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The trailer literally looked like a remake of Prometheus just with an actual Alien this time instead of the engineer.
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I wonder if the corn field scene is going to be the same as it was in the unused Alien 3 script?
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Dec 25, 2016 07:04
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Here's a shortfilm that takes place between Prometheus and Covenant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XzqCUbiPc4
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Tenzarin posted:So the spores are from the unused Alien 3 script.
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Dec 25, 2016 08:03
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All we need now are some evil space viet cong red menace.
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Dec 25, 2016 08:56
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I hope Shaw shows up and murders the gently caress out of David by virtue of being the most interesting character in Prometheus.
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Dec 25, 2016 12:27
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Prob a safe bet that the spores in the trailer are directly related to the stuff that dissolved the sacrificial engineer in the opening of Prometheus. Think those are Shaw's dog tags being found in the engineer ship?
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Dec 25, 2016 12:38
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But sir, we should wear suits on the surface! Don't worry about that subordinate, it's an earth like planet. We have all the vaxx-shots to protect us from all viruses and bacteria. We have a shuttle that can traverse Space to Atmosphere and land anywhere on the planet. Good, take us down through that thunderstorm in the middle of a mountain range, and make the landing as rough as possible, I want at least 1 crew member to feel sick. Sir, there's no large animals we can see on our detailed scans of the planet. Good. Take guns. Lots of guns. You might need to shoot something man sized. As an android, I will now explain in great detail on the Xenomorph's life cycle. This will not make any sense and be completely against the previous movies storyline. I will then inform the audience it's not THAT type of Xenomorph but another type I just built out of available materials. Large slabs of the crew talking to each other telling the audience why the previous movie made sense and they are idiots for thinking like that.
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Dec 25, 2016 12:41
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Looks like they're going a lot more traditional slasher movie this time. Which is fine but not really what I'm after. As long as there's cool sci fi poo poo to look at though I'm in.
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Dec 25, 2016 12:46
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The cinematography was really weird, but it must have been deliberate since the cinematographer is the same as on Prometheus - which, for all is faults, at least looked good.
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Dec 25, 2016 15:32
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That trailer did not make me super excited for the movie. Welp bye
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New official Alien movie series website is up: http://www.alienmovies.com/ It's an interactive Mother interface - you can type in various queries spanning Prometheus and 'Alien' (and maybe Covenant?) and it'll spit out a paragraph about them. I won't spoil what words or phrases work and what don't because part of the fun is experimenting with it, but this thread on an AvP fan forum has been messing with it since it went live for those who want website spoilers. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Dec 25, 2016 |
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I tried: Who is Arnold? It told me all about David  What is the Maze? Unable to compute. Dead. He cut a Hammerpede, was sprayed by acid and fell into a pool of black liquid.
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Mr President posted:The trailer literally looked like a remake of Prometheus just with an actual Alien this time instead of the engineer. It looks like a soft reboot of Alien, which is weird and disappointing because I would have been down for the Continuing Journey of Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender's Head
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Mike N Eich posted:It looks like a soft reboot of Alien, which is weird and disappointing because I would have been down for the Continuing Journey of Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender's Head Don't worry the adventure of RIpley 2 will not end in till the money does.
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Mike N Eich posted:It looks like a soft reboot of Alien, which is weird and disappointing because I would have been down for the Continuing Journey of Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender's Head I feel like Ridley Scott can't win. Prometheus comes out: "Where are the xenomorphs?! Why are we watching all of this pointless bullshit?" Alien Covenant trailer drops: "Goddammit, xenomorphs again? C'mon, do something new, I wanted a follow-up from Prometheus!"
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Mr President posted:The trailer literally looked like a remake of Prometheus just with an actual Alien this time instead of the engineer. Basically this. I'm not excited at all for this, hopefully Ridley Scott can turn it around because his recent track record has been v bad.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Basically this. I'm not excited at all for this, hopefully Ridley Scott can turn it around because his recent track record has been v bad. What did you think of The Martian?
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Dec 25, 2016 22:08
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Prometheus was fantastic. This trailer looks great. That's my story.
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Xenomrph posted:What did you think of The Martian? Yeah I guess the Martian was good. But mostly saved by the performances. Prometheus and exodus: gods and kings were so loving bad though. E: lmao forgot about Robin Hood and the counselor holy poo poo
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that scott made a watchable movie out of the book the martian is a miracle.
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I hope this movie answers some of the Prometheus questions like 'why did they create us and then decide to kill us' but the answers are all horrible and maddening. And the gods are all dead or hideously transformed. And everyone's foolish hopes are entirely undone, for the indifferent perfection of the cosmos is exceeded only by its hostility.
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I also hope there will be a dozen creatures of incomprehensible life cycle and purpose, defying all attempts at taxonomy or analysis, each one capable of new and obscene metamorphoses and appetites. Nothing should make any sense, all should be inchoate. The Engineer paradise transmuted into something pregnant with abomination: their marmoreal bodies disfigured by malignancy, wombs for the new and nameless life. The human explorers will be damned at the instant of contact, for all the choices they might make will only quicken the shrieking chaos. Also excited to see more cool set design General Battuta fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 26, 2016 |
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Dec 26, 2016 00:03
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i'm bummed if that's their planet as it's super boring and just looks like earth.
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The Predator Planet was cooler.
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In a post credits scene Shaw and David's severed head contact the surviving characters and recruit them to the alien cinematic universe avengers initiative.
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Timby posted:I feel like Ridley Scott can't win. Sure I guess, but I mostly enjoyed Prometheus and I'm a little disappointed Rapace isn't the lead in this. I'm basically assuming she'll show up for an infodump and get killed real quickly.
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Dec 26, 2016 02:40
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I kind of hope Shaw is just stuck in cryo the whole time because David is a diiicckkk. She wakes up as the movie ends, alone, confused, and pissed.
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MacheteZombie posted:I kind of hope Shaw is just stuck in cryo the whole time because David is a diiicckkk. there will certainly be a scene where David-head will talk to a totally innocent full-body-David and that will probably own
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Timby posted:I feel like Ridley Scott can't win. The problems people had with Prometheus didn't include a lack of xenomorphs. The inclusion of a crappy cgi xenomorph in it actually weakened it, although I believe an SMG analysis mentioned it was included to rile up the fanboys and was a metacommentary on expectations and corporate marketing and how it ties in to people getting their just desserts and therefore it was great. This trailer sort of looks like Ridley is taking that to the extreme 'you want aliens? Here's some aliens' but at the same time making it look super generic.
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I hope shaw wakes up from cryo confused as to why a tiny old man is asking her for more life.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Basically this. I'm not excited at all for this, hopefully Ridley Scott can turn it around because his recent track record has been v bad. It's pretty obvious now that the original Alien was so great because of all the talented people collaborating on the movie and that Ridley is incapable of recreating that magic on his own with a new crew. I'm still interested in watching Covenant, but only out of interest for whatever happens with David & Walter since Fassbender was so brilliant in Prometheus.
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Ridley Scott's wife is basically responsible for editing the original Alien into something workable anyway.
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Timby posted:I feel like Ridley Scott can't win. For me its more, I want the origin of the Xenomorphs, what the gently caress is this convoluted nonsense? Can we erase Prometheus and start again, I want a better Xenomorph origin story. I pictured them being a natural thing on a planet, and then they were captured and taken to other planets as weapons and acting as a kind of super bug virus. Not some dumb space giants pretending to be gods and then mixing up some goo and then oh look Xenomorphs got made accidentally but also a ton of other weird stuff about black goo infecting people.
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SUNKOS posted:It's pretty obvious now that the original Alien was so great because of all the talented people collaborating on the movie and that Ridley is incapable of recreating that magic on his own with a new crew. I'm still interested in watching Covenant, but only out of interest for whatever happens with David & Walter since Fassbender was so brilliant in Prometheus. "Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with Alien: Covenant, a new chapter in his groundbreaking Alien franchise." I'm still interested in the book because film concept art is really interesting to me, but acting like Ridley Scott is the only reason the Alien series is good is pretty 
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the xenomorph being not engineered is more interesting (works better in the story too since it's weyland yutani making the same mistake as that space jockey) but i never needed an origin story for them. i never liked the whole oh they take on characteristics of whatever they infest either it was cooler when hosts were just hosts like a wasp doesn't come out different when its eggs are implanted in a different type of spider or something. predalien looks dumb as gently caress.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the xenomorph being not engineered is more interesting (works better in the story too since it's weyland yutani making the same mistake as that space jockey) but i never needed an origin story for them. i never liked the whole oh they take on characteristics of whatever they infest either it was cooler when hosts were just hosts like a wasp doesn't come out different when its eggs are implanted in a different type of spider or something. predalien looks dumb as gently caress. I like the host trait thing, I think it adds an interesting visual and thematic layer to the Alien. Having said that, my first exposure to the Alien series was the old Kenner toyline from the 90s back when I was 9, so I'm also a little biased.  I like the Predalien concept, and I'm even okay with the design in AvPR (it looks better when it's lit properly), but better designs have shown up elsewhere. The comics actually show an amazing amount of restraint - the Predalien concept is the obvious logical endpoint of an "Aliens vs Predator" fight and would be super easy to run into the ground, but there's exactly one and only one Predalien across all of the Aliens/Predator/AvP comics (and it's handled well).
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I actually really liked how Prometheus handled the xenomorph, with its image emerging from the mural in the room with the black goo as a cryptic warning. I'd rather they have that aura of mystery and almost religious terror even for the godlike beings which supposedly created humanity than a concrete origin. I trust Ridley Scott though. Haters gonna hate 
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Mike N Eich posted:there will certainly be a scene where David-head will talk to a totally innocent full-body-David and that will probably own I wonder if the scene of David sitting in a chair next to a piano is actually going to be some type of cyberspace that comes from David and the new Android connecting.
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Hodgepodge posted:I actually really liked how Prometheus handled the xenomorph, with its image emerging from the mural in the room with the black goo as a cryptic warning. I'd rather they have that aura of mystery and almost religious terror even for the godlike beings which supposedly created humanity than a concrete origin. The xeno mural and the green crystal below it looked goofy, I thought. I agree with your sentiment regarding mystery but it seems that Scott is determined to replace good mysteries with bad ones.
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