Corvinus85 Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 So IGN decided to release some shorts in honor of this anniversary. Here's the teaser for all the shorts, and the first one on youtube. Pretty good. So Disney owns these rights now, no? Does that mean the alien queen is now a Disney princess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Naw, it means Disney princesses are now alien queens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mance Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 14 hours ago, Corvinus said: Does that mean the alien queen is now a Disney princess? Her waist to hip ratio is about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted March 30, 2019 Author Share Posted March 30, 2019 18 minutes ago, Triskele said: Is that first one the only one that's accessible right now? Seems so. It says they're releasing these, starting yesterday, but I don't know the schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 I at least liked the way it looked, it had a nice visual style that evoked the first movie pretty well. Other than that I'm deeply apathetic to the whole franchise after the latest few disasters. Wish we could just leave Aliens to die in a bin somewhere and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 8 minutes ago, Triskele said: Being a relative newcomer to this series I thought there was one decision in Prometheus that was surprising and disappointing: Hide contents The engineers, what had happened there, what their ideas were for humanity, etc...they touched on this but didn't really delve into it much and left it largely unexplained. Don’t think we need to spoiler that , but yeah agree the Engineers were a great concept utterly wasted in Scott’s movies. Somewhere along the line the writers seem to have lost their nerve and decided to ditch most of the interesting elements I favour of just using a standard alien movie template Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Prometheus was two different scripts squished together. There’s a write up on it I’ll have to track down when I’m on the home PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 8 hours ago, Heartofice said: Other than that I'm deeply apathetic to the whole franchise after the latest few disasters. Wish we could just leave Aliens to die in a bin somewhere and move on. You're just being defeatist, just because no one has been able to match the first two, not even Ridley. One day... And if not, at least we'll have good memories of those movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 5 hours ago, Corvinus said: You're just being defeatist, just because no one has been able to match the first two, not even Ridley. One day... And if not, at least we'll have good memories of those movies. I agree, just because they've made a string of bad films doesn't mean it's impossible to make a good film in future. Aliens worked because they tried something different to Alien. The problem with all the other films is that they've tried to emulate the first two in some way with what's become a stale template. Although it feels like no one has tried to double down on the aliens format which does seem odd but probably budget related. The last two films seem far more interested in AI than aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 52 minutes ago, red snow said: I agree, just because they've made a string of bad films doesn't mean it's impossible to make a good film in future. Aliens worked because they tried something different to Alien. The problem with all the other films is that they've tried to emulate the first two in some way with what's become a stale template. Although it feels like no one has tried to double down on the aliens format which does seem odd but probably budget related. The last two films seem far more interested in AI than aliens. The problem for me is that almost every extra terrestrial in space horror movie in the last 30 years has in some way tried to copy the Alien template. It’s been done, it’s hard to see what there is new to bring, especially if you also include the same Xenomorphs from the franchise. Aliens 3 and Resurrection both tried to do things differently and mostly failed. I just think i’d prefer the whole thing to go away. I always pictured a mass invasion of earth scenario but I don’t think that will happen and if it did it would still be pretty dull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red snow Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 But superhero films, westerns, bank heists etc are all more overexposed yet can still make interesting or at least entertaining new films. It's primarily about execution not originality. To claim aliens in space is a tired format is more reflective of the lack of imagination in Hollywood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heartofice Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 49 minutes ago, red snow said: But superhero films, westerns, bank heists etc are all more overexposed yet can still make interesting or at least entertaining new films. It's primarily about execution not originality. To claim aliens in space is a tired format is more reflective of the lack of imagination in Hollywood. The superhero genre has shown that it can overlap a lot of other genres and do interesting things if a director wants to. Winter Soldier and Ragnarok have shown that. Aliens in space isn't quite as flexible as its not such an obvious genre. This is especially true if you are using the Xenomorphs and facehuggers and chest bursters.. there is really only so much you can do with that concept. Those aliens are expertly designed to illicit fear and terror. Its going to be very difficult to make an Aliens movie that doesn't descend into directly copying what we've already seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted April 5, 2019 Author Share Posted April 5, 2019 Second short. I guess they're releasing them every Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leofric Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Liked the second one even more than the first. Hopefully, they're counting down to the best one, and the rest will just get better and better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 On 3/31/2019 at 7:50 AM, Heartofice said: The superhero genre has shown that it can overlap a lot of other genres and do interesting things if a director wants to. Winter Soldier and Ragnarok have shown that. Aliens in space isn't quite as flexible as its not such an obvious genre. This is especially true if you are using the Xenomorphs and facehuggers and chest bursters.. there is really only so much you can do with that concept. Those aliens are expertly designed to illicit fear and terror. Its going to be very difficult to make an Aliens movie that doesn't descend into directly copying what we've already seen. I think the video game Alien: Isolation showed an interesting way to still tell an Alien story. It's a different medium obvious, but I think condensing that 17 hour experience (counting all the gameplay) into a 2 hour movie could work. Basic setup is: A single person is sent to investigate a derelict space wreck. Turns out an Alien had killed all the crew. Cue survival-horror experience. Spoiler Towards the end, find out it wasn't just one Alien, there were several. The movie would be like Gravity, The Martian, or Cast Away, and focus on a single charismatic actor trying to deal with the situation they are in. Which is trying to escape from the wreck and get back to their ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 Forgot about these, but I just the rest. All are pretty good, with my favorite being Specimen and Ore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kairparavel Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 I would have liked to see this high school production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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