Scott Confirmed for Alien Prequel

[Trubinator]

I wonder how this will even be possible story-wise unless they do the Space Jockey thing. It'll be even harder if they incorporate AVP into the ALIENS canon. I trust Ridley Scott as a director, but the real problem here is the writing and so far I haven't seen any indication that the people they may hire are capable or good at this sort of thing.

 

[nx1701g]

Or more Alien Vs Predator...

 

[john titor]

This is the fun thing, I'm in my 20s, and Pulp Fiction is a classic. I just see a decline in quality, its like a wave, has peaks and troughs. The view that quality is always unchanging is false imo. I was forced to go to HP and I didn't like it, I thought it was naff. Seven is another 90s film. Forest Gump was ok but sentimental drivel at the same time. LOTR was overlong turgid crap. I saw all three of them and thought wow, these films suck and they're based on books 60 years old at this stage. American Beauty is an easy film to make, just pick some suitably angsty middle class subject matter, make "profound" statements about society/life, throw in some surrealism and you've got an oscar winning movie already.

But these are all your opinions. I actually liked Forest Gump, and I think its a great movie. Then again, that is my opinion. I would argue that movies became commercialized in the 70s/80s. I would argue that it was 70s/80s that started this cookie cutter movie system we see now. IMO the 40-50-60s were movies at their best, in terms of quality writing and acting.

Rob

Exactly, in my opinion contemporary cinema on the whole does not speak to me

 

[Ayelbourne]

What that movie did to pregnant women and babies was disgusting with a capital D!

Yeah, you'd think evil space monsters would have a moral code.

Seriously, stuff like that happens quite often in nature.

I mean, come on! That is your beef with AVP:R??

 

[QuasarVM]

Yep...sue me, I found it distasteful and put the final nail in coffin of that movie. It was gross and disgusting.

...and utterly unnecessary.

But, the rest of the movie sucked too, so I don't want to pretend that was the only part of the movie I didn't like.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It was gross and disgusting.

What part of this Alien stuff ISN'T?

 

[nx1701g]

Yep...sue me, I found it distasteful and put the final nail in coffin of that movie. It was gross and disgusting.

...and utterly unnecessary.

But, the rest of the movie sucked too, so I don't want to pretend that was the only part of the movie I didn't like.

They just had the unfortunate purpose of filming it. That's actually been in the comics and novels for years. Something similar was also planned for Alien Resurrection but was, at the time, deemed unfilmable with current effects.

 

[QuasarVM]

It was gross and disgusting.

What part of this Alien stuff ISN'T?

I don't know guys...I just thought pregnant women was crossing a line we didn't need to cross.

Just seemed over the top to me.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Wouldn't be the first time. Remember the 2004 Dawn of the Dead?

 

[Blue_Trek]

LOTR was overlong turgid crap. I saw all three of them and thought wow, these films suck and they're based on books 60 years old at this stage.

ROTK is the second highest grossing movie of all time worldwide at 1.1 Billion and it won 11 Oscars including best picture and it won in every category it was nominated in. Unheard of for a fantasy heavy CGI film.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=returnoftheking.htm

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/oscar/movies/?id=returnoftheking.htm

Your opinion which of coarse you are entitled too, is your own, but you ARE in the minority on this one.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm pleasantly surprised Scott will be involved in a prequel. I'm now mildly interested in seeing what he comes up with.