Vivian on 23/1/2011 at 15:44
Has he explicitly said its going to be a horror? I could imagine HR Giger designed Taurans could work pretty well, and by the strands of 'Alien DNA' he could be referring to dirty blue-collar sci-fi as much as space beasts. Alien was a landmark in more ways than just the creature.
nicked on 23/1/2011 at 20:32
Scott's always said he'd be interested in going back and exploring the origins of the "Space Jockey" from Alien, so my guess is that they went with that idea and ran with it until they were so far removed from Giger xenomorphs that they figured they might as well make it a new franchise and not have to shoe-horn them in somehow. So I'd expect some kind of voyage-of-discovery thing with an extinct alien race. Kinda like The Dig maybe. Hmm, that could be good...
SubJeff on 23/1/2011 at 21:25
Whatever it is coming from the ashes of an Alien prequel but retaining some Alien "DNA" (and I don't mean literally) it's going to be a car crash.
A car crash like Event Horizon or Sunshine; i.e. one that loads of sci-fi bottom feeders love because it's got elements they like in it (which are actually pretty frikking spot-on) despite the whole lot adding up to a cheese load of old fondue pot bollocks and over-ripe cliches.
Yeah, I'm pessimistic.
nicked on 24/1/2011 at 08:54
I like Event Horizon and Sunshine. :erg:
Chimpy Chompy on 24/1/2011 at 09:50
Sunshine is sad and wonderful and moving. And shouldn't be in a sentence with Event Horizon (which I enjoyed but acknowledge the silliness of), although the weaker final-act slasher stuff does unfortunately invite comparisons.
Kuuso on 24/1/2011 at 12:04
I'm quite convinced that the latter part of Sunshine is meant as a psychedelic, in-mind-his kind of stuff. They flirt with the psychological aspects the whole movie and it finally goes all in at the end.
Chimpy Chompy on 24/1/2011 at 13:00
Yeah I think a lot of the stranger bits we see are a mix of subjective experience and maybe (heavily handwaved) time-and-space-going-weird relativistic stuff.
SubJeff on 24/1/2011 at 19:28
Or just a load of old bollocks they put in because they didn't know how to finish off the awesome start.
I love the start of both of those films up to and well past the first half(ves). But then they become rubbish. After watching Event Horizon I was so disappointed and mad I threw a pier into a jungle.
Sulphur on 24/1/2011 at 20:23
I do believe I've never heard that particular turn of phrase before. Is to 'throw a pier into a jungle' some more opaque than usual form of Glaswegian?
Sunshine: Great initial and middle acts, awful third act. I'm almost inclined to call it Fahrenheitis in honour of Scots. Still liked it anyway. Fahrenheit too.
Scots Taffer on 25/1/2011 at 01:15
I'm actually planning to revisit Sunshine as I remember being so brutally disappointed by the third act and I want to see if there's any way to glean something worthwhile from it.
