Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Dec 07, 2017, 08:28:55 AMElder Gods is literally a Lovecraft homage story, complete with shout-outs to Cthulhu and Lovecraft himself (although with the spellings changed to make them slightly less obvious).
It's been a while since I read it but there was a very nice black and white short comic that Dark Horse released called Elder Gods that also followed that kind of idea. Think I'll have to give it a re-read tonight.
Quote from: OpenMaw on Dec 05, 2017, 09:21:47 PM
So I say do something weird and psychological. Imagine doing something like a death cult that worships the avatar of the Alien, and there's a private investigator type who's looking into these ritualistic sacrifices, murders, maybe some kind of a mark they leave at the scene, and they're following it back to the source, and discover something along the lines of a very old lab on a nearby moon that has been abandoned, where this cult has basically taken up residence and is worshiping these representations of the Alien. Until they finally succeed in their "rituals" and an actual alien is born.
I don't know, you could do all kinds of things with the Alien franchise.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Dec 05, 2017, 08:54:35 PMQuote from: SM on Dec 05, 2017, 07:31:57 PM
Your post seems to ignore that the series "stalled" with Alien 3, the most recent two films have been quite successful.
The flow you talk about hit an almighty brick wall five minutes into Alien 3 and never really recovered.
You neglected to mention that the Assembly Cut totally redeemed Alien 3.
Quote from: OpenMaw on Dec 05, 2017, 09:21:47 PM
Well, I don't know about totally. The best version of Alien 3 doesn't really exist. It's somewhere between the Theatrical and Assembly cuts, and if Fincher had been, ya know, allowed to make his movie, he probably would have found that.
Quote from: Scorpio on Dec 06, 2017, 03:28:15 AMQuote from: OpenMaw on Dec 05, 2017, 10:20:58 PM
So, that automatically poopoo's the idea because the two hack directors, and the hack writer couldn't make it work? We're talking about entirely different creative teams here.
It does, because we already know what happens with aliens on Earth. It's not a cool idea anymore. Back in 1991, yes, but not now.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Dec 05, 2017, 08:54:35 PMWisdom.Quote from: SM on Dec 05, 2017, 07:31:57 PM
Your post seems to ignore that the series "stalled" with Alien 3, the most recent two films have been quite successful.
The flow you talk about hit an almighty brick wall five minutes into Alien 3 and never really recovered.
You neglected to mention that the Assembly Cut totally redeemed Alien 3.
Quote from: OpenMaw on Dec 05, 2017, 10:20:58 PM
So, that automatically poopoo's the idea because the two hack directors, and the hack writer couldn't make it work? We're talking about entirely different creative teams here.
Quote from: Local Trouble on Dec 05, 2017, 08:54:35 PMQuote from: SM on Dec 05, 2017, 07:31:57 PM
Your post seems to ignore that the series "stalled" with Alien 3, the most recent two films have been quite successful.
The flow you talk about hit an almighty brick wall five minutes into Alien 3 and never really recovered.
You neglected to mention that the Assembly Cut totally redeemed Alien 3.
Quote from: Scorpio on Dec 05, 2017, 09:40:06 PM
And they did get to Earth. It's called AVPR. Best movie in the franchise, hands down.
Quote from: SM on Dec 05, 2017, 07:31:57 PM
Your post seems to ignore that the series "stalled" with Alien 3, the most recent two films have been quite successful.
The flow you talk about hit an almighty brick wall five minutes into Alien 3 and never really recovered.
Quote from: SM on Dec 05, 2017, 07:31:57 PMI'm in complete agreeance that the stall occurred at A3. But the stall was way more severe in A:R. A3 would have been way more accepted for me if it ended the Ripley encounters with the Alien. That way it would be it's own trilogy and everyone dies just to conclude it...not saying they had to kill off everyone, but that's the route they wanted (I believe that's because they wanted to make AVP; correct me if I'm wrong).
The flow you talk about hit an almighty brick wall five minutes into Alien 3 and never really recovered.