Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Jun 07, 2012, 02:55:20 AM
All this talk about character development....when I think back to the alien series....I only remember one to 2 main characters with plausible development per film.
I think what people are saying is the the characters are well defined even with the little time they get. You know in Alien that the mechanic slack offs are mechanics and slack offs, they dont want to search they just want their money and they screw around down below. Hudson is a goof who doesnt want to be there, Vasquez is the tough chick that can be on the level with men, Gorman is the rookie officer that is trying to seem experienced, etc.
****some spoiler BTW... but we all saw this movie who are here reading at this point, right?****In this film we dont get a lot of definition. To tell you the truth.... i still dont know what Vickers is suppose to be doing there. I know she is the jealous daughter that wants her pop dead to finally take over but on the ship.... she was there to kill her old man? Laugh at him when he failed? In the beginning of the film Weyland says Shaw and Holloway are basically in charge of the mission but we spend the rest of the film with Janek and Vicker fighting over command. Vickers clearly want this to fail yet Dave is in there getting direct commands and they just let her try to stop this? Why? I guess Weyland wants to gloat too?
And im sorry but Janek to me came off worst than Gorman, all this stuff happens on the ship with his people and he never really does anything. His moments i guess were when he burns Super Fif and when he crashes into the ship but those action dont really give that much flavor. And lets not even talk about his two co-pilots that just spent the whole movie talking about a bet. I didnt even know what their jobs were which is sad cause in the first film one person sits with star charts, one pilots, one goes for communication, it's clearly defined at the start.
Then there's security man that gets one line and i dont think we see again, which just brings up the question..... did they need that line to explain why there were flame throwers? I guess they did that because in the first film they didnt have flame throwers and they made some up. But who remembers that but the fans? And i dont think we would complain about that, right?
Fif and Milburn are really just Scooby and Shaggy. A geologist that barks and howls at his machines and has a helmet bong and a botanist who is afraid about alien life but the first time he sees one he treats it like little toy. Oh and they get lost while knowing their grid position. They really should have just thrown a scooby snack reference.
I think the big difference is that in the first few flicks we get dialogue giving a bit of character while in this film we get more actions to define the character and these two methods do end up working differently because, using Vickers, we clearly know that she does not want this mission to succeed based on her actions but we dont really know until the very end when get that one line of dialogue and that point.... the movie is over.....why would we care? What is done is done.