And while I'm asking this question, I also want to know why the aliens went through all the trouble to bury those machines 1 million years ago before man was around. If they wanted the earth so badly, why didn't they just take over then?
2006-12-24 03:20:24 · 3 answers · asked by neocarleen 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I'm guessing they were terraforming, making the planet suitable for them to inhabit.
Personally, I find the movie farcical. If they were so prescient as to plan their attack a million years in advance, I can't imagine them not anticipating bacteria being hostile to them.
This story has been done to death, I think Hollywood has repackaged this once too often. The only saving grace this movie had is it's special effects...
2006-12-24 03:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by lmcbuilder 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know what they were growing the plants for. I only know that they needed a lot of blood to fertilize it, and I guess they were just waiting long enough for the humans to populate enough to be enough to fertilize all the weeds.
That, of course, is explaining the movie. The movie isn't the book, remember. I believe that in the book, the martians actually came from Mars, the guys in the planetary observatory saw their rockets as they took off. And I thought that's what the tripods came from, but I could be wrong.
2006-12-24 11:21:59 · answer #2 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't weeds that were red, it was the blood and guts of all the people that were spewed out of the machines. If you re-watch the movie you'll see at one point the stuff spraying out of the machines.
It's just a movie it doesn't have to make sense why they were buried.
2006-12-24 11:30:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋