War of the Worlds (2025)

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Thank you very much. Yeah, you're right. So of course, discussing yes, the 2025 American screen life science fiction thriller film loosely extremely loosely based on HG Wells is 1898 Noble War of the Worlds. The film was directed by Rich Lee with a screenplay by Kenneth A Gould and Mark Hyman from a story by Gould. It stars Ice Cube as we've disguised by Phoenicia. It was released by universal features on Amazon Prime on July 30th, otherwise known as Kate Bush's birthday and and my 2 cats birthday, and the film receives overwhelmingly negative reviews.

I guess we're going to jump in on. Oh God. The plot I'll, I'll do, I'll do initial bit of the plot, I think guys. And then I've got several points that hopefully we're going to touch just through the sort of section here. So the so the plot centres around Department of Homeland Security officer William Radford Ice Cube and he works for a government surveillance programme that can monitor every person on Earth.

Some calls Guardian. I've got notes on that. His relationship with his pregnant daughter Faith and his son Dave is strained due to the use of this programme he's using to constantly monitor them. Shocker. Again so much to most go on to but not while helping FBI agents try and track a mysterious hacker known as disruptor stuff to go on about that meteors begin striking all over the planet and then from those meteors large machines emerge and they start attacking humans which will and his friend Sandra who is something or other NASA as it seems to be an alien invasion.

I think we go as far as that. Let's go back to a few bits, so. Yeah, that's the main sort of. So he starts his day. I sit down his little chair, he's got coffee, so he's coming from outside. He's in his little building. Nobody else works in the building. Yeah, he's in a giant office with nobody's in it. It's the opposite of a cool obstacle. Yeah, it's a desolate obstream. It's the kind of option you sit in one weekend when nobody's at work plugging all your my wolf apply he's And so he sits and does that.

He goes and logs in the morning and he has a little job to do. Flashes up at 9:00 in the morning. He's going to Dewey's little surveillance, which for him is clicking on the White House, looking at the camera in the White House. Everything's fine there. White House is looking good. Oh, there's the policeman that's in the white.

House. We checked all that. Everything looks all right. Selena goes right. I know what I'll do now. I'll store my children.

So he clicks on his daughter. Faith, who's going to Georgetown? And then every time, every time it looks at somebody, it does a little readout about them, Doesn't it has like name. It's like watchdogs. I was like watchdogs, yeah. And it's like a little bit of information about them, which is just their way of clumsy, like, putting out exposition. Yeah. But for him, it's like it goes on. Faith. Faith Radford, student at Georgetown, Baby daddy. Mark what tick and little green tick next to it. Baby daddy.

Tick, I said, you know that like he's editing like meta data himself. So flash it was baby daddy. Everybody else who surveils, it's like, you know, father of expectant child. Yeah. So it would be husband, partner, boyfriend. Otherwise something like. That some dismissive years of yeah, like, busy. Threat assessment I'm. Yeah, like what's what's her threat level? What? What does? That mean, I think if you're unclear about the threat your daughter poses to you, write that ice cube in this film. Or you're playing a really good Crusader Kings play.

An early hint that this movie might not have had the most straightforward scripting process is that he already works on a on a near omniscient system. Yeah, that can access or everyone's information. Yeah. To the point where his daughter is in a coffee shop he phones are up to give a shit for buying a muffin. Yeah, hard boiled eggs right next to you. Yeah, and he, he fucking berates that for a protein intake and he's got a fridge rigged up for surveillance. That's normal.

I don't see a lot of protein out there. What the? Fuck, I mean it's in the fridge where the lights meant to be fucking turned off anyway, so her so her electricity bill is like really just because the surveillance state commandments of the future? What he's covering that for us at least you could do is. Why are we paying $800.00 for your dad? Put cameras in the entire fucking house.

This is the kind of thing air being being horse go to fucking gaol for, good grief. You know, it's like this. Your dad is. Yeah, Reddit post. Am I overreacting? My dad, who's an arch member of the surveillance state, has cameras in literally every room of my house, which I do not share with them by the way. You know, I more like I cohabitate with my dad. However, he does have an eagle eye inside my fridge. Am I overreacting? Yes.

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So pretty early in the movie, he gets a phone call from Eva Longoria's Sandra from NASA, and she's like, are you seeing this? At which point somehow she just pipes through to him, like, lots of stock footage of different storms happening around the world, and he's great. So there's one thing. This is the this is the first time you hear it. This movie's full of additional dialogue recording, like ADR. Yeah. Because clearly what happened was when they were filming Ice Cube scenes, we gave him the screenplay, the scripts, the shooting scripts, and they just had him in a room zone.

Just really, you can see it reflecting these glasses. You can see the scripts. I don't even know I've got a photograph. And clearly for everyone else's scenes, they've had to like when it cuts away to the computer doing stuff. They've had to get them into like a sound booth to just record a bunch of extra dialogue. So like she's showing all this, like all these storms and the clouds swirling and lightning. You see this shit and. He's like, oh, right, that's crazy right there.

I don't deal with whether I deal with people. I watch people. Yeah, fucking specific ones. Your own daughter, Captain Overreach.

Not so much helicopter parenting A surveillance drone.

Parents. Keyhole Parents. So then he sees his son make a $248 purchase on Steam. Yeah. Getting really into to simulated railway. I mean, that's literally the only kind of like high value purchase it's going to be right. And we're like, it's not going to be like I'm not bought like tropical 4, tropical 4. It's all working to play if I'll press that game and. Listen, no response to Delaval isn't going to simulate itself on its own. And and all of us fucking DLC was like about like £12. Yeah, even if it bought like Tropical Six, I've wanted to buy like that apparently aren't as good as travel.

Go for Viva president. Wouldn't it be 240 fucking bucks? He's. Not a cent. Yeah, he's fucking really deep in like Truck Simulator 2024. He's just downloaded all of them. He's Kurdistan. He's he's, he's trucking and fucking maybe just trucking. Hopefully. I mean, he's. Like he's older than 12, actually. I don't. Know. Yeah, yeah, he's almost. To have a job. Is is is old enough to have friends on the Internet? I retract the statement and see the remainder of my time. But then. Then Ice keep us a real dipshit movie.

It's pretty horrible. He just like hacks them to his son's got it as he's playing it. Just like actually I've uninstalled that for you so I can give you a hard time about not having a real job. Yeah, it's like, are you funny? If you like uninstall that, but then uninstall games that are like related to the surveillance state like you like installs papers, please holder. And it's like, listen, I'm sick of you with your space pilot bullshit. We're gonna learn how to refuse people and read the Ostatska, Gloria Ostatska because their passports obviously homemade.

The next thing that happens is meteors start striking all over the planet. Shit and then 5 miles definitely gotta hit us.

And when when shit starts going down, the news starts looking at open source info, doesn't he just starts getting. Yeah. And one of these, one of these sources of intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security users to formulate a briefing for the president. Yeah. It's Fox News. Yes, incredible scenes. Let's let's let's go to the channel that by its own, like, by its own recognisance is an entertainment channel and like. Actual reporter. Yeah. And they get taken up by Meteor. They just take like some stock footages and reporting and some of them awkwardly handing back to the studio they thought put a computer generated fireball in here instead.

Which kind of sets the pace for a lot of this film's visual storytelling. It's just so much. We've got some stock footage or some green screen, we'll blow something up. We'll use Adobe After Effects or whatever. I'm not computer nerd to to put in fucking like tripods, just just cutting around. Just sash it in around the fucking place like they go on the planet. It's working on it. Ice Cube gets a team's chat message from Donald Briggs, director of Department of Homeland Security, AKA the guy from Agents with SHIELD.

Yeah, I was. So excited when I recognised I was like, my God I know I got. Yeah, and the guy? 20/20/20 He's not going out. It's it's COVID, you know, why not do a movie and get a few? Yeah. Fucking yeah. 2000 people. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I don't think it's ass. I don't. I would rather they were in this movie and they were in Golgados. Imagine video.

You know I memory hold that so thank. You no actually, actually right. I descend to that because I would have like to have seen ice cube just freestyle over us just going on fucking dirty gangster freestyle over it. They're all like Oh my God, imagine all this shit and like an ice cubes. I can imagine fucking like imagine I got 2 chromed machine pistols in my hand. Bitch yes, that's the reference the gross of Mars, a film that he has said is the worst film he ever made. OK, fuck your ice cube because from cotton the rules and also up until now I'm sure he's now.

Yeah, he may have changed it by now. Go some bars man. So will Redford. Ice Cube sends a chat message saying we're under attack Machines from meteors. Exclamation mark, exclamation mark. And Vine was the director. I would, I would. I would hit title. Yeah, exactly. Are you talking about? But he's just like.

Briefing reporters. Anything else? I've definitely had a callback of music on teams for much less incendiary messages than a weird attack.

Good grief. Explain yourself ice cube. What the fuck you talking about? Are you drinking again?

I feel like that could really have improved the film in so many ways. Yeah.

So they have an emergency Zoom meeting.

We're treated to a lengthy summarization of what's been going on by Ice Cube, and it sounds like he's reading this for the first time as he delivers it in the movie. Mr. President, gentlemen, we're seeing a full attack on our infrastructure, on power grids, water communication and top level military targets. They knew exactly where they were going and they are systematically eliminating resources and our ability to coordinate a response here. Let me show you these locations are our global response headquarters, our most sensitive targets, and they're taking them out 1 by 1 based on their prioritised destruction of these critical intelligence command centres.

My analysis suggests nuclear power facilities are next. Electric grids will follow, leaving us completely helpless. Do you see that they're grouping to concentrate their attack? Exactly. And they will be much stronger in groups. So if we concentrate on armed response assets to our high priority locations, we can hit as many as possible. I think it's the only option we have right now on the. Basis of this one Zoom call harder. The United States entire military force says, yes, we're going to knock all these creatures.

And not only that, but 38 minutes into the film, a news report comes out that all of the Western nations, China, America and NATO, Yeah, didn't realise America wasn't in NATO. Yeah, Yeah. It's well, right. This is this is not reality. When? When America did. Or maybe. This part was just filmed later. Yeah, this, this is possibly in the future context, Donald Trump's meeting Vladimir Putin today. Have you heard, have you heard in monitoring situation news how Putin wants Trump to meet him directly off the plane?

The Putin wants Secret Service protection for himself as well. That's wild. So so we could have a situation when America is not needed. Anymore Anyway, all the nations have agreed to set aside their differences, solve World Peace because now we're in a war of the worlds. Yeah. To defeat this alien menace, they treat to another montage of various stock footage of where they've clumsily edited some tripods into the background. So you've got like, got like, guys rushing out of like, an armoured personnel transport and there's a travel walking past.

Yeah, you've got. Like those guys in like 2008 weren't fucking UCP. And there's and there's. Yes, I noticed how. Many times we pause this film. French French Detective Bamas. Holy shit. I'm like, that's right, dear. Lots of British chanutes. Somehow I'm married my. Favourite is the guy using a 50 Carl on the American cruiser. Like, OK, if you're using a handgun against the tripod, your ship's doing something wrong. It's all you had, I guess. HMS Thunderchild wouldn't have fucked about with small arms.

So we get that for a little bit, the various, the various military bits. Again, it's all done through open source. I'm honestly surprised they didn't have any armour three footage in there. Oh. Since actual news agencies have used armour three footage, they. Did they did that, you know, when Ukraine first broke? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was insane. It's like I saw I saw the holy shit that was and it's even like the same like hold down right click zoom thing and it's like this is this is fucking Armour 3 how?

Long has armour really been a thing? Though Armour 3's existed for 10 years and they're still and and they're still updating it because. I'm just and when they start using all of course it's very very strong. But when when they start using it in use then like just. Recently, and so at the start of Ukraine, there was lots of abject comedy when especially Russian news sources like like Tasmania and I think, All right, yeah. And obviously we're using like just footage from fucking. And you can see this.

Yeah, yeah, and like the very like distinctive, like all my 3 traces and stuff. The Houthis recently did a video press release. Oh, look at this. This is this is our drone taken out an American ship. But it's like it's literally fucking all my three guys. The few scenes when the military are trying to fight against tripods. My favourite 1 is when the call in some some gunships and they're like oh the the Cobras are coming in and there's a scene with a Cobra gunship just kind of hovering for a bit in in front of us and it's like all I'm thinking is like be me.

Young millennial snake driver born too late to blow up T50 fives at the Battle of 73 Easting finally get to attack something large Fly through the city, feels goodman.jpg See big leggy tripod. She's so cute dot PNG autistic meltdown don't know what to do get get her alive by a mysterious Bieb. It's just like, it's just like, I mean, I mean, we should we should kind of just say what happens? Force a load of helicopter gunshot pilots to watch this film and you're saying I'm angry they get especially at the scene when they refer a load of Blackhawks as Apaches.

Despite initial successes will notice as the machines concentrate around data centres worldwide. The larger machines then disperse smaller intersectoid creatures to harvest data inside these buildings. Right? I'm going to stop there. So the next thing that happens is these little creatures, these little bugs. Aren't they? I mean I get it because bugs and whatever so smart like my boy I get. Fucking my head, yeah. Not be literally anything else, just to mix it up. And they start eating data. What is data?

Data is what makes those black boxes to put on oil rigs that are known to the guys in the trade right as the stop the oil rig exploring box, it's got a little red flashing light. You're told, you're told I know some lads work offshore told us that's right. You're told don't touch it, don't touch it because it runs on really, really heavy data streams. And if you eat the data from it, if some hungry bastard comes back and eats the data, you. Know. Then then then the stop the oil rig exploding box is deactivated and makes oil rig explode.

How the fuck does data pig turned off make the oil rigs explode in this film? It's. Footage of the actual it's it's so obvious, it's Deep Water Horizon. Shit, the fucking that's. Actually, I'm fucking remembering poop cruise now. Poop cruise. Holy shit, poop cruise. Oh my God. I wanted to watch that and my wife didn't let me. Oh, it actually, it actually has Texans in it, so they shouldn't watch it. They actually use the footage of fucking Deep Water Horizon. That's one of. The big problems is as soon as the data is gone.

Yeah. And then all GNS data is gone, Yeah. New GPS systems work, Yeah. So then all the ships crash. Yeah, because ships have always used GPS. Exactly, exactly. Magellan was the early adopter the the Vikings. The Vikings invented GPS. You know the call, the call of GPS for your turn positioning system. There's a belief that the pirating system, because I believe the giants told them where to go. Following the stars and. Then just like. Just follow. You need to click on it. And right Click to just like navigate longship and then it gives you options of various like.

You need to follow and then you subscribe to bearing. And then, just like the ships that feels because of the GPS lost, all the planes just follow the sky as well, because the planes need dear it's. Like why did you get over again? The footage, I will say the footage of that 747 for a second, I don't know if you've seen it or not, but there is really horrible footage of, I think it's a cargo 747 flying out of, correct me if I'm wrong, Baghdad airport. And it was quite a kind of famous video at the time because carrying a lot of cargo that had been like basically not strapped down at all.

And this plane just fucking like basically defies the laws of physics, goes into a horrible crash. And it's awful of witnessing. For a second I thought the scene of that and I crashed. I thought, shit, they haven't. They haven't gone lively and done like an AI upscale of it. They didn't. But it did give me a little bit of a flashback to it. Yeah, it's like, but the fact that. So did people die on Deep Water Horizon? Yeah, lots. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah. That's that's really fucked. I mean, there is I guess mental heartless, but there's kind of a cut off point I think if you use the Hindenburg or something.

Yeah. Like, like people. People would realise ridiculousness. Feels there's enough distance between the. Event. It's like out of living memories. Yeah. I mean, I mean, if there's people alive who were maimed in that accident. Where does it end? So like, what's the cut off? OK, yeah, let's say 911 is probably not OK. Yeah, yeah. Said yeah, this is entirely like going a bit off top, like they had one of the potential victims of this Zodiac killer actually give feedback on the Zodiac film that will.

Go so. You'd be surprised. Yeah, maybe they'll be like, hey, are we doing this respectfully?

David Fincher. Straight thuggin they do. Respectfully, that's pretty cool. Yeah. But I mean, I guess I don't know. Could you do something? Like that. That's Patrick Ice Cube. Like rolling up with the House of someone who was horribly named in Deep on Horizon and said hi. Yeah, to me. Look, I'm contractually obliged. Check if you're cool with this. Are we cool with what? Are we OK? He has a few DVD's of Ghosts of Mars. I'm sorry about the Deep Water Horizon incident. There's an additional fucking DVD of Ghosts of Mars.

By the way, he has a Pam Grier's telephone number. Be fair. I'll be cool with that. You know what? Yeah. Awesome. And Ghosts of Mars, a much better film than this. So they harvest the data because this allows them to strengthen their machines. I can't know what that means, but this. But that allows them to continue to defeat human forces. So eating their data makes their machines stronger. I don't know how that means. Anyway, forget about that. To Mr. Smith. Will also big deal work for Will Radford?

Yeah, because he's been hunting down this disruptor guy. But we didn't talk about the FBI raid. Oh. So we. Need it was so good. Right. So so when he's doing his actual job, is looking for a particular hacker group called Disruptor, which is like Anonymous, which is already an incredibly outdated reference. Yeah, totally. I mean, that's but yeah. Yeah. But if they were, if they were any good, they would have released the Epstein files, right? So that.

Would be great to release those signing. Please do that I guess. So, so, so he starts that morning and they're going to do an FBI raid and this has obviously been planned. It's on the books for a while but will play the cowboy or he gets a search warrant that morning. That warrant, man, Where is Warren? Where is Warren? Where is Warren? The FBI, Steve. FBI, Steve. Fucking FBI. Dickness at second was like if WhatsApp existed in like the 18th century in a second. It's like a text off Miller, like you should kill yourself now and like a text off like random Hussey.

I need cock and it's like this is what it's like. This is terrible. Some sort of confessions. You've all seen those memes. Come on it. Wouldn't just be Steve. From FBI it would just be Steve who isn't part of your organisation. So they got this FBI right on the go. And he's talking primarily to a woman called Agent Jeffreys. Yeah. So you get a combination of the head Cam footage of all the various agents who are doing it. So you've got like some probably like tactical CQP. Yeah. Comments. You've got opinions about that.

Oh, he. Very much does. For that in a minute, but before I hand it over to you, the thing that's happening at this time is he's having a FaceTime chat with him the entire time. So she's doing the raid, but she's also got her selfie Cam on and she's holding the phone in front of her face talking into it on the selfie during the raid and then the CQB happens. Yeah, to be honest, believe it or not, the CQB didn't have me going. Like really? No, terrible because I mean it's. Like OK with this one compared to.

I mean, it was hardly like really, really super cinematic. Then I'm again, really. But that's not what we're doing anywhere. They're doing kind of like, like, like they were moving deliberately towards the room that they believe the guy was in. So you're not seeing like the whole all the busing doors down. They're kind of flooding the structure. Plus it's just fucking two of them, which is silly by the way, because come on, this is like a guy that the FBI is that for like instead 2 fucking guys.

Two guys. Yeah, well, we'll just like minimum, not fucking two guys. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But you've just got a point man and a guy to the left, guy to the right. Now you've got two guys and the. Biggest, biggest, it's the United States federal law enforcement agencies the go in, in, in, in fucking numbers. Like like a look on like a lot of law enforcement subreddits, which is wild stuff. But I saw someone saying that the once witnessed DEA I think do like a raid in their jurisdiction that they had like kind of provide support for.

And this guy said, I'm really got strong. But this guy said the DEA used more flash bangs than he'd ever seen in his life be used. So these so it's just two guys, 2 fucking dudes just bullying long and it and it's fine. It's a fine scene because at least they're not trying to make it look super badass. The thing that gets me is that there's nothing to stop with them having the agent having a body Cam as well, which means that she's not walking around with that phone and fucking flagging oppose with with that fucking side on because she's literally flagging them while talking on a phone and saying.

Instantly sure body Cam to be able to justify the whole screen life. I mean how? How? Well, I mean he's looking at a screen, isn't he? I think the reason she's got a phone and like not doing a body Cam feed is that there was probably a product placement deal about the phone. And I mean, it's the feds. I mean, like I saw like footage just that week of like, I think it was ice turned up at someone's house and he was fucking dead cored just to blow the door open and then didn't even like press the advantage and another structure.

They just like blew the door open. It's like, hi, we're here now. Now that's the Oval reach of federal law enforcement and its budgets, you know, holy shit. I. Mean it's very ice cold, let's be honest. Yeah. So. Like all the back and forth moving away from me now. Yeah, that's. It you're done. This is where you put like a black sheet over my. Yes, go. On So the FBI get into that room and they find out that Oh my God, disruptor's been using a VPN and he's not there. Think that's something that will.

Sponsored by your VPN. Use code clear and present dudes. So that's important context about the FBI stuff and his son and this disruptor search. And then he finds out that his son is disruptor, which is really bad, not just because he's a really bad NSA agent for not figuring that out sooner, but also, but also he's stalking his son. Yeah. So that's a pretty important part of his sons life. From what we can tell, like it doesn't seem as in depth as I mean, obviously can only gather so much from what you've seen on the screen, but like how in depth he's just watching his daughter versus his son, which is just as purchases.

Maybe he's just found a way to hide. Those is is you. Don't want to give this film any credence. Necessarily, this is not. Like guy who puts girl dad in his Twitter bio energy. He's constantly brushing the fucker off like everybody tries to call him. So yeah, honestly, I'm not surprised. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he said. Yeah, you're right. He is a yes like I was like NSA agent John John 316 Gildad devoted to my daughter faith not not on speaking terms of my son disruptor. So they have a bit of a discussion, I think.

What does he say? Goes. It's you. It's you. And it gets up and walks around the empty office for a bit. It's you. That's the Hannibal spin and everything. Yeah, I. Agree.

Hannibal spin. Is that a thing? Well. Yeah, yeah, like, well, after he's pretending like he's not aware of the fact that he shoved Abigail's ear down Will's throat and like, flaming him from her the whole thing. Anyway, enjoy Hannibal, Watch it, don't whatever. And it's just, it's just ridiculous. Oh God, oh man. Oh God, oh man, you. Know what this expression is? This expression is like YouTube thumbnail of like I bought 5 North Korean smartphones and they stole my identity and now I'm dedicated the principles of Juche.

But yeah and. Then his son gives him son also just makes an absolute mocker. She's like right, not only you're a bad NS agent for not realising and disruptor. I've also done your job for you. Take a take a take a look at this and then and then he shows some class of information about a severely operation known as Goliath. All right. And this is another point where I think the movie screenplay has went through several rewrites because Goliath is now meant to be the near omniscient, incredibly powerful surveillance tool.

He's already using an near omniscient, incredibly powerful surveillance. Tool. Yeah, there's another one. There's another centre, but you're. Gonna shit. Before you. Do that's like fucking that's a that's a predictive, predictive AI models. I take a nose when I get to take a shit. This is the moment the total surveillance turns into Minority Report. Pre crime. We're going to know when the tripod's going to steal your car before it even arrives on Earth. Is this film pro or anti pre crime? So the other thing that's really weird about this is, is that Dave sends him all this information about Goliath.

Then you get a, you get a little montage of him looking for all the data he's been sent. He gets basically he gets in like a WinZip file and he opens it up and extracts the data. And then there's like videos, meetings. Look, I'm sorry about this, but one C conference, it wasn't, wasn't recorded on video. It was not. Obviously they didn't have that power at the time. But but they also when they had, they had a stenographer in the room, but then at the end of the meeting they threw it into the fire.

And a lot of them, what we know about the one state conference count of the Nuremberg trials, what they didn't do is record it all and then go. I'm sure that'll be fine. Yeah, that'd be fine. I'm sure. I'm sure we haven't got any hackers or, you know, this is only the Department of Homeland Security comprised of several different organisations, some of which involve cybercrime. But I'm sure it's fine. That's. Fine, that's fine. So then that happened and then so just, I just didn't expose it. That exists.

And then secondly, turns out that the aliens had already been to Earth. Yeah, which I didn't catch on 1st watching either. So like I, I've got to tell you guys, I wasn't paying too much attention, so sorry it was. Yeah, it's all like UAP's and Project Blue Book and Roswell and stuff. Oh yeah, you do see that. Yeah, you see project. Blue Book Roswell, by the way, That little, right? OK, that typewriter font using this bullshit. No, it's not. But you can actually get that for free off of some fun website.

And I know because it's got that like you should like the letters have like a little extra little like kind of defect under it. And that's like something you got like 1001 fonts.com, whatever it's. Called so that's amazing. They have to cut costs somewhere. Yeah, they had to cut costs everywhere.

Surely they have to pay a spot like like bringing the social medias surely? I mean, they probably paid them a bit. I think the actors were probably paid not much because it's like like, Hey, Ice, what are you doing right now? Well, I'm, I'm, I'm smoking weed and jacking it because the year 2020, I'm stuck in that fucking cool mansion and like one big film is like how much you can pay us like 300 bucks is like, all right. I'll do Eva and Gore is really good mates with Jeff Bezos, his wife. Oh, Jesus.

Really. Yeah. Fucking hell. Oh my God. This is, this is. It's all coming together so. The big rule from this is that apart from the Goliath, the existing, the big thing is they knew it would bring the aliens to Earth, but they wanted to do it anyway. Which doesn't make any fucking sense to say because, like, right, If you've got a plan to deal with the aliens when they get here, Yeah, No. Again, not to give this any credence because it's a very valid criticism, but these people are very short sighted.

They just think whatever it will be, someone else's problem at that. Point, yeah. So they don't give a fuck until they're like, oh shit, that's right, consequences. I'm thinking real quick. Yeah, she's like, but it was didn't expect it that that rapidly. You know, it would be like like like thousands of years. But which point would have alien defence protocol? Yeah, but have massive lasers would have XCOM. Ready. Well, assuming. That XCOM mentioned. That at any point between then and when it would happen in this metaphorical 1000 years, they would actually put money towards such a thing.

Yeah. Maybe they were just like this is a problem for ice. Magic a bunch of guys in fucking multicam and skeleton gloves square up against a tripod. I mean, one of one of the FBI guys did pull a handgun on a. Tripod. Yeah, it's like what? What that just reminded me of when the first time you see a tripod is when he's talking to his daughter on the phone and she turns the face the FaceTime camera around to point the tripod and ice Cube goes get a away from that thing as you say. I I should deal with it because they're aliens.

But but good news, guys, we've got our own aliens. Superman's joining the team. Yes. What? Henry Cavill no with the new guy, no. Brandon Ruth no. Is that is that Dean Cain? Television Superbad, star of star of multiple bad faith-based films. Kevin Sorbo. Kevin Sorbo, FBI Christ fucking K Sorbs with a silly. Sue Sue. The next thing that happens is Will Radford gets on to another Teams chat with his son and the rest of his sons hacker friends. And they're old and there's just a book bunch of edge Lords.

Oh man, I meant to make a note of all that. I liked how one of them was called Thelma and Louise, but it's just one person. And I like that. I like that because biggest, biggest, biggest, that's this guy's like fucking counterintell, isn't it? Because this guy's call himself Thelma and Louise and like, Oh my God, it's two people, but it's just one dude. And he wants to see that just like regular teens went. Well, of course, the, the, the, the big nasty trade boards, They eat the data. And that's eat the data from a web camp and they eat the data.

The data that anonymizes the webcams and all of a sudden they say, ah, all your base, I belong to us and I can see you at this time. I'm amazed I didn't use that phrase in the movie. No, because they actually. Like, yeah, I've been. So they do. So they do say at one point in the movie do a barrel roll. Yeah. And of course. Move, bitch, get out of the way. Which which made my soul die a little bit inside. That was bad. So as you as you alluded to the the anonymizing software turns off and then the aliens then attack all the hacker guys.

Yeah, apart from Dave, because once again Dave's using AVPN, right, which they didn't just VPN, I don't know, right. Anyway, the. Film was sponsored by Nord VPN. Probably. Yeah, it fucking should have been as well that it wasn't actually as wild as it. Okay, if you got log in and N VPN, I'm going to add you to my plan. But July was 5 devices for just $90.00 a year. Just $90.00 a year dead. Is that right? Yes, I'm just $90.00 a year. There's two bits we haven't talked about, which is not mega but it's okay.

One, his daughter is pregnant. The daughter is going into labour. Yeah, and the daughter's wounded from a tripod attack which caused him to drive a Tesla remotely. So we have a Tesla. No, no, you're saying a Tesla. No, she. Didn't go to Tesla, She didn't go to Labour. Yeah, because. It. Was a baby shower baby? Shower. Yeah, Tesla. I just assumed she would, but. She doesn't, because, yeah, it's expected, isn't it? Yeah. It's really she hurts a femoral artery or something like that. Yeah, I really like how it made me a bit upset.

How like, Oh my God, heart rate's 110. This is really bad. Normal for me. This is a low heart rate for a man whose entire diet is just caffeine from cans. Yes, yes it is. And I know it's a low heart rate for you, but you're amphetamines.

A baby daddy, of course, just happens to be an Amazon drone pilot. That's right, yeah. He's actually kind of a sweetheart, blossom. Yeah. He seems like a good. And he's probably the least offensive person on the movie for me. Yeah, even if he does. Work for Amazon. You just kind of instant order. Of flesh. This this film actually kind of, I guess, preempted the a massive slew of first person drone footage we've now. Oh yes, in the. Past few years. So with the slashing Netflix budgets. Are we going to be able to order drone strides of Amazon?

We're not going to be able to but but people significantly more powerful than us probably will I. Mean I could give it a shot.

Do you think the release this film would take hit off the Epstein files? That's not even the they're just they're just flooding the structure, man That's you say you baby Ireland Jeff this mess we not now, Jeffrey grainy footage of like walking up to the prison door and then like footage of like a tripod being taken out on a stretcher you.

Know what the fuck I didn't? So in a nod to the original novel, yeah, they realised that what they need to do is make the aliens poorly through a virus, but not a regular virus like influenza, but a computer virus. Asking for. Places to call? Me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they try to upload a virus to it, which works for a little bit, and then they shake it off and they get used to it. And that's fine because what they need to do is they need to get fuck me, they need to get Ice Cube out of that office.

Yeah, they need to get away from that chair and having to a heroic sacrifice. So. So they need to fly. Wilfred Brimley in in OPS centre all over mainly shoots the scenes when he's sitting down and in OPS centre of course it's when he stands up and bollocks the president for having sex with journalists. If he stands up to the president, another another actor who's created as the president, there we go. And it's Jim Meskeman who if you don't know, if you follow my Instagram, he just does those loads of impressions.

He's an impressionist and he does a really good Robin Williams. He does loads of them and just like. Does he does he have a cameo page? Because we should. Totally. He must do. Two things are happening. One, agents from SHIELD guy, the director, Will Radford, just breaks cover immediately and calls them. Just like I know about Goliath. OK, brilliant, great, excellent trade crafts. Deleting all of your accounts now you've lost your fucking privileges also. Spotify Premium. That's gone. Pisses off he doesn't use two factor authentication one, but it doesn't matter because he doesn't have any mistakes because the sons like I got you dad.

I got your dad straight away. And then get some more back again. Yeah, just like, oh, and I'm back in now and the music kicks up and it's like blue. I mean, I'm gonna fucking do my thing now, which is clicking on some screens more. Right click Commandeer drone. Yeah, so the director, just to prelude all this, the director is aware of it. Director's like, you know what, we need to blow it up. We need to get rid of it. It's only what's gonna work. So we have to blow the building like you are in the ice cube Soz.

Yeah. So the B2 bombers are launching. They're gonna be here any minute. Here's some stock footage of B2 bombers over the desert on the other side of the country. And I don't know, even go over the ocean at some point. Probably. Water underneath. Them and of course they had the footage of the pilots as well the rear face and camera footage when obviously I make a fucking F16 yes 18 or something and even Emma realised I was on something normal he's like yes Rory, whatever, whatever, but yeah yeah it's.

A. Single fucking person. You can just blank it out OK every time. I was so bad. It's like you did. Yeah. So, so, so, so these are so these are the stakes. A big BT bomb is going to come and destroy pretty much Washington, DC, Yeah. They're going to bomb us twice the sea as well, so they're going to double tap it just to kill the rescuers. Wow. Very cool, America. Yeah, it's very fucking cool. Yeah, you do. I. Guess. Exactly. So Ice Cube is still wants a solution to this and he threw in his daughter who was a bioengineer, realises that computer virus alone won't do the trick.

But if I mix my cannibal code, cannibal code with my DNA stuff makes does sound good with your computer stuff, we can make it work. Have you got a pen drive? I've got a pen drive. We don't have pen drives in the building. We're not. Allowed in the building. Right. Anyway, why can't you take? WhatsApp phone calls on this government fucking hardware I can't do. That they do. I checked in factory this with my wife. They do have it but it's not as but it's nowhere near as popular. I mean that would be a good.

Way to advertise it, yes, but. Again, why am I trying to give stuff owned by Facebook better? Yeah, well, because Facebook's in there as well. By some companies anyway, so they say. Right, OK, we're gonna get the cannibal code. We're going to send you a thumb drive. You have to but but right. And here's the thing that pisses me off. OK, so I had, I had a nitpick section, but I'm just going to go straight into it. So baby daddy is an Amazon delivery driver or whatever term they have for that now.

It's probably like a delivery technician or engineer or something. Parcel strike technician. Fucking leg. Fucking leg customer. Customer satisfaction enabler. Yeah, who? Who? Who wants to piss in a jug? Delivery enforcer. Delivery enforcer, Yeah. So he says, look, look at this boom, whips up this little drone, OK? And it's like, this is a Amazon Prime Air delivery drone. We've been training us for months. It's the future of Amazon deliveries. Yeah, but you have to make an Amazon purchase because even though the world's ending and I have what you need in the back of the van already.

I've got a bit of lock up the purchase so buy something. Fucking buy something dude. I mean, if I was feeling generous, I would say it's kind of like a reference to the sort of like how red tape just gets in the way pointlessly of things like that. But again, that's me just. Giving you too much credit, probably. Yeah, that's because. But you're probably right. I mean, you're probably right that it's in there just to add like a little bit of extra kind of tension, like just like, you know, biggest but biggest.

It does add another like 10 or 15 seconds. Oh.

But he thought it was one click and it was so quick. Yeah. You've got to make it a tight 90. Yeah, I got it. I don't know how you could make it longer than 1090 I. Have my little fucking shooter on the grass. You know, conspiracy theory was actually drastically fucking cut down and the rework, a lot of things I'll tell you for a while later. Okay, interesting. I'll take that. So, so they get the drone up in the air and they fly that, and then immediately this Amazon delivery drone driver starts becoming a fucking Maverick because he's like, I've got a bulky on my tail.

I've got a bulky myself. So they teach you that during Amazon primary school? The sun got had deleted later. Probably a player of the game. Yeah, yeah, Beast and No Man's Sky too. What about? This again. It's like, why did you deliver that parcel so late? Because it was inverted.

So the drone's flying. Yeah. And then he needs urgent air support. So Ice Cube commandeers a Reaper drone. Right click Comedy A. Drone and then and then with no training in general for. Whatsoever. No fucking 2 FA either. Ah, you're trying to comedy a river drone. Why don't you just open up authenticator and put in your phone's pin number? Unlock Authenticator. Fucking please enter the. Microsoft code we have sent to your phone. Bureaucracy. Every damn time and. It just gets it and all of a sudden he's he's shit hot at it and it's like, nice kid, don't get cocky.

He's the Han Solo to his son. Yeah, and there's a Han Solo reference, so there's a really confusing bit where they've got drone footage of the building. Yeah. And they've got like a tripod. They have the Reaper drone that it's from the Reaper drone, allegedly. And then he a tripod and then rather than try and figure out how the little Amazon drone goes into the building, they just have a big exclusion and then they're in the in the building. What you're missing out though as well, the really good bit when the drone ends up crashing a bit and the bribe a homeless man fucking homeless guy.

And it's like the whole it's like the whole thing. So go you, you walk me through the desk and you see turtle on its back. It's a turtle. And also, so there's some homeless guy in a fucking tent. Oh, gorgeous. And they're like, and of course he accesses his phone. He's like, hey, man, fucking pick the trone up or what? Like we'll get you a new phone. Why? So the government can spy on me. It's like valid. Valid concern. Valid. They're saying give me $1000 Amazon gift card woohoo. And he's like. Yeah, I'll do it for $1000.

What you do for a like bar? Kill your wife. And like fucking incredible scenes and, and, and so there's who in the sky that get him like save the day. Cool. So the next thing that happens is a fucking drone is in the building and it's flying along and I have to mention it so that during the sequence there's a couple of really this is where the jokes start getting really lame. And that's where the ADR gets particularly obnoxious, right, Because lots of people like, oh, go off when it flies into the building.

Then somebody goes like you were crazy for that one man when he when he Reaper drone a fucking tripod and then and then and then somebody goes. Oh yeah, OK, just go off. And you're crazy for that one. So you're. Crazy for that one. It's something I've been some reference in previous episodes. Like when that's what he said, like a Twitter account posting a picture of like Gillian Anderson or something. It's like she was insane for this one. It's just standing there, existing. She sailed the come ship to the Mother Port and then they're trying to direct the drone down to where I suppose ice keepers running down to the to the server room in the sub basement.

They're trying to get him to meet the the the drone. The drone's got low batteries fire along. Someone yells turn left at Han Solo. Like someone else knows the layout of the building. His daughter knows the layout of the building. She doesn't make any sense. See, she's, she's actually flipped the script. She's actually surveilling him the whole town. My fridge has got a camera on your camera my. Fridge is inside you. Wait, no. The Amazon drone, just to hammer in the joke, that was a little model.

It's not even a joke. There's a model Han Solo there. When she says turn up to Han Solo, the interface also shows us a little rectangle drawing in the the Han Solo and it says Han Solo on the screen just so we definitely catch the joke. It's like, oh, you're it's. Funny. Yeah, well, your base will belong to us and then so random low I can have cheeseburger. You have no chance to survive for your time. What is human but miserable pile of secrets? Move that for great justice. I know this is all being said ironically, but it's also all of them.

All of it is survive. Epic bacon, guys. Looking at myself in the mirror like yes, pile of miserable

secrets. Talk. How about you? They've taken my base. You have. No chance to survive bigger time. Said bad noises.

Anyway, somehow on riding on fumes, the the drone flies right in front of Ice Cube. Ice Cube's running down to the civil room. He needs to get this dongle, plug it into a wall and that will give That will make the that will poison the milk and make and make the alien computers very poorly. Yeah, so, so, so very important. So. So what's happening is the aliens don't want that to happen. So they are now attacking Ice Cube and these red. And I'll tell you what, it's the only visual reference to the red weed from the novel.

Yeah, but these red tendrils of nano machines, I don't know, attack him. Yeah, tentacled, he kind of. You knock him on the floor, he flaps them away initially. He says move, bitch, get out, Get out the way. Yeah, get out the way, bitch. Get out the way, move. Get out the way. Get out the way. Get out. For a copyright. That's what they wanted you to do when they heard that. Like. Oh, that's good. That's a really good. That's a good current Hello reference. That's like when when the when federal law enforcement agencies were arresting you and like one of them starts playing like The Beatles on his phone so they can do a copyright strike on the video of your friends.

Affirmative. Yes, that's a real. Thing he gets the dungle and just as it looks desperate, desperately bad. Yeah. He looks like he's being covered in tentacles and stuff. He's on the floor. He's just about to get it in there. He plugs it in. Brilliant. There's a scene not massively unlike this in the latest Mission Impossible movie where like it all hinges on plugging something in and turning something off at the precise moment and it's and hey, it's also not very good in that movie. Oh. Yes, we we had opinions on that.

Not not good, you know. Who would have been way better than anyone at that My boy audio Dido so fucking funny if one like the like like like the de anonymize the webcams that all of these people hadn't covered with tape, by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But but imagine if like they all got de anonymized. One of them was just like, like, like, water says across. Anyway, it works and, and the aliens, the aliens fucking die. And then I guess they leak all that information. None of the none of the consequences of leaking that Goliath thing come out, not at all.

No one seems the the the the the powers. Of the That guy gets posted, yeah. That's right, he gets. Agent Agent Coulson from the Marvel. And he becomes, he becomes the full guy. The only one whose face isn't blurred in any of the photographs, which is really fucking weird. So he he obviously faces a bit of a consequence. And then I was going to talk about on castings and stuff, but, but basically the guy who plays Michael, what's his name, Michael O'Neill, who plays Walter Crystal, United States Secretary of Defence.

He goes William Rudd for the call. And so it's like, hey, do you want the director job? Because the director's a piece of shit, and you exposed him. And then in a terrible move, winning Radford. He was a perfect guy on the inside to hold the powers to be, to account. Yeah. And has the initial like unique experience in this field goes, Nah, I'm gonna watch you? Fucking like in reality, as soon as he says that some like he's getting whacked by a Reaper drone. Oh, you're not outside anymore? Yeah. Yeah.

He's. Probably dead like like it's like, you know, and Wag the dog should actually do we. Should cover. Oh, yes, we should. Yeah.

Outside of one as well. There we go. Fucking shit. Well, like. 10 years ago as well. Fuck, man. Just just just, yeah, like, just a bit when like Dustin Hoffman's like, I'm gonna go public about all this thing. I'm the world's greatest producer and stuff and they send some guys just to make him, just to make him have a heart attack in his pool. I'm.

Just going to wrap up the final bit start hanging. So things that were happening earlier in the movie, Faith, his daughter Ice Cube's daughter was going to have a baby shower, but he'd but she'd unfriended her own father on Facebook, sent out a mass invite to it and then didn't invite him to his own granddaughter's baby shower. This you feel like would have a longer discussion behind it, but they just they just square that away once Yeah, there's the the emoji is injured. He's driving the Tesla car for her.

She takes that moment to say, Dad, you just won't control everything and you can't control everything as he's literally. Controlling, literally controlling. And he's like fucking faith, deny thy Father, and refuse thy name. And. Then the final bit is the adorable baby daddy had an idea to get everyone personalised T-shirts for the baby shower all based on the very current reference at the time, the Baby Shark song. And then the final thing you see in the movie in obviously this cements it being a COVID production is, is the the main cast all sudden a line for a photograph wearing these T-shirts, including Sandra from NASA, who actually turns out is actually a really close personal family friend and not not just someone from work from a different government department maybe.

They just. Maybe they just felt it was a friendship forged by in fire at that point. Yeah. Well, it's a friend. It's a friendship forged by him continually hanging up on her on teams. And that's the game. That's how you deal with guys listening. Trim me. Clearly women like it when you ignore them. A big event like giant tripods trying to kill you and take your day. At first you can't just do it for no reason. I think this film there was like said, there was massive cutting down this film. I think it was probably meant to be like a kind of romance arc for them, but then they're like, shit, it's Lockhouse, isn't it?

We've got like the campaign in. I had a list of nitpicks from this movie. I've got a little list, we've got none. Of them. I think, I think we covered most of them, but I want to see if you've got any more. So I was right off my list real quickly. So the first one I mentioned it, Radford actively stalking his kids, doesn't realise the person who's targeting at work is one of his kids. Yeah, phenomenal work, phenomenal work. 2 aliens eat all the data from Facebook but they leave YouTube up so that Ice Cube can drop that weird EI slop video he makes that incriminates his boss.

Holy. Crap. Yeah, what the fuck, 3 aliens eat all the data that stop all the plants from the sky, but the BTU still work. 4 Ice Cube works in that building completely alone. Yeah, seemingly no one else seems to work in that building. But also, there are newest USB drives in that building and the USB boats all are active still. Yeah, weird. 5 Ice Cube has to make a Prime Air order in order to get the thumb drive because the thing's locked. We've just. We've covered that now. I wasn't paying attention to that six.

What's a homeless guy going to do 1000 LB Amazon voucher when he has no fix to boot to have anything delivered to? I mean.

I do have a potential answer to this, I don't know if it would work though. However Amazon. But when I used to work for Papa John's and sometimes we would get people order on the road. So like if they were like driving trucks, for example, like going across the UK and I delivered to someone in a car park once. Wow. So that's. Really. That seems really dangerous. Yeah. But I got a nice tip so I ain't gonna compose. That seems so dangerous. And you see this. Unsorted stuff could be happening there, yes.

Do you have a little bit of pizza of Arcot Lane like? Right. Now no one is making the Hyperloop around you see and you see this my. Dogging spots. I think pizza delivery drivers are basically the troops at this and and we do need to. I did have someone thank me for my service. Essential worker Essential worker I. Mean I've not been a piece of delivery driver for like 6 years now in this in as in as. Much as there are no ex marines, there are no ex pizza. Just. Every pizza delivery guy a rifle. And then finally, I suppose the last one I had was Why does Goliath exist when the Wikipedia summary for this movie even states that Will Radford works on a surveillance system already capable of monitoring everyone on Earth I. Think it's crazy motherfuckers.

Clife always. Always a bigger pond there's. Always it. Was a big fish and the wise words of Qui Gon Jin I. Mean This is why I think there was like a lot of rewrites because a lot of it doesn't make sense. Yeah, as as wife's last message to him, it's like, oh hey, remember to take the bins out or something. Get something. Really mundane, but Dad, punch me in the heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People save the last message from their, like, someone they love after they're gone. Like, it's just like, Oh my God.

Because, you know, I'm a sappy bitch. No, no. No, that's totally fair. But also Dan says that she died of like a disease. Yeah. And it's like, oh, be understandable. And the last message was lol, take the bins out, etcetera. Love you bitch kind of thing. Or, or like she sounded. Way too, yeah. Exactly. Not normal, but yeah, I mean, I don't know. She's dying of the disease. Wouldn't she sound a bit more I? Wouldn't go fuck up the bins. But more heartfelt to take the bins like I love you. Be a great parent of the kids, you know, I'll catch you on the flip side.

Yeah. That's that's that's my list of nits. Have you got any any of your own I. Mean, I think we kind of popped off with the message there really. I think a major on it I had to pick was the fact that like this. As I said, this fucking repair drones just circling American cities with with Mavericks on them. And what if you need to drone strike Arlington? I suppose, I suppose the movie appears to be happening in one day, right? Yeah. And yet, and yet they've got like the global military responses already mobilised and already like they've got like a carrier bat on strike group, like already at sea in a vortex kind of formation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I mean like they've mobilised everything and everyone and it's crazy. And I said I was managed to pick or as well. It's like the amount of like stock footage, like like I said, they're using it to show this massive worldwide mobilisation. But even the stock footage with using it, it like looks like there's more than just a few hours fighting going on. You know, like you say, the distances of fucking compassions that you imagine what a look about this, which might get in later is that I mean, these are going to be come without an act of war zones right as well.

And that's what I love because actually this happened like today, like right now are all the massive fucking like lines of conflict will have like if like some tripod lands on the border of India and Pakistan and then just like scramble their entire air forces against us or something. It's like Das Ultrafal or like 1-1 fucking like lands in Ukraine. And then like 2 weeks later I just say the Ukrainians have captured it and it's flying around painted green, covered in explosive reactive armour and it's got a fucking bash bash cage around it.

It's like and it's and it's and it's still like. Draining the Russian and it's. And it's and it's being driven. It's been fluid by some like 19 year old zoomer from Khaki who's like fucking got an energy drink habits. And it's just like like that's all day. That's all day.

Cool. Should we do some categories? Yeah. All right. OK. First one's casting. Casting. There's not a lot of casting because there's not that many people in the movie. Fucking. Seven people or something? So I've got them all here. A grand bunch of lads. Create a bunch of lads. So Ice Cube, as we've just talked about already goes goes to Mars and all that kind of good stuff. Anaconda Eva Longoria I. Love her, like just desperate. Housewives, Desperate Housewives, that's that's what most people know her from it, isn't it?

Yeah, I don't know of anything rather than just for. Housewives, it's been. Another. Stuff. She's been losing stuff. Daddy, you know, and it's like. Yeah, Clark, Greg, we talked about already, yes, Agent SHIELD and stuff. The other. Stuff who's actually, in my opinion, believable as like kind of scumbag mode. Yeah, yeah, I think so. Yeah. See, it's kind of like, oh, I was the nice guy Coulson for so long. Yeah. Which, you know, like, like enjoy. I'm assuming you enjoy the role, but sometimes you want to, you want to mix up and do something different, you know?

Yeah, even it's some similar but different. And now he's definitely giving me some great scumbag good energy. He's he's he's one of those beasts in the gym kind of thick as well. Like like he's like, like just say I'm dialling after an exercise sessions. I. Sweat not. There's a weight room at the Motel 6. Because he's the exercise man. He's right. 20 miles by 5:45. Because he's the exercise man. His jersey. He's got sponsors I love with the back. He's died 57 from a heart attack. Invite his fucking bike as fast as he can.

Easy exercise. Man. And he's and he's got to say West Point T-shirt like, yeah, mate, nice fucking flex. Yeah. There you go. We've all done. So if you're not sacked after one, you mate. No, no, it's the world of stuff. You're not sacked after one. You're not present, no, you just run in the department of looking at people's iPhones. Next we have Andrea Savage is Sheila Jeffries, the FBI agent. Jeffreys fucking smartphone on one hand. She's been some good stuff though. She's been in Veep Step Brothers episodes.

Step Brothers. Tulsa King so she's she's in the Taylor Sheridan verse now. Henry and Tuval plays the Sun. Dave Radford, the video gamer and hacker known as Disruptor. He hasn't got many credits. He was in Harriet, the Cynthia Areevo Harriet Tubman movie and the Watcher, which I think was a Netflix series. Yeah, was about some guy stalking somebody with Naomi Watts and Bobby Kanavali. Iman Benson, business daughter Faith Radford. Her credits again aren't massive suits though. She was in a all black remake of Uncle Buck.

Right. Which I just found out exists. Wow, that's incredible. And all the Midnight Club as well, which is one of those, Michael Flanagan. All right, Yeah. Things right? Cool. And then Devin Bostick plays Mark, Mark Goodman, who's the Amazon delivery dude. He was an episode of Fargo Real. Hero he and Oppenheimer. He was in Oppenheimer. Yeah, it was, yeah. Seth Nederman. He was the explosion. Yeah, and. The reason I know that is just because people kept mentioning it on Twitter saying like the massive jump from Oppenheimer.

To yeah, what Wiles. Yeah, he's had Susan from Oppenheimer. So Fargo Season 5, which is a great season of Fargo the studio, which is that brilliant new show with Seth Rogen. And then and then This War the Worlds. So basically this is like being pulled out of his, like this is the skeleton. He's gotten away with it. He thought he'd got away with it. He thought he got away with it and the fucking caught on the replay the VAR the VAR fucking caught it and all of a sudden the ghost beat this loud. OK, the the only two that guys we've got are Michael O'Neill as Water Crystal, the SEC def right?

Yeah, you might not organise and I don't know if you will. It's been a lot of stuff. Dallas buyers clubs Sea Biscuit, but I know him primarily as being the Secret Service agent who I think cops one of the chest in an episode of The West Wing. Oh fuck yeah. A. Lot of these shows have all these films have West Wing connections. Yeah, he's also in Tom Mcclancy's Jack Ryan as a senator. Holy fucking shit, which which which season? 2019 So is that season 2 I. Think she's? Is it like similar how a lot of British actors end up in Doctor Who or something like?

That it is like that, yeah, very much. Oh, West Wing, definitely. The West Wing West Wing took a lot of people on. Everyone full of that guys. It's a fantastic show for that. And then just Jenna, I mentioned earlier on Jim Meskeman, there's POTUS, who is that that that great impressionist who does does good? Robin Williams, and he's got loads and loads of voice credits. He's primarily a voice actor, but also was in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Parks and Rec, who's in Apollo 13, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and he's in Land Man as well recently, so he's also in the Taylor Sheridan verse.

God damn. Who isn't these days? Yeah, I was on COD. Blops, sorry. Called Call of Duty one or two 6/6. What the? And he plays Bill Clinton. Of course 6 is in the 90s one. Oh my God, holy shit man. Yeah, So that's that's it for the caster. There are no over that guys. That's everybody ask quote with the movie, there are. It's eminently quotable for Ice Cube. I don't watch whether I watch people. Okay, you creep. That. Was you. That was you. That was you. You. It is it is. It is the best. It is the best like.

You. I've got a few already. Take your in the galactic ass back home. Yeah, back home. Like the fact that he said like, nothing in this PDF that you showed me is gonna convince me like that you're telling the truth. And then like the first he clicks like Oh my God. You convinced me you're telling the truth. I'm so fucking convinced guys. Never mind. When he when he hangs up on Sandra the first time he says well I got bigger fish to fry than watching clouds. So fucking rude.

A woman is trying to flirt with you. Maybe she's not. You see, that's why I think it was Stephanie. Like romance? Oh, I think she's right. She's there. She's there at the, she's there at the baby shower. That's the thing. Yeah, like, yes. Oh my God, Can we talk about the weather? Yeah, a little bit of small talk. Are you feeling a bit moist? It's a bit humid here. A bit humid, yes. Oh shit, it's aliens. Oh my God, it's so hot. Oh my God, I feel. Like. It's a bit humid. I feel like I'm being invaded.

Right now, air pressure. Is crazy, but it's Sonya's attempt at flirting there, he said. I feel like I'm being invaded right now. Baby daddy. Final quote I've got is also from Ice Cube which is Good morning ma sweet baby drone. I actually quote of the film. Yeah, so needle drops, there are not many needle drops in series. There is one at the start, which is Keep Your Head Up by Wolfgang Valbrun, which is the highlight of the movie. Is that that that brass pit coming in and it's downhill from there.

That's the highlight of the movie for me. And then after that it gets really bad. The composer of the movie is a guy called John Natchez. And this is another example of people who previously this is like his first composer credit. Everything else, everything before this is music department. So orchestration maybe, or some of the other sort of best prestigious work? This is 2020, right? All all the big names for furlough pay, all the big names getting followed and the pulling up guys and girls who've done like stuff adjacent, like how about your big break?

Awesome, Thanks, Gee Willigas. And then like, here's the thing. We're going to hold this film in a back pocket for five years. We're going to reset just to extract from the Epstein files.

Because they knew, and they let it happen and it let it happen. I guess, I guess, I guess the live didn't see everything. IMDb trivia for the movie, right? So there's a lot of it. The only interesting one that I found. I'll maybe go for a few more. First one here is the character of William Radford was originally written to be paraplegic to fit in with the themes of COVID and people being glued to their screens. But the director was so impressed by the intensity of ice cubes chair throwing, but he rewrote the character to match.

I think I mean it. Was I guess it was intense. Can you throw a chair unintensely? You know how there's that story of how Sean being the audition for shop and the director is like, oh, I didn't think shops the Yorkshire was. Yeah, but he is now kind of thing in a Sean being accent. The only the only kind of the thing I can imagine here is the ice cube walked in and was told he was playing paraplegic character and said fuck no I'm not. I picked up a chair through with someone. Because. It was 2020 and they're already all done.

Like nose forms and shit and all that stuff just to get him in the building. Like just fucking Hiram. Fucking ambulance. I'm trying to imagine Ice Cube, Ice Cube and Sean Bean. Ice Cube in the role of Boromia. Oh my God, it's a gift. A gift to the foes of Mordor.

They took the little that. Would be intriguing to. Say. Phenomenal work. Phenomenal. Give him a moment for pity's sake. You're a kind ass. Back to Eisengard. To Eisengard, everyone loved him so. Much like his father was just like just loved him so much more than his other kid. I mean I get. It Jennifer was a cunt. Yeah, one of the names on Williams team's display is Horsen G Wells in Horsen Wells in HG Wells for the Sick. Yeah, they're all boring, right? Okay. I'm so sorry. Do you have any notes from the piano gallery?

Notes from the piano gallery when we when we go through letterboxed, mainly letterboxed to get just use that generated content and funny reviews that I can read to my colleagues on this excellent podcast. The signal and noise ratio on this is pretty, pretty crazy because like I said, this is a film that's very much right in the zeitgeist. Now. This is why we did this is our kind of immediate action. This is our Operation Nimrod with gunshots here inside the house. But I found some funny ones. You have to dig through a lot of like, oh, no stars worse than ever.

There are worse films in this. I managed to finish this film for a start. I haven't managed to fucking finish. Yeah. I mean, that's kind of the criteria. So half a star? I'm crying bro half a star. This makes you want to cancel my subscription to Amazon Prime and I have it for free for being a student. I can't believe you're still getting absolute dog shit like this in the big 2025. That's awesome. 2025 is the room. Excellent group watch with drunk friends. There we go A. Horribly acted, terribly written, incompetently made film brimming with embarrassing amounts of Amazon product placement.

It fucking rules. They just don't make abysmal garbage like this anymore. Unity store asset flip game in movie form. The purest distillation of a tax write off movie. This movie has an uncountable amount of unintentionally hilarious screenshots. This fool and you. Please don't ever let Amazon Prime make an original again. It's a shame they're usually good, but this is so bad it made me lose faith in everything but here. At least it's not Snow White half a star Ice Cube schizo Amazon psyop movie written by grandpa who yells his grandkids for not knowing his computer login password.

Had a great one as a scene that I loved. Was no because that fuck ass fake Vertigo shot sent me into hysterics. I know we're talking about yeah, the Dolly zoom. Yeah, Dolly zoom from his own desk with the green screen backgrounds. What the fuck? I've been I've been getting really into AI milli hell of a boss GOI note that stands for drag off instructions and watching the Netflix sad man show on Instagram reels in 62nd intervals. I've seen enough Will Radfat can easily solo Goku stars 2 out of 10 straight out atrocious dumpster fire.

Seriously, alcohol helps with watching this piece of data. Shit beer of vodka over some fresh hell ice cubes. This view will self destruct in. Derp derp derp fuck sorry HC wells chat GP bullshit damn why Oh my God holy shit. And just this one that I fucking love. Finally a feature film with the exact energy of those opening videos. You have to watch it escape rooms before the Ice Cube abuses NASA privileges to remotely access his trifling son's PC in order to uninstall No Man's Sky so that his worthless progeny may pursue gainful employment.

This makes profile look like all the presidents and another one that I couldn't find even I saw before. Maybe because the aliens at the theatre was just it was. It was perfect actually on the second watch. This film is bad.

Why am I saying this most egregious oversell of the military and just all complex. There's no way I can do all of that. Right click Comedy at Drone. Yeah, got to be. In fairness, that's one thing that get right, and that's the constant excessive the amount of Microsoft Teams notification sounds that haunt me. Would this movie be better if it had Doctor Jack Ryan, Doctor Richard Kimble, or President James Marshall in it? I'm just going to say yes, I don't. I'm not sure I even make it fix this film.

So I've said that make it worse. I wouldn't wish this on any of them. Yeah. However, President Jack Ryan would not have allowed such a heinous overreach of the security industrial complex. I personally, I don't know, you are probably the the President, Jack Ryan. Expert, the president expert having at the time of writing ran out my Amazon. It's not my Amazon my my Spotify audio book hours this month on on the Bear and the Dragon. Have you ever done that before? I have did it once. So we have a lady's voice like, hey, you've run out your free audio book minute.

I don't think President James Marshall would be any different. President James Marshall and President Jack Ryan wouldn't have let the shit happen at all that they would have been fucking on top of it. Yeah, would this full movie have benefited from a weird little scruffy guy played by Peter Falk? And this film needs Colombo to be surgedly implanted into at least three different times. So I think. It was. So I think Will Radford should have been played by Peter Falk. Yeah, totally. But instead of having the Guardian system, he should have had like a CB radio and like a fax machine.

Yeah, and like a coffee machine. Yeah, like taking place in like 1984 and. It should have been like. Six or something and like it's and it's not the War of the Worlds. It's just another episode of Colombo. Yeah, Yeah. Instead of instead of machines from Meteos, it's a race track owner. Yeah. Whose prize jockey has died. Yeah. In mysterious circumstances. Yeah. Would this movie have benefited from Lieutenant Commander Samuel L Jackson, United States Navy? You know what I'm going to say? Yes. You know, I'm going to say here if they'd made a movie out of this and they had any actual scenes with actors in different sets.

Yeah. They could have had. I love how they could just like fucking dissing everyone. The film is not an actor. Actors. Are very. I mean, like, Ice Cube probably considers himself more of a gangster than an actor. He's a businessman. He's a businessman. He's a businessman, He's a businessman. That's actually a reference to

yeah, right, Samuel Jackson. He should have been the commanding officer of USS. Unfortunately for this movie, USS and the Child, yes. And where they have one heroic like 1015 minute sequence where they destroy 1 tripod and they get absolutely nerved. Sing this motherfucker. Yeah, yeah. He's got to say motherfucker. Rank speed, motherfucker. Flank speed, motherfucker. There's some Ollie bird crashing into a tripod and going down. So let's let's fucking like walking this out for a second. USS look like child right?

It's actually a fucking civil war era steam ram that was never actually used against the Confederates, but she's still a museum ship and some. Battleship in there. Yeah, yeah. So Samuel Jackson is like, obviously I come like, I can like see you and he's got a bum fucking post and right. Because hang out this museum ship gets the chance. Like, oh, go on, Thunder child. And yeah. Forgetting that that that was a film. They use the steam ram USS Thunderchilds. The plot as well. Is this movie pro or anti CIA?

I mean, right they. Weren't so there's no CIA in this film. Therefore it's pro. We've got the pro, we've got the DHS, Which. Is doing the thing. Everyone doesn't want the CIA to do. With DFS. With DFS which is a furniture shopping. News finally, the Ding Chavez award for missed opportunity in the movie there were. Actually fucking tonnes of missed opportunities. Yeah, just save the line, Mike. They could have made an actual movie based in the novel War of the Worlds by HG Wells. It could be for cut off.

But seriously, they could have done like a Victorian era cylinders landing and yeah, official common, you know? Even just having a ship called Thunderchild, a massive missed opportunity. It doesn't even need be HMS Thunderchild, a steam ram. It could have been an American Thunderchild. Maybe just destroy something? Like that. But yeah, the groups have Operation Thunderchild. We're going to use the Thunderchild protocol, literally. Any of our references like like, like, like, even the names and stuff like.

It was berefted of references that would have made you go like. Sandra Ogilvy from NASA. Yeah, like, you know what I mean? Just like anything. Like instead of like, having the name of HD Wells. Awesome Wells. It's just very disconnected from it. Other than the tripod. Yeah, things just it gets loose as fuck. Is this using the name? Yes. So yeah, yeah, yeah. So my main thing was there was no HMS or Operation or USS or whatever Thunderchild because that would have ruled. Because Meg, remember, you and I discussed we should fucking Co write a novel about H West.

Under child, Yeah, and a. Fucking POV kind of thing after we looked into the fact that people are writing approved novels based on based on War of the Worlds. Steven Baxter. Yeah, no Thunder child. That's mine. Lock it in. Sweet. I mean, I guess that wraps it up one more. Question How would this go down? Yeah. Oh God, 9. There you go, it doesn't. It doesn't. We don't do that here. That's. Falcon, this wouldn't go down down in Germany because we insist on being the most moral army to lose the war.

That's fucking stupid. We didn't do anything wrong this time. Thanks. All my friends are dead, my wife's gone, all my apes gone. All my apes gone because they would eat all the NFTS. That's the best thing. This film was out before we had the real the real data eating, which was the NFT. Oh God, they. Must be kicking themselves. Indeed. OK, so that was War of the Worlds. That was War of the Worlds. That was something resembling War of the Worlds. Yes, oh so much. If we get turns, if we get this out before the next one, I don't know, but our next movie is going to be Firefox.

Our next movie is going to be Firefox. 1982. Yeah, it's it's the first for our listener. I request thanks to Jim and Crammington. Very excited to see Clint Eastwood Grimace's way through stealing a Russian super fighter. So that's going to be great. Very excited. Cool. What left this to say is thank you very much for listening and we've been clear and present dudes, I think. We actually said it in 10 minutes.

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