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

yeah the five top critics essentially gave it B+-level ratings.

a shame that "We Live Entertainment" shat all over it, oh noes

Reviews for Prometheus were almost universally positive iirc

they were positive with massive caveats like "it looked cool BUT..."

fwiw all I need this thing to be is fun Alien people-eating eye candy. if it's Promethean in scope, I will piss in my seat and leave the theater

The io9 review in particular didn't hold back. And Lussier always feels like a bit of an uncritical fanboy so for him to completely go off on this is probably a sign.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/alien-covenant-may-be-the-biggest-disappointment-of-th-1794898330

The other standout is Tennessee, a pilot played by Danny McBride, who thrives on the actor’s charisma.

I am already starting to drift away from this review...

You even start to think you’re going to get answers to the big “Why are we here?” questions from Prometheus too, which were by far the best part of that film.

I am now starting to run away from this review.

Farrell beat me to it by a fraction of a sentence

even in the tracer hand sense of "best part of this film" these elements were not the best part of this film

"The film includes such a brutal, clean dismissal of Prometheus’ potential it almost feels like Scott is apologizing to fans for that film."

oh good i feel like i deserved an apology

he could have just sent a card though

I will be inquiring on Mr. Chung's board for his analysis after this gets released

Reviews are all over the place. Feels like people are seeing wildly different things in it, which is interesting.

imo we need to find someone who has never seen any related movies to show this to

The other standout is Tennessee, a pilot played by Danny McBride, who thrives on the actor’s charisma.

Danny McBride has all the charisma of an overflowing toilet.

U must have sum toilet

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scarier than anything since the OG facehugger imo

We need to post as much as possible until the gif goes away.

it will never really go away

I'm not sure what to make of that review. As described it makes the movie sound like another bait and switch like Prometheus, less a new "Alien"/space horror film and more some weird naval-gazing that also has an alien in it. But how that would "betray" (or whatever) the shitty ideas in Prometheus is anyone's guess. I'd think a pretentious, incoherent movie about What It All Means sounds very much like its predecessor.

Scott should make a movie that features only aliens and no other lifeforms. Like, what are they up to when there is nothing to kill, eat or impregnate? Do they just nap a lot? Do they have friends, play games? Are they bored?

I had a dream about this movie for some reason. I don't even want to see it. My brain just really wanted to tease out "what do you do for the first two thirds of a three hour movie that everyone knows is about all the people getting killed by aliens, before the aliens show up?" IIRC we hadn't even gotten off the spaceship to see the wheat with no birds. Just hanging out in a giant spaceship with bad lighting, talking and rummaging through weird equipment.

xxpost sorry josh I can't let it go by with out a lol

"naval gazing"
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/22/article-2701502-1FE0E0B400000578-714_964x641.jpg

Ha ha, I'm like Trump Twitter. You can totally tell when I'm rushing something out first thing in the morning when I'm full of other distractions.

This was stupid and perfunctory. Sporadically good-looking, with characters as dumb as the scientists in Prometheus. more dumb Von daniken bullshit, plus dumb mad scientist bullshit on top.

Every second word of dialogue is either WIFE, HUSBAND, TENNESSEE or 'T'

One good point: James Franco dies before uttering a word or even really appearing in screen

Ridley Scott does not understand why Alien and Blade Runner were good, yet he's planning 6 more of these fucking things?

look on the bright side, he's 79 - how much longer can he keep cranking them out?

james, the only question i really care about in regards to this movie is how exciting/frightening/hilarious the deaths of the crew are - have i got anything to look forward to?

kinda sad that the best i can expect from a new alien is basically the same thing i'd look for in a straight-to-netflix splatter movie :(

fraid we're not getting away from von daniken as long as ppl stan for kubrick as a deep thinker

The deaths are unpleasant to start with, becoming summer camp slasher film level by the end

Franco burns to death in a box, that's something

er, spoilers??

fuck's sake

removing bookmark

that's a bit more specific info than i was hoping for from james, tbf, but i kinda feel like if you're looking at a thread for a movie that's on general release you've only got yourself to blame if and when spoilers show up

if you're looking at a thread for Ridley Scott's new Alien movie you've only got yourself to blame

fair

Was it ever explained why they cast Guy Pierce in bad makeup as an old man the first movie, vs. just an older actor?

Or Guy Pearce, for that matter?

He appears in a web exclusive (IE cut scene) as young himself (and also does so in Covenant, I think I heard?)

is there any other big-budget franchise which has gone on as long as the alien series without actually making a decent film in (charitably) 25 years? even the bond series accidentally makes a reasonable one every couple of decades

every step they take to world-build this universe past aliens has just made it more boring and boxed it further into the corner of 'hapless chumps get chomped in space (occasionally a predator shows up)'

i had no idea it was out. i just looked at imdb and it came out what, yesterday? there is a natural etiquette to these things. however point taken

ugh the "bond is sometimes good" bat signal has been activated on a day when i am very busy

20 years! Still, Jesus, 20 years.

ugh the "bond is sometimes good" bat signal has been activated on a day when i am very busy

tbf i said 'reasonable'

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mark s just desperate to wade in with an impassioned defence of the bond series, i can tell

fraid we're not getting away from von daniken as long as ppl stan for kubrick as a deep thinker

― mark s, Thursday, May 11, 2017 6:52 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

important post

it's true, the part where barry lyndon fought a pistol duel with an ancient alien was really terrible

it spoke to me, the guy who gets world-weary when having to listen to others talk about how deep movies are