[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by übermetroid
And why was Boston not harmed?

Uhhh, dude. Were you awake for the end of the movie? Boston was owned. The Leonard Zachem Bridge had been sawed in half.

God damn I hated Rachel. She was so ****ing annoying. GOD DAMNIT KILL RACHEL

Actually, I found Robbie to be more annoying. "YEAH! I'M GONNA GO PUNCH ONE OF THOSE TRIPODS IN THE LEG, AND IT'S GONNA FALL OVER, AND I'LL BE A HERO, AND THEN THEY'LL MAKE ME KING!"

[redmenace]

Good movie, bad audience. First off someone forgot to shut off their cell phone. *******s! Then some reject yells out something in the middle of the movie, during one of the silents scenes.

[achtung]

What did he yell?

[Bobboau]

when I watched it one or two people had there babies with them, so I got crying, but it actualy sort of helped the mood as it was mostly during the humanitariian hell moments

[Knight Templar]

I thought the film sucked. I'm only glad I didn't have to pay to see it.

[redmenace]

Originally posted by Swantz
What did he yell?

LaVar Erington I think. Something stupid like that.

[Taristin]

I know a girl who waits for silent suspenseful parts of movies to scream "FIRE ZE MISSILES!" at the top of her lungs...

[redmenace]

Is she particularly stupid? Does she take special ed classes and ride a special school bus?

[Goober5000]

Originally posted by Raa
I know a girl who waits for silent suspenseful parts of movies to scream "FIRE ZE MISSILES!" at the top of her lungs...

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]A guy I knew went to the Mortal Kombat movie, stood up, threw up his arms and shouted 'Horny Wombat' all over the theatre. (He'd seen it before and knew when the Mortal Kombat cry was).

Got quite a laugh.
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[IPAndrews]

Originally posted by Bobboau
when I watched it one or two people had there babies with them, so I got crying, but it actualy sort of helped the mood

[Bobboau]

well it mostly happened during the sceens with lots of panicted dieing suffering people, so it was actualy a sound you would expect to hear, so they served as sort of a couple of extra suround sound speakers, and it made stuff actualy creepily more real.

[Kosh]

I liked the movie. The machines were very well done.

Spoiler:

I liked how they were pretty much unbeatable until the end. I also thought that they were pretty Shivan-like. Did someone ever write a sequal to the original book?

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by Kosh
Did someone ever write a sequal to the original book?

no but someone probly will now

[mikhael]

For some reason, every time one of the machines let off its trademark bellow, I got chills. Even now, I get shivers remembering the scene at the ferry, when a dozen of them started marching down the hill.

[Bobboau]

anyone else notice how in the movie, no one ever realy speculates were they came from, in the book they were suposed to come from Mars IIRC, its prety much a given that there aliens, but no one ever realy mentions the fact bluntly, like that one sceen
"were under atack"
"from who? is it the terrorists?"
"no it's not the terrorist, these guys come from somewere else"
"'somewere else?', like what Europe"
"NO, I don't think they came from Europe either"

he never goes and says "it's aliens damnit!" though at that point you can think he's in disbeleife. leter on though, you would have thought that the reporter would have had the ment alstability to say it.


and I wonder why the military didn't try mass running under the things sticking bombs to the legs, I would have thought that that would have done something effective. asside from the fact that this would have ruined the story.

[mikhael]

Well, there's heavy circumstantial evidence that they're from Mars, but nothing is ever stated clearly. I don't think it needed to be mentioned or said though. Old Ogilvy is probably the only one who might have questioned. Everyone else was too busy running scared.

As for the army rush? I don't think it would have worked. they would have detonated prematurely. Remember, Dad threw a grenade at the legs of one and it blew up ahead of time. Only one set of explosives got close enough to do damage to a Tripod (well before the last fight) and then only becuase the TRIPOD pulled the explosives through the shield. The only explanation I can think of for that one event happening is that the shields were dropped to pull Dad through.

[Bobboau]

well it seemed like you could get close to the things, when there walking on the ground they need to be able to touch the ground, sence some matter is able to come into contact with some part of the machine it seems that you should be able to walk up to one and stick a backpack full of C4 on it. and if you couldn't then just try an organised stratigy of getting pulled through with a few stingers (or they were useing javalens now that I think about it, weren't they) and giveing them a smack

and the only evedence I remember seeing in the movie that they came from mars was the red haze/stop light thing at the begining

[mikhael]

A strategy that involved running up to the Tripods, or getting picked up by them (only a few were harvesters, mind, most seemed to be ravagers and had neither tentacles or baskets, I think) would be a kamikaze strategy. You'd lose lots of people for every machine you brought down. Not worth the tradeoffs. Besides, we've been brought up to believe that war is fought with stand-off weapons. Not many people consider in-fighting, especially against something ten stories tall and spitting death a valid option.

They used blood to fertilize the alien plants, Bob. Mars is covered in
iron oxide (i.e. rust). Iron oxide is present in large amounts in human blood, as this is how hemoglobin fixes oxygen for delivery to cells.

[Liberator]

it was okay, far more faithful that the old one, but it didn't quite grab me like i thought it would.  guess i'm waiting for the Fantastic Four and it's mangling of the classic.