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Like I said, loved it as a kid, and if I watch it as a pure action-fest, then it's absolutely fantastic still. I just prefer the more sinister loneliness of the original now.
Yeah I like em both but Alien will always be one of my favourite films. I just love it's eerie atmosphere and HR Giger's surreal designs.
It's good that the films are so different. I like the way Cameron built and expanded on the original film without just remaking it.
ok good good. I really want this movie to happen especially since Neil said it will ignore Alien 3 & 4 which were complete abortions imo
See, for me, I wanted to know where those eggs came from, who the 'Space Jockey' was or why that giant craft came to be there.
I was sort of under the impression that most people at least saw 3. Now 4 I get- that just looked terrible and unnecessary (Ripley clone)
Did you not like Aliens?
On the other hand, there appears to appear a xenomorph in A:C, which threatens to lead back to nostalgia. And, paradoxically, the idea of Ripley´s makeshift family in Blomkamp´s film appears less nostalgic but more of a closure, if one bases it upon the director´s cut of Aliens.
Anyway, I've got two tickets and my girlfriend, who is very much horror challenged, has promised to join me. ;-)
Either work with what the franchise has to offer or don't bother, especially when we're talking about a director who really doesn't have the cache necessary to alter the franchise that was created by one legend of cinema (Scott) and solidified as one of the great science-fiction franchises by another legend of the industry (Cameron).
Scott's promise of doing these sequels infinitely if there's an interest is a bit frightening. He doesn't have the magic he once had, which makes this new one look like a generic horror movie combined with branching the ideas and prospects of 'Prometheus', including the utilization of clueless science officers (yawn - already did that in 'Prometheus.' Can't get behind a bunch of elite people selected for a precious, one-in-a-billion job such as this who are clueless and incompetent.)
I'm sure Alien Covenant will blow us away. The best bits probably aren't in the trailer.
@DarthDimi, congrats you lucky bastard. Although I might mention that years ago I had the privilege of seeing the director´s cut of Alien in the cinema. Unfortunately, I wasn´t ready enough to understand the film. Now, if I should zap into the film on tv, I would be utterly unable to zap on, no matter which of the versions it might be.
@Thunderfinger, you saw ALIENS in the cinema? I'm really jealous. :)
I saw a rerun of the first in 1983. All the later films when they came out.
Instead it doesn't seem like I'm getting either of those. It's an out and out Alien film but without the characters I cared about, and it seems too detached from the concept of Prometheus for me to get excited about it as a sequel to that film. It just seems like they're going over old ground, which I'm not necessarily opposed to, but if that's the angle they were going to take I'd rather they'd gone with Blompkamp's idea and carried on the Ripley saga in a way that wasn't insulting to the fans this time.
It does look quite good. Great cast and the trailers have impressed me. I think it's just knowing what we could have got instead that's killed my enthusiasm a bit. I'm sure I'll enjoy it still and I hope it does well enough for us to get the Ripley/Hicks film afterwards.
Also, has anyone played Alien Isolation? Fantastic, really scary game. It's very similar to the original film in terms of setting and atmosphere but at the same time, it stands on its own two feet and actually brings a lot of cool new stuff to the table (those cheap malfunctioning androids were almost as scary as the alien). The story is really well done too. It's set between Alien and Aliens and follows Ripley's daughter trying to find out what happened to her mum.
I honestly think it's good enough to be a film. In my head the real trilogy is Alien, Isolation, and Aliens as the final chapter, with Prometheus (and hopefully Covenant) acting as a nice spinoff/prequel. 3 and 4 don't count.
I haven t seen Alien vs Predator, so can t comment on that.
As interesting as Blomkamp´s project sounded, I cherish Scott´s approach of bringing as few characters as possible back. The focus on Ripley in the past limited the potential a lot.