Quote from: Bat Chain Puller on Mar 09, 2013, 03:57:15 PM
It's the difference between getting your hopes up over thinly veiled, carefully worded teases and out and out bald faced lies. They would have had to show crawling walls full of xenomorphs created JUST for the Prometheus trailers for this to be even in the same neighborhood.
At the end of the day, Prometheus was a decent science fiction movie with ties to Alien. (as advertised) And Aliens: Colonial Marines is buggy, sluggishly plodding, sometimes unplayable, brainless romp through corridors coated in visual nostalgia.
Thats the point im making. The people behind Prometheus (Fox) were way more careful in their lines of BS than the people involved with A:CM (Fox) and at the end of the day (week 1) if the people at the top who are ultimately responsible for the marketing and direction (Fox) make a couple bucks from their audience (us) then ratings and content and quality are secondary motivators.
You must have been in tears after AvP:R came out because Fox wouldnt allow something worse than AvP for a quick buck right?
And in the end I guess it doesnt matter because weve since gotten Prometheus and A:CM to make up for it.
Its a slippery slope and if youre willing to compartmentalize a general business strategy im sure Fox will greenlight all you can eat.