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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] [QUOTE]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 Ailens 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.[/QUOTE]The planet in Alien/Aliens is LV-426, the Prometheus-planet is LV-223, they repeat it many times. The climate is different, the topography is different. Both are located in the Zeta II Reticuli star system, but since star systems are bigger than solar systems, they could be very far apart. [QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]Again, different planet, different ship. [QUOTE]Possibly worst of all is the utter and complete rip off of the X-Files for the alien black goo[/QUOTE]Yeah the X-files didn't invent that, it's a trope along with Men in Black, grey big-eyed aliens and shapeshifters. Furthermore, the stuff in the X-files is sentient and mindcontrolling, the Engineers in Prometheus use their liquid as a catalyst. Why it works differently in different situations is discussed in the article I linked before. [QUOTE] 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 nothing. Maybe it was paper thin and filled with air.[/QUOTE]Despite the fact that there are species on earth that live their lives without eating, just working with the sustenance present in their bodies at birth, growing quickly from birth has been an Alien staple since the first Alien-movie. None of the Xenomorphs eat, the reach adult size in one or two days and their anatomy is silicon-based! Any earth biology preconceptions can be left at the door. [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.[/QUOTE]The eggs and the cylinders are not the same objects. Alien queens lay eggs, the containers just stood in an antechamber. The eggs of "Alien" were laid in another ship's cavernous cargo hold or similar room. The biosensitive field covering the eggs wasn't a laser field, it was just created by lasers by the film crew, most likely it was a bioluminescent pheromone field or such, floating above ground due to being lighter than the gas surrounding the eggs. Lots of animals on earth create perimeter sensors in their habitat, allowing them to notice a change in air pressure or scent and attack the unlucky stranger. [QUOTE]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.[/QUOTE]That's been in the franchise ever since the first facehugger (Kane got dick in his throat too, Ash stares at the sonogram of it), and [URL=http://imgur.com/1tdqd]famously by James Cameron in Aliens[/URL]. Anyway, "give me a break"? Are your sensitivities suddenly offended by sci-fi gore? My theater cheered at that scene, finally some crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned sci-fi shock stuff, [URL=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bK9Q7hv7yx8/TYPU0pOwvLI/AAAAAAAAA-M/zr2L-YZ8Wto/s1600/theblob881.jpg]like in "The Blob".[/URL] You don't put a battle tank/whaling harpoon/tentacle monster in a room in a movie unless you mean to use it, and they delivered. The new "Total Recall" remake with Colin Farrell is nice and PG-13 now, director Len Wiseman copping out from (and diluting) the Verhoeven-legacy at every turn. Guaranteed to offend no one. The choice of actors was poor for the supporting cast in "Prometheus", and Charlize Theron shouldn't even have been there, she just hogged the camera and chewed scenery, likewise they could've done more with showing engineer culture or showed other species that came looking and failed, but I hope they make a sequel that delves more into that. I liked Fassbender, but he took most of his cues from Ian Hurt and Lance Henriksen, especially after his "accident". The synthesized, hollow voice was almost a perfect imitation of Ash's "You have my sympathy"-speech. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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