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Mistlefro wrote:Cuttooth where did you copy and paste that hyperbole from?

Cutturkey wrote:This film is terrible. The first Alien is a horror built around space rape and a gender reversal, Aliens is about motherhood, Alien 3 I can't really remember. This is about Christianity and nothing else, using just about the laziest philosophical themes there are; what if God was an alien and the difficult conflicts of a religious scientist.

The set up itself is okay but that's not anything to be commended. So much just seemed odd. Like the Engineers having human DNA. Or the bizarre change in tone from Shaw ripping a squid out her womb to meeting Weyland. Or why Vickers bought a state of the art surgery kiosk designed for blokes. Or what is up with all these different human civilisations knowing where the Engineers'; weapons facility is. Or the pointless xenomorph at the end.

The dialogue and script are jaw droppingly abysmal at times. Vickers' father revelation line and Shaw blurting out her infertility were the highlights. Nobody acted particularly well, Fassbender was good but then I can't remember the last time I've seen someone play an android unconvincingly.

Exceptionally disappointing and worthless installment of a franchise that should be left alone if this is the best anyone can come up with. Nowhere near as gooseberry fool as the AvP series but I'd argue at least as cynical a cash in on past triumphs. Ridley Scott is a hack.

TimeGhost wrote:

Cutturkey wrote:This film is terrible. The first Alien is a horror built around space rape and a gender reversal, Aliens is about motherhood, Alien 3 I can't really remember. This is about Christianity and nothing else, using just about the laziest philosophical themes there are; what if God was an alien and the difficult conflicts of a religious scientist.

The set up itself is okay but that's not anything to be commended. So much just seemed odd. Like the Engineers having human DNA. Or the bizarre change in tone from Shaw ripping a squid out her womb to meeting Weyland. Or why Vickers bought a state of the art surgery kiosk designed for blokes. Or what is up with all these different human civilisations knowing where the Engineers'; weapons facility is. Or the pointless xenomorph at the end.

The dialogue and script are jaw droppingly abysmal at times. Vickers' father revelation line and Shaw blurting out her infertility were the highlights. Nobody acted particularly well, Fassbender was good but then I can't remember the last time I've seen someone play an android unconvincingly.

Exceptionally disappointing and worthless installment of a franchise that should be left alone if this is the best anyone can come up with. Nowhere near as gooseberry fool as the AvP series but I'd argue at least as cynical a cash in on past triumphs. Ridley Scott is a hack.

No:1 Final Fantasy Fan wrote:

The engineers had human DNA? Don't you mean we have the engineers DNA since they created us.
Its obvious that the Metapod was for her father who was hidden aboard Prometheus.
Did it mention something about the engineers possibly visiting earth several times in the past?
The Xenomorph at the end should lead to the first film Alien where they find all those aliens on the planet
I understand that there are many unanswered questions in the film but I had to address some of the ones you mentioned

• No I mean they went all "This is a total match for human DNA!" which is like, nonsense. Could have said Engineers and humans/all life on Earth shares x% of the same DNA. But no, some CSI grade overlapping gooseberry fool instead.
• I thought she was hoping her father would hurry up and die already at this stage? "A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable. That is the natural order of things." Either way, the state of the art Metapod being gender specific is dumb in itself.
• Yes but why tell humanity over and over the location of their bio-weapons facility? To what end? An elaborate trap? It makes it easier to write a film with "The gods have been wanting us to go here since forever! Oh no it's a bad place. "?
• Why will it? It's stranded on an uninhabited moon. Nothing suggests the alien at the end is going to spawn all the eggs in Alien.

Cuttooth wrote:

• Why will it? It's stranded on an uninhabited moon. Nothing suggests the alien at the end is going to spawn all the eggs in Alien.

Of course it won't, not the same planet/moon from Alien. But if it was the same location then it could. A drone can become a queen if one doesn't exist. Or so I read in one of the Aliens novels And Alien 3 sort of suggests that too without actually mentioning it..

KjGarly wrote:

Cuttooth wrote:

• Why will it? It's stranded on an uninhabited moon. Nothing suggests the alien at the end is going to spawn all the eggs in Alien.

Of course it won't, not the same planet/moon from Alien. But if it was the same location then it could. A drone can become a queen if one doesn't exist. Or so I read in one of the Aliens novels And Alien 3 sort of suggests that too without actually mentioning it..

Cuttooth wrote:I still think the original, cut idea for the eggs in Alien is better than the insect colony one that came about. Gives the xenomorph that unsettling nature of a perfect virus and the realisation of what all those eggs used to be.