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RE: Just watched it again with the kids. There does seem to be a "Jesus" connection Scott is trying to make.

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In Reply to: RE: Just watched it again with the kids. There does seem to be a "Jesus" connection Scott is trying to make. posted by Enophile on November 08, 2012 at 20:10:04

There are some continutiy gaps that just kill it for me, however.

Well you say you love it, so it couldn't have killed it for you. It sketches out enough continuity to hang together.

Taking off the helmets...crap.

The atmosphere in the structure was found to be breathable. The helmets became redundant. Besides, it showed the main archeologist to be a thrillseeking jerk, which was kind of the point.

The biologist 'talking' to the cute cobra alien...he deserved worse than a quick death. The geologist as dickhead...meh.

Yeah, see a pattern here? All the scientists were cast as imbeciles, except for Noomi who put her faith before her science. The whole point of the film is to emphasize the importance of faith in human consciousness, as more important than empiricism and in guiding creation.
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Maybe if you Google germ theory, it will alter your sense of the helmets' utility. - Enophile 08:01:18 11/09/12 (2)
If the geologist and biologist are meant as representative samples of a trade....no.
- Those two knuckleheads were there to show you how bad we have become . . . - mr grits 10:10:03 11/09/12 (1)
  I don't think they would ever have survived a real vetting process, do you?
  - science has become bad...really bad - Jazz Inmate 22:16:34 11/11/12 (0)
    Talk about signal to noise ratio--meaningless scientific work and bad data drowns out meaningful experiments and good research. It's an industry now. Universities churn out PhDs, but there is no real quality control. So we have skyrocketing instances of fraud, retractions, conflicts of interest, etc. Yet scientists remain "the geniuses" of society. So then we have situations where the world celebrates a fraud like Hwang Woo-suk. Or where bogus stem cell therapies vastly outnumber effective stem cell therapies. Or where antisense technology that launched many biotech startups and was supposed to be a no-brainer approach to gene therapy turns out to be a crock of shit.
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    We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi

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