Comments on: Ridley Scott Explains His Idea For The Next ‘Alien’

By: steve

steve — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 01:22:00 +0000

In reply to GusHR. existential themes LOL The complaints about Prometheus were never about the Lack of Aliens it was about the stupidity of the story and stupidity of the characters. The same can be said of covenant.

By: daveymorrison

daveymorrison — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 01:17:00 +0000

Personally, I find this really encouraging if they’re going to continue the franchise.

By: Lucasian

Lucasian — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:49:00 +0000

In reply to MikeDK. No more MikeDK.

By: Opal Echo Nightfall

Opal Echo Nightfall — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:02:00 +0000

But who will do the fingering?

By: MikeDK

MikeDK — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:15:00 +0000

In reply to Miles Dyson. Boom. It's really that simple. Very well said.

By: MikeDK

MikeDK — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:01:00 +0000

No more, no more, no more. No more Alien. No more Xenomorphs. And, quite frankly, no more Scott.

By: MikeDK

MikeDK — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:00:00 +0000

In reply to GusHR.

Prometheus put me to sleep, every damn time I tried watching it. Three times, and I still haven’t seen the end.

Look, there are good movies and bad movies. There are thoughtful movies (Ex-Machina) and dumb movies (Event Horizon) both equally good in their own way.

But Prometheus is not a good movie. Not by any standards.
The most disheartening thing is Scott saying “I think AI is becoming much more dangerous and therefore more interesting” – yeah, that’s what THE FIRST ALIEN WAS ABOUT!!!

By: Miles Dyson

Miles Dyson — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:19:00 +0000

Some directors, Scott for instance are not writers–Fincher has more of a writters brain than Scott does, the idea that Scott is pushing the Alien franchise because it’s his is a bit absurd. Alien was actually Dan O’Bannon’s story, not Scott’s. Ridely did a bang up job of directing the first Alien film and it is still one of my all time favorite movies, but Scott was never the actual mastermind behind the story. What we have in his two latest Alien films is a complete misread of why Alien is a thing at all. Alien was never about Androids and AI, it was never a topical film, Alien wasn’t a cold war nightmare it was a Primal nightmare, rooted in anxiety about sexuality, the very nature of life. Having David be the creator of the Xeno-morphs, while a great irony–it’s also flaccid, it robs Alien of it core allure–The Xeno-morph represents everything mysterious and unknowable about the universe. The more you explore the origin of the Alien the more you detract from its orginial Lovecraftian design–fear of the unknown.

That fight between David and Walter–how absolutely absurd–what the fuck?????A kunfu fight between two androids–is that really what Alien is about?? Scott doesn’t know what he’s doing in the slightest.

By: GusHR

GusHR — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:40:00 +0000

A truly disheartening text to read. It seems to imply that Scott (or any filmmaker) should read the knee-jerk, dumb, often incoherent whining from internet troglodytes and shape his next film based on that. That’s the death of artistry.

And for the most part, the most criticized aspect of Covenant was the phoned-in fan-service that comprised the third act. Eliminate the “existential” themes about creation and destruction that made Prometheus and Covenant two of the most fascinating big-budget sci-fis and all you’ve got is a meaningless rehash of old tropes.

By: Big Pete Bondurant

Big Pete Bondurant — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 23:48:00 +0000

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By: Deez

Deez — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 23:18:00 +0000

Please no more!

By: ManWithSword

ManWithSword — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:19:00 +0000

I think if a film wants to explore existential questions, it needs to show before it tells. Take 2001 as an example. Or the first Alien film. The absolute otherness of the space jockey, the ship, the eggs, and the xenomorph, showed us the strangeness of being alive in a mostly lifeless and unforgiving universe, while the characters moaned about work conditions, the food, the level of pay, until they too came face to face with something that challenged everything that made sense to them. You show the audience something which represents the question or a possible answer. You don’t tell the audience by having characters sit discussing the nature of existence.

By: Jason Ratigan

Jason Ratigan — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:16:00 +0000

I would have been happy with no chest- bursting in Alien Covenant. I think the problem is that stuff was not organic to the story Prometheus began. Sounds like he’d rather do- over Alien Covenant and I’d be happy with that.