What Downed the 747?

[deadsword]

Was it one or more of the TriPods or and emp? It almost sounds, just before it crashes, like its caught in some sort of tractor or stasis beam. Also its strange there is not many dead that you see in the plane, only one or 2 passengers. Maybe the others were thrown clear before it had crashed.

[RustiSwordz]

Muslim Terrorist that realised he got more than he bargained for when he saw the tripods.

Anyway, this is another scene i wish we could have seen. Another 'what you dont see adds to the film' sequence.

Nooooooo its 'what you dont see devalues the cinema ticket you bought'

[malfunkshun]

the captain of the airliner selflessly sacrificed his own life, the lives of his crew, and all passengers on board when he realized that something needed to fall on the house, since no martian cylinders were available.

[deadsword]

Hahahahaaha funny ffffffffffffffffffunnnnnnnnnny. I was being serious. Maybe i should not bother posting in this forum anymore. Or the other one.

[Marcus]

... Okay.

[EvilNerfherder]

Right. I am giving a general warning. Next time I will be speaking individually to people.
There are still members here who wish to discuss various points relating to this film but they are having their threads ruined, every time, by the same old bile filled rants from a few quarters.
We will not have people who come here feel uncomfortable when trying to discuss things as they are now so this stops now.
It's not as if we haven't heard half of this stuff a million times before is it?
Anyone posting irrelevant rants on threads like this in future will be hearing from us.
Thanks.

[Commandingtripod]

I thought that it got hit by the heat ray a few times rather than some other weapon.
But then again I could be wrong.

[Tripod]

The Heat-Ray I presume, as you can see it's cut in half. And if you look at the crash scene you can see that the ceiling is 'ripped' open and all the passengers are gone. So the Tripods must have taken them, that explains why there are no corpses in the plane.

Tripod

[Commandingtripod]

tripod said:

The Heat-Ray I presume, as you can see it's cut in half. And if you look at the crash scene you can see that the ceiling is 'ripped' open and all the passengers are gone. So the Tripods must have taken them, that explains why there are no corpses in the plane.

Tripod

I never noticed the rip.
Come to think of it, if the heat ray was used, there would be no corpses - they'd all be vaporised.

[wotwfan48]

there is a lot of question marks on this movie, For some part of it, I had the answer in the book, like about our blood, and the red weed, being their food. Especially the blood, they showed it in the film, but reading it in the book really confirmed it to me.

As for the plane, I assumed it was the tripods, that brought it down, but still question marks, the idea about the passengers gone because of the heat ray, or as food, is good to. I think this is why there is sequels for this kind of books or movies. Some of it answer a few questions. And of course add to the story. Chantale.

[Killraven]

It seems logical to me that it was an EMP that killed all the aircraft's electrical systems.

The plane could quite easily have broken up on landing...its not made from rubber after all ;D

KR

[nervouspete]

Well, the 'lightning' sounds as Ray and family woke up in the basement sounded like the same green 'newton beam' used against the bridge and the row of houses during Ray's escape at the intersection, so I reckon that it is a beam used by a tripod. Maybe the tripod used a weakend version to garner a largely intact plane on impact, then waded in and plucked the unconcious and badly hurt passangers from the seats to have some easy blood. Basically like Tripod's suggestion.

And yes, I am assuming that the invasion is that dark. And sometimes less is more. Brrr. See Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.

Either that or fortunately the craft was largely empty on its flight.

[deadsword]

nervouspete said:

Well, the 'lightning' sounds as Ray and family woke up in the basement sounded like the same green 'newton beam' used against the bridge and the row of houses during Ray's escape at the intersection, so I reckon that it is a beam used by a tripod. Maybe the tripod used a weakend version to garner a largely intact plane on impact, then waded in and plucked the unconcious and badly hurt passangers from the seats to have some easy blood. Basically like Tripod's suggestion.

And yes, I am assuming that the invasion is that dark. And sometimes less is more. Brrr. See Hitchcock's 'The Birds'.

Either that or fortunately the craft was largely empty on its flight.

NP i rewatched that part and it did not sound anything like the newton beam. Sounded just like the sound of lightning just before the intersection sequence.

[malfunkshun]

nerfherder said:

Right. I am giving a general warning. Next time I will be speaking individually to people.
There are still members here who wish to discuss various points relating to this film but they are having their threads ruined, every time, by the same old bile filled rants from a few quarters.
We will not have people who come here feel uncomfortable when trying to discuss things as they are now so this stops now.
It's not as if we haven't heard half of this stuff a million times before is it?
Anyone posting irrelevant rants on threads like this in future will be hearing from us.
Thanks.

ahhh. now i remember why i left last time. the nazi mods. so we can't have a little fun on the forums without 'ruining' threads huh? pfft. later peeps, once more i'm outa here.

[EvilNerfherder]

Ah Malf. I remembered last time and had an idea it was only a matter of time before you started shaking your fists in an entirely laughable and ineffectual manner again. That 'nazi' thing is so lame and braindead, it's quite sad really. But not unexpected.
The kind of 'fun' you advocate we don't need. There are other members here other than you and they may actually want to discuss the subject properly without some berk stomping all over it every single time with pointless and threadbare 'humour'.
If you really must post inappropriate and unsolicited bile, fine, but do it off other people's threads. I don't think that's too much to ask and neither would any other clear thinking person.
Basically, there are clearly stated rules on this site, which were made by Rob the webmaster, not the mods.
Sorry you don't like the rules, but we aren't changing them just for you.

[Rob]

We aren't exactly nazi's, that's a little harsh. People have been fequently making fun and making jokes of other peoples posts on the paramount board. It's funny to an point but beyond that it becomes annoying for people who want to discuse an incarnation of War of the Worlds and not just slate it.

[deadsword]

admin said:

We aren't exactly nazi's, that's a little harsh. People have been fequently making fun and making jokes of other peoples posts on the paramount board. It's funny to an point but beyond that it becomes annoying for people who want to discuse an incarnation of War of the Worlds and not just slate it.

Rob where is the paramount message board at? I think i remember one one the spielbergfilms.com link and I think i tried to join the thing and it would not work.

[Lensman]

Well I did watch and listen closely in the scene just the other day when it was on TV, trying to figure out what was happening when the plane was brought down, but I found it very confusing. I came away with the impression the plane was zapped several times with the heat ray to bring it down. Keep in mind this heat ray is very narrow, so they could easily have zapped just the engines or the cockpit and left plenty of passengers for them to pick up after it crashed.

But if you say you heard the lightning sound, I'd say that's pretty definitive. Possibly the plane wasn't even being targeted-- could have been just an accident. It does seem possible the tripods plucked most of the bodies from the wreckage. But since Ray got up there so soon after the crash, it may be that the plane was just flying mostly empty.

[Commandingtripod]

Did Ray get up there that soon after the crash?

I thought that they had a sleep and then woke up - several hours went by in which a tripod could have nabbed anyone left.

Then again Lensman has better backing than I do since he watched it recently and I haven't seen it for a while.

I'm going off memory here so I'm probably wrong.

[EvilNerfherder]

''Rob where is the paramount message board at? I think i remember one one the spielbergfilms.com link and I think i tried to join the thing and it would not work.''

Rob is referring to the Spielberg movie section on this site.. i.e. this one.