I watched Prometheus...
...and it was really entertaining. Also the 3D in it worked much better for me than in Avengers (the only other film I've watched in 3D), though I still find the 3€ extra charge for 3D quite outrageous, when the cinema already cost 8.50€, and it wasn't even one of the more expensive weekend slots.
I appreciated that I could mostly follow the plot without being familiar with Alien. I mean, of course I know the general premise of the first Alien movie, and I once saw a Giger exhibition at a comic con that showed a bit of the concept art, but I never managed to watch the whole movie. I tried twice when it was on tv, but fell asleep both times. So all the different stages of the creature confused me a bit, and made me unsure how the events tied together. I had vaguely thought it laid eggs in people and then the grown aliens hatch from the human, or that it laid eggs outside, they hatch as larvae enter humans and infect them, and then hatch. But clearly there are more forms, like oozing slime and slithering worms?
I'm still not sure what was going on in the opening scene when the humanoid alien committed suicide. I mean, why did he kill himself and was the black thing he swallowed the same as the later black ooze that came out of all the containers that were in the ship, that made people sick and then somehow created the alien creatures? So the humanoid aliens made the black slime as weapon, is that supposed to mean they made the creature aliens as weapon and it got out of control, or was the black slime just meant as a biological weapon that destroys DNA and somehow it mutated black worms that were native to the planet as unintended side effect and they unintentionally created monsters that then wiped them out?
Anyway, aside from that confusion, like most people I found Fassbender as creepy android quite awesome, though I hope Shaw will think twice before she puts him fully together again. I really liked Elizabeth Shaw, especially how she managed to escape from David and the medic and get the parasite out with that medical pod, and then later use it to kill the humanoid alien.
On a minor note, re Weyland, Hollywood really needs to learn how to do old age makeup better, or just cast actually old people. I suppose from a Watsonian perspective I could always fanwank that Weyland looked so odd because he must have tried all sorts of anti-aging and escaping-death schemes before this last ditch expedition effort, which all had cumulative side effects or something, but still.
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I appreciated that I could mostly follow the plot without being familiar with Alien. I mean, of course I know the general premise of the first Alien movie, and I once saw a Giger exhibition at a comic con that showed a bit of the concept art, but I never managed to watch the whole movie. I tried twice when it was on tv, but fell asleep both times. So all the different stages of the creature confused me a bit, and made me unsure how the events tied together. I had vaguely thought it laid eggs in people and then the grown aliens hatch from the human, or that it laid eggs outside, they hatch as larvae enter humans and infect them, and then hatch. But clearly there are more forms, like oozing slime and slithering worms?
I'm still not sure what was going on in the opening scene when the humanoid alien committed suicide. I mean, why did he kill himself and was the black thing he swallowed the same as the later black ooze that came out of all the containers that were in the ship, that made people sick and then somehow created the alien creatures? So the humanoid aliens made the black slime as weapon, is that supposed to mean they made the creature aliens as weapon and it got out of control, or was the black slime just meant as a biological weapon that destroys DNA and somehow it mutated black worms that were native to the planet as unintended side effect and they unintentionally created monsters that then wiped them out?
Anyway, aside from that confusion, like most people I found Fassbender as creepy android quite awesome, though I hope Shaw will think twice before she puts him fully together again. I really liked Elizabeth Shaw, especially how she managed to escape from David and the medic and get the parasite out with that medical pod, and then later use it to kill the humanoid alien.
On a minor note, re Weyland, Hollywood really needs to learn how to do old age makeup better, or just cast actually old people. I suppose from a Watsonian perspective I could always fanwank that Weyland looked so odd because he must have tried all sorts of anti-aging and escaping-death schemes before this last ditch expedition effort, which all had cumulative side effects or something, but still.
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