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It would have worked in the context of the movie. The drawing looks nasty.
I see what they mean when they mention tumors and rapid growth but wouldn't tumor also have a risk since it grows almost uncontrollably fast?
The ending was maybe predictable but I found it to be alright but I understand why some people didn't like it. When I left the movie theater I found it to be alright, I still do sort of.
I liked the parts when there were more action, some parts were too slow.
You write that you would like to have had a Alien movie that was more like the first one. Alien was kind of new when it was released so I think that it is good to see in what context it was released. I don't think that you can re-do it again so those that hope for that will be disappointed. When I compare it to the rest of the Alien movies (AVP's included) I find it better than some and worse than some.
When they fought off the Alien on the platform was a scene that I kind of liked.
The movie could have been better but it was from a disaster.
(double, please delete this if possible)
Yes it was a disappointment, it could have been so much better. Better human characters less AI focus please.
They could make it right with this but there is also a risk that there will be too many alien movies that lack in quality. It seems like an interesting idea but we'll see later maybe.
Well, I really doubt it especially with how Prometheus and Alien Covenant ended up. I am not sure if I have a lot of hope for the rest of the movies since both are disappointments but in different ways.
It could be interesting if they get the Engineers right. They were not really that interesting in Prometheus because of a lack of explanation of what they were about but I will probably give them a second chance.
Less of the AI thing, they didn't succeed with that in AC. They could be a part of the story but shouldn't be the focus.
The Engineer society could be interesting to see as far as the religion and political structures are concerned. They must be done in a menacing way to be a real threat.
Better human characters is a must, they didn't get that right in either Prometheus or AC. No matter how good environments that you have or how interesting monsters that they have, if you will have disappointing human characters then the movie is a failure.
“a fantastic story where the jeopardy and proposition is genuinely unique so that we are genuinely immersed and genuinely frightened and we can identify with the character(s) and desire for survival.”
Exactly this, which is why we need characters that we care for and that are well made. Alien and Alien 3 in my opinion got this right and also in a way Aliens. I am satisfied that Shaw ended up the way she did in Covenant but to be fair she was far from the only problem that Prometheus has.
Covenant has its good moments and also bad ones. I sort of like the atmosphere and the environments. The differences between David and Walter are also interesting to watch. Unfortunately they didn't succeed with the human characters. The only one that I found somewhat interesting was Oram but the rest were “meh” although they were not as outright annoying as in Prometheus so at least that was an improvement but we as an audience should be able to require more. The characters in AC were more like real people and less like archetypes compared to Prometheus.
The Neomorph was interesting but they failed with the Xeno. It felt like they had it in the movie just because they felt a pressure to add it.
I don't want another Alien or Aliens but they should be able to make it better than what it became.
The characters should be better written. I would like to see what they hope to achieve by going there. A bit of how they are as persons (rational, irrational, easily scared, brave, and so on). I would have wanted them to add the Phobos clip into the movie because it would have made me care more about the characters.
Playing around with our fears is also a good idea, that is what makes a good horror movie (and also good characters).
Alien 5 wouldn't be that interesting to me. I wouldn't watch it.
I agree with Colonialsoldier that Alien 3 is better than Covenant but then Alien 3 is my favorite Alien movie this far.
More about the humans and less about AI. The reason why Alien 1-3 are good movies is that they have many interesting human characters. The monsters, ships and what ever come after that.
Aliens was my favorite alien movie when I was younger but now as I have gotten older I prefer Alien 3 among all alien movies that they have done this far.
My favorite is probably the last one. It looks like a lot of branches put together.
B movie stuff again, doesn't exactly fill me with fear of any kind, looks like a fat neomorph on benefits
Again, I'll reiterate, proper B-movie stuff.
I ought to likely illuminate; I cherish the thought in and of it. It's a mix on new and existing. The piece of dispute I had was regardless of whether it put on a show of being some celestial like glad gleam, so an impacts shot was at the forefront of my thoughts to become tied up with it. So, it's certainly developing on me now buy essay UK. I am presently damn intrigued by observing this. Having had room schedule-wise to process this all the more completely, how wonderful would it be to watch the stomach related tract surge with blood after tongue punching somebody's skull/gnawing it in two? You know, only sort of watch the blood diffuse through the body structure. Sublime.
Shocking, thank god these are only fan creations, pet facehuggers???? People have a problem with David and his creations, not to mind pet facehuggers, shocking
No, no, no! It's not stargate or some other b movie! One of them looks like the vehicle in South Park that Mr. Garrison invents! I would be disgusted with these designs to be honest, just my opinion! Thank god Scott doesn't take any notice of these wannabees! The one on part 1 as well with the facehuggera on the engineer's head is just ridiculous, like a pet parrot, absolutely ridiculous! Just my opinion but these concepts would literally destroy the franchise!
The phrase comes from Marc Komode a well respected critic in the U.K. Blade runner is one of my top ten movies and I never fail to receive something from it when I view it.
I think Ridley recognised the success of the Martian was in returning to a character driven story. The scripts on the table for Prometheus 2 were probably, for want of a better word to emblematic, rather than character driven (multiple davids and infecting a machine powered society). That combined with bringing back the beast lead to the screen play that John Logan wrote (simple by the numbers, more traditional sci. fi, Shaw hugged from David's creation).
But whatever they do they must not listen to the fan base. The reaction here and on AVP is more of this less of that (preferences, anchors, repeats) . What it needs is a great story, characters we can invest in and what you can guarantee with Ridley a visual aesthetic which captures the otherworldly view of the A L I E N franchise and that means as close to Giger as you can get and you can not scare anyone by repeating a 40 year old oft repeated trope beyond those joined at the hip to the iconography.
Michelle Johnston Yes, I am very well aware of your insightful philosophical musings and analyses about where the arc started by Prometheus should take us. I love your "Blade Runner hijacking" expression relating Alien Covenant, because that is exactly what it was. Being "Blade Runner" my favorite movie ever (no kidding!), that connection should have made me happy, but it did not. I think it was just something the writers brought up just to stroke Ridley's ego. The "homage" was ok in Prometheus but it went way out of control in Alien Covenant. I think it is time to bury the axe because there will never be a consensus about Alien Covenant, but I have hope that the future will bring the much needed conflict and resolution, as well as a new angle, for this engrossing saga.
Looks bad and useless.No queens in RS movies
Sorry to hear that about the series, but yes, I will focus on the art and the 'real' body of work, and Ignore the novelizations.
I always make room for good, interesting Art!
Blackwinter-witch fantastic artwork in the series! Still holds up today.
Just don't read the books. The original manuscript author did a novelisation of the series in the last few years and absolutely shit on his own legacy. So bad it almost single handedly retrospectively ruined my childhood lol. ...XD
Clearly it was the illustrators that had all the talent for the series, he just held the pen.
The basic premise of the series was that every issue was that the main protagonist would battle some new awesome looking beasty
If you managed to keep and maintain a full boxset of the series they are worth an absolute mint now!! I think there may be a digital release of the series out or coming soon.
Yes, and with original directions like the two ships above, one named 'Oxygene', man I'd love to see them on the big screen.
Never heard of it but gonna be looking it up now. :)
Love the pic you posted!!
Glad to hear you're looking fwd to some ship-to-ship action. :D
As a 'Teaser' regarding ship-to-ship action here's a couple of small excerpts for you all from
ALIEN: Manticore 'Paradise'
*************EXCERPT 01***************
Doverson King had the bridge to himself as he worked out course plotting to maximize the use of what planets they could as cover to hide their approach, the ship’s AVI ’Vesta’ could handle it easily enough but it lacked intuition, and he wanted to ensure the best possible work was done to avoid any nasty surprises that might be waiting.
Like the rest of the crew, he was acutely aware of the scale and scope of what they had stumbled into. He didn’t like it one bit, and liked the idea of a weapon built by some incredibly advanced species having a chance to turn Manticore into a floating cloud of shredded wreckage and flotsam even less.
His eyes swept the main monitors on the bridge every minute or so, with glances out the bridge’s two side-mounted bay windows.
He wasn’t nervous, but he felt the need to be thorough in his watchfulness, and it was slimly possible that the eye could see what might be masked from the instruments.
King double-checked that the point-defense weapons were on ‘standby’, ready to act at an instant’s notice. The defensive countermeasures systems were also at ‘standby’, the shields were charged as well, and they’d have a good chance of stopping any projectile that might breach the hull.
The technology of shields was simple in concept and practicality, having it‘s origins in the early twenty-first century to protect tanks and apcs‘s from armor-buster man-carried rockets and missiles: Two charged plates with dielectric silica-cubic boron-carbon nanotube aggregate honeycomb between them. Anything that penetrated through the outer plate and contacted the inner plate closed the circuit, triggering a massive discharge of electromagnetic energy, an intensely powerful electrical arc and an associated outward magnetic pulse of momentary and extreme power. Thus an impinging projectile would be vaporized and the magnetic pulse blew the resultant plasma out and away from the ship. Time and again they’d proven their worth just in dealing with high-velocity impacts in wreckage fields during salvaging and the few times they’d had to deal with hostile vessels intent on piracy.
The two new combat drones that Manticore carried were also on ‘standby’, and added immensely to the ship’s combat ability. They were GenDyne-LockMart Wyvern models, the latest and meanest of their kind available. Each of the two carried twinned fifty-five millimeter magnetic accelerator cannons in two articulated mounts along with a complement of torpedos, three missile launchers and comprehensive arrays of point-defense/close-in-engagement weapons.
He’d greatly enjoyed looking through the manuals and information that came with them, and had plans to work up a couple of models of them for his self-made collection. At the present though, his musings were strictly concerned with attentiveness to what the ship’s sensor arrays and the scout drones found. There was little of interest at the moment aside from some small asteroids and a few cometary remnants that showed strong suggestions of heavy metals and reasonably valuable chemical compounds.
*************EXCERPT 02***************
On the bridge, Selina eyeballed the magnified telescopic image of the other vessel that was sixty-five light-minutes away from them, approaching the planet that Manticore orbited. It was making it’s approach in a similar manner as they had previously, and along the same general vector. The only reason they’d detected it was due to the recent upgrades and augmentations done to Manticore’s sensory systems, which had even previous to such had been considerably superior to what commercial starships usually were equipped with.
Also, in space stealth was a very difficult thing to accomplish.
Selinaehra studied the image, zoomed in, used software to enhance some parts of the image.
“No transponder, no hull registry humbers. At least two MAccelerator cannon turrets visible and running an approach to stay concealed as much and as often as possible. I would say they’re likely not going to be the friendliest of people.” She commented to King.
“Who do you think they are?” King asked as he continued with the task of deploying the compact, multi-function satellites along their orbital track. Each of them moved on it’s own power to assigned orbital positions and sent diagnostic telemetry before coming online fully.
Selina pondered the question, considering the most likely answer.
“Hmmmm…Pirates are damned unlikely, given how far away from settled space we’ve travelled from, but I‘m not ruling that out. Corporate, probably one of the big players I’d say. Or it might be one of the smaller ones making a play for something big to build themselves up as a true player in the bigger corporate arena. They could be some paramilitary bunch, sent by some corporation to secure things ahead of a research vessel, presuming there was a leak somewhere while we were prepping for this trip. It doesn’t shake out as anything ‘nice’, that’s a given. We‘ll keep an eye on them for sure.” She replied, sending her husband’s phone a feed of the information about the unexpected vessel they’d detected, and instructed the computer to keep the other vessel under constant surveillance using passive sensors only so as to not give the other vessel a tip-off they’d been noticed.
All's good JONDERSPUP-69!, you didn't come across arguing. No worries. :)
Of course the points in question could be explained with a fitting story. But one can't overly rely on "suspension of disbelieve". Otherwise we may end up in a mess of loose ends and holes, again.
To be honest I'm not fond of the "David created them" arc. But alas that seems what they're going for. The Derelict on LV-426 being indeed old and found by David. Or something along those lines. He then somehow "places" the eggs there and the connection to Alien is made, cheap and easy.
I still hope it will rather be something hinted in the latest novels. Something much bigger than a robot who lost a butt load of screws.
you're right they need something fresh and unique that push the boundaries of our imagination the way Giger's work always did. The Alien franchise was built around far-out "too much" artwork.
I love the snail motorbike "Ammanoid" and the Trilobite ships
Love it!
wow awesome artwork Ati!
Im not sure if you guys in the America's/Canada got them back in the early 90', there was a weekly series graphic novel called The Ancestral Trail?
The project was split in 2 (52 issues) with a medieval/fantasy world than a cybernetic/Sci-fi world, and it had some damn amazing graphic artists involved in the early cgi-days!! Some of these remind me of those works. I hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread Ati to share some
Blackwinter-witch - Yes, Giger, Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant at the same time...
I know I sure would!! This Artist, he has a knack for working with the Aesthetic and staying true to it.
Blackwinter-witch - I agree with you. I think fans would like to see similar vehicles, creatures and horror in the movies to come.
REALLY great find!! I agree, yeah, and I hope R. Scott is made aware of this Artist!!
Hi, welcome to our community :) Hope you have a great experience. Btw, great choices! Those are some awesome books with a wealth of info, much needed companions for these films.
Makes for an interesting 'new yet familiar' creature direction.
Nice work, I must say!
The Proof-Edit of ALIEN: Manticore is already over 1/10th of the way done, and proceeding smoothly.
ALIEN: LV-426 (Full-length Novel)
Is also coming along nicely, and while it's still just getting started, I'll post a small excerpt, possibly tonight, but very soon in any case.
ALIEN: Manticore 'Paradise' (Full-length Novel)
Is being structurally-edited before I continue with story-building, but is also coming along nicely.
ALIEN: Origins (Short story)
I now have the missing pieces I needed with which to continue it with, so I will be picking work on that back up immediately.
YES, I most often work on multiple works simultaneously.
I find that in doing so it prevents me from getting 'bogged down', as from switching between the various works it keeps the mind agile and working instead of 'settling' or feeling 'bored'. :D
Very much!! Visited and bookmarked his site. :)
Blackwinter-witch - Very glad you like them.
Awesome stuff and TY for posting it and the link!
I does look a little bit like the Newborn from A:R
Thank-you very much for you wonderful words and thoughts!
However, ALIEN: Manticore and all my ALIEN-related works are fan-fiction, so I won't make a dime from them, unless FOX offers me some kind of deal.
Who knows what the future will bring? We'll see what we see when we see it. :)
That said, these works of mine are a labor of love.
I love the ALIENverse and I feel it's pretty obvious I have a deep appreciation and respect for my fellow fans of the ALIENverse.
That's why I wrote it, and why I am steadily gaining-ground with the additional ALIENverse works.
For The Fans.
This is my way of showing the fanbase my appreciation and respect of them. :)
