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Alien - how did this do so well?

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  • #32
    ancapailldorcha
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    astrofool wrote: »
    Had they not done that the internet would have exploded with people asking why he didn't laser everything, along with about 20 explanations of the HUD warning and the energy cell being popped away. It does dumb down films, but the people who watch them and complain about it make it this way.

    They could have been more subtle about it like having Tony only mention it once.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • #33
    Sad Professor
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    I dunno, explain too much people complain it’s spoon-feeding; explain too little they complain they don’t know what’s going on. For example, most people hadn’t a clue what was going on in Inception after their first viewing, not without aid of diagrams anyway, and that film certainly didn’t lack exposition. In fact, 10 viewings later, everyone complains that it has too much exposition, but nobody thought that after the first viewing.

    Convoluted plots requires heavy exposition. You can’t just ignore it and hope the audience will get it — because they won’t.


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