Ever wondered why Spielberg chose to show the aliens so early in "War of the Worlds"? Or why the alien designs might remind you of something rather...unmentionable? Join us as we humorously dissect the 2005 sci-fi classic, examining David Koepp's script decisions and the film's post-9/11 influences. We debate the frustrating antics of Justin Chatwin's character, ponder on the compelling first hour, and question if Spielberg's apocalyptic vision is truly an underrated gem despite its flaws.
Did you know Bill Murray was nearly cast in this film, or that Spielberg wrapped up pre-production in a mere three months? Get ready for some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, including Dakota Fanning's standout performance and the hilarious on-set prank involving the "Jaws" theme. We also touch on the strained relationship between Spielberg and Tom Cruise during promotional events, adding a layer of drama to our already engaging discussion.
From the thrilling emergence of the tripods to the chaos of an alien invasion, we cover it all. We'll critique the emotional family dynamics, the film's impressive yet sometimes rushed CGI, and the eerie visual aesthetics that make "War of the Worlds" a standout. Finally, we break down the film's conclusion, recommend some perfect double features, and tease our next episode focused on "A Quiet Place." Don't miss out on this lively and in-depth analysis!
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Ever wondered why Spielberg chose to show the aliens so early in "War of the Worlds"? Or why the alien designs might remind you of something rather...unmentionable? Join us as we humorously dissect the 2005 sci-fi classic, examining David Koepp's script decisions and the film's post-9/11 influences. We debate the frustrating antics of Justin Chatwin's character, ponder on the compelling first hour, and question if Spielberg's apocalyptic vision is truly an underrated gem despite its flaws.
Did you know Bill Murray was nearly cast in this film, or that Spielberg wrapped up pre-production in a mere three months? Get ready for some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories, including Dakota Fanning's standout performance and the hilarious on-set prank involving the "Jaws" theme. We also touch on the strained relationship between Spielberg and Tom Cruise during promotional events, adding a layer of drama to our already engaging discussion.
From the thrilling emergence of the tripods to the chaos of an alien invasion, we cover it all. We'll critique the emotional family dynamics, the film's impressive yet sometimes rushed CGI, and the eerie visual aesthetics that make "War of the Worlds" a standout. Finally, we break down the film's conclusion, recommend some perfect double features, and tease our next episode focused on "A Quiet Place." Don't miss out on this lively and in-depth analysis!
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week, we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse, I'm Jason. Do you know what your problem is? I can think of a couple women to be happy to tell you. Hey got him Because this week we recommend War of the Worlds.
Speaker 2:Really had to fish that one out, didn't we?
Speaker 1:Yeah War of the Worlds. We really had to fish that one out, didn't we? Yeah, completely forgot, I have to say, the title of the movie, because it immediately went away.
Speaker 2:or you could do like a quote from the aliens Just aliens gulping, which is what the caption said.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what it said? Or does it have a bicycle noise? As he like spins the bicycle wheel. So I guess the interesting part of that little scene is that I guess the writer, David Koepp, was like oh, I think it's interesting to add that because I'd like to think that their evolution completely skipped the wheel and went straight to having just robotic legs and stuff. Fuck yeah, man, That'd look cool.
Speaker 2:And we have to show the aliens and they have to do something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, Because if you didn't show them, everybody would be like why didn't you show them?
Speaker 2:It's like I bet they don't. I mean, they could have waited until the reveal at the end, but you don't get to see them move around and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and they kind of look cooler in the house.
Speaker 2:They kind of look kind of sweet, they're kind of cute they're really cute.
Speaker 1:Except that they're chopping up bodies. It's like why do they got to aliens suck?
Speaker 2:they suck so hard only ET.
Speaker 1:Good, their anus sucks like the one that pulls them up dude, why does every god dang alien movie have to have something that's like very a sphincter? It's like some sort of sphincter, vagina shaped or phallic shaped. Everything's all that when it comes to aliens. Well, from what?
Speaker 2:I know about aliens. They're all sphincter based.
Speaker 1:Is it because they like those parts, so they must have it on their ships.
Speaker 2:They're just being creative.
Speaker 1:We have to have something for the humans to understand. They have to see something.
Speaker 2:They can recognize they love assholes.
Speaker 1:Oh man, great way to start. Great way to start. So is this your first time seeing it, seen it before, I saw it a long time ago.
Speaker 2:Do you like it? Yeah, I like this movie. It's kind of underrated, I feel like A little bit, but I mean it's also not like incredible.
Speaker 1:I feel like I think the first like hour and six minutes rule, and then there's a lot of issues with the rest of it.
Speaker 2:Mainly it's the Tim Robbins stuff.
Speaker 1:It's kind of it's like what are you doing, dude? Yeah, it's no Tim Robbins. Fine, I'm OK with that. The sun, are you?
Speaker 2:serious dude, so horny to get in a fight.
Speaker 1:God. I mean, like I get that this is all kind of like a 9-11 type of because it's 2005. So it was written oh, four or five, I don't know. This only had like a three-month pre-production, so I'm not sure how long that took. But you know it's obviously there's a lot of imagery like 9-11 imagery Tom Cruise with a ton of ash on him, everybody just sitting and watching a disaster. So, and then I'm assuming the son is like oh, I have to go out and fight. They attacked us. I have to go out and fight. They attacked us. I have to go out and fight. But it's so dumb how much he just wants to go fight. It's like there's this like an apocalypse happening over a hill and he's like I have to go. It's like they don't want you.
Speaker 1:Probably you running out there with no weapons or combat training is probably the worst possible thing for them right now, because someone's gonna have to save your life and die in the process, probably, and then there's a giant nuclear blast and then he's just okay.
Speaker 2:He's just fine. He's got a little bit of dirt on his face.
Speaker 1:He didn't change his clothes when he got to Boston.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, there was a bus going to Boston on the other side of the hill. They just couldn't see it.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that what? He going to boston on the other side of the hill, they just couldn't see it. Oh, somebody is like. Actually I just don't. I just hope my like sister and dad dies so I can be only child. Sweet got the window seat. It's, I don't know it's. It's so baffling how bad that aspect is. And the actor is not very good, justin chest uh why did I know his name first?
Speaker 1:all the acting is like be scared yeah, just be scared, he's just I don't know there's something I don't like about him. Yeah, justin Chatwin. He plays Goku in the live action sweet Dragon Ball Z movie you know that terrible movie.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it, but like it'd be awesome to see Goku go up against these machines. Yeah, he'd destroy them. Even with their shields, yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh dude, He'd just go like work out on a spaceship with insane gravity and just punch through it Fuck. Yeah, yeah, I love this movie. I always think it's a very underrated Steven Spielberg movie. I get that the ending. People don't like it because the whole like bacteria and stuff and it's like I don't know what happened in the book yeah, I think people are just like okay, well, this story is like 100 years old.
Speaker 1:Let's like maybe change it, not 100 years old. I mean, it's getting close now. Now it's very close to 100 years old, but I don't know that's something every time I see I think, oh yeah, that makes so much sense. They have no antibodies to anything. You sneeze on them, they're like die.
Speaker 2:But they I couldn't remember if this was in the book or not. The whole thing about them, the machines already being on, are millions of like millions of years before.
Speaker 1:No, they come from Mars.
Speaker 2:Right, but several times in the movie they're saying the robots were already here, but the aliens came down and got them and the lightning yeah. So if the robots were already here, did they start human life that I don't know On the planet? Because, because, that would be cool.
Speaker 1:I do have a few little facts.
Speaker 2:I know they didn't.
Speaker 1:But like that would be cool if they did. It would be kind of like Prometheus then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but like that'd be cool if they did. It'd be kind of like Prometheus then, yeah, but like that's something I didn't remember from the book at all and it kind of so I don't, I don't know, but if they were already here, I don't know, it just didn't line up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of weird because just people on the street are like, hey, these things have been here forever.
Speaker 2:Like these things have been here forever.
Speaker 1:Like they this must have been like uh, I mean, I guess it makes sense because you know well, I mean, they're just like under the planet. I mean, I guess maybe these beings just colonized all these planets and they're like, well, if there is, and maybe they saw life on it, and they're like well, like, and once they eventually evolve, there'll be so many of them, and then we can just harvest them, so. So maybe that's what they wait for. They planted a bunch of cabbage patch kids down here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it was.
Speaker 1:Or maybe I don't know. They like came down like mated with a bunch of animals, and then we're like, hopefully they'll become smart eventually. And then we're like, okay, we got there.
Speaker 2:That's how we got like frogs. That's like the alien equivalent of your dad going to the store for smokes and never coming back.
Speaker 1:No baby, I'll be right back. I just got to get my spaceship go to Mars real quick.
Speaker 2:I got to go pick up a sphincter.
Speaker 1:It's like well, can you at least leave a spaceship so I can come visit you, just in case you come back. I'll be back, don't worry. Yeah, I'll be back in 10 minutes. Every time they look up at the sky, that star, that's where your dad is, that's your dad. My dad lives there, it's like shut up.
Speaker 2:No, he doesn't. Your dad's lame.
Speaker 1:My dad works for Disney, oh shit. So we'll go through some facts. Though the movie's screenplay was eventually written by Josh Friedman and later punched up by regular blockbuster subscribed david kepp, um steven spielberg and tom cruise wanted jj abrams to like write the movie and they I think they even wanted to direct it for a little bit, but because jj abrams was doing lost at the time because he was working on the pilot for it, which was essentially a whole movie in itself, he wasn't able do it. But then he was able to collaborate with Tom Cruise, like literally a year later on mission impossible three actually ended up pushing this mission impossible three to film war of the worlds. Oh, very interesting.
Speaker 2:I guess. Oh, okay, I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1:Bill Murray was the first choice to play the tim robinson character. Yeah, tim robbins, not robinson robinson.
Speaker 2:I'm doing it again because of I don't know if you couldn't have a comedy. I mean, tim robbins is kind of a comedy yeah, he's pretty good like it would have been weird.
Speaker 1:I couldn't have taken it seriously it would have had to been a whole different.
Speaker 2:He would if he would have if he would have done something like he did in the zombie movie where he dressed or he.
Speaker 1:He'd have to be kind of laid back and be like I'm just waiting for the aliens to come get me. But I'm going to hold up here. I'm drunk on peach schnapps. Yeah, hey, I'm going to kill you. It would have been weird, just a bunch of like sarcastic. I mean because he's such a sarcastic and funny actor, so it's yeah, he would have just been sarcastic the whole time. Hey, show your daughter up. I hate her. I'll throw her the aliens, just kidding gotcha kill this gopher man okay.
Speaker 1:so when spielberg and cruz were putting the movie together, it was widely expected that they would shoot in 2006 or a 2007 release, with Spielberg first planning to shoot his Proceeds thriller Munich. That movie rules, except for the weird sex scene. But after I will always say it if I talk about Munich but after Cruise read David Koepp's script and loved it, he suggested that Spielberg push back Munich's production, with the star agreeing to similarly push back Mission Impossible 3. Tom Cruise actually went on set of Spielberg's movie Catch Me If you Can like the Leo movie and said hey, do you want to do War of the Worlds with me? Spielberg was like I'm in.
Speaker 2:It was like the MacGruber scene when he's getting the team back together.
Speaker 1:Spielberg accepted, at which point production crews were hastily set up to prepare for the shoot, with the director even bringing many of his planned Munich crew aboard to work on the War of the Worlds. Due to the hastened schedule, pre-production lasted just three months, rather than the typical six for a blockbuster of this scale, though in later interviews Spielberg insisted they weren't left waiting for time. So it's crazy. It just took like three months to get this whole movie together and ready to shoot, which is insane because it usually takes forever to do it. There's Spielberg movies that he's been working on since War of the Worlds that he still has yet to do.
Speaker 2:It's like World of Apocalypse or whatever. With something like this, you've already got an idea of what it's supposed to be because of the book yeah, the book and the mini movies. It kind of leads the way of what it's supposed to be because of the book yeah, the book and the mini movies Kind of leads the way. And if you've got a clear picture, like clear idea direction, I could see how you can get it all done really quickly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Everybody's like super psyched about it and they're all wanting to do it, so they make it all happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is something. So I guess Spielberg wanted to do his own War of the Worlds, but Independence Day came out and he's like well, shit.
Speaker 2:That was better than my idea.
Speaker 1:Well, now, what am I supposed to do? We can't have two of the same movies, essentially, but then eventually, the reason that Spielberg agreed to do this and I think Tom Cruise liked it is because it was from the point of view from just one little family, kind of running around, instead of a global scale that Independence Day is. So I think that's really what he liked about it was that it's like, oh, it's smaller, it's like boots on the ground, you know, running around. So the crashed airplane scene, instead of just having like the art department make a crashed plane.
Speaker 2:They crashed a real plane with real people.
Speaker 1:They brought in a retired Boeing 747 and trashed it the good old fashioned way. They acquiring the plane and transporting it costs a reported $2 million of the film's budget. At which point it broke, it was broken into pieces and houses were built around it. When shooting was completed, However, the plane's remains were retained for the Universal Studios Backlot Tour in LA, and I really want to go see it. That'd be fun. It's like right next to Hitchcock's Psycho Bates Motel apparently. Oh, That'd be such a rad tour. So, oh, this is a really funny one. So the ferry scene you know whenever it tips over and they're all in the water.
Speaker 1:Tinkerbell comes on yeah exactly so when the three of them are in the water. I guess Spielberg started had a giant speaker out and he started playing the Jaws theme for him, which freaked out.
Speaker 2:Dakota Fanning. Apparently she's already like. She looks like the most terrifying little girl in the. Apparently she's already like.
Speaker 1:She looks like the most terrified little girl in the world. She's so good in this movie, she's insane. This has to be probably like her best acting in a movie. I feel like she's pretty fucking good, like she nails it. She's like she's a precocious little kid, but not overly done. Or it's like, okay, this was written for an adult kid but not overly done. Where it's like, okay, this was written for an adult. No, this was I don't know. She crushed it. You can just see her working things out in her head whenever she's terrified or when she doesn't know what's happening. She's like what? And then she, like you see her like in emotionally, like figure it out through her face and it's like, god dang, this kid's a good actor. This is insane. So in a report from Vanity Fair Spielberg and Cruise's it says Spielberg and Cruise's working relationship soured somewhat while the pair were promoting the movie, because this is when the whole Oprah thing happened. Which Oprah thing. I love Katie Holmes, I love this woman when he's jumping on the couch and like screaming.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Peak Scientology. Tom Cruise here Peak nut job yeah. So Spielberg apparently grew frustrated by Cruise's increasingly eccentric behavior in the lead up to the film's release, particularly his infamous couch hopping incident on the Oprah Winfrey show. Ironically, Spielberg may have accidentally shot himself in the foot here, given that he was initially supposed to appear on the Oprah with.
Speaker 2:Cruz but had to drop out last minute post-production. Like jumping around like Yosemite Sam with two guns.
Speaker 1:Could you imagine if he did that and Spielberg's on the couch with him? I guess I'm just going to leave.
Speaker 2:I don't understand. Nobody jumps on Oprah's couch.
Speaker 1:Right, but yeah, he was pretty upset about what Spielberg was. He's like you're just supposed to just just promote the film and get out of there, and then I guess he also tried to convert, like everybody in the cast Spielberg and like some crew, to Scientology and stuff like that as they everyone always kind of does.
Speaker 1:If you're in Scientology Allegedly I didn't mean it If you're from Scientology and you listen to this, don't say this, get out. None of this means anything. So just some things about the design of the aliens. The tripod design for the alien machines is based on HG Wells' original description of the Martians fighting machines from his book, including the heat rays at the ends of its arms. The aliens' need for humans is also from the novel, where the Martians have no digestive organs and rely on blood from other species for nourishment, as is the red weed implied to be the reason why the surface of Mars appears to be red. And the aliens in this movie look strikingly similar to the aliens from Independence Day. Their appearance is also close to how the Martians are described in the source novel from Independence Day. Their appearance is also close to how the Martians are described in the source novel. Their body consists mainly of giant head with several thin protruding tentacles, and they need human blood assistance since they lack internal organs. Wow, I said that.
Speaker 1:The book's narrator theorizes that eons of evolution and reliance on technology have reduced their bodies to basically one big brain, while their trunk and other appendages have withered away as a result. The biggest brain, while their trunk and other appendages have withered away as a result. The biggest difference is that the movie aliens can move quite easily on their own, whereas in the books, their lack of sturdy limbs and earth's higher gravity makes them sluggish and relatively immobile, so they need their machines to move oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I didn't remember any of that from it's just been so long, so I read it.
Speaker 1:I mean mean I read it like four years ago. I figured I'd remember something.
Speaker 2:No, I was like in grade school. I didn't remember any of it.
Speaker 1:I mean, I wanted to like listen to the audio book of it, but I was like, oh yeah, that's right. I don't even actually know if I listened to it. There's no way I remember it being that big of a book Me neither. Maybe the audio book has like a bunch of stuff acted out. I don't know. Just like battles acted out. Dude this movie. The whole beginning and this is the shots of the giant tripods rule. It's so cool.
Speaker 2:It's so intimidating.
Speaker 1:Why it's, I don't know, know, and just like the confusion that everybody at the beginning has, I'm like what is happening, I'm so curious why are her cars not? Working. Why are like, why is lightning striking the same place? It's so scary and but also it's like it's the beginning of an apocalypse and it's amazing, yeah. And then all the shots of people running like later, when it's nighttime, after the ferry scene, like all the giant tripods out, yeah, everybody running around.
Speaker 2:They're just shooting, they're zapping them.
Speaker 1:You just kind of hear like the screaming and it's like this is insane.
Speaker 2:All their clothes are falling from the sky. Yeah, it's insane. Oh yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 1:Oh, that was cool, the red weed stuff so sick. There's a point when you see from a distance the tripods are attacking the humans and you hear the screaming and I was like, oh, this is where dang. I'm like there is no way that Jordan Peele did not watch War of the Worlds when making Nope, because I just feel like just the distance, screaming and like seeing light, and then all of a sudden no light, and then just think just like what is happening and then screaming, stopping how to create confusion?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's just. I don't know.
Speaker 1:This guy Gendis. He just put some visuals together. It's amazing, which is weird because he's also a very emotional director. But I'm just like, I just feel like he skipped a lot of the emotion. I feel like this movie visually and is put together really well and it's just all the emotional stuff just doesn't work. I feel like Except for stuff with Dakota Fanning.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's the best at it.
Speaker 1:Tom Cruise is trying to be like a normal guy and it's like, hey, yeah, tom cruise, and then, a little, he's trying to be a bad dad. At first, yeah, that's where he was the most successful, I felt like. And then, yeah, I was like oh, you're kind of nailing this part, yeah you know you're really bad at being a father. And then, I don't know, once he gets, it's really just this it's the son man. He kills me.
Speaker 2:But my kids saw something they were watching a little bit and they said he's a really good big brother. It's like, oh, that's sweet.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, he is really great. I mean to the point where, like when he's ready to run away with the military, she's like what am I going to do without you not being here? Who's going to take care of me?
Speaker 2:Ray's just like well, okay, I guess I'll do it.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry you wouldn't be here without me. But that's okay. Sorry, I didn't have food in my kitchen.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just had mustard, yeah, mustard.
Speaker 1:Thanks, robbie, thanks for grabbing food for us like it's literally all you had, dude, and that part I'm like this kitchen has to be well stocked. If they're only going to be gone for like a day or two, there's no way that they wouldn't have any food in that ginormous house that they went to. I've always wanted to throw like a piece of sandwich on a window.
Speaker 2:Just be that mad. Okay, god, dang it peanut butter on the window.
Speaker 1:Maybe one day I'll get to be used.
Speaker 2:It would be kind of satisfying. Yeah, just like fuck this peanut butter my neighbor got mad and threw a whole bowl of like pot of spaghetti noodles at the wall. Um, maybe he was just trying to prove a point, I don't know he's like.
Speaker 1:It's like what I heard, that if you throw the spaghetti, against the wall and it sticks.
Speaker 2:It means it's ready. Yep, it's ready. It's not the whole pot dude Also on the floor.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right bro, let's hop into the film. You ready, man? The film begins with bacteria and a water drop on a leaf, and then you got the voice of God coming in. No one would have believed in the early years of the 21st century. Was that anything right? No, I've never tried morgan freeman and I just did god. But yeah, he essentially is just saying oh, you know, like there's just an intelligence greater than our own that's been watching us while we busy ourselves around and uh, you know just some stuff like that. It's real, like they.
Speaker 2:He's ominous and just saying he's talking about penguins, yeah, and there's like envious eyes.
Speaker 1:They're watching us and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. But these goddamn bacteria. This is why you don't wash your hands, people. There might be aliens. That's how you know this all started on a kitchen counter somewhere. Do you ever see aliens start spitting in? Their face how do you feel now? Yeah, I mean, it is the aliens' fault that they died, that they didn't have, you know, spacesuits on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you figure they can't be that smart, right? They lasted like a couple of days, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just like a day or two. See, they sleep through like four days. So yeah, they lasted four days. You're so smart. Where's your antibiotics?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They're anti-vaxxers. They didn't believe in it.
Speaker 2:They voted for Donald Trump. That makes so much sense.
Speaker 1:So we meet Ray Farah, played by Tom Cruise, a container crane operator, something I've always wanted to try.
Speaker 2:It looks hard and dangerous it looks. So and dangerous it looks so cool though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I'm just like that's literally how they see. They're just literally looking down with a giant container under them to like adjust, I think. So I was like is there no cameras that they can kind of watch?
Speaker 2:That's terrifying.
Speaker 1:I want to do it so bad. We learned that he's estranged from his children and is visited by his ex-wife, mary ann, who drops off their children, rachel and robbie, at his house as she is going to boston to meet her parents. Also is accompanied by her, like new book, new boyfriend or whatever they got her pregnant, new husband he got her all pregnant.
Speaker 1:I pregnant it up and the kids seem to like the husband. So, tim, yeah seems nice, yeah seems nice we also. We see that Ray is kind of an asshole. He's very rude and difficult to be around. The kids don't respect him. Like Robbie's, like you wanna, robbie just walks by, hug, handshake, sentence anything, he says the door's locked, and like five seconds later, the door yes, hey, you know the door's locked. And like five seconds later, the door yes, hey, you know the door's locked. Um, and then, uh, we see rachel, he goes and gives him a hug and then she's like goes to get her bag and she's like struggling.
Speaker 2:Everybody's just watching her struggle and, of course, the mom well, she needed an excuse to go rummage through the house. Yeah sure she's like.
Speaker 1:She probably said like hey, rachel, make sure you can't get your bag out of the car so I can grab it.
Speaker 1:Make him feel bad, and then I I'm going to pretend that it's super heavy, even though it probably has like five pairs of clothes. Dakota Femmings timing yeah, she's like. How heavy could it be? What'd you put in there? Like 500 books? Which is probably what happened. Yeah, yeah, which is probably what happened. Yeah, we see her carrying the bag through the house. She's looking around just making him feel bad and like every time she turns a corner it just seems like he's not ready for his kids.
Speaker 2:He's like you know what?
Speaker 1:This is why I divorced.
Speaker 2:This is why we had a divorce. Oh, you have an engine in the living room yeah. Great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he definitely could have cleaned up a little bit and bought I don't know bread, something sandwiches.
Speaker 2:It seemed like he completely forgot that this was happening.
Speaker 1:Yeah well, he's like, oh, I thought we said 830. And she's like it is 830. And it's like, oh, so we see a news station talking about lightning and power outages and it's like I bet nothing bad's going to come from that. I love when movies do this. All apocalypse movies do this. They're always like quick shots of TVs where it's like, oh, in zombie movies, it's always like someone bit me.
Speaker 2:Here's what's happening all over the world.
Speaker 1:Oh, massive attacks from all over the world Just people from the fits of rage they attacked the Ukraine first. Yeah, it was Ukraine. They just they can't get your break these days. I know it sucks for them. So Ray and Robbie, they throw baseball together. Ray has a Yankees hat on, Robbie has a Red Sox hat. I was like, oh God, this ain't going to go well. Oh, I didn't know that they were rivals. Oh yeah, it's like the biggest rivalry in baseball. Ah, Come on bro.
Speaker 2:Do you even know sports?
Speaker 1:Not. Come on, bro. Do you even know a sports? Not really. We're going to do sports movies now, next month sports. So they're throwing the baseballs as hard as they can. Tom Cruise throwing it like 90 miles per hour, breaking his kid's hand. I was like dude. No wonder your kids don't like you.
Speaker 2:It was kind of funny when he moved out of the way. Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 1:I'd have been like I'm going to get that ball and I'm going to throw it at your face now, so you better run. But then you also have Rachel at the end. It's like that's not how you're going to get through to him, because he's just essentially his way of parenting is I'm going to be mean to you until you listen to me, you know the best type of parenting. So Ray says screw this sleep. He tells uh rachel, just to order some food, um, and also, so he goes to sleep and it's fun.
Speaker 1:If you watch the movie again and watch it be like, oh, all the passing of time is pretty much through sleeping, pretty much, because every time they sleep, that's when it progresses to a new like event. It's like he fell asleep here, and then it's like, oh, beginning of it. And then when he falls asleep into the car where he has like uh, robbie drive, yeah, he's, yeah, jumps way forward, yeah. And then it's like, oh, beginning of it. And then when he falls asleep into the car where he has like Robbie drive, yeah, he jumps way forward, yeah. And then also the same thing when it's in the house and the plane crashes.
Speaker 2:It's like everything's, I don't know, it's kind of a cool thing, it's just interesting. But what else are you gonna do? You gonna watch him sleep?
Speaker 1:yeah, I want an eight him sleep. No, I just thought it was cool because I was like oh, that's pretty much when all the passage of time kind of happens is when they sleep. Instead of just like jumping in the middle of a scene Like I don't know. So we start with. Tom Cruise wakes up. He eats some hummus. He hates hummus. I guess people didn't like hummus in the 2000s, I don't know. It's just like everybody knows what hummus is.
Speaker 2:I don't know why he's so confused A lot of people. Just it's the way people used to think about all health food. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess so Healthy food.
Speaker 2:Hummus is like delicious, it's like good.
Speaker 1:Like eat a butt, dude Um and yeah so, rachel, she talks about having a splinter from his crappy old porch. Um says it's going be like. He's like you want me to take it out, you're gonna get infected. And he's like no, my body will just push it out and this is something that the aliens won't be able to do they push out splinters.
Speaker 1:Well, they're just gonna get infected like the body is not gonna fight against the infection and won't like push out a splinter. Also, I've gotten splinters and they don't just push themselves out. It takes a while for that to happen. I always just like end up just yanking it out.
Speaker 2:I hate splinters.
Speaker 1:It sucks, but so when Robbie takes. So we learned that Robbie took Ray's car out without permission. Ray goes out to search for him and notices a strange wall like a cloud wall Rules.
Speaker 1:So, crazy, which starts to send out electromagnetic pulses in the form of lightning. People are starting to flood the streets to look at it. Holly from the office is there. She starts off as everything starts off, as everybody's being like super curious and what I like about it is everybody is trying to figure out is this cool or should we be scared? Everybody's like we have to look at it and we want to be like this is kind of crazy. But we're also like should we run away? Yeah, which?
Speaker 1:is something I feel like other movies don't quite capture as well as this movie does.
Speaker 2:But I feel like when you see something in nature happening like that, you don't know what it is, I would watch it too. Like a big ass storm. Yeah, I'd watch it until shit started going crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and like because I think it's a thing where you know, because I watch it. I'm like what is everybody doing? Run, because until now I'd already be in the car going. I don't know where I'm going, but I'd just be at least 30 minutes down the road before you know.
Speaker 2:The creatures are coming out of the ground the only wild part about it was to me was when he left them at the house. Yeah, to go check out, he had to get hands-on experience, but what was going? On, he just like well, because he just reaches in the hole and grabs that thing yeah, he grabs like oh, this is just cold.
Speaker 1:Actually I don't know I guess it's because you don't ever expect something. You just don't expect giant aliens come out from the ground. You know because whenever I watched it and I thought, oh, I'd already been running away I'm like no, I wouldn't you have to live your life I wouldn't expecting every moment I would this could happen, because I'd be like what we're gonna do with the animals?
Speaker 1:like I'm sure it's just a rain. Oh wait, that's weird. The lightning keeps. Like there's no thunder with this lightning, but it's like I'm sure everything's fine. Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1:I just probably turn on the TV and be like oh there's nothing on, I'd actually just be pissed, be like of course it's a day off and I can't watch TV every time. So at first, right whenever we see him in the backyard, ray's at first kind of having fun and just being like hey, rachel, this is cool. She's immediately like what the hell is this? I want to go inside. And he's like, no, it's fine. And then it starts getting closer and kind of scarier and he's like, okay, let's go inside. And then he's getting scared and then rachel's getting more scared.
Speaker 2:Let's get hit by debris too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, finally it's like I guess we should go and instead of like trying to hide his fear, he's like just kind of freaking out with rachel and it's like dude, you're the, you have to chill.
Speaker 2:Let me leave you here alone. I don't think you feel better.
Speaker 1:Yes, wild. So the lightning disables all electronic devices in the area, including cars, forcing Robbie to return. Ray leaves to investigate, telling Manny, the local mechanic, to replace a solenoid on a dead car and that fixes it. Yeah, I don't understand how cars work, so I can't even complain about the scene.
Speaker 2:Except I remembered it being a solar-powered car for some reason. Oh really. And then I saw this scene. I was like where's the solar-powered?
Speaker 1:car. It was never there. You just heard solenoid solar.
Speaker 2:I don't know if this works.
Speaker 1:And I like how the mechanics. I mean, why didn't you just try it, mechanic? I know he said I see, I told you and it's like hey, I mean, don't blame this guy.
Speaker 2:It's your shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, You're supposed to know this Like you just do it, just be like no, I don't believe you, I'm doing it, wait till Tom gets here. Yeah, and I'm like it's the whole reason, right? There's no other reason for him to be such a car guy, except just for it'd be inconvenient if you have a motor in your kitchen, even though he's got a garage. And to say the solenoid joke, right I?
Speaker 2:mean that's the whole reason. He has a car guy, he's a car guy and they know it.
Speaker 1:So Ray reaches the place where the lightning struck and finds a hole has appeared in the ground. They touch the hole and it's freezing instead of hot hole they hear rumbling under the ground and everything starts to crumble and we start to hear a loud mechanical noise and then a massive machine with three long legs appears and it's amazing squirrels. It's the original like war of the Worlds score kind of sound and I just love that. All the ground is cracking and the building's, glass windows exploding. Everybody's like what is happening?
Speaker 2:What's going on? What is this? Let's keep running around this area.
Speaker 1:And then it's like it stops and everybody's like okay, and everybody's like well, I guess we should go look at it some more right? Let's go look at it more. Right, let's go look at it. We don't know what this is, we have to figure out. And then all of a sudden the church kind of cracks off the front. Hell yeah, and it's like. This is when we start getting all the like 9-11 type imagery of people running around and then the buildings are falling all over the place. The tripods start just like opening fire and their little heat rays because they have heat rays and I guess it just turns everybody immediately to dust. So then you see everybody covered in dust, running away from all the smoke and everything.
Speaker 2:It's insane oh, so when he got back and he was covered in dust, that's what it was people dust yeah, it was people dust. I thought it was just like because the buildings were falling down. No, it was.
Speaker 1:Combusted people Pretty cool? Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 2:Also love that. It's good for your skin too.
Speaker 1:Though something I don't understand the heat rays don't destroy the clothing. No, flesh rays, flesh rays it's like it goes through shirts, but this scene absolutely rules. I love it. It's it's one of my favorite parts, if not my favorite part. There's two scenes in here that like kind of go up to. It's mainly the mob attacking the car, because that's the scariest part of the whole movie yeah. Ray manages to escape. He packs up the kids. They are confused and don't know what happened, and Ray is just completely covered in ash and he's completely.
Speaker 1:He's super jumpy. The kids are asking Ray what's happening, but he won't tell them. Um, I guess because I get. So I mean, would you have said anything or would you be like we have to get out of here and then I'll explain everything? Yeah, I think I'd be more like that. Yeah, just because if you tell them, they'll be like we're not gonna fuck.
Speaker 2:There's big shit killing people, there's giant things things came out of the ground.
Speaker 1:We have to go. They'd be like I don't believe you, dad, you're on drugs, you're dumb. It's like we're not believing you. We're staying here. They just roll their eyes, yeah. So they leave and head to Manny's repair shop. This seems great too. It's so stressful and great Because Manny comes out. He's like hey Ray, what?
Speaker 2:are you doing, hey Ray? What are you doing here? You were right about the car.
Speaker 1:I'm walking, this is my shop, get out of here, you old, so-and-so, but Manny's like, get out of here. You'll let you'll so-and-so, um, but man, he's like get out. And then you have uh dakota fanning in the back just like trying to figure out wait, why? What's happening?
Speaker 1:this is stressful, terrifying and then it's just like a you know first starts off as kind of like oh, from the kids perspective, like I don't know what dad's doing. This guy seems, he seems to know my dad, he seemed pretty chill and funny and it's like, oh, should we get out of this car? And then immediately, like Manny's, like all right, what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1:get out of this car right now and then Rachel in the back seat's like this is not a good situation. I'm so scared and it just plays on her face so well, yeah, scary grown-up situation yeah, so good, it's so terrifying and I don't know you feel bad for her immediately she looks so fragile yeah, she. It's just I don't know. It's cool to see her work everything out. I just feel like she does a lot of heavy lifting for Robbie because Robbie can't emote worth shit in this movie.
Speaker 1:I really don't. I don't know why. I don't like his character it just doesn't work. It's like the worst, I think it's. He'd probably been fine if he just didn't run off from the military. His storyline just doesn't work. I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think they're trying to explore, like what people do when they panic and then fight or flight or freeze moment yeah, yeah, rachel freezes definitely fight um. He's Tom flees, tom flees.
Speaker 1:Rachel frees, rachel frees, she just freezes, yeah, yeah. So they flee just in time as we see Ray's house getting destroyed, because as they turn down the road I'm like, oh, that's his house. A giant semi-truck just flies into it because the bridge is getting destroyed completely. Oh yeah, it's so sick, it's awesome. I was curious what do you think of the cinematography in this movie, because I don't know if you noticed there's some shots where the ground is kind of wet and it's so bright and it's overly desaturated.
Speaker 2:Saturated. I don't know what you're talking about, but I liked it.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like, sometimes it's like glowing like the screen, oh okay, like the light glows in this movie, kind of. It's the type of lens they use.
Speaker 2:Is that supposed to help the effect of it being fog and light and fog?
Speaker 1:I don't know why they do it, but it just looks really cool. It does look fucking cool. This is the period because Minority Report War of the Worlds Munich. He all has this color saturation for it. Yeah, very dark. It's a very milky gray type thing. I think it looks really cool. It is cool Because I really like it in Minority Report too.
Speaker 2:Definitely makes everything feel more futuristic sometimes. It kind of does make it pretty futuristic.
Speaker 1:It kind of just aids, I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, that's how we get the aliens.
Speaker 1:That's how we got them.
Speaker 2:We gotta fuck them to death. Bunch of I don't know, mr Garrison.
Speaker 1:So they make it on the interstate and we get a great like winter shot where the cameras is on a crane and just kind of spinning around the car while they're driving and like all the windows are cgi and they're oh, that's cool. He finally starts telling robbie everything he says. He believes the machines were already made and underground before they were even there and then somehow the maybe the lightning is how they got into the machines. And this is also where we see Robbie being a good big brother of calming her down by like being like this is your space and I'm like they've been to therapy together.
Speaker 1:Obviously, obviously they've been therapy to talk about how bad their dad has stressed. But so we see them. He drives to Mary Ann's house to take refuge for the night and I love right before this because Rachel has to call him. He's like how are you doing back there, rachel? She's like I want to go to mom's. It's like, yeah, ok, I want to go to mom's. Take me to mom's.
Speaker 2:It's like if you're screaming back there, I can't concentrate up here. I'm going to pull the scar over her.
Speaker 1:Please stop yelling. It's like it's such a kid thing to do I must scream now. It's like dude that is not helping anybody's situation here. So they go into Marianne's house so they see that they're not home, but they have power there. He tries to get them to eat but they won't, and it's almost like kind of out of spite it seems like they also didn't look for any other food.
Speaker 2:He really did, but it's great because he's like here's some peanut butter.
Speaker 1:She's like, uh, I'm allergic to peanut butter since when birth, so great. It's like well, here have some bread. My daughter right, and then, like robbie, says he doesn't want any because he's a brat and obviously they're probably all hungry. He gets mad, he has a little breakdown and throws it out the window. It's awesome.
Speaker 2:Well, they did say that they wanted McDonald's, that's true, I eat McDonald's.
Speaker 1:I just want to eat something. I'm so low energy and tired. I just want to eat some meat. I had my wisdom teeth out like four days ago, so I'm just I'm dying over here, guys. So he takes them to the basement and they sleep for the night.
Speaker 1:Then we get they're awakened by loud and violent explosion. At first it's just kind of it's the lightning happening, because you kind of hear the noise from the lightning and then all of a sudden it's like. First time I watched it I was like that kind of sounds like plane noise, like an airplane noise, kind of like when you have in movies, when the door, like they open a door, you kind of hear the plane noise. I was like, oh, that's weird. And then they wake up and it's just a giant plane exploded everywhere. It's like, ah, it's so rad, this set though Amazing, this amazing. Yeah, it looks awesome, looks so good. The whole sideways plane with the people just falling over and so and I love the because a lot of the horror at the beginning of this- is a lot of flashing lights and not seeing what's going on and I was like, why is this so terrifying?
Speaker 1:and I was like, oh, this is kind of what you imagine a tornado coming through like you're like street, because you're just going to be. If you're in a basement, you're just going to have like one window and you're just going to see lightning flashing and just power lines exploding and a bunch of darkness. I was like, oh, it's like I don't know. Steven Spielberg just nailed the disaster Part of the movie.
Speaker 1:He's so good at it. Yeah, Giant Boeing for seven 47 crashed into some houses, you know happens. Like a missing bolt. It's like you just figured somebody would have communicated to this plane. I don't know, man, just try to stay in the sky as long as possible. Go to any country, but a giant one. Okay, go to like the Bahamas, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'm sure nothing happened in the Bahamas right.
Speaker 1:Just chilling on the beach. One little tripod in the Bahamas.
Speaker 2:It's just like with a drink, with an umbrella.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just he hasn't killed anybody or anything. I'm actually just chilling, Just trying to blend in. He reads like he just read a sign oh, Bloody Mary. Well, that's how I survive. I love. Blood Gets hella drunk. Stumbles out of the ocean Sapping little crabs. So he meets a news team and they're surveying the wreckage. The sole female member shows him footage of tribots evading the earth, because at first he's like, yeah, there's just the one right. And they're like, yo boy, there's a bunch. And then she also slows down some footage of some lightning striking and it shows that you see the little creatures coming through the lightning and goes down to the machines yeah, like hell divers yeah, kind of unnecessary part of the movie.
Speaker 1:But you know, I think Spielberg's smart in realizing like people are going to be so pissed if we didn't see this you gotta explain, like how did the?
Speaker 2:if they they're claiming that they're already there, then how did they get into them?
Speaker 1:you gotta, I mean you have to well, it's like I would assume. That is like I just feel like it's like, really, you met this news crew and they just so happen to have footage and also their car is working for some reason, even though no cars work electronics are supposed to work.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of nitpicks in this movie, which is why it's not a perfect movie. But there's like so many nitpicks in this movie, but maybe if they also the writer wrote this in one draft and I'm like man three more drafts, you would have nailed it.
Speaker 2:You would have really nailed it, man. So much is happening, and so they have to figure out how to like get these ideas across, but it's impossible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when nothing's supposed to work ever.
Speaker 2:I accidentally like hit the controller. It skipped like five minutes ahead.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, oh man, if you skip five minutes from this scene, it's completely different.
Speaker 2:I missed so much shit, I was like, I'll just play it from here.
Speaker 1:No, I have to go Because the movie doesn't really slow down until the second half, like the last 50 minutes, when it's like all in that house and it's like, oh, this is just where we are for 30 minutes of the movie. For some reason, though Ray flees to join Marianne in Boston, they stop randomly because Rachel has to pee and of course they're still not taking any of this seriously Because Ray's like guys don't Like we got to stay close to the car. Someone might steal his car, what? There's nobody around. I was like I don't care.
Speaker 2:She's running off to a tree, and then she just runs like a mile down the road to go pee.
Speaker 1:It's like dude, there's like trees you pass that. You could have went down, but it's all just so. We could, you know, see the dead bodies floating down the river.
Speaker 2:Which another nitpick is why are these bodies in the river? I?
Speaker 1:don't know. Yeah, they're supposed to be evaporated. They either get evaporated or they get picked up by the monsters that we see. Maybe they fell off the bridge, but I know why it's actually there, because it's rad as.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's a cool scene, it's awesome and it's just like it's creepy. I know what's something cool in a movie. What if the a small girl sees one body and then slowly, millions of bodies come down this way? It's rad, it's awesome. And then you get to see him be a good father by just picking her up and covering her eyes and taking her away and just be like I told you to stay, stay nearby. I don't know why you had to go all the way into the woods to do this. But we also get the line that Ray wants to take back roads because he doesn't want people to know he has a car, so he's trying to stay away from people. They're all like what?
Speaker 1:that's stupid we'll figure out soon and then this is where the movie just like starts. Kinda you know, it's like what are we doing here? We see these military guys like driving by and he's like hey let me on, I gotta get up there. It's like dude, they're like no, stop being an idiot, you don't know how this works you? You look like you're 15 or 16, probably like you're actually. You're definitely in high school. We're not taking it.
Speaker 2:It's been like 12 hours.
Speaker 1:We haven't started to enlist the populace yeah, it's like we're still figuring this out ourselves. Okay, we don't want you yet. It's like, also, you don't look like you fired again. It's so wild. But let's start. This is like a big fight with ray and robbie. And then rachel comes up. Who's gonna take care of me when you're gone? And it's. It's bad, but I don't know. Whatever right you can get by, it's only like two seconds. So they drive on and Ray tries to make his son happy, be like, hey, you want to drive and he's being a douche about it a little bit, but then he eventually does drive. Later that night they're in this town. We see a sign that says it's going to the Hudson Ferry or whatever, and you see all these people just kind of walking. At first Nobody's realizing they're in the car. This may be the best scene of the movie. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:So scary. And then Robbie's like Dad, I don't know what to do here they should have. Just as soon as he saw people walking is like hit, reverse it. As soon as he saw people walking, he was like hit, reverse it was dark, go backwards, don't continue driving into this giant city full of people Just hitting people.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know, but I guess you have to take the ferry to get there. Probably add like four hours to your drive if they didn't. So they get there and people just start. At first people were just like, just like, oh, there's a car, what?
Speaker 2:we don't want to be on the car. There's a drivable car. It's a cloud car.
Speaker 1:They start getting pissed at this car. They're like, let us in. Got one guy like hits a hole into the windshield. He's like you could fit 20 people in there. And then another guy like, and then other guys start bashing in the windows on the sides. And then other guys start bashing in the winds, the uh windows on the sides. And then a guy jumps on the hood, gets onto the, puts his hand in the hole of the windshield, starts ripping the glass.
Speaker 2:You just see blood coming out of his hand so sick.
Speaker 1:It's just like. Once I saw that I was like oh, I'm so fucking stressed out right now, these guys are not so little and then eventually they're able.
Speaker 1:Like he crashes into a pole because of course there has to be a lady standing in the middle of the damn road with a baby, and then, like people just start pulling him out, trying to get him. Rachel's left in the back seat, they're starting to fight, robbie's getting the shit beat out of them, tom Cruise gets hit in the back of the head and he says and then people are just piling in on Rachel and it's like, oh my God, this cannot be more stressful in a moment. As a father, this is insane. So he pulls out his gun, she's in the air. But it's like, hey, what are you doing?
Speaker 2:Hey, no need for that. Why would hey calm down? Why are this?
Speaker 1:but literally like the the lines from these people are like, hey, calm down, why, no need for that, and I'm like what are you talking about? You should just start firing at this point, um, but then they quickly. He gets robbie. He's got a bloody nose because I guess the guy's just beating the crap out of him.
Speaker 1:He tried to fight that guy who's yeah and he just kind of got beat up by a mob for a second. It's like, hey, chill, like he was on the ground, yeah, his shit kicked, yeah, um. And then we just hear rachel scream because the guy behind tom cruise has a gun and he's like yo, I just want my car, I just want my daughter, I just want my daughter. Luckily, he's nice enough to grab his daughter, which is nice. See, everybody needs it all works out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just take the car and then but tom Cruise had to drop his gun and they decide to walk into like some sort of diner and we see one guy pick up a gun and it's like fuck. And then I love this. God, this is my favorite scene. Just forget it. It's my favorite scene because when they're in the diner we see through it's just visually, so I don't know gripping, because they go in, they're sitting at it and you just kind of you see their faces kind of freaking out, but then you just see the guy with a gun walk in like point blank, shoot the guy like three times and everybody piles into the car and on top of it and they just start driving. It's like what is the goal here?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's to rip the car apart until it doesn't work anymore I don't know, but it's so intense and they're all so scared.
Speaker 1:It's also kind of a bonding moment a little bit.
Speaker 2:It's so scary, yeah, and this is where we had to stop. This is my daughter got really scared.
Speaker 1:Well, that makes a lot of sense, because this is terrifying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when we turned on the Nintendo Direct, it was better. I like the little program they have where they show all the new games, any tripods so then they decide that they're going to walk to the Hudson Ferry.
Speaker 1:I wish we got to see the van like there it gets on the ferry and be like hey guys, that was my car that you ripped out of me. Y'all could have just kept walking. Y'all would have made it.
Speaker 2:It's a transformer crazy how that worked.
Speaker 1:I feel molested and then they stop because the train tracks are are making them stop, because you know the blockers come down and then we just see a flaming train like hell yeah, dude it's so long too, everybody's like, well, this is, this is a good sign. I guess I don't know where that came from, but I hope we're not going that direction.
Speaker 1:And just when they get to the ferry, a tripod shows up and it's this beautiful, amazing, excellent, dope, rat-as-shit shot of the tripod standing on the hill, because at first it's Rachel that notices it, because she notices some birds and she's like, oh, that's strange, they're flying away. And then she's like the trees are funny and it's like that's awesome.
Speaker 2:I love the noises that they make yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the inception. I feel like this started the inception noise, where now, after this movie, everybody had in their movies. I'd love a documentary on just that sound, just like the evolution of the evolution of.
Speaker 1:I don't know the shot of the tripod on the hill, it just because it's dark, but it's lit up from itself. And then you have the boats at the bottom of the hill and everybody's like, ah, oh, fuck Go, I don't know, awesome. This is where some of the best shots of the whole movie are. Actually is right here. So the ferry is casting off without Ray and he has to find a way to get on because the ferry people are, like we, out of here they're freaking out too.
Speaker 1:the ferry people are like we out of here, we want to get on this slow boat, while this giant tripod comes after us. Um, while in the water, though, a tripod emerges from the water and immediately destroys the boat, after they make it 10 feet away from the dock, essentially, there's no escaping yeah and it looks so rad because there's a bunch of them, because we see it in the water and it's just snatching people out of the water yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1:So great, yeah, it's, and but they're able to make it through the shore. You also, while they're in the water, you see people in their cars just like slowly filling up with water and stuff. Yeah, that was sad. I'm like, oh, that sucks that you can't roll your windows down because there's no electronics, so you can't like fix any of this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Plus, do you think the aliens are up there Like snatching people out of the water, just like a claw machine game? Yeah, the claw it's the aliens from Toy Story. Yeah, toy Story.
Speaker 1:The claw.
Speaker 2:We got to do Toy Story soon. That would be a cool twist, yeah.
Speaker 1:They look just just these giant gnome-looking creatures come out, just waddle around, just drinking blood. Yeah, it's like they weirdly drink it like cats do, so it's real gross.
Speaker 2:That's funny Again.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so they get to the shore and then you get a great shot of a bunch of tripods attacking. There's like five on one side. They turn to the other side and they're down a heel.
Speaker 1:There's three just I don't know getting people up with their race you just, you just hear people screaming and it's terrifying and it's really cool looking at. The the same time, the family oh, here we go, god, all right. And this is where the movie gets bad. So the family then encounters the military preparing an attack on the tripods. Ponce. Seeing this, robbie is determined to join the fight. He's like running and he falls to the ground Like Ray's like what the hell are you doing, dude? But Ray sees the determination on his face and he's like I like to think that race is like fuck it, I don't care.
Speaker 2:He's like I can't stop you know what this kid is annoying.
Speaker 1:You know what go out, hopefully you die your sister's like yeah, take care of the sister but it's weird because, like you just see, because cause Robbie turns around and he's like trying to like army crawl to the military, while while Ray's on top of him trying to stop and determining on what, what let him go, and it's like. So it's this weird visual of literally like Robbie, like no I gotta go and it's like what is this?
Speaker 1:And then he lets him go and it's like the slow crawl. And then all the army starts going and then Robbie goes with them and then, during all this, rachel's being that was terrifying for me.
Speaker 1:These parents were like no, you can't stay here. Which I get those parents I mean good on them to be like there's this little girl that is all alone and if they listened to her it'd be nice. We'd be like, hey, you see that man who's being weird with my brother right now. That's my father. Would you like to take me to him to make sure, instead of just trying to drag me out of here? But I get what they're doing. They're like you can't be here doing this.
Speaker 2:This place is about to blow yeah, but it was just terrifying to think you just can't leave it, can't leave it alone for one second, because they're just going to get snatched up.
Speaker 1:And then one kid's just like I want to go run into a fireball, apparently. But yeah, so Robbie runs off. And then they start running away and then just exactly where Robbie runs is a giant explosion and it's like, oh so Robbie's straight up dead now. He's a skeleton on the hill, it's you know, watching it the first time, it's like, oh, this is comical, this idiot. It's like, yeah, yeah, of course that happened. It makes no sense why he would want to go and run and be a part of this at all, especially since he has no sort of training.
Speaker 2:There was a lot of civilians running up there, that is true, but it is true, but it's just I don't know, this doesn't work. I just I don't know, it just didn't work right, uh, it made me angry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, like, what are you doing? Stop, yeah, so stove hot, yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean and like the entire military resistance, essentially just gets destroyed in one second and we think that he's killed, wasted.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the trucks or Humvees are coming back and flames.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this is where we get the reveal that the tripods are protected by some sort of energy shield around them that makes them invulnerable to all forms of attack. While escaping, Ray and Rachel are offered shelter and protection by a stranger named Harlan, who vows to revenge on the aliens after his family was killed upon their arrival. He's got like a weird. I don't know what his accent is supposed to be. He's doing a weird voice.
Speaker 2:Like upstate New York.
Speaker 1:I'm not understanding what this is. Tim Roth he's great. He's a really good actor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's a guy that's lost everything. It has nothing to live for, yeah, except for revenge.
Speaker 1:It kind of comes off comical to me, though I feel like it just doesn't. It's just creepy In this part, I don't know. There's something it's like almost like, could you just do normal voice and just act a little kind of like a little good. He's immediately kind of crazy to the point where it's like I don't know, Tom maybe run to a different house, I don't know, this doesn't seem to work with. Immediately I'm like this isn't going to work with this guy.
Speaker 2:No way, he's too.
Speaker 1:When he falls asleep. You two got to sneak out of this house and go to, I don't know, the neighbor's house, but anything but what's happening right here, you know, and he drinks peach snobs, yeah.
Speaker 1:So what is? Yeah, they had this house, had a case. You know what are you gonna do? Gotta drink something, yeah, and the fact that he is drinking an alcoholic beverage, that he doesn't like bad sign, um, but also it makes no sense, like why are you running into this house around all this destruction? We know houses don't work in this universe right now, and it's like you kind of want to be on the go. You just want to run wherever you see the things.
Speaker 1:But he realizes that and when you see him walking in one area you run the opposite direction, but obviously they would probably have been attacked and killed immediately.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they would have been snatched up, but it doesn't make sense why they're not just see.
Speaker 1:This is where this is, like the movies. It's like we needed to rewrite. We needed to work this out a little bit better still love the movie, but they're just looking at the script.
Speaker 2:This is amazing. Yeah, holy crap.
Speaker 1:I really think that probably they all read the first like hour of the script and was like hell, yeah, this goes, I'm in, yeah, then they're like. They're like we'll figure out the second half.
Speaker 2:We have to keep going, yeah.
Speaker 1:So while hiding in Harlan's basement, they witnessed the tripod spreading a strange red weed substance over the ground and a void detection by aliens who arrived to explore the basement. It's that kush. Yeah, it is pretty wild, just like everything's slowly starting to turn red, but they just see like some of the weed, I guess kind of they look like veins. They're veins, yeah, they're like I guess veins would be a better thing instead of red weeds. But you see it kind of coming through the window a little bit.
Speaker 2:It looks like something on a silent hill.
Speaker 1:But yeah. So at first we see the kind of tentacle eye coming through, looking around and Harlan's like let me at him Because he grabs an axe and is like I'm going to kill it and Tom's like dude, stop Okay.
Speaker 2:Then he grabs another axe and plays a sweet riff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which attracts more aliens. But so they think that they're safe and then immediately the actual aliens come down and they're kind of walking around. They do look relatively similar to the Independence Day, yeah, with all those sloppy tentacles, yeah. And they're smoother. You know they kind of look. So apparently the design was supposed to be based off like jellyfish and tree frogs kind of together. I can see the frog yeah.
Speaker 1:I guess the jellyfish is like if you saw them floating the tentacles would be kind of the jellyfish section and you know they have giant heads, jellyfish. But I love them, they're super cute. They don't seem like they hurt a single fly.
Speaker 2:No, they're just like tickling each other. Hey, look at this picture of this old lady. Isn't this cool yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, here's a bicycle. You want to ride it later? Whoa, what's this? Is this a can? Ooh, baseball cards. Yeah, this is cool dude. Oh, I hope they have some magazines, something to read. Don't know why, I wasn't sure if I wanted to go into that voice, so I started off slowly and then.
Speaker 1:I just like went all the way. So the following morning, because they fall asleep, harlins suffers a mental breakdown after witnessing a tripod harvesting blood and tissue from a human to fertilize the weed. Concerned that Harlan's yelling and ranting will attract the tripods, ray kills Harlan to silence him.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was so.
Speaker 1:that was crazy yeah that was a great scene. That little part really rules, puts the blindfold on.
Speaker 2:Rachel.
Speaker 1:Well, like the whole thing leading up from Harlan talking to his daughter being like like, if your dad dies, you know I'll like take care of you. You know, and it's like is this like supposed to be creepy? Like we don't want this little kid near this adult male.
Speaker 2:This is crazy man and they're like what can we have Tim Robbins do? What's he good at?
Speaker 1:digging holes. But I love the whole shots where you see when they're looking out the. What can we have Tim Robbins do? What's he good at Digging holes? I love the whole shots where you see when they're looking out the windows and it's just all red now. And then you got the guy that they drop him out of the machine and just like throw him on the ground and just suck all the juice out.
Speaker 2:What they're doing is spraying blood everywhere. It's wild, it's awesome. I thought that they like blended them up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 2:It's almost like Fertilize, like how they spread it out everywhere, like whenever you see planes, like around crops and they Crop dusting.
Speaker 1:Crop dusting. Yeah, it's just blood. My dog Snake knows all about that, don't you, buddy, rob Dusty? It's like all he does. But yeah, the scene where, like because Harlan's just like I'm digging holes, man, we're coming up from underneath them. What are you talking about, dude? You dig, they're way in the air. You can't dig tunnels.
Speaker 2:That's why you guys go down.
Speaker 1:So what are you going to? Dig a tunnel and then tickle the bottom of their robotic feet? Robotic balls maybe. I want to see a version of this film where the aliens don't die. They completely successfully harvest everybody. And then I'm like do they just walk on the planet and just suck on the ground? What will these aliens, what's their end game? Yeah, what's the end game? Just have a new planet. Well, they got to keep going.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're from Mars and Mars straight up sucks and there's nothing there. So I guess they just destroy Mars and they go to Earth and they're going to show Earth and then what they're going to, maybe we'll start raising people and like cattle. I just don't understand what our goals here are for these aliens.
Speaker 1:I guess it's survival right the horticulture this is just 4H for them and Harlan's freaking out and you usually get a great shot of Ray like shoveling when the door's behind out and you get a great shot of Ray like shoveling when the doors behind him and Tom Cruise comes in and he goes out, tells Rachel like hey, don't listen.
Speaker 1:Alright, things about to get crazy, I'm about to murder this man and then you just watch Tom Cruise go in and he closes the door and it's great. And then he slowly comes out and it's like how'd he kill him? I think he strangled him to death or hit him within the gun, but maybe I don't know, because there was or the axe he probably used the shovel he didn't have anything the show he probably took, stole the shovel from him and just we'll never know whacked him in the head.
Speaker 2:We'll never see the epic battle tom cruise and tim robbins yeah I would love to film a scene like that, though it's.
Speaker 1:It's like all right, Tom Tim, run in there, the T-Boys Run in there and just start grunting and making noises.
Speaker 2:It's like a fight.
Speaker 1:So Ray and Rachel's hideout is exposed when a probe catches them Because they immediately after they do all that. The probes is like maybe we should just go back into this house randomly. For some reason they turn around, they're like oh, um, and ray cripples a probe by using an axe, but rachel is caught by a tripod. Great shot when she is caught because it's she looks up and like all the red veins underneath where the hell was she?
Speaker 2:he ran out looking for us and she's just there.
Speaker 1:It's like hey, she's like, he's like yelling for you, could you say something?
Speaker 2:and he almost gets to her in that big shot where he's just running across the field. He just barely gets close yeah snatch her up but man.
Speaker 1:The reveal whenever he leaves the house is amazing where he goes over the hill and everything's just like like destroyed, and it's like what's there to survive? At this point?
Speaker 1:you know it's great, though, and while Throws the grenade at the dude, yeah, and while pursuing the tripod, ray finds several hand grenades, luckily, and detonates one of them to attract the tripod's attention. It's he like, just. It's he like just wants to get captured to rescue Rachel. It's this great shot of the alien, though when he throws the grenade it explodes, tripod's like the fuck and it just like bends down you really want a piece of me, dude you're mine.
Speaker 1:I don't know. It's a very kind of comical shot, but also kind of an epic shot, at the same time scary. His plan works and he is put into the basket. I don't, I don't really understand this whole scene this there's a lot to nitpick about this scene.
Speaker 2:It's kind of cool, though I thought the rachel's character was really good in this spot because she's completely in shock.
Speaker 1:She's like yeah, it's almost like she hit the cold calm she kind of has like this coma type or not coma, like you know, like concussion type? Look where, it's just like your eyes are open but you're not there and then slowly she kind of like snaps out of it and sees, oh, there's my dad the guy I hate the most immediately starts screaming yeah it's like have you seen, robbie? I could really use them. I want to go to mom's, but then so a giant butthole opens up, the little tentacle comes out and pulls a guy inside.
Speaker 1:Then, while they're embracing, the aliens try to pull Ray inside the tripod to be used as fertilizer, but the other prisoners managed to save him For some reason. They're like oh, the other guys screw that guy.
Speaker 2:But that's Tom Cruise. We have to save this man.
Speaker 1:Save him, don't worry, tom but he also was lucky enough to grab all the grenades and then then he eats them. He takes out all the pins with his teeth. Well, I guess with his teeth it's a great reveal whenever he spits it out into his mouth or out of his mouth, I'm like hell, yeah, that was dope. But then it explodes and causes the tripod to collapse and freeing all the captives. They fell from like 100 feet in the air and they're all dead. But I guess not.
Speaker 2:Did you notice the bad CG of him coming out of the sphincter? The fight between the sphincter. We've been here before this battle, this epic battle of man versus sphincter, which we've been here before.
Speaker 1:This battle, this epic battle of man versus sphincter, I mean, I think, the last one we watched was well.
Speaker 2:Tremors had some sphincter-looking things.
Speaker 1:Starship Troopers had some sphincters.
Speaker 2:We did Alien? Alien had some.
Speaker 1:I guess it was more. It wasn't as many sphincters as there was phallic looking things in that one. But Ray and Rachel arrive in Boston. They were just able to freely walk all the way there, no issues. I guess, all the tripods are like ah, we're good, we're not going, we don't need anybody back here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they all started coming down with a cold yeah this is where they noticed the red weeds are starting to dry up and die and they're all gray now and the tripods appear to be dying. I love like one of them is just like spewing blood.
Speaker 2:They spew blood.
Speaker 1:It's like they're throwing up so gross, like they're all throwing up blood, Blood. They witness a tripod acting strangely. Ray notices that a cluster of birds are circling and landing on the machine indicating its force fields are no longer functioning.
Speaker 2:And that birds are assholes. Yeah, so they all just got bird flu you know.
Speaker 1:That's what happened. Ray alerts the nearby soldiers who attack and destroy the tripod. Approaching the downed machine, a hatch opens, releasing a copious amount of red weed fertilizer and revealing an alien as it dies.
Speaker 2:It's like the head that was so great. This one redweed fertilizer and revealing an alien as it dies. It's like the head that was so great. This one coming out when it ejected all its fluid. It's so you expect to be like an alien that comes out like a big shit. I like that.
Speaker 1:He just like comes out, I was kind of. I was kind of hoping it'd be like, or if it just like threw up, like it's like comically just throws up a whole bunch, Kind of like I don't know Just anytime, Like let you know it was great doing business with you guys, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just letting you know it was great doing business with you Fucking guys. Yeah, it was awesome. They're so kind of cute. It was a bummer. So Ray and Rachel reach God. I hate this fucking part. Ray and Rachel reach Marianne's parents, the two older people in this scene. They're from the 1953 film.
Speaker 2:Oh cool.
Speaker 1:She comes out clutching pearls immediately. So they go to the parents' house and find her and, to Ray's surprise, robbie somehow made it back. Yep, how.
Speaker 2:Nobody, what, nobody, what no. Info about that story.
Speaker 1:I feel like the ending would have hit a little bit harder, especially if they're just like did Robbie make it Like? No, it'd be really kind of really gripping. And then he'd also I don't know, it'd just be like something I don't know. Like I don't like this whole sappy. I get that Spielberg is this type of director where everything has to be so like happy. It's very. He's a very sappy guy. I don't know, is that?
Speaker 2:right, no, robbie should come in like flying a fighter jet. Yeah, lands it on the street next to the house.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I did dad, I fought them and I won.
Speaker 1:I, I fought them and I won. I'm the general. They taught me how to fly a plane in five seconds.
Speaker 2:I'm the president, though he's like.
Speaker 1:Dad, you won't believe it. Their weakness Throwing baseballs really fast. Thanks for having a catch with me, Father.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I like you more than Mom now. But as the camera zooms out, film ends with freeman's voicing from the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate our drink. They were doomed, they were undone, destroyed. Is this anything? Is this?
Speaker 1:anything like after all, a man's weapons and devices had failed by the tiniest creatures that god and his wisdom put on earth by the, the toll of billions of death. Man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among the planet's infinite organisms, and that right is ours, against all challenges, for neither do men live nor die in vain. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:You sound more like the original audio from the radio show back in the 30s.
Speaker 1:Well, it's like Morgan Freeman does have this kind of old timey voice. I feel like, yeah, I don't know, it's like you could just hear him on the radio. I would listen to that man talk about anything. So is this like a movie you recommend? Got any final thoughts about it? It was so fun Rip Warren, rad ride, rad ride, ride, ride. Rip roaring, rad ride. I don't know, dude, I just really wanted to use some wars yeah, it was a really fun movie to watch again.
Speaker 2:I was glad I got a chance to disaster movies.
Speaker 1:they kind of all rule and this isn't too overdone with CGI, which now is most disaster movies have become unwatchable because it's like okay, cool, like I could just play a video game. Man, this is watch a cartoon or something. But yeah, alien movie, alien invasion movies, love them. They're sick, like I almost like all of them, even if they're bad, as long as they're not boring, they're all pretty fun. Yeah, and I think that's what maybe the second half of the movie kind of struggles with is that you had all this great action. It's very like thrilling, and I get that.
Speaker 1:You kind of want to slow your pacing down of your movie, because some people can get kind of tired of it, you know. But maybe just slow it down for five minutes with like a conversation instead of like just being stuck in this basement. There is a lot to like in that scene. So it's like oh, it sucks that I'm complaining about it so much, but I know the first hour and six minutes of this movie is, like some of this, my favorite stuff to visually see on a screen yeah, it was cool as fuck and you're.
Speaker 2:you're right about the second half and I feel like maybe they could have shown more about how I don't know more alien shit Like them getting sick and dying maybe more.
Speaker 1:Losing the fight against the people. It hits us like oh, they're dying now. What? Like we couldn't.
Speaker 2:I know it's like overnight. They're just already dead.
Speaker 1:It's like I would have liked to lived, lived with like the Red Vein stuff a little bit longer. Like I would have liked to have seen the walk across all that.
Speaker 2:Seen, one of the cool things might have popped out of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I would have liked to have what would a terraformed Earth look like? And if you're going to eventually have Tom Cruise turn into the action hero, because they just couldn't help it, they had to make them destroy one of them. It's like it'd been better if they just didn't do that and did it like where he just killed one of the aliens, like as he's, like seeing the alien I don't know suck on the red veins or something like, like a twizzler like I wish they would have showed us inside of the it's like.
Speaker 1:It's like, once you start showing us everything, then you got to show us everything. I want to know what what it looks like inside that thing. Give me an alien point of view at that point. Well, no because I like that it's kind of boots on the ground type of point of view. I don't know, I guess there just wasn't. I guess this is kind of a hard movie to end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what I thought. It kind of felt like that to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like well, how do we end this? Modern audiences at the time didn't like the bacteria ending. I don't know when I see it. I'm just like that's so smart, of course. It's a very smart ending.
Speaker 2:I guess it's once you've read it and seen it already a couple of times. It's like you didn't have any new. Could elaborate it a little bit?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, that's our review on. That's us going through the plot there War of the Worlds Cool totally nailed it.
Speaker 1:So we're going to head to our next category. Our first category the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. This is where we talk about what we liked about the movie. The good, what we didn't like, the bad, what we didn't like. The bad what we didn't think aged well, the ugly what we think aged well, fine. Um, I think our good and bad if we've kind of just been talking about it the whole time, where it's like the first half is perfect, the second half just could use the rewrite, um, and so for the good, just visually it's great. Steven spielberg, the guy can just put together a movie, you know, he could definitely capture the fear and the confusion.
Speaker 1:He's so good, he's so good panic something. There's things called like the Spielberg shot, and that's where Jurassic Park, you know, whenever he first sees the doctor first sees dinosaurs and then he stands up and he slowly looks and that's like the Spielberg shot.
Speaker 1:He always has it in like every single movie. And there's this he can get it out of any actor. You know, and I don't know, it's just the guy knows how to do spectacle. It's great, great. The bad it's obviously. Second half Just isn't as good. Tom Cruise just can't be a normal guy, just doesn't work. You know, it's like I'm just not going to be able to relate to him like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it just kind of moved really fast there at the end. Yeah, I don't know, moved too fast at the end for me. Yeah, robbie Sucks butt. Yeah, they all skipped the whole Robbie thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, could just not do it. Just don't have that character in it at that point. If you don't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 2:He zapped back into mommy's house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and just a lot of nitpicks. This is very. This is a movie you can kind of nitpick apart just because, which I'm fine, I'm fine, I can ignore all that, like you know, just like random things. Why are the clothes not getting destroyed? I don't know how come they didn't die after falling all the way 100 feet in a giant cage.
Speaker 2:What did being inside of a giant anus feel like?
Speaker 1:Yeah, why didn't he talk?
Speaker 2:about it, the burning questions.
Speaker 1:That's what the Oprah thing should have been about the ugly, something that didn't age well. I think the Tom Cruise and everything that happened around this time with him and Katie Holmes and Scientology, scientology didn't age well. Yes definitely, and Tom Cruise continuing to be a part of it is not aging well.
Speaker 2:No, it sucks.
Speaker 1:It seems like he's trying to maybe get out of it. I don't know. He seemed like he was Thought. I heard Thought. I read something that he was kind of like distancing himself from it.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's cool. They'll never let him go. Yeah, they'll kill him. Oh right, yeah.
Speaker 1:They'd ruin his. They'd find a way to ruin his life, I'm sure. Oh yeah, and another ugly was Justin Chatwin being in the movie oh Robbie, he's just not great. He's not. He just wasn't a great actor in it. I'm sorry, if you listen, Justin, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Come on the show We'll talk about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm sure you're a nice guy. You just, uh, you're in that Dragon Ball Z movie and that just sucked Um, so something that aged well. Um, steven Spielberg he still can direct movies and it's Spielberg and Tom Cruise working together, specifically Minority Report, War of the Worlds. God, I wish we could have got another one. Wish we got one more Tom Cruise movie with Spielberg. There's still time right, yeah, I mean, why not In the older age? Just give us one more action movie between the two. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Minority Report 2. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Minority Report 2. Minority Memo. Minority Reported.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, that's a totally different movie.
Speaker 1:That's a whole different movie, wow, all right. Well, since I did that, we're going to move to our next category, the double feature.
Speaker 2:That's why we recommend a movie to go along with this movie.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, I feel like everything that I would recommend for this movie I've already said at least once. So I just put like four movies down, district 9. Yeah, that one's fucking cool. Arrival you seen? Arrival, I have not. Oh, you should. That's Denis Villeneuve, the guy that did the Dune movies. Oh, cool Battle for LA, did you ever?
Speaker 2:watch that one. I have seen that one.
Speaker 1:That was pretty cool that has Two-Face in it. From.
Speaker 2:The Dark Knight Tommy Lee.
Speaker 1:Jones, the Dark Knight, that one, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a fun movie. Again, I'm a sucker, I know this is it's kind of a dumb movie, but I like it for that. And then Mars Attacks yeah, mars.
Speaker 2:Attacks.
Speaker 1:Independence Day. That's a good one, obviously, but yeah, so Mine is Mars. Attacks. There's a quadruple, quadruple. I do love Mars Attack. We should do that later this year.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so that's our conclusion on the discussion of War of the Worlds. And for next week we're keeping with the aliens baby Because in celebration of the new Quiet Place movie, we're going to do the first Quiet Place film. Hell, yeah, a movie that kind of took the world by storm, not only because it was a good movie and a cool idea, but also because it had a hot director, john Krasinski, and nobody expected him to make such a good god dang movie. Yeah, I don't think he did either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then he made a good sequel. I really like that sequel. Yeah, the. And then he made a good sequel. I really like that sequel the first, like 10 minutes of that sequel is like a perfect movie. And then he decided to do a movie called If and nobody likes it and I don't get why he went from. Hot Place 2 to I don't know if I saw it, you're going to end up watching it. It's a kid's movie. Imaginary Friends is what it stands for.
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