Question Re: War of the Worlds ** SPOILER**

[Midlodemocrat]

Can someone explain to me why the aliens drink the blood and then spray the landscape with it? I understand the drinking part, but the spraying part has me completely confused.

It could be the flu medication I am taking as well. I'm sick, drinking tea and watching DVDs, and perhaps a tad befuddled.

Thanks in advance.

[Broken_Hero]

1. I'm watching it right now actually...

I watched it last night for the first time, and my view on the spraying blood thing is this: The red blood spray, is the waste from the aliens, after they digested the human blood...the red spray that they are dumping is their "waste." Thats my take on it...

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Oh, I like that explanation.

I just finished watching it, bought the DVD yesterday at Costco, and I really, really like the movie a lot. I thought Tom Cruise was excellent and I am not a fan of his in the least.

The spraying thing had me confused because it wasn't clear, to me at least, whether or not the aliens intended to inhabit Earth after the extermination.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. It represents man's inhumanity to man, and the suffering of women,

through the out of control menstrual flow of the aliens, which represent women's role in society as the "outsiders".

Spielberg and Cruise are both totally into French art movie style symbolism.

The exploding cabbage, representing The Abyss, is the true climax of the movie.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I thought so. But, I didn't want to appear like a librul elitist.

[CanuckAmok]

5. Okay, how does an EMP bomb wipe out everything electronic, but...

...some guy manages to videotape the aliens before having his shit vapourized?

How is it that the National Guard were able to drive around and communicate after suffering the effects of an EMP blast? Planes and helicopters in the air? C'mon.

How is it possible that a 747 drops directly on Tom Cruise's ex-wife's place and they survive the impact by being in the basement? Unless their root-cellar was made out of Little Black Box, there's no way they'd survive that shitstorm.

Why am I always immediately annoyed by Dakota Fanning?

What the hell happened to the son that he wandered off into an alien/National Guard slaughterama but managed to get, unscathed, to his mom's place in Boston? Why no backstory or explanation?

Why, in a crowd of about a thousand frightened Americans driven from their homes and facing the apocalypse, was there only one handgun between them? I know in my version of this movie, that scene would have rivalled the Matrix for spent casings hitting the ground in slo-mo, and extras buying the farm in spectacular fashion.

Why was the ferry filled with cars (which somehow evaded both the EMP pulse AND the angry mobs along the way) with single-occupancy drivers, when there were literally thousands of walk-on passengers trying to get on or be killed? Did the Captain sell the space to motorists? Because no ship's officer would allow such wasteful use of limited space when peoples' lives were at stake.

Why the hell am I even thinking about this?

[Midlodemocrat]

7. I think the EMP is temporary.

Someone said that in the movie.

I want to know how AFTER the EMP all those cars on the highway managed to get onto the shoulder? What is up with that?

But, I really like the movie.

[Spacemom]

6. My take on things

was that the blood was being used to fertilize that red viney stuff that was growing everything. They were attempting to makeover the planet to suit themselves.

[schrodingers_cat]

8. That's what I got too, spacemom: fertilizer. I have an additional question

What was it at the end that was making them sick and die? Was it something to do with the birds, like something that the aliens couldn't have foreseen, or was it steel - something about the steel statue having dead vines on it, then Tom Cruise figuring this out and telling the military guy to shoot steel at them?

Anyone?

[Midlodemocrat]

9. A virus made them die.

Tom Cruise was yelling at the military guy to look at the birds landing on the machinery because it meant that the forcefield was gone.

[CanuckAmok]

10. it says in the narration:

that the aliens had been felled by micro-organisms that had killed billions of men before we had become immune to them.