I Hope 'Prometheus' Dwarfs 'Alien' by Comparison....

Well, that's the idea...

The xenos never really have been imoportant to me in regards to Prometheus. I have ALWAYS been way more interested in the Space Jockey than the xenos. Not that the xenos aren't awesome. But the first time I saw the Space Jockey was a HUGE moment in film for me. It blew me away. But as I've stated before, I don't want all the answers but I am loving the fact that we are going to get a little background about them and see them in the living flesh.

In all honesty, it won't be hard for Prometheus to beat Alien. When you break down what Alien was; in terms of content of the film. Prometheus is bigger, deeper, and more thorough. It'll be a better movie than Alien, i'm sure. Of course you have to respect Alien for what it did for the movie world. But when you look at the movie specifically, and it's content. It's wasn't anything particularly special... It was the amazing sets, design, and effects that make the movie future-proof, revolutionary, and not dated at all, to this day.

I'll elaborate..... I want the events of all the 'Alien' franchise films to be just a blip on the radar in the grand scheme of this universe....

It's pretty obvious... Alien is just a little spin-off to Prometheus, a pre-amble to Prometheus. It's sort of like Star Wars' situation. Except you replace 'prequel' with a movie on it's own, with a small connection. 100% guaranteed. That's the case... Alien=Pre-amble to Prometheus/Prometheus series of movies. Prometheus=Has the Xenomorph connection (yes, they aren't featured in the movie, but that's not the point) Alien was simply the story of a loose end in the Prometheus universe. About the birth of one arbitrary-ass Xenomorph. It was an introduction to the creature.

Don't we all want that? I'd be happy with anything just so long as it doesn't turn in to an interstellar war or anything like that. That would completely change the genre.

All well said... The bottom line, it'll be near impossible to screw this up...

I agree about the importance of the xenomorphs, there's nothing much more that can be added to their story. As much as I'm looking forward to Prometheus I can't see it ever dwarfing the original Alien. The Giger designs, style of filming and the shock of the new will be hard to replicate in this day and age.

I just want to see astronauts eaten alive by hideous, incomprehensible organisms with the imagination and unsentimental clarity that only a world class director can bring to it. Think I'm gonna finally have my day....

In my opinion, PROMETHEUS may top the original ALIEN in scope and grandeur, but never in greatness, atmosphere, originality, shock or terror. I really do think that we are all in store for something truly special in PROMETHEUS, but for this ALIEN “purist,” I think I can already tell that this new film will not be able to dethrone the classic charm and cinematic supremacy of O’Bannon, Giger, and Scott’s 1979 masterpiece. Thus, I’m not even supposing that it will. I’m just going let it be itself, and do its own thing…weave its own magic… ~N

I'm more-or-less in Neurion's camp. It seems to me that they will be very different [u]on purpose[/u]. How could they be anything else? [i]Alien[/i] was what it was for ITS TIME. We can't go back. We can't "un-jade" audiences. The magic of Giger's dark imagination was already released from its pre-cinema box. There are so many different factors that "make" a film. Idea. Script. Budget. Production. Direction. Timing. Current events and zeitgeist at the time of release. 2001 was the SciFi of existentialism (of its time). [i]Alien[/i] was the [i]Star Wars[/i] of horror. [i]Blade Runner[/i] was (and still is) the "intersection of everything" in a SciFi wrapper. I don't know what [i]Prometheus[/i] will equate to (or not) for me, but I *challenge* it to surprise me—and when it does I will bow down again and thank my stars that I've been alive during Ridley's Reign.

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