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#11

Alien: Romulus / Re: Alien: Romulus Catch-All T...

Last post by -Culky- - Today at 04:57:44 AM

I guess no trailer today...I'm assuming sometime next month.

#12

General Film/TV Discussion / Re: All Ridley Scott

Last post by KiramidHead - Today at 04:50:26 AM

An interesting bit of info I found in Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker by James Riordan. Scott was approached to direct Oliver Stone's batshit insane draft of Conan the Barbarian.

Since the studio wouldn't accept Stone as director, Pressman approached Ridley Scott. Scott was enthusiastic, and Stone wrote the project with him in mind. Though he liked Stone's first draft, Scott then became interested in doing another film instead.

"Ridley Scott backed out at the last second," Stone elaborates. "I begged him not. I went down on my knees to him. This was after he made The Duelists. Alien was finished, but we hadn't seen it yet. He said yes, and then he said no. It broke our hearts when he decided to do Blade Runner instead."

Going by the time frame, I'm guessing he backed off Conan for the same reasons he quit Dune, not wanting to deal with the large scale production after his brother's death.

#13

Alien Prequel Series: Prometheus & Alien Covenant / Re: Ninth Circle Editions

Last post by GrimmVision - Today at 04:07:22 AM

I rewatched the parts of the Agent 9 cut involving Fifield and Milburn getting lost. It's two lines of dialogue that got cut where Milburn says "We've been here before Fifield." and Fifield responds "I don't know, it all looks the same to me."

They also removed Fifield's howl after releasing the pups which I thought was unwarranted given it robs him of a personality/character moment.

I'll take into consideration removing those lines from my cut, but I'm not convinced they're that big of a dealbreaker that they need to be cut. The map that the pups create are for the Prometheus' mapping systems. Does the ground crew have access to the maps being created? I know they have little screens inside their helmets but I figure those are for their suit statistics, like oxygen, and their personal vitals.

#14

General Alien-Predator Discussion / Re: Happy Alien Day everyone!!

Last post by Xenomrph - Today at 03:52:40 AM

Alien³ looks damn good in 4K, with the "Legacy Cut" fan project, not much else of interest though.

How do the cgi scenes with the alien running look, are they still weird looking or did they clean it up?

They actually replaced it entirely with all new stop-motion using the NECA Ultimate Runner Alien figure, at @BlueMarsalis79 request.

#15

General Alien-Predator Discussion / Re: Happy Alien Day everyone!!

Last post by solace97 - Today at 03:32:06 AM

Alien³ looks damn good in 4K, with the "Legacy Cut" fan project, not much else of interest though.

How do the cgi scenes with the alien running look, are they still weird looking or did they clean it up?

#16

Alien: Romulus / Re: What do you want to see in...

Last post by Highland - Today at 03:31:03 AM

Problem with Alien 3 is that it should have been Alien 4 

#17

Alien Films / Re: Aliens Expanded - A New Al...

Last post by Xenomrph - Today at 03:26:53 AM

There was a 4 hour "Superior Firepower" piece on the blurays. What more is there to know about Aliens?

Maybe they'll mention ACM and how it's the true sequel to Aliens.

Don't threaten me with a good time

#18

Alien: Romulus / Re: Alien: Romulus Catch-All T...

Last post by Highland - Today at 03:25:18 AM

"Isabela Merced Says Alien: Romulus Is Authentic To The First Alien"

Lol, this line is getting old, seems used before every comic, book, game and movie. I'd say the hit rate is about 20%, probably less, but much better as of late. I think, loved Aliens: Dark Descent.

Just re-watched the Romulus trailer again, it's so reminiscent of Covenant, with the cliche open the door scream.

Hopefully it pans out. Been calling for a space station Alien setting since....AVP2?

Still loved Covenant and Prometheus.

I reckon reply's like this are all scripted anyway. Prolly some Burke esk agent told her to day that 

#19

Alien Films / Re: Alien returning to theater...

Last post by Xenomrph - Today at 03:22:57 AM

Just got back from seeing the movie with my dad. It had the Fede/Ridley interview. Nothing particularly groundbreaking about Alien or Romulus, but still kinda neat.

Turns out my dad had never seen Alien. He thought he had, but it was entirely cultural osmosis (he knew what facehuggers and chestbursters were) or bits and pieces of other Alien movies. In the end he thought it was "f**king scary". He was also convinced that Jones was going to end up being an Alien somehow.

#20

Alien-Predator DVDs / Blu-Ray / Re: Favorite Alien Blu-Ray Ver...

Last post by BlueMarsalis79 - Today at 03:20:04 AM

In terms of the overall package, it never got better than this:


Although I have a lot of nostalgia for "Alien Quadrilogy" the 2010 Blu-ray 's just an upgrade in every single regard, Alien's 4K Blu-ray looks far superior for the Threatrical Version, but the "Director's Cut" on it is butchered.

Spoiler

And Aliens might as well not have a 4K Blu-ray release.

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