I always thought that the Space Jockey/Pilot was like an expendable. His race created the Ultimate weapon, taking all the characteristics/traits of many creatures and putting them into one to unleash onto their enemies but it ended up killing him before he got there. I am excited about the movie though.
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First off, where did you get your information on the Space Jockey? I've read nothing to indicate that his species wanted to live in peace with humans - in fact, I remember the movie mentioning that the ship and the distress beacon itself were several thousand years old.
Humans at the time would have no space travel or advanced technology, so it's improbable that these aliens would even know they existed.
More likely, the Space Jockey race themselves encountered those Xenomorphs either on that colony planet, or else picked one up on some other world and at some point they suffered a similar event as happened aboard the Nostromo later on in the film.
Also, AVP:R sucked dick. Seriously. It was the Brothers Strauss's attempt at taking the genre into a more conventional horror movie approach, which was both a retarded idea to begin with, and of course didn't end up working at all.
Aliens Versus Predator was birthed out of an excellent PC game series that told a story in the Aliens universe around the time that Ellen Ripley and the team of Marines went back to that colony to retrieve specimens.
The sequel game of that series took place around that same time frame.
The movies with the coinciding titles should ALSO have followed this, accordingly.
At the time I went to see the first AVP movie, I initially frowned greatly, seeing that it didn't even take place at the time frame it was supposed to...
Then as the film progressed I saw that, yeah, they want to tell a backstory about the foundation of Weyland Yutani Corp.
Okay, that's fine. You explained where the Bishop model came from (creator of the company) you explained that the Predator race used the aliens in their hunts, that they actually had them on Earth in the past, etc...
Okay.
Now, then. Why the **** does the sequel take place in a little ass town that has nothing to do with anything, and accordingly the next hour and a half of the film have absolutely nothing to do with Weyland Yutani, or anything preceding in the later games?
Just complete bullshit, and teens running away from a scary monster.
And then a Rastafarian-esqe Pred-alien hybrid fighting off some aliens.
Oh yeah, and the movie was grotesque in that it was obviously trying to cross taboo boundaries in films just to get your attention - the way a four year old tries to get attention by blowing his nose into his hands, and then eating his own snot.
Things like having a kid being attacked and then exploded out from by a face-hugger, and a pregnant woman getting infested with Alien larvae, and then later showing those same aliens grotesquely eating them and then bursting out of the pregnant mom.
And a nursery full of crying babies getting killed...
All that shit was done for attention, not for the sake of storyline, but for mere attention, and shock-value, the way you, as a director, would want to shock a bunch of moronic junior-high students on a movie-outing.
Absolute retardenation.
So AVP:R was nothing but a pile of steaming dog shit.
I actually bought it for use as a doorstop.
Seriously, it's sitting right in front of me as I'm typing this, right alongside my front door.
The new AVP movie can't be about nothing but Aliens, that would be retarded because it would just be a bunch of Xenomorphs walking around snarling at things.
It can't be with them having subtitles under them while they snarl, because any moron with half a brain and knows anything about the movies at all, knows it was already established early on that they aren't sentient.
They're just animals. That's why they're used in hunts.
So when they snarl, they aren't speaking in a language to each other - they're just snarling.
They have a hive mentality, like ants, nothing more.
So, the new AVP movie needs to take place at the time it SHOULD have initially, which is, accordingly, during the era where Aliens took place.
In fact, it needs to begin where the first game began, though, it should build upon that original story, though not in a way that is retarded.
Thoughts?
Originally posted by Master_Starbuck
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Aliens Versus Predator was birthed out of an excellent PC game series that told a story in the Aliens universe around the time that Ellen Ripley and the team of Marines went back to that colony to retrieve specimens.
The sequel game of that series took place around that same time frame.
Actually it was birthed out a Comic book series (which is still going to this day) then followed the games.
The anticipation for his next project is building to fever pitch: it will be a two-part prequel to Alien, shot in 3D
Interesting.
Full artical on Ridley Scott
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ridley-scott-im-doing-pretty-good-if-you-think-about-it-2068888.html