly minor characters like Pedro Pascal's and Emma Stone's into Eddington character model. This is one of those movies I don't love, but I respect the hell out of creative mind behind it. This movie makes me want to sit down and chat with Ari Aster about the movie, maybe confirm some theories I have of it. I wish he threw more of a bone in directing the audience into what the movie's message specifically was. I think why it's so divisive is how many broad strokes the movie makes but with seemingly no clear picture. It's a movie where you have to make up the picture in your mind. It's a thinker basically. I had a similar experience when watching Us. Anyway, this is a decent movie, I might like it more on a rewatch, especially after applying certain theories to it.
 
True Stories - I never heard of the movie, nor was I very familiar with David Byrne and Talking Heads. It was a very creative and lively satire with fantastic musical segments. David Byrne himself was nice as the narrator, the guide for the movie's trip through a town in Texas. Very good cinematography with certain shots of neon-lit buildings reminding me of Paris, Texas. I had to check if it was the same cinematographer, but it wasn't. It was Ed Lachman, who shot Far from Heaven and Carol, recently got an Oscar nom for shooting Maria, his 4th overall. John Goodman was amazing in this, a good chunk of the story follows him, he does a musical number that was also great. Another musical talent in this was Tito Larriva, he appears numerous times in the movie and sang in it. Amazingly, one of the writers for this movie along with David Byrne was Stephen Tobolowsky. He's a hilarious character actor, he was Ned in Groundhog Day. He also told a hilarious Steven Seagal story I come back to every once and a while. The movie also has wildly impressive costume and set design.

In the Mouth of Madness - This was the 2nd time I watched In the Mouth of Madness. First time was 2 years ago, and I quickly latched onto it because the movie I watched the day before was Prince of Darkness. That one's good, but I was disappointed that the movie didn't show "the monster." In the Mouth of Madness showed the monster, among other nasty things. Those 2 movies and The Thing are part of Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy, so In the Mouth of Madness depicts a type of apocalypse caused by the words of a fictional horror author. It's a fascinating mix of Stephen King and HP Lovecraft features. Great score from Carpenter, who certainly doesn't miss in that department. Sam Neill led the film and was great, especially when he loses his mind. The image of him laughing while alone in a movie theater must be popular or something, I often see it in articles or Letterboxd posts related to the movie. The makeup and FX are amazing, provided by the great KNB FX Group. Very good scares and I loved the build. Probably Carpenter's last great movie.
 
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A Working Man (2025)
After The Beekeeper (2024), I didn't have high expectations. I didn't dislike The Beekeeper's concept, but the script was easily its worst trait. A Working Man's script, on the other hand, feels like a thirteen-year old only did the last pass.

The only weak aspect I can level at A Working Man is that it could have better established why the victim was so OP. One quick line about being taught to track animals didn't seem like enough, for a business major, party girl, and talented pianist. It didn't detract from what was otherwise a satisfying mid-tier action movie.

If you like more simplistic (ie not summer blockbuster popcorn action) action movies like The Equalizer (2014), Jack Reacher (2012), or Nobody (2021), you'll like this.

TL;DR: There's something about these Jason Statham (Actor)/Sylvester Stallone (Producer) films that just works.
 
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