War of the Worlds (2005)

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Wikidata Q202028, film, IMDb tt0407304, TMDB 74: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Steven Spielberg as director (The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame); 3 more episodes agree.

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Who talked about it

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Shazam!: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. craft (craft): War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview). Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire.
    “the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70 sure it was them)

Connected to

Tom Cruise: 4 lines career ×1 craft ×1 unmapped ×1 people ×1

  1. people (people): War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise. Chris picks Cruise in War of the Worlds as a cool underrated Spielberg performance.
    “I'm very partial to Tom Cruise in more of the world's, that's like a cool underrated one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Close Encounters of the Third Kind → War of the Worlds. Sean loves War of the Worlds but nothing in it beats Close Encounters, which did the work first.
    “But the truth is, is there's nothing in War of the Worlds that is better than close encounters.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:19:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Minority Report: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (ranking): Minority Report → War of the Worlds. Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough.
    “I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Shazam!: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Shazam! → War of the Worlds. Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire.
    “the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70 sure it was them)

Steven Spielberg: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (auteur credit): War of the Worlds → Steven Spielberg. War of the Worlds is out because it is truly a Spielberg movie even though Cruise is terrific.
    “that truly is a Spielberg movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Twister: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → War of the Worlds. A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later.
    “It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Vanilla Sky: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Vanilla Sky → War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds is where Cruise's maniacal self-selling publicity arc implodes.
    “and then War of the Worlds is where it all really implodes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:56:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Tom Cruise → War of the Worlds. A candidate for Cruise's anti-apex alongside the couch-jumping period, though the speaker likes the movie itself.
    “Cruz, I think it's Oprah's sofa and War of the Worlds, even though I like War of the Worlds.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:08:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Vanilla Sky → War of the Worlds. War of the Worlds is where Cruise's maniacal self-selling publicity arc implodes.
    “and then War of the Worlds is where it all really implodes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:56:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise. A Reddit thread defends Cruise's awkward ball toss as a character choice, a father easy on his son.
    “there was Reddit thread defending Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds that's saying that. That's what the character, that's how the character would have thrown the ball.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Shazam! → War of the Worlds. Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire.
    “the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (auteur credit): War of the Worlds → Steven Spielberg. War of the Worlds is out because it is truly a Spielberg movie even though Cruise is terrific.
    “that truly is a Spielberg movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): War of the Worlds → Tom Cruise. Chris picks Cruise in War of the Worlds as a cool underrated Spielberg performance.
    “I'm very partial to Tom Cruise in more of the world's, that's like a cool underrated one.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:40:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (IP attempt): Tom Cruise → War of the Worlds. Cruise's other IP efforts, War of the Worlds and The Mummy, are fine but will not make his Hall of Fame plaque; MI will.
    “Those movies are fine. They're never going to go on his Hall of Fame plaque. The Mission Impossible movies do.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:17:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (ranking): Minority Report → War of the Worlds. Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough.
    “I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Close Encounters of the Third Kind → War of the Worlds. Sean loves War of the Worlds but nothing in it beats Close Encounters, which did the work first.
    “But the truth is, is there's nothing in War of the Worlds that is better than close encounters.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:19:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Twister → War of the Worlds. A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later.
    “It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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