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A Den Beauvais illustrated comic series explored that. Incredible colour airbrushed artwork befitting the subject.
That sounds really cool. I looked up some of his ALIEN artwork and it's pretty spectacular. I'll have to check this out!
For me, I never had an issue with the prospect of exploring the origin of the Space Jockeys. Heck, they probably bumped into them by accident just as we did to them.
I suppose I never minded the possibility of learning more about the space jockeys. They were also incorporated into the 90s books, but even then they were left pretty shadowy figures and went largely unexplained. So they certainly could be explored further. But as you say, turning them into humans wearing elephant suits is about as satisfying a payoff as an M. Night Shyamalan ending.
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I had assumed that the either the Space Jockey had stumbled upon the Xeno “nest”on that rock, much as Jeyl said, or that a Jockey had gotten infected with a queen somewhere else and crash-landed on that planetoid. Wasn’t that ship too small to have a cargo hold vast enough for all those eggs? After all, the ship was sending a warning signal instead of a distress call, wasn’t it?
Thor, I get your point about Scott making a great Ridley Scott/Alien film, but IMO, he’s had two more shots at that so far and neither has been close to great. I said “Please make the film the FANS want” and that really means “I” want; not all that David BS.
It’s a fascinating premise that the Xenos were created as a weapon, but really – if the intention was for them to be used against humans on Earth, wouldn’t they be just about the LEAST efficient method of extermination? And what about "collateral damage"? We know that they can use other animal life forms for gestation and propagation, so wouldn’t they have also wiped out a vast proportion of all living creatures on Earth as well? So the "Engineers" are worse than the humans they intend to deliver the Earth from...
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Jun 9, 2021 - 5:34 AM
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There was a time when directors cared about making great inventive films. Now they just want to run their own franchises.
Good point, Solium!
I think Lucas and Scott are examples of directors that had to make films under less than the desirable conditions than they'd have preferrred - particularly budget-wise. Then, after their films were big hits with the financial rewards, there was the mindset of doing it again, if you will, only this time, the way they originally wanted but were unable financially the first time around. Thus the "obsession" with getting their vision on screen as it was meant to be.
Trouble is, a director can get lost in the weeds in putting out what they want versus what the fans want. Sometimes those two concepts are the same, but not always. Is one right and the other wrong? I dunno, but if you make the film you want and it bombs, then maybe you didn't make the film your fans wanted and they rejected it.
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Mifune KICKS ASS!
That is all.
"I'm not dying yet! There's a bunch of guys I have to kill first."
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"I'm not dying yet! There's a bunch of guys I have to kill first."
The best line in the best film from both Mifune and Kurosawa.
Possibly the best line in all of cinema.
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