I finally just got around to watching this, and I have a couple things on my mind…
First of all, why oh why would you have another baby, knowing that to do so puts them in danger, as well as the rest of your family?
The girl was a liability the whole time. By my count, she:
- got her littlest brother killed
- almost got her other brother killed at least twice
- left her pregnant and due mother alone, during which she almost got killed
- made choices that led to her father getting killed
- got a raccoon killed
Cool concept, annoying characters. Where was all the sand coming from? Won’t watch again.
A vastly overrated movie in my opinion. Not to mention the questionable actions and decisions made by the main characters at pretty much every step, the premise of some creatures being totally immune to modern weapons (even if one is able to suspend their disbelief enough to accept the whole “surviving 20+ km/s atmosperic re-entry on an interstellar asteroid” thing) is just silly.
I mean, we’ve got munitions meant to penetrate the armor of a modern MBT, no organics will stand a chance, and if they do, tactical nukes are a very real thing. Although I think LORAD-s would have sufficed to deal with the bloody things. Or just set up a few Tom Danley’s J5-4015 playing grindcore.
The fridge logic was strong with this one, and I didn’t even make it to the fridge.
The problem with a lot of alien movies is that lazy writers just go, oh they’re so alien they’re immune to the laws of physics. At which point we might as well just abandon the whole concept of it being science fiction and just go over to fantasy and magic.
I think Ridley Scott did it best in his Alien. The bugger is quite vulnerable to bullets and blades, but you really, really don’t want to put a hole in it if you’re either close range or trapped in a spaceship with one. And all the arsenal in the world still doesn’t guarantee success if they’re swarming you and using the environment to their advantage.
Making something invulnerable to weapons is an easy way out, making something so that you don’t want to use weapons on it is much harder, but much more rewarding.
I mean, acid that strongly corrosive as part of the xenomorph’s circulatory system is hard to believe, but if you concede that, agreed.