Saw this was on Disney+, trying to watch it now.
Got as far as the scene with the back-burster in the medical room, and honestly, I'm finding it hard going. I got to the point where a second person slips and falls in the same place and I'm almost ready to turn it off.
Why do the people who make the Alien franchise not understand the first two movies at all? Everyone in Prometheus and this are morons! Cartographers who get lost! Colonists who think the best way to see if a planet is safe is to land and stomp around the place, disturbing bio-matter like plants and spores! These are meant to be smart people, why are they such fools?
<Guy obviously breathing heavy and looking pallid>
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
<No more investigation warranted in this first foray in an alien biosphere>
For ****'s sake.
Alien and Aliens are extremely tight movies in terms of scripting and characterisation. They have casts of sensible characters who make good (or at least understandable) decisions, who only die/lose because they're crushed by the enormity of the terrible situation in which they find themselves. Some of them panic; they're human - but in reasonable ways. They make their mistakes after everything goes to ****, not before.
This is yet another horror movie where I'm secretly rooting for the Alien to eviscerate this entire band of "people you'd probably end up having to do a group project with".
Got as far as the scene with the back-burster in the medical room, and honestly, I'm finding it hard going. I got to the point where a second person slips and falls in the same place and I'm almost ready to turn it off.
Why do the people who make the Alien franchise not understand the first two movies at all? Everyone in Prometheus and this are morons! Cartographers who get lost! Colonists who think the best way to see if a planet is safe is to land and stomp around the place, disturbing bio-matter like plants and spores! These are meant to be smart people, why are they such fools?
<Guy obviously breathing heavy and looking pallid>
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
<No more investigation warranted in this first foray in an alien biosphere>
For ****'s sake.
Alien and Aliens are extremely tight movies in terms of scripting and characterisation. They have casts of sensible characters who make good (or at least understandable) decisions, who only die/lose because they're crushed by the enormity of the terrible situation in which they find themselves. Some of them panic; they're human - but in reasonable ways. They make their mistakes after everything goes to ****, not before.
This is yet another horror movie where I'm secretly rooting for the Alien to eviscerate this entire band of "people you'd probably end up having to do a group project with".
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