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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

Inspector Hound posted:

My main observation is that it felt like it was missing its first act. We never get to see anything functioning properly or the station operating normally for a minute to orient us before everything goes wrong; we probably should have followed the research assistant down for her first day or something. It's a big ingredient--all the Alien movies had it except Resurrection, which sucked the hardest, The Abyss, The Thing, even fuckin Avatar, we need to see the thing that's going to be getting knocked down before it does.
If Alien had never existed and were being pitched as a script today, I imagine some studio exec going "Yeah, I like it, but we need to pick up the pace. Have the alien come out of him at the end of Act 1, not the midpoint of Act 2." So how do we fill the next 30 minutes? "What, do I have to think of everything? You're the goddamn writers, make it work."

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