Alien: Earth and Alien: Romulus sequel news

Stop complaining, it's just a MOVIE!

deftones1986

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Has anybody even watched ALIENS or ALIEN 3? LOL You can honestly tell me that you where perfectly fine with a little girl surviving being alone on that planet until the marines and Ripley came and saved her? Did you honestly believe that Bill Paxton (the rambling marine, the guy form the movie Twister) actually made it to the space marines? Oh by the way you guys all want to believe that there are actual Space Marines? And you accept the fact that Peter Weyland cured cancer, and became a knight? And you accept the fact that he was born in 1990? Ohhhhhhhhh and you guys totally believe that we can travel faster than light in the movie? Guess what it's been theorized that if anything where to travel faster than light all the particles would be smashed together......but NOOOO you guys all are okay with that. But the things that you AREN'T okay with are that humans, wearing bullet proof space suits, not knowing what they're getting themselves in to, even though smart and scientific ACTUALLY do make mistakes? That they get high? That they where supposed to all talk like they graduated from Princeton or Harvard with majors in the English language? You just can't possibly believe that running from a falling alien space craft shaped like a fucking doughnut would make you automatically shut off your adrenaline glands, think for a second....hey maybe I should run to the side? Let me put you inside a dangerous or life threatening situation and then if you die, I'll make fun of you because I was able to stand back and watch you run like an idiot, when I clearly saw what you SHOULD have been doing from a safe distance. This movie is ALL about what REAL people, with REAL hormones, with REAL human flaws, and no prior knowledge of an alien race that is capable of raping you with an alien that will burst from your chest would do. Watch from scene to scene and you will notice 100% that just because YOU the viewer know what happened in the previouse scene, DOEST NOT MEAN that each and every character has the knowledge of what happened with other characters. Not every character was around each other character at all times, kinda like real life, so how do you expect one character to know what the others just went through or experienced. (Fifeild and Millburn) for example. They ran away, and came back to the ampule room AFTER the other characters opened the door, and noticed the room changing and the black goo. Yeah that last paragraph was pretty important for you to think about, so you might want to check it again. Go back and watch the movie, it's made as realistic as possible because if there where character running around solving every puzzle, making every single smart decision possible, they wouldn't be very HUMAN like now would they? Given that the MAIN ideas are supposed to be believed (space travel, Weyland actually existing, androids, etc........) Remember, Ridley Scott said clear as day, that Prometheus was NOT going to be a prequel, but was going to be a movie with links to ALIEN? You could have just checked IMDB.com and look up to see maybe who wrote the movie, and then all you crybabies would have seen it was Lindelof, noticed he wrote LOST, noticed that he was known for writing sketchy material, and you could have made an adult decision not to go see the movie? Or would you have went and seen it anyway? You're supposed to go to see a Sci-Fi movie with your adult body, but with a kids IMAGINATION, not go there with an adult body, and an adults thinking pattern because if you did that, then wouldn't the simple idea that 100% of this story is NOT REAL. Would that stop you from going to see Toy Story, or Jurassic Park? NO because you're supposed to be sucked into the story and believe what every character is doing. Forget about the fact that they're actors, being told what to do.

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deftones1986
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Exactly David 1 The whole making of the movie has been done to death before in the Alien franchise.... What we are supposed to do is ignore all the cliche stuff and focus on the NEW stuff that was presented such as: The black goo, The Engineers, Weyland in the flesh, the ancient alien theories, the new planet etc.... But why are people so caught up in the character decisions? I didn't go to see with waiting to see what the throw-away characters that where gonna die anyway where going to do. No, I went to see some cool shit. And IMO the beginning scene was awesome, The ripping off of Davids head was so great, the flashing lights and the Deacon being born.....amazing, and the gian ship falling was breath taking, all I kept thinking was "wow that thing is gigantic"
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Thanks genjtisu, I hope it will entertain like "Grave encounters". lol. that was wicked movie for me.
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Deftones: Oh yes, i pointed out im my review that the beginning sequence was excelent [though a tad short]. And yes, indeed all was gigantic. So coooool!!!!!
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Sky: I watched GRAVE ENCOUNTERS in fast forward mode. too much talky talky less dying dying. But the interesting scenes were ... "interesting" [wink wink]
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This seems unfortunate...
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A I'd like to state one more thing. Even though Prometheus is just a movie it obviously means a lot to people. It seems to mean more to people than any movie in a long while. That said, try and imagine if you were on the other side of the fence. Imagine if you had the same expectations for the film and came out feeling that the movie sucked. Wouldn't you be upset and want to vent? That does make sense to me. This film seems to transcend the "just a film" statement a bit. Even though it is, in fact, just a film.
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Since I don't want to get kicked off I went and edited my thread, cleaned it up a little bit...
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It was a massively awaited film for me. I'm just glad I had the proper expectations as far as story. A connect the dots to Alien would've been a let down for me, personally. I get why some didn't like it. It was certainly different in tone.
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I Believe.... [img]http://a1.s6img.com/cdn/box_001/post_11/250786_13406959-prn01_lz.jpg[/img]
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I don't know what that picture means....but it's awesome!!
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lol Patch
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Waffle Cat VS Poptart Cat!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is what I have come to understand about why people are so disappointed (after having spoken to a lot of people about the movie and having been on the site so long): A: Because it was a Ridley Scott movie; people hold him to a higher standard than your average run of the mill director. B: For some people it wasn't "just a movie", it was part of their fondest childhood memories and they had been waiting a longtime for answers. So when none were given it was taken almost as an insult because they had been so loyal to Ridley over the years. *(Some waited over 30 years) **(Most people did not entirely hate the movie, they were just peeved that the scrip was not better, these same people dislike a lot of the other Alien movies for the same reasons. Also, a lot of the fans were not familiar with Lindelof's work or LOST.) ~Off topic!-->Patch's picture is Nyan cat, and Nyan cat is freaken' awesome!: :P Link-->[url=http://youtu.be/QH2-TGUlwu4]Nyan Cat [original] [/url]

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@David1: initially there's just talk and all and then it starts to have fun lol i liked the ending btw
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Yes...it is just a movie, but a poorly executed movie. Like I mentioned in your previous thread, I enjoyed Prometheus has a straight up action sci-fi film, but beyond that, Prometheus, IMO, failed to live up to the expectations generated by the hype of RS and the marketing campaign. There are gems within the movie (David and to an extent Shaw). The foundations of the concept of the film is awesome and right up my alley, but I feel Lindelof tried too hard to make a deep thinking movie. The script ultimately was convulted with so many different concepts in a relative short time that the overall story suffered IMO. When you write, anything not just scripts, you cannot approach it with a theme in mind. You have to just write and let the underlying themes develop on their own. Why is this important? It gives the themes a sense of being genuine and not forced upon the viewer. Again, let me state this so I don't get flamed like your last thread - this movie holds a lot of topics and thoughts that I enjoy AND this is probably the most talked about movie after the fact in a long long time. My largest gripe with the movie was its execution. There just was not enough character development to make one care for anyone outside of Shaw and David. This maybe intentional, but we did not get the same sort of character interactions that we have seen in Alien, Gladiator...we didn't get a chance to learn anything about any of the characters, not even the secondary ones integral to the plot - Holloway, Janek, Vickers, heck even Filifield and Millburn. Another issue, the 'scare; you factor...I was really wanting to feel the tension build up that great sci-fi films like Alien and 2001 offer to the audience, but any and all tension was built way to fast and expelled just as quick. Again, my major gripe lays more on the script itself, and the over stuffed nature of the movie - despite loving the themes it presents.
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I'm not arguing with anybody who disliked the movie. I thought it could have been done better, and I'm inpatient so I would have like all the answers to be there at the end. BUT for some odd reason I'm enjoying trying to figure it out along with all the other people who feel the same. I wanted a better movie also, there is no denying that. It was too faced paced, I hated the Weyland make-up, I thought the snakes where dumb, I wanted so much more violence, I wanted so much more Engineer, I wanted better dialouge, I wanted the same darn things that everybody esle wanted but there is just one big difference here between myself (and others like me): I've moved on past all the bad things because there is no changing them at all what so ever. They happened in this version of the movie. So I'm going to take all the negative things about the movie and try my hardest to turn them positive, because it's fun to me, like a puzzle, which is all I can hope that everybody who has a problem with the movie could do..........
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Well said ... I mean ... scientific explanations and religion??? ... Come on people, it's just a movie ... or what do you expect? ... That the damn Deacon give us the meaning of life XDD
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Shambhala dreaming in R'lyeh: That Damn Deacon better give all the answers or I'll shove him inside Bob again!!!! lmao
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@David 1, LOL You have to send your post to Lindelost mail :p
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Annunaki reports.. the exile ship form LV 223 has destroyed by automatic detonation system.. what the funk was happened earth people we send new hybrid after Jesus one... so it is ok now..end of transmission

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