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Only thing that confused me was the people that the tripods picked up, were they being used for fuel? Other than that, the movie lept me on the edge of my seat, and I haven't had a movie do that to me in a long time.

As for the hill part, you see the tripods come up from the hill, and the missles are hitting it but exploding on their shields. If you would have seen over the hill, you would have seen the same thing just multiplied by 100. Spielberg did this intentionally, because he chose to keep the camera with Cruises character to make it more personal.