Was talking to a guy who’s an acquaintance about movies and he’s a huge Alien fan. I told him Prometheus sucked and lost my interest. He countered with saying it ties the next 2 movies together with the Original Alien movie.
I still haven’t watched any of them since I saw Prometheus but Im at least interested in them now.
It's fair that the Alien films after Prometheus are actually entertaining. I just think they've gone too far with the focusing on making it about what mix is creating the aliens and all the pointless mythology from Prometheus in the lore. It was just a scary alien that was like an ant. The endless lore stuff ruins it for me. Prometheus has a special hate in my heart because it's maybe the most excited I've ever been for a sequel and for like a year then I saw it in theaters and was like what the fuck was that? And it answered almost no questions.
I am actually excited about the Alien TV series coming out this summer and I think that's one of the few things to do with franchises. The format of prestige TV can work well for creating a new piece of content for a franchise and the creator has made actual good stuff.
Yeah all the creationism philosophy that is the whole point of Prometheus was a major failure by Ridley Scott and this resurgence in popularity from the film last summer was due in large part to going with a new director that had a different vision.
Absolutely not. One thing that has turned me off about movies actually is how starting with the Star Wars prequels everything became obsessed with explaining where something came from or its origin story and I never cared about that shit. Like the thing that the predator won't kill you if you don't have a weapon or pregnant or etc was one cool wrinkle of a movie and they were hunters or whatever. Cool. It was much better and scarier when there wasn't this whole mythology about it.
I’ll add another movie franchise to my Predator rant. The Matrix.
The original was a perfect stand alone movie. Neo flies off at the end of the movie like fucking Superman. I left the theater thinking that was awesome. I didn’t leave wondering how Neo will fight the same bad guys 100 more times over 2-3 more movies.
This is fantastic analysis. I don't think anywhere in the Alien universe does it even remotely insinuate that the drooling aliens are flying spaceships. If anything, I think they've gone too far in trying to explain how like these giant god like figures and/or some company has been transporting them around.
The first Matrix was perfect but I totally get why something like that they just have to make a sequel. So many people would have left so much money on the table by not doing so. It also sucks you are now getting movies like that and Gladiator which are doing weird pointless sequels again 20+ years later when they don't need to for money.
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Was talking to a guy who’s an acquaintance about movies and he’s a huge Alien fan. I told him Prometheus sucked and lost my interest. He countered with saying it ties the next 2 movies together with the Original Alien movie.
I still haven’t watched any of them since I saw Prometheus but Im at least interested in them now.
It's fair that the Alien films after Prometheus are actually entertaining. I just think they've gone too far with the focusing on making it about what mix is creating the aliens and all the pointless mythology from Prometheus in the lore. It was just a scary alien that was like an ant. The endless lore stuff ruins it for me. Prometheus has a special hate in my heart because it's maybe the most excited I've ever been for a sequel and for like a year then I saw it in theaters and was like what the fuck was that? And it answered almost no questions.
I am actually excited about the Alien TV series coming out this summer and I think that's one of the few things to do with franchises. The format of prestige TV can work well for creating a new piece of content for a franchise and the creator has made actual good stuff.
Do you ever wonder how these horrible lizard aliens ever picked up the tools to build a spaceship?
Thanks for ruining the genre, Race.
Yeah all the creationism philosophy that is the whole point of Prometheus was a major failure by Ridley Scott and this resurgence in popularity from the film last summer was due in large part to going with a new director that had a different vision.
Absolutely not. One thing that has turned me off about movies actually is how starting with the Star Wars prequels everything became obsessed with explaining where something came from or its origin story and I never cared about that shit. Like the thing that the predator won't kill you if you don't have a weapon or pregnant or etc was one cool wrinkle of a movie and they were hunters or whatever. Cool. It was much better and scarier when there wasn't this whole mythology about it.
I’ll add another movie franchise to my Predator rant. The Matrix.
The original was a perfect stand alone movie. Neo flies off at the end of the movie like fucking Superman. I left the theater thinking that was awesome. I didn’t leave wondering how Neo will fight the same bad guys 100 more times over 2-3 more movies.
Did you ever consider how very unlikely it is that aliens have ever visited the planet Earth?
I have.
At least wormholes give a theoretical chance although scientists still say you can't go faster than light
Star Trek tried to keep some sort of plausibility while making you think
I don't think drooling lizards are building FTL ships though
This is fantastic analysis. I don't think anywhere in the Alien universe does it even remotely insinuate that the drooling aliens are flying spaceships. If anything, I think they've gone too far in trying to explain how like these giant god like figures and/or some company has been transporting them around.
The first Matrix was perfect but I totally get why something like that they just have to make a sequel. So many people would have left so much money on the table by not doing so. It also sucks you are now getting movies like that and Gladiator which are doing weird pointless sequels again 20+ years later when they don't need to for money.