Quote from: oduodu on Mar 20, 2024, 04:50:01 PM"it has no great ambition beyond a new iteration of what we've already seen"
that s what i am afraid of.
let s hope it s more than that.
fingers crossed.
We will see. But nowadays such a teaser so obviously trying to evoke the good old memories can give that kind of fear. We'll see. Obviously I've no problem with the possibility to have a somewhat too much derivative movie: if it is a decent and well made one, why not. My fear is that this kind of things tends to monopolize the industry (with exceptions:
Dune part two is a phenomenal blockbuster, but it is also a passionate adaptation of a true classic). Nowadays, even though some aspects can show passion in blockbusters (cinema and series), the whole looks too often like the product of an industrial
cahier des charges as I say in my mother tongue. If I'm allowed to speak of other universes, I like the old Star Wars movies but in these last years, I only found interest in
Rogue One and above all
Andor, if you see what I mean.
I think that there is quite a potential to do interesting movies building upon the conceptual ideas of the first
Alien. But it is obviously much more risky and demanding than to recycle the phenomenal but maybe weary-on-the-cinema-screen good old Xeno. For that last thing, I'd rather get a video game, because that refreshes greatly the interest, I think. It was great to see the style of the first Alien setting reproduced and expanded upon in
Alien Isolation, but it was an interactive experience.
