I didn't care for the script (though the second draft was an improvement). However I liked both the comic and audio adaptations. Go figure.I'm curious about what folks here think of William Gibson's Alien III script. I read it many years ago; it has Hicks and Bishop as the protagonists, not Ripley. I think this is the main reason Fox didn't go with it: they wanted to keep the focus on Ripley's character.
Just today I found out that Audible released an audio drama of it last year starring Michael Biehn and Lance Henrikson, which I am going to buy. Hopefully it is as good as it sounds like it will be.
Yes it is. David is taking orders from Weyland, so Weyland can become immortal. Everything else is secondary to that.It's not explained in the film.
It shows the audience that something bad happened ("It got out" as Janek later says), rather than having someone explain it, raising the tension. A roar very similar to the Deacon at the end can be heard on the recording. Following the holograms also leads them to the ampule room.Why those holos? I don't know... I think it's a fast way to explain the audience the fate of the ship, without complications or a well worked script.
Not unknown. Three people - Holloway, David and Ford - mention how safe the atmosphere is before they take their helmets off.inside an unknown atmosphere
He says why in the film. "I wanted to meet them".Holloway is drunk and looks depressed. Why? I don't know.
As you said yourself - he's drunk.Then he accepts the black goo inside the glass (maybe he is a bit blind).
As far as we know, after it's removed from Shaw, it's dead.In the other hand, the squid is inside the med-bay growing and growing but nobody cares.
They're alien fodder in terms of the story and not overly important. Much like most of the prisoners in Alien 3. Except many of those guys had names and the Prometheus crew generally didn't.It seems nobody cares too much about the dead crew.
David - who can understand the Engineer language - tells her they want to go to Earth to destroy it. Shaw, Janek and Vickers had more or less already worked this out however from seeing the ampules in the ship's hold.Suddenly, Shaw knows in a magical way (because I don't know why) that engineers want to kill humanity.
Chance and Ravel were in many scenes with lots of dialogue throughout the film. Also, look up 'gallows humour'.Janek laughing as always with other two characters we don't know because they have not spoken a word in the entire film suicide crashing the Prometheus against the engineer ship... no doubts, no fears. Then it comes the running under the shadow of the engineer ship scene.
David helps Shaw because Shaw is the only one who can help David. Otherwise he'd be stranded. He doesn't become a "good guy" as Covenant clearly shows.- After the last fight scene, David suddenly becomes a good guy. After killing his boyfriend, David helps Shaw to escape the planet.
There's a scene of David talking to Weyland in hypersleep using the visor helmet. The next scene, Vickers is suspicious, which is why she confronts him afterwards asking "What did he (Weyland) say?" David replies "Try harder." This leads to David poisoning Charlie's drink. Before this no one has any reason to suspect David.For example, you say that David is following instructions from Weyland. It's a really feasible explanation, of course; but I didn't see Wayland giving orders to David so I only see an android doing suspicious actions and no character cares about that
You can make an argument that it wasn't a smart move to take the helmets off (someone back on Prometheus warns them not to), but it's not an unknown atmosphere. And ultimately it wouldn't have made any difference. There was nothing wrong with the atmosphere.Another example, when people remove their helmets. Yes, Holloway, David and Ford advised about that... but if I was there I would have said: "Ok, I can breathe this atmosphere, you are expert scientist in those things, but my instinct says that better not".
No, she doesn't. She says they have to leave. For obvious reasons - Millburn and Charlie are dead, Fifield is missing. And she just extracted an alien squid monster from her belly. There's no mention of the Engineers wanting to destroy Earth until later.Or Shaw begins saying that engineers want to destroy Earth when she removed the squid from her belly
It's not two seconds. Janek tells Shaw the goo can't get back to Earth and that he will do whatever he has to to make sure it doesn't. That's when he decides he may have to die to ensure it doesn't. When the time comes, he doesn't have time to sit back on ponder; he has to act.Or Janek crashing the engineer ship... I don't say that crashing is not credible, I say that there is no tension in the scene, they crash and die as they are going for a walk. To die is a difficult decision, but here it's taken in two seconds.
It's true that the pacing and editing is choppy, particularly in the second half, and it often feels like the film is spinning its wheels, and dumb things happen (the guy with the map gets lost) and there's continuity issues (after the hangar fight with the Fifield monster was recut) but many questions have explanations if one is paying attention.In Prometheus the plot advances by fits and starts with easy and abrupt explanations or without any at all.
I don't agree that it's all about the Company and its dark secrets. For mine it's about people encountering and overcoming monsters (sometimes those monsters are also human). The Company is definitely a major factor, but that's not what the series is about.To me this contrast - the amazing first movie, and the other movies that all, more or less, fail to be as good as the original - is the issue. There just has to be a good story. I can write pages about what I think has gone wrong with the franchise, but if I just should pick one thing it would be: the core story is really about the Company and it’s dark secrets. The xenomorphs are just a body horror example. Instead of repeating the same drama - surprised humans encounter the hive - it would have been more interesting to know more about the Company. The corporate bosses are the real monsters to me. Alex White, the writer of The Cold Forge, agreed with me on that one (there is a recorded interview with him, Google and you will find it, and no I didn’t make the interview).