579: Bad Dad, Crane Dad

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Tv & Film, Arts, Leisure

4.7 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Hop on your tripod killing machine and watch out for common cold viruses — if it’s New Jersey, it must be an alien invasion! We cover 2005’s “War of the Worlds,” starring Tom Cruise as a dad who just wants to protect his kids from the end of the world. Well, maybe one of his kids. Screaming! Explosions! Implausible plot points! Not enough Miranda Otto! Maybe too much Tim Robbins! The 9/11 influence is strong in this one....

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0:00.0	The incomparable number 579, September 2021.
0:11.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.9	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.2	It's the Summer of Spielberg.
0:15.6	Whose idea was this?
0:16.7	Oh, it was mine.
0:17.8	Okay, I'll own it.
0:19.3	It's alliterative, right?
0:21.4	Summer, Spielberg?
0:22.5	They start with S.
0:23.6	Anyway, we're up to 2005's War of the Worlds.
0:29.0	Not Orson Wells, not the George Powell one from the 50s.
0:35.4	There's some other...
0:37.1	There's so many adaptations. Not that syndicated TV show from the 80s, not the 50s. There's some other... There's so many adaptations.
0:38.5	Not that syndicated TV show from the 80s, not the other TV show that was just on like five years ago.
0:45.6	The Spielberg movie.
0:46.8	It's a summer of Spielberg, 2005.
0:49.8	And you're saying to yourself, Jason, 2005, that was four years after 9-11.
1:11.2	Did it have an influence on the movie? And I'll say, friend, oh, boy, did it. Anyway, here to talk about the War of the Worlds. I'm joined by three wonderful people. Shelley Brisbane joins us. Hello. Hello. I will not be exterminated. Fair enough. Gene McDonald is here.
1:11.5	Hello.
1:13.0	Hello.
1:17.9	I don't want to be exterminated either or even kicked off the podcast.
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