Ridley Scott's Prometheus - NEW HD Trailers p23 & p24

Banjo wrote:Unexciting stills? Russell Crowe looking dreadfully miscast? They're m main reasons to be so stupidly judgmental.

And Gladiator is good, but I can live without ever needing to see it again.

So your three good Scott films doesn't include the original Alien?

Zellery wrote:
glowy69 wrote:Thanks for nothing ass munch.

There's only one ass munch here as far as I can see.

glowy69 wrote:I know, I didnt want to say that I didnt...really enjoy alien..

How's that mirror working out for you then?

.....It wasnt the most enjoyable film Ive ever seen... I did like aliens and alien3 DC better tbh.

I can understand someone enjoying the more action orientated Aliens over the oringal but Alien 3? :fp:

Zellery wrote:
Banjo wrote:Unexciting stills? Russell Crowe looking dreadfully miscast? They're m main reasons to be so stupidly judgmental.

And Gladiator is good, but I can live without ever needing to see it again.

So your three good Scott films doesn't include the original Alien?

Read over again dude, I said in the last twenty years (at least, I'm pretty sure I did).

Zellery wrote:I can understand someone enjoying the more action orientated Aliens over the oringal but Alien 3?

The directors cut was great. I really liked alien 3. And Im sticking with the in my opinion line....at least I wont get tore to shreds... you're the only one that noticed.

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Banjo wrote:Read over again dude, I said in the last twenty years (at least, I'm pretty sure I did).

You actually said.

Banjo wrote:In about twenty years he's made three good films

It's hard to understand what you actually mean. It suggests to me that you meant from his beginning as a director.

Zellery wrote:I can understand someone enjoying the more action orientated Aliens over the oringal but Alien 3?

You beat me to it! WFT?????

Zellery wrote:
Banjo wrote:Read over again dude, I said in the last twenty years (at least, I'm pretty sure I did).

You actually said.

Banjo wrote:In about twenty years he's made three good films

It's hard to understand what you actually mean. It suggests to me that you meant from his beginning as a director.

Fair enough. I meant from Thelma and Louise onwards, he's had some good films before then (not as many as I thought though).

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Banjo wrote:
Zellery wrote:
Banjo wrote:Read over again dude, I said in the last twenty years (at least, I'm pretty sure I did).

You actually said.

Banjo wrote:In about twenty years he's made three good films

It's hard to understand what you actually mean. It suggests to me that you meant from his beginning as a director.

Fair enough. I meant from Thelma and Louise onwards, he's had some good films before then (not as many as I thought though).

But one of those good films was the original Alien which should at least fill us with some sort of hope that he knows what he's doing with this particular license.

Banjo wrote:
Zellery wrote:
Banjo wrote:Read over again dude, I said in the last twenty years (at least, I'm pretty sure I did).

You actually said.

Banjo wrote:In about twenty years he's made three good films

It's hard to understand what you actually mean. It suggests to me that you meant from his beginning as a director.

Fair enough. I meant from Thelma and Louise onwards, he's had some good films before then (not as many as I thought though).

Just been reading your blog - your a very angry man aren't you

Banjo wrote:I really don't know why people are getting so excited, Scott's body of work (pun intended) has been decidedly lacking recently. In about twenty years he's made three good films and apart from American Gangster they weren't that special. Yeah that's right, Gladiator is not that good. Hopefully he can bring back the form he once had but I'm not going to get excited by this news. Robin Hood doesn't look that goood either.

I agree with you about Gladiator - it's a good film and all, but nothing about it strikes me as truly outstanding. Not in the same way Alien absolutely blew me away - visually and dramatically. What people forget - most often when hyping up Cameron's Aliens - is that Scott (himself a graphic designer, from a background in advertising) created an entire visual language for cinematic science fiction with Alien. From the very first establishing shots of the movie, in which the slow-moving camera seems to revel in the glorious set design, we understand that cinematic science fiction is never going to look or feel the same again: gone are the dreadful shiny worlds of 70's SF (partially demolished by Lucas with his first Star Wars movie) - Scott's is a new vision; a lived-in, worn, scuffed, beat-up industrial environment of 'plausible fantasy', where everything looks like it might actually have a real-world purpose - not least Rob Cobb's simply astounding designs for the medical bay aboard the Nostromo - imo, one the of the most impressive set designs ever seen in SF cinema. This is a future where it 'rains' indoors, where the space jocks are average Joes looking for a fat pay check and an easy ride home.

Scott's cinematic vision for SF in both Alien and Blade Runner has been vast: his influence immeasurable, across films and videogames. Cameron merely picked up the visual cues from his predecessor while making Aliens (a film that somehow still lacks the essential atmosphere of Scott's film) and reimagined them in a ballsy action flick - nice, if you like that kind of thing. The two later movies both employed directors known for their heavy visual stylings - personally, I think Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien: Resurrection sports some truly outstanding set design/lighting work which is easily the best - and truest to the franchise - since Scott's original.

So maybe Scott hasn't really produced the goods since those early films of his career. But he's back on a franchise he started, working in a genre he largely defined. I trust him implicitly to deliver. If he can't, nobody can - an entire generation of SF movie makers and videogame designers owe much of their success to his originality and vision.

Well, the series has been ravaged to the point where another attempt can't really do much more harm. I still :wub:

the first two (especially the first).

I loved Gladiator, it's my favourite film.

Alvin Flummux wrote:I loved Gladiator, it's my favourite film.

lol

Cal, that was a lovely read. :wub:

I'm not the biggest fan of Blade Runner, saw the HD Final Cut in the cinema in february of last year and felt it was a bit meh. However, to look at it was utterly majestic, every shot was carefully crafted and to view was glorious. Shame I just didn't get on with the story (not a big Harrison Ford fan either, didn;t help).

The Alien movie on the prison world was my favourite. It was just kickass. I loved the fear and tension that built up for the characters in the movie.

Fantastic news

gaminglegend wrote:Just been reading your blog - your a very angry man aren't you

Yeah, got to disperse it somewhere, better to do it anonymously than start hitting people I know.

gaminglegend wrote:Did I just read someone talking about JC? It's Ridley Scott

This is great great news!! As long as he tries not to use CGI this is brilliant, if the script is good, and its directed like the first, we are on to a huge winner. Im so glad that Im finally going to be able to see it in the cinema, and a true sequel/prequel - not like the crap that is AVP/AVP2/Alien R/Alien 3

I watched the Special Edition of that the other night. That film is awesome, you bastard.

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