07-07-2005, 09:17 PM
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Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Originally Posted by feelgood
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. |
Well my thinking is as follows: Spoiler: As I understand it the aliens were quite literally using humans as 'fertiliser' to grow their disgusting red weeds everywhere. This seems to be fairly implicit in the scene where the suck the blood out of a guy and spray it on the weeds, and Tim Robbins goes nuts. So, one would assume, that having millions of bodies would be a very good thing for the aliens. Moreover, the vapourising rays killed 1 person at a time, some kind of big big vapourising bomb (assuming you wanted to vapourise your fertiliser source for no reason) would be much better. Now, assuming I buried my big machine in the ground and then had millions of years and some goodly number of my alien brethren working on the problem I could probably hook that up. They did imply very clearly that they buried the machines, and that the 'pods' coming down in the lightning were merely pilots who took control of the machines. It's a little difficult to tell exactly how deep these machines were buried, but I also find it rather strange that nobody, anywhere detected or found an uber large pod buried under the ground. Also hilariously they managed to pick the spots where there would be cities. Even more hilariously they picked the spots some time ago, when the geographic and seismologic conditions were entirely different. They are super smart I suppose, but that seems even more of a damning indictment of their poorly thought out plans of world domination, that they could predict with accuracy the distribution of earth's inhabitants, and yet managed to lose the war due to the flu. As for the napalm strike, agreed no planes were seen, but my only concern was that there appeared to be an awful lot of fire in the general vicinity of Robbie's body, or it's implied location, and yet he survived with the customary Spielberg 'small facial cut'. |
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