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I have now seen the film. As I noted last week, my expectations when the film began were quite high, due to V's extensive coverage of Prometheus on horror.com. This was a strong movie. It is truly a visual feast, as others here have noted. I particularly enjoyed the first two kills, and of course the climactic battle. I was not distracted by its tie-ins/compatibility with the Alien series, since I am not a huge fan of that franchise. Perhaps that helped: it is the best horror film I have seen released so far this year. I do have a quibble, and a query.
First, I do not believe David is a plausible AI. I do not see how he can have some human traits (the ability to manipulate, for example) and not others (want/desire). I felt that his capacity for agency was fitted too much to the demands of the plot. The same might be said, to give an obvious example, of HAL, but HAL was limited in a way David was not.
Second, at the risk of asking a dumb question: why did the sole surviving alien want to kill the humans? Perhaps I'm missing something here. But I thought the aliens had changed their minds about destroying Earth, so why kill the crew?
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