Mallory Rubin

Like, that's just gold.

It's so good.

You want to be entertained and laugh.

And also, in a story especially that is in part oriented around assessing and interrogating what the human experience is supposed to be, you have to include that.

It's part of why I don't enjoy War of the Worlds.

Not as a story, but that adaptation is so... It's a fun action movie, and maybe that can actually transition us into talking a little bit about the action and the filmmaking for another beat.

But I'm like, I just, I mean...

this is like not to be I'm not hoping they all die but like not really a family I'm like rooting for as I watch that movie it's so grim I mean great Dakota Johnson I'm sorry it is kind of amazing performance but like but like I mean she's she's so good at that age it's wild but like

We talked a lot about the pace already and that this is very much a chase movie.

We talked about some of the camera work, but what else on that front in terms of just the actual craft of filmmaking and what Spielberg can do that is just God-tier?

It's an open fence and, like, some branches hiding him.

Bizarre.

Like, absolutely genuinely bizarre.

Yeah.

I think the most charitable possible explanation is that the CGI fox, the cardinals, the deer, the raccoon.

Shout out that raccoon.

Or like alien hallucinations.

Right.

The aliens choose to present as animals in order to like...

soothe the children they're abducting.