ghostryder
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Personally I don't feel that's a bad thing. I *love* the idea of doing more with Hicks, Newt, and Weyland-Yutani.
A L I E N FIVE Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN movie
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Personally I don't feel that's a bad thing. I *love* the idea of doing more with Hicks, Newt, and Weyland-Yutani.
Birdie
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Twenty years ago I probably would have agreed with you.
Mola Rob
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I think the movie will probably be an interesting "what if" story but I'm not about to overwrite the story of Ripley in my head. The character died in Alien³ and I never had a problem with that, I think the movie has been given an unfair treatment simply because fans wanted more slam bang boom colonial marines action and less gloom. Well Alien was hardly a happy feel good family movie so what did they expect? This whole things reeks of movie studio desperation as Fox frantically tries to revive what is basically a dead franchise.
I am curious as to what Weaver has in mind storywise, from what I've read she was one of the ones who wanted to take the Alien movies in a less militaristic directions after Aliens?
I am curious as to what Weaver has in mind storywise, from what I've read she was one of the ones who wanted to take the Alien movies in a less militaristic directions after Aliens?
You really don't need to look further then the current Alien merchandise/toys still being created to see where the interest and $ is in this franchise. It's clearly in the first two films only. The fan base is squarely there and that what they will build off of. And I appreciate A3, but they need to toss it out.
Mola Rob
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Oh without a doubt the first two movies are the most popular and they are both great movies. Neither Alien³ and Resurrection had a story or a design aesthetic that lends itself to selling toys, models, props, etc. I would love a pulse rifle but I can honestly say I do not have any desire to own Alien³ murderer/rapist action figures.
Oh, Bryancd. I could hug you right now.
thats a first.
but you are 100% correct in your criticisms of 3 and 4, killing Newt was especially egregious.
ghostryder
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Oh, Bryancd. I could hug you right now.
Someone mark the time and date.
On another note, no matter where you fall on Alien 3 (I hate it with the white hot intensity of… oh, you know), in and of itself, an alternate take on the events after "Aliens" is not a bad idea.
I feel like there would have been no franchise at all if Alien 3 had been the direct follow up to the first film - it would have been two and out.
CB2001
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I'll admit, Fincher did okay with what he was given and was forced to do within those limitations. I feel that if he had been allowed the choices he's had with everything he's done with Se7en and other films in recent years, it would have been way better.
ProfKSergeev
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Agreed. I still don't understand the love for D9. It was a mess. Blomkamp strikes me as a poor man's James Cameron.
Birdie
Master Member
Could he possibly be more ambiguous? :lol
A screenwriter facebook friend posted these Blomkamp quotes that do not bode well:
"The problem with me is I get so caught up in concepts and ideas."
"I’m lucky in the sense that I don’t feel a lot of pressures I think other directors feel."
"A normal director is like, “*****, I’ve got this pressure because this last film did well and I hope this one lives up to it.” I don’t have that. It definitely doesn’t bother me."
"Concepts are just as interesting to me as stories are. Where, to normal people, stories are more interesting."
"The problem with me is I get so caught up in concepts and ideas."
"I’m lucky in the sense that I don’t feel a lot of pressures I think other directors feel."
"A normal director is like, “*****, I’ve got this pressure because this last film did well and I hope this one lives up to it.” I don’t have that. It definitely doesn’t bother me."
"Concepts are just as interesting to me as stories are. Where, to normal people, stories are more interesting."
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This was part of an interview he recently did. I think it bodes very well, if you read the interview the guy recognizes his short fillings and mistakes he has made.
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Wow..reading those partial quotes definitely gives us the wrong message and now I am guessing more are circulating them without any context. Just brilliant :rolleyes.
Read the whole interview linked in the Elysium thread below.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=105906&p=3574422&viewfull=1#post3574422
Read the whole interview linked in the Elysium thread below.
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=105906&p=3574422&viewfull=1#post3574422
That's good to know, thanks for the link to the source!
ghostryder
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