Subj : Re: Prometheus
To   : esc
From : hollowone
Date : Wed Jul 03 2024 01:20 am

 es> Anyway I saw Prometheus understanding it to be a prequel/origin story of
 es> sorts, but I must be missing some pieces because it didn't really seem
 es> to explain much? I didn't see where exactly the xenomorphs came from and
 es> I don't know what those human ancestor things were all about, insofar as
 es> wtf did they bring to the story?

I liked the movie as a stand alone.. as then you wonder what's really going on.

But in the context of the whole Alien Saga... I was never able to couple them up together... it's better decoupled.

Alien was never designed to be some grander Sci-Fi saga. It was just a proper Sci-Fi thriller and action movie I loved with individual preference toward style but up to Alien 3 maximum. First had this unknown encounter in space theme... perfectly captured in the style of social unrest that was in our world defining 70s.. it's very much hearable in many dialogues how much the staff of Nostromo was trying to parallelize its current real world problems into space drama as the only addition to general plot.

Alien 2 was a fucking Rambo II in space with a scope that Neither Rambo... Nor whole Delta Force could cover on Earth... and everybody loved it, including grand finale.

Alien 3 was all about psychological aspects of interstellar doom and raising awareness that there may be creatures way more superior than what we may ever think about ourselves...

It could end there.. Alien 4 was basically Alien 2 with modernized VFX and because modern VFX was novel then. Jurrasic Park actually redefined the bar... that Alien 4 was not that far away in time from JP's release.. not so many movies yet offered it as standard... that has chanced in 99 with Matrix.. no other movie after Matrix could skip VFX dominating the views... But back when Alien 4 was released it was relatively novel.. outside that it offered nothing new... just an Alien-Human Hybrid that was more cripple than creepy.

And then mesh-ups with Predator as one big nonsense.. and then Prometheus trying to bring back some deeper meaning to this nonsense...

Nay... as much as I like Prometheus alone as some Giger, Beksinsky mix in arts that are trying to tell you abstract Sci-Fi story... it's not the same universe with corporate cyberpunk utopia in space as the original movies were trying to tell.

Original Alien(s) problematics were much closer to Avatar... just more horrifying.

-h1

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