Thread: I have a feeling this movie will be solid win!

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To see Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger's hand in this, win. Alien is in my book as the #1 horror movie ever. Now they're back at it.

...and Aliens is one of the best action films.

I've read about this being on the way for a while...looking forward to it

Originally Posted by Fordy

...and Aliens is one of the best action films.

Also, both great sci-fi films . I must have watched them a dozen times each as a teenager.

Ridley Scott is hit and miss as a director tho. Gladiator was was about as engaging as wallpaper paste. Giger is neat, but his style has been copied so much since then it just looks like everything else, and obviously he has not developed at all in decades. Charlize Theron is fun to watch, but she's no Sigourney Weaver.

The trailer looks a lot like Alien. Evidently, a prequel. I guess it is the same planet, and we learn how "the corporation" first heard about it.

In fact, pretty sure the wrecked ship* that the Nostromo (named after a great Joseph Conrad novel) went to investigate was the Prometheus. Sort of gives away the ending, I guess.

* well, not that sure. According to google no one else has asserted that, lol. Maybe that ship wasn't referred to by name. [later... nope, totally wrong. The wrecked ship was alien. But hmmm...]

Originally Posted by MK27

Ridley Scott is hit and miss as a director tho.

I looked over a list of his work and I have to agree. Some of his stuff I haven't even heard of before.

Gladiator was was about as engaging as wallpaper paste. Giger is neat, but his style has been copied so much since then it just looks like everything else, and obviously he has not developed at all in decades. Charlize Theron is fun to watch, but she's no Sigourney Weaver.

The trailer looks a lot like Alien. Evidently, a prequel. I guess it is the same planet, and we learn how "the corporation" first heard about it.

Perhaps, but Scott is adamant that he doesn't want to do another "Alien" movie as the fear factor is gone. That said, there may be some references. Still, looking forward to another good sci-fi. I haven't seen one that didn't make me roll my eyes in decades.

Originally Posted by Cynic

Still, looking forward to another good sci-fi. I haven't seen one that didn't make me roll my eyes in decades.

Oh bah. You've missed out:

2006 The Fountain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The greatest climax of any movie ever

2002 Solaris (2002 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Russian original, made about the same time as 2001, is f'ing awesome but this one is almost as much fun, maybe easier to watch (it's in English and only a few hours, lol), with a different ending. See also His Master's Voice (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2009 Moon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anyone who didn't like this is a FOOL. Don't read the plot synopsis, just watch it.

2001 K-PAX (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Someone here led me to this, thx.

Hmmm, plus:

2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Riddick Much better than "Pitch Black", to which it is a sequel.

2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlef...rth_%28film%29 Quirky take on the banality of evil with John Travolta! Apparently everyone hated this, go figure -- I say they just did not get it.

2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scann...kly_%28film%29 This and The Fountain were both movies I finished thinking: maybe that was the best movie I ever saw.

2002 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_%28film%29 I hope before I die someone makes a few dozen more Philip K. Dick derived films.

And of course,

2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29 If you liked Aliens but not Avatar, something really wrong happened in your life, lol.

>>In fact, pretty sure the wrecked ship* that the Nostromo (named after a great Joseph Conrad novel) went to investigate was the Prometheus. Sort of gives away the ending, I guess.

According to Wiki, the "Sulaco" (ship from Aliens) had its name from the same book. IIRC the other ship was alien in origin (hence the huge alien corpse found in the ship)

>>Ridley Scott is hit and miss as a director tho

American Gangster, Blade Runner, Duelists, Black Hawk Down...he does put out some good stuff, but I admit I was disappointed with Robin Hood and some others.

Originally Posted by Fordy

According to Wiki, the "Sulaco" (ship from Aliens) had its name from the same book.

Yep (Sulaco was the mothership/freighter, Nostromo was the planetary dropship). I think I read the book because of a quote that appeared during the opening of the C64 game, Alien:

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Wowee, a screenshot! "We live as we dream: Alone" -- Joseph Conrad. I haven't changed much, sigh.

Nostromo is the main character, Sulaco is the setting. I remember it as a kind of tragic, haunting story about corruption, hubris, and miscommunication in an exotic Colonial frontier place where bad things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people. Is that an "existential" universe ?

Conrad was a professional seafarer in real life.

IIRC the other ship was alien in origin (hence the huge alien corpse found in the ship)

I was thinking they had taken those on as cargo, but you're right, such is not the case.

American Gangster, Blade Runner, Duelists, Black Hawk Down...he does put out some good stuff, but I admit I was disappointed with Robin Hood and some others.

Can't remember what I thot of Black Hawk Down. Love Blade Runner, enjoyed American Gangster. I notice he directed Legend too, which I really liked when it came out (nb, I was ~12), maybe Mia Sara is partially to blame.

IMO Scott seems like a kind of uncritical director who does a decent job with a big budget; he doesn't write anything himself, and I assume just accepts oodles of cash when offered ("Ah, the story's passable, what the heck...").

Looking forward to this movie. Though I didn't know about the change til a few months back. Was supposed to be a sequel, then a prequel, then they said it was going to be a separate movie but set in the Alien universe. Still looking good either way they had taken it.

Though watching the full trailer makes it look like a prequel again as it seems like the ship is what is discovered in the first Alien movie.

To see Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger's hand in this, win.

Yeah, but I wish they would have got Giger to pen new creations for this instead of using ideas from the first Alien movie.

Originally Posted by Cynic

you might have forgot one movie from your list: Event Horizon.

Liberate tutemae ex inferis!