The Ending is Terrible

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In regard to your comment about the ‘grenade into the spaceship at the last moment’. This originally comes from the 1967 John Christopher’s book, The White Mountains in which the Earth has been subjugated by aliens who’s machines are tripods much like that from HG Well’s original War of the Worlds. During a battle with a tripod near the end of the book, the hero, Will, and his companions, try to bring down a tripod by throwing hand grenades at the legs, which is unsuccessful. Will is then subsequently grabbed by the tripods’ tentacles and is lifted towards an open hatch in the bottom of the tripod hemisphere. Realising he still has a grenade in his hand with the pin pulled, he throws it into the open hatch before it swallows him, where it explodes, and the tentacle releases its grip and he falls back down to the ground.

Anyone who has read The White Mountains will realise the writers of the 2005 Spielberg version of War of the Worlds ‘borrowed’ this idea, and yes I did think of it again when Michelle threw the Molotov cocktail into the creatures mouth, although you don’t have to be Mythbusters or a physics/chemistry major to realise a Molotov made of one bottle of potable spirits would not have the concussive power to produce such a resulting explosion. There was also a children’s TV series based on The White Mountains simply called, The Tripods. Here again, Spielberg stole the trumpeting sound that they used for the tripod’s ‘ululation’, (which HG Wells described as sounding like “Ullah!”

There is nothing new under the sun.

To answer other critics of the closing scene, it does seem ridiculous that they couldn’t kill one human female with 1. A bio-mechanical ‘dog’ creature, 2. A lot of poison gas (which seems to benignly dissipate rather quickly for something meant to be a chemical weapon/WMD which took out large populations) and 3. A large biomechanical spacecraft which for some reason decides to eat an entire car as well to get the occupant.

You would think a military aircraft would have guns of some description, after figuring out intergalactic travel?

The car eating scene can only be explained in that these are not the same aliens from Cloverfield 2007, but from the Blondie rap-song Rapture

Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars

Logical.

As much as the ending was quite unbelievable with many plot holes, like Signs, which was also bad but good, I thought it was suitably creepy. When Michelle spots the alien craft for the first time flying over the fields at sunset, I thought was the creepiest scene of the whole film.

In regard to your comment about the ‘grenade into the spaceship at the last moment’. This originally comes from John Christopher’s book, The White Mountains in which the Earth has been subjugated by aliens who’s machines are tripods much like that from HG Well’s original War of the Worlds. During a battle with a tripod near the end of the book, the hero, Will, and his companions, try to bring down a tripod by throwing hand grenades at the legs, which is unsuccessful. Will is then subsequently grabbed by the tripods’ tentacles and is lifted towards an open hatch in the bottom of the tripod hemisphere. Realising he still has a grenade in his hand with the pin pulled, he throws it into the open hatch before it swallows him, where it explodes, and the tentacle releases its grip and he falls back down to the ground.

Anyone who has read The White Mountains will realise the writers of the 2005 Spielberg version of War of the Worlds ‘borrowed’ this idea, and yes I did think of it again when Michelle threw the Molotov cocktail into the creatures mouth, although you don’t have to be Mythbusters or a physics/chemistry major to realise a Molotov made of one bottle of potable spirits would not have the concussive power to produce such a resulting explosion. There was also a children’s TV series based on The White Mountains simply called, The Tripods. Here again, Spielberg stole the trumpeting sound that they used for the tripod’s ‘ululation’, (which HG Wells described as sounding like “Ullah!”

To answer other critics of the closing scene, it does seem ridiculous that they couldn’t kill one human female with 1. A biomechanical ‘dog’ creature, 2. A lot of poison gas (which seems to benignly dissipate rather quickly for something meant to be a chemical weapon/WMD which took out large populations) and 3. A large biomechanical spacecraft which for some reason decides to eat an entire car as well to get the occupant.

The latter can only be explained in that these are not the same aliens from Cloverfield 2007, but from the Blondie rap-song Rapture

Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercury's and Subaru's
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars

Logical.

As much as the ending was quite unbelievable with many plot holes, like Signs, I thought it was really creepy. When Michelle spots the alien craft for the first time flying over the fields at sunset, I thought was the creepiest scene of the whole film.

The movie would have been great if she had been killed outside at the end. Then, the message could have been "antagonizing people creates antagonists."

As it stands, it's just new survivor girl realizes it's better to run toward problems than away from them.

Thanks for the tip, Hollywood. Never heard this one, before.

Ur2026, yup. That's what I thought he was hinting at too. Perhaps if the human were a "faster stronger Male" then it would be believeable to him and he wouldn't nitpick the f'n movie so much?

It's a film.
again........ It is a film.

*beep* off.

Yea in fact the third act I believe was the Cloverfield tie in completely