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

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

haa

Sad to see that Alien Loves Predator is no longer a going concern. That one always provided some laughs.

http://alienlovespredator.com/strips/strip_345.jpg

I want to say, from memory, that the alternate cut of Alien3 is significantly better. But I can't recall why, exactly.

i worry this film will be infected with so many of the current bullshit aesthetic choices of big-budget movies (see: first half of the trailer) but i still want to see it bad (see: second half of the trailer).

I hear you, man

expectation management: this is gonna be thrilling & scary, it'll look great, the story will be kinda hokum but nowhere near avatar levels of cheese, and the 'alien' connection will be kinda baloney but nowhere near AvP levels of stupidity.

it strikes me that having a bunch of spacesuit lights pointed up around your chin would be annoying

Who wrote this one?

Crap. Lindelof is one red flag. The other guy is ... the other.

As a screenwriter Spaihts became known in the film industry as a "go-to-guy for space thrillers"[citation needed] when his science fiction romance Passengers was included on the 2007 Black List of unproduced high-value screenplays.[2] Keanu Reeves had hired Spaihts to write the film after originally becoming attached to Spaihts' now abandoned science fiction script Shadow 19.[3] After Reeves agreed to produce and star in Passengers,[4] Spaihts was commissioned by Scott Free Productions to write the next installments in the Alien saga, two prequel films to be directed by Ridley Scott for a release in 2012.
Spaihts rewrote the alien invasion thriller The Darkest Hour for New Regency Productions[5] and worked on a film version of St. George and the Dragon for Sony Pictures Entertainment. As main screenwriter Spaihts is also attached to a Disney film project called Children of Mars. He is currently engaged in a two-picture deal at Bruckheimer Films.

"go-to-guy for space thrillers"

[citation needed]

Children of John Carter of Mars Need Moms

Kind of hoping Ridley Scott counteracts all the Lindelof bad points. I thought he'd written more, but it looks like I was confusing some of his producer credits with writing credits. Crap.

Spaihts probably provides technobabble, Lindelof provides stoned ideas that peter out, Scott probably went "Christ you stupid fuckers" and found a way around them both.

Haha xpost with mh but yeah.

nothing about those two guys' resumes makes me think anything one way or another. never cared about lost tho.

I am going to enjoy this, but I am still probably going to be laughing during the running away from the rolling spaceship segment of the movie

Referencing the William Gibson script for Alien 3 mentioned earlier -- the producers had him do a script thinking that he was a novel- and short story-writing science fiction guy who would give them a script with crazy ideas and they'd work with a traditional screenwriter to hammer it into a filmable script with those ideas. What he ended up delivering was a completely filmable script with no crazy ideas. Whoops.

xpost

"This one is for your alien mother!"
"Run away!"

More insight into the bizarre world of "how producers think."

I want to say, from memory, that the alternate cut of Alien3 is significantly better. But I can't recall why, exactly.

It's got the better opening scene with Charles Dance finding Ripley on the beach, and it keeps the whole subplot where they actually successfully trap the alien and the crazy guy lets it out, for starters.

well i mean the original alien scripts were a dog's dinner of cliche and producer-driven rewrites too. i've watched enough "making of alien" docs to know that if they'd filmed either the o'bannon original or any of the rewrites straight, if they hadn't drafted scott, who then brought in giger and all the rest, we'd probably (not) be talking about a movie on the level of a third-tier roger corman flick.

but you know...movies. so god knows how it's gonna turn out.

I want to say, from memory, that the alternate cut of Alien3 is significantly better. But I can't recall why, exactly.

yeah, no, it isn't. the parts that work (first 2/3) are rejiggered and expanded in a way that doesn't harm the film, but the final act is still a complete failure.

Guys - I just shudderingly thought about Contact and how Prometheus stole the fire from the ruling deity of his time and how the peeps are going on a search for the origins of humanity... This isn't going to turn into some bullshit religious crapfest, is it?

if it is i am going to throw a flaming trashcan through the movie screen

Seems way too fucked up for that. Then again if the message is "Yeah Jesus Christ was an alien visitor who caused human bodies to explode" I'd be impressed.

I want to see this at the same theater as s1ocki!

trashcan would take up a whole seat, you'd have to buy two tickets, i dunno if it's worth it man.

you bring the trashcan, i'll bring the attitude http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-merv/shades.gif

Jesus having acid for blood throws some real wrinkles into the Eucharist. 10/10. Would watch again.

Actually I think I'll be in the right city but I'm gone before this movie comes out :(

Cautiously optimistic about this.

Would watch even if alien JC's bleeding acid all over the joint.

they already did the jesus stuff in 3 anyway.

if you throw the trashcan please paint one side blue and the other side red so it looks ok to the 3D goggle crowd.

( ^ has never been to a cinema to see a 3D movie so this may be a somewhat outdated view of how 3D works, no idea)

no i pretty much think that is it

in 3d movies generally the actors on the left hand of the screen are painted blue while the ones on the right are painted red. (see avatar)

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