Alien 'Quadrilogy'

the lizard people who rule us wouldn't allow that

this movie is going to be dope, you nerds

they did! it was called ALIEN VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM (2007) and it was sick alright xxp

but not in a good way

the engineers: origin story

before becoming a genocidal god cult they made some magnificent bridges

lol i think i did used to know there was an alien v pred on earth and until now i had successfully blocked it from my mind

i agree with ivy i think there is a very good chance this is going to be an excellent kinda back to basics reboot with a like, rizzed up cast (am i using this word right)

i think alvarez is probably going to play with the alien toy set in a fun way, but i do hope it's got something, anything to offer beyond a remix of some very creaky ideas

maybe the trailer is designed to make it look bog-standard - so when it turns to be slightly above average for this type of thing - then your mind is blown!

the engineers: origin story

before becoming a genocidal god cult they made some magnificent bridges

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), 19. juli 2024 17:18 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Infrastructure week!

"Alien : Cringe"

Prometheus also had a dope trailer, and well...

I haven't seen one of these movies since that one. Won't get fooled again!

you need to rethink your inner modality

The Prometheus trailer flew too close to the S(dammit, that was Icarus, wasn't it)

time to give this guy a go

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2f/11/6d/2f116d78389da705a9460250575fa501.jpg

sadly laurent de brunhoff died in march

this one might be good, Alvarez does atmosphere and suspense well, he doesn't just give things the right look.

it does seem plotwise like Don't Breathe, but the blind guy is aliens.

Can definitely see the Evil Dead remake lineage - make it sort of like the original but wall to wall hi-def CGI and dumber

mind boggling that Zack Snyder is the only director to successfully pull off a modern remake of a VHS classic horror

uh what about alexandre aja's the hills have eyes

i know i'm more forgiving of '00s remake horror than most, like i love platinum dunes and marcus nispel soooo much, but i thought the evil dead remake offered a lot in its portrait of addiction and intervention and also in the massive amounts of blood rain

Alien: Romulus panel…everyone in Hall H, all 6500 of them, just received facehugger masks. pic.twitter.com/GjJ3UdltXQ

— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) July 27, 2024

Poor Ian Holm, holy shit

he got over it and played Bilbo Baggins later on

guess I'll catch Romulus later

colour me intrigued?

dead actor resurrection should be banned

oh ew i didn't know that's what the revive was about, thought maybe Mares was just seeing og Alien for first time!

There's an article in the NY Times about the lead actress from Romulus (who I did not know also played Priscilla in that movie) and in one of the photo captions (and later in the text) they describe her as the "final girl" — hello! Spoiler alert, maybe?

Thanks for sharing

I feel like my thoughts about this are too spolierish for now, but damn.

Is there any good reason to watch alien 3 or resurrection? Going into this on the weekend and debating whether I try squeeze the two I missed (intentionally) in beforehand

never finished Resurrection. was told the Assembly cut of 3 is good. I watched it and was bored out of my fucking mind.

Alien 3 rules. Second best of the original 4.

I like Alien 3 a lot, its got some great sequences and its fun to watch all those character actors go off. The big climactic alien-trapping chase sequence is super exciting, worth it for that alone imho. Assembly Cut is def for completists only.

Alien 3 is a fascinating failure. Resurrection is boilerplate Joss Wheedon bullshit given a classier look than it deserves by the director.

All right, just got out of seeing the new one and I’m just copy/pasting my FB post on it here because it doesn’t deserve a separate writeup:

Uhhhhhhhh boy. So pretty much I’m a fan of the first two movies and give _Prometheus_ a heavily conditional “at least you tried” award so a film theoretically drawing on those three should be okay enough for me. But no. First half is best; once a certain hidden extended cameo part (which I was accidentally tipped off to earlier) kicks in then things start moving from “Yup it’s an _Alien_ movie” to “This is a lot of _Alien_ movies in a pureé” and it gets messier and often stupider and more obvious from there. (At this point I have long since given up trying to make any sense of xenomorph life cycles.) Right from the opening credits it’s all “Boy you’re not hiding anything here” though at least O’Bannon and Shusett will always get a nod (plus a prominent H.R. nod at the end but honestly they should have done the same for Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Seymour, Roger Christian etc given the end result). Much like Michael Fassbender, David Jonsson easily walks off with this by providing his own distinct spin on the Inevitable Android Role, and there are a couple of good set pieces and one amusingly creepy body horror element at the end. But by that time so many beats long since familiar and self-conscious will have ground you into a fine powder. (At least there wasn’t a Jonesy knockoff. And was Alvarez simultaneously trying to pay tribute to _Blade Runner_ in the opening segment?)

Hmmm okay, I’ll give Alien 3 a go, at least to see the “alien drooling near woman’s face as she cries” shot in its context

Alien 3 is a fascinating failure. Resurrection is boilerplate Joss Wheedon bullshit given a classier look than it deserves by the director.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, August 15, 2024 6:49 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think many of the ideas in Resurrection are good and the actors do a good job with it, but it's best evaluated while considering that it's got Whedon on the script and Jeunet in the director's seat, so you have Whedon humor (goofy) and French humor (goofy, but in a different way) at odds with each other. I think Whedon scripts, disregarding the fact that guy should not be allowed near a script or direction again, can be decent if tempered by decent rewrites and direction. Like some sort of Aaron Sorkin where he's snorting pure nerdisms ("If I repeat a line enough, my fans will love it and repeat it, no matter how clunky it is!") instead of cocaine.

Jeunet understood none of these nerdisms, which is an asset. But you can spot a half dozen of them in the finished production, but half of them are delivered with the wrong, non-nerd inflection, so the characters sound like they're from an alien (heh) culture.

There are some bits that feel very Jeunet in casting and wouldn't be out of place in a Moebius comic.

At this point the only thing that makes me happy about a new Alien movie is that one of our greatest directors gets a check every time they make one. Walter Hill's been a producer on all of them, including the Alien vs Predator movies.

Just watched the original the other night with the 13-year-old, he loved it. Warned him about the chestburster scene without spoiling it, just in case, but he was transfixed. The part that tripped him out the most was the scene with Dallas in the vent. The money bit comes at you several beats before you think it might and works all the better for it.

Wow, quite the bold start to Alien 3

Resurrection just tries *so* *hard* to be quirky and edgy and falls on its face repeatedly. Plus the hybrid elements are initially disgusting (good) and end up unintentionally funny in an unbearably cringe way. Very little to redeem it apart from the swimming bit.

Just watched the original the other night with the 13-year-old, he loved it. Warned him about the chestburster scene without spoiling it, just in case, but he was transfixed. The part that tripped him out the most was the scene with Dallas in the vent. The money bit comes at you several beats before you think it might and works all the better for it.

― omar little, Thursday, August 15, 2024 10:45 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i saw that at the exact same age and will completely agree that the Dallas scene was what got me more. Even worse, at the time I was living in the basement of our house so all I ever heard were the noises of the heating and ac vents going and I was essentially terrified of going to sleep for hours on end.

I enjoyed Romulus, a solid B.

Too indebted to familiar beats and too many set pieces in the half hour, and really no fuckin reason to drag the likeness of Ian Holm into this.

Still, I had fun so that works

the other problem is the big reveal. not only was it easy to predict what it would be, but the payoff of introducing a new hybrid creature when you're creating an in-betweenquel is that because this creature very clearly doesn't exist in the rest of the series, you know it's going to be destroyed along with the compound, so it's really just an amusement. but...like I said, the atmosphere I found fun, I enjoyed Cailee Spaeny and David Jonnson, and the pregnant character is a great screamer.

he was on the radio yesterday saying that he had to please both the people who knew the originals and the younger people that didn't. and that he'd also used a couple of giger's ideas that were removed from the original (possibly self censorship by giger)

Need Alien 3 update from H.P. pleeeese

Lol! It sucked!

haha