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post by
arilliusbm
at 2012-06-09 11:28:51
All right, here goes:
To start, I'll just say that I enjoyed the concept and approach a lot. 10/10 on that part. I love movies that venture into the area that this movie did. It's not every day that these kind of movies come out. The special effects and art were mind-blowing. How can one not appreciate the movie from and artistic point of view? I really love the way they made the Engineers look. They were human, yet alien at the same time. They were everything I would imagine what our species will look like with thousands and thousands of years of evolution. They were creepy, yet struck at home because of their similarity to us.
I think the only real negative things I can pull from the movie more or less have to do with the film-making aspect of it. Ridley Scott has done better. There were a number of scenes which were downright cliched, namely the scene when Milburn and Fifield (bong-smoking redhead) encountered the premature worm creature. It was a scene that was easily predictable, and cheesy at the same time. In fact, I think both of those characters were lackluster. After the suspenseful buildup, that scene kind of ruined it.
I'm really hoping there's a number of deleted scenes on the dvd/bluray release, because some of the movie seemed quite rushed. Dr. Holloway's character was killed off way too soon, IMHO. The development of his "sickness" had no real substance behind it. I understand that David (STOLE THE SHOW, BY THE WAY), caused that, but yet, a character of his stature should have held a better role as the movie went along.
The atmosphere in this movie was astounding. The ideas and creativity is all there. Ridley Scott never fails to amaze me on a lot of levels, yet to say that this is a 10/10 or his best movie is hard for me to do. There was also some bad dialogue in the movie; and some scenes which were, at times, laughable. Vickers' demise and death was as predictable as they come, yet left me shaking my head. It was a horrible way to go, yet memorable, but I think that was somewhat of a joke. Also, why did Weyland look like old Biff from Back to the Future? I was hoping his cane would have a fist on the top.
As Mike said above, the Xenomorph at the end of the movie was differeent than the one that came out of Kane. I viewed that particular Alien as a "super Alien" because of the advanced evolved state of the Engineer in which it came out of. In regards to the movie as being the origin of the xenomorph, I don't think it was. I think it SHOWED us what created them, but obviously, wasn't the origin. The mural on the wall depicted a full-grown adult Xenomorph alien, which led me to believe that they already knew for years, what they turned into. There must have been a freak accident on LV-223 which led to their demise on that station. They carbon-dated the death of the original Engineer and she said it had died roughly 2000 years ago. So yea, the xenomorphs had been around for longer than we thought.
Too much typing. Movie would be a great discussion over a beer.
I'll up my review to 8/10.
All in all, I definitely loved the movie but it had its flaws. I would love to see it again, and am anticipating the sequel.
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