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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] So I saw this on bootleg and, after laughing through it with friends the first time, decided to give it a second viewing because, hey, I did not like Blade Runner when I first saw it either. Upon second viewing, I still thought it was awful- for many many reasons- First, it suffers the bane of all prequels- it does not work with the later movies. At all. I mean...so much is wrong there- where is the pyramid(s) in thelater movies? Or the "many other ships"? You'd assume the colonists from [i]Ailens[/i] would've noticed that- I mean, they did not just stick an entire bazilion dollar terraforming colony there without a basic surevey, right?. The crashed spaceship was driving distance from the colony after all, but I'm guessing Scott could care less about the movies after Alien. Then there's the massive scale changes to the set where the Navigator/"space jockey" was found- in Alien, Ridley Scott wanted a bigger set than the budget allowed so he had three miniature spacesuits made up and put his children in them for the initial approach to the Jockey (seated pilot engineer) so everthing would be 2-3 times larger. In this movie, they just discarded the idea, making the set 1/4 the scale...which is odd considerig they had the budget and effects to do anything they wanted. Then there's stuff like the second sarcogaphus with another Engineer in stasis- never mentioned again or seen in later movies, and of course, those props are not in Alien at all. And then there's the terrible junk science- like the abortion alien somehow gaining enough mass to fill that entire chamber- from what exactly? It grew super huge super fast on a steady diet of [i]nothing[/i]. Maybe it was paper thin and filled with air. ;) And in the future it seems all pretense at professionalism or scientifc method has been tossed out the airlock- not to mention [i]any[/i] shred of common sense when dealing with contanimation. The main scientist (whom I think of as "dumbass") starts right off by endangering everyone by removing his helmet- sure the sensors detected nothing bad...but why would they? If there was alien pathogens or viruses, there woulud be no baseline to compare against. And the bozo gets shitfaced after returning to the ship- because nothing is smarter than getting hammered on the ship with no leadership, where two of the eight "scientists" just told him they quit, the "Captain" abandons his post and the two losers stranded in the spooky alien pyramid- for some nookie...the other two bridge crew must have been filming it or something as they're no where to be seen. But hey, later on they happily sacrifice their lives for the captain- despite there being [i]zero[/i] shown to establish any loyalty to him.. The scene where the mian scientist performs surgery on herself was so [i]Ed Wood [/i]bad that me, my roomate and our dates all laughed- the part with the grabber taking the abortion/alien out made us all howl with laughter! It's exactly like the grabber novelty machine, only with a slimey pissed off squid instead of a stuffed toy....then she gets STAPLED up and is up and running around?!? Noooooooooo waaaaaay innnnn heeeelllll. She was held together with staples and fear, but she was opened up at the [i]upper[/i] abdomen- you cant even stand up if that area is damaged, yet she's moving and grooving into her Spiderman(!) wet suit in minutes. And, of course, no sci-fi monster movie would be complete without a flamethrower...having one on a[i] spaceship [/i]is about the dumbest thing ever....except for the baby grand piano. [i]Nothing[/i] beats that. In an escape pod that thing would be a 500 lb flying object in the cabin. Possibly worst of all is the utter and complete rip off of the X-Files for the alien black goo- Ripoff checklist: Black goo is alien's purest form, moves by itself. Check Humans are the result of alien black goo? Check. Black goo when ingested causes massive changes and or unkillability? Check. Aliens plan on wiping out humand for....well, just [i]because[/i]. Check. And David the incredibly advanced android can not only read the language of the Engineers but he can somefuckinghow SPEAK AND PRONOUNCE THE LANGUAGE!!! No...just..[i]hell[/i] no. And of course, since no one is in charge, no one demands he translate all that writing for everyone else..it's like a D&D party where everyone is trying to out-screw over the others. Lastly, and it's not generally known, Dan Obannon, when he wrote the original Alien, wanted to make the men in the audience squirm on a psychological level so he filled the script with all sorts of oral rape, bloody births, etc and Scott and Geiger took it further with the vaginal openings all over the ship and the vaguely phallic look of the ship as it sticks up in to the sky. In this movie Scott has abandoned any pretense at subtelty and gone for the full hentai approach- tenticles shaped like penises shooting down guy's throats? Give me a break, Ridley. If the budget was not so huge and you took Scott's name off it, it would be a Scyfi movie of the week- Sharktopus 2: the Origin. After discussing this at length at the traditional pre-internet forum for such things, a diner, the consensus is that what was most lacking from the movie was characters you can give a shit about and any scary or suprising moments whatsoever. While the original Scott epic will be forever creepy and suspenseful, this was...it was bad. [i]Real[/i] bad. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [qb] If you want a little help in sorting the Prometheus-WhatGoesWhere out, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$4 Here's a [URL=http://i.imgur.com/2dh6K.jpg]helpful guide.[/URL] [/qb][/QUOTE]Regarding this chart, it does not explain a few glaring plot holes- like why the black-goo containers turned into eggs with facehuggers inside them or where the laser tripwire John Hurt's character falls through comes from. My bootleg ends where the credits start- is there some extra super-extra-extended scene showing the Engineer going back, sitting in the navigation chair and the chestburster pops out of him, lays a bunch of eggs, cleans up the frothing containers, sets the laser tripwire and the distres beacon, hides the human bodies scattered about, buries the crashed escape pod (with it's fucking piano) and then...er...hides out on the [i]other[/i] Engineer ship we see female scientist and her pet severed head taking off to go find the engineer's planet of origin to...um...get killed [i]there[/i] by them? Man, they should have made a comic book miniseries to explain the plot holes like was done for [i]Star Trek[/i]. All abject disapointment aside, Michael Fassbender is excellent- truly evil while still being somehow hypnotic in his portrayal. He gets top grades in a class full of failures. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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