It is kind of a bad thing to say that AvP made sense for what it was. It was internally consistent and its plot didn't have any real issues. It worked, even if its not the pinacle of film making, it was what it was.
I agree. It's kind of a 1980s Volvo stationwagon of action movies; reliable workhorse, not the prettiest-looking, or the classiest, but dependable and practical.
Nothing really wrong with it as far as I can recall (it was years since I last saw it), except as I mentioned that I felt it was a bit short. If they'd had more money and able to add maybe 20 more minutes of good-quality scenes maybe that would have helped, or maybe it wouldn't.
Aliens, in comparison, has such a well-crafted cast with awesome personalities and great actors. The environments are tight and claustrophobic, and the overall mood is just plain creepy and scary. When Ripley and Hicks go to rescue Newt and cut her out from under the metal grating, and then retreat back up the elevator... That whole sequence is just full of tension and suspense, with a masterful shock moment towards the end.
Then there's a brief period of relief when they, the last two survivors, join up with Bishop and see the dropship come in for a landing, before we realize Ripley's gearing up to wade back in there... That movie really can't be surpassed, IMO. It's already up there at the very top. You could match it, possibly, but not even Jim Cameron's been able to do that. AvP is maybe in the best form it possibly could be, and adding to it or changing things might unstabilize the whole thing...
I expected it to be bad, but geeze, it was awful as far as I am concerned. It has almost no redeeming qualities, especially the script.
I liked - as in REALLY liked - Fassbender's performance. Even though it was obvious right from the start that he was screwy in the head (psychotic actually, but that takes a little while to show itself), it was still a well-performed act. Idris Elba I didn't even recognize after having seen Thor. And Charlize Theron's always great IMO. One of the most versatile actresses active in hollywood cinema right now.
But the script was fucking crap! Lol.
It seems like just a bunch of random scenes thrown together designed to put the crew in danger/kill them. The deaths seemed senseless and meaningless. To me there was like no tension being built up.
Yeah, well...you do walk into the theatre of that movie with the pre-concieved expectation that pretty much everyone in the cast will die anyway, don't you? So it's hard to really surprise the audience when people start dying on the screen, I'm willing to grant the movie that much leeway.
When the "I like rocks!" geologist takes off from the main group, together with that snake-loving nutter whatever his name and job was...you knew right from the start they were gonna get lost and die. With all the technology they had at their disposal I don't understand how that could happen, they could just have contacted the ship to get guided back out again...but yeah. There you have it. That's a scripting problem.
I did like the fight in the docking bay though. That one was effing freaky. The monster looks...well, dead really, when you first get to see it. And then it turns out quite differently! So that was a cool scene for me anyway. Like, things suddenly go REALLY pearshaped and you don't know exactly how bad it will get by the end of the fight. I like those kinds of moments, there's seldom such scenes in action/horror movies - or rarely successful ones anyway - but when they work it's great. And it worked this time IMO. It's one of the few really working sequences in Prometheus that I have nothing to complain about.
(Of course, Aliens has such a scene too, when the marines are all down under the heat exchangers, trying to rescue the colonists...)
Haha, wow. Holy crap indeed. That ranks up there among the Earth being cooked by infrared radiation because the magnetic field was going to shut down...
Lol wow. That's The Core, isn't it? I never saw that movie, just the concept seemed too dumbfuck stupid to bother wasting any money on.
I wonder why it is that scriptwriters are so profoundly ignorant of the natural sciences if it is like conservatives say, that hollywood is a liberal intellectual elite...?
