This week, Cruise is a bad dad in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005)! Is too much structure a bad thing? Does this film contain the worst character in Cruise’s entire filmography? What is the title convention for the Lilo & Stitch sequels?
Content warning: violence, gore, child endangerment
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Unanswered Questions:
- Does Ray arc as a protagonist?
- How is this film in conversation with 9/11 and the War on Terror?
- Does the compressed production schedule hurt the clarity of the film’s plot?
Further reading:
- H.G. Wells
- IF (2024)
- It’s Complicated (2009)
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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