Worst Alien
How many other Alien have mad a screen entrance and you laughed? Is this the poorest effort yet?
shareI got to admit, this one was pretty hokey, with a captial "H" no less.
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I have just watched this film again and it occured to me that maybe the Alien was supposed to be part of the hologram, that would make sense since the other lifeforms (Early humans and animals) shown in what was clearly a hologram didn't look 100% real either.
It just seems odd to me that the alien was just poor FX since the film had lots of other well done FX scenes..
How about communiton?
Say ten Hail Marys, five Our Fathers, and the Gillian's Island theme
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Thank you for clearing that up for me....
I had no idea what the heck "communiton" was.
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Now, here's a thought:
Has anyone considered that the Alien was, as another poster suggested, "a Hologram" and, as such, possibly made to look like what THEY thought we would expect? It is obvious that they had been monitoring us for quite some time and watched us grow from the first seed. So it would make sense that they would also have seen our idea of what Aliens look like.
An interesting thought, and one that would be nice if true. Personally i think that the alien we saw in this movie is how the makers of this film wanted them to appear. As in it isn't a hologram of an alien that the aliens themselves thought we'd view them, but is just a really bad CGI alien design.
I mean go watch many movies from that era and many full CGI aliens looked pretty... bad. Hell the aliens in Star Wars episode 2, you know the ones with really long necks, they looked beyond a joke and they were created by one of the top companies out there for photo realism.
hmmmm...can somebody note why some aliens have long necks? I'm trying to figure out what it is in "their" evolutionary history to well have'em with long necks.
by gratwerk
Simple: Global warming. The water comes up, and the body has to make a QUICK adjustment - not enough time to morph to an aquatic species. Ergo, longer necks.
It's blatantly obvious that the design for the large "face" on Mars, and in turn the alien and its form, was directly inspired by Adolfo Wildt's Madonna sculpture. It is a late 19th/early 20th century conceptualization, which means it predates any early sci-fi/horror ET archetypes.
Reference photo: http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/files/2010/10/Madonna.png
Edit: Also Brancusi's "Sleeping Muse" was likely another inspiration, as a friend pointed out; I tend to agree... http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/brancusi/images/front.jpg
As far as the overall alien look being the worst (or lacking depth/originality), I believe the constraint of the script pretty well provides the reasoning for this. That is, the movie's central theme is developed from the Mars "face" image captured by the Viking Orbiter and spinning the whole tale of humanity's origin around it (these two points don't leave much room open for artistic creative license). Also, the comment someone made earlier about the hologram suggests why the graphic was left intentionally simple by the film makers---I would even add that it seems to be conspicuously chosen for its serene, nonthreatening presence.