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Wrong one liner -spoilers

posted 3 months ago by TandyMan (11096)
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When Andy kills the xeno we get a callback bit of dialog from Aliens. Which makes no sense and doesn't suit his character. It should have been a dorky dad joke. That would have been directly on point.

[–] MiguelGordon (525) 3 months ago

agreed, I just came out of the cinema and that line really made me cringe and felt like cheapass fanservice instead of a proper reference.

and don't get he started on that awful cgi of Ian Holm!

[–] Ripkens25 (2013) 3 months ago

The cgi of Ian Holm worked for me. Since he was synthetic to begin with, that slightly synthetic look he had was perfect.
Plus, it was just badASS having that character back. Any flaws to the cgi could easily be forgiven.

[–] TandyMan (11096) 3 months ago

I didn't mind the CGI at first cause I thought it was just gonna be a two minute cameo in a low budget film and then we'd never see him again. But damn it to hell, he was there the whole movie.

[–] RipRoss (557) 3 months ago

When Andy kills the xeno we get a callback bit of dialog from Aliens. Which makes no sense and doesn't suit his character.

Earlier in the movie Bjorn pushed Andy down and called him bitch. Andy was attempting to emulate that behavior when he took out the xeno.

[–] TandyMan (11096) 3 months ago

hmmm. don't remember that bit. if it's actually organic to the movie's story then that's fine by me.

[–] ridah (289) 3 months ago

Agreed, felt very forced. Yours is a good compromise idea, if they really had to put a one-liner there.

[–] maul (1635) 3 months ago

It was terrible, as was every other blatant callback. The movie had hints that it could be something greater, but it's dragged down hard by this bullshit.

And instead of the CGI Ian Holm abomination, they could have fully made Andy the main antagonist with the chip switch (until maybe he overpowers it at the end or something, removing it himself instead of Rain doing it).

[–] TheArgentinian (7059) 3 months ago

what line?