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Director Steven Spielberg made a long-awaited return to the sci-fi genre this year with Disclosure Day, an original movie that revolves around Spielberg's long-held obsession with extraterrestrials. The movie didn't exactly break out at the box office, grossing roughly half as much globally as his previous sci-fi movie, Ready Player One. Spielberg entered the new millennium with three sci-fi films, all of which were critically and commercially successful. However, in recent years, the filmmaker has had a difficult time drawing crowds to theaters. While Disclosure Day makes an attempt to redeem itself on Peacock — it's currently the streamer's number-one title — his highest-grossing sci-fi film of the 21st century is on borrowed time on HBO Max.
The movie in question was released in 2005 and was based on a classic novel by H.G. Wells that had been adapted numerous times already. However, Spielberg's version was designed as an allegory for the September 11 attacks, reminding audiences that he remains a highly political filmmaker even when he's making popcorn entertainment. The movie starred Tom Cruise in the lead role, not long after the two worked together on Minority Report. That film, released in 2002 and also featuring Colin Farrell, grossed nearly $360 million worldwide against a reported budget of $102 million. The 2005 film was a significantly bigger hit.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You're a systems thinker who can't help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn't reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That's you.
You'd survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn't have it any other way.
We're talking, of course, about War of the Worlds. Also featuring Dakota Fanning and Tim Robbins, the movie follows a family as they try to survive an alien invasion. Produced on a reported budget of around $130 million, the movie grossed a little more than $600 million worldwide — this remains a higher global gross than those of Cruise's last two Mission: Impossible movies. War of the Worlds now holds a 76% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, although its audience score is languishing at 42%, perhaps because of its political overtones. The site's consensus reads, "Steven Spielberg's adaptation of War of the Worlds delivers on the thrill and paranoia of H.G. Wells' classic novel while impressively updating the action and effects for modern audiences." You can watch the movie on HBO Max until November 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
In a gripping adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, Earth faces an unprecedented threat when extraterrestrial tripods descend to wreak havoc, leading to humanity's desperate fight for survival. The story follows a divorced father striving to protect his children amidst the chaos.
