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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Strithe" data-source="post: 2379120" data-attributes="member: 18813">Saw it Saturday.  Gave it a 5.Great special effects, and overall good acting, but the plot was just plain goofy in parts.  (Spoilers below).1. The buried war machines just came off as a lame way to add a "twist" to the movie.  Something like a "freak" meteor shower coupled with the EMP storms would have been more believable & acutally closer to the book.  I find it hard to believe the idea that thousands of massive war macheines would have been left undiscoverd on a planet with as much technoic activity and mining as ours.2. The van still working after the EMP storm.  I thought anything that wasn't specially shielded that was computer-controlled would be fried from an EMP burst.  Farrier's old Mustang actually Should have still worked, since the older cars don't have very sophisticated electronics.  Of course, I'm not an expert on it so maybe I'm wrong.  Speaking of the van, I'll agree that the empty lane was awfully convenient, although the rest of the scene worked well enought that I didnt' pay that much attention to it.3. While I can accept the fact that untrained mobs of hysterical civilians will tend to bunch up in packs even though it just makes it easier to be turned into Flambe, what was the deal with the soldiers?  ATTENION MR. SPIELBURG (AND MR. LUCAS): Military tactics actually change when the weapons technology advances beyond swords and muzzle-loading muskets!  Apparently the National Guard in WOTW hasn't changed their training since 1776 in spite of the existenace of machineguns, highly accurate artillery, and guided missiles.  "Sir, the aliens are using highly evolved techonologies far in advance of our own."   "All right, here's what well do: Bunch up into a tightly packed line formation (you know, to better couteract a bayonet charge), and advance slowly towards the enemy while firing.  Forget trying to use the terrain to our advantage, real heroes don't use cover!"4. I thought the last part of the basement scene was WAY to drawn out.  If you were really afraid that the loony's shouting was going to result in your only surviving child being used as Miracle-Gro, I doubt you'd spend 10 minutes making a blindfold, having her sing, and quietly creeping up to Mr. Wierdo.5. A lot of things left unexplained in the film that you wouldn't have gotten unless you'd read the book.  Just looking at the film, you have no real idea what the red weed was, or that the Aliens drank human blood (I guess the kids in the theatre would have been upset by that, as opposed to the numerous immolations, or the blood-sucking & spewing scene earlier).  On the other hand, one of the lamest things was explained in detail:  How the pilots got into the buried Tripods.  "See, they ride the lightning!" (Cue Metallica song).6. If you want me to believe the son survives with only minor bumps & bruises, then don't show "Global thermoniculear annhiliation".  That scene worked pretty well up until that point (In spite of the Civil War military tactics).  Plus: how did the now pilotless Humvees manage an about-face & go uphill with their drivers vaporized?  The son surviving could have been worked in much better (say he disappears over the hill, there's some sounds of fighting, and then the Tripod still comes over the hill after some less-apocolyptic explosions.  In Boston, they run into the kid as a military convoy rolls by).7. While I can understand why the main characters flee to Boston, why is everyone else going there?  "Look the city's in flames and occupied by more of those killer alien machines!  Let's go there and mill about!"8. What exactly was the point of the last fight scene?  Maybe I need to see it again but it looked like Farrier & the soldiers pointlessly confronted a dying Tripod.  (It was something a D&D party might do: Hey, let's kill this one & get the Experience points before the module's over!).  I guess it was one of these "Spielburg moments."</blockquote>

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