Quote from: MrFacehug on Jan 17, 2011, 02:25:56 AM
What the unholy mother of f**k?! I was looking forward to another Alien movie so bad and now this comes along and head-bites my expectations to a bloody pulp. Ridley even wrote about doing a prequel movie in his intro for the information-booklet in the Blu-ray set. I definately thought it was official when I read that.
Sure, he'll be making a new original movie, and it'll probably be good. Still, as an Alien fan, I've gotten tired of these pesky Predators stealing the Aliens' glory. Why do we get "Predators" and not an Alien prequel?! God, I'm pissed now... 
Ummm...there's plenty of glory for both species, I'm sure...
Besides, they're both aliens and predators, so it's kind of hard for their predatory instincts to overshadow their xenomorphic nature...or something....
Okay...if Ridley said he would do it on the Blu-Ray note thingy, then Prometheus had better be connected
somehow.
I like the idea of a film focusing on the Space Jockeys, or maybe one showing what led to the Aliens but without directly linking to it! Maybe it would be a "reverse-cameo," as a movie unconnected with the Aliens comes out featuring the Space Jockeys, and then younger viewers who discover
Alien will go "Hey, doesn't that skeleton look like those creatures in
Prometheus? Wow, that's a coincidence! Or is it...?" And then they realize the connection between the two series.
Alas, MasterRich and Mr. Gonsa, I will argue for
Alien and
AVP, and whichever of the other films I have yet to see that I will end up liking to be the only canon films. I predict Aliens will make it on there, but if it does, then it's doubtful I will tolerate either of the films after it.
Then again, I might end up hating
Aliens and one day make a film that negates it, who knows? (It could happen to any of us!
)
That's why screwing with what's canon and what isn't canon in a series purely based on your liked and disliked entries in said series is dangerous. Once you eliminate, say, the AVP films, any of the other films are open to "deletion" -- and everyone, film makers included, have different opinions on what should be canon.
So please don't mess with continuity. Unless, as with
AVPR, the offending film has something that makes no frikkin' sense without messing up the canon of the later films.
