Quote from: Horrific Hominid on Feb 26, 2015, 09:25:26 PMThose movies weren't very good
Well, I think they were really enjoyable, just not the way the route the movies should have gone. That's also what I think about Alien Resurrection.
And as for Alien 3, there's a HUGE amount of people that find them both boring, underwhelming and a bad closure to the trilogy.
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Feb 26, 2015, 09:22:10 PM
Quote from: Magegg on Feb 26, 2015, 09:15:58 PM
Hey, I love Alien: Resurrection but I wouldn't mind if it's plain wiped out of continuity. Same for Spider-Man 3 and X-Men: The Last Stand.
In the case of X-Men, Last Stand was erased... and so were the rest of the other X-Men films thanks to Days of Futures Past.
Yeah, X-Men could pull it in a very clever way because of:
1.- It took advantage of the classic comic book storyline
2.- It tied in with the recent prequel movies
3.- The X-Men universe is highly unrealistic sci-fi already, so introducing a sort of time travel thing didn't seem forced.
As for Alien, I wouldn't like an in-continuity retcon (like what X-Men or Star Trek did). Time travel wouldn't fit in this relatively "low" sci-fi series, and I plain don't want them to spend a whole movie trying to reconcile with Alien 3 and Rez and trying too hard for everything to make sense.
Just go and pretend Alien 3 and Rez never happened (like what X-Men: DoFP opening scenes did to The Wolverine's post-credits scene), ignore that completely and let's do a kickass Alien movie, that's all I want.
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Feb 26, 2015, 09:22:10 PMQuote from: Crazy Rich on Feb 26, 2015, 08:50:58 PM
she sacrificed herself to save all of humanity from the nightmare and the horrors she endured for so long, and then you see the shot of the sun rising up again and seeing the darkness engulfing the planet surface being purged by the light of the sun. How can you get any more of a noble and powerful ending? I don't think Blomkamp can ever top that.
Completely agree. Booted even more by the recording she made at the end of Alien.
And yet, people didn't like it.
Talk all good you want about the movie but most of the audience didn't like it at all and they wanted something different for the franchise.