{"id":115742,"date":"2025-08-03T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115742\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:52:10","slug":"ice-cubes-secret-remake-of-steven-spielbergs-604m-sci-fi-masterpiece-tops-the-streaming-charts-after-just-1-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115742\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube’s Secret Remake of Steven Spielberg’s $604M Sci-Fi Masterpiece Tops the Streaming Charts After Just 1 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

War of the Worlds<\/a>, a story of aliens invading planet Earth, has long had a hold on the Western moviegoing public. Now there’s a new version, and it’s proving controversial to say the least<\/strong>, but it’s still doing very well in terms of audience.<\/p>\n

Ice Cube’s new version of War of the Worlds, which is from the producers of Searching and takes place entirely on one screen<\/strong>, has been met with utter derision from critics. Some say it amounts to little more than an advert for Amazon<\/strong>, the company who made it, and others are saying Ice Cube’s acting skills just aren’t up to scratch.<\/p>\n

The Telegraph<\/a>, for example, gave it one star and a scathing review. \u201cIt is silly, shoddy<\/strong> and features far too much of rapper-turned-leading man Ice Cube staring at a computer screen while looking as if he\u2019s working through a reasonably urgent digestive ailment,\u201d wrote reviewer Ed Power. \u201cLike a heat-ray in reverse, it leeches all the fun out of what should be an epic tale of alien invasion<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon in particular came in for a kicking. Gizmodo<\/a> called the production “downright dystopian” <\/strong>for having a plot that hinged on the importance of Amazon while absolving them of any controversial business practices. Ready Steady Cut<\/a> declared that the movie, “leaps so far across the boundary of good taste <\/strong>that it is now technically impossible for any movie to be more cynically corporatized than this one.” According to FlixPatrol<\/a>, it’s the most popular movie on Amazon Prime right now and by a fairly wide margin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

War of the Worlds Has Many Adaptions<\/p>\n

H.G. Wells published The War of the Worlds in 1897, and it caught the attention of the Victorian public. From there, it continued to embed itself in the public consciousness. A popular urban legend is that the 1938 Orson Welles<\/a> radio version was so realistic it had listeners running away in fear, convinced that an actual alien attack was beginning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legendary film director Steven Spielberg updated the story in 2005<\/a> and made a version of the story that leaned into post-9\/11 imagery and chilled audiences. This is probably the version audiences are most likely to compare Ice Cube’s version to – and despite the fact that people are enthusiastically watching right now, chances are that one won’t be as fondly remembered as the Spielberg version<\/strong>, which boasts a 76% score on RottenTomatoes.<\/p>\n

Source: FlixPatrol<\/a><\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJuly 30, 2025<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

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\t\t\t\t145 Minutes<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRich Lee<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Hyman, Kenny Golde, H.G. Wells<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTimur Bekmambetov<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"War of the Worlds, a story of aliens invading planet Earth, has long had a hold on the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-115742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114965167727310976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}