@uninspiredcup said:
Concept art looks somewhat boring. Part of what made the movie what is was, was H.R. Giger's sexual imagery.
Blomkamp is great though; at least District 9 was great. Elysium - not so much.
Thing that gives off the biggest warning sign to me is that the concept art reeks of being nothing obut fan service. Yeah, I get that Alien 3 and 4 sucked. But apparently the concept art being released played a role in Blompklomp getting the job, and what am I seeing? I'm not seeing hints of a story. I'm seeing fan service shit that Alien fans have been whining about for the last 25 years. Hey...Hicks and Ripley back together? Why? Who cares! It's Hicks and Ripley back together fighting Aliens even though I can't help but think, "whay is this happening?" Derelict spaceship in a giant warehouse? Cool imagery, but again...WHY? How does that hint at the story being advancesd when the Alien movie series has already gone on long enough that the ship should be irrelevant? Ripkley wearing an Alien suit? That shit actually just looks stupid.
But I think my biggest beef here is the apparent plan to just throw all continuity out the window and pretend like half the series (AVP is not part of the Alien series) never happened. Standard practice if you want to do that is to do a full reboot. Then you can puick and choose what to keep in and what to leave behind. Continuity doesn't matter because reboots aren't part of the same story. I've heard inklings of an Alien reboot, and if they want to get Blompklomp to do the reboot, then fine. But all indications I've heard that this is not a reboot. This is intended to be a story set within the pre-existing Alien story, and they're wanting to throw out half the story because they don't like it. **** that. If they thought that half the story was so goddamn disposable, then why did they bother making it and then charge me money to see it and then keep on doing rereleases on disc while adding new incentives (extras, alternate edits, better visual fidelity, etc) to get people to pay for it again? They milk half the story as much as they can despite no one liking it, then they want to pretend that shit never happened? **** that. That's like if Harry Potter 6 sucked, so the writer released Harry Potter seven and started it out by saying "Harry Potter 6 never happened because I don't like it. This seventh book is really the 6th bvook, then the 8th book is really gonna be book #7. Yes, I realize that I made a lot of money off of you saps buying that crap, and thanks! But in order to save me from having to make gold out of shit, just pretend you never read that part. Okay/ Thanks!" **** that. Yes, the Alien series ended up in a shitty place. So do your damn work, respect your damn audience, and stop trying to retroactively trying to pretend like the shit that the audience saw never happened. This "Alien 3 and 4 were just hypersleep dreams" shit is just that: shit. It's lazy fanboy garbage from fucking fanboys who care more about the intellectual property than they care about storytelling. Yes, that part of the story happened. Don't like that, then do a reboot. Otherwise, stop fucking insulting my intelligence. If the series went to shit, then proceed from the shitty place that the story ended up and turn that lump of shit into gold. Anyone who can't do that is the wrong person for the job.
EDIT: And yes, I realize that I might have seemed to have been hating on Alien fans. That's because I sort of am. When all that bullshit teaser shit about Alien 3 came out, Alien fans were like, "OMG yes, Aliens on Earth!" Then Alien 3 came out and sucked ass and everyone retroactively pretended like Alien and Aliens were all the story that nedded to be told. Fastforward to present day when Alien fanboys still maintain that Alien and Aliens were the only story that needed to be told. Then Blompklomp posts some admittedly cool (and some admittedly stupid) concept art and everyone's like, "OMG, yes Ripley and Hicks back together again fighting Aliens again! Alien 3 and 4 never happened! Dogs and cats living together in harmony, this is just the incentive I needed to not give in to my cancer!" Except...what exactly is the basic story here that is begging to be told? I'm not asking for a detailed plot synopsis because of course I'm not. But for anyone who's getting hyped about this, the overwhelming vibe I'm getting is "another Alien movie (hopefulluy goofd this time) with fan service shit like having Ripley Newt and Hicks coming back together to kill more Aliens." And I can't help but think...What's the story that needs to be told here? Can anypone explain this to me? Can anyone explain to me what story within the Alien series needs to be told? More specifically, what element of RIPLEY'S story arc needs to be told? Was Ripley's story somehow unfinished or unresolved? Well, sort of. Alien Resurrexction ended with Ripley returning to Earth while being the only remnant of the Alien's genetic material. that could be a starting point for something. That's something that's sort of asking to be resolved. Is anyone gonna let her live considering that she's all that remains of the Aliens? If nothing else, tht's an unansewered question. But now whe're apparently backtracking and starting the new movie as a sequel to Aliens while ignoring that Alien 3 and 4 ever existed. Which begs the question: WHY? Everyone has been saying that Alien and Aliens are a perfectly fine story for Alien series and that the series should have ended there rather than keep going and descend into mediocrity. So, why THIS movie? Since the intent is apparently to ignore Alien 3 and Alien 4 and have this movie be an alternate sequel to Aliens, can anyone explain to me qwhat story needs to be told here/? At the end of Aliens, ewhat questions are we asking about Ripley? In what ways are her story arc incomplete? What story is begging to be told here, and why are Ripley Hicks (and presumably Nrewt) a part of that staory? When Alien 3 and 4 ended up sucking, Alien fanboys have constantly been saying that Alien and Aliens werew the only story thaty needed tpo be told (at least as far as Ripley, Hicks, and Newt are concerned). my question is...what has changed? how does that not still apply?
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