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In Reply to: Re: Ah well, too bad. There were lots of things I liked about it. posted by patrickU on July 1, 2005 at 11:10:51:
At first, in the book as well as the movie, I was bothered by the idea that such a scientifically advanced race would not have taken earth bound disease into account. But even that problem has a work around.Someone else mentioned that they didn't like the power going out in the city and not in the country. That presumes the viewer knows the pattern of landings and the accompanying EMP ... which they don't.
No glaring scientific flaws that you could not work around.
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'Someone else mentioned that they didn't like the power going out in the city and not in the country. That presumes the viewer knows the pattern of landings and the accompanying EMP ... which they don't."
no, it assumes that power grids fail on a larger scale when mass interuptions hit all the major cities. Amazing that the aliens let our military facilities go. Maybe they thought people in SUVs with ipods were a greater threat? If you want to rationalize things you could say that it was an unintentional byproduct of their landing. But I cannot think of any scientifically legitimate explination that would suggest burrowing into the ground in small vessels riding on lighting would be the best means of transportation. Again, I think it was a case of story being convoluted to suit cool effects. Dog wags tail."No glaring scientific flaws that you could not work around."
I quite disagree. How smart are the aliens that they walk around naked in wreckage drinking gutter water? was I the only one who that that was a painfully heavy handed setup? Sorry but even dumb ole us would wear space suits in an alien envirement. you'd think they would have known about the problem back when they were planting the tripods all those eons ago. but at least they didn't catch a computer virus.
In the movie? I have no remembering of it.
I guess the movie presumes you kind of know the story, perhaps that is a bad assumption, the movie certainly could have been done better if I had directed it! ;-)--------------
In The War Of The Worlds (1898), Wells conceived just such a species. Forced to flee their own dying world, his Martians attempt to make a home on earth by force of arms, landing in an ill-prepared Victorian England, where they begin a devastating reign of terror. Sweeping aside all resistance in their tripod legged war machines, the Martians lay waste to the snug Victorian way of life. It is in fact the way that Wells creates a feeling of the calm before the storm, describing an idyllic England in the opening chapter, that makes the subsequent carnage so arresting.
So I did not misse it! I mean if you think that the teenage public read the book....
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