The hair is too magnificent for just one persona.

"and then has to deal with his suspicions"

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AV Club
31 flavors of ideological indignation and sanctimony

"Bonsoir, Elliot… Time for phase 2."

I, for one, welcome my new corporate robotic Portia Doubleday overlord.

He's got the range to pull it off.

I have seen that deleted scene. It's very creepy, but also a bit too playful, so I understand why they took it out. Ridley was very wise to not show too much. Just enough to freak us all the hell out and still have a clear sense of what it looks like.

Fair enough, they certainly don't detract from the atmosphere or the storytelling and that's really what matters. I only consider them flaws in the sense that when I see those moments, they take me out of the moment just slightly.

I think the only flaw or two with Alien (that Ridley has stated himself) is the fake Ash that Parker hits with the flamethrower has that cartoonish grin on its face because the latex shrunk and they couldn't afford to do it again. Hardly an issue, but it does kind of stick out.

"Even though I just ran away from a fossilized corpse a few minutes ago. This threat is actually alive so I better stick my stupid goddamn face in it."

"Giger, you slice my tissues into thin microscopic slides for the
world to see. Giger, you razor-shave sections of my brain and plaster
them, still pulsing, across your canvas. Giger, you are an Alien lurking
inside my body, laying your futique eggs of wonder. You have wound
silken threads of larval cocoon around you…

I love them both, I think they offer very different experiences but are both excellent and can each stand alone. (credit to Cameron for knowing he had to switch gears)

I think Ripley works in that you can tell how ambitious she is from the get go and is obviously very self-possessed in contrast to most of her crew mates. Her and Kane have characteristics of being more like proper Astronauts or pilots, even though they're blue collar space-truckers.

David is pretty much the only thing I liked about Prometheus. In a movie filled with quite possibly some of the worst written characters ever, he's a welcome highlight.

Indeed. There's definitely a strong element of guilt chipping away at Dallas that he portrays really well. He knows he messed up and has put everyone in the jackpot. His eyebrow raise that seems to say 'Uh… Shit.' when Parker is describing the size of the Alien says it all.

Tom Skerritt's reaction and expression are great too. He looks utterly defeated… Hollowed out. I never really noticed it before because I was so focused on Cartwright.

I feel like this movie is a perfect example of how a well-built and designed practical set or effect will only look better and better with increasingly high resolution screens because it tangibly existed and was shot in-camera… whereas cgi only looks worse and worse because there's less ability for its obvious…

That header photo is great. I love how Veronica Cartwright played Lambert. You can tell she's probably way too high strung to deal with the stress of her current Space-trucking job at the best of times. As soon as things go bad she's truly on the edge of losing it completely and is pretty much the audience surrogate…

The dialogue feels very natural, too. Which I don't feel the movie gets quite enough credit for.