Me too should be epic on IMAX
The trailer was just too good. It wasn't a bad movie, it just had expectations that were too high.
Prometheus was god-awful. Sadly, there hasn't been a good Alien move since 1986, though that one is still badass enough to make up for all the shitty ones since.
April 14th, 2017 at 10:27 PM ^
April 14th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
Alien still does it for me. One of the best tension creating movies ever.
There were parts of Prometheus that were extremely intriguing. I could have cared less about Shaw surviving
It all goes back to Wayland's speech in a deleted scene - ""you see this man? My company built him from nothing. I made him, and I made him in my own image so that he would be perfect, so that he would never fail. Pointing at him he says "I deserve this...Because you and I, we are superior.We are creators. We are Gods. And Gods never die."
Now here is the fun part - did the engineers create Aliens because they feared the capabilities of AI that humans created?
That would have been fun to explore. But no, that would have gone over the head of 99.9% of movie audiences. So they create some stupid Alien 1 redux with a new cast of characters. I'll download the .mkv when it's released to Bluray.
If it's a prizefight, I always bet on the black guy. If it's a movie, I always assume he's toast before the ending.
Skeptical about this one. Maybe wait for some reviews.
My favorite part
Game over, man. Game over.
Alien. 1979
Aliens. 1986
Alien 3. 1992
Alien: Resurrection. 1997
Prometheus. Prequel. 2012
Alien: Covenant. Sequel to prequel. 2017
Sixth movie.
I'm thirty and I realized I've never seen these films (or Predator) ((or Blade Runner)) (((or The Running Man))), so I watched Alien-Alien 3 last week. Am going to watch Alien: Resurrection this weekend, so this thread couldn't be more timely.
I don't know why Alien and Aliens aren't shown more often. They are Godfatther, Fugitive, Matrix Shawshank, Lord of the RIngs etc level classics, and those other movies are (rightfully) on all the time.
Let me see if I can guess the plot.
- People traveling in space.
- Find deserted ship.
- Do not land close to ship, so they can hike over desolate landscape to ship.
- Search ship and find nothing...
- ...until they find egg-like things deep inside.
- Person stares closely at egg-like thing.
- It opens...
- ...and an insect/alien thing attaches to person's head!
- People now concerned and return to ship...with person who has alien attached to them (don't do it!)
- Alien insect is pupating alien and uses unfortunate person as starter food and escapes.
- People hunt alien...poorly.
- Alien kicks ass except for random female who is tough as shit and kills alien.
- Robot is invovled. Evil robot.
- Alien comes back unexpectedly!!
- She kills it again.
- She goes into hypersleep.
- The end.
Sorry for the spoiler!
Seriously, I just wish these people had enough respect for viewers to try something new. Along with the Star Wars people (1. There's this death star...)
As a tangent to this, I do agree with that last sentiment, that really folks should stop trying to tack on or reinvent existing serials and try something new. When the second Abrams-styled Star Trek film stole lines from "The Wrath Of Khan", I walked out of the theater because I honestly thought it was disrespectful to a road that had already been travelled in the Star Trek universe. Part of me just wants to think that some things were done right the first time and we should leave them be.
I agree. These people involved don't care. They know they'll make money either way because enough people will go see it. They'll get a bunch of newbies and suckers like me will spend money in some sort of way to end up watching it. The last Star Wars Force Awakens was basically a rip off of A New Hope. It was a little different obviously and way cooler but whatever. There are only so many places to go with this stuff. Every movie has been made under the sun and once again the dark side will be beat and they'll lose battles in space with the same type of space ships that were in the movies 30 years ago. The alien or aliens will eventually be killed in this Covenant one just as well. The only interesting thing in this movie is the black goo or whatever that shit is. Pretty scary stuff. Makes you wonder about space. Yada-yada. You guys pver at UM need to make a Money Ball type of movie with football team or something. Man that sucker would sell.
don't get me started on the Fugitive reboot...
April 14th, 2017 at 11:31 PM ^
I don't care!
April 14th, 2017 at 10:30 PM ^
This looks no different than its predecessors... Same movie practically beat for beat.
Ridley seems to be spinning his wheels at this point.
April 15th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
I feel the same way about Alien 3 as I do about Godfather III; I'm glad to have an extension of or conclusion to the story, but man, I wish they had done it differently.
99-97-67 for Godfather 1->3 on rottentomatoes
97-98-44 for Alien 1->3 on the same
Neither part 3 are a waste of time, but they arent things you'd recommend if they were standalones. It really showed that the script for Aliens 3 was written and rewritten and completely trashed and started over from scratch, ad nauseum; if they had a trilogy plan going into it, they didn't follow that initial thread in the end.
April 15th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
April 15th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
I saw that movie in high school way before any of the others, way back in 2004/2005! I was very confused.
I'm glad that they aren't canon, but I'm also glad that it was made, in a way. Some movie franchise universes are so well-constructed and have such interesting lore, that it's fun to have see how they'd interact with others in a crossover. The result may be campy or self-indulgent, but I'm not immune from writing mental fan fiction, myself.
April 15th, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^
One summer in college I let foreign travelers into the hotel in WestQuad at night if they got their after the desk closed. I had a free place to stay and just had to come let people in if my beeper went off. I lived in Chicago House alone with free cable.
Watched Aliens late one night by myself. With the Alien lurking around the corner, all of the power in WQ went off AND my beeper went off on vibrate in my shirt pocket. Scared the bejesus out of me. Then I had to wind my way through the basement level of WQ in the pitch dark to let some guy into the building.
April 15th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^