Re: Neil Blomkamp's A L I E N movie
No one can make the Alien or Terminator franchises ever cool again.
ALIEN ISOLATION would argue that point. It's been making the top 10 games of 2014 lists across the board (Even Yahtzee put it on his top 5) and is still doing great in the sales charts. So it is possible so long as you're not covering it up with stupid.
i.e.
1. Retcon every gawddang thing that's been established in the alien movies just so we can make another one that's not any good. (ALIEN3)
2. You know what color palette would look great on every single thing in this movie? Brown. (Alien: Resurrection)
3. There have been ALIENS on Earth throughout the entire course of human history and are still around in the 2000s in a frozen temple down at the bottom of Antarctica. (AvP)
4. Aliens invade a home town in America and somehow a bomb manages to wipe every single one of them out (THAT NEVER WORKS!)
5. Aliens actually originated from humans so they're no longer ALIEN. (Prometheus)
6. Ripley likes to wipe her memory clean of horrible events. (Whatever those recent new books are)
I find the infested derelict ship interesting. How did they manage to contain the infestation within the ship and not anywhere else? And how did they repair the starboard section of the ship when it was trashed in ALIENS? I know I'm using the Special Edition for reference, but that is the director's prefered cut, as it is mine!