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[TheKaeptain]

I just had a sudden fear strike me: what if it turns out the origin of the Alien is...human.

Is such thing a possible?

 

[Fallout-NL]

So Fassbender's character is

Spoiler

an android, right?

Hmm, yeah that's suddenly very obvious.

 

[Carbonox]

Shepard.

 

[MikeTyson]

prometheus and bob people.

remember that show?

 

[TheKaeptain]

Just going by those costumes it looks like everyone but Elba is a business person or scientist. And if that's the case their clothing makes sense. They should be more high-end and clinical than the space truckers of the original film.

Love what I'm seeing, definitely in the spirit of Alien. Good to see Giger designs realized on a large scale again.

At least I am not the only person in this thread that thinks like this^

 

[MikeTyson]

I rather have a prometheus and bob movie.....

Hell yeah but with a Will Ferrell twist.

 

[JB1981]

So Fassbender's character is

Spoiler

an android, right?

It sure looks that way. Promo shots are terribad but of course Ridley's film will not look like that.

 

[Daft_Cat]

Is such thing a possible?

Yes it is.

*smug smile*

 

[Escape Goat]

Makes me happy to hear Ridley Scott is having a good time with Sci-Fi again. Gives me hope for the future.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

I don't get the pic with the giant face. Did the aliens or humans create it?

 

[Littleberu]

Charlize Theron as Zero Suit Samus makes me hnnnggggggg

 

[Ragnarok]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not digging the cast. They look way too perfect and model-y. I kind of liked how the cast of alien and aliens all looked like real people. Not disgusting to look at, but not just a collection of beautiful people either. Made things seem more realistic and gritty. Just going off of these shots, i'd say that this movie is going to be an abortion. Things could potentially change though so here's hoping.

 

[reilo]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not digging the cast. They look way too perfect and model-y. I kind of liked how the cast of alien and aliens all looked like real people. Not disgusting to look at, but not just a collection of beautiful people either. Made things seem more realistic and gritty. Just going off of these shots, i'd say that this movie is going to be an abortion. Things could potentially change though so here's hoping.

I don't even

 

[dragonelite]

Is such thing a possible?

ancientAstronauts.jpeg

 

[Ragnarok]

I don't even

you dont even what

 

[RoboPlato]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not digging the cast. They look way too perfect and model-y. I kind of liked how the cast of alien and aliens all looked like real people. Not disgusting to look at, but not just a collection of beautiful people either. Made things seem more realistic and gritty. Just going off of these shots, i'd say that this movie is going to be an abortion. Things could potentially change though so here's hoping.

Don't like look of the actors = abortion

Got it

 

[effzee]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm not digging the cast. They look way too perfect and model-y. I kind of liked how the cast of alien and aliens all looked like real people. Not disgusting to look at, but not just a collection of beautiful people either. Made things seem more realistic and gritty. Just going off of these shots, i'd say that this movie is going to be an abortion. Things could potentially change though so here's hoping.

There it is folks. Based on the cast, which besides looking good can actually act really well, and these first shots of the movie its going to be an abortion.

 

[Ragnarok]

Well to be fair my opinion is not entirely based on the cast and promotional shots (although as said, they're terrible). Ridley Scott hasn't made a good movie in over 10 years. And the Alien franchise hasn't been worthwhile in 25! But yeah, let's keep the circle jerk going.

 

[tino]

Sign, the guy should have directed Forever War. He is too old to pull out one more good movie out of him after this.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Well to be fair my opinion is not entirely based on the cast and promotional shots (although as said, they're terrible). Ridley Scott hasn't made a good movie in over 10 years. And the Alien franchise hasn't been worthwhile in 25! But yeah, let's keep the circle jerk going.

Kingdom Of Heaven says hello.

 

[Ragnarok]

Kingdom Of Heaven says hello.

Kingdom of Heaven was garbage.

 

[amar212]

Kingdom of Heaven was garbage.

Orlando Bloom was the greatest miss-cast of all times.

But when you do imagine any other actor on his role, Kingdom of Heaven is an masterpiece.

 

[subversus]

Guys, is it R at least?

 

[Stet]

Guys, is it R at least?

The Director's Cut will be.

 

[tino]

Kingdom of Heaven was garbage.

My second favorite Ripley Scott.

 

[subversus]

The Director's Cut will be.

Ok, I'm out.

 

[TheKaeptain]

Guys, is it R at least?

The directors cut will be. Hopefully they change their minds and just release the directors cut. Let's be real the people that want to see this are fucking adults already.

 

[SpacedCadette]

The correct answer is we don't know yet, except that they are exploring both possibilities.

 

[Zeliard]

Kingdom of Heaven was garbage.

You have awful taste.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Kingdom of Heaven was garbage.

HOLD ME BACK!!!

 

[Man]

Can't wait to see that trailer.

People's heads seem clearly photoshopped onto the bodies there (probably cause they are using bubbleheads etc in the actual film).

Like someone else said, the space mission in this film is one of a kind for mankind and super expensive etc (

Spoiler

apparently there's a big scene in the beginning of the film where it's declared to a huge gathering of people that whatever will be explored

), no wonder the crew has fine quality gear compared to the space truckers of Alien.

 

[Ragnarok]

oh no the Kingdom of Heaven defense force has assembled. Such a vocal minority.

 

[VistraNorrez]

These are all clearly photos from the set not stills from the movie, and I still think they look great. Don't know how anyone can say that shot showing off the Ampule Room is terrible. It's mostly a Giger design and it's got that wonderful grim that the original film had.

 

[Dan]

Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut was fairly good, but a movie can only be so good with a terrible lead actor.

I just had a sudden fear strike me: what if it turns out the origin of the Alien is...human.

Even bigger fear is that they're going to try and explain the origins of the xenomorph at all, and all signs point to them doing that. Stupid filmmakers just don't understand why scary things are scary.

 

[Zeliard]

oh no the King of Heaven defense force has assembled. Such a vocal minority.

Actually, you're probably in the minority when it comes to appraising the film's Director's Cut.

That is if you've even seen it, of course.

 

[Ragnarok]

Directors cut did nothing but make the unwatchable watchable. Still not anything resembling a "masterpiece".

 

[Genesis Knight]

I didn't know there was any controversy over the Kingdom of Heaven DC. It's a splendid movie.

 

[PhoenixDark]

oh no the King of Heaven defense force has assembled. Such a vocal minority.

Huh? The DC is easily one of the best films of that debate

 

[jump_button]

you know what I dont want to see in this movie the Alien every 5 mins

 

[Count Dookkake]

Will turn out that aliens came first; humans were designed as mobile incubators for them.

 

[Maddness]

I liked the plot I had read about a couple months back, but I think it turned out to be fake? I dunno, with the way things are turning out in these shots, it's looking like it might actually be "it's fake.....SYKE" every day. Which is a good thing.

I'm sooooooo looking forward to this.

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Shooting with as much light as possible makes absolute sense. Anybody that has even done an amateur ounce of film taking of any kind will know that staging a scene in darkness is absolute madness even with the best equipment.

That's why I am not worried about these set photos at all. Hell, have we not gone over this with TDK? They shot entire scenes during the day and then made it look like it was night during post-production. There's a reason for that.

It's just like you can downsample an image, but enlarging it will degrade the quality of it. What happens if there's a scene that just doesn't turn out the way the filmmaker wanted it because they shot it in too dark of an area, and a ton of detail is just completely lost? Good luck brightening that scene and making it look right without re-shooting it completely in better lit conditions.

"Day for night" is a fairly common thing in the film biz. I've done a wee bit of amateur filmmaking, and shooting outdoors at night or anywhere with little natural light usually results in utter rubbish with the equipment we have.

 

[Sub_Level]

I just had a sudden fear strike me: what if it turns out the origin of the Alien is...human.

As long as the movie is good and they don't shit on the lore introduced in Cameron's sequel (Queen) it doesn't matter to me what they do with the story. To me the alien creature is just a template, a frame, not the painting itself. Geiger's world. You can make a million different stories about it.

 

[Expendable.]

Fake-as-shit-but-kind-of-cool-poster:

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Fake-as-shit-but-kind-of-cool-poster:

Every time this thread is bumped I rush into it expecting a trailer link.

When is the trailer due anyway?

 

[Blader]

Every time this thread is bumped I rush into it expecting a trailer link.

When is the trailer due anyway?

Next month, supposedly.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Next month, supposedly.

Hobbit and Prometheus trailers next month? There's gotta be a Batman.

 

[Nappuccino]

As long as the movie is good and they don't shit on the lore introduced in Cameron's sequel (Queen) it doesn't matter to me what they do with the story. To me the alien creature is just a template, a frame, not the painting itself. Geiger's world. You can make a million different stories about it.

I don't really care if it shits on Cameron's lore... he made the alien much less frightening in my opinion. (this is due to his extended version where they continually charge at a turret instead of using their intellect to work around it.) The theatrical version of his lore changes is ok, i guess.

 

[Expendable.]

Next month we'll get new trailers for The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, Prometheus, John Carter pretty much guaranteed. Also The Dictator, since Cohen said so.

And then I wouldn't be surprised if Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters was with Ghost Protocol/Tintin and Wrath of the Titans and maybe Dark Shadows were with Sherlock.

MIB3 is probably somewhere in there too and wouldn't mind Jack the Giant Killer or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter looks.

 

[Jarmel]

Yea those scans like atrocious. Heads look photoshopped on.

Either way hyped for Scott to be returning to sci-fi. This movie should be good practice for Scott to get the feeling back so he can create a masterpiece in the BR sequel.