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SNAAKE:
really good movie for a 30mill budget and no name actors. ONLY thing bothered me is how the dude got infected. the "engergy fuel" thats supposed to take the aliens home can also infect humans and turn em into aliens? ok thats....DUMB :laugh2:

everything else is great scifi. gotta love the random pace. starts with bootleg documentary and ends with black hawk down style action scenes and dramatic music assist. cant complain about unnecessary-peterjackson-gore.

dont care about a sequal but id watch it if there is one. maybe micheal bay can direct it. EXPLOSIONSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dizzy:

massive88:
My only problem was this line of reasoning:

1 - The prawns are mostly dumb, and good at taking orders (quote from the movie)
2 - There are nearly 2 million prawns, no one really cares if the die or disappear, and they seem capable of mass reproduction (shown throughout the movie)
3 - It appears any prawn can fire the prawn weapons (nothing shown to discount that)
4 - A human able to fire weapons is worth billions of dollars (quote from the movie)
5 - So... why not train prawns to use the weapons where humans tell them to?  Hell, give them catfood for it.

You cant tell me if the ability to use weapons is that valuable, that they would do what they were about to do to Wikus, that they couldnt smuggle some prawns out that would either be complicit, or young ones they could train from youth.  That seems highly more likely than harvesting dude for his tissue.

RayB:
@massive: The whole movie's foundation is the moral dilemmas humans, populations, corporations and governments face with regard to people and living things. ie: Where do you draw the line regarding another person or creature having basic "rights"? Does it have to be genetically "human" or just sentient?   We saw both subtle and not so subtle views of this dilemma throughout the movie. It seemed people came to the general concensus that the "prawns" had some basic right to live, but humans being humans, "racism" prevented real integration (thus all those signs prohibiting prawns from entering certain locations, forcing them to stay in a shanty-town); And a corporation's view that they were no better than cattle. And corporations being corporations, they will do what serves them best until government forces laws to control what they do. (Not to mention how a government can distance itself from unpopular, attrocious acts by contracting to private corporations). These are all parallels to real-world things that have happened to humans in the past or even still happening now.

To address your specific pondering, I would imagine the world reaction to these 1 million prawns disappearing, only to reappear on a battlefield later just wouldn't have been very positive politically or otherwise.

massive88:

--- Quote from: RayB on September 03, 2009, 01:02:31 pm ---To address your specific pondering, I would imagine the world reaction to these 1 million prawns disappearing, only to reappear on a battlefield later just wouldn't have been very positive politically or otherwise.

--- End quote ---

I wasnt thinking millions, a squad of 100 well trained and motivated prawns could do some massive damage with their weaponry, and due to their living conditions, would never be missed.  Same could be said for 10,000 even.

I understand its central to the movie and its motifs, but you could have had the same themes if you made it so that no one could do it prawn or human, with the hybrid of Wikus being the only one.  Would eliminate that possibility from the universe.  The only other change to the movie would be Christopher having to use human weapons when storming the building.  No big deal.

PBJ - The way they described it, was that it had to be done by a living prawn.  I think they even showed them trying to force a dead one to do it?  Not sure, I saw it a while ago.  And I dont think looking normal is nearly as important as being able to operate the technologically superior weapons.

RayB:
I got the impression that the prawns were not cooperative in that respect. That they were a peaceful people who would rather go home. Otherwise they could have easily self-organized and used their weapons rather than trade them in.

Umm... how did weapons end up in D9 if the prawns were all moved off the ship via helicopters?




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