previously they had an active shield that was immune to physical attacks, one of which was javeline rocket attacks and guided missiles, after they were infected with viruses, germs and bacteria from within, their immunity decreased like they had the flu, and their shield slowly weakened and finally they were able to be executed with rockets javeline.. Urraaa 🗿💀
"By the toll of a billion deaths." The population of the world in 2005 was roughly 6.5 billion. Roughly 16% of humanity was exterminated. To put that into context, every 1 in 6 people were killed. That's still horrific.
In the novel Wells also wrote of a billion deaths. Tgese might be a reference to the people who died of diseases before we developed the necessary antiviruses.
Even though, a lot of people consider this ending to be "anti-climatic" or a "Deus ex Machina". But to me, this is quite realistic in terms of how the alien invaders have boasted their advanced technology and superior fighting machines. Yet the aliens themselves were just as mortal as mankind when they were exposed to Earth's bacteria.
previously they had an active shield that was immune to physical attacks, one of which was javeline rocket attacks and guided missiles, after they were infected with viruses, germs and bacteria from within, their immunity decreased like they had the flu, and their shield slowly weakened and finally they were able to be executed with rockets javeline 🗿💀
from the moment the invaders arrived 0:02 breathed out 0:03 air ate and drank they were doomed 0:09 they were undone destroyed 0:12 after all of man's weapons and devices 0:14 had failed by the tiniest creatures that 0:17 god and his wisdom put upon this earth 0:21 by the toll of a billion deaths man had 0:24 earned his immunity 0:25 his right to survive among this planet's 0:28 infinite organisms 0:31 and that right is ours against all 0:33 challenges 0:35 for neither do men live nor die 0:39 in vain
@@maxwelldillon4805 I think I was maybe expecting a better explanation or something Like to me it came across like "God in his wisdom decided humans suffered enough, you've earned your immunity to the aliens" Or maybe it's that the foreshadowing of them being sick could have been done better It just didn't seem to explain what happened without being too philosophical or whatever so it felt super out of place It's hard to fully explain why I hated it it's a little bit of several reasons
This is exactly what happened to many Europeans in the Scramble for Africa. They were technologically superior to the local tribes and kingdoms, but it took until the advent of modern medicine to penetrate the interior. Before then Africa was known as the White Man's Grave because of all the pathogens that they weren't used to.
Yes people do die in vain morgan and I just ate a peice of pizza on earth hah and I'm not dead yet ill give it a minute maybe takes some time like 40 years call the inshurance Co they most likely have tod all factored considering I have pre existing breathing abilities???????????????
This movie was moreso good on the humanity side of its scenes. All scenes without the aliens or tripods are great. The family dynamic, dialogue more than the aliens and tripods themselves. I didn't care much for the scenes showing the tripods or aliens ironically. The dialogue scenes are so good in this movie. Also good are the scenes showing the HUMANS/people.
I can just imagine the Martians fucking ragequitting after figuring out their whole brainchild earth invasion masterplan didnt work out because someone coughed in their general direction.
Aliens from a barren, thin-aired planet really thought "hey, let's invade a planet that has life in every single orifice and drink their blood" was a good idea.
I mean, if you grew up in a completely sterile environment for your entire life, I could imagine that your knowledge on diseases and shit would be pretty limited.
This was my one issue with the movie. Yes aliens have complicated technology to cross the VASTNESS of space to come to earth. Yes aliens have the technology to build force fields that defy physics and repell projectiles of doom. Yes aliens are so complicated and advanced and intelligent. Somehow (in this movie), they were stupid enough to come to earth and NOT prepare to deal with the tiny micro organisms that were to be found here. Like wuuuuuuuut? I was EXTREMELY disappointed to find out that something even WE as humans know, would destroy aliens in this movie. Its kinda ironic because if aliens wanted to come to this earth and take it over, they would EASILY engineer lethal viruses that would do their killing for them. As soon as the last human ends up dead, they'd come unchallenged to this earth and claim it without having to lift ONE alien finger. Or, hell even easier... if aliens wanted to conquer the earth for whatever reason, they'd just build a dyson sphere on the sun, absorb all its energy for themselves, and when everything on this planet has turned to ice, they could just come and acquire anything they need unchallenged. IF you REALLY wanted to get fancy with it... you COULD just wait until humans become dependent on robotics with artificial intelligence, HACK the robots and make them annihilate all humans again, without lifting ONE finger... I still wait for a movie that ACCURATELY shows exactly how it would go down if an alien species decided to invade this earth. Ofcourse it wouldn't end well for humans, but it IS a movie afterall.
It's sorta like Jurassic Park. Humans, with all their engineering genius and intelligence ressurected dinosaurs, but life still found a way. The same concept applies here. No matter how powerful you are, you cannot be omnipotent.
H. G Wells was a Darwinist and with his novel he wanted to show that in nature it is not the strongest but the fittest that survive, I loved this ending and it was scientifically one of the most accurate that Hollywood ever did, the microorganisms that live here as in other planets are a great blessing or threat, neither side will be ready in an eventual alien invasion
I will never understand why people like this ending but think the computer virus in Independence Day is stupid. It’s the exact same thing. The technological superior Aliens are undone by the smallest thing.
You’d think an alien race that managed to hide those tripods for so long, ride lightning INTO them and destroy so many things knew how to protect themselves against the common cold
It's simply another case of not anticipating every detail. Their engineering might have been advanced, but perhaps their knowledge of biology less so. In the 50s people thought Venus was a tropical planet and that there were huge artificial canals on Mars. Imagine if we had had the technology to reach Mars or Venus at the time, it would have been a one way ticket to hell in either case.
Even if they knew, what could they really do against it? The immune system of every animal on Earth has adapted over millions of years of evolution to survive the non-stop onslaught presented by viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Our own bodies are host to innumerable bacteria, in our gut, on our skin, in our blood from previous infections.
I guessed that they were such an advanced species that they abolished all forms of bacterium on their own world, no immunizations, a weak immune system that by the time they come to earth the smallest microbes compromise them, compromise their health and eventual leads to their deaths. Best thing for us as humans in this scenario is all the tech and tripods they left behind in their wake for use to progress technologically.
The worlds current population is only possible due to a very indicate and fragile system of trade and specialization. If that system is interrupted for only a few days then thousands will be condemned to death via starvation. Losing a billion people so quickly would cause that system to collapse entirely dooming billions more to death, and those people would drag the rest with them in their desperation. In short. Everyone died. The end.
Maybe hundreds of thousands more would have died worldwide indeed but considering the rather short time span the invasion lasted as you pointed out, that fragile system meant for 6 billion people would have been back on tracks in to time. Mankind is resilient.
Hard to believe that in 1897 it was good enough and powerful enough of a statement to talk about natural selection, but in 2005 we needed to somehow bring 'God' into it. Shows how in the early aughts the US was SATURATED in religion, probably as a result of 9/11.
"god and his wisdom put on this earth" a change to the original literature which named natural selection. Thank you Neil degrass Tyson for pointing that out
