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Many, many questions about this movie

posted 8 years ago by thebricks (292)
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1. Only one-two pods wake up out of 5,000?
2. There is only one auto-doc for 5,000 people?
3. Auto-doc can conveniently put someone into hibernation, but regular pods can't be programmed to do so again?
4. They couldn't build another auto-doc with the spare parts?
5. The crew of this ship must be hundreds of years old if they are making this journey over and over again. So by the time this ship goes back to Earth, they will have been gone 240 years. That would mean that when they return, their skills would be massively outdated or obsolete and the world would have changed completely. Their families would be long gone. Why would anyone do this job, unless it was a one-way trip?
6. Seriously, no kids after a lifetime on the ship? There would be at least 50 running around, if you consider that incest would be going on.
7. How would this colony produce food after reaching the planet to sustain itself?
8. Are we sure they're both really dead? It is entirely possible one died and the other could have gone into the Auto-Doc early. If there's a sequel, I assume this will happen.

[–] NotASpeckOfCereal (302) 8 years ago

These and many more questions can be asked. This film should not be considered solid sci-fi. Certainly all technical aspects and serious sci-fi story concerns were secondary to the character-centric story, because there were a lot of problems with the premise.

The main technical question is really "You didn't come up with a SINGLE hibernation pod failure scenario?! You created this amazing craft with all of this ability to get to a planet 120 years from earth and THIS NEVER OCCURRED TO YOU?!" The answer is: I very much doubt it. So the entire main premise of the film being doubtful sort of blows this film from the get go.

He did actually have one line of dialog that covered the idea that it would be more complex than just hopping back into a pod and pushing a "go back to sleep" button. And of course the story relied on the fact that this couldn't happen (otherwise, no rest of the story, because he wouldn't have just went back to hibernating). But still.

SO, pushing all that aside and judging this film on just the story we were given (the character-based part), it still wasn't very compelling. I certainly don't need to see it again. I gave it a 6/10 on IMDb.

Speck

[–] Volley (3433) 8 years ago

Your points just further tell us that the corporation that built and runs the ship is worse than Weyland-Yutani ever was in the Alien films...