Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details
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JunkSabers1138
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ghostryder
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Latest Rumour, Space Jockeys (plural) have the Aliens burst from chest which grow into fairly large bad guys that are very Kinky in a bad, bad, way. Imagine the size of the alien baby that bursts from an 8 foot giant?
This sounds like a hole load of fun to me, I have my faith in Mr RS, he's made some crap recently but I feel this movie will almost be as good as the original. I'm not someone that wants to see the usual Alien type Alien, I'm happy to see new things and wan to see new things. Knowing Giger is involved even if its an advisory role is great news.
This sounds like a hole load of fun to me, I have my faith in Mr RS, he's made some crap recently but I feel this movie will almost be as good as the original. I'm not someone that wants to see the usual Alien type Alien, I'm happy to see new things and wan to see new things. Knowing Giger is involved even if its an advisory role is great news.
Yeah knowing Giger is involved is hope enough for me. I have a bit of faith in Ridley too. The whole space jockey image sounds great and if it's bad it would only ruin the original Alien if YOU let it. The prequels haven't ruined the original star wars because I didn't let them.
TheStig
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As much as I love the Alien's design, we have seen it enough that we know it and the less you know about it, the scarier it is. I can't wait to see something new, especially if Giger is working on it.
I read somewhere that, considering that the ALIEN uses DNA from it's host to adapt to it's new environment. At this point in the ALIEN universe, the ALIEN hasn't had a human host, so the ALIEN we see in the original movie isn't what we will see in this prequel.
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Colin Droidmilk
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I always liked not knowing whether the jockey is part of the chair or not. The risk that the new film will unhelpfully clear up this ambiguity too is yet another reason why I have to stay away.
A word about the jockey design. Anyone notice how its benign quality derives from a similarity in the cheeks and jaws to those of an elephant? It's such a subtle balance of pathos, horror and sympathy, that thing, that given Scott's totally insensitive approach to everything he touches these days, I don't trust him to handle this most delicate of Giger conceptions. I don't trust him to form a conception of the jockey which will preserve all the subtlety of character implied in that fossilized head.
And there's something else. Yes, I think the jockey DEPENDS on being DEAD. This is more than the enigma thing. It's like dinosaurs depend on being fossils for us to find them fascinating. It's the fact that they are forever separated from us that makes us yearn for them. The jockey pushed similar buttons in us, but, once seen lumbering about, it will be converted instantly to the ho-hum, I predict. Just one more animated SF creature - which might be fun enough to suck on for one throwaway movie experience, but the jockey was always more than that.
And there are more pitfalls. If the new jockeys are not sculpted or - oh ******, computer-graphicked - as well as Giger's original sculpt (like the aliens in Aliens weren't), then that's not going to help either.
A word about the jockey design. Anyone notice how its benign quality derives from a similarity in the cheeks and jaws to those of an elephant? It's such a subtle balance of pathos, horror and sympathy, that thing, that given Scott's totally insensitive approach to everything he touches these days, I don't trust him to handle this most delicate of Giger conceptions. I don't trust him to form a conception of the jockey which will preserve all the subtlety of character implied in that fossilized head.
And there's something else. Yes, I think the jockey DEPENDS on being DEAD. This is more than the enigma thing. It's like dinosaurs depend on being fossils for us to find them fascinating. It's the fact that they are forever separated from us that makes us yearn for them. The jockey pushed similar buttons in us, but, once seen lumbering about, it will be converted instantly to the ho-hum, I predict. Just one more animated SF creature - which might be fun enough to suck on for one throwaway movie experience, but the jockey was always more than that.
And there are more pitfalls. If the new jockeys are not sculpted or - oh ******, computer-graphicked - as well as Giger's original sculpt (like the aliens in Aliens weren't), then that's not going to help either.
Knightjar
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Very well put. I agree completely.
ghostryder
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Ooooo! Very interesting. Thanks for the news. This news for some reason made me feel better about the whole project. Of course, I'm not one of those who thinks having the Space Jockey mystery spoiled in the film will negatively impact my enjoyment of the others. After all, their complete origin and story was fully realized in one of the Dark Horse comic series, and I loved it as a teenager. Dunno if Scott will go with a similar story, but I've "known" for 20 years who they are, and it enriched the mythos for me.
nickytea
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Only if you allow it to be.
I can still watch Star Wars as if Darth is his first name and there's nothing wrong with Luke wanting Leia.
ghostryder
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JunkSabers1138
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ehh... im not liking where this is going at all. Just seems like they are bastardizing the title creature in favor to make this side/background character more "threatening" somehow. If anything, I'm "ok" with it all, but i really hate that they are going with the "Aliens are Terminators for an extraterrestrial skynet" route.... just cheapens the other movies for me :unsure
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