Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Jan 06, 2018, 10:03:33 PM
So they strapped the actress/stuntwoman onto a jet powered craft and let her fend for herself while slamming into life-size props at full speed? Those physical/practical stunts don't even remotely compare to what is presented on the screen.
And again, I know mountain climbers, and climbing steep mountains don't prepare you for swinging about attached to a space craft slamming into everything in its surroundings while at the same time one has to fire a gun at some blood-thirsty monster that is much faster than you.
Now, let's say that Daniels was one of the people repairing the solar sails on the Covenant earlier in the movie, and then we switch the order of the barge/crane scene and the "flush the Alien into space" scene, we would have a more believable progression of Daniels character and abilities - the crane fight would've felt much more believable. A part of me wonders why Scott didn't have her suit up to repair the Covenant in the first place in the name of believable character progression.
How is it less realistic than Aliens. She fired the gun, didn't even hit the alien, she wasn't killing half a dozen aliens. If it wasn't for the crane, she would be dead.
QuoteAlso, they're all scared shitless of the Neomorphs and they die like flies around them and there is a clear sense of panic. But once they get on that crane barge thingy they just stop giving a damn. Tennesse (or whatev this name is) hasn't even seen the Neomorphs and still he's like "Yikes, that's one scary dude! Heh! Whatever..." once the Protomorph is crawling over the window trying to crush it with its head. Daniels gladly straps herself to a cable, grabs a gun and runs outside as if she can't brace herself from the fun awaiting her outside.
The fact that the android doesn't offer to go outside and deal with alien is weird in itself - an android would never allow a human to risk its life like that, and even though David (pretending to be Walter) would never sacrifice himself for a human, he would still take the opportunity to accidentally "save" his creation from being killed, or at least he would take the opportunity to get closer to the creature. He could've done all of that while still pretending to be Walter. It would've also been more believable to see an android doing those suicidal stunts, especially since we have already seen the martial prowess of Walter and David in an earlier fight scene.
David/Walter was in no condition for that, even if he wanted to.
And I don't get your complaint about Tennessee, he saw the Proto and said "Holy Shit", that's what anybody would say.
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Then I don't know what to say. I guess you and I have different ideas of what unrealistic/realistic entails.
With that said I find the end part of the Powerloader vs. Queen scene in ALIENS to be extremely unrealistic, and before the crane/barge scene in A:C, that was the one scene in the series that I dislike the most (not including AVP or AVP:R, or PRED, P2 and PREDS, as I don't count them as bonafide Alien movies) as it breaks the illusion of realism and wanders into into the lands of ridiculous Hollywood heroics.
I'm not going to change your opinion and you're not going to change mine.
It might be slightly ridiculous, but it's fun, and fits the tone of the movie.
QuoteThe Neomorph did't attack right away when it encountered Rose(?) - it studied her a little. Also, the Neo studied and interacted with David as well. The Protomorph did that only when it was born, then after that it just went straight for whatever was in its way, including a freaking crane (!). The Neomorphs progressed in their behavior as they grew whereas it seems like the Protomorph did the opposite - it regressed in its behavior.
Anyways, since the Protomorph isn't the final version of the Xenomorph, I guess all of that can be hand-waved as an "evolutionary flaw" of the Protomorph, or something along those lines.
However, if they would've ditched the entire barge/crane scene and sequence and instead just had ONE Protomorph running around, all of this could have been avoided. The movie really DIDN'T need the barge/crane scene and sequence - it doesn't add anything to the movie other than a completely unnecessary action sequence that feels out of place.
Did you miss the shower scene because the Proto didn't attack right away, it snuck up on them like the Neomorph did.