jlaw172364 wrote:
1. The mission cost $1 trillion dollars, yet every person on it behaves so unforgivably stupid, including Weyland.
a. Why would Weyland go in person to meet an alien if he doesn't know in advance how it would react? Oligarchs usually have a better self-preservation instinct.
b. The geologist brings in his "PUPS" to map the building, but then gets lost and can't find his way out, even though this is the future and all kinds of mapping and tracking technologies exist. A look at the 3D schematic reveals the building to be of a relatively simplistic design.
c. You go into an alien building on an alien planet with alien artifacts, so naturally you must : TOUCH EVERYTHING!
d. Why didn't they send bots in to scout things out first? They had David. Why not send him in alone? Why not subject David to closer scrutiny? David demonstrates signs of actually being sentient in the way that humans are. Why would he bother to make come-backs to insults, unless he developed an ego? Part of his programming for realism? In a sense, one could argue that this is a 2001 Space Odyssey reload, with David as HAL, maliciously sabotaging his human masters at every term because he resents being created by them . . . explicitly for the purpose of serving them, when he himself is superior in so many ways. He does make the comment about children wanting to kill their parents . . . yet this has NO resonance with any of the humans. That still doesn't explain why he's allowed to get away with doing all sorts of suspicious things with NO scrutiny or consequences. Poisoning Holloway was just unforgivably dumb. I suppose you could frame it as an "error" in his programming, but that's kind of a cop-out. You might even argue that he's responsible for tricking Weyland into going to meet the Engineer in person, but I don't think the Weyland character would be that stupid, seeing is how he wants to live. Maybe David even insults the Engineer, or tells him that the humans are coming to kill the Engineers, and this is why the Engineer goes berserk. We have no translation of what David said to the Engineer. Ironically, for me, the ambiguities surrounding David's actions were the only redeeming quality of this otherwise execrable film. Had David not been in the film, it wouldn't even be worth discussing.
e. The alien proto-face-hugger impregnated into Shaw gestates pretty quickly. Fine. But then it goes from the size of a cantalope to the size of a giant squid in only a few hours . . . having eaten presumably NOTHING! Where is it getting its energy from? The atmosphere? Did it stumble on a fuel source aboard the ship and use it to fuel its accelerated growth? I must call BULLSHIT on this gimmick. This isn't science. It's magic. Lifeforms may rapidly expand in size on a micro-scale, but not on a macro-scale. They need time, energy, fuel, etc.
f. Every life-form was implaccably hostile to human life. Of course! Because all non-human life-forms on Earth automatically attack and devour everything in sight with no thought to their own safety.
g. The first thing the Engineer does upon confronting non-hostile humanoid beings talking to it politely in its own language is . . . ATTACK them! Of course! There's no point in gathering information, engaging in a parley, as a supposedly superior form of life, you must devolve into a B-movie monster and kill, kill, kill. Maybe he was offended by David's presence? Maybe the creation of AI broke an Engineer taboo? Maybe the figures decribed as Engineers are nothing more than "bio-mechanoid" killers, who are basically warriors who carry out the commands of the real Engineers. Even so, warriors are sophisticated enough to get intel before going on a rampage. It also seems unlikely that he was the only survivor. There were other ships, and other stasis pods that appeared undamaged.
h. The Prometheus ship has NO weapons? No missiles? No lasers? Nothing? All it can do is suicide crash into the Alien ship? The Alien ship has no defenses? What about auto-pilot? Why was it necessary for 3 people to self-sacrifice just to direct a ship at another ship? No software in the future?
There are many more things that can be picked out and critiqued.
Long story short: this movie had no brain. Only special effects, which, really, are no big deal in this day and age, since they are all computer-generated.
Not to mention
1. The engineers worship a giant Alien xenomorph queen, or at least depict on on their engravings at the beginning. YET we're lead to believe that an engineer mixed with a giant trilobyte facehugger squid thing(bore out of a human by way of a mutated human+goo worm thing) =a baby xenomorph(that ending cheesed me out so bad, I felt the scene from Spaceballs was done better)
2. If in every alien film Xenomorphs have to do with the shape of the host, how does a squid+doofus borg looking guy produce a spidery black alien? The FIRST alien in the original film looked very humanoid(the fingers, walked upright, had a human skull you could see), so it makes sense that came from being mixed with a person. The space jockey pilot was massive in the first Alien, and I somehow doubt Scott intended the exoskeleton to be just a suit back then. I do understand the crashing of the ship and the LV planet is not the same at all of the chest bursted jockey in the Derelict ship nor the planet in the 1979 film.
3. But how can an unknown alien ship sustain Noomi Rapace's characters life? Between the soaring hammy music and her and the David robot head soaring off and then the goofy looking baby alien...Im like "yeah Im done with this franchise".
There's more plot holes here than Arlington cemetary
82_28 wrote:Fucking sucked. Saw it tonight. Not really much to report about it. Very formulaic and keeps a haphazard effort at keeping a brand alive. That's my review. It sucks.
Couldn't agree more. Biggest letdown since Phantom Menace.
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