Look, everyone online is talking about the Amazon movie War of the Worlds, and not in a good way.<\/p>\n
It’s got a 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and inspired countless GIFs and memes from its shoddy plotting and acting.<\/p>\n
So, how does a movie like this happen?<\/p>\n
Well, the star, Ice Cube, has a lot to say about how it happened.<\/p>\n
Speaking on a recent podcast<\/a>, Ice Cube broke down exactly why the film looks the way it does.<\/p>\n Let’s dive in.<\/p>\n The “How-To” Guide for a 4% Movie<\/p>\n The above video has Ice Cube explaining to Kai Cenat about what the heck happened with his War of the Worlds movie.<\/p>\n In that clip, we learn:<\/p>\n So, is there anything we can take away from a movie like this?<\/p>\n 3 Lessons From the Flop<\/p>\n Ice Cube isn’t just making excuses; he’s giving us a peek under the hood of a production that was arguably doomed from the conceptual stage.<\/p>\n But we don’t want that to happen to you.<\/p>\n 1. “Concept” Does Not Equal “Execution”<\/p>\n “A high concept<\/a> ‘Screenlife’ movie made from real surveillance footage starring Ice Cube” sounds like a killer logline<\/a>. But a concept is only as good as its execution. If you don’t tell a compelling story, people will not care. Spend way more time making sure you have a good movie than you do pitching a way to make something.<\/p>\n 2. Your Constraints Will Show<\/p>\n You will always have limitations, but you have to find a way to use them to your advantage. A 15-day shoot with a remote director and disconnected actors isn’t a “constraint”\u2014it’s a recipe for disaster. To us, that’s a reason not to shoot. <\/p>\n 3. Know When to Walk Away <\/p>\n Everything we’ve learned about this movie signals to us that it was probably a way for people in 2020 to get work and pay their bills. That’s good. We applaud that, and if you can get paid in a time of need, that’s paramount. But in any other circumstance, we think many filmmakers need to learn to walk away if a project is not good. If you cannot execute the concept and you know it won’t work…walk away. Onto the next one.<\/p>\n There is a lot to learn from a bad movie, in fact, maybe more than you can learn from a good one. As filmmakers, we should be studying whatever is in the cultural lexicon to see what connects and what does not.<\/p>\n Let me know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, everyone online is talking about the Amazon movie War of the Worlds, and not in a good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,46778,46776,19,17,337,46777],"class_list":{"0":"post-66799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-flops","11":"tag-ice-cube","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-war-of-the-worlds"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n