What's to be revived here?

markos_prometheus

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Hi everyone! Talking about revivals, we all believe that the good old feeling of the1979 movie will emerge once again victoriously and maybe be an even better one.... Anyhow, let me carry you back to the good old feeling, if you can put up with me for a few more lines... Well for one, we show first the planet LV426. The entire landing procedure and the almost frozen and routine way the crew of Nostromo executed it, just emerged us into the coldness and blackness of space. After landing, the continuous blowing of the wind contrasted in our ears, with our Earthly wind blowing and the knowledge of us, being on an Alien planet... Then we see the derelict...the whole scene out of a darkest fantasy....actually a horrific view..Past the spaceship, and then we meet the sj....you felt stunned...after leaving him...Dallas I believe turns the flashlight one last time on him...and then as the light was withdrawn I believed even for an instant that the sj was going to open his eyes.....wow... Then the organics of the egg, the facehugger, wow..just wow......Now before the xeno, the fact that we never had a chance to find out more about the sj, was magnificent...it added up to the entire feeling of being in an alien environment. You just couldn't be allowed to solve the mysteries of LV426..it was beyond your comprehension. And before you had the time to disengage your brain from this mystery then the life cycle of the xeno comes as the final shock...Mystery upon more mystery...A feeling of being incapable to comprehend upon a second even more powerful feeling of being incapable to comprehend again....Man what a blow... Why is it doing this...how is it doing this?Is it intelligent? how much intelligent? Does it kill us? Does it collect us for some reason? What is the xeno trying to achieve after all? If it is an intelligent being, can't it be talked out to a peaceful resolution....how is it sensing us? How does it move? We weren't even allowed by the direction, to perceive its shape or the natural weapons it is using...It was always one step ahead of us...like something devine..once we met it, we knew there was no way to fight it, no way to escape it...we just wished our paths wouldn't cross... In this view, I believe that even Aliens and the rest of the films had bit of a negative effect on Alien of 1979. Even though no predators were there firing plasma shots against xenos, that feeling conveyed, that somehow Earthlings were taking some sort of revenge against xenos, just wasn't right...They looked more like bugs, a collective intelligence of the hive, a queen...I believe Aliens, was a film made under a subtle demand of alien fans to have some sort of revenge against the total incapability shown in the original... But this is also what wasn't that right. Even though I love and admire the director, and I really thank him for offering us such a great movie, aliens appeared as hive creatures...no...not the case..A true xeno, would never attack in the open...it's a survivor...it adapts...kills effectively, moves unlike a human...has such a great instinct for killing, that would always be one step ahead of every man, marine or not. Would never attack in group...It would simply wait in the dark, just to attack lethally the very last and the most unexpected instant...and in a fully successful way....Like an instrument of doom. That's my xeno. That's what made it so different. I hold high hopes for Prometheus. I believe that Sir Ridley, will work wonders again. And he will expand the universe in a most unanticipated way...doing full justice to xenos...and reasoning their superiority as a species....We' ll see...

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April 21, 2012

For me markos it has to be the music and sound effects more than anything visual. The score to Alien is the most haunting piece of music and sound ever created for a movie in this humble fan's opinion. And thus far the bits we have heard from Prometheus have not disappionted yet.

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April 22, 2012

Good post-I think the unknown,the shadows,the sounds(music ,creature and environment) and simplicity of the emotions of the characters is what did it for me.However a vital piece is the humility.Even though we traveled the universe we are still not the masters.The simplicity is in our religions,society and evolution.

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April 22, 2012

I mentioned this before... The Xeno in Alien was alone on a ship with small labrynth of corridors, yes it showed more of a survial instinct. But i liken it to this... if you was in Afghanistan and you got caught behind enemy lines, all alone just you and no other marines.. You would be very cautious you would try and be stealthy than go guns blazing. But lets say you was in Afghanistan and part of a Platoon of 12-15 Marines would you be as cautious....... knowing you have more munbers. In Alien the Aliens would have known they have a hive, greater numbers a Queen who laying masses of Eggs, the purpose of these Aliens would be to protect those Eggs, go and collect Hosts, they would sacrefice themselves for the greater of the Hive. The Alien in Alien would know that it was alone, and that it would have a different goal.

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April 22, 2012

@Xenophobia: I am with you...just think that the picutres on the screen alert our brains, but the music and the sound vibes us physically....yes I want the music too. 1979's was incredible.From an incredible composer too. Memorable! @mlb127:Yes quite a point you've got there.Humility.I always thought of alien general scenario as facing something almost devine. Humility included! @BigDave:True. I get your point. And as you read, I trully love James Cameron. And it is the only movie closest to the feeling of the one of 1979. Alien 3 was rather poetic. And Alien 4 was simply graphical. Yet, I believe, that if these xenos were again in a hive, and had to protect their queen, still they must had found a much more different approach to take out their enemies, than just go against them head to head. Perhaps wouldn't be going after the Marines like this. They would just move their numbers closer to them. And then would attack them one by one on given chances or wouldn't at all......Also, queen was logical, but as Prometheus proves and maybe that's what the 1979 fans had in mind too, nobody needed a queen to explain those eggs, they were rather engineered or could even just be planted there...they were alien anyway...no one required to know their origin...we were all there just jaw-dropoing...:).Still I believe you've got a point. Marines also have trackers and would sense the xenos if they ever came close. So really ambush them, would be more difficult for the xenos!