I don't think watching "Alien" is going to clear up any mysteries for you. Really, it may even raise MORE questions. I'd still recommend watching it though, if only because it helped define the horror/slasher films we see today.
As for David (warning; spoilers), I think he wasn't supposed to be evil so much as he was totally devoted to Weyland and would do anything to help him. That's why he keeps poking around, looking for something that might help his "father" prolong his life. A friend and I also have a theory that the reason he spikes the drink is because he wanted to see what it would do, since maybe it was a regenerative gel for all he knew. Yes, it was a bit of a malicious act, but I don't think David was flat-out evil.
All that being said, I pretty much agree with your review.
"It was assured to me that he was programmed evil"
By who? I didn't get that at all.
It seemed to me that he has complete independence of thought and, learning from his environment like a child would, he thinks that it's normal to hate your father (based on the behaviour of his 'step-sister'). He is fairly baffled by the idea of being excited about meeting your creators since he's surrounded by the race that created him, sees very little reason to be excited about them and in fact holds them in contempt.
but without having seen Alien I don't know if it was even answered there
I really don't think it is.
There were weak if any motives for character's actions and you had to suspend rather a lot of disbelief to go along with it.Where did you have to suspend disbelief? She's in line to inherit the company from her father, but he wants immortality and treats a robot as his "heir" rather than her. In an operation she should be in charge of, she is kept out of the loop and her father will only confide in the robot. I was a little
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Interesting. I guess I feel that by the time I was given the information to grasp a lot of the things you've explained here, I possibly no longer cared or the information came so briefly and there was a need for so much of it that it all felt very passed over
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Interesting. I guess I feel that by the time I was given the information to grasp a lot of the things you've explained here, I possibly no longer cared or the information came so briefly and there was a need for so much of it that it all felt very passed over.
While I'm sure you have probably had enough of explanations of the movie, I have to recommend this LJ article from cavalorn whose studies into paganism (being a pagan himself) produced some interesting ideas. Worryingly though, his conclusion is that 'space Jesus' is the reason the Engineers are coming to destroy the human race. (I think you'll need to read the article to understand that point, though trust me, Cavalorn has a pretty thorough argument in place.) If you are at all intrigued, check out the article here. (It's quite entertaining.): http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html
Maybe slasher isn't the right word, but that was exactly the experience I had with the movie. Do you think there's a better genre to
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As for David (warning; spoilers), I think he wasn't supposed to be evil so much as he was totally devoted to Weyland and would do anything to help him. That's why he keeps poking around, looking for something that might help his "father" prolong his life. A friend and I also have a theory that the reason he spikes the drink is because he wanted to see what it would do, since maybe it was a regenerative gel for all he knew. Yes, it was a bit of a malicious act, but I don't think David was flat-out evil.
All that being said, I pretty much agree with your review.
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By who? I didn't get that at all.
It seemed to me that he has complete independence of thought and, learning from his environment like a child would, he thinks that it's normal to hate your father (based on the behaviour of his 'step-sister'). He is fairly baffled by the idea of being excited about meeting your creators since he's surrounded by the race that created him, sees very little reason to be excited about them and in fact holds them in contempt.
but without having seen Alien I don't know if it was even answered there
I really don't think it is.
There were weak if any motives for character's actions and you had to suspend rather a lot of disbelief to go along with it.Where did you have to suspend disbelief? She's in line to inherit the company from her father, but he wants immortality and treats a robot as his "heir" rather than her. In an operation she should be in charge of, she is kept out of the loop and her father will only confide in the robot. I was a little ( ... )
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While I'm sure you have probably had enough of explanations of the movie, I have to recommend this LJ article from cavalorn whose studies into paganism (being a pagan himself) produced some interesting ideas. Worryingly though, his conclusion is that 'space Jesus' is the reason the Engineers are coming to destroy the human race. (I think you'll need to read the article to understand that point, though trust me, Cavalorn has a pretty thorough argument in place.) If you are at all intrigued, check out the article here. (It's quite entertaining.):
http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html
Maybe slasher isn't the right word, but that was exactly the experience I had with the movie. Do you think there's a better genre to ( ... )
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