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porfiria posted:Can anyone explain why Prometheus and Covenant are so into the mystery of who created humanity? The movie themselves aren't really interested in the question, really. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRa_xmJ4zXg
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where does Ripley fit in the reading of Aliens as a corporation quelling an organizing labor force
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porfiria posted:Can anyone explain why Prometheus and Covenant are so into the mystery of who created humanity? I think it's just an easy plot device to get into far-flung cosmic nihilistic horror and I am down tbh
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alf_pogs posted:I think it's just an easy plot device to get into far-flung cosmic nihilistic horror and I am down tbh Yeah I think it's there mostly to get the audience in the headspace of huh I guess there is no grand answer and humanity is pretty meaningless and dumb as we see the stories play out.
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Low Desert Punk posted:where does Ripley fit in the reading of Aliens as a corporation quelling an organizing labor force She's more concerned with taking care of her nuclear family so she sells out the strikers? Seems to work well, and pays off nicely in A3 and Resurrection.
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Low Desert Punk posted:where does Ripley fit in the reading of Aliens as a corporation quelling an organizing labor force And people thought the Vietnam allegory made the Vietnamese people look bad!
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Xenomrph posted:I present H R Giger: The Videogame been interested in this for a while, but it's been "in development" for a long rear end time now, and i have serious doubts about it. they make some very interesting trailers however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ue0jsQaPk
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RIP Ian Holm, I know he’d been in failing health for quite some time but it’s still unfortunate.  I solicited him to contribute to my AvP Let’s Play years ago and while he could have told me to go gently caress my self, he was exceedingly polite in declining. Class act all around.
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So uhh... https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/walter-hill-alien-5-treatment-wants-sigourney-weaver
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My eyes just slid right off the page of that article ngl
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I have mixed feelings.
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If it’s a sequel to Resurrection I’m way less mixed and kind of stoked.
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For the love of God please stop making Ripley films
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I dunno I'm down for anything that shows us the franchise isn't dead by Disney
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Xenomrph posted:RIP Ian Holm, I know he’d been in failing health for quite some time but it’s still unfortunate. One of the best, he will be missed. CelticPredator posted:If it’s a sequel to Resurrection I’m way less mixed and kind of stoked. Ripley 8 and Call's Eggcelent Adventure.
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I just don't want Aliens 2.
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Walter Hill, recently, I mean nothing against him but in general can't say I'm very confidant in anything he's involved in today.PeterCat posted:I just don't want Aliens 2. Never forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfw43Vj4d4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrDeESoujBU  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iogDjJ3d_xU Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Would they dare get some combination of Winona Ryder or/and Ron Perlman back? Or actually just have a new cast with no Ripley? Having the working title of Alien V though, I mean that doesn't even necessarily mean Ripley is back, just that it's in the same continuity as the previous four flicks. I don't know, I'm always down with a new Alien movie but like, as they say in Resurrection, the species was rendered extinct with what went down in Aliens and Alien 3, and everything sure as hell got hosed up on on the ship in Resurrection. Just, like do we really need another movie where the first half of it is just establishing how aliens are a thing again?
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A4R8 posted:So uhh... https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/walter-hill-alien-5-treatment-wants-sigourney-weaver Newt: can I dream? Ripley: yes honey, but noone will hear you scream. *winks at camera*
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I hope the whole movie is an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge deal that happens while Ripley is falling into the molten lead in Alien3.
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alf_pogs posted:so Alien Covenant isn't an Alien movie Sure, but it was also a direct sequel to Prometheus and carried on its themes and plot elements, which Alien 5: the even further adventures of Ripley almost certainly wouldn't
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McSpanky posted:I hope the whole movie is an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge deal that happens while Ripley is falling into the molten lead in Alien3. and they don't tell Sigourney Weaver
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Neo Rasa posted:I don't know, I'm always down with a new Alien movie but like, as they say in Resurrection, the species was rendered extinct with what went down in Aliens and Alien 3, and everything sure as hell got hosed up on on the ship in Resurrection. If they’re ignoring Prometheus then there’s still the Space Jockey angle.
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david_a posted:If they’re ignoring Prometheus then there’s still the Space Jockey angle. [Alien V's Space Jockeys are just as disappointing and  as Prometheus's, but in a different way.]
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Making an Alien movie with Weaver back as Ripley, but without Ridley's involvement, and going out of their way to contradict Prometheus/Covenant would be an absolutely absurd scenario. I hope it happens to be honest.
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It's going to be a Weaver film, but revealing that Fassbender has been responsible for every time she gets cloned/frozen and wakes up and there are Aliens around. e: also she's a descendent of Shaw, which is why he toys with her
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My fear is that the prequels will be treated the same way the Star Wars prequels were and memory holed for the sake of an incredibly formulaic fanservice story about Ripley fighting Xenomorphs in a closed off Weyland Yuntai facility *again* Please just give Scott the budget to make Prometheus 3: The Revenge of the Engineers, please
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multijoe posted:My fear is that the prequels will be treated the same way the Star Wars prequels were and memory holed for the sake of an incredibly formulaic fanservice story about Ripley fighting Xenomorphs in a closed off Weyland Yuntai facility *again* It’s Disney - this is exactly what they’re going to do.
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I wonder if you could make a good Alien movie without Xenomorphs. For instance, you could use the early scenes of Aliens (especially the board room scene) as inspiration, and the movie could center around other Weyland-Yutani projects. A shady mega-corporation in a universe with Lovecraft-esque horrors could serve as the backdrop for all sorts of neat stories, although you'd probably want to preserve the glimmers of hope and humanity that makes Alien and Aliens so satisfying to watch. You could include some sort of new alien, so there's still mystery and unknown. Alternately, make a movie about a completely different set of space truckers who run into (non-Xenomorph) trouble. The galaxy is a massive place, after all, and other people have to be doing interesting things too.
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Make an Alien film like Shin Godzilla. Yes the aliens are there, but also it’s just lots of scenes of committees and meetings and the occasional action sequence.
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"We would be able to take care of the xenomorphs if it wasn't for *stares at camera* bureaucracy!"
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I maintain that the Engineers are different from the Space Jockeys and it's abusive scientist makers all the way down.
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Basebf555 posted:Making an Alien movie with Weaver back as Ripley, but without Ridley's involvement, and going out of their way to contradict Prometheus/Covenant would be an absolutely absurd scenario. I hope it happens to be honest. Awful thoughts I reject them and hate them
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DorianGravy posted:I wonder if you could make a good Alien movie without Xenomorphs. Prometheus
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As much as I loved Prometheus, I never felt like it needed to become a continuing series tying more and more into Alien. So it doesn't seem so bad if they just continue on in the universe without acknowledging it directly.
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CelticPredator posted:Prometheus Eh, I don't actually like Prometheus or Covenant. I find the movies to be fairly mean-spirited overall (in comparison to Alien and Aliens, which end on more hopeful notes), and they're full of characters who make dumb decisions that get themselves killed. Plus, those movies are still about Xenomorph origins. Instead, I was wondering if it would be interesting to explore other stories altogether. I think the first couple Alien and Predator movies succeed because they allow viewers to let their imaginations run wild. But the more they go back to the same storylines and reveal backstory, the more the allure of of these subjects is removed, resulting in disappointing movies. Maybe show us more of future Earth instead. Would it look like Blade Runner?
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