I've been a fan of ALIEN since the first movie and have enjoyed them all (some more than others), but it's going to be great to see the franchise back in the hands of the man who started it all. Is it derivative of the films that have before it? Yes, most definitely, but, from what I've seen in the trailer, not in a bad way. Ridley Scott put his own brand stamp on ALIEN and James Cameron ran with that stamp, upped the ante and left his own indelible impression on the franchise with ALIENS. Fincher, who is every bit as visionary as Scott or Cameron should have left an impression of his own with ALIEN 3, but I have a feeling that both he and Jean-Pierre Jeanette, who directed ALIEN: RESURRECTION, were likely more hamstrung by the suits at Fox who didn't really care about another interpretation of the franchise so much as making a buck on them.
It looks, to me, like Scott is sort of merging the dark and spooky aspects of his film with some of the more bombastic attitudes found in ALIENS to create yet another bookmark in the series, an idea I don't mind at all. He's willing to take risks and he's evidently got enough faith in both his directorial skills and the state of visual effects that he's willing to bring the xenomorph out into the light of day, something I'm not sure has been done before.
And, as a person who's watched PROMETHEUS on several occasions, I have no issues with that particular segment of the Alien franchise and I honestly can't see why there are those who abhor it as much as they do. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, as they always say....
It looks, to me, like Scott is sort of merging the dark and spooky aspects of his film with some of the more bombastic attitudes found in ALIENS to create yet another bookmark in the series, an idea I don't mind at all. He's willing to take risks and he's evidently got enough faith in both his directorial skills and the state of visual effects that he's willing to bring the xenomorph out into the light of day, something I'm not sure has been done before.
And, as a person who's watched PROMETHEUS on several occasions, I have no issues with that particular segment of the Alien franchise and I honestly can't see why there are those who abhor it as much as they do. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, as they always say....
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