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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seonaid" data-source="post: 2378307" data-attributes="member: 11195">I gave it a 4. I thought it was a bad movie and gave me flashbacks to that other Spielberg disaster, AI. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to answer some of DonTadow's complaints. The ones I don't quote I agree with, at least partially. Click the spoiler block if you care.[sblock]The mob was crazy. Crazy people do ridiculous things. Mobility seems like a good thing in the face of a threat.Yes, as an impartial observer, this does seem ridiculous, but I'm sure that it's nice to have the comfort factor. Plus, the aliens went out of their way to hunt down individuals (as demonstrated by the ridiculous scene in the farmhouse).This has been addressed, and I agree with the comments already made.I agree with the first part, but not the second. If you're running for your life, it's kind of hard to 1) think ahead and 2) stay awake.It never was stated (or shown) exactly how the force field works. But that brings up a similar point--what happened that the birds could land on the tripod at the end? The aliens start dying and their machines start randomly malfunctioning? I wish we had had a bit on the structure of the tripods, maybe it was some sort of biotech.Why wouldn't they? I wouldn't want to hang out in a spaceship if I could get out and breathe fresh air. Humans do this all the time in sci-fi.I assumed that the placement of the pods was luck/random. They couldn't know ahead of time where our major cities are, except for proximity to resources such as water. And if it truly was "a million years ago" it's also possible that they didn't even know that life on the planet would need water. And we happened to only see the ones that were near people. It's not very exciting to have a pod erupt in the middle of nowhere. Poor aliens who landed in Siberia. And as was said earlier, they had no reason to suspect they needed suits of some sort. They'd been studying the planet for hundreds of thousands of years (if not actually a million). Gives enough time to make them complacent.That part irritated me as well. As in AI, Spielberg sure knows how to ruin a "good" ending.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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