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Corrected entry: As to the initial EM pulse, it is unlikely that changing the solenoid on the van would have helped, as the one he has to change it with was in proximity to the van when the EM pulse disabled them. Unless he keeps spare solenoids in a shielded box then it is likely that all solenoids would have been equally affected, regardless of whether or not it was installed or not.

Corrected entry: In the scene when they are hiding out at Ray's ex-wife's house, Ray throws a piece of bread with peanut butter on one side at the window, and it sticks peanut butter side against the glass. In the next shot, it is a sandwich with the peanut butter between slices of bread.

Corrected entry: It's accepted as canon that when the tripods first were buried, it was before humans had evolved. In that case, why are the Martians focusing solely on destroying humankind? They wouldn't even necessarily know that humans are intelligent since they are so self-assured and yet there are no instances of other animals being vaporized, investigated, loaded into tripods, etc. If the Martians were planning this before we were anything more than bipedal monkeys, what makes us so special?

Corrected entry: EMP bursts only affect things within a limited range. Yet when Ray drives down the highway we see cars all the way down the road crippled for miles. This could have only happened if an EMP burst had struck at regular intervals down the road to affect cars for such a distance.

Corrected entry: While being sucked into the interior of one of the tripods, with a soldier hanging onto one of his hands, Tom Cruise (off camera except for the hand held by the soldier) somehow uses the other hand to pull the pins of two grenades, leave the grenades within the tripod, and retain the pins in his same hand.

Corrected entry: During the beginning when the kids are being dropped at Ray's, they say he was a half an hour late and it is now 8:30, but when Ray and the kids go inside shortly after, there is a brief shot where behind Ray's head you can see a clock displaying the time 5:00. Note: The clock is not digital).

Corrected entry: In the scene where Ray and the kids arrive at the mom's house, Ray decides to make sandwiches. He gets the bread and dumps the package out, which is about half a package. If you look, you will notice that the piece where one side is all crust, is missing. There is one of those on each side of a loaf of bread.

Corrected entry: Tom Cruise and family emerge from the basement where they have holed themselves up through the night of the initial tripod attacks. A jet has crashed. Destruction is everywhere, yet the van they've been driving has been unscathed, sitting where they left it, among the ruins of the house, the jet, and everything else around it.