Explain this to me. If the cargo is so precious to the corporation, why didn't they send a team from the mining planet to retrieve it? How did some scavengers with no resources find the station before the corporation?
shareThere are a number questions in this movie. If you enjoy it and don't worry about it, that's fine. But, I just am one of those people that sees stuff and I wonder about it. I still enjoyed it, though.
1.) Per the OP: Exactly. This was a super important project to "The Company" and why they didn't go and try to salvage what they could is really odd.
2.) You have this large space station in orbit around this colony and no one has gone up there before to go salvage stuff?
3.) Navarro gets face hugged and within minutes produces an alien baby. It took Kane some time between face hugger and alien baby.
4.) Kay injects herself with The Black Goo and soon thereafter has her eight-pound-or-so human baby get transformed into this seven-foot alien/human hybrid. Pretty quick.
5.) The station seems to be in orbit a good distance from the rings when the movie starts. But, it has gone from that to impacting the rings within the movie's run time?
The director/writer has horror movies background. And it shows. Things not making sense, characters acting stupid, movie feels small and isolated from the real world, or like a diorama. It is perfectly fine for a horror movie, but this is not what we expect from an Alien movie.
Some young adults jumping on an unknown derelict ship to escape a prison planet... is exactly what you would expect from a Young Adult novel.
I'm reminded of The 100.
shareWhen the movie opens up, the viewer is just taking it all in. The visual at the beginning is fantastic. What a place they are living at - that ATM like thing she is standing in front of, the camaraderie of the youth, the Rain Main appeal of Andy, blah blah blah.
And then all of a sudden, I am kind of lost. I am wondering how a group of teenagers - I don’t feel they are young adults at all - in the spirit of hot-wiring a car (maybe a submarine) go for a joyride - get to where they get to. Nobody else is up there or anywhere near them. And then their escapade progressed quite quickly. Really fast which was intentional. Alvarez wanted to get the ball rolling. I’m not sure I was ready for the pacing. Then we see these rather annoying “teens” fumble; you are almost thankful they are fodder. I didn’t feel the terror. With Alien, they were on a formal mission. In this, they looked and acted like after hot-wiring the car, they went to the mall after hours.
But I liked this movie.