Quote from: windebieste on Jan 07, 2018, 12:35:41 PM
I dunno... Every time we get these 'fan' directors and developers making big promises we end up with things like 'AvP', 'AvP-R' and 'A:CM'.
You also get Alien:Isolation - the best entry to the franchise in over 30 years. The AvP films get a pass in this regard because they can't ever be anything but fan films. It's a series with the sole purpose of pitting two monsters one against the other and watching them fight. That's all they were ever made for.
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I'd rather see movies made by reputable movie makers rather than see it handed over to fanbois with so called 'vision' that embraces nothing but re-hashing the same old content, ad nauseum.
What Scott is doing isn't perfect, but it's fresh, challenging and subversive.
Neither Scott, Cameron nor Fincher were reputable movie makers when making their Alien films. Cameron and Fincher were "fanbois with so called 'vision", and Scott went in it for the money. Each of them understood what the alien is, and never tried to treat it like a flaw by undermining it. They simply tried to tell their own respective stories, that took place during an encounter with the alien. Similarly to how good film makers understand that a good zombie film isn't about changing the zombies, but rather about the story that is being told during a zombie epidemic.
I'm not sure why you'd refer to what Scott's doing now as "fresh, challenging and subversive" Covenant was such a painfully obvious rehash of Alien, they even rehashed the opening title and score, just for those who still couldn't take the hint. There's nothing challenging about it either. The film consists out of tons of dialogues about creation, but the creator/creation dynamic is never explored in the events that occur in film. If by 'challenging' you were referring to the effort of sitting through pretentious drivel that leads to nothing but literature trivia, then sure, what Scott is doing can be considered as challenging. The one single thing Covenant has to contribute - the sole purpose for its existence - can be summed up in four words: 'David made the Alien'. And that contribution undermines the entire franchise.