Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Jun 02, 2017, 12:04:14 AM
But yet I imagine the fans are pretty crazy in both camps. Perhaps even more so for the Star Wars guys since there is just more of them and it is so main stream. One thing I am getting from this Covenant experience is that the Aliens series just stopped being main stream...
Yeah... one of my big "regrets" over Star Wars was that they pitched the prequels at kids (at least initially) trying to capture lightning in a bottle twice. But the thing is, back in the 70s and 80s we had nothing. Like if you missed BSG or Buck Rogers... that was it. You were screwed and had to wait till next week having missed an episode.
Even when the prequels came out, kids had so much more entertainment at their disposal with computer games, consoles, packed out cable doing re-runs... their attention was always going to be transient. Far better for them to have made those Star Wars prequels really adult - could have been really worth works (I really liked the last one, I thought it was the best of the 3).
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Quote from: N-Shifter on Jun 02, 2017, 12:21:09 AM
I say this as a huge fan of Ridley but he never answers the same question in the same way twice, that is when he even answers the question in the first place without re-directing it.
I got that feeling listening to his commentaries. It's like he's saying stuff and I'm not sure whether that was part of his plan at the time or if it just occurred to him. I maybe mis-remembering, but I recall he was postulating that everyone on the Nostromo was probably shagging each other.
Now - was that his thinking at the time, or did that occur to him afterwards? I don't know.
Two things about A:C from totally different sources struck a chord with me. Firstly, on youTube (a wretched hive of scum and idiocy) - someone commented on a review of A:C and said (paraphrasing) "This is what happens when you make a movie trying to answer questions that nobody really wanted answering."
Second, a mate of mine is HUGELY into the Alien-saga (so much so that he's hated everything since Aliens and funny enough isn't a member of this forum). He was saying that he wished that Ridley had stuck to his original guns and kept it as this trilogy having the "DNA of Alien" and "may well be set in the same reality." (or something like that). However bowing to fan - or studio? - pressure, Prometheus was forced down the "Alien" road and A:C more so.
So instead of doing his "Chariots of the Gods" thing, the Alien mythos is now hanging around the neck of this franchise like an albatross and ultimately, whatever answers they come up with won't satisfy anyone.
It was a good point, well made - these movies would have been better as sidequels that hinted at the xenos but as Lee (my mate) said, perhaps would have been better served answering all those questions that Ridley was posing that had sod-all to do with eggs, facehuggers and queens.
