Prometheus - Ridley Scott's 'Alien Prequel' (or not)...

[Pesty]

Patrick Bateman said:

Frimley111R said:

It looks dire! Cowboy hat, spaceship going to investigate, 'ooo look at the funny egg opening up, splat!' Sadly it has disappointment written all over it.

The early films would never do such a thing

He was a miner and he had his helmet on too.

He didn't stick his bare face over it.

[honest_delboy]

Looks like a reboot of the first Alien with a few more twists and cool bits. I will reserve ultimate judgement until i see it though, can't be any worse than prometheus surely?....

I think they've given away a lot in the trailer which will water down some of the shocks, not good.

[slartibartfast]

Don said:

slartibartfast said:

Alien: Covenant | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
https://youtu.be/H0VW6sg50Pk

Trailer....

Thanks for posting, Slartibartfast. I'm sorry, is your name not important? That's OK...

Not sure I follow what you're getting at

[Ved]

slartibartfast said:

Don said:

slartibartfast said:

Alien: Covenant | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
https://youtu.be/H0VW6sg50Pk

Trailer....

Thanks for posting, Slartibartfast. I'm sorry, is your name not important? That's OK...

Not sure I follow what you're getting at

Arthur Dent: Excuse me, what is your name by the way?
Slartibartfast: My name?
[pause]
Slartibartfast: My name is Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: I beg your pardon?
Slartibartfast: Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: [laughing] Slartibartfast?
Slartibartfast: I said it wasn't important.

[Moonhawk]

Pesty said:

He was a miner and he had his helmet on too.

He didn't stick his bare face over it.

Yep this. With the exception of Ash (who we know had an agenda anyway) - the rest of the crew were essentially miners and truckers and were dealing with something that was well beyond them.

How the crew dealt with his 'infection' was quite believable considering, with Ripley trying to enact Quarantine procedure, them performing proper scans before deciding what to do and performing slow considered attempts at surgery.

Prometheus on the other hand. "We're the best scientists, archaeologists etc in our field, hand picked for this mission - so lets all take our helmets off and breath alien air, contaminate what could be a millennium old alien archaeological site, touch alien snakes 'coz they look cute innit' - then when we find a preserved alien head from the first space faring species we know exists in the entire universe besides humans - lets just waltz it back to our ship and electrocute the st out of it - just for LOLz".

[slartibartfast]

Ved said:

slartibartfast said:

Don said:

slartibartfast said:

Alien: Covenant | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
https://youtu.be/H0VW6sg50Pk

Trailer....

Thanks for posting, Slartibartfast. I'm sorry, is your name not important? That's OK...

Not sure I follow what you're getting at

Arthur Dent: Excuse me, what is your name by the way?
Slartibartfast: My name?
[pause]
Slartibartfast: My name is Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: I beg your pardon?
Slartibartfast: Slartibartfast.
Arthur Dent: [laughing] Slartibartfast?
Slartibartfast: I said it wasn't important.

yes of course...

[Frimley111R]

Remind me of the sequence of the films...

[slartibartfast]

Frimley111R said:

Remind me of the sequence of the films...

Prometheus
Convenant
something else
probably another something else
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien resurection

[Halb]

There's also;
AVP
AVP2
Predator 2
ALien.

[ajprice]

slartibartfast said:

Frimley111R said:

Remind me of the sequence of the films...

Prometheus
Convenant
something else
probably another something else
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien resurection

Prometheus
Covenant
Covenant 2
Covenant 3
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien 5' film

Covenant is a prequel trilogy - http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/27/9806404/alien-c...
Alien 5 - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/alien-5/34199/alie...

[Narcisus]

I'll not be rushing to see it this time....

[Halb]

Ignoring previous films isn't new.
SUperman Returns
all Highlander sequels.
Most James Bond films.

[SpudLink]

Halb said:

Ignoring previous films isn't new.
SUperman Returns
all Highlander sequels.
Most James Bond films.

The AVP films never happened. Nope. Never happened. Don't bother pointing me towards IMDB links. It's all just lies.

[Halb]

[Guvernator]

So the trailer basically makes it look like a poor Alien reboot, put me firmly in the underwhelmed camp for this one.

More interested in Alien 5 now, I really hope they ignore the god awful mistakes that were Alien 3 & 4 and get Hicks and more importantly the Marines back in the fight.

[Halb]

I met Michael Biehn this month, older obviously, but still lean and hale.
I also watch the Terminator at the pics last month, wow, I had forgotten just what amazing shape he was in, in his youth. There are two amazing physiques in The Terminator.

[kelvink]

Alien Covenant - new trailer - much, much better. Gives a real feel for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8

[Guvernator]

kelvink said:

Alien Covenant - new trailer - much, much better. Gives a real feel for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8

I'll repeat what I said a few posts above, it looks like a beat for beat reboot of Alien and I really can't see anything original or exciting there. I'm starting to think this franchise is cursed.

[housen]

ajprice said:

slartibartfast said:

Frimley111R said:

Remind me of the sequence of the films...

Prometheus
Convenant
something else
probably another something else
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien resurection

Prometheus
Covenant
Covenant 2
Covenant 3
Alien
Aliens
Alien 3
Alien Resurrection
Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien 5' film

Covenant is a prequel trilogy - http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/27/9806404/alien-c...
Alien 5 - http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/alien-5/34199/alie...

im sure im about to get buried here

but why does know one in this future know about these aliens ?

I mean they can fly to other planets but don't document the horrors ?

with you tube and the internet ;-) this horrific alien and what they do must travel the news like wildfire ?

[IanH755]

Guvernator said:

kelvink said:

Alien Covenant - new trailer - much, much better. Gives a real feel for the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8

I'll repeat what I said a few posts above, it looks like a beat for beat reboot of Alien and I really can't see anything original or exciting there. I'm starting to think this franchise is cursed.

Same feeling here, it feels like an Alien reboot with a new Alien Creature "reboot" also thrown in (the backbuster/white alien).

It seems like no-one had a clear vision with what to do with the franchise, or at least thats how it looks so far. Maybe after the film is released we'll get a different sense of the film but currently, and despite being a massive Alien fanboy, this isn't filling me with hope for the "trilogy".