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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 3, 2012 11:40:00 GMT -5
Over at Blastr:Here's why Damon Lindelof believes Prometheus isn't an Alien prequel There's been a lot of back-and-forth from the Prometheus camp about whether Ridley Scott's big summer sci-fi flick is a forerunner to the first facehugger/chestburster chapter. Writer Damon Lindelof wants to clear it all by by defining, for us and for himself, precisely what he thinks a prequel is.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 3, 2012 12:18:27 GMT -5
LMAO. Could this article and Damon Lindelof's expressed opinion about what does or doesn't constitute a 'prequel' be more contradictory? Look at how the piece ends for cryin' out loud. So "Prometheus", which has certain clear [visual] ties to "Alien" is *not* a prequel to the original "Alien" film, but "Blade Runner", which has NO evidentiary ties to it IS a sequel in contrast supposedly.
Give me a break.
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 3, 2012 13:15:47 GMT -5
I was never a fan of the Alien franchise. Never interested me. Aliens was supposed to be the best of the bunch, and it was at best, ok to me.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 3, 2012 13:27:20 GMT -5
I was never a fan of the Alien franchise. Never interested me. Aliens was supposed to be the best of the bunch, and it was at best, ok to me.
Based on how you feel about the Alien movies I have to believe you're not a fan of "The Thing" either. I liked both the original John Carpenter movie and last year's prequel, which were referenced by Lindelof in that article incidentally, and both of those movies were brutalized by the critics. Last year's film in particular just served to illustrate that critics don't always know what they're talking about.
I just watched "The Thing" prequel this past weekend interestingly enough, right before I watched TMP on Blu-ray. |
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Post by CRAMBAM on Apr 3, 2012 13:41:01 GMT -5
You're not the only one who has said that to me. For some reason, this franchise just never clicked with me.
Never saw The Thing either.
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Post by StarFuryG7 on Apr 3, 2012 16:11:08 GMT -5
Never saw The Thing either.
You can even watch the prequel that was in theaters last year first and then go back to John Carpenter's 1982 original film that starred Kurt Russell. |
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Post by TrekBeatTK on Apr 4, 2012 6:19:27 GMT -5
The Thing was one of those movies I was saving, so I hadn't seen it until this year either.
I did watch the prequel first. It's okay, but the original is better. It's weird because on one hand it's a prequel, telling you all the stuff that led to those crazy left-over bits in Carpenter's movie, but on the other hand it follows the same structure and isn't as good. It exists okay on its own, but some of the explanations for things like the axe in the wall feel like they were there just because they had to be.
If you have never seen The Thing, checking out the new one isn't bad. But if you have, it doesn't really bring much new to the table.
Carpenter's film is a classic in that 80's body horror kind of vane.
-TK
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