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

Started watching Covenant in short episodic bursts just to placate the awful god Curiousity. I guess it was implicit in Prometheus but I was surprised when in the first few minutes Weyland came out as an evolution denier. A very flawed foundation for the whole filmic enterprise to be built on.

xpost Gonna have to evolve some opposable thumbs first.

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its modal phase, i guess

not that it isn't already in some respects but i would like to see the series branch towards a more 'buddy comedy' strain

read that as "buddy cop" for a sec. which i could see more easily. one's a robot, one's a xenomorph. to track a killer, they're going to have to work together.

When one's a host and the other's a parasite, symbiosis ain't always easy!

maybe it could be like hitoshi awaaki's parasyte, where the xenomorph fails to launch and our hero is a teenaged boy with an extra inner jaw that talks back to him and thirsts for blood. or he could have a facehugger for a hand I guess but at that point they really would have to buy the rights.

1000-year-old David is pulled from hypersleep to track down Predator: "I'm too old for this shit! I'm just two weeks from retirement!"
Arnold as Blade Runner, decapitates David: "Considuh yourself retiyahed."

yeah a reboot of alien vs predator is clearly right around the corner, with david as the master of the dumb pyramid, forcing his little toys to fight. I guess you could make Guy Pearce the mastermind though and have the Terminators be the next stage in the David robot lineup.

"I know now why you cry. It is to make tears for the rain!"

Will take me a while to finish watching Covenant at the current rate, still at least i won't forget a single moment of ridiculousness. Like, if the ship's ai can detect something that might harm the sails, why can't it automatically retract the sails? Why would you have stasis chambers hanging like so many shirts in a wardrobe? How could a stasis chamber internally combust? (It seems like this is an expected outcome because they have a contigency plan involving a giant tool for ripping the lid off. Which doesn't work.) Why would anyone entrusted with being second in command of a spaceship say something as ludicrous as "i don't believe in luck"? Oh right because he's a 'person of faith'. Who isn't trusted to be put in charge but is trusted to be put in a position where he might have to take charge. Why are the sails all or nothing? Seriously it is apparently one huge series circuit where a single break renders the whole thing useless.

a friend off to watch blade runner: TNG sourly predicted on twitter the day when the BR and the xenomorph-predator franchise-universes folded into one another: except instead of "engineers" he said "navigators" by mistake

i very much want an alien-predator-replicant-dune crossover franchise-universe to come into being, it wd be lowgrade crap but it at least drown ridley scott out

(i *think* a xenomorph-the thing crossover franchise-universe already exists in comics but i too may be misremembering) (i don't read comics really, i just read about it somewhere)

That amazing Alien sax pic instantly reminded me of

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c7/AlecEmpireHypermodernJazz20005.jpeg/220px-AlecEmpireHypermodernJazz20005.jpeg

I rewatched this and...it’s still good.

It’s funny that Scott made the Martian, an optimistic paean to scientific competence and human ingenuity, nearly back-to-back with this gleefully misanthropic Gothic sci-fI meatloaf with extra ketchup.

It’s as if the humans in these prequels are as David the android sees them: vain, short-sighted, foolish, doomed. There’s a lot in common here with the implicit worldview of Scott’s other recent-ish flick The Counselor. Possibly Hannibal too. A hostile universe teeming with predators of all sorts.

So in essence what I’m trying to say is I that want a scene where an alien humps the windshield of a convertible.

that was basically in this movie, and it was terrible

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams

The Counselor was such a hilarious misfire, latebloomer otm

except instead of "engineers" he said "navigators" by mistake

well it was originally the pilot aka space jockey, till scott decided this fabulous unheimlich biomechanoid was just a guy in a suit.

still hoping for a new retcon that establish that the space jockeys are actually the Protoculture or at least the Zentradi

yep i entirely understand the mistake i just want to see more of this dude:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/fb/3b/48fb3b245b85cb5b987fcab224c397ba.jpg

robotech crossover already happened
https://i.imgur.com/F8M0Nlf.png

When the Zentraedi attacked Macross island the Prometheus aided in the defense of the SDF-1. Supplying fighter planes and squads to back up the islands defenses, the Prometheus held in the ocean as the SDF-1 launched into space.

When the SDF-1 activated its low orbit atmospheric hyperspace fold it transported the Prometheus to the far orbit of Pluto. With the Carrier not being space functional or flight capable the SDF-1 immediately docked the Prometheus on the Port side. (Left side) After it was docked the Carrier provided great support, with it's extra fighter squadrons and flight deck, which launched the planes throughout the show. Prometheus was destroyed along with the SDF-1 later on Earth during Khyron's attack on New Macross City.

Am done with Covenant. I started to enjoy at at one point, after they set down on the planet, as a slick but still ridiculous b-movie - well I laughed when the lander blew up anyway. But it tanked again when David showed up, hard to pinpoint the absolute nadir in a sea of minima but I think it was when he taught the new born alien to macarena.

https://d26dzxoao6i3hh.cloudfront.net/items/3c011p420Q3n0w1l3X2l/Alien.jpg

ayyyyy i'm chestburstin' over heah

Ah, Riddles.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/12/04/ridley-scott-alien-franchise-covenant/

“People say, ‘You need more alien, you need more face pulling, need more chest bursting,’ so I put a lot of that in Covenant and it fitted nicely. But I think if you go again you need to start finding another solution that’s more interesting. I think AI is becoming much more dangerous and therefore more interesting....

“They put two AIs together and they were communing. It already invented a f—ing language! And they couldn’t decipher what the language was so they had to switch them off. What was said and where’s it gone? They could have already implemented something we don’t know.”

“They put two AIs together and they were communing. It already invented a fingering language!

Pray this doesn't mean he is planning a remake of Colossus: The Forbin Project.

I’m all for it. I really liked Covenant (don’t @ me) and the evolution of David into a mad scientist/Hannibal Lecter-type figure. A psychotic android wreaking havoc in space? Break out the flutes and sign me up!

A remake of Colossus: The Forbin Project is long overdue imo, but I'd probably rather have Wes Anderson do it

I'll admit I enjoyed Alien 3 - Assembly Cut, but why did they remove the theatrical ending?

the chest-bursting was a last minute decision iirc mainly encouraged by producers, i think fincher (or someone else) found it tasteless

as obvious as it is i think it makes the scene more powerful, it’s super awkward to just see ripley falling into the lava

i also prefer the dog to the ox

but the scene in the infirmary, with the drooping alien shadow in the mattress, is so much better than what happens in the theatrical cut

i am rewatching GODS OF EGYPT again btw

what is wrong with u ffs

i cleave to the ancient beliefs

which include: the lesbian asps in the hellraiser maze are good not bad

lol i finally watched ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) on the telly

(sadly GODS OF EGYPT wasn't on)

it risibly failed to answer my metaphysical questions abt who made the alien tbqh, ridley i await yr next franchise release with some impatience and a clipboard of worries

Given that it's Gladiator 2, you won't be alone in having some questions.

WHY WEREN'T YOU ENTERTAINED??!!!

ancient romans encountering the alien would be fucking amazing.

Alien vs. Gladiator!

how many lights do i have to greenlight here.

"Tiberius! This is your son, Drusus! You know that new form of capital punishment you were looking for?"

Aliens built the aqueducts!

"my name is maximus decimus meridius, commander of the armies of the north, general of the felix legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, marcus aurelius. father to a facehuggered son, husband to a chestbursted wife. and i will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

mark did u enjoy the many scenes of android fingering

my clipboard questions in full:
— who made the chestburster?
— why?
— what does the alien MEAN?
— do severed heads really float?
— who does david think wrote the better version of ozymandias (viz horace smith's version)?
— more on smith's ozymandias: "In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone,/Stands a gigantic Leg… "
— also: "Naught but the Leg remaining to disclose/The site of this forgotten Babylon"
— do severed legs really float?