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Folks, I am officially dead on the inside thanks to this abomination of a movie. This is it, this is the true worst thing to be released this year. Worse than Snow White, worse than Hurry Up Tomorrow, worse than Flight Risk, worse than The Electric State, and so forth!

Before I dive into this atrocious movie, lemme just tell you that I haven't read the H. G. Wells novel, I haven't seen the 1954 movie, and I haven't seen the 2005 Tom Cruise movie since its release, so my War of the Worlds memory is quite sketchy.

This new War of the Worlds film adaptation is by far the WORST!

There is not a single good thing about this movie. The acting performances from the cast are extremely phoned-in, the overall writing and direction are beyond horrendous, the editing is the worst I've seen in a while, the story makes no sense, and the political commentary is very shallow & laughable, the special effects, dear God the special effects are some of the crappiest I've seen, they're literally The Asylum movies level bad here, hell even old PS1 or Nintendo 64 games would have better visuals than this atrocity of a movie!

And please don't get me started on the constant bombardment of Amazon product placements. If this movie were to entice more people to sign up for Prime membership, then I think it did the exact opposite and pushed more people away from Amazon Prime. If the streaming bubble eventually bursts, it'll be because of content slop like this in addition to the increased prices, yet the original content quality is getting worse, thus diminishing returns in the end. No wonder more people are starting to get burned out of streaming services & are unsubscribing from them, lol.

So, in conclusion, the 2025 War of the Worlds movie is just not worth your time whatsoever. It's not funny bad like Troll 2 or The Room, it's not ambitious bad like Megalopolis or Joker 2, it's just bad bad, like Battlefield Earth level bad. What a 90-minute film feels like is a 240-minute film, truly a slog to get through. Do NOT watch this movie! You've been warned!

I was pleasantly surprised with this one, I really was. Originally went into this with fairly low expectations because Fantastic Four has never had a good movie adaptation and the MCU has been in a real bumpy roller coaster over the past few years. Funny it took four attempts to finally get it right with Fantastic Four. The 1994 low budget Roger Corman-produced film never saw the light of day and went unreleased, then the two Tim Story movie efforts can be best described as forgettable flicks, and the 2015 Josh Trank movie was just beyond horrendous & not worth talking about whatsoever. And now comes this MCU Kevin Feige reboot effort. The premise here is pretty easy to understand. We are introduced to the Fantastic Four crew The Thing, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, and the leader of the pack Mr. Fantastic, showing us briefly how they all came to be in the first place and they all work together to save earth from being devoured by Galactus and his herald Silver Surfer (the Shalla-Bal incarnation here rather than the more iconic Norrin Radd incarnation).

Let's talk about the handful of things I didn't care too much for. The story, while simple & easy to follow is a bit too basic and safe for its own good, also Silver Surfer and Galactus both feel a little underdeveloped here and don't feel truly compelling enough, I didn't like how Galactus got beat pretty easily compared to other Marvel forms of media where Galactus truly felt like a presence of threat. And now for all the stuff I definitely liked here. I dig the retro 1960's style production designs and they're further helped by the convincing visual aesthetics and rock solid cinematography, and the costume design is superb. The Michael Giacchino music score is incredible here, the CGI is surprisingly really good if not the best I've seen in a MCU movie in years, it has a great balance of light-hearted humorous tone and more dark serious moments without feeling messy, the direction from Matt Shakman is spot on, and the acting performances from the whole cast is fun & energetic. Ralph Ineson was truly fantastic as Galactus, Julia Garner was pretty awesome as Silver Surfer too, and all of the actors that played the Fantastic Four crew are pretty great, even Pedro Pascal surprised me here. So all in all, The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a great start to Phase 6 of the MCU and I can't wait to see what happens next. Is it just me or is Marvel starting to make a great comeback, first Thunderbolts* and now this! I can only hope it'll be the end of mediocre to bad MCU entries from there on. Highly recommended.

As someone that admires the 1994 Crow movie and heavily despised its follow up The Crow: City of Angels, so much so that I never bothered with either Salvation or Wicked Prayer, I still went ahead and gave the new Crow movie a fair chance despite all the negative reviews. After watching it, I see why a lot of people don't like this movie. So how bad is the new Crow movie really?

Let's put it like this, 20% of the movie is "so bad it's good" while the other 80% of the movie is just "boring" bad. The only time the movie sort-of shines in fun and excitement is the few admittedly decently put together action scenes (especially the opera scene) coupled with some crazy blood & gore (albeit in less than stellar CGI effects). The rest of the movie is nothing more than a lame, boring wannabe artsy fartsy mess with a uninteresting love story, bad character development, sloppy writing and direction, stiff pacing, visual palette looking too clean for this type of movie, so clean that it looks more like a Netflix production than a major or mini-major theatrical production, cringey acting from the cast (with exception of Bill Skarsgard whom is the only one here that was trying his best), etc.

Overall, not the absolute worst movie of the year, but still nonetheless a pretty terrible movie that I wouldn't recommend. Only marginally better than the ill-fated Crow: City of Angels. Brandon Lee must still be rolling his grave with all these subpar Crow entries after the 1994 film!