The Predalien has made me sad
I’m fascinated by how Hollywood works. For instance, there are probably 25 or 30 million sci-fi geeks in the world who would set fire to their nuts for the chance to make an Alien or Predator film. Some of those people have even been to film school, and some of them have maybe even made feature films before. But they’re fans, which means they understand the mythos and spirit that made the original films worth watching.
And, yet, when it came time to make an actual Alien vs. Predator movie they just turned it over to some guy who had made video game movies, I guess thinking that AvP was also a video game at one time.
Anyway, they’re making Alien vs Predator 2 now and they got rid of that first director guy and are boasting that these new people really understand the series. From a USA Today article:
So the brothers plan to bring the new film back to its roots — namely, Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien.
“That movie was dark. That movie used a lot of rain,” Colin says.
Okay, so that particular guy has never seen any movie in the Alien series. Or, maybe the reporter just cruelly edited his quote to make him look like a dumbass.
We’ll let the visuals from the film tell the story. Like this screenshot, of the hybrid alien/predator creature featured in the above-linked article:
Nevermind.
October 30th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Design-wise I love the new hybrid Alien/ Predator, but for, like, a t-shirt or something, not the bloody movie series.
October 31st, 2007 at 9:32 pm
There was plenty of rain in Aliens. Or a bit near the beginning anyways. Though he might have been refering to the KY jelly they dumped into the Alien’s mouth to make it look like it was drooling
November 1st, 2007 at 9:37 am
Saying “Alien had lots of rain” is like saying “Schindler’s List had lots of nudity”.
July 14th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Maybe he was referring to the Harry Dean Stanton ‘death’ scene? It sort of rained…
Still o_0 way to quantify the atmosphere and direction of ANY movie.