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Originally Posted by Mike Knapp
The aliens needed to come out of the death machines to drink. That's what they did in the basement. Watch carefully, they drank our water. Even if they hadn't come out just then, they would need to come out sooner or later, yes? We didn't go to the moon and stay inside the lander...we went outside.
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I believe that is correct. ;)
But these aliens had obviously visited here before (perhaps even before man had developed) and could move about freely, breathe the air and drink the water. And...I'd bet money that if the moon had an atmosphere and temperature that we (as human beings) could tolerate, we would have worn shorts and a T-shirt out of the LEM instead of environmental suits. The aliens knew they could tolerate our atmosphere. They just didn't count on that one variable.... One thing that did trouble me was the film screaming along at breakneck speed and then suddenly BAM, it ends. I found that a bit odd. Mike |
Originally Posted by Josh Z
Again, the movie does not have a consistent internal logic. There are plenty of other electrical devices that were turned off that got fried, such as every single car except the minivan that Cruise needed. Oh wait, he replaced the solenoid. I guess Tom Cruise is the only mechanical genius in the entire Northeast of the US who could possibly come up with the idea of replacing a solenoid? No one else, anywhere else they travelled, managed to do the same thing.
And there were more and more working cars seen as the movie went on, so more people were apparently figuring out how to fix the vehicles (remember all the military Humvees, and all of the cars on the ferry? Those all worked.) Are you telling me that the news crew's equipment worked because they turned it off during the lightning strikes and alien invasion? Yeah right! And it's been a while since I've seen the movie, but aren't the lightning strikes specifically identified as EMPs by someone in the movie? By the news crew, wasn't it? |
I think the DVD Savant's review is the best I've seen on this movie:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s1834war.html He has read the original book, listenened to the 1938 radio broadcast, and seen the 1953 movie, as well as other '50s-era Sci-Fi movies and truly "gets" what Spielberg was doing with this movie. One reason I like the new War of the Worlds and don't like Independence Day is WotW really is like an update of those fun, '50s Sci-Fi films that focused on spectacle with only a handful of characters to carry the story forward. Independence Day, on the other hand, was more like '70s-era disaster movies. Once the early spectacle of destruction ends (the only part I liked), it shifted into a tedious melodrama with a lot of badly-written characters I didn't give a damn about. Then it ended with a conclusion that was as lame as possible (an Apple computer virus?) - having bacteria defeat the aliens is a million times better than that! Sorry, but give me a movie that's a true throwback to '50s-era Sci-Fi spectacle over '70-era disaster movie melodrama anyday! |
I didn't like either movie (ID, WOTW) - NEITHER had a good script, IMHO (and again, I'm talking about script, not the wonderful HG Wells PLOT)
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