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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Zefram: [QB] [QUOTE]-The tripods have force-fields that stop any projectiles/missiles before they can get close.[/QUOTE]I know that an advanced species capable of interstellar travel probably could develop such a device, but it sure seems like a cop-out. I'd rather that they use hyper-advanced armor or something. [QUOTE]-The tripods use a fog-horn...just for kicks mainly.[/QUOTE]The famous WWII German dive bomber, the Stuka, had a siren mounted on its side in order to produce a screaming sound when it went into a dive. Apparently it was intended to have some sort of psychological effect on the people below. Perhaps the aliens had the same idea (as if giant tripod machines with disintegration beams wasn't enough). [QUOTE]-The aliens drain people of their blood- aparantly to spray it all over the redweed as fertilizer or something- they are never shown ingesting it and the tripods spray it all over.[/QUOTE]That seems like an odd change to make. I'm sure that the idea that the martians ingested blood was somewhat shocking in the late 1800s, so it's odd that in an era in which people are a bit harder to shock, Spielberg decided not to show alien consumption of human blood. Perhaps that would have pushed his movie out of the more box-office friendly PG-13 category. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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