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Sad waste of an idea
posted by DRDMovieMusingsSTAFFMOD on September 2, 2017 at 3:47 AM
It would have been swell if they explored some next-level, intelligent interaction with another life form; but, nooo, it just had to become a monster hell-bent on killing everyone, because...because...why?
Note to self: next expedition to incubate new life forms in a petrie dish, make bloody sure the lab includes all the following safety features:
- can be locked down, air-tight, instantly,
- has its own air lock directly out to space; for larger beasties, getting sucked out into space should be sufficient
- filled with liquid nitrogen to freeze everything in it
- filled with dense, toxic mercury until the entire cubic space is filled, making it nearly impossible to move for almost any critter (not sure of tartigrades can move in mercury, but they're known and not a threat)
- can be staged off main vessel and set adrift in space or has its own propulsion to get far enough away from main vessel
- can be navigated and detonated remotely once staged off main vessel
Reply by northcoast
on September 2, 2017 at 8:30 AM
DRDMovieMusings--
Ha! I like your ideas . . . nothing like flat-out terrified paranoia after seeing in this movie an indestructible creature to motivate a super-heavy duty containment system.
One minor disagreement: don't put a propulsion system on the detachable lab!
The unbelievably indestructible and genius-intelligent creature will just find a way to point the lab towards Earth so that he can spread his mayhem there.
Yeah, if someone was watching this film as a straight-up SF horror, then fine . . . it works on that level. But I just can't get over how some people try to explain away every single glaring defect in this movie in an effort to put into the category of a believable, hard-SF film.
It's a horror movie, nothing more . . .
But, then again, everyone is entitled to his/her opinion.
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on September 2, 2017 at 2:11 PM
Right?!
Good point! Then maybe an ejection system that ensures it is sent, with deliberate inertia, away from the main vessel, so that, when detonated, it won't damage main vessel.
When you put it that way, I see it. Unfortunately, once a movie puts a bunch of scientists into a situation talking about alien life, the expectation for some more cerebral exploration of the deeper philosophical questions of our existence is understandably high. Same frustration with what has become of the Alien franchise since the Prometheus/Covenant installments. The Alien fans really want a proper exploration of the who and why of xenomorph - and human - origins; but these latest installments seem to only want to pander to the Aliens campy/action/horror fans.
Reply by Rickers
on September 3, 2017 at 10:51 PM
Basically, it's "Alien" on the ISS.