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Haha.

****ing love this response to all the nerds bitching about this movie:

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I don't really get some of the problems people have with this movie. Yeah, the scientists made a lot of real dumb mistakes and were a bunch of naive idiots in general. That's what was so cool about it! They treated every encounter like one of the dumber Star Trek away teams, just a bunch of idiots running around doing every dumb thing just short of daring each other to take swigs from the capsules.

There was this amazing sense of breathless wonder at their environments over "MAN WE'D BETTER SECURE THIS AREA STAT, HQ GET ME A PERIMETER", which just made it all the more effective when that 50s sci-fi naivete collided with the harsh, uncaring, Lovecraft-meets-Cronenberg-in-a-dark-alley-and-gets-raped realities of the universe.

Yep, the gods are dicks, nope there are no answers and yup you're all a bunch of reeruned starry-eyed children.

Even Old Man Weyland, who is by any human standard a massive dick, does not stand up to the inherent uncaring hostility of the universe.

I mean this poo poo is consistent throughout the movie, but nope I guess people would have preferred a bunch of marines to come in and secure a perimeter and then watch them meticulously analysing every scrap of data on the planet over a series of centuries.

Also

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My only complaint about this movie is that the climax with the engineer is too short.

It could have been drawn out better and made more suspenseful.