This was a quick rambling of thoughts and crappy scrawls. I could go deeper, but I’m lazy and didn’t want to draw any more.
I didn’t hate the movie. I quite liked many elements and enjoyed the scenes as I watched them. It’s chock full of classic sci-fi themes worth exploring. But I get upset when it feels like characters make stupid choices just to further the plot. And I don’t like ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity. It feels like cheap writing.
I feel like any thoughts about what motivated characters in this movie had to be wild guesses or assumptions. If I have to read a bunch of stuff on the internet to find out about the missing chunks I’m supposed to infer, that’s not a movie. And I hate to say it, but it probably would have benefited from not being attached to the Alien franchise.
Sigh. This is what you get for having expectations. I should just go watch 2001.
I’ll let the guys at Red Letter Media sum up my biggest problems.