Quote from: Lemonade on Jun 11, 2014, 03:53:07 PM
Eh, that's not how movies work CainsSon. You can't be beholden to one movie when making another. You can't say "Oh, we can't have this in our movie because it takes away the surprise in another movie" especially in regards to Prometheus, which is basically what Scott wanted Alien to be anyway. So in essence, it's a remake. Seven movies deep, I think we all know what happens when someone gets that spider-looking alien thing affixed to their face.
Prometheus is about different things anyway. It has new ideas and could easily work without any bursting. But luckily, that wasn't the case, because as an Alien fan I want to see that stuff.
Well, people have different ideas of how a movie should be.
If I were Scott, I wouldn't want to ruin the context of my own Highly Regarded Masterpiece of film making (ALIEN is protected by the AFI for having Historic Significance), and that movie's entire plot pivots on screenwriting plot-points surrounding the Alien's life cycle.
So yes, maybe that's not how a person should THINK about movies but in this particular case, you look pretty dumb for ignoring it. PROMETHEUS wasn't made with the anticipation of only attracting viewers who already know the Alien's life cycle. In fact, I'd wager that this had a lot to do with the decision-making process, and good for them because not everyone who goes to see PROMETHEUS has ALREADY seen ALIEN and if I'd seen PROMETHEUS first, I might now even care for the Chestburster scene in ALIEN and we are talking about the most infamous death scene in a horror film, aide from maybe the Shower scene in PSYCHO. Would it be smart to make a Prequel to PSYCHO that involved a different woman in another shower, getting stabbed with a bbq fork by a dude dressed as his dead mother? See what I mean?