ALIEN / PROMETHEUS / COVENANT / ROMULUS - SPOILERS INBOUND!!

I'm talking about the trailer.

Sweet. It's always good to sit in a chair and watch some aliens and spaceships doing cool shit on the big screen. Then the sticky squeaky rubbery spilled softdrink sound my shoes make as I exit the theater makes me cringe and spoils the mood.

  On 12/23/2011 at 7:42 PM, Gocab said:

I'm talking about the trailer.

I don't see a lot of orange and teal in the trailer, tbqh, and I'm usually really fucking annoyed by orange and teal. The overall color palate looks closer to

than

  On 12/23/2011 at 2:09 PM, azatoth said:

We've never seen what ultra-slick and modern looks like in the Alien universe. We've only seen space truckers, weathered space marines and a grimy prison planet (Alien Resurrection does not exist).

which makes it even more unbelievable that it's a prequel. The more we go into the past the more sheen and clean things get? It doesn't work for me at all. It's not as bad but similar to how the Phantom Menace and the star wars prequels felt more futuristic than the original trilogy. Prequels are a bad idea. I can't believe ridley scott did one.

  On 12/23/2011 at 4:41 AM, vasio said:

Impressed by the old school sci-fi visuals, specially with the vehicles design which are very James Cameron Aliens (lol as if you know who James cameron is is). .

fixt

Professional Niggling has just been announced as a new sports category for the 2012 summer Olympics, I'm putting together a team and you're all invited.

The gold medal is within reach. I can sense it! Or pre-sense using my Alien prequel dar.

Lollol

the bladerunner nostalgia hardon is strong here

  On 12/23/2011 at 8:52 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 12/23/2011 at 2:09 PM, azatoth said:

We've never seen what ultra-slick and modern looks like in the Alien universe. We've only seen space truckers, weathered space marines and a grimy prison planet (Alien Resurrection does not exist).

 

which makes it even more unbelievable that it's a prequel. The more we go into the past the more sheen and clean things get? It doesn't work for me at all. It's not as bad but similar to how the Phantom Menace and the star wars prequels felt more futuristic than the original trilogy. Prequels are a bad idea. I can't believe ridley scott did one.

 

But the difference is that this crew is a well-funded expedition and as I said, we have not yet seen what the state of the art tech looks like in the Alien universe. In fact, I think it would look even more stupid if they had 70s style computers that fill a room complete with Christmas lights blinking and monochrome CRTs dumping a bunch of numbers.

And as for the Star Wars prequels, the reason I heard for it looking more slick than the original trilogy is that it was in a time of high prosperity and it's been on a decline ever since the Empire got established who monopolized all the cool shit for its nefarious needs.

I think people are getting too bent out of shape from a minute long trailer and production stills. I for one am not bothered by the difference in tech aesthetics, just because it makes sense from the reasons I stated earlier.

I think the look of Prometheus fits in quite well with Alien and Aliens... it's not quite as grimey but it's at least dark and has a 70's sci fi design aesthetic, as mentioned before, quite Syd Mead-ish.

It's a little bit more modern, but comparing it to Phantom Menace is going a bit over the top. Plus, the trailer looks completely different to the production stills, I trust the trailer more.

  On 12/23/2011 at 8:52 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 12/23/2011 at 2:09 PM, azatoth said:

We've never seen what ultra-slick and modern looks like in the Alien universe. We've only seen space truckers, weathered space marines and a grimy prison planet (Alien Resurrection does not exist).

 

which makes it even more unbelievable that it's a prequel. The more we go into the past the more sheen and clean things get? It doesn't work for me at all. It's not as bad but similar to how the Phantom Menace and the star wars prequels felt more futuristic than the original trilogy. Prequels are a bad idea. I can't believe ridley scott did one.

 

  On 12/23/2011 at 4:41 AM, vasio said:

Impressed by the old school sci-fi visuals, specially with the vehicles design which are very James Cameron Aliens (lol as if you know who James cameron is is). .

fixt

Mead did work on Aliens, I think he was the main designer.

Tech wise they seem to be holding back, heck even Idris Elba is sporting an old school black guy mustache, that must count for something.

FUCK YOUR SIGNATURE VASIO!

  On 12/23/2011 at 11:16 PM, Springymajig said:

 

It's a little bit more modern, but comparing it to Phantom Menace is going a bit over the top. Plus, the trailer looks completely different to the production stills, I trust the trailer more.

you're right, it was over the top. I think i'm just trying to get at the heart of how a prequel movie is inherently problematic. I can't think of a single time it worked seamlessly except for Temple of Doom (and that was kind of a half assed prequel anyways, takes place right before Raiders)

  On 12/23/2011 at 10:42 PM, Awepittance said:

the White Squall nostalgia hardon is strong here

fixt

There's a bunch of wankers on Ars Technica saying they'll boycott the movie if the space folk in this don't use CLIs

lol

lol

Bump for new pix and bonus ass from trailer.

To draw conclusions about this picture on how the movie will look is probably premature. It looks like a production photo and it doesn't have the digital color grading that is inevitable with movies, so it will probably look much different. And watching The Hobbit production diaries they mentioned that they need to consider that some colors don't work so well in the digital medium and therefor use much more powerful colors on their sets.

As for the aestheritcs (Mass Effect-y, which is not a bad thing) I have no trouble with it since this is about well-funded expedition looking for humanities start or something similarly epic. Still excited about this movie.

Bonus ass (Charlize Theron's?)

I cannot wait for this movie. The downside is that I create such hyperbole in my own mind that unless thing are nothing short of incredible I feel let down.

  On 1/17/2012 at 5:12 PM, azatoth said:

Bump for new pix and bonus ass from trailer.

 

To draw conclusions about this picture on how the movie will look is probably premature.

It is not unreasonable to see a promotional picture for a film and expect to see it in the film. In all it's teal and orange glory.

We shall see. But knowing you, you are probably going to be prissy and whinge about some shit and otherwise be a negative cunt.

  On 1/17/2012 at 5:59 PM, azatoth said:

We shall see. But knowing you, you are probably going to be prissy and whinge about some shit and otherwise be a negative cunt.

What's all this 'going to be' talk? As in, the future tense?

True dat. I apologize.

I gotta admit, when I saw the trailer, I was a bit excited.

But Hollywood has built up my expectations before, so I think I'm going to stick with my reservations on this one.

I would rather go into the film doubting it and coming out wrong, than going into it all pumped up and being severely disappointed.

Still excited by Prometheus, but that new spacesuit looks much more hi-tech than the suit from Alien.

Again, in Alien they were space truckers, not a well-funded exploration team with all the latest toys.