Quote from: SM on Dec 14, 2017, 10:36:19 PMI could make the same argument about you ignoring the tone. I didn't respond to your point - or in your words 'ignored' it - because it wasn't worth pursuing that line of argument. Neither of us was going to change our minds.
Overall I just have trouble finding your arguments convincing.
Thanks for the snark though. That really helped.
Where am I ignoring the tone?
It'd still be horror. Either a horror-thriller (tone: Alien, Alien 3, Prometheus) or horror-action (tone: Aliens).
Or is it impossible to make a decent movie like that without xenomorphs?
Then why create those in the Alien universe? Because it fits said universe, because WY is a good jumping-off point for different kinds of movies, because WY is part of that universe.
Then why not an Alien Movie Universe? Because if there'd be movies with non-typical Alien stuff, like androids or creation, people would go, why is this part of the Alien Movie Universe?
Not pursuing the line of argument...
You assumed that I would exclude everything. In this case the work ethic. I said it could also be like in Prometheus. I never said to drop the whole thing. Then you go: "That effectively what you're telling me."
This isn't about changing eachother's minds, it's about you reading into things just because you don't like them.
Don't like what I say? Fine. But don't go twisting my words.