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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D.Shaffer" data-source="post: 2380707" data-attributes="member: 8918">0: He's a police officer. Why wouldnt they believe him? More over, maybe he was trying to calm people down?1: Which camera? The one the news crew had? They would only have been effected if the EMP blast happened in the area they were in.2: That was a bit overly coincidentally lucky. But we dont know where the plane actually crashed. It wouldnt be the first time in a film a crash happened and stopped just before reaching the heroes.3: Newark to Boston, via car, is about 250 miles according to Mapquest.  My car could make it on a single tank of gas and a few miles to spare. (25 miles per gallon, 12 gallon tank) The parents house is likely somewhere in between so it's very feasible they could get there without having to refuel.  Or you could just assume, like I did, that they just refueled off camera.4: They were out of the initial EMP effect.  Why wouldnt it? 5: Mobs do strange things. When people are in a mob, they ARENT thinking rationally.6: Yeah, that was stupid.7: Not that it stopped people from getting on anyways.  If it is a flaw, I dont see it as a major one.8: Contrary to what people like to think, humans are social animals. We feel better in a group, even if it's not always safest.  Furthermore, we have a bunch of people trying to flee certain areas.  There's still going to be bottlenecks where you more or less have to congregate, such as bridges or ferry crossings. If they were trying to escape NYC and were piled around one of the bridges, would you complain about the crowd there?9: He killed a man who was borderline insane because he thought the man was turning into a danger to his daughter. He did not know that the very next scene would get them caught.  10: There was him and his daughter left at that point, and no means of keeping time apparent in the area. How are they going to keep a watch, especially when one of them is a traumatized 10 year old?11: Why would the force field necessarily protect the probe? If the forcefield is just a 'bubble' around the main ship, it wouldnt protect it.12: Because they did in the first movie? That scene, along with him chopping off the probe, were obvious tributes from the first movie.  If you want a more 'in universe' reason, possibly they were curious? Or that races version of scientists?  More to the point, why wouldnt they get out? They didnt spot anything dangerous in the place and were probably behind what they thought of as their 'rear lines'.13: Except that they did make it there. We see them in the street, remember? They were just lucky enough the aliens succumbed to the virus by the time they reached.14: Because if they didnt it WOULDNT BE War of the Worlds, and people would likely be complaining that they butchered the original ending.  15: Yeah, I wish we had a bit more explanation on that. I'm guessing it looked worse then it was and he survived along with a few others from the hill that made it to Boston. People have survived contact with the aliens (and not just Cruise)16: That'd depend on what you saw as an inconsistancy, wouldnt it? I DO think the ending could have been played out a lot longer, much like in the first film.</blockquote>

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