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

Alien Resurrection: get that shit away from me, made me hate Joss Whedon and his idiot fans ever since

LOL ppl blaming screenwriters for what ends up on the screen. Like, Whedon is the LEAST responsible person for what happened there.

I love Hudson

maaaaaaaaaaaaan

Whedon's fans are idiots though. I think we can all agree on that

wasn't resurrection based on a comic?

i am almost certain there was a comic about a dude who is studying captured aliens that also features a disabled character

worst thing about jeuneut is how he uses the same weirdo character actors over and over again

I like them in his "own" movies, but yeah, it was pretty weird seeing the clown protagonist from Delicatessen in an Alien movie.

Every director does that, you just hate Dominique Pinon

jeunet is really not that great guys

another thing i've noticed: Alien Resurrection and Deep Blue Sea are virtually the same movie

haha i've always thought this too

also

Alien = green
Aliens = blue
Alien3 = yellow
Alien4 = doesn't know what it is

sort of a diarhhea green

LOL ppl blaming screenwriters for what ends up on the screen. Like, Whedon is the LEAST responsible person for what happened there.

I've read this defence of him often, re Alien 4, so I tracked down his original script, and pretty much everything I hated is in there already. He just didn't GET why the first films are great; all he did was write a splatter movie with a few half-arsed pretensions.

Fincher almost made one without an android, but the android appearance is so cool I'll forgive it.

my mood after watching Alien 4 in the theatre on opening day was one of sneering disappointment that later turned to sadness. i haven't even rewatched it! yet i've learned nothing and am super excited about Prometheus.

you do know ppl are talking about "alien resurrection" not "alien3" right

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, March 19, 2012 12:40 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

clearly not! i missed that turn in the conversation, headed off into the dark woods alone. and yeah, was trying to say that the popularity of "gritty", "industrial" film, game and video design in the 90s owes a lot to alien³. like whatever alien resurrection might owe to quake-style game design, a fair amount of that probably circles back to the franchise via fincher.

xpost

dunno why A:R would have anything to teach you about PROMETHEUS tbh. I am straight up 100% officially unwaveringly anticipating the hell out of this until I have any reason not to. So far so good imo.

does this take place before or after the alien v predator films thx in advance

those are not actually real. newt dreamed them while dying in hypersleep.

plus 3 and 4 while she was at it

i think the jeunet 4 is kinda good, idk. it's a cable staple now, nobody gives a fuck about 3 anymore

― goole, Monday, March 19, 2012 6:25 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not even that jeunet is terrible or its a bad movie its that he was all lol alien imna deconstruct you not realizing that it was a great franchise that people loved prob because he didnt speak english

hoos otm tho its so 90s like a trip hop remix of some old great blues song

on IMDB a bunch of staunch defenders a few years ago accused Americans of hating Alien 4 because a Frenchman made it

u mean alien freedom homie

haha

yeah, i kind of like the wackness of alien 4. it's a cool, weird & entertainingly messed-up slice of sci-fi horror nonsense. it's only shitty if you try to take it geek-serious in a "this is some shit that really happened in the very important alien universe" sense.

alien 3, otoh, is seriously great for a good hour or so. then it catastrophically isn't. i'm not sure which is better or worse. neither's a patch on the first two.

hoos otm tho its so 90s like a trip hop remix of some old great blues song

― lag∞n, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:52 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg yes

im gonna level w/you guys that was an actual cool idea i had in the 90s like you know what this mississippi john hurt could use beats modernize it a lil my god

luckily i had no idea how to remix anything

oh trip hop...

i liked it

and then one day i didn't

We've come a long long way together
Through the hard times and the good
I have to evacuate you, baby
Through a tiny perforation in the ship's hull

^ big beat, same dif

i think the main thing that bugged me was that Alien4 wasn't scary or gritty

i just remember this kid sitting in a dorm room say emphatically 'no, dj spooky spin experimental trip hop' even tho i had really nothing to do w/the conversation i am deeply embarrassed to this day

Also good: the A vs P games put out by Monolith in the early 00's. Obsidian was going to do a full Aliens RPG, but Sega canceled the project.

There's a new game coming out which is back to Colonial Marines.

I haven't played a computer game more complicated than spider solitaire in 10 years, but seriously reconsidering it based on that upcoming colonial marines game--the preview stuff makes it look like a well-done way to immerse yourself in that world

oh man, don't even wait: a vs p is a fucking thrill! nothing matches creeping down a hallway as the blip on your radar gradually increases with intensity, as if some false comfort or assurance that you've got the drop on the aliens when in fact your swerving your flashlight all fucking over, desperate to find them crawling around a wall before they ultimately get you

it was something i only wished doom 3 had a little more of... you tended to know when enemies would drop out. the levels, the atmosphere, always just set up for it

alien 3, otoh, is seriously great for a good hour or so. then it catastrophically isn't. i'm not sure which is better or worse. neither's a patch on the first two.

― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, March 19, 2012

just finished re-watching it this evening and this is vv OTM, despite it coming off from the jump like a very special Doctor Who directed by Terry Gilliam with the lighting guys from an Aerosmith video.

basically solid until SPOILER charles dance gets whacked END SPOILER and then immediately unbearable

the lighting guys from an Aerosmith video.

heh. funny you mention that.

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

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482780_368150079874787_256360704387059_1168245_1753756663_n.jpg

Ok, finally just watched both the American & UK trailers for this, and the fact that they ever half-assedly claimed this wasn't an Alien movie is bonkers.

I'm just hoping they don't pull some Prequels shit and feel compelled to dump visual refs from the original flicks into this one just to try to give it a bigger impact by reminding you of the movies that preceded it.

Cute that both this & the first AvP flick involve archeological clues leading the heroes to get fucked up.

Also, cute that they fit a DW ref in there by naming a character "Dr. Elizabeth Shaw"

They're going to find a stargate, aren't they? Xpost

Or Pazuzu

the fifth element is alien dna!

Cute that both this & the first AvP flick involve archeological clues leading the heroes to get fucked up.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 06:45 (1 hour ago) Permalink

Yeah the scene in the trailer where Noomi Rapace and her colleague/bf/husband/whatever are explaining their ancient aliens schtick to the crew is very reminiscent of a similar scene in AvP

btw it was very hot in those suits