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Milburn the jackass

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First, a couple of us briefly expressed dissapproval for Milburns decision making abilities in a former thread. I just thought it deserved its own topic. Milburns a jackass. Nothing about the way that cobra thing stands up and spreads out would make me think a good move would be to unzip my fly for it. I would have torched it the second it rose up and later called it self defense, or rang up David and let him stick his limbs out for it. I dont care if it looked like an ewok, anybody with interest in self preservation would back up to the nearest wall when something unknown pops up. That scene (at least what we've seen of it) is very much an homage to the scene where Kane lets his curiosity steer him into stupidity. I mean jesus, what about those eggs, or the way the top peeled open, would make any logical person decide to stick there face over top of it. The whole time I watch it now I just sit there saying "dont do that, dont do that, why would you do that, get your face away from that thing". Anyways, CarterJ noticed something on one of the other threads thats interesting. The cobra looks like it grabs Milburn on his right hand, but when we see it slipping into the suit, its going through the underside of a left forearm. [img]http://i.imgur.com/fYAOW.gif[/img]
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gameover man
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wonder if thats someone elses arm, some other snake, or the parasite strikes at Milburn harmlessly a few times (allowing him to dismiss any fear of it) until it finds an opening in the suit, and then all hell breaks loose.
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What about that space hoodie? Looks like a giant condom. I can see Ridley giving direction.." ok in this scene, you're a big dick"
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He's one of those guys who thinks "what a cute little fella". Then he reaches out to touch it and "snap". Now it ain't so cute anymore... Idiot!
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[img]http://i44.tinypic.com/akwv2u.jpg[/img] I think this shows is the same arm he grabs the cobra with.

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I approve. Milburn is a jackass. That doesn't look like a left forearm, really: that body would have to be in a very strange posture to make that a left arm - furthermore, it would be very peculiar in terms of continuity and an unlikely mistake. It could be there is more than one worm - but I think that unlikely based on the evidence so far as, from what I recall of what we see, isn't the very end of this sequence, [which is not shown in this .gif ], showing a left hand coming over and clamping onto the right forearm in a, "too late", attempt to prevent the entry of the worm?
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Gameover man: don't think there would be an opening in a space suit... Seems a little risky in outer space.
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he's right, that's definitely a left arm, turned with the palm Supine (facing up) . you can just make out the left thumb facing to the top of the screen (as the palm is up) as the critter goes into the suit.. So there's a lack of continuity, or this thing gets into a different person's suit...on the left arm. Good find..
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It's his right arm, why is that so hard to see? I think we have a few potential replacements here for the jackass!
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@Otto I truly don't understand how you can write that after you've see Big Dave's screengrab. I mean...it's clearly the same shot...
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Im not so sure the two clips the cobra headed thing and the slimy thing going into a suit are related ? if you look very closely the texture of the two alien things are very different !1 it may well be a master piece of misdirection !
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Geddy Giger
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That's funny..at least he's not wearing flip flops :S
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kook
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Bag n tag it...
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[quote][i]He's one of those guys who thinks "what a cute little fella". Then he reaches out to touch it and "snap". Now it ain't so cute anymore... Idiot![/i][/quote] Bahaha, it's written [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/3811#43263]all over his face[/url].
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ah, BigDave's post shows that, while the arm the creature slips into may be difficult to decide on, whats clear is that its a left hand that grabs at the other arm after the snake gets inside...and if the left arm is there, the other must be the right. on its own, it certainly looks like a left hand facing upward, as Otto said. @Engermann...yeah, that would be a design flaw. anyway you slice it, the cobra tags at Milburns hand first, and we see it enter through the arm, so its not its first attempt to get at him that works.
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Without a jackass, we wouldn't have a potential new life-form/creature. So I say, "Bravo Milburn!" :-)
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Here's a shot of Vicker's elbow with the same suit. It's the right arm the whole time, you can tell by the shape of the elbows hinge, the two connecting (hexagons, pentagons?) have brass colored metal pieces that are raised higher then the third that's between the bottom two. See both pics. [IMG]http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj492/Dgoodman4521/CharlizeElbow.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj492/Dgoodman4521/CharlizeElbowHiLite.jpg[/IMG] Edit- Added Milburn's Arm [IMG]http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj492/Dgoodman4521/MilburnElbow.jpg[/IMG]
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re: Milburn I wonder if Ridley every saw [url=http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/slither/]Slither[/url]? I didn't, so it'll all be new and fresh [ ;•) ] to me.
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I hope that Snapper is right and that these scenes are a case of misdirection because I totally agree that noone with half a brain would put their hand anywhere near that thing. Surely anyone who is that stupid would not get past the selection process for any mission.
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Also Look at the black forearm section of the glove the contours and grooves match the right arm as well.
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snugs, if he is that stupid then he deserves whatever happens to him. LOL

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