that is the god’s own truth
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
yeah. it happened though!
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
maybe he suffered a head injury at some point
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
You watch all the extras on Alien and Blade Runner with Scott talking about his ideas and choices and he really knew what he was on about. What the fuck happened?!?!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 05:31 (three years ago) link
brainworms?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 05:37 (three years ago) link
He was no longer surrounded by talented writers designers and actors who were not in awe of his presence.
― neith moon (ledge), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
yeah DC i don't think shaw knows what david's up to, really. she just thinks he's a bit of an idiot robot (which he is) and doesn't really understand how desperately she needs this thing out of her, so she kicks ass and takes matters into her own hands.
agreed that some of the supporting cast are like..... who? one of the co-pilots who crashes heroically with idris elba into the side of the alien ship, i swear it was the first time i'd seen him on screen for the whole movie.
i did miss glasses/hoodie hipster guy. he should have stuck around for longer. i would have liked to see a long tense 'here kitty' scene with him. part of the reason this movie doesn't end with the visceral satisfaction of the others imo is that you never get a good old fashioned human-vs-alien throwdown, which is what forms the centerpiece of the climaxes of the first two movies. noomi just sets the alien and engineer against each other. which is kind of brilliant and amazing - and you do get the odd sense of rooting for the alien here, the same way i rooted for Houston in the World Series, even though they'd squashed the Red Sox over and over - but doesn't carry the same catharsis. that said i can't quite get the image out of my head of the alien octopus thing slumped over the defeated engineer. truly evil shit
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
yeah images are where this is strongest imo. i even like the pale, weird, deep-sea-cave-creature designs for the monsters. Scott has done fantastic-looking bad movies before - i always think of Black Rain, which has the most mediocre generic "80s cop movie in Japan" script imaginable (i'm sure i've posted about this somewhere), but is still kinda worth watching for the nighttime scenes in Osaka. i assume he's got a really visual imagination, he gets drawn to projects where he can picture great shots on film, and he makes those shots happen. to be clear, of what i've seen of his filmography (which isn't much!), most of em he's also got a good script and great leads.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
Earth you say
Alien is currently in development at @FXNetworks. The first TV series based on the classic film series is helmed by Fargo and Legion's @noahhawley. Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth. pic.twitter.com/jZe1CRFAZD— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 11 December 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
"Noah Hawley Alien series set on Earth" is a phrase designed to irk me
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
i didn't know who noah hawley was so i was like "i hope this is absolute nonsense!!!" maybe it still will be
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:30 (three years ago) link
fuksake
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 11 December 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
Kurt Sutter Alien or GTFO
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Friday, 11 December 2020 01:41 (three years ago) link
The mommy issues possibilities are RIGHT THERE ffs
https://i.imgur.com/HoPXUME.jpg
i am told this is a test audience viewing the chest bursting scene in Alien
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 March 2021 17:48 (three years ago) link
lol at the two guys
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 11 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
I just watched this for the first time. It was sooo fuuucking stuuupid. Bulk of this thread otm.
Maybe if Scott had bothered to actually watch AvP he could've avoided making a movie as bad as AvP.
― (a picture of a defecating pig) (Old Lunch), Sunday, 24 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
"Noah Hawley Alien series set on Earth" is a phrase designed to irk me― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, December 11, 2020
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
In hell, hopefully.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
Tony Scott’s Prometheus would have ruled.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
avp is a really good movie
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
um
The FX series, for which Hawley says he’s finished the first two scripts, will tackle class warfare and “what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved.”“If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?” he teased.
“If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?” he teased.
also:https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ridley-scott-interview-last-duel-b1936054.html
The franchise is now being rebooted as a TV series by Noah Hawley (who successfully turned Fargo into a long-running show). Wherever they go, whatever they do, “It’ll never be as good as the first one,” Scott grins. “That’s what I’ll say.”
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 October 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
Is there a Raised By Wolves thread? Search is failing me.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 25 February 2022 12:04 (two years ago) link
two great flavours together at last
A new Ridley Scott produced ALIEN movie will start shooting in 🇭🇺 Budapest in the next days pic.twitter.com/5FmYEptISR— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) March 4, 2023
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
Hopefully we'll finally find out how the aliens became ... oh, wait, I guess they already went over that.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 March 2023 21:58 (one year ago) link
Recently rewatched Prometheus and its sequel hoping desperately they weren’t as bad as I remembered, but they were significantly worse.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 4 March 2023 22:03 (one year ago) link
Prometheus might be the best looking worst movie of all time.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 March 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/q7WUir_uNhAAAAAM/smile-happy.gif
― mark s, Saturday, 4 March 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
That’s how I remembered it, but it wasn’t even as pretty as I’d thought.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 March 2023 10:10 (one year ago) link
i think more fondly of Prometheus when i look back and remember the laughter
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 March 2023 11:25 (one year ago) link
i will always love this stupid movie
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 5 March 2023 11:54 (one year ago) link
ok so i literally just unplugged my wifi for the last time in my hackney home (moving out forever tomorrow) then PLUGGED IT BACK IN to post this important thought
upthread i muse and lament on why -- when pondering how the alien came to be -- we have never yet seen a film that explores the nature of xenomorph society over several evolving generations. well buckle up fucklecups
i: the habsburg dynasty (cf edmund tweeting above, he is a poster but not a *poster* iykwim) has lasted for more than a thousand years, that's plenty of generations ii: the founder of the dynasty = RADBOT GRAF VON KLETTGAU (c.985-1045) iii: he is called RADBOT he is a FASSBENDER iv: qed it is time for the franchise to be good again, tales of the high rhine in medieval swabia is the shit that ridley loves
― mark s, Sunday, 5 March 2023 12:48 (one year ago) link
eduard not edmund sorry to screw up the lore
― mark s, Sunday, 5 March 2023 12:49 (one year ago) link
both prometheus and covenant are good, actually covenant is great
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
http://www.tom.ledger.name/img/engineer.jpgbrad and tracer itt
― ledge, Sunday, 5 March 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/LpibnKl.jpeg
― ledge, Sunday, 5 March 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
never knew these movies were considered bad until recently, guess I watched them both in the glow of Ebert's Prometheus review
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Sunday, 5 March 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
Is that some sort of powerful drug?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 March 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
Drug + lobotomy
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Sunday, 5 March 2023 23:16 (one year ago) link
I’m rewatching all these now (Aliens last night) and everyone I’ve mentioned this project to has commented how much they love Prometheus. Looking forward to re-visiting it.
― ryan, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
You know some weird people.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
🤘
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
Weyland's method of death in Prometheus is one of the funniest metaphor spurring action scenes in film
― mh, Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link
time to rewatch ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:10 (one year ago) link
this was a mistake
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:16 (one year ago) link
lol think i might only have watched this from like halfway thru the first time
i missed nothing
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
the bit where David drops the black goo on an entire crowd of the progenitor species is still pretty amazing
― mh, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
i'm bailing, i'm too sleepy for this nonsense
― mark s, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
xpost Only good scene, surely. Well that and Fassbender telling himself how to handle his flute.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
the flute scene
discovering david's weird art documenting his experiences hybridizing the aliens
the bit where david regurgitates his little alien eggs to put into the human embryo store
haven't watched it in a while and these still stick in my mind!
― mh, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link