War of worlds
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They dont say its an EMP, how would they even know? Coulda been some kinda weird alien technology that fried certain kinds of human technology. It didnt fry their equipment so who knows 
Personally, I don't let these little things bother me when the film as a whole was quite fun
Personally, I don't let these little things bother me when the film as a whole was quite fun
Not true, the magnetic component creates a current in any metallic object, for chips it induces a higher current than the chip can take burning it out.Gman said:
I think that if the device is powered down then it has a higher chance of surviving an EMP but being powered down doesnot per se grant immunity.
I found the film really intense and quite upsetting. Normally I'm fine with films and games etc. being from the desensitized youth of today, but all the deaths, most of them unpleasant, really got to me :/
Like the situation at the end with the human fertiliser
Like the situation at the end with the human fertiliser
Well without reading all the above, in which your question has most probably been answered:
1) They all died: Mars is bacteria free, there is no illness, etc so when they come to earth from the moment they enter our atmosphear they are contracting well illness and eventualy because they have never dealt with it before, the bacteria of the common cold kills them
2) Well I have no idea, its possible that that area had not been atacked yet.... Im not actualy sure, maybe someone figured out how to fix a generator like Tom fixed the car.... but still dont nit pick
1) They all died: Mars is bacteria free, there is no illness, etc so when they come to earth from the moment they enter our atmosphear they are contracting well illness and eventualy because they have never dealt with it before, the bacteria of the common cold kills them
2) Well I have no idea, its possible that that area had not been atacked yet.... Im not actualy sure, maybe someone figured out how to fix a generator like Tom fixed the car.... but still dont nit pick
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Just remember though, the film, although set in modern times is 'loosely' based on the novel, which was way ahead of its time.Richdog said:Because a super-advanced alien civilisation would really just walk around in potentally lethal, unknown atmospheres with no protection or breathing apparatus wouldn't they...
The book is still far superior to the film imo. (well you don't have those annoying kids for a start!
)Well they didetn bury them, as in come and do it themselves they launched them from mars and they hit like astroids would.... millions of years before the human civilisation even existedlemonkettaz said:so if they died from the bacteria when they started killing everyone...
how come they didnt die from bacteria when they burried the machines...
surely whenever they did that there would have been bacteria around that they werent immune too
joeyjojo said:I found the film really intense and quite upsetting. Normally I'm fine with films and games etc. being from the desensitized youth of today, but all the deaths, most of them unpleasant, really got to me :/
Like the situation at the end with the human fertiliser
tbh, these days it was more like human hiv spray... among other varients of illness, at least from what I see on the news
I would be more worried about hideing from the blood than the aliens!Oh and lastly, while the film was no justice, and I have to agree Jeff Waynes Musical is pure class! It was fun to see at the cinema, especialy the bit when they were first coming down and you could literaly feel the thunder
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Rosbif said:
why don't you try reading it, the book is one of the best, cult, iconic etc, etc. science-fiction books ever written.The book explains everything clearly and much much better, the alien/house scene was rubbish in the film, the book is actually scarier.
And didn't you hear Morgan Freeman explaining everything at the end?
Love the Orson Welles radio broadcast in the 1930's, had an Audience in the USA of around 30million, and many people tuned in after the initial statement about it being a story, so ended up many many numbers of Americans believing that the invasion was actually happening
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Yes I heard Freemans vague 'explanation' which consisted of zooming into a leaf and I still couldnt work out how they died. For a movie with a budget of 150 million dollars directed by Spielburg the ending was absolutely awful and left me unfulfilled.