After getting some thoughts together. I'm overall pretty disheartened that the next movie plans to treat Alien 3 and Resurrection like they never existed, and this is coming from someone who was saying that these movies will still exist for our enjoyment regardless of what they do with this new movie, and I said this when it wasn't even official yet.
I can kinda live with Resurrection being ignored, although it did have it's moments, if you look at the behind the scenes for the basketball scene you realize more how
amazing that scene is. But Alien 3 is a movie that while it for sure has it's problems, it actually isn't that bad, the Assembly Cut in particular is a pretty darn good and enjoyable watch and the ending is so meaningful. Rather than give in and attempt to have the Queen removed for her own survival she sacrificed herself to save all of humanity from the nightmare and the horrors she endured for so long, and then you see the shot of the sun rising up again and seeing the darkness engulfing the planet surface being purged by the light of the sun. How can you get any more of a noble and powerful ending? I don't think Blomkamp can ever top that.
Looking at the concept art, some of it is okay, but then the other stuff, well, thinking that it'll end up in the movie is like a chalkboard scratching another chalkboard in my brain. Other than that I don't really know who this Blomkamp guy is, people keep saying he directed District 9, well I never saw that so you're not really telling me anything. Sigourney Weaver... I'll be honest and say I can't stay mad at her, her character Ellen Ripley is only just one of my most favourite movie heroines ever.
Maybe I'm being too hard on the new movie. I mean initially I was pretty damn hard on Alien Isolation when it was announced because I was still feeling the aftermath of Aliens: Colonial Marines which was not only one of the worst things ever but we were actually tricked by false advertisement. But as it turns out Alien Isolation is the greatest thing since Alien and Aliens and it's been swimming in awards and praise, and it's an installment I'll always treasure.
So maybe I should just wait and see how things actually develop for this new Alien movie, maybe I might come around if I hear things I like, and of course movies like Alien 3 will still exist for our enjoyment regardless of what they do with the new film... but for now I'm still cynical about it and this Alien 3 clip is more than fitting to how I generally feel about Blomkamp's official Alien movie announcement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du4IoVgOJdU#wsP.S - I never mentioned Prometheus because even though others on the internet have mentioned it... why are people even worried about it? I'm sure if Ridley Scott wants to do Prometheus 2 it's going to happen, I mean, they don't really conflict with each other, one is a continuity of the main alien storyline and the other is a continuity of a spin-off. I'm not seeing the issue here.
