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I mean, I’m all for giving the alien franchise to promising up and coming directors. That was more or less the approach with the first four films after all and it was great to see each artist bring their own style to the franchise, even when it floundered. But this just looks like fan films slavishly regurgitating Ridley’s original approach? I mean perhaps I’m being too harsh given it’s just a teaser, but they seem to be promising a nostalgia rehash. (And the recent animated IGN miniseries doesn’t give me any confidence in the Fox execs behind this year’s multimedia “revitalization”). Say what you will about Prometheus, but at least Ridley tried to do something new.
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I want Blomkamp's Alien movie.
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So it's a new Captain Marvel trailer.
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feedmyleg posted:Teaser for six short films taking place in the Alien franchise for the 40th anniversary. Neat! Follow the link in the description. It appears these shorts are already on the Alien Anthology channel.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:
That's the idea I wonder if this is part of some broader initiative, since Pixar just started releasing a bunch of shorts they produced with a bunch of young unknown artists
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Jedit posted:Follow the link in the description. It appears these shorts are already on the Alien Anthology channel. Hm, you sure? I'm only seeing the 6-episode Isolation mini which is a different thing. And yeah, I'm looking forward to these as fun novelties but I don't expect them to have any sort of depth, nor do I expect them to step outside the box of the first two films and feel like they're adding to this universe. Even if you don't like Prometheus or Covenant you've gotta admit they don't suffer from the same creatively-bankrupt problems as most sequels/prequels.
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Yeah, so to clarify: these apparently look like fan films because they literally are. Fox accepted fan pitch submissions from around the world and then accepted a few winners to make theirs a reality. That’s cool enough for said fans I suppose.
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Bugblatter posted:Yeah, so to clarify: these apparently look like fan films because they literally are. Fox accepted fan pitch submissions from around the world and then accepted a few winners to make theirs a reality. Oh.
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teagone posted:I want Blomkamp's Alien movie. but he would just make the aliens
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teagone posted:Good point! Since they're likely heading into the quantum realm to time travel backwards into the past with those getups. How would heading into the quantum realm let them travel back in time besides *hand waves* sciencey reasons? Nothing like that has ever been brought up. (And yes, I know, nothing in the MCU actually makes sense. But that would be a pretty hard left turn for what they've established.)
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I love how those descriptions try to be mysterious about what's going to happen, oooh will the ominous danger be...the alien????
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thrawn527 posted:How would heading into the quantum realm let them travel back in time besides *hand waves* sciencey reasons? Nothing like that has ever been brought up. https://www.thewrap.com/ant-man-wasp-mid-credits-scene-explained-time-vortex/
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Oh, gently caress, that's right, I forgot about that one line in a mid-credits scene. Yeah, this is totally what's going to happen, my mistake.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Prometheus and Covenant owned. thats a bit much. they had some great elements both of them, but also some terrible, and they definitely didnt own. say theyre "pretty good" and ill agree.
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feedmyleg posted:That... is not a good trailer.
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Prometheus owned, Covenant was pretty good.
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Covenant's the better of the two for me due to the full distilled madness of David.
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CelticPredator posted:Covenant's the better of the two for me due to the full distilled madness of David. totally fair
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Same, also I felt crew stupidity came off better in Covenant than Prometheus.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Prometheus
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covenant and prometheus are fine but having to constantly compare both movies to alien(s) don’t do either any favors
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CelticPredator posted:Covenant's the better of the two for me due to the full distilled madness of David. I feel like every time someone mentions Covenant I look up the flute scene again. Such a joy to watch, such a sinister insight into David... and so silly to watch Fassbender play with himself. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Mar 15, 2019 |
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QuoProQuid posted:covenant and prometheus are fine but having to constantly compare both movies to alien(s) don’t do either any favors no! everything must be compared at all times! forever! aaaaaaaaaaa
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Mierenneuker posted:the flute scene. so silly to watch Fassbender play with himself.
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If you want that scene to be nothing but sexual innuendo, it will be. "Watch me, I'll do the fingering." *Giger watches down from the abyss and a tear falls from his eye (an actual eye)* Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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Mierenneuker posted:If you want that scene to be nothing but sexual innuendo, it will be. Like the crew in Master and Commander. Every time they're playing music in the books or the movie they're actually having hot sex.
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Mierenneuker posted:If you want that scene to be nothing but sexual innuendo, it will be. The entire audience I watched it with definitely wanted that moment to be.
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https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio/status/1107623909581451264 No trailer, but what is up with Brad Pitt in this poster? The level of photoshop is unsettling.
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There are probably like ten different people on Brad Pitt's team that have to give their okay to his likeness approval. Sometimes actors are awesome and want their pictures to look like them, and sometimes they ask for things to be brushed up. You do it enough times and you suddenly have a different person. Brad Pitt himself probably likes the way he looks in that because the last person who should be giving likeness approval is the person who only sees himself in the mirror flipped around and filtered through layers of emotional bias.
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kiimo—any insight into video post-processing on aging actors? I've heard here and there about productions using wrinkle-removal tech but have no idea how common or extensive it is. Would Pitt's team have any sort of control over that sort of thing for the trailers or would that be limited to the film itself?
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feedmyleg posted:kiimo—any insight into video post-processing on aging actors? I've heard here and there about productions using wrinkle-removal tech but have no idea how common or extensive it is. Would Pitt's team have any sort of control over that sort of thing for the trailers or would that be limited to the film itself? We had a discussion in this thread about it earlier, but it's unlikely any actor has deaging as part of a contract on the video side. It's extensive and hard and expensive and likely only a part of a movie's budget when it's a specific part of the story. It'd cost millions just for a single actor to be deaged throughout a movie. Maybe for their posters but I seriously doubt for the entirety of a movie. As for that Brad Pitt pic, I think his sideburns are causing an unsettling angularity of his face that is making it offputting. In larger versions he looks fine.
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Right not to mention the post production is almost always behind on the rest of the SFX trying to look passable. Imagine dedicating the staff on de-aging Christoph Waltz in Alita while simultaneously scrambling to make Alita look real during Eyegate.
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thrawn527 posted:
I thought it was Scott Bakula.
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I think it’s mostly his hair and clothes that are throwing me off. I don’t think his face looks any more photoshopped than Leo’s.
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