Who's cleaning up?

I just finished watching Appleseed. The last time I watched it was about 5 years ago, and while the dialogue is kind of cheesy and the storyline is a bit blah, the mecha and background design kick some serious ass. The music is quite nice, too. All lovely and epic.

At the end of the film, ten HUGE "mobile platforms" (five-legged AT-ATs, basically) stomp all over the city. I'd say each one is roughly the height of 1.3 Godzillas. It was cool and all, but throughout the entire scene I had to wonder how much it was going to cost to repair all the damage. Oodles of money, that's how much. Oodles.

And when they managed to deactivate the platforms, they all just froze where they were, and this raises an even bigger question: how the hell did they cart them off back to the sea (or something)? Maybe they just left them as decoration, and let grapevines grow all over them. Or they got disassembled and sold as scrap metal.

Also, in The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was all buddy-buddy with the giant eagles, right? And an eagle rescued him when he jumped off Saruman's tower, and at the end, more eagles went and scooped up Sam and Frodo. Which leaves me wondering why they didn't come and help a bit earlier. I mean, the hobbits had to WALK the WHOLE WAY to Mordor!! And they probably got flown home in about two hours! Pssh. It was in the best interest of the eagles to have the Ring destroyed anyway, because they hated orcs (I think. It was orcs, right?). And, you know, there was an army of orcs being bred because of the Ring.

Oh, and ALSO in the Lord of the Rings movie. The Shire is maybe ten miles across, so why do the Hobbits have different accents? It can't be just the different classes.