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Joe Foley

Amazon's cringey War of the Worlds makes me scared for the future of movies

An image of Ice Cube looking surprised in the Amazon Prime Video War of the Worlds movie.

If we can commend Amazon Prime Video's War of the Worlds remake for anything, it's the accuracy of the tagline. "It’s worse than you think," the trailer proclaimed; and yeah, it really is.

Described by Amazon as "a bold, contemporary reimagining of H.G. Wells’ classic novel," the movie stars Ice Cube, Eva Longoria and some of the most cringeworthy product placement ever seen on screen. It's so bad that it can only be satire... right?

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