Quote from: JKS1 on Dec 03, 2011, 04:35:50 PM
I agree with you that it would be totally idiotic to have references to Predator in Prometheus. Only someone as tasteless as Paul WS Anderson would even think of doing that and I'm pretty certain Ridley wont stoop to that level of silliness.
Personally I'm one of the Predator fanboys that you say are the 'bane of your life'
I love Alien, yet I'm also a huge fan of Predator (the 1st instalment)
Alien is far more of a cerebral, 'arty', 'intelligent', innovative, thoughtful, multi layered movie and has 'masterpiece' written all over it. Massively influential and one of those genre defining pieces that are given the epithet 'important'. The stuff that Film degree dissertations are made of.
On the other side of the coin, Predator is an all out testosterone fest of explosive comic book violence and generic square jawed steroidal heroes
I appreciate both movies for what they are and am completely aware of how different they are yet both are well and truly in the top 5 of my all time favourite films list.
Like you I hope there is absolutely not even the vaguest or obscurest of references or 'nods' to Predator in Prometheus
Hell...I dont even think therell be any 'Giger' Aliens in Prometheus either, and I'm perfectly happy with that likelihood
From Ridleys public comments on AVP I dont think anything of the sort will happen, and I'm extremely happy for that
To all those hoping to see Predators in Prometheus, why stop there ?
Why not make it a Batman vs Predator vs The Joker vs Aliens vs Darth Maul vs Alf vs Robocop movie...........how 'cool' would that be ?!!!..............NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not to bring this up again, I just wanted to say that I like this post.
Prometheus is very obviously in the Alien universe, and was obviously in said universe since the very beginning. That settles all of the 'alien movie' questions for me, regardless of whether there is a single classic Xenomorph in the film at all. It's like having a film with Skynet, Cyberdyne Systems, and Sarah Connor called "Final Awareness," without any T-800's in it. Would that be a Termintor film? Very much so, despite it not having a traditional Terminator model.
Don't know if that was entirely relevent... but I said it!