{"id":42934,"date":"2026-10-15T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42934"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:00:01","slug":"42934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42934","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;War of the Worlds&#8221; (2005) directed by Stephen Spielberg; starring Tom Cruise \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101526review_warworlds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>War of the Worlds <\/i>(2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Josh Friedman, David Koepp; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B0dqc2yCp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE WAR OF THE WORLDS<\/a> by <strong>H.G. Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Miranda Otto, Tim Robbins <\/strong>and <strong>Gene Barry, Ann Robinson<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They&#8217;re already here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ray Ferrier is divorced and has his kids for the weekend.\u00a0 Robbie is sixteen.\u00a0 Rachel is ten.\u00a0 Ray&#8217;s not been a good father.\u00a0 \u00a0 He hardly knows his children.<\/p>\n<p>When an alien invasion starts, Ray hits the road with Robbie and Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>The nightmare has just begun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>War of the Worlds<\/em> was nominated for three <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em> Nominee<\/em> for <em>Best Achievement in Visual Effects<\/em><strong> &#8211; Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Dutra, Daniel Sudick<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Nominee<\/em> for <em>Best Achievement in Sound Editing<\/em><strong> &#8211; Richard King<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Nominee<\/em> for <em>Best Achievement in Sound Mixing<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ron Judkins<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The original <em>War of the Worlds<\/em> film is a five-star classic.\u00a0 It starred Gene Barry and Ann Robbinson, who appear in the final scene of Spielberg&#8217;s remake.\u00a0 The remake was Barry&#8217;s final feature film appearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are so many jaw-dropping and terrifying scenes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like some many apocalyptic movies, the humans can be as dangerous as the terrors (aliens, zombies, etc.) being faced.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg&#8217;s <em>War of the Worlds<\/em> is also a classic.\u00a0 It gets better with each viewing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>War of the Worlds <\/i>(2005)<\/strong> rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z101526review_warworlds2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War of the Worlds (2005) Director: Steven Spielberg Screenplay: \u00a0Josh Friedman, David Koepp; based on THE WAR OF THE WORLDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42934"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43036,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42934\/revisions\/43036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}