Quote from: SpeedyMaxx on Jun 19, 2012, 11:34:59 PM
I don't think it is apologism.
It's apologism to me because it's a declarative statement with no explanation in sight. I don't mean to infer that anyone is dumb, or beneath me, etc., however.
QuoteI'm not sure what we should've gotten - a scene of Shaw being dressed down for clobbering Ford and the other dude? Who cares?
Me. For me, that would've shown that there's some tangible hierarchy aboard, that there are repercussions, and some sense of a real internecine struggle going on. That feeling of there being divisions in the crew classes ... wasn't in this movie, though you can see that it wanted to be (Vickers vs Shaw/Holloway, Vickers vs Weyland, Weyland vs everyone else, Weyland's mercenaries, etc) Ford gets a beating and doesn't give Shaw so much as a dirty look.
QuoteYou could've put a line or two in, perhaps, but at that point in the third act, they're off to see the Wizard, she's gotten the squid out of her belly, it's frozen inside the pod and they all clearly consider it contained.
Who's "they all"? There wasn't even a line of dialogue to suggest anyone knew about it. It was a glaring and egregious omission, especially considering the power of the medpod scene. I don't think I can convince you otherwise but if you're happy with it then that's fine.
QuoteAll Weyland cares about is seeing the Engineer and grasping the secrets of the universe - human life, whether it's his daughter's or Shaw's, means nothing to him, and he's certainly not going to give a shit that Shaw brained an employee while extracting a specimen. It's clear where his priorities have been all along - with himself. And sometimes movies move that fast, even with big stuff atop big stuff. But Shaw facing consequences for knocking those dudes around and removing the alien wasn't high on their priority list, nor was it on mine. JMO.
That's fine, that's thematics. But a bloody alien creature was pulled from a woman's torso aboard the ship. It begged for attention. It was thrilling ... for a moment, and then forgotten. The film's in a rush. It trips and stumbles.
Bugger this, I'm off to watch
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