Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

innerSpaceman · 06-11-2012, 10:43 AM

Me? I don't care about the implausibility of scientific procedures and alien processes in a sci-fi movie? Really? The last scientifically-plausible science fiction move was 2001 in 1968. The book has been thrown out since then.

The thing that really, really, super bugged me was:

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But I actually enjoyed the film up till the last 20 minutes, when it went too far gay.

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. Other than that, the film was fun, gorgeous to look at (and 3-D that was pretty and not overdone), had some fun characters, and fun Try-To-Top-Ripley situations for its heroine. As mentioned above, many things were unbelievably dumb - but I've long since abandoned wondering how such things can get past the script and production stages of a zillion-dollar motion picture.

Overall I liked it. But I went into the, um, Alien Prequel expecting a pulp sci-fi horror film. What was everyone else expecting??

06-11-2012, 10:43 AM	#1
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Me? I don't care about the implausibility of scientific procedures and alien processes in a sci-fi movie? Really? The last scientifically-plausible science fiction move was 2001 in 1968. The book has been thrown out since then. The thing that really, really, super bugged me was: Spoiler: Why go to the great lengths to precisely set up the exact photo-perfect situation encountered in the original Alien - only to depart from that a few minutes later, and hence make that very careful set up never having happened ... so that the situation encountered in Alien was ... what? Yet another of the buried spaceships that happened to have yet another lone surviving Engineer who was also awakened somehow??? This was a too-cute set-up turned into a giant WTF? for me. But I actually enjoyed the film up till the last 20 minutes, when it went too far gay. Spoiler: I can buy the Engineer being anti-human, but the murderous rage of killing spree was ridiculous ... and saving the Earth is one sci-fi cliche that I cannot stand anymore . Other than that, the film was fun, gorgeous to look at (and 3-D that was pretty and not overdone), had some fun characters, and fun Try-To-Top-Ripley situations for its heroine. As mentioned above, many things were unbelievably dumb - but I've long since abandoned wondering how such things can get past the script and production stages of a zillion-dollar motion picture. Overall I liked it. But I went into the, um, Alien Prequel expecting a pulp sci-fi horror film. What was everyone else expecting??
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