556: War of the Worlds (2025)

“This movie feels like a ChatGPT movie if there’s ever been one.”

This week on Myopia Movies, the gang continues its tour through the worst films of the previous year with 2025’s War of the Worlds—a baffling, screen-filled sci-fi mess that somehow turns an NSA analyst played by Ice Cube into humanity’s last hope. The panel digs into the movie’s strange obsession with surveillance tech, brand-name software, and product placement, while trying to figure out whether the film is pro–surveillance state, anti–surveillance state, or just deeply confused. Along the way, they riff on everything from alien data harvesting and Amazon drones to bad military logic, real-time apocalypse plotting, and a family drama that feels far more creepy than heartfelt. The result is less War of the Worlds and more War of the Windows Tabs.

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How will War of the Worlds (2025) hold up?

Host: Nic

Panel: Matthew, Alex, Keiko, Nur

Directed by: Rich Lee

Starring: Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Iman Benson, and Michael O’Neill