Stupidity: When the plane crashes and the family ducks into the small room off the main basement, powerful flames shoot all the way across the basement, up to the door that Ray closes just in time, but when he later opens it, nothing has burned, nothing is smouldering, not even fabric or paper, but the walls are scarred... as if from fire. (00:40:40)
War of the Worlds (2005)
1 stupidity
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto
Continuity mistake: When the ferry casts off in the long shot, there are only six people hanging off the outer edge of the ramp as it's being raised. When Robbie and another gentleman help these people over, in the close-up one of them wears tan pants, a long blue coat and patterned hat, but this person was not amongst the six in that previous long shot. (01:01:55)
Trivia: Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, stars of the 1953 version of this movie, make a small cameo in this movie as Mary Ann's parents. They are at the end when the whole family is reunited.
Question: Several other answers and corrections state that the reddish liquid sprayed by the tripods was what essentially grew the red vines. However I thought I heard someone in the film say something along the lines of "using us (i.e. blood) as fertiliser". Can someone please clarify?
Answer: Since the tripods tended to spray the red fluid shortly after pulling a human into themselves, it seems a good assumption that the red fluid is essentially blood. Given this, it seems likely that the "spore" of the vines is spread in the red fluid.
scwilliam