Quote from: Valaquen on Feb 27, 2013, 12:53:53 PM
Spaihts' script demonstrated that he didn't really know the Alien universe very well, and his Aliens were weaker than those in A:CM. I'd rather they get someone proven.
what were the continuity problems? His deacon killed most of the soldiers aboard the prometheus... just by using stealth and brute force... against heavily armed opponents. The Alien that popped out of Watts is killed by pure luck but even he took out an armed opponent beforehand... Weaker than A:CM?
and there's the scene where the Deacon....
QuoteJanek gets the pistol. Flips it in his hand. Fires over his
shoulder. Two, three rounds...
The bullets punch easily into the Alien - but the soft flesh
closes easily over the wounds, sealing its white skin. Its
teeth tighten.
f**k yo pistols, pretty much.
the ultramorph and the "teenage aliens" are the one's that dont put too much of a fight if i remember well... but those fights came down more to sheer luck than by them being "weak".
the lack of acid damage to the ship was my main peeve with his script.. but at least Fifield's acid blood killed Vickers.. very painfully.
And there's a section where Janek says that:
QuoteWe're a modular ship. Self-contained
life-support and power in every
section. I say put the ship in orbit.
Vent every compartment to space. Sit
in vacuum at twenty degrees Kelvin for
a week. Kill anything.
With that, i dont think that localised acid damage would be as much of a problem to the Prometheus as it was to the Nostromo. They can presumably still make it home with a few holes through the ship.
It was just a few drafts away from being a proper shooting script. There was nothing in there that was absurdly terrible and it would've been a better, much more tense ride than the film we got.
Bring him back, i say.