Quote from: Luckygreycat on Oct 28, 2007, 04:15:47 AM
Back to the main point. You know its not like the directors and effects crew got everything else exactly perfect to the point where this is just going to be the only thing people take issue with. Also for the first film that the strausse brothers have done, they should not have tried to do controversial and far-reaching things, save that for when you already have a list of badass films under your belt.
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I'm not sure if anyone has brought this up but I wonder if this whole vomiting thing was just born out of necessity. In other words, maybe the Strause brothers would have liked to have a regular queen as well as Predalien and would have liked to stay within the true lore of the franchise perhaps with a superfacehugger but it just wasn't in the budget. The more I think about the more it feels that way to me. Why would they want to create such a radical departure unnecessarily. It just doesn't make sense. They wanted a Predalien and lots of warrior aliens but didn't have the budget for a queen also so there you have it. A vomiting impregnating Predalien born out of necessity. Really, without a regular queen its the only way you could do it. If this is the case I don't think the Strause brothers could admit it even if they wanted to and I wouldn't blame them. You know how FOX is. The Strause brothers are probably victims of the stinking bottom line which is really all FOX cares about. Hence a vomiting impregnating Predalien. Or not, but I wouldn't doubt it.
If that's the case, Colin had every oppurtunity to explain that, but never did. He even stated "its one of the coolest scenes in the movie" so he obviously likes the fact that it was included in the film as opposed to, saying "f**k it, we need something in the absence of a queen to tie the story together, lets just do the best we can with it."
Also its not the only thing they could have done without showing a queen. They didn't need to have the predalien molt into a queen at all or do this regurgitation. Why would it not be sufficient in the budget to have a bunch of eggs on the crashed ship? There you have lots of aliens without the need for this bullshit. The lack of a huge crested queen head would saved money and time on the predalien design, would it not?
The tension could have still been that one of them was bound to have a queen facehugger, and wolf has to get to it to stop it from impregnating someone with a queen embryo, while trying to stop the other aliens and the predalien(who could have still been the end battle by the way) You'd never have to see the queen burst out and if you did, a small chestburster can't cost that much money, especially if it was partially c.g.i