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[quote]So again what was her big “reward?"[/quote]
There was none. Chalk it up to poor writing. IIRC, in Rosemary's Baby the coven had the reward of immortality with their heads intact.
If the cult could make Annie levitate into the treehouse, surely they could make the grandmother's body travel too. There's no need trying to explain the supernatural.
Yes, the movie shamelessly stole from Rosemary's Baby. There's a scene in RB where Mia Farrow is in the foreground, and in the background we see an old man sneakily walk past the doorway. In Hereditary there's a scene with the boy in the foreground and we see something in white crawl by the window in his background. Among other such similarities.
[quote]...but she is Paimon! Not possessed by him, she was born as him. (Reincarnated)[/quote]
No. Annie described how the grandmother tried to take over mothering the boy but Annie wouldn't let her get near him. She allowed the grandmother more access to the girl as guilt relief. So the grandmother then allowed Paimon to possess the girl instead.
That scene was at 00:57:31 in the version I saw.
[quote]I knew that something was off with the girl in hereditary, also the fact that she seemed way too young to be hanging with her older bro and his friends. She either wasn’t old enough literally, or mentally - either way I was so pissed when the mother sent her to the party with him. Knowing she had allergies and obviously didn’t feel comfortable around anyone from school.[/quote]
The mother made several braindead decisions, including making a re-creation of the accident in the house her son lived in.
As for the girl, I thought she was about 8-10 until I saw the size of her breasts in her tight dress at that party. I wasn't surprised when it was later revealed that she was 13.
[quote]Get over it, man lol.[/quote]
He's absolutely right though.
[quote]"He feeds coffee and donuts to a dog."
And you don't find that funny?[/quote]
I thought it gave the impression that Joey didn't care for anything but himself. Especially given his reluctance to even take ownership of it as a pet. He feeds the dog what he eats because he's too indifferent about the dog to take the time to shop for its food.
[quote]She did not really have much choice[/quote]
Could you elaborate?
"...and who is going to listen to her if she complains or blames the corporation?"
Someone, at least the family of the dead crew members, would be very interested in what she had to say. And since the sequel establishes early on that an entire new crew is missing and needs rescue, it points to her telling the truth. But if she's telling the truth, what does it say about the criminal liability of the company? That was completely overlooked in the sequel.
[quote]...you put the crew at odds from the start and lessen the chance or success.[/quote]
Ash definitely wanted the crew dead after the alien was brought on the ship. Whatever plans the corporation had for the alien, it didn't involve the crew and no one on earth was supposed to find out.
I think the sequel had a greater implausibility issue. After Ripley wakes up on earth, she never informs the world about the heinous corporate plan that killed the crew. And she even agrees to join a new mission by that same company. Did people on earth have no interest in hearing what happened to the original crew? If they believed Ripley, the company surely wouldn't have had another chance at a similar mission. Otherwise the world assumes Ripley is a mass murderer and she is imprisoned.
[quote]Still, the movie was action packed enough and driven fast enough to create a movie experience that was a lot like Alien, so they did OK. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it...[/quote]
I feel the say way about Alien Covenant. It had its braindead moments but it didn't infuriate me the way Prometheus did. I especially like that it ended on an unusually dark note which made innocents pay for the crew's stupidity.
We trust planes, GPS, iPhones etc., because they face government regulation regarding safety, and their creators can be held legally responsible if they don't perform to spec. David was an old model that hadn't been maintained so there was no telling if he was in safe operating condition.
[quote]yeah, well all this logic configured itself long after the movie was made.[/quote]
The order to save the alien at the expense of the crew was explained in the original movie.
[quote]People have been performing self abortions for centuries? Really?[/quote]
Yes, really.
[url]https://prochoice.org/education-and-advocacy/about-abortion/history-of-abortion[/url]
[quote]Then why is there a baby crying really loud?[/quote]
Actually I thought the baby was unusually quiet for a newborn.
[quote]Not breading ensures extinction...[/quote]
They already had 2 offspring to take care of that problem.
"...but this is not a survivalist, how-to make it out alive type movie... "
That's exactly what it is. The situations are too contrived to make it a convincing straight drama or character study.
[quote]...the director has this kid zipping around the store, climbing up on shelves, and tipping stuff off accidentally.[/quote]
I initially thought those scenes were used to establish the threshold of loudness that could occur without triggering the aliens. But the raccoon snatch scene ruined all plausibility there.
[quote]In relation to point 2... Survival of the species dude... That's what humans have done for centuries after disasters, wars and plagues in order to get to our generation...[/quote]
Bringing a noisy newborn into a world where noise is a death sentence sounds like the exact opposite of survival of the species.
[quote]and once it happened what was the alternative? Trying to perform an abortion is kind of risky when you don't know what you are doing.[/quote]
People have been performing self abortions for centuries. And what difference would it make if she messed up her reproductive organs under the circumstances?