Quote from: Xenomrph on May 01, 2022, 12:14:57 AMQuote from: Local Trouble on Apr 29, 2022, 10:55:29 PMIt only occurred to me when I stopped to consider that corporate security forces may not need military-grade armor piercing ammo in most cases.
Explosive tipped, even.
Aaron's body and Morse's knee don't get blown apart.
That struck me when rewatching it, recently, yeah.
In fairness, the comics and games keep popularising how shooting people with the kind of ammunition from the films would act just like being shot with today's M-4 or whatever. But realistically, it's the kind of ammunition which is used by helicopter gunships to chew up lightly armoured vehicles and bunkers. People don't comprehend just
how violent it would be for the human body to get hit by something like that.
Morse's entire leg should have ceased to exist. They'd be like miniature grenades and, going by the effect of how the Aliens explode, they seem fused to explode after entering targets.
Aliens aren't weak. It's a testament to how strongly armoured they are that they need to be hit several times before it has those effects on them. A human would become a fine red mist with meaty chunks landing a good distance away.
It reminds me of how '
Warhammer 40,000' games and comics are often criticised by its own fandom for having bolters being depicted like they're today's machine guns, when what they're actually firing is meant to be like miniaturised rocket pods.
The cryotubes thing was, famously, Fincher simply having a preference for the Narcissus aesthetic and putting it in there for that reason. Because of continuity, however, it's right up there with the teleporting eggs for being grounds to retcon it all as a dream, if a future story ever does that.