Prometheus!! the trailer shows so much promise
JohnTilton
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Is anyone going crazy over this? It comes out the weekend before my birthday and I don't think I could have been given a more indirectly awesome present :D
Is anyone going crazy over this? It comes out the weekend before my birthday and I don't think I could have been given a more indirectly awesome present :D
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But in any case.... to answer the original question, it depends who you ask. It was originally hyped as a prequel to Alien. Then Ridley Scott started insisting it's not. But the trailers are incredibly reminiscent of Alien (all the way down to the reveal of the title/font). One of the cast members even made a quote geeking out about how it was exciting to be on the set of one of the alien movies because the original was what made him want to be in movies. Then Scott started making quotes about how it's in the same universe as the Alien movies, but not a direct prequel. I personally think it is a prequel and for some reason or other they're being coy about it. But the short answer is that there is a connection, we just don't know exactly what it is yet. But there's something.
And yes, the trailer has me incredibly excited for this movie.
What's weird about it is that if you take him at face value and it's not a prequel to Alien, then the whole trailer looks very derivative of Alien. It would be like if George Lucas made a movie that he insisted was not a Star Wars movie, but had lightsabers and scrolling text. We'd think he ran out of ideas. Or James Cameron with a movie that's not a Terminator movie, but still involves Austrian cyborgs from the future (it would probably still be better than Avatar though). I would think from a PR standpoint, it would be better to admit that it's an Alien prequel. Unless of course, he's just counting on most people being able to see the obvious and having it just make them more curious, which seems to be what's happening.
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But I noticed a lack of Star City destruction...
Cry for Justice reference.
That said, I do think I get why Scott made a firm decision to not let this be thought of as a prequel to Alien, even though it is clearly set at an earlier point of the same timeline: I think, in the post Episode 1 age, prequel is a dirty word. And it may also be the case that, even if this ends up being the story of how that ship with the eggs ended up where the crew of the Nostromo found it, it may also be that this is meant to be a story that can stand on its own, and he wants it to be taken on those merits. Sometimes a prequel is meant to be one giant 'Easter Egg'. One big wink at prior knowledge, at the expense of having a story of its own to tell. And (hopefully) Prometheus is not that. So even at the potential box office expense of playing coy with the Alien fans, I can guess why he has played it that way.
It may also be that- for all the familiar elements- Prometheus might not have a full-grown alien in it. We might just see eggs or a facehugger. It may be that the danger of what that ship represents is understood if not, in this movie, realized yet. So I could see where Scott wouldn't want to build up an expectation that this is a capital-A capital-P "Alien Prequel" to end up with the backlash that "It's an Alien Prequel with no #$&(ing Aliens in it!", if that is the case.
Anyway, simply put, I am psyched. This may be the first midnight showing of a movie I have done in years.
On the subject of collaborating with H.R. Giger, Scott said,
Switzerland rocks 3:-O
I wasn't born when Alien came out; I was 5/6 when Aliens was released (I missed that one in theaters); Alien 3 I was 12 (by that time I had seen 1-2 and ended up seeing 3 shortly after it was released on VHS); so Resurrection was the first "Alien" Movie I saw in theaters. Even then that didn't feel like 1/2 or even 3. It felt like a "blockbuster". So Prometheus feels like it is going to be the first real Alien movie I will get to experience in the theater. I'm not missing that.
I don't counts AvP as an Alien movie, just like Preadtors isn't a Predator movie. AvPs and Predators are movies for little boys.
But Prometheus might FINALLY be it.
The huge problem I had with AvP (and Predators for that matter) is that I had been waiting to see an Aliens vs Predator movie since Predator 2 (I was like 10/11 when I saw that on vhs). I still remember how awesome it was seeing the xenomorph skull in the trophy room. Those movies were about dudes/Predators being manly, "I ain't got time to bleed" type manly. The Aliens were scary killing machines. It should have been awesome.
Instead AvP was the Twillight version of manly movies.
I also remember the geekout moment of seeing that skull. There was an audible reaction in the theater. (At least my own, though I wasn't the only one).
I'm sure Dark Horse facepalmed many a time those years.