Pointless dream scene

Why ?? IS a great scene and establish perfectly Shaw motivations and beliefs ... btw i dont think is exactly a dream but more a memory

Your going to come across as Trolling for this... Me i have no problem with that scene, maybe again it could have been explored more by seeing the dream of Holloway aswell to add some depth to his character... Now the Vickers/Janek Scene i felt sucked and sucked bad, but thats just me, those who liked it can explain why... But he captain seemed more interested in flirting with cold Vickers despite two members of the crew stuck in the Temple and potentially could have a life form stalking them.... I found it a bit not necessary and a bit cheesy.... But then some may like it for some tongue in cheek fun...

i found it just plain silly.... they have the technology to see your dreams, but not the technology to subdue and restrain a half sedated shaw who is limping around about to perform a do it yourself abortion in the next room?

I think the point of the Dreams was only for 3-D Purposes...

I thought it was a silly scene as well Why was Shaw dreaming in the 3rd person and why did her dreams have picture in picture.

Why was Shaw dreaming in the 3rd person and why did her dreams have picture in picture.... Maybe her dreams were sponsored by panasonic.

Haha

Interesting. Back in the original Alien novel, mention was made during the initial sleep scene of people in the "culture" of this universe who were professional dreamers, who's dreams were recorded and played like movies for the masses.

I thought it was overly long (and yes third person) but what I disliked was the mythology theme running through it. We got all the greek god mythology from the look of the Space Jockeys, and the name of the ship, and Shaw acting like Pandora, and to counter that, her father speaks of multiple faiths, chosing to believe in christianity, her faith is tested, the cross places too large a role in the film. I'm going to repeat my dislike for the mythology. This started off as a strong franchise with a cold uncaring universe with no comforting familiarity. Now, things are being tied together in the biggest comfort blanket ever invented by unscientific and outright anti-scientific people. The dream was laying the ground for the theme to be expanded in the sequel, where I fear we can expect more battles between Greek mythology (pandora's box was opened) and Christian mythology. If there are sequels, I will rent them, not pay for cinema tickets. For me, all the joyride visuals do not compensate for way below par script.

The point of it was that David was instructed by Weyland via his dreams

A ham-fisted attempt at character development.

True, part of it was to set up the whole Weyland bit, but it didn't have to be that long to fulfill that role. It was more mythology thrown onto a film already heaving in it. It's also worth considering that surely David watched everyone's dreams. (His dreams are movies like Laurence of Arabia as he has no real dreams for himself.) and his later behavior was likely influenced by what he learned from the sleeping minds of the passengers.