Yeah it's been jumpy bug action since ALIENS. I really love ALIEN 3 but I think that movie really set the "crawly" Alien aspect in stone. From then on they all have sort of behaved like the dog Alien. I wouldn't mind putting the "Nosferatu" of the Big Chap back into the creature. But who knows. Maybe we'll see a bit of both.
Hopefully, it'd be the best if it had both.
We don't have a pool
This is why you plan ahead.
you want to be stuck in the 80s but that only works for remakes or reboots. The fact that only one movie has him lurking and gliding and every other movie has them acting like bugs should dictate that by now the way we know the creature moves is like bugs.
All the other movies basically have made it official that this thing movies that way. The original was first and it should have been the standard but Aliens took that away.
I don't want to be stuck in the 80's, but people have shown that they don't have the imagination it takes to actually innovate instead of just making things ordinary, but you're fine with ordinary so you don't see the possibilities.
I like Aliens, but it demystified and destroyed what the Alien should be, might as well have any other alien bug in there.
I don't necessarily hate what Aliens did though, it was a classic sequel turn, because Aliens still has many other ominous elements and it was innovative at the time, even Alien 3 merged both aspects of the creature pretty good, but just giving out everything away and treat the alien like a pack dog straight away is the easiest, most pedestrian way to treat it.
I only ask for a little imagination and creativity, I expect/hope to get it from the overall story, not so much from the creature anymore.
But hey, maybe it's just the trailer made to hook people and we have a more insidious creature on screen.
Aliens was so good and loved by everybody that the bug movement got here to stay. hate it as much as you want but thats what everyone is used to (even videogames did this) Sure it could have been cool to see the alien move slowly and hide and lurk and stalk people but that could only work if you had a remake.
Once again you show an incredibly small imagination.
And you mention videogames and appeal to popularity like videogames or popularity are validation, the best Alien game so far has the Alien lurking around.
the creator of the first one is making this thing jump like a kangaroo. he had a chance to make it slow and hiding, he chose to do the jumping one. if the creator of the thing itself is doing it.... then it just becomes official.
And you say it like this is a good thing, or "official" in the age of reboots and remakes means anything.
this is why keeping it in the dark would be dumb by now. the minute everyone has a figure of the alien in their desk it lost the element of mystery. the alien can still be scary but I dont think it can be dark and mysterious anymore.
besides audiences want bigger thrills. audiences want bigger scares now. Alien is still a perfect movie and works but if they repeated alien I dont think people would be as excited to see it in theaters.
I know, combine the Alien with a Predator, call it Predalien, it's gonna be a hit with the masses!
The Alien formula can still work as long as there is a new creature or it's a different movie with a new monster, because it's just horror and it can always work, but when people know what the creature looks like, it becomes pointless to spend the first act developing a bunch of soon to be dead characters that no one gives a crap about anyways. It's predictable. Cameron was smart enough to make the sequel more action oriented, thus offering something different, but again....once that was done and done very well, then what do you do next? Monster movies that rely on mystery and suspense rarely work more than once, because that element is gone by the end of the film.
Even Prince gets the fact that Cameron deserves credit because what he did was innovation, Crows, you accuse me of reboots and remakes for wanting the Alien move a little more like ONE movie, yet you're fine with the Alien moving like he does in 6?
If the movie is good, and the Alien is more than what this trailer shows, which I sure hope because it's a trailer, I'll have no complaints on the movement, I promise you that.
