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Amazon’s movie disaster used real-life natural disasters.
I watched the new War of the Worlds movie because my colleague Marina dared me to. (You can read about that “experience.”) But commenter justintyler pointed me to a video that reveals the film took actual disaster footage and CGI’ed over them with unconvincing aliens — actual wildfires, actual plane crashes, actual tsunamis. Is it insensitive? Lazy? Both??? Anyway, watch the TikTok video:
The new War of the Worlds used actual disaster footage and just awkwardly added aliens to it.
[@disastroushistory on TikTok]
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