Spielberg & Koepp add great twist

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2005)

Personally I loved the way that Spielberg & Koepp twisted the arrival of the Aliens. Watching the movie this evening a light clicked on and the old gray matter had to do a little logical work to keep up to where Spielberg was taking me. Good on him.
H.G. Wells and the original movie had them arrive from outer space. In this version they had already visited and left behind their tripods. Now why would they do that? If they envied our planet and wanted to move off their world (and in this movie it is not Mars) then they could have done it long ago. There is only three logical reasons I can think of.
One: The Aliens colonized earth so they could return when the population had reached a point where it would satisfy their needs. Hey, they could be doing this all over the universe. A variation of "open pasture cattle farming". Just leave them alone to do their thing until you feel like a roast dinner on Sunday.
Two: They arrived when man was in an earlier stage of development and they saw future potential in these primitive beings that seemed to double in population every ten years. So they buried their tripods for future use when the population of the Earth would be ripe.
Three: They decided to park their tripods on earth a long time ago like we park 747's in the desert when we put them in storage.
I went to this movie to be entertained. I was not disappointed. It was a good mix between the book, original movie and my old tape with Richard Burton that I would play on long rainy road trips in my mustang.
Slu out... "Aliens are alien". They don't always adhere to our concept of reality! Makes it more interesting.