Ridley Scott: Alien Prequels Dark & Nasty
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"You can sense the competitor in Scott, desperate to put his stamp back on the film series that launched him. "Jim's raised the bar and I've got to jump to it," he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. "He's not going to get away with it."Set 30 years before the 1979 original, so with no room for Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, the prequels will explore the origins of the deadly aliens. "The film will be really tough, really nasty," he notes. "It's the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?"
The D-day like invasion scene which completely re-used shots we've already seen in Saving Private Ryan.
The tribe of lost boys which were part of some odd sub-plot that looked like it MIGHT go somewhere but never got fleshed out so it ended up just looking like an even odder plot device to get Robin Hood out to the woods, as if he and his other long term soldiers couldn't do that on their own.
Merian showing up to the final confrontation WITH said lost boys in full plait armor and chain mail ala Joan of Arc even though she really had NO place there fighting the French.
The mass of English cheering on Robin Hood at the end of the battle as if he was the essential key to victory even though he had only assumed any sort of leadership over what little command he took to Sherwood that very morning.
King John in the fray of the battle.. Friar Tuck(?!) in the fray of the battle.
The glossed over script that had John identifying Robon Hood even though we never got to see at what point and just HOW Hood was found out.
Yeah... it had a lot of potential and started out nice enough, but the end was a mishmash of convoluted story telling and filmaking IMO.
Originally posted by jinzin
The tribe of lost boys which were part of some odd sub-plot that looked like it MIGHT go somewhere but never got fleshed out
Well if you did'nt know your Robin Hood thats obvisouly hinting at his Merrymen
The glossed over script that had John identifying Robon Hood even though we never got to see at what point and just HOW Hood was found out.
Well King John got jealous because the french surrended to Robin quickly not him so he declares him an outlaw.
Re: Ridley Scott: Alien Prequels Dark & Nasty
Originally posted by Kazenji
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Is revealing an origin of the Aliens a good idea? I mean, yeah the books and comics certainly explored the possiiblity they could have been engineered but wouldn't some of the mystery be lost? The very thing that made them cool was the thought that they could be a freak of nature, not made in a laboratory somewhere.