Personally love Ellen Ripley's cat carrier from Alien.

Yeah, I think Alien 3 is really underrated. It's by no means as good as the first two,but it was an overall good horror film (with IMO the best score of all the films) and a great, dark wrap up to the Ripley story. And the least said about Alien Resurrection, the better.

BTW, I think that Colonial Marines is supposed to be canon

There was a clear problem in that you didn't care for any characters. The most likable character was the homicidal robot, which is a failure in my book. In the original Aliens, you grow to like Ripley and you like the camaraderie going on in the beginning of the movie, even if most of them were fucktards. The marines in Aliens were also likeable, even if you sorta recognized them as the dickheads from high school - some of them were our hook into the world, ripley, hicks, hudson all good. Even in alien 3, you still ahve ripley to hang on to, even if it's a desolate despairing film. Alien 4 you have Winona Ryder-robot to like, where ripley is more.. well, alienated.

in prometheus, I liked the Captain Janek and in a twisted way Fassbender-bot, because he was played well. All their motivations didn't make all that much sense though. I hated Holloway, hated Shaw, hated Vickers, fucking hated all of them. Gah, it's so irritating, because the universe of it is so interesting! aaargh.
>> ^Fletch:

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I think there could have been a much better movie with the same source material, I think the concept could be really cool, but it's beyond a simple reedit repair job. The characters need a total rewrite to not be selfish, unlikable fucktards. There needs to be a lot more explanation and more time spent soaking in each of the more important subject matters and not this jump from one scene to the next with no flow and no reason.

I don't know. It seemed like it needed more "epicness". Like you said (or, as I understood you), more time for the viewer to parse the implications of the much bigger picture before they throw up a scene of some slimesnake tickling someone's uvula. Maybe a scene where they just stand around and go "OMFG! We've discovered the greatest discovery in the history of mankind! Oh, shit! That's a fucking alien structure! The first one ever discovered!! This is fucking amazing!!" They just didn't seem too impressed with anything. And I wish they had left the Alien stuff out completely. They didn't need it. There's just a bigger, better story here than the one we've already seen again and yet again in the sequels. Most of the characters did have that ST:TOS red-shirt aura about them, and really served little purpose outside of biting it in creative ways. Could have been better, but I still dug it, and I think the sequel(s) has a chance to be great. I just hope the Engineer homeworld isn't overrun with alien queens or some dumb shit like that.

I don't see why they couldn't build a construction loader like the one Ripley used in Aliens.

I thought this "mech" is a nice accomplishment, and the video is very tongue-in-cheek - and real depends on your perspective. If some rich mecha fan wants to buy it, that's great - I'm sure it would get ticketed an impounded if he drove on the streets. I certainly hope any military weapons procurement expert would simply laugh at this video... or at least smile.

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Oh! you're right. Great movie though.>> ^Deano:

>> ^dag:
Master and Commander was good.>> ^Deano:
I'd argue Scott has not made a decent film since Gladiator.
All of this ties into my impressions of the trailer. I've not seen it but in some respects it reminds me of Alien and that bit with Theron wielding a flame-thrower (always a fucking flame-thrower) looked quite funny. In Alien we simply had Ripley refusing admittance.
One review said something that made sense; it's good but it's made for the multi-plex.
Like a lot of art these days there are grandiose claims but the commercial reality intrudes and undermines.


Just checked that he's a producer on that one but did not direct.

>> ^dag:

Master and Commander was good.>> ^Deano:
I'd argue Scott has not made a decent film since Gladiator.
All of this ties into my impressions of the trailer. I've not seen it but in some respects it reminds me of Alien and that bit with Theron wielding a flame-thrower (always a fucking flame-thrower) looked quite funny. In Alien we simply had Ripley refusing admittance.
One review said something that made sense; it's good but it's made for the multi-plex.
Like a lot of art these days there are grandiose claims but the commercial reality intrudes and undermines.



Just checked that he's a producer on that one but did not direct.

>> ^dag:

Master and Commander was good.>> ^Deano:
I'd argue Scott has not made a decent film since Gladiator.
All of this ties into my impressions of the trailer. I've not seen it but in some respects it reminds me of Alien and that bit with Theron wielding a flame-thrower (always a fucking flame-thrower) looked quite funny. In Alien we simply had Ripley refusing admittance.
One review said something that made sense; it's good but it's made for the multi-plex.
Like a lot of art these days there are grandiose claims but the commercial reality intrudes and undermines.



Ah that's one I have not seen. Wonder if it's on Netflix?

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Master and Commander was good.>> ^Deano:

I'd argue Scott has not made a decent film since Gladiator.
All of this ties into my impressions of the trailer. I've not seen it but in some respects it reminds me of Alien and that bit with Theron wielding a flame-thrower (always a fucking flame-thrower) looked quite funny. In Alien we simply had Ripley refusing admittance.
One review said something that made sense; it's good but it's made for the multi-plex.
Like a lot of art these days there are grandiose claims but the commercial reality intrudes and undermines.

I'd argue Scott has not made a decent film since Gladiator.

All of this ties into my impressions of the trailer. I've not seen it but in some respects it reminds me of Alien and that bit with Theron wielding a flame-thrower (always a fucking flame-thrower) looked quite funny. In Alien we simply had Ripley refusing admittance.

One review said something that made sense; it's good but it's made for the multi-plex.

Like a lot of art these days there are grandiose claims but the commercial reality intrudes and undermines.

Well, of course Ripley would be good at these. He comes from ads, he knows his way around one back to front

Ripley had the right idea.

To all who truly follow Ripley through her centuries long journey, prometheus, is were we find out how that ship got there and who sent the signal that interupted Ripleys return home.

>> ^kymbos:

Guy Pearce is the best. Otherwise, I have no idea what most of you people are on about. Is this some kind of cult book being made into a film, that has you guys shitting all over something that looks pretty good?


Weyland-Yutani was the company Ripley worked for in the Alien movies. They were the shadow company responsible for terraforming the planet where the Aliens were discovered (by Humans, anyways) and the creation of the android Bishop. They also played some smaller role in the shitty AVP/Predator movies.

This video is a promo for the movie Prometheus, a prequel of sorts to the Alien franchise. It's going to be pants creaming.