They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

im a bit skeptical.

you're more than likely correct. Much like The Phantom Menace, the trailers will prove to be the best thing about the movie

Right. I'm a massive Aliens fan and I'm just to the point of having a repeated internal chanted mantra of "please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck"

they shoulda Christoper Nolan amirite guys

shoulda got

they'll succumb to idiot studio or fanboy pressure or something and do the medichlorian thing

Studio my ass, that was 100% the director

I pity any of you anticipating this movie. continually amazed at the capacity for people not to learn from things like the Star Wars prequels, Aliens vs. Predator, Watchmen, the vast majority of superhero movies, etc. studios don't know how to do these things well.

yeah, it's not like we were lined up outside skywalker ranch chanting for midichlorians

Yeah, but it's fun to anticipate things and then trash them when they inevitably disappoint

i am anticipating because the previews look cool. i'm not worried about them fucking up whatever, cuz i'll always have alien and aliens no matter what. if this is anywhere near as good as those, i'll be happy. if not, well then all you naysayers get to say "told you so".

I pity any of you anticipating this movie. continually amazed at the capacity for people not to learn from things like the Star Wars prequels, Aliens vs. Predator, Watchmen, the vast majority of superhero movies, etc. studios don't know how to do these things well.

― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:42 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus do you ever even READ the shit you post sometimes

I can't remember the last time a summer sci-fi blockbuster really met expectations. Star Trek reboot was pretty okay I guess... but the landscape is pretty barren.

haha xp

i am anticipating because the previews look cool. i'm not worried about them fucking up whatever, cuz i'll always have /alien/ and /aliens/ no matter what. if this is anywhere near as good as those, i'll be happy. if not, well then all you naysayers get to say "told you so".

this p much.

star trek reboot was a lot better than 'ok'

nah, it's really overrated

ShakeyMorbs

by whom xp

I just don't get the fanboy salivation/disappointment cycle, it's so "please sir may I have another!"

xp

Star Trek reboot was cool

xpost IT'S ALL WE HAVE, SHAKEY

life is boring xp

it's more fun to get excited about stuff that looks cool than to be all *eyeroll* *replays Berlin Alexanderplatz*

I can't remember the last time a summer sci-fi blockbuster really met expectations.

avatar?

expectation for avatar- blue ppl, shitty plot. expectations met.

I've never seen Avatar. It looked terrible

independence day?

I'm sort of excited about this movie, despite thinking the idea of it is stupid. It doesn't really make sense to me that the xenomorphs are part of some crazy advanced civilization, directly or indirectly. They seemed an anti-civilizing force, like a powerful animal that is looking primarily to reproduce. It would almost make more sense if this was a prequel to Predator, which at least is about a very advanced civilization from the get-go. The xenomorphs are supposed to be scary space monsters.

i always wanted to see the Predators civilisation. Dudes just working in offices and whatnot

Dark Knight.

controversial

jesus christ was avatar horrible

I think Star Trek, Cloverfield, District 9, Rise of the Planet of the Apes... were any of those summer? Probably not, the big summer sci-fi ones that are science fiction by definition are the superhero ones.

I mean, the ones that met expectations were ones without a lot of existing property baggage or a lot of hype

Back to topic: the Weyland site just sent out links:

https://www.weylandindustries.com/#/information

well yes, it's easier to meet expectations when the expectations are lower

guess i'm the only avatar fan hereabouts. no surprise...

Yeah, what does Predator heavy industry look like? Then again, if your only experience with Victorians were running into some mustached toffs in pith helmets on safari, how can you comprehend or extrapolate, say, Manchester from that?

contenderizer braves new lands of opinions completely opposite to my own

eh, i think it's an opinion completely opposite to basically everybody everywhere at this point. haven't heard a kind word said about avatar by anybody in quite a while.

I probably won't see Prometheus with my mom like I did Avatar. So uh, I guess Avatar has that cross-market appeal.

Wait, is this going to be R or PG13?

R I would assume

Scott says he's going to PG-13 and R cuts and submit them to the studio. Wonder which one they'll pick?

Oh, fuck that. All four Alien films were R, at least.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/faq?mode=desktop

i always wanted to see the Predators civilisation. Dudes just working in offices and whatnot

― Number None, Thursday, March 22, 2012 12:03 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol the predators we see in the movies are basically yuppies acting out the alien version of deliverance

still not sure how looking forward to a film in a series (maybe) somehow also means that any disappointment will somehow register emotionally. if prometheus sucks, it's not going devalue the first two alien movies (don't care about three and four). it's just gonna be another bad movie nbd

yeah exactly. it can't be any worse than than aliens vs predator 2.

I need to rewatch that, I feel like I wasn't able to absorb the full impact of the "aliens in the maternity ward" part

This is one of my main apprehensions about Prometheus: that they'll succumb to idiot studio or fanboy pressure or something and do the medichlorian thing. Where they feel the need to over explain some thing irrelevant to the actual story and in doing so fuck up and ruin some of the core mystique or vibe that helped made the franchise interesting in the first place.

Yeah--I liked that, despite some hints that they existed, we never saw any 'other' aliens in the Alien films, and that the space jockey could well have been first contact for all we knew