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

Yeah, the second AvP film was basically that. I'm one of the only people on earth who thought it was decent (if deeply flawed). But you should probably go with the consensus opinion that it's a cinematic unflushed toilet.

= better than prometheus :D

i’m going to invite you all to a double feature of Solo and Prometheus and explain in a very irritating voice exactly why each one is good, while we’re watching it

I never saw "Solo," but if it went the way of "Willow" on Disney+, would anyone notice?

Well I'd have to find something else to do at 11pm every night of the week

You could watch "Free Solo," alone, while drinking beer from a red Solo cup.

Still impressed that stupid Prometheus was basically the exact same plot as stupid Alien vs Predator, just with alien planet instead of Antarctica, and weird playdo men instead of Predators. Otherwise all the same (alien temple, messianic Weyland, fuckwit scientists, weirdly invulnerable female lead, etc).

this fathead futzing around with origin stories and metaphysics when we could STILL HAVE THIS

The full-grown aliens were originally going to be transparent and their heads full of maggots. This was too hard to pull off though. And, originally, the alien Giger designed had eyes. He asked for the eyes to be removed when the effects team started building it.

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original is 44 today, and this thread is grebt: i wanna see the robert altman version

Alternately, Tarkovsky.

Alien with eyes definitely paved the way for his ELP cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg/220px-ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg

This cover was from 1974, though!

Oh shit, so ELP invented the alien!

I may have been thinking of the Debbie Harry album.

Hahaha

The Alien was spawned on Love Beach.

they used the skull/eye socket version in alien: resurrection! pretty well, imo. the scene where the more-human alien is sniffing ripley/mom is creepy

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

There's a film, directed by Fede Alvarez, shooting as we speak. From the little info there is about it, it does sound like a Prey-style b-movie take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2edS2FlrK4