War of the Worlds

Tom Cruise is a horrible father. He nearly decapitates his eldest child with a baseball and goes to bed, then aliens invade the earth. Perfect excuse not to have the kids for the weekend, he sets off to take them back to their mother’s house. Loses car. Loses eldest kid. Watches as other people defeat aliens. Drops other kid off. Ends there, but presumably, Tom then goes off to get drunk. 

Trivia

The film is based on the true story of when aliens invaded during Orson Welles’ famous radio broadcast about aliens invading

Tom Cruise didn’t enjoy this second time of working with Steven Spielberg and famously had the ET directing legend murdered after the film’s release

Tim Robbins starred in the film whilst recording his hit album Confessions On A Dance Floor under his stage name Madonna

The film was released in Europe under the alternative title ‘Batman Begins’ and featured a different cast and story

Bloopers

In the film, aliens invade earth despite  aliens not really existing

Quotes

“The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, but still they come 

Details

Full Name: War Of the Worlds

Duration: 116 minutes

Release: 2005

IMDB Link

Starring

Tom Cruise

Tim Robbins

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