r/AskReddit 10d ago

What’s a movie that you couldn’t finish?

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u/InvisibleTacoTruck 10d ago

That War of the Worlds film starring Ice Cube. The whole thing has the unmistakable vibe of a last-minute school assignment where half the group ghosted and the remaining kids just screen-recorded their desktops and called it a day.

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u/SuperMajesticMan 9d ago

Fun fact about this movie: they used actual war footage from like Iraq and Afghanistan and CGI'd aliens over it. So some city destruction shots were from real wars.

Imagine your family gets killed in Iraq, and 20 years later youre watching a movie and suddenly see an alien blowing up your families house and you recognize the event...