Quote: The alien Tripods have been buried here on Earth for tens or hindreds of thousands of years until they are activated today. WTF? Were the aliens waiting until we could fight back to launch their invasion, instead of easily taking-over 50,000 years ago?
Regarding planning for the future mars mission Nasa wants to send a unmanned supply ship to mars loaded down with all the essentials(food oxygen fuel shelter) 1-2 years before the crew leaves Earth.
Maybe the aliens in this movie could not take all their stuff at once so they send it ahead to each planet.???
Or maybe Spielberg just thinks we're idiots.
The one change Spielberg made from the book to the movie, was one dumb change, by having the aliens already here.
How would earth bacteria kill them, if they had already been on earth for so long?
What, a super hyper delayed reaction?
The book made sense, since they came from space, and didn't know about the bacteria, and after it kicked in, it affected them, in the movie, they have already been here, are here, and now it kicks in when they start doing stuff.
I get the reason why he changed it, but it was a stupid reason.