dark knight 303 said:

no because the crazy man with the shotgun had reason those thing were planted. they up from under ground the olny thing that came from the sky was the aliens to control the ships and they maybe need the blood to find out how humans can survived so long with so many germs and could they find a cure for them selves

polter said:

ok what was the plant at the end...

i like your theory about wanting it populated for our blood...

but why did they need our blood?
why did the liquid come out of the tripod they blew up ...as if the creature was submerged....

but those things in the basement were not covered in anything?

I'm confused - it ended so abruptly and I don't get it - the birds? what was the birds? what was that spore?

polter said:

ok that makes sense

now the pod - the plant pod at the end - what WAS it that brought them down or made them sick and why would that affect the shields?

polter said:

yeah I did not get that, I would figure the shields would be mechanical with an on/off switch

moviefreak2002 said:

polter said:

yeah I did not get that, I would figure the shields would be mechanical with an on/off switch

Well the tripods were partially organic with that tongue thing picking people out of the cages at random. So perhaps bacteria was killing the organic parts of the ship and making the rest of the ship malfunction.

Emperor Omega said:

moviefreak2002 said:

polter said:

yeah I did not get that, I would figure the shields would be mechanical with an on/off switch

Well the tripods were partially organic with that tongue thing picking people out of the cages at random. So perhaps bacteria was killing the organic parts of the ship and making the rest of the ship malfunction.

It looked organic, but we don't know it was organic, and its doubtfull it was to be honest.

moviefreak2002 said:


Why is it doubtful that it was organic? It certainly wasn't made of any synthetic material (It looked like it even had veins.) so I find it doubtful that it was inorganic to be brutally honest.

Emperor Omega said:

moviefreak2002 said:


Why is it doubtful that it was organic? It certainly wasn't made of any synthetic material (It looked like it even had veins.) so I find it doubtful that it was inorganic to be brutally honest.

Its doubtfull it was organic becuase of the unsymbotic relationship the aliens have with thier machines, they are very clearly seperate from them.

If they are not symbotic with them, then how do they control the organic aspects of the machine? not to mention how do the organic components survive thousands (or even a million or so) years underground and not decay? all other life from thier planet dies in our atmosphere, so its fairly certain that the organic components would die before even the red weed.

Perhaps its a plot hole, in which case they should never have had the sucking thing in the movie (i don't think they should have anyway, that scene only detracted from the movie, it was also the only scene that Cruise was heroic, and slightly out of character).

Emperor Omega said:

polter said:

ok what was the plant at the end...

i like your theory about wanting it populated for our blood...

but why did they need our blood?
why did the liquid come out of the tripod they blew up ...as if the creature was submerged....

but those things in the basement were not covered in anything?

I'm confused - it ended so abruptly and I don't get it - the birds? what was the birds? what was that spore?

I would think that they need our blood because, we are the most advanced life form on the planet, and as such, the best creature in thier view, for thier plants to adapt to first.

Also, i would think that they live in a protected enviroment, that fluid is very likely similar in the job it does to the fluid that a feotus lives in during the months of pregnancy, in that you can live in it, and it is an enclosed enviroment, safe from outside pests and bacteria (obviously not though)

The aliens that roamed about for a few minutes, were probably recalled because thier "Safe time" was up, and any further time in the atmosphere may have been dangerous to them.

The birds, Cruise was pointing out to the soldier that the birds were on the machine, this meant that the anti matter shield (atleast thats how it comes across, no matter can penetrate it) was offline, and was a signal that they could attack the machine.

polter said:

ok that makes sense

now the pod - the plant pod at the end - what WAS it that brought them down or made them sick and why would that affect the shields?

Sneakas said:

Ok here's my theory to the whole movie.

It's never been said how far from earth the aliens live, so im going to assume they live 8 galixies away. They need to move to another plannet (overpopulation) and the closest one with a stable atmosphere is earth (Mars is no good, because it smells of cabbage). So they launch the tripods all the way here and they crash on the surface. Immidiatly (after the tripods touchdown), they send the pilots down in lightning bolts, and this takes millions of years (they live 8 f*ing galixies away and space travel is teedious)

loser123 said:

Emperor Omega said:

polter said:

ok what was the plant at the end...

i like your theory about wanting it populated for our blood...

but why did they need our blood?
why did the liquid come out of the tripod they blew up ...as if the creature was submerged....

but those things in the basement were not covered in anything?

I'm confused - it ended so abruptly and I don't get it - the birds? what was the birds? what was that spore?

I would think that they need our blood because, we are the most advanced life form on the planet, and as such, the best creature in thier view, for thier plants to adapt to first.

Also, i would think that they live in a protected enviroment, that fluid is very likely similar in the job it does to the fluid that a feotus lives in during the months of pregnancy, in that you can live in it, and it is an enclosed enviroment, safe from outside pests and bacteria (obviously not though)

The aliens that roamed about for a few minutes, were probably recalled because thier "Safe time" was up, and any further time in the atmosphere may have been dangerous to them.

The birds, Cruise was pointing out to the soldier that the birds were on the machine, this meant that the anti matter shield (atleast thats how it comes across, no matter can penetrate it) was offline, and was a signal that they could attack the machine.

antimatter? LOL

if it was antimatter, annhilation owuld have occured between it and matter (on earth), instantly blowing up half the world.

Rostron2 said:

I think people need to stop trying to wrap physical laws around a science fiction story.

Nobody seems to dispute super powers with the X-Men or similar, why is this any different?

Oh, and...Read the book. Th movie is more or less true to the themes.



Rostron

Rostron2 said:

I think people need to stop trying to wrap physical laws around a science fiction story.

Nobody seems to dispute super powers with the X-Men or similar, why is this any different?

Oh, and...Read the book. Th movie is more or less true to the themes.



Rostron

Emperor Omega said:

Rostron2 said:

I think people need to stop trying to wrap physical laws around a science fiction story.

Nobody seems to dispute super powers with the X-Men or similar, why is this any different?

Oh, and...Read the book. Th movie is more or less true to the themes.



Rostron

Perhaps its because this movie apparently aims for realism, and physics (etc) is as real as it gets, so if a movie proffesses realism in what it shows, and is based on a book that was written by a scientist trying to be as realistic as he could be, then naturally people WILL compare, anaylize and theorize.