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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2375380" data-attributes="member: 22622">I completely disagree. They acted like people trying to move a plot along. Examples=  girl runs up stairs towards the end... why? obviously so we can speed this up and introduce the tripods capturing the humans girl gets "lost" why so that we can have ton cruise get captures and blow one of them up (all the mechanical high tech devices on the pods and they use the equivelent of a reverse anus to convert people to fuel .  And why do one at a time , why not two three or all of them.  )  Boy runs up the hill to ... see whats going on.. (at least thats what i get) for no other reason as to make the next few seens with tim robbins more plausible (we don't want four people running around a crowded basement)  The water emerging tripods come up just when the ferry takes off, despite the fact that the other pods came right after the lightening strikes.  1.  Examples aside, you have to take yourself out of the novel for a minute and take the movie as it is.  In the movie, the the people looked as if they were being exterminated.  The plot of the movie showed that they humans were being exterminated.  The weaponry on the ship was not to consume people but to dicentegrate them into nothing more than dust.  I don't know about you, but I don't mash my foood then burn it to dust before i eat it.  2. Again set aside the novel , we have to take this movie for what it is.  There was no mention or suspician that the aliens had wiped disease out on their own planet.   These aliens seemed to plan for every possible contigency but the most simple one.  In your first paragraph you mention the people acting like "normal people" and that is farther from the truth.  AGain, many of my inconsistencies show this.  MIlitary commanders not laying out the best course of action "getting those cars off for more people".  All of the people watching and starying continuosly as the church falls apart and the tripod comes out the ground.  That felt like I was watching some cheesy horror movie.  Only people in cheesy horror movies do that.  It seems that everyone was always really close to the action, as opposed to getting far away from it.   It just didn't seem like normal peoples actions.</blockquote>

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