Black goo- WARNING! [spoiler]

No, they clearly said "Touch Everything!" Lol...

It was stated by the captain in the film that the planet was a bio weapon development planet. If you were hired to build nukes wouldn't you assume that when you saw a huge missile you would assume it was dangerous? Wouldn't really need a warning on it....

I was reading your review since you posted a link. Everything was going smooth until you said: [i]"Because- and make no mother fucking mistake about it- this movie boasts some of the most retardedly awesome and mindblowing visuals that you will have ever seen: mind-popping to the max."[/i] How can something be "[i]retardedly awesome[/i]"? I'm not criticizing your review or making fun of anything. As a reader, I just want to know what you mean by this. The two words strike a dis-chord....to me at least. -abordoli (staff)

So what is the black goo exactly? That's not a life-creating stuff because this goo is destroy organic life. But can't destroy all sequences of the DNA (see the opening scene of the film). So the engineers didn't mean to exterminate permanently the human kind if the two goo is same.

Dear Abordoli, In the UK the term 'retarded' is sometimes used colloquially to mean amazing. So the term here 'retardedly awesome' is meant superlatively. Someone else commented about this in the comments to my blog: "Great review. Nice SOH- especially using the word RETARDED in a pejorative and superlative sense?! More posts please to follow! Interesting ABOUT section- you don’t look like an accountant?!" Make sense? Melkor [url=http://wp.me/p2tPJ3-1]My review here!!![/url]

Manare- The goo seems to have varying effects on people. Melkor

I guess in the 11 years I grew up in England, I never heard or used the word "retarded" to mean "amazing". Times do change, I guess. Thank-you for the explanation. It makes more sense now.

Haha to be honest it has only been in the last 5 years I have heard it meant in this new colloquial sense! Anyway, hope you enjoyed the review!

[i]So what is the black goo exactly? That's not a life-creating stuff because this goo is destroy organic life. But can't destroy all sequences of the DNA (see the opening scene of the film). So the engineers didn't mean to exterminate permanently the human kind if the two goo is same.[/i] I don't believe that the stuff that the sacrifice engineer drinks at the beginning is the same goo. It definitively reacted to the air and became liquid. The black goo in the ampule room had an effect on two things. Those tiny wormy things that swim in it and become hammerpedes and the reanimating effect that it had on Fifield. I say reanimating because the initial acid spray from cutting the hammerpede's head off on Milburn's arm probably did Fifield in. The black goo mutated him like it did the little worms. Also, in an ampule, (as we see with the one that David opened) we see 4 "vials" (with snap-off necks) contained within said lack goo (which David noticed was organic). I would reckon that the goo is like our water. Life began in our oceans. Life seems to also flourish in the black goo.

Melkor- But the DNA of two kinds is same. So the sacrificing engineer had no idea what exactly happened after he drink the goo. If we see the varying effects. Anyway this black goo looks like the vaccine in X-files :) just deadly.

Melkor, I read you review and I liked it. There was a spot, though, were you referred to the alien that comes out of the engineer as a proto-alien. I have reason to believe, however, that this is an evolved version of the xeno from Alien. I'm also not convinced that the ampule room contained different types of life-forms. I think they were are the same bio-weapon.

Melkor, I don't know what part of the UK you are from, but my friends and I certainly don't use the word 'Retarded' in that context. What neck of the UK is that colloquialism employed exactly??