Quote from: Space_Dementia on Dec 14, 2023, 04:33:59 PMI much prefer the mystery and just having stories set within different time periods. For me personally, this is the correct direction to go in.
Side note, and I know this will never happen due to marketing and money, but I would love to have the movies revealed to us as surprises, for example, market a movie as a period piece based on a certain event in history, only for it to slowly reveal itself as a predator movie. Its way too risky but would love it.
100% support this idea. The best time I saw this done was going to the cinema and seeing the trailer for 'The Woods' - thinking "this looks cool" and being gripped to know more... only to later find out that The Woods was actually really 'Blair Witch' ( as a fan of the Blair Witch franchise it was an additional sweet deal that it happened to be released on my Birthday) 😃 Sure, it wasn't as good as previous entires, but the marketing was on point!
I think they could do something similar with Alien; release a series of shorter mini trailers similar to the 1979 trailer that doesn't show the monster, get everyone discussing what they think it's about etc... on the final teaser trailer introduce a single 'wailing scream' sound effect from the original trailer, to start building hype for those who'd recognise it (that sort of thing).
I love that we have access to so much information collectively online, but I do miss the days when I could be surprised by a trailer;
'Alien Resurrection' teaser came out of the blue, and got me majorly excited during an advance screening of 'An American Werewolf in Paris' back in the day - there had been no magazine coverage up until the teaser started showing. Same with Halloween H20; II recall seeing a poster at the cinema with just the mask, Jamie Lee Curtis' name above it and the tagline "20 years later" - it'd been close to that since the original movie released so I went in and purchased a ticket thinking it was a re-release of the original for its anniversary and a chance to see it on the big screen... to be greeted with a brand new movie!
We don't have any surprises anymore. The internet is both wonderful and at the same time ruins us. 😅