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[Wambangalang]

Cannot fucking wait for this! Alien is my favourite picture of all time and when i found out that ridley scott was coming back for this prequel/non-prequel i creamed myself.

I always wanted to know who the race of space-jockey's that appeared in the original were, where they came from and why they sent a warning signal out into space NOT to come down to the planet ,which of course the crew of the Nostromo interpreted as an SOS so naturally went to investigate and you all know what happened (and if you don't then you really need to watch Alien).

What I loved about that movie was how Scott allowed the film to breathe, from the very opening title sequence, to the introduction of the Nostromo vessel itself as a character and then of course the 'waking' scene of the crew, it drew you into a silently poetic dream which brilliantly turns into a nightmare. Compare that with the fourth film (which i must admit i like as a stand alone, goofy french art-house guilty pleasure, but it really doesnt belong in the franchise) with all the rapid cuts and bullshit cheap dialogue and no sense of wonder. The second film may have been more frantic and mayhem but Cameron did it properly by making nearly the first half of that movie as slow and suspensful as possible so that when the action did hit it was a surprise. And any big studio sci-fi / horror production these days are so fucking hyperactive and loud and devoid of suspense from the opening shot to the last. Blah.

I really hope this film can re-capture some of that magic and i know im setting myself up for failure by being so excited but hey, no one liked Alien when it first came out so who knows.

Here's one of the Trailer's for those who might not know what I'm talking about:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfhttZYoEw&feature=relmfu

[Pokey]

Huge spaceships were ... just huge spaceships, I mean they were cool and all, but no different from huge spaceships in other films! In fact one huge space ship is exactly like a huge spaceship in another film from 1979

sort of spoilerish, but not really paragraph coming up:

One thing that did bother me though was the fact the crew didn't seem phased by anything ... there was never any "sit down and get this shit sorted in our heads and make a plan" moment. Catastrophic event after catastrophic event happened and you'd think they'd say "shall we sit down and work this shit out? whats the plan? what the fuck just happened?" instead it's just "ok guys lets charge straight back into the tomb of horrors again!"

Thought the first half of the movie was really tense, there were a couple of tense as fuck scenes which really gripped me and were classic Scott ... but the second half I think lost it's way a bit.

This post has been edited by Pokey: Jun 7 2012, 5:59 am