War of the Worlds (2005 film)/Fridge: Difference between revisions

* More [[Fridge Logic]] regarding the 2005 film. When the aliens show up in their tripods, they start incinerating a crowd of civilians with heat rays. Consider the following. First: that is insanely inefficient for a race capable of interstellar travel; even the original novel had Black Smoke, an instantly-lethal airborne chemical weapon (I say chemical because the aliens clearly [[You Fail Biology Forever|didn't have a solid enough grasp on biology]] to make biological weapons). Second: the slack-jawed crowd posed absolutely no threat to the tripod which was apparently invulnerable to modern weaponry (except when its crew is sick...[[Hollywood Tactics|somehow]]). Did the aliens have an inferiority complex or something? Third: later on in the movie, the aliens are rounding up live humans to [[Dr. Strangelove|sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids]]. Why then, did the aliens spend the first two hours completely disintegrating humans one at a time? If the aliens used a machine gun or something, there at least would have been a harvest at the end of the massacres, but the heat ray doesn't even leave a body.

** I picture an alien [[Futurama|Zapp Brannigan]] planning this thing.

''Kif:'' [[Face Palm|*SIGH*]] }}

** I presume that the invaders knew at least enough about the planet Earth to know how overpopulated parts of it are. Since they managed to grow so much on the handful of humans they'd captured, I assume that they didn't need billions of them. As for the crowd, well, what did the invaders ''really care'' if the humans posed a threat or not? They were pretty much shooting to kill at that point, sort of like swatting a bunch of gnats even though they're little more than nuisances. And for the argument about aliens failing at biology, [[Signs|they seem to fail at that more than once.]]