Quote from: Salt The Fries on Aug 04, 2017, 06:22:44 PM
You just said that coz I said a reasonable thing and you can't refute it
Lot of stuff said in this thread is reasonable, but the gymnastics people like you are doing to smooth over all this stuff that doesn't fit is ridiculous. You've put more energy into it than Ridley himself. In fact, I'll go you one further: Ridley doesn't give a rat's ass about any of it.
Alien is a movie he made a long time ago. What he's doing now is other stuff, but he's abusing Alien's reputation to do it. And he surely had the studio telling him, "Put the alien in that." So he did, but he did it in this half-assed way that mangles the pacing and story flow of his movies while reducing the creature to nothing noteworthy, a bug to squash.
Some of you people are eating it up, yum yum. Ridley's laughing 'cause all he cares about is big bald white folk who may or may not have made us and androids with ai imperatives that resemble skynet's programming. Some of you think that's great. Maybe it is. As I said earlier, David making the Alien is not a continuity issue. It does change the whole story.
If the movies were actually better movies, it might be fine. But the movies we're getting are just not that great. They have serious problems with flow, pacing, story presentation, character development, internal logic, and so on. The energy you and other people here spend to resolve the problems with these deeply flawed movies is remarkable. This overgrown thread is a testament to all that.