If people know Weyland never returned from a space expedition, they will come looking for him, and that very well could mean the human race is doomed.
i don't want every little thing explained because i want the opportunity to imagine my own explanations
i think the original alien leaves the most openness, with the engineer ship on LV-426, the space jockey, the hall of eggs. but i think that's what makes it a good because you sit there speculating about their significance. aliens, 3 and resurrection don't really do that much but they are both pretty straight forward sci fi action.
David?
Who said anything about wanting backstories? We simply wanted believable, logical character behaviour.
yea after one of the trailers that shows an engineer in the chair like on LV-426 i kind of thought it was going to be about LV-426
Pearce looked like he was wearing two inches thick of Makeup, a full on mask. It was crazy.
Better served? Why would our time need to be better served when we liked the movie? Your insult has even more holes than Prometheus.
Geez, forgot about him, so that still leave 6 others I have no idea about.
but alien you do kind of have to imagine a lot, because of what they show you on the engineer ship. that's what a huge chunk of the mythology of the series is, it's speculation on the space jockey stuff they show you in alien. aliens is just a straightforward action movie, so you don't have to imagine anything, and that's fine too. it doesn't really try to explain very much either, but what it brings up doesn't really need explaining most of the time.
I assumed he was just in there for the mission briefing hologram. But then again, I should have noticed the difference between his billing and Patrick Wilson's lack of such.
i don't think it was necessarily an invitation, that really just seemed to be an opinion that only shaw had, at the beginning of the movie, then changed her mind once she realized what was going on
It was my biggest gripe coming out of the film. It looked ridiculous. Just hire an older actor.
Trying to think about it, was it even a message intended for humans? Maybe it was something for stranded engineers to look for. Just throwing ideas out there again.
I thought young Weyland was gonna pop up as an android or some advanced "old brain in a new body" thing, not just a straight up old man.
Movie would have been fine with just David and Shaw. Everyone else is a one-note caricature who acts as the plot demands.
i think he was hiding in the cryostasis chamber in order to avoid all the killing and running away from each other. he clearly pressed stuff to get the thing flying, i don't think any of us would recognize what the correct combination to go to earth would be anyway.
Final scene is the worst thing about the movie. Totally unnecessary, pointless even and implies all the wrong things about the rest of the film's intentions. Up til then you could've watched the movie knowing nothing about Alien or whatever. That scene thoug, implies something specific they can't expect people to not understand.
