El sueño de la razón produce monstruos - Goya

Rating: 1/10 (25 October 2012)

I don't know where to start. I saw it on the plane trying to kill 9 hours of flight. I watched it and could not make any sense of it. I got hold of a BluRay two weeks later, and the perception was unchanged. I cannot divulge the plot as I believe that there is no plot. A kind of a (pre)Alien thing adding a lot of CG, keeping some names in the line of action such as Weyland. The first Alien was great. I loved it from the beginning. I liked the following three as well. At the same time with the first Alien I saw Predator I (Arnold), second one – I cannot remember it well. It came along Alien VS Predators (acceptable), then another Alien VS Predators that I also cannot remember and further Predators. I feel like counting hundreds and still counting. Mr. Scott's latest puzzles me. A talented director that seems to have ran out of imagination and perhaps because of the fear of taking up gardening as a new hobby starts milking a quarter of a century old cow. With the current computer capabilities people can do ANYTHING. Why not take up on Clarke, Asimov, Klein, or any of the brilliant science fiction writers that can bring substance and intellect to the big screen? Why pursuing on Alien CXVII? Every line of this movie is an attack to intelligence. What was the purpose of the old Weyland? David? The ship commander that looked like a guy that sells drugs in Hillborow – no stance, or charisma. A biologist and geologist both red necked. For a mission of such magnitude to use such characters is bizarre. It reminds me of Idiocracy. As a matter of fact if the name of this movie was Idiocracy 2 I would have probably marked it up. The basic science in this film is trashed. The reasoning does not have major flaws; it does not exist at all. And, of course, the film ended in suggesting a continuation which is bad news already.