Quote from: Slutty Badger on May 24, 2024, 10:31:14 AMQuote from: YutaniDitch on May 23, 2024, 10:47:49 AMThe unknown cast is already a dead giveaway of the lack of confidence the studios have on the movie
Sigourney Weaver was pretty much an unknown in 1979, and we all know how that turned out.
Well, this is not 1979, this is not the first Alien movie and these are not the same people at the helm of the studio! Those were visionaries, these are just corporate hacks! Also, Sigourney was one of a kind QUALITY actress at a one of a kind era! These kids are just cheap labor to save the studios a buck, simple as that! Ian Holm, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto can never be comparable in experience and quality with these talentless kids fresh of auditions! I highly doubt any of these kids will stand out at all acting-wise, much less have the protagonist become the next Sigourney... So, I applaud your naïve enthusiasm, but we all know how these movies get made these days...!
Quote from: GrimmVision on May 24, 2024, 11:39:13 AMQuote from: YutaniDitch on May 23, 2024, 10:47:49 AMMore than just the gore and winks at the franchise, I will be paying close attention to it's connection to the original two movies, especially how they came across the black goo, how they managed to replicate the Xenos with it, and how the events in this movie did not transpire to Weyland-Yutani being aware of the existence of the Xenos between ALIEN and ALIENS! We all know that even though WY was aware of the Xeno in ALIEN, the colonists were only sent to the Derelict by Burke AFTER Ripley told them what had happened at the Nostromo!
For Hadley's Hope to be set up on LV-426 in the first place, WY absolutely knew about the Alien. There's no way it was by chance they chose that specific tiny moon just 20 years after the events of Alien to build a colony.
I think they knew about the Derelict in the first movie, too. Special Order 937 was carried out under the guise of "All transmissions picked up must be investigated or you're penalized with total forfeiture of shares". WY knew the route the Nostromo would take to get back to Earth and they installed Ash on board literally prior to the Nostromo's return from Thedus to see that their plans were carried out.
WY has always lied. And they've always known. Whether it's because of David or something we haven't seen yet? I don't know.
If WY knew, hence why they put terraforming crews there (sounds convoluted to me, to wait 20+ years in order to disguise their REAL intentions?!), why did they take 20+ years AND Burke (not management, just a greedy corporate lackey) to FINALLY have a family sent to the Derelict to explore it?! This sounds very illogical to me! If WY knew all along where the Nostromo were, why did WY take 57 years since the Nostromo was destroyed, and the latter 20+ years of those to settle people there, to FINALLY send someone to check the Derelict out!? My guess is that somehow during those 57 years, the information got lost within WY, probably due to management changes and/or firings, and that information got lost and only after Ripley's inquiry, Burke, NOT WY MANAGEMENT, decided to check it out! Sounds strange, doesn't it?
