War of the Worlds ending. WTF??? ***SPOILER***

[CaptainRizla]

Hi all,

Does anyone know what the hell the ending of 'War of the Worlds' is all about?
Mr Cruise blows up one tripod and the others start knackering up for no apparent reason.
Near the end of the movie, someone points to some birds flying around the top of one tripod and says, "look at the birds", or something. My only conclusion for the death of the other tripods is that they are allergic to bird shit.

Whats that all about?

[gunner]

They were not imune to the bacteria in our air and that killed them, we as humans have a natural defence.

[CzarJunkie]

I agree the ending is shite, surely a civilisation as advanced as that who had planted weapons here millions of years before would have bothered to get some fukin night nurse in. Fukin ridiculous. :nono

[CaptainRizla]

Oh right. Hmmm. After hearing that, I'm not too sure about this film.
It appears that the aliens didn't really do much homework for the invasion of Earth.
You can kill them by either shoving a grenade up it's jacksey or by getting a bird to shit on it.

P.S. I've noticed that a discussion is being held in the Movie Review section so feel free to move or delete this thread, mods.

[-AMO-]

The birds were only there to show that their shields had gone down due to them dying. It was not the birds directly that caused the machine to shutdown.

[Anakin]

Why was the red vein stuff dead on the statue but every where else it was alive.

[ZX7R]

Why was the red vein stuff dead on the statue but every where else it was alive.

It had only just started dying at that point in the film.

The whole death by virus thing is quite ironic - as the human race is long due a major flu epidemic - commonly predicted to be asian bird flu. not a matter of if, but when.

[CaptainRizla]

The birds were only there to show that their shields had gone down due to them dying. It was not the birds directly that caused the machine to shutdown.

Ah, good point.
It would have been handy though if Cruisey had pointed at the birds and said, "See, there be bird shit on dem tripods, therefore their shields be down", or something similar.
Amongst the rackett of the fog horns and squealing moppett, I forgot they had shields. Penetrable by sludge and shite, of course.