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Now lets get something straight! I HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK. I've only seen the movie. So if someone wants to kindly explain to me my follow question feel free.
First off.
1. I love alien movies
2. I love Tom Cruise movies (Well about 80% of them)
3. I love Dakota Fanning
4. Morgan Freeman does the narration. (Hell to the yeah!)
These three reasons conclude that I FLIPPING love this movie!
For those of you who don't know the story, SPOILER ALERT
Its a story about a father Ray (Tom Cruise) Who is taking care of his kids for a weekend. Robbie (who cares? Ok i'm sorry to the actor who played Robbie in the movie, I don't really like your character or your portrayal... i feel like if your gonna be a jerk. Go all the way.... study Tom Felton. Don't just have this same blank expression on your face.) and Rachel (Dakota Fanning) Aliens come down, cause a whole lot of problems. As always Tom Cruise kicks a whole bunch of ass. At the end though the aliens die because they in short get a cold, or something of the liking, that we, as humans, already have an immunity to.
Here is my question though
The aliens, sort of create these vein plant like things, and they suck out our blood (and I'm assuming) Eat some of it, and spray it on the vein like plants like fertilizer. ok Question.... If the aliens are absorbing our blood, wouldn't they then absorb the immunities?
Does any one else see the flaw in the movies logic.
I feel like, if they had left the spray of blood/viney things out I wouldn't be questioning it.... OR if they made a bigger point in saying "They breathed our air."
Yes, but Natalie, its called Dramatic Effect! Who cares about logic?
Touche.
1. Well the movie doesn't really fully explain what the red weed is, that is, in the context of the film; it's shown exactly as you said, so one guess would be that it was a terra-forming product to make the Earth more Mars-like for them (although Spielberg had stated many times his aliens are NOT Martians at all).
ReplyDelete2. The aliens were subjected to full-on virus / bacteria whereas immunities are built-up either from A. constant contact, evolution-wise, or B. Vaccination with dead, minute particles with which the T-Cells can adapt to and fight in the future. Unfortunately for the aliens, the lethality of our microorganisms was a 100% fatality rate, it ravaged them so fast they couldn't form any immunity nor pass it along to any offspring.
3. In the H.G. Wells novel (which was a metaphor for the British Invasion and colonization of India) the Red Weed is just that - a weed brought to Earth from Mars (it's never stated whether it was brought intentionally or not) that flourishes in water and ends up choking streets and buildings and canals.