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andrewduckerI spent most of the walk/bus trip back home working out all the epicly stupid things in the film.
And then I saw that my friend Scott had linked to this review, which happily lists lots of them, so I don't have to.
The big two I thought of that he doesn't list are:
1) that they take their helmets off when the air is breathable. Which boiled my blood to the "they all deserve to die" level. Because who goes in search of mankind's creators and doesn't imagine that they might share diseases with us?
2) Could they not have run the script past one fucking biologist and tried to get _them_ to think of a few plausible answers? If the aliens created mankind in their own image (with "identical DNA", whatever that's supposed to mean) then why are we so closely related to numerous other species? The whole "I choose to believe" line that was used as a riposte there had me wanting to fling Elizabeth Shaw out of the nearest airlock.
But frankly I could start poking even more small holes in it, but my blood pressure doesn't need it.
Plus points: Looks gorgeous, great sound, very tense, nice visual design.
Minus points: Written by one of the people behind Lost and the Star Trek reboot. And it really shows. Could have been a much, much, better movie in the hands of a decent writer who can actually grapple with big ideas, characters and plot at the same time.
And then I saw that my friend Scott had linked to this review, which happily lists lots of them, so I don't have to.
The big two I thought of that he doesn't list are:
1) that they take their helmets off when the air is breathable. Which boiled my blood to the "they all deserve to die" level. Because who goes in search of mankind's creators and doesn't imagine that they might share diseases with us?
2) Could they not have run the script past one fucking biologist and tried to get _them_ to think of a few plausible answers? If the aliens created mankind in their own image (with "identical DNA", whatever that's supposed to mean) then why are we so closely related to numerous other species? The whole "I choose to believe" line that was used as a riposte there had me wanting to fling Elizabeth Shaw out of the nearest airlock.
But frankly I could start poking even more small holes in it, but my blood pressure doesn't need it.
Plus points: Looks gorgeous, great sound, very tense, nice visual design.
Minus points: Written by one of the people behind Lost and the Star Trek reboot. And it really shows. Could have been a much, much, better movie in the hands of a decent writer who can actually grapple with big ideas, characters and plot at the same time.
