Final Picture Show Podcast Ep: 64 War of the Worlds (2005)

Heartbreaker, you've got the best of me, But I just keep coming back incessantly, Oh, why did you have to run your game on me? I guess you are just War of the Worlds from 2005. Tonight we go back 20 years, holy carp I'm old, to the world of 2005 where we find a land recovering from the shock that was 9/11. Huh...a world in shock reeling from an event that took place 4 years prior... maybe this movie does have a lot in common with the 2025 version? Tonight we tackle the important topics like: looking at the filmography of two heavy hitters in the film world, the consequences of couch jumping, if Dakota Fanning is unfairly derided, why this endings sucks a big one, how we would rewrite this movie and make it more pro military. It is a fun time.