Comments on: Random SF movie thought

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:53:08 +0000

You know, since they lost the veterans of vaudeville Hollywood has been getting schlockier and schlockier.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:51:40 +0000

No Howard, not intelligent design, but unintelligent design.

By: Howard Tayler

Howard Tayler — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:36:01 +0000

Evolved? Obviously the Alien species is the product of Intelligent Design!

(In this case the designer was H.R. Giger, and his design got passed along to a committee of movie producers, screenwriters, and special-effects technicians. Oh. The. Horror.)

By: Lil Mamzer

Lil Mamzer — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:40:55 +0000

It also seems somewhat inefficient and redundant for the alien to have evolved the retractable inner set of jaws and teeth. If it’s the carnivore’s equivalent of a salad fork, meant to facilitate getting into those hard to reach crevices to get the last bits of meat, I don’t buy it. Table manners don’t seem that important to the alien species. We gave that thing a nickname: The Nibbler.

By: Lil Mamzer

Lil Mamzer — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:35:59 +0000

I had to endure multiple showings of AvP (I’m just too lenient).
You’re right, the alien hordes grow without any any apparent food source. You’d also think they would get really dehydrated along the way, what with all that alien-mucus slicking up the joint.
Did you notice that in the first few movies, it took about a day (or longer) for the alien bug to bust through his host’s chest cavity, but in this one it was about a half-hour’s time?
Why didn’t Norad see this huge Predator space ship flying around?
What’s the pan-galactic fascination with sliding cut stone walls, floors, and ceilings in creepy temples?
And how exactly do those things work?
Why didn’t what’s-her-name freeze her tuchus off running around the South Pole in a t-shirt at the end?

By: Howard Tayler

Howard Tayler — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:27:40 +0000

We see that a LOT in big-screen and small-screen SF, and the Aliens series is one of the worst offenders. Despite the fact that those films play some cool “science” bits into the story, I’m afraid they’re not SF. They’re fantasy movies with “rockets and ray-guns.”

Star Wars and Star Trek are the same way. You could replace Emperor Palpatine with some lightning-powered sorceror, the Death Star with a really big castle, and the story wouldn’t change a bit.