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

remove the last seven letters and you're there

That's a decent sounding premise actually. Will probably still be crap.

Hoping this is just going to be a movie-length version of campy late-90s CanadianTV sci-fi The Lexx.

Has Scott made a film that people have actually liked since Gladiator?

Black Hawk Down pretty much was where I hit the pilot eject

Gladiator is shit tbf

yes it's called Prometheus

Gladiator is shit tbf

― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague)

I'm not a huge fan, but it is considered a classic by many. Unlike Prometheus.

Point is that Scott's hit rate is low enough to look accidental by now

Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN

Scott is obviously #3 or lower in the list of people involved in the creation of the ALIEN universe.

Prometheus got me hooked on Alien. I watched it again with my OH and she loved it, then we went back and watched Alien through Alien 3 and loved those. In retrospect Prometheus only suffers from an ostensibly nonsensical plotline, but it would be amazing if this new film went on to explain some of the ostensibly random events in Prometheus. (It won't)

Gladiator is considered a classic by many civilians

Prometheus, gladiator both very different types of failure at least.

In retrospect Prometheus only suffers from an ostensibly nonsensical plotline

That's a big "only." Also there's no way the 15-foot tall petrified creature in Alien is the same as the 8-foot tall albino in a suit in Prometheus. The OG Space Jockey was supposed to appear so large in proportion to humans that Scott had children in spacesuits used in the long shots.

Scott is obviously #3 or lower in the list of people involved in the creation of the ALIEN universe.

Kinda hope Dan O'Bannon's estate puts out a hit on him.

imo gladiator is ridley scott making his own braveheart film without all the gibson trappings and the "hah hah, throw the gay guy out the window" scene that was played for laughs

minus also bagpipes

My brother pointed out that both films have a near-identical scene of the main dude in battle bellowing "HOLD...HOLD.....HOLLLLD.....NOW!" and that's how you know they are a great general

Giant Wheel Thing: The Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_PeQCPq8QA

for all its flaws, a better film than prometheus

Alien: Covenant will apparently be the first of three more prequels, Ridley Scott now claims in new interview filled with garbled Ridleyspeak:

"So I’m now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we’ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that’s finished there’ll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979.”

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ridley-scott-alien-covenant-is-844051

ok whatnow

back entrance indeed

was he having a stroke while saying these words?

Oh, wow, if they manage to keep the quality level the same as with Prometheus, they'll have ended up making six sequels in a row that nobody liked! That must be some sort of record?

He's saying he's going to fuck original Alien in the ass ?

Only one of these will ever get made

well certainly not by ridley scott... isn't he pushing 80?

In these prequels we will learn the aliens grew up in an abusive household

I'd take anything Scott says with a salt shaker.

Again with the back entrance

From a strict narrative sense, Prometheus is riddled with every conceivable kind of inconsistency and logical lapse. But you could say that about Lynch's films, or Jodorowsky (and Aeon Flux). To read such works literally is missing the point.

― Peter Chung, Monday, 30 November 2015 03:30 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

yes that's the creator of aeon flux, on this board, 9 hours ago

Ah, the auteur defence. Seriously though I'm happy for the people who enjoyed this rude fart of a movie.

peter chung did not direct prometheus fyi

Good to know.

give him one of the new films, imo

To read such works literally is missing the point.

no, to read a supposedly realist SF film as a surrealist masterpiece is missing the point

Prometheus is riddled with every conceivable kind of inconsistency and logical lapse. But you could say that about Lynch's films, or Jodorowsky (and Aeon Flux)

hmmm one of these things is not like the others

Danny McBride is going to be in this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

please let him speak the line "give me a space abortion!"

lol

"I don't need some kinda freaky fuckin space squid in my guts, dawg."

he just wants to ride the space wheel

well, that's unpromising

I'm wondering if there's going to be something of a return to the blue collar space trucker vibe of Alien.

this movie will be worse than Space Truckers

this movie will be worse than "Star Trekkin,'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

Ah c'mon - no Noomi Rapace or Damon Lindelof. That at least improves the likelihood that it'll be better than Prometheus.

Are you really criticizing Noomi Rapace

How dare you! In Prometheus she had the best Swedish accent someone whose character was raised in India by an English father could have!