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is so delicious · Joined: 28 Apr 2009

I was REALLY disappointed, and I'm not a film snob and love Ridley Scott and dig the old Aliens movies a lot.

I couldn't wait for it to end. Awful pacing... nothing would happen for twenty minutes at a time, and the atmosphere or direction or whatever was hardly interesting enough to justify it... annoying characters speaking insipid dialogue... TERRIBLE (at best) - nonexistent bad guys, and (SLIGHT SPOILERS, I GUESS) for as ambitious as Ridley Scott usually is, for an expensive sci-fi blockbuster, 90% of it took place in a ship and in a cave! Surprising lack of eye candy.

****ANOTHER SLIGHT SPOILER*****

With such a budget, can't believe how awful the bad guys were. A couple of three foot worm-like creatures?! Seriously?! The original's aliens/special effects were about as good, and that was over thirty years ago!

It basically is the same story as the original series, but way worse. All hype, no delivery. Save your money.

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

northway · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

northway · Joined: 05 Jul 2010

I could have to sit through some crap that makes me want to walk out of the theater.

fermentation · Joined: 22 Jun 2009

Waiting for the director's cut might be a good idea. Look at Kingdom of Heaven.

postfundie · Joined: 28 May 2004

love Ridley Scott but this one was a let down...agree with the poster who wrote that the characters act like they are in a teen slasher movie, not scientists. The Android is cool, and Charlize wears her tight space suit quite well. Nice pretty pictures of the distant world, other than that the film is perfect for mystery science theater..

when the old CEO gets suited up, and he's all hunched over, I kept expecting him to say "Hey Mcfly, You're Marty Mcfly's kid aren't you"

during the entire birthing scene, I kept thinking "but don't you want hold your baby?"

several times there are helicopter shots of them driving their vehicles into that temple down that long road and I thought it would have been perfect to play The Prodigy's "Stand Up" from Kick-Ass

the co-pilots deciding to join the Captain in crashing the ship have a I-got-nothing-better-to-do-today-so-might-as-welll-committ-suicide-with-the-captain-hunkydory,-okiedokie attitude.

Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Not Korea

Savant · Joined: 25 May 2007

MattAwesome · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

i liked it. not the greatest, but let me feeling excited not about future sequels. i hope nobody takes a page from george lucas's book.

Deep philosophical questions met with familiar characters were quite a treat. however, leaving plot holes like that took away consistency that every movie needs to have. some characters knew too much with almost no information and/or acted without any explanation or reasoning.

overall i liked it, and will most likely watch it again when its released on dvd.

Gorf · Joined: 25 Jun 2011

Disappointing. As someone said on another forum, I'd rather expect a movie to be a 7 and have it end up a 6 rather than expect an 11 and have it be a 6. Fassbender was great, but the plot was disjointed and there's plenty of "why would they even do that" moments in the film.

MattAwesome · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

not much of a movie, if everyone left when someone says "ive got a bad feeling about this."

"ya, *beep* this!"

i thought that engineers or whatever they were, the 2 dudes that said the ship was a better place to be than the cave, deciding to leave was a good idea. until they got lost with a full map of the place and decided to poke an alien snake like thing.

transmogrifier · Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Privateer · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Location: Easy Street.

A lot of what the characters do and how they react to things doesn't make sense, but I still liked it. Visually stunning.

fermentation · Joined: 22 Jun 2009

Here's a really interesting take on the movie, although I kinda feel it's reading into it a bit too much.

http://cavalorn.livejournal.com/584135.html#cutid1

While I admit I didn't catch all the metaphors and symbolism in the movie because I anticipated it would be a much more straight forward film like Alien (maybe Alien wasn't such a simple film?), and this does inject a lot more sense into the movie, it still doesn't answer why Ridley Scott would do this at the expense of a coherent story.

Here's a gem for those who were frustrated with the plot.
http://enchantedmitten.blogspot.kr/2003/12/reading-previous-entries-in-this-series.html