TheNextLV426
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 1:45 AMThe problem with the black goo is it has magical properties that allow the writers to get away with anything. It makes worms grow, turns people into zombies and repairs infertile wombs. It's a substance straight out of Harry Potter.
If it found its way into a shark who knows. The only thing I know is I wouldn't be going swimming
Custodian
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 1:46 AMAlien was a pure (horror) idea based on some lovely (sleazy) paintings by the man, HR.
Aliens SHAT all over that beauty, turned it into a rollercoaster ride and BROKE the franchise off into xeno-alikes-R-us.
Going back to the original Alien, I'm sure the sequel was SUPPOSED TO BE alien (in Ripley) lands on Earth. That would have rawked (to borrow a phrase).
:)
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avpfan7662
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 1:48 AMDont even know where to post this, but just watched the movie through a link through here someware........Recorded from theater or screaning??????
Any ways hhuuuuhhhhh........Dont know waht to think yet, hasn't sunk in yet....not the worst and not the best...........Biggest Alien fan ever and dont want to be totally dissappointed, but the idea is cool????
Twitch
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 2:47 AMwow what a crappy way to watch it.
kay
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 3:03 AMI think the black stuff..makes whatever organism it comes into touch with adapt to it's environment..it changes the worms to Cobras, that's why it altered shaws featus into a squid because of being in a bag of amniotic fluid...maybe it would have changed again if she had of birthed it...
ShinobiX9X
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 4:02 AMi think there is more than 1 kind of goo, with different properties.
This is really a like/dislike movie.
i wonder, but till now, is it british that mostly dislike the movie, or am i wrong?
Hadley's Hope
MemberOvomorphJun-06-2012 5:07 AMMy theory... the black goo contains some kind of virus that alters DNA and they seem to have more than one form as ShinobiX9X mentions. Perhaps a distilled version which doesn't have live virus, but just concentrated substance that it uses to break down DNA, certainly the first scene it seems to simply disintegrate rather than be changed.
The goo seems to be controlled by the room its in (possibly by that green crystal thing that we see briefly). I assume it keeps them dormant during transport, until the Space Jockeys want to unleash the weapon, then they let it bubble into the gravelly floor, where the worms are waking up and turning into nasty things that no sensible biologist would want to touch, - until Milburn comes in to play coochy-coo with it (despite having seen piles of dead giant bodies piled up in the corridor).
I think we can expect more clues about the goo and the green crystal in parts 2 and 3 if they get made. (I hope they do, but with different writers. The script was very poorly done in my opinion.)