Legendary actor Lance Henriksen has done a recent interview with Youtube celebrity Comic Book Girl 19 where he discusses his career highlights including his time on James Cameron’s Aliens and shares his thoughts on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Like the rest of us, he left the cinema feeling pretty confused about the whole thing. He praises Noomi Rapace’s performance but he was pretty disappointed with the movie as a whole. He jokingly ends the section by saying that he won’t feature in Prometheus 2. Skip to 7:40 to hear about Aliens and at 13:40, he shares his thoughts on Prometheus.
Thanks to RakaiThwei for the news.
Aside from her trying to fill the quirky internet geek girl quota.. How was it exactly painful?
The local rastafari predalien revolutionary?
Watching the interview now, lorf bless Lance.
The whole thing relies on the idea that just because the technology exists means its use would be ubiquitous in every conceivable application. This isn't how the world works. We've had 3D film since the twenties, but here we are almost a hundred years later and they're still struggling to argue its worth.
There's no need to rely on "Well, the Nostromo is old" when "It wasn't deemed practical or necessary" suits just fine. The Prometheus didn't even have super fancy tech throughout its entire vessel as SM keeps trying to point out, and it didn't have it for anything that was actually critical. All of their navigation systems, read-outs, etc. were done on regular screens. Compare your smartphone to the cockpit of the latest commercial airliner, cruise ship, aircraft carrier, or space shuttle and you'll see that just because touch screens and voice-activated AI are pretty ubiquitous in smartphones these days, doesn't mean they're used for every damn thing.
Jeez.
Why did Vickers suits use a giant flat screen?
In principal yes; not so much in practicality. Too small.
Do you often have linear, and literally accurate dreams?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
And, again, the device for monitoring dreams would have been very useful. And if the scene between David 8 and Weyland really was meant to be inferred as allowing for two-way interaction while dreaming, why is Ripley not being at least psychologically treated that way, instead of being fobbed off with sleeping medication?
Also, shouldn't at least Burke have been interested in seeing what she was dreaming about? On the one hand, he's apparently representing her at the hearing, which means he'd at least be obligated to gather what evidence he can to defend her. On the other, we eventually find out he's corrupt enough to send colonists out to the derelict's co-ordinates, purely out of curiosity! So, he's got double the reason to find out what Ripley's dreams are about; for gathering useful data, if nothing else.
Considering all of that, I know Ridley Scott clearly wasn't taking any of these ramifications into account, but it almost makes a mockery of the Jordans being sent out... Gather Ripley's dream data and bypass the whole curiosity thing completely: Send out a properly equipped Weyland-Yutani expedition (or at least detour something already out in that neck of the woods). He'd be able to make a case for doing so with that sort of information.
As for holographic displays, Hadley's Hope could have definitely benefited from one. They've got a giant table apparently dedicated to nothing but mapping.
I also remember, back when 'Prometheus' was being released, pointing out that the Auriga's utter lack of any of this technology makes it even stranger (especially medical scans and interfaces). The Nostromo-is-old theory works, sure. You can apply that to the prison planet, too. But Gateway Station is busy and being near Earth would make it especially easy to keep updated, while Hudson's proudly banging on about how the Sulaco's stuff is "state of the bad-ass art" - all of which are long after the Nostromo's encounter. Then we see this super-secret military research ship, even further into the future and, well... Definite inconsistencies.
So, yes, there's an obvious case to be made about Nostomo and Fury comparisons. Not so much when you make them with the Sulaco, Gateway and Auriga.
Same reason Prometheus used 2D weather radar displays and ultrasounds and video feeds and great big entertainment screens I supposed.
Eh, it's alright I guess, Milan. I just.. can't help but shake my head and roll my eyes.
In regards to this interview as well as some of her other videos, it's clear that ComicBookGirl19 is a Prometheus fangirl. Nothing wrong with that, but it would've been interesting to hear Lance talk about the different Weyland portrayals. At the time when he was filming AvP, Lance seemed to really believe in what he was help putting out. And he still maintains a good relationship with the folks over at ADI. I know that when I spoke with Tom Woodruff Jr., he seemed to still stand by AvP when I told him about the fan reaction and I'm sure he still probably stands by it.
I know that a couple years back, Lance was in Cherry Hill to meet and greet with fans, I wish I would've gotten the chance to speak with him as well as I did with Tom, Ian and Mike Biehn. Would've been interesting to speak with Lance. Personally, I'm surprised he's disappointed with Prometheus and his feelings seem to more or less match up with Cameron's.
Sorry RakaiThwei, no disrespect, sometimes you start talking about one thing that leads into another, the thread will go back to it's origins soon I think :-)
...At least I get front page credit for sharing this.
I seen some episodes from that show but not as many that I could call myself a fan or follower, still liked it though, might pick up a box some days and go through some of it's seasons :-) What did the goverment pick up frpm that show?
I think that has more to do with what type of weapons they have at their disposal and the damage they can do with them.
And I think that the equipment a scientist would use on an exploreing expidition would be different compareing the equipment used in a scouting/ rescue mission in a possible hostile enviroment. But to be honest I don't know much about how these missions are done irl but I think that if you salvage all the equipment used by scientists/ explorers on a friendly mission to make contact with some tribe in an unexplored region, would be very different compared with all the eqipment used by a navy seal team on a rescue mission in a hostile enviroment, I also think that who's funding each mission is of importance when talking about the quality of the equipment being used.
For the record, Alien's concept art has some pretty Prometheus-level technology.
I have asked this repeatedly. You refuse to answer.
Seriously, why would you put a holographic screen in a god-damned hangar? Not even Prometheus does this.
Also this.
And the overwhelming majority of screens on Prometheus were not holographic. There was the mapping table, whatever they used for Weyland's message, Charlie's little rubiks cube and the screen Shaw was using in her quarters. There's dozens of screens all around the bridge and in medlab that were simple displays or touchscreens.
I'm saying just cos there's new tech doesn't mean it's going to be used.
And again:
Where do we see in the Auriga that would need fancy holographic screens?
You say that because A:CM doesn't give the Sulaco Prometheus-level tech, that this is Ridley Scott's fault for having more advance technology in a prequel movie. How do you not see how stupid this is?
1) Prometheus is quite obviously canon as of right now, so what I attempt is neither here nor there.
2) What am I making up?
Because they're making a serious attempt at a cohesive continuity, for what seems like the first time.
Will it all slot flawlessly together - no. There's already issues with Out Of The Shadows, and I told my contact at Fox as much. More will no doubt pop up in the comics and Isolation and whatever else follows.
Doesn't mean I don't appreciate the fact they're actively trying to make it fit.
You're suggesting with your missile silo example that the only reason the Auriga wasn't upgraded with the latest tech was cause it was produced 257 years ago of A:R, if it was produced later than it would have been a more modern ship with no need for updating.
Nor are there in the first three Alien movies. Point?
But if you don't like what FOX does, you can ignore them and do their own thing. Fans have done that for decades.
Also, this f**kin' thread.
Also, you're making quite a few things up yourself in your attempt to keep Prometheus canon.
No, you claimed Ridley ignored his own film.
Again, no need to make things up.
I guess because you're incapable of isolating your low opinion of Prometheus from the facts.
And on your continual drive to make things up, I've never found enough evidence to divorce the AvPs from Alien continuity (despite how crap they are). At least until Prometheus completely ignored them in terms of Weyland. And Fox is merely backing this up.
Like yeah, you can handwave the discrepancies on a case-by-case basis, like why there aren't tabletop holograms at Ripley's ICC inquest in 'Aliens' (or why the map of the Hadley's Hope colony isn't a tabletop hologram), but flat-out ignoring the visual style discrepancy as if it isn't there seems silly.
It's obviously not a deal-breaker for me and I can look past it, but I'm not going to act like I don't understand why people might be irked by it.
Loads of people on this forum were hell-bent as citing it as canon as "proof" that the AvP movies never happened.
I'm okay with it being canon, but I'm also of the opinion that the site is intentionally meant to be taken with a HUGE grain of salt. It's marketing wank, but not the way you're thinking.
To be fair, the Weyland industries website is proper wank made up by the marketing people.
But i guess it's canon somehow.
There are no ships in commission that are 257 years old though.
Why would a tugboat like the Nostromo have them?
Why would Marines use a flying lightshow that would give them away to a potential enemy?
There are still ships from the 40s and 50s in commission.
We see plenty of the Sulaco in A:CM and there's no reference to Prometheus tech. Also, your missile silo example implies that both the Sulaco and Auriga were constructed during Prometheus's timeframe and that's why neither was upgraded, I find that VERY hard to believe that ships that old would still be in use when more modern ships can be relied on.
One, I sent a link to a missile silo that uses 8" floppies. In 2014. Goodbye "No-one uses old tech".
Two, you said the Sulaco should have had it, but we see very little of the Sulaco in the film, and the rooms we do see don't make sense to have Prometheus-like technology in them. We see locker rooms, hangar bays, etc. Even the Prometheus didn't have fancy tech in those places.
It IS A:CM's fault for not paying attention that the "pups" were Fifield's.
That's A:CM's fault for not paying attention, not Ridley's.
Also, even though Fifield invented the mapping balls, it didn't stop Wey-Yu from using them in A:CM and they utilize the exact same weapons and technology as the colonial marines.
Fifield designed them. Fifield died.
Nope, I'm on Skype these days.
Also, some missile silos in America still use 8" floppy discs. No, I'm not making that up.