Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Aug 31, 2016, 06:53:24 PM
[It's not a nice phrase. It implies that whoever this is aimed at is somehow immature. We are all fans on here. Otherwise, why bother coming to this site at all?
I don't see it as something infringing on one's maturity level rather than how biased one is when it comes certain movies of the franchise.
Fanboy = Highly partisan / Biased.
I'm not going to pretend I'm not an A3 fanboy, because I am. I love that movie and personally think it's on par with ALIEN, albeit the two have completely different qualities. As ALIENS is a very different type of movie compared to ALIEN and A3 I simply don't like it that much even though I appreciate it's technical qualities and designs.
Just because a person is a fanboy it doesn't mean that you have to give into your fanboyism all the time. The idea to rather retcon a certain movie just because you don't like and because it killed off characters that you like rather than going with a natural sequel (i.e. take off from where the last edition/movie ended) IS fanboyism. To jumble and butcher everything already established just to get some revenge and to avenge your favorite movie IS fanboyism.
Like I said, imagine some director who thinks that ALIENS is hollywood sci-fi action trash would try to retcon ALIENS and find a more "favorable" story to bridge between ALIEN and A3 that didn't include Cameron's fun jive cardboard Marines, sappy Hollywood moments (Newt, Ripley, Hicks), boss fights (Powerloader vs. Queen), cannon fodder alien shooting galleries etc. and instead wen't for something more similar to ALIEN and A3? Not that it would ever happen, but let's say it did - you guys would freak out, and rightly so, because that would be blatant A3 fanboyism.
See what I'm getting at?
A:R opened up for endless new storylines, narratives and concepts - but for some reason we're still stuck with Ellen Ripley (not Ripley 8 ), Hicks, Newt and Colonial Marines... And even so - nothing says that we can't have the Colonial Marines in the world presented in A:R - maybe the leftover Colonial Marines is now a mercenary contractor business, maybe they are a branch of the Military? No Derelict on Acheron doesn't mean much as Prometheus opened up for the possibility of Engineer derelicts elsewhere. Sure, W&Y merged (?) with Wall-Mart, but that doesn't mean that it has to stay that way, or maybe some other mega-corporation can take their place as the Evil Empire? I mean, that is if you necessarily have to follow the formula given to us by Cameron in ALIENS.
Just because you didn't like A:R doesn't mean that the sequel has to be in the same vein as A:R. It's as if people think that making a sequel to A:R you will have to follow the tone and style of Jeunet and Whedon, when in reality you don't.