Quote from: Xenomrph on Dec 26, 2017, 11:54:37 PM
The Marvel movies are great and I hope they keep making them forever. Yeah they can be a little formulaic at times (Ant-Man is basically 'Iron Man 1' with a new coat of paint, ditto to a fair degree with 'Doctor Strange') but when the formula works and is entertaining, I don't really care. If the cake tastes great, keep spoon-feeding me that same cake over and over and over.
And sometimes they do go outside the mold (Captain America: Winter Soldier, Iron Man 3, Thor Ragnarok) and they've knocked it out of the park every time as far as I'm concerned, so whether they stick with "the formula" or they try something new, I'm not at all worried.
I don't really understand the Marvel hate over here either. They are (mostly) good films, both in their genre and outside it.
Is this a hipster thing? Hating on Marvel, Star Wars and Aliens because they are beloved and commercially successful?
Is it because Ridley Scott didn't suggest it? I've seen tons of posts around here all anxious to see Ridley's third film, where David and his pet alien project were supposed to fight head on with The Blue Man
Group.Ltd (you know, kind of similarly to another film series where the Alien was pitted against another type of alien, with humans who had a shared history with the latter being caught in the middle) - but pulse rifles and power loaders?! That's where we draw the line!
When Ridley Scott was talking about making the Alien franchise more like Star Wars, whatever that means, people were cheering him on. Now that Star Wars and Alien are owned by the same people, making the possibility for the two franchises to be as similar as the great visionary Scott had in mind, the same people shudder in fear of the mere thought. What's wrong? Isn't this what you wanted?
I'm for one am happy about the Disney deal. Mainly because I look at Disney's track record:
Marvel films were mostly terrible before Disney bought them - now they are a powerhouse, consistently liked by fans and critics alike.
Disney also bought Pixar, which made great films prior to the purchase, and kept on making great films after the purchase. The main change was that thanks to the purchase, Disney has updated its own animation studio, so now both Disney and Pixar release great animated films on a regular basis.
Then Disney bought Lucasfilm, with the stench of the prequels looming all over the Star Wars franchise. They turned that ship around and now Star Wars is a main event at the cinemas again.
Disney clearly knows how to handle its properties, when Fox had no clue about what to do with Alien and Predator since the 90's. It is the great hope this franchise deserves...and on a personal note, with the way the Alien prequels turned out, there's nothing left to do that could possibly ruin this franchise any further, so the only way to go from here is up.
Quote from: Xenomrph on Dec 26, 2017, 11:54:37 PM
Quote from: Paranoid Android on Dec 26, 2017, 11:03:39 PM
Don't want to interrupt the truly interesting argument about the possibility of making good PG-13 horror films under Disney, but I do want to throw in a crazy theory:
What if...- and I know it sounds crazy, but what if...someone at Disney had actually heard about the Alien franchise? Maybe even, god forbid, seen a film or two? What if that guy mentioned how it's a violent and bloody franchise and therefore requires an R rating, before buying it?
What if the execs at Disney didn't just blindly throw billions of dollars at Fox for the giggles? Is it possible that maybe, just maybe, the people at Disney know what they bought?
Whoa whoa whoa, this is the INTERNET, we don't allow reasonable opinions here!
Yeah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking. Forget I said anything.