07-03-2005, 02:33 AM
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Originally Posted by MageB420666
I have read the book, many years ago, so some of this may not be right.
Be aware that the book was written in 1898, so Hollywood tried to modernize a lot of it.
Spoiler:
The aliens did not have the machines buried underground in the book, the shot them over from mars in canister like objects, the had not been to earth before. The sequence of events in the movie doesn't make any sense: They buried machines over here before we existed so that they could come back over here and fight us for the world?!
Yeah, the son should have died, but they wanted the movie to end on a happy note.
Think about why in the hell he was killing the guy in the first place. TO STOP HIM FROM MAKING SO MUCH NOISE! What would a shotgun blast have done?
Supposedly the blood was a fertilizer for the red stuff, the crazy guy said it. They weren't "eating" them, they were collecting them, carrying them to an appropriate spot, removing them from cage, pinning them to the ground and, well, you saw the rest. They vaporized some people because they didn't need everyone for this purpose. As I recall, they did not do this in the book, they just planted the red stuff and let it grow.
The red plant was brought over from mars, it was H.G. Wells' explination for why mars appeared red(1898, no rover expeditions or satelite photos). They were terraforming the earth to be like a more hospitable mars.
Oh, and as to the little girl screaming to much, the world was being destroyed , people were dying, she has no idea what is going on, what do you expect a little girl to do? Should she have started skipping?
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Spoiler: Yeah, they buried the machines then rode lightning bolts underground into them. No mention of where the aliens came from that I remember.
He could have used the shotgun as a blunt weapon, or carried something else in there, but yes, I didnt think of that. Good point.
That makes more sense, but I could have swore that the crazy guy said at one point that they were drinking us. A mention of our blood being fertilizer would have made more sense, but I don't mind this part so much. It really made it seem like they were screwed.
No, she shouldn't have started skipping. But couldn't they have put her into shock for at least a little bit before she got captured? Please?
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