Why infect holloway

I'm trying to get to grips with the site and how it works, so sorry. Putting it in his drink was speculative at best. Very glossily produced rubbish to be sure, but future generations will not admire it in the way that they do Alien and Bladerunner.

For all that, I think the continuity isn't as bad as some have suggested. Isn't it obvious that Weyland's exhortation to David to "try harder" prompted him to consider infecting Holloway? I assume he wouldn't have had a clear idea of the consequences, but he was prepared to experiment. And, as someone else pointed out, he did kind of clear it with Holloway first: "how far would you go? In my view, despite several 'deus ex machina', the plot had it's own integrity.

It just wasn't original or very good. Dialogue and acting Theron were abysmal. The best thing by far was Fassbinder. I would have preferred to see a film with only him and the 'engineers' in it, rather than any of those ludicrous, 2-dimensional, cliched characters. A trillion dollar mission to discover life elsewhere in the Universe and they send a disturbed sociopath with a mohican rather than, say, Story Musgrave.

Peter Bradshaw and Philip French in particular gave positive reviews. I guess it is difficult being a reviewer when your employers have sold a fortune in advertising to a film's producers I touched on a sequel earlier. In fact I doubt there will be one, or if there is it will be a low budget cash-in to try and recover a few dollars from Fox's folly.

This film we be a flop. Word of mouth will not be good and repeat video sales will be poor. I'm sorry. I'm disappointed. Maybe I'll have a s;lightly more positive spin on things when I've had a few days to let it sink in. I didn't do that with Bladerunner. They haven't a clue what it will do if anything. Weyland clearly states he has days to live, no time for lengthy tests so what better way than a live subject and who would volunteer?

For all fans, I would suggest reading Badassdigest's review, which sums up my own questions and frustrations nicely. I do want to see a sequel though, so they can wrangle back a good fulfilling story I would loved to have seen much more of David on the ship in the two years prior to the crew awakening.

Those moments were too few, but were beautifully Kubrick-esque. In my mind, they may have added to further reasoning behind David's motivations to please his 'father'. Speculatively infecting a human to see what would happen? An old dude. And the answer was we needed to also play him as a year-old. I reached out to Lindelof to ask if he was worried that the missing scene might confuse viewers.

His response:. Well, for what's it's worth, I was quite confused about David's actions without this missing scene and think some explanation would have been warranted. Alas, now, at least, we have that explanation.

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Movies Explicit Versions Upcoming. Cut Comparison. Video Games. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Charlie Holloway. Originally posted by dailyaliens. Was David acting out of his own personal curiosity in doing this, or was he doing the bidding of his master, Peter Weyland? In the Blu-ray commentary, Lindelof makes it plain: it was the latter.

The Engineer, Lindelof says, is simply taken aback at having been woken from his slumber by what to him are a group of chattering chimps.