Unanswered Questions About 'War Of The Worlds' *SPOILERS*

[Hotshot]

I'm still kind of confused on it...

In the end with the last tripod that died, Tom Cruise was like "LOOK AT THE BIRDS" and they showed the pigeons landing on the tripod and the tripod looked drunk. What did the birds do, crap on it and make it go blind?

hehe nah man.. the birds were able to land on top of the tripods because the shields weren't there anymore. That's why they started firing at it right after that because they knew it couldn't stop the rockets.

[Jugs]

I'm still kind of confused on it...

In the end with the last tripod that died, Tom Cruise was like "LOOK AT THE BIRDS" and they showed the pigeons landing on the tripod and the tripod looked drunk. What did the birds do, crap on it and make it go blind?

The lightning strikes sent the pilots into the tripods. But why did lightning strike 'so many times in one spot' when throughout the movie I believe you only saw evidence of 1 pilot in these things?

Is the crazy man with the gun (that cruise beat to death) the same guy that was telling cruise to get out of the van earlier (and then got torched...?)

When Cruise put his hand up to the window (around the time he saw someone get thrown to the ground and stabbed by the tripod) did his hand start bleeding? If so, why?

Seriously though, that Andrew Bogut guy went off to fight the tripods or whatever, then all the military vehicles exploded!! Theres no way he could have survived!

The shield was down because the aliens were dying.

I think they were trying to hide what was happening or the lightning strikes fried all the electric things while putting the pilot in there.

I dont know about the guy and the car, good observation i suppose.

He didn't start bleeding from his hand, it was the blood the aliens were "harvesting" (mentioned by kodo)