Also, this Bishop was one of the founders of "The Company", and so the
Bishop android/artificial person in the films that occur later in the
timeline but were made first are supposed to be sort of an omage to him
or something.
Whew. I need to learn to write shorter sentences.
Anyway, casting it like that was on purpose. In joke for fans.
--Ben
S. Isaac Dealey wrote:
> Everything about the movie is mediocre except the special effects, but
> then that's the only reason anyone watches Alien or Predator movies.
> It seems a bit odd to have cast the same guy who played Bishop in
> Aliens as one of the humans in this film, although that didn't even
> occur to me until I was headed home, so I guess it's not an awful
> choice. Shame that they've milked the Aliens series so much and yet
> there've only been 2 Predator films prior to this. Predator always
> seemed to me to have more potential, but they just didn't make the
> movies. Fortunately this film feels more like a Predator movie to me
> than an Aliens movie... The incubation for the Aliens is too short -
> an egg is laid and an hour later you have full-grown aliens, which is
> inconsistent with the series. I'd have liked to see something like
> this done on some distant planet with miners, corporate weasels, an
> android (sorry, artificial person) and a complement of colonial
> marines (I hear they're tough hombres). Maybe if this one does well in
> the theaters we can expect to see something like that in the future.
> As a side note -- why does the acid blood keep getting weaker in each
> new Alien movie?
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