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Originally Posted by Kostya
Firstly, thanks to Uncle Steve, we knew that Spoiler: Robby would miraculously survive his sojourn over the ridge of death, despite some kind of napalm strike seconds after he departed. Because as if Speilberg would have a sad ending, not to mention the oh so subtle symbolism of the statue at the end there...
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Napalm strike? Not a chance, kinda dumb move by the military to do that, especially after ordering their men to move the line further down the hill and wound up killing them all. Besides, Hollywood dictate that cool things must be seen including the aircraft that dropped the Napalm bomb which wasn't seen.
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Originally Posted by Kostya
Secondly as everyone's already pointed out the plot had some absolutely ridiculous aspects. The only excuses I can come up with are really stupid ones like Spoiler: the aliens planted the machines there, kind of like combine harvesters, and were waiting for complex life to develop so they could 'farm' us. But frankly, I think a set up like the Matrix would probably be a lot more efficient, and safe. and so on...
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Again, as Hollywood would dictate, that wouldn't be as fun as the way it's been done in the movie. Besides, that's the way it was written in the novel, you could argue with HG Wells on that point.
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Originally Posted by Kostya
Lastly, the aliens I found fairly unimpressive, their weapons were... in inefficient to say the least. The only scenes that made me squirm were the Spoiler: people killing other people in desperation, which is an aspect of the 'end of the world' scenario that I think is the scariest of all. The British version of Threads for instance, scared the crap out of me as a youngster. The dude climbing through the windshield with his bare hands, ugh...
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Um...their weapons were in-efficient? Please enlighten us as to what would have been more efficient? I'm sure that weapons that vaporize victims would far be more efficient than guns, otherwise with guns, you need to get rid of the bodies
Especially millions of them. Again, that's how it was done in the original novel.
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Originally Posted by Nimbletoe
Spoiler: Oh, and another thing. How in the world did Boston go untouched? Call me crazy, but I would think these things would go toward big cities first... even Independence Day got this right. What kind of idiot would head toward a major city with lots of people? Gah.
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Again, in the original Novel, London was dead but most of the city was still standing including the bridge, although, they were mostly covered in red weed or whatever it was called. Even some people were still heading toward to large cities like London.