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by **jellydonut25** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:51 pm

i'm on pg 14 myself...thus far, i think the film is much better. a little bit better pacing, a little bit less unnecessary exposition and setup.

though I do like Weyland's dialogue about "I think about what God would do and I do that."

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:55 pm

David is so boring in this draft. Just a hollow shell of what he is in the finished film.

I also like Naomi's character a lot more in the film. I like the science/reglious duality of her character. Something I identify with. I also like that her BF is a younger character in the film. Just seems to work better.

So far, the film is much better.

I'm at the part right now where the two scientists have gotten lost in the caverns. First thing I've read that is better than the film version.

by **jellydonut25** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:03 pm

by **Gargantuan Gargantua** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:24 pm

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:29 pm

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by **jellydonut25** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 3:29 pm

I basically didn't like any of the action pieces or monster sequences from that draft...I liked that Fifield was more of a mutant than a zombie, and I liked that Holloway is infected from accident more than design, but all the Xenomorph stuff was pretty bad, and made worse by the "Ultramorph" crap...It all reeked liked Predators where they had these UBER-PREDS that could kick the ever-loving crap out of a normal predator but then that human beings could stand toe to toe with...It's like, "wait, you just spent all that time telling me how much more badass these things are and then one gets killed in a swordfight and another via accident?"

Same thing with the "Ultramorph" in this script...kicks the crap out of everything then is killed by the girl with a saw? Stupid.

if you're going to up the villainy, you have to up the firepower also: ie, Aliens...more aliens, but well-armed marines...queen alien, but machine-loader-fighter-weapon-thing. You can't just say "THIS THING IS THE BADDEST UBER BAD OF BADNESS THAT WAS EVER BAD IN THE UNIVERSE EVER OF BADNESS!!!! HOW WILL SHE EVER SURVIVE? Blargh. It is ded."

There are elements of the script that I did really like, though...Since David is super-intelligent, and seems to have a reasonable grasp on the Engineers' language, it makes sense that the explanation of what this planet (LV-426 in this draft) is would come from him rather than Janek (unfortunately, a lot of the other things that made David a good character get left behind)...also, as mentioned, the part with the guys getting lost works MUCH MUCH better.

Also, there's no awkward, unexplained moment where Weyland pretends to be dead then isn't for no reason...the motivations are much more clearly monetary on the part of the corporation and that all adds up a LOT nicer.

So, if I could cherry-pick...i'd take a couple of things from this script, with regards to character motivations and some of the stuff regarding who gets infected, how, and what happens to them, and put them into the movie that we got.

Ultimately, the movie sits a LOT better for me than this script, though.

by **king_ghidorah** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 4:37 pm

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