Hmmm..... my brother and I used to listen to records of The War Of The World, radio series from back in the day, a little less back in the day. I'd like to think that some of that was captured on the big screen, but I doubt it. Will still watch it for completeness.

I actually hated the kid - reminded me of WC Fields' opinion of children between 6 and 16 ... "best boiled"

But yeah, good acting

They died from the basic bateria in the water and in the air. We're immune to it. They're not. That's why the film starts with the drop of water with the bacteria inside of it and ends with another one. The birds show their shields are down/not working.

Aaman: I actually hated the kid - reminded me of WC Fields' opinion of children between 6 and 16 ... "best boiled"

If it's a Spielberg movie with kids in it, I run the other way. Last one I saw was Jurrasic Park (the dinosaurs ate the wrong people). So now that hack is directing another brat to scream her way through a movie? No thank you, I'm not going to sit through anymore of that crap.

If you saw the first and liked it, you will hate this version. If not then go see it for the special effects. From start to finish, I hated it (except for the special effects). I did not appreciate Mr. Speilberg blowing up a Christain church in stead of a Mosk or Jewish temple. But I guess that was his personal choice.
Stupid ending out of the blue. Must of run out of film or budjet.

The best part of the movie? When Ray's rebellious son puts on the Red Sox cap. Boston-New York rivalries are now part of the American psyche. This is the second movie in less than a year (not counting Fever Pitch) that has characters facing off with one wearing a Yankee cap and the other a Red Sox cap (Ocean's Twelve- Clooney and Damon (Matt not Johnny) on the train).

As for the ending- yes the shields are down, but is Ray actually dead and seeing these images (much like in Vanilla Sky)? Everyone is suffering from the attack, and even if the Tripods have not made it into Boston (by the way, a lousy Hollywood backdrop, the Minuteman statue was quite lame), the ex-wife's father opens the door wearing what looks like a Brooks Brothers Blue Blazer with an ascot. Maybe this is how Ray would envision seeing those people in Boston. Afterall, Ray is fairly clean shaven in the last scene, but if he and his daughter walked from the banks of the Hudson River to Boston (about 200 miles), I don't think they could do that in just a few days, it would be more like weeks- if at all.

If you saw the first and liked it, you will hate this version.... I did not appreciate Mr. Speilberg blowing up a Christain church in stead of a Mosk or Jewish temple. But I guess that was his personal choice.

Funny, I loved the orignal and loved this update.

And honestly, do you think aliens are going to attack the world and MISS a church, regardless of the type? Get over it. Some people are way too sensitive about this stuff.

I left the War of the Worlds wondering what in the heck had killed the aliens, too! I finally figured out by searching online that it was bacteria - and am still not sure what the deal was with the birds. Did "Ray" point out the birds because they were trying to eat the dead aliens inside?
I love Dakota Fanning but her neuroses in the beginning of the movie wore on me a little bit. Her healthfood act was charming but her screaming got old.

BTW I just read Matt's post and realized why the birds were there.
Thank you.

Aside from the special effects, I thought this movie was terrible. The ending was horrible, way too much of a Hallmark moment. There were so many flaws in the movie. For example, after the so called magnetic blast that rendered all electronic devices unable to work, somehow an electronic video camera was able to catch all the action. I never really understood how Ray's car seemed to work (replace something with something) and all the refugees running uphill with their children towards the battle.

I hated the film. The 1953 original film was much better (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046534/). Naturally the effects were much better, but the overall film was crap.

I thought that most of the movie was great. But, like others here, the ending left me with a big question mark. I didn't get the bird connection, I'm not convinced they demonstrated that the force field was down, but that seems to be the best theory. Why were the aliens keeping live humans? What was the red "vines" covering everything? and what was that orange goop that poured out of the last downed tripod?

I did not like it. The only good thing was the nasty stuff...the machines were terrifying. I can see the nazi allegory when you compare the brutal efficiency of the machine's relentless killing. Spielberg unfortunately concentrates too much on the wrong thing. There is simply way too much Tom Cruise in it. He also tosses in the happy ending which is excruciatingly awful, but not unprecedented (A.I., the unnecessary speech at the end of Schindler's List, etc...).
This movie should have been global in scope, but it was ruined by too many closeups to Tom's huge schnoz, too many screams from that little girl, and of course no nukes. Come on, if we got attacked by aliens do you honestly think that the USA would not use any of its 12,000 nukes???

thank goodness that the machines were just playing frightening, because there is little else this movie offers other than nightmares for your 12 year old. Why was it PG-13? Gimme a break, you got alien machines that turn people to dust, suck their blood and shoot it out the robot's butts, but the moment you show some boobies a movie gets an R rating. What is wrong with the MPAA?!?

One thing i really dun understand about the movie is the birds. Those birds seems to be attracted to the Tripod. First scene was whereby all ppl goin up the boat, and the little girl saw a flock of birds flying towards the tripod <---- BIRDS love the tripod? Second scene (ending there), whereby all birds go "playing" around with the unshield tripod?

There should be a good explanation on the birds in the original movies.

Anyone know?

the only good thing about this movie was Dakota Fanning.

Tough call - I think the screenplay made her character too uneven. She seemed too strong before the invasion, and too weak after it.

The movie was just as bad as SIGNS.

Signs was better because its plot didn't focus on any action sequences. That's the inherent problem, although Spielberg doesn't let our imagination do the work with the aliens and that might be a reason for its downfall.

Spielberg overestimates viewers' intelligence quite often. Not for lack of trying to dumb things down, mind you. But there comes a certain point beyond which things just can't be downed any dumberer.

In this case, the opening shot AND the ending shot actually show the bacteria responsible for the aliens' demise. On top of that, the voiceover narration at the end specifically mentions the bacterial role in defeating the invaders. But apparently this isn't enough to make the connection for the average American moviegoer, who still has to look up information on the web to find out about the bacteria.

In the case of A. I. the ending is an integral part of the storyline as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick from the beginning of the project. It also conveys the central moral message of the film. One could find rational grounds to agree with or disagree with that message. Only vast failure to pay any attention at all could lead so many people to claim the closing sequence of A. I. was "tacked on" by Spielberg to create an artificially happy ending.

The War of the Worlds has many flaws, to be sure. Leaving the ending unexplained isn't one of them.

If some of you folks had read H.G. Wells, you would know the aliens are killed by bacteria native to the earth - the birds are eating the flesh of the dead aliens.

You don't have to read Wells, dammit! You can understand the ending of this movie even if you are completely illiterate and unable to read at all. Spielberg put the full explanation about the bacteria right there in the movie.

Why did nobody else notice this?

I suppose this widespread utter lack of perception handily explains certain recent events in the political realm, though.

Oh, and before anyone misinterprets me, you certainly can't go wrong if you do read Wells. He was a great writer. It's just not a prerequisite for anybody capable of paying attention to understand the ending of Spielberg's flick.

I read the original story and listened to the original broadcast. They both describe several things that the movie only eluded to. In both the book and broadcast the birds were an indication that the martians were dead and decaying. They were scavenging the bodies. The book even goes on to say that the martians didn't know of decay and left their dead comrades lying were they died. The red vines were described as plant life brought to earth either by "accident or design". And they kept live humans as a food source. They would suck out their blood.

To V. Plenty in post 21. I haven't seen the movie yet - wasn't sure how overt Spielberg would make the reason for the demise of the aliens (or if he might not change the ending in some way). From the comments everyone has made, I think I'll pass on this one till it gets to DVD.

No worries, G. Oren. It's not you personally with whom I'm frustrated. Having avoided the movie makes you one of the few people commenting here who has a valid reason for missing the exposition Spielberg made so blatantly obvious.

I probably would've waited for DVD as well, or perhaps skipped this movie entirely, but my brother wanted to see it and I don't get many chances to spend time with him.

So here I am, apparently one of the foremost experts on the subject now, simply because I didn't make calls on a cell phone, or bring along a crying baby to the theater, or find some other way to switch off my brain during the voiceover narration.

I was sure Batman Begins was the big film at the moment, but its $306 million world-wide take has been surpassed by War of the World's $311.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is beating them both with $319 million.

Yes, it was bacteria that killed the aliens. Simply put, the aliens had not developed immunities to any of our little microbes.

Ray pointing out the birds landing on the tripod is significant, though. The army guys did get the message: "Look! Birds are able to land on the tripod! IT'S NOT SHIELDED!" So the army proceeds to fire at the thing and bring it down.

Im still a little confused about when the tube came down and sucked something out of the guy...now, was that blood coming out of the tripod? Was that like, waste from the innards that it sucked out of the guy? Can someone explain that part to me? And yeah, basically, I LOVED the movie until the end...I just sat there in shock...worst ending...ever. Not the concept, just how it was executed...it goes from being really scary and action packed to dead aliens within 5 minutes...what gives?

In the basement Ogilvy says that the martians were using people as "fertilizer". I believe what we saw coming out of the tripod was the red vines being broadcast. I had hoped for a surprise ending. Most fans know that the martians die from disease, they could have spiced it up a little. It would have been funny to see someone sneeze in an aliens face and seconds later the alien passes out.

Ogilvy says a lot of things in this movie. Very few of them make any sense at all. Chances are, we are meant to pick up the impression he was already nutty and creepy long before any alien invasion started.

I just wish they'd given this paranoid survivalist character a different name. In prior versions of the story, Ogilvy was simply an astronomer who thought Mars had an environment too hostile to support life. In the story he turned out to be mistaken, but his theory is probably true of current conditions on the real planet Mars.

Perhaps this is why Spielberg chose not to mention Mars at all in his retelling of the story.

I just finished seeing the movie , pretty intense , but I'm disappointed , I expected much more from Mr. Spielberg. The ending was awful, very quick and predictable..
I found very hard to digest the "birds" issue .
I don't think I understand the shield-idea in this SF.. The shield was activated by the proximity of a threat ? ex: shell , missile ... grenade (!) ?. Or stays online and protect the tripod all the time .... Not very clear for me .
But the most disturbing I found the idea that a energy field produced by a energetic device could be affected by the disease of the crew ...That is the first idea that cross your mind after seeing the birds humping the tripod-thing.
hard to swallow and it spoiled the end of the movie. This is not Spielberg style ... I'm sorry to say that !

Among the many things you all mentinoed, the one thing I kept asking myself was... Why do you keep running to areas of mass population? I kept thinking, go the some hicksville town with a population of 65 and wait it out. But no... let's go to Boston (of all places!!!).

I just finished watching the movie and personaly thought that the birds and demise of the aliens was made clear. Futhermore, I could present two arguments for the alien's need for humman blood. We could believe that the blood was used to power the devices. This is a good point to express that when the tripod opened I dont believe that was blood that poored out. The second theory would be that the aliens where searching for a cure for the bateria. Note: I like the idea that he actualy died. That is an interesting thought that I had not considered and makes perfect sense. Just wanted to through out my two cents! All in all I liked the movie and would recommened it.

I just watched this movie, and I had a problem with the ending as well. It wasnt that I didnt catch the little speal on how they were killed by the smallest things on earth (bacteria). Its just that when I heard it, I thought "That cant be right, I must have missed something". Another thing I didnt like was that some aliens appear in the beginning, and then die off. where are the rest of them. Where is this bigarse ship that is circling our globe sending them down. Why dont they send more. WHY DONT THEY SHOOT FROM OUTER SPACE? One last thing,how does the sun run over the hill into the fray of the battle, have EVERYTHING turn into one massive inferno apparently killing EVERYTHING, and then pops back happily into the picture in the end. How the hell did he get there. Should have left him dead. They could still have had thier cheezy hallmark ending, but with a sad note. And in the end, when the family comes out of the townhouse thing, it looks like they were just enjoying a spot-0-tea or something. All nicely dressed and smiley. Had a kind of "oh, hi. How was your day?" kind of feel to it. It was a enjoyable movie to the end. I could forgive any of the probs i had except the ending, how the aliens die. THAT JUST SUCKED

Just Finished watching the movie. Agree w/ majority. Great movie, but terrible ending. I agree w/ guy that said they probably ran out of budget/film. Bacteria, Come ON!!! Did anyone else think of the movie Independance Day movie w/ big willy?

1) The bacteria ending was from the original book. It plays on the irony of all that massive technology and machines being brought down by the smallest of Earth's creatures.

2) Bacteria did not need to get through the shielding. The aliens got it from drinking and eating on Earth. The ending narration specifically said that.

3) Yes, the ending sucked. Why did they look like they just came back from the country club? Even if Boston was not attacked until the end, I'm sure mobs of people had made it there and raid the houses for food and shelter.

4) Sorry to sound harsh, but for those of you who didn't get the birds are close to the tripods because there was no shielding: Ray pointed up to the birds and shouted, "NO SHIELDS!" I thought that kind of made things clear.

apparently the majority of the people questioning the movie here were the same ones in the movie theater with me. They were the ones yaking on the cell phones and had uncontrollable kids. The movie was very clear in its message without having to see the original, read the book or the radio transcripts. It was as simple as paying attention. If anything was bad about this movie, it was that little Fanning bimbo.

a great film classic spielberg action but not to good ending!!

'It was as simple as paying attention. If anything was bad about this movie, it was that little Fanning bimbo.'

agreed.

when she started screaming 'i want my mummy' in the car, whilst there is clearly no way this could help the situation, i wanted dearly to reach my hands into the movie screen and play fists of fury with her beedy eyes and googly head.

the ending was weak in concept but even weaker in excecution, i mean, aliens that are tech savy enough to do all that, and then fail to plan for the biological nature of the planet they are gonna be invading, aliens that dumb deserve to fall to a deadly strain rectal herpes.

Stupid ending, for one thing about the birds, it wasn't clear that Cruise was saying "No shields!". And for the 90% of us who never read the book (or did read it and don't remember it well), the bacteria angle should have been explained better. And then everyone was apparently just kicking back and relaxing in Boston.

Bottom line, Spielberg cost himself tens of millions of dollars in box office because of the poor word of mouth resulting from the lame ending.

The little girl screaming for her mommy in a crisis is not much different from all the psychotic idiots who rant about nuking the entire Middle East every time the topic of terrorism comes up in discussion.

At least the kid has an excuse for displaying the mental and emotional capacity of a little girl.

I didn't really like the movie. Mostly because of the ending. It had it's cheesy 'oh the world is going to end' moments. It just seemed pretty unsatisfying how the whole movie built up to the fact that humans were just lucky. I also really didn't understand the whole bird thing either. Why did the machines fail? The machines are run by the aliens - but the machines aren't eating and breathing our air? So why did they fail? Just because you stop operating your car doesn't mean the wheels fall off and it collapses to pieces. And the other thing is, if the aliens weren't immune to Earth, then how exactly did they manage to survive millions of years ago when they planted the super machines?

Let go of your cars wheel long enough and it's going to crash. Try doing that with a tri-pod machine. I've also said it so many times, but there's no indication they were they for millions of years. The guy was nuts. If they were, maybe the bacteria wasn't around.

It just seemed pretty unsatisfying how the whole movie built up to the fact that humans were just lucky.

That was the point. We're helpless.

And for the 90% of us who never read the book (or did read it and don't remember it well), the bacteria angle should have been explained better.

How much clearer could they make it? They opened the movie with a shot of the bacteria, closed with it, and Freeman explained it all. It's not hard to figure out.

OMFG! WHAT TYPE OF REVIEWER ARE YOU!!! YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW THEY DIED! ROTFLMAO!!! OMG... THEY DIED BECAUSE OF THE BACTERIA/DISEASES IN THE WATER/BLOOD OF HUMANS AND THEY GOT SICK AND DIED OF IT... GOD DAMN U FUCKING LOSER1

Can Americans producers please STOP putting so many DAMN AMERICAN FLAGS into their movies?!! We get the #@$! point, they're American. This flaf BS is cheezy! How's that for an original beef?
Good movie, intense, wish it was a tad more realistic

I have read most of the comments. I loved the movie! I feel the misunderstanding of the movie, it's characters, events and ending are due to lack of attention or a juvenile desire to have the "knotts" tied for you. I must agree with Victor Plenty, and SeattleKam. So I am asking that either of you, if you can, please help me find the script for the ending narration - esp. the part saying something about "we earned the right to live here". I felt that those words held a great deal of power. Perhaps some may have felt that this is rubbish, but I am guessing that they have not studied anything from Dr. Joe Dispenza (most known by the public from What the BLEEP Do We Know!?)

BTW - The ending - After all of the death and destruction, this movie resolved itself in a short amount of time. Remember, the invasion also began the same way. This was meant to shock you and leave you standing there, saying to yourself "WTF?" Think about the ingenious manner in which Speilberg got under your skin with this (just as his predecessors did)! Think about the narration, which explains the death of the invadors.
Think.....
I am sure that if you REALLY consider every aspect of what you saw, know and understand, you will see how intelligent this ending truly was.

The Film is simply awesome. I piss myself whit the tripod´s horn. I love Cinema and hate Divx by this moments. I loved the orignal film, so this is a gift for all the fans of spielberg n th orignal film. I have seen a lot of remakes, and maybe this is one of that that don´t have new things but, i can´t imaginem yself another thing to put in the movie. Steven did his job. And maybe he has been playing Half-Life2..jeejje. Of curse there are a lot (really lot)of new guys tha saw first Independence Day, egg or chicken? what was first?. The ending?, i´m really sick about heroes, so the ending wasn´t too bad.

As far as everyone asking about the blood being sucked from the humans, and the people being stuck in the cage attached to the bottom of the tripods near the end of the movie where cruise and dakota are trapped and people are being sucked up one by one, I believe the people being sucked up were not being eaten, i believe they (the aliens) were using blood from humans to spread and fertilize the plant life that they brought, from what i remember thats why when cruise was in the basement talking to the old man that wanted to fight back, he started screaming not my blood, not my blood, i will not be used as a fertilizer for that, hence why when he puts his hand near the window, blood is all over it due to it being sprayed

They have been studying us for years...
They didn't see us studying bacterias...or getting cold, infection and so on...
But yeah, they build killer tripods!

ray points out that the birds had breached the alien 'forcefield' thats when the army started to throw all their rockets at them

Glad I found this. Just finished watching the DVD and had to search online to find out if bacteria really was the cause of the aliens death. I couldn't understand what Tom said when pointing to the birds. And the only thing I could understand from the soldier was "...the key". So I'm wondering how the birds are "the key". Even after the blurb at the end about bacteria... I felt let down. While the movie was based on the original, I expected some things to be changed. And bacteria was just too... stupid of a reason.
Great action... decent acting... stupid ending.

Btw, the DVD was a pretty bad transfer. It doesn't look good at all. I won't be buying it.

Some one mentioned that the aleins died from bacteria. And there ships fell and its over. I understand a ship cant be driven without a person or alein. Bu tI start my car in the morning and leave it run without me in it. So if they died inside the ship why did the force feilds go down. The aleins where dying and decided to shut off force feilds. I dont think so.

I am no doctor but our blood doesnt have bacteria in it. That is what your lungs are for. They clean out the bacteria in the air. Same with the hairs in your nose. They clean the bacteria from the air. I dont think they died from our blood.

I think htey were using our blood to disinfect the earth. Hence the guy saing they were using it to fertilize the planet. We use trees as oxygen to breathe. The aleins were fertilizing grow what ever they use as oxegyn.

Others on this site have said then why didnt the aleins plan for bacteria especially if they had studied us for millions of years. In last 50 years on earht hell last 5 years on earht there is bacteria and diseases that sceitists havent even seen heard of or studied yet. Things like HIV and cancer cant be cured by humans. I dont think aleins would have a cure either.

If you really think about the movie. Its really saying that aleins arent scary or filthy and dirty. We are. Bacteria was made millions of years ago but we made them into something that we cant even control. Neither could the aleins.

We should fear bacteria not aleins. Bacteria kills us all. Food poisining, The flu, mono, HIV, cancer kills people. The all enter your body through bacteria. Morgan Freeman even said in the movie we have learned to live with bacteria. But we have not learned to control or destroy it. The aleins tried to disinfect the earth with blood or vine plants. They had a plan for bacteria it didnt work. The begining of the movie did you see all the bacteria in one tiny tiny drop of water. Bacteria out numbers us greatly. Aleins didnt realize how many bacteria there really was.

JC,

I guess there is a reason I prefer books to movies. The author gets to properly illustrate - though the readers' imaginations - the concepts he desires to convey.

In his book, H. G. Wells pointed out rather plainly that the Martians did not even foresee the possibility of bacteria on Earth. In addition he pointed out that Mankind had bought its immunity to bacteria from a billion years of deaths and dieases. The Martians were easy prey to the Earth bacteria, who finally had a fresh meal instead of the same old, same old.

In his book, Wells pointed out that it was the humble bacteria who saved Mankind when Mankind was defeated by alien technology.

I'll stick with the book.

Let's not concentrate on the movie, but on Steven. He's lost his touch in making movies that get us in the end. He had his day in the 70's and early 80's, but time and tastes have evolved quicker than Steven can keep up with. Mind you that I'm aware this sounds like a personal attack on the man but I do not intend it to be. Perhaps the movie would have played to modern tastes if it was produced and directed by someone in touch with today's moviegoers. One may blast the intelligence and inattention to detail of some of the bloggers here but to me that only reinforces the belief of the majority that Steven, being out of touch with today's expectations, engineered a bad ending.

BTW I liked the book, radio broadcast and original movie. Just got Paramount's Special Collection DVD which features a fully restored, correctly saturated 3-strip Technicolor version of the original, so faithfully mastered you can count the wires used to suspend the Martian war machines. Walmart $12.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE.IVE SEEN IT AT LEAST 15 TIMES LITERALLY.AND I DONT EVEN OWN IT.I KNOW THATS KIND OF LAME BUT ID HAVE TO SAY ITS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME.THERE IS ONLY LIKE 2 PARTS OF THE MOVIE I CANT STAND TO WATCH BCUZ IM CLOSTROPHOBIC AND I CANT BREATHE ITS MOSTLY BCUZ OF THE BLOOD OR SOMETHING.I DONT REALLY LIKE SEEING PPL GETTING TORCHERED BUT FOR SOME ODD REASON I LOVE THIS MOVIE.IVE ALWAYS LOVED DAKOTA FANNING'S AND TOM CRUISE'S WORK AND NOW I LOVE JUSTIN CHATWIN'S.ALL 3 OF THEM ARE AWESOME ACTORS.I TOTALLY WISH I COULD MEET THEM ONE DAY.THAT WOULD BE GREAT!!!!!!!!

PLZ VISIT MY MYSPACE ITS UNDER ALYSON STONER (ALLIE) THANKS BYE

Can anyone tell me exactly what the soldier said to his men after Cruise pointed out to him that the Shileds were down? I have played it back 10 times but I can't understand it.

Yeah, he said, "Quick! Everyone! To the roundhouse! They can't corner us there!"

Cruise yells "NO SHEE!" then yells "NO SHEM!". That's how you know there are no shields. (Duh!)

My screenwriting teacher would say, the protagonist himself should be the agent that defeat the opponents (the aleins), e.g. HE has to be a blood doctor or pathologist, who sees that humans are being eaten/drank by aliens, so he devises an infection for people to willingly get injected into themselves, and then they go and sacrifice themselves by getting caught, to infect the aliens.

On the other hand, that's what's so great about the bacteria ending - - it's pre-hollywood, so we are helpless and the germs rule.

What bothered me was -- If they are shielded, and want to eat / drink / fertilize with lots of people -- then why the zapper? Why not drink them all? Are there two many of them? It should be, zap or eat, not both-- unless it's addressed. But again, maybe that's just a wannabe screenwriter picking nits.

PS -- the screenwriter probably sold the 3-act structure of this movie as this: Ray's act 2 was not about defeating the aliens, it was about protecting his daughter / saving his family / getting them/her to boston. Hence he achieved his act 2 goal. Big woop. I'd rather see him give the aliens the facial clap on purpose. (see prev post)

PS -- to answer one question -- when Thom Crews points out the lack of shields by yelling No Shee No Shem, I think the response of the solder is something like, "It's got to be a top kill"

Personally, my favorite part was the beginning tripod scene. There was supense, thrills, and that part when you lose track of Ray between all those people. At first you think he got zapped, but he emerges in a puff of ash and you realize that it was someone else you were looking at.

The heat ray effects rule!

Also, he was pointing to the birds because the tripods shields were down, and birds usually rest on things. The tripods fall because the aliens in it die of the bacteria in the earth that everyone is immune to.

I'd forgotten that this was a Spielberg flick. Now I understand why the girl just screamed her way through the movie with those big saucer eyes. I was tempted to put my coffee cup in them, watching the movie on the computer.

The real big difference between the novel and the book is that in the book it is clear that the invaders are Martians. Also, Spielberg is starting to get cheap. Not only did he dredge up sound footage (someone please correct that term) for the sound the tripod makes from Encounters of the Third Kind, he used the same creatures used in Independence Day as his Martians. I guess he was too cheap to figure out a way to computer graphic the kinds of creatures that Wells described in his novel.

A rescue mission for aborted babies using a freezer box is needed. Start making it illegal to damage his/her baby brain during an abortion. Make some small casket freezers that stays at -16 celsius . A portable battery and solor panel that keeps it going is desirable in the freezers desighn. To avoid letting a baby fetus go to rot is a wise investment. Preserve the baby for 1240 years. Then also involve every abortion docter on the planet to help women form their decision to use a crio-casket for the dead fetus