Cigar-chomping lunatic Ridley Scott has announced that his new Prometheus sequel ("Alien: Covenant ") is just the first in a new TRILOGY of prequels.
At this stage one would hope that he's not deliberately trying to destroy the original.
Though this is an actual quote from his announcement:
"There'll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the 1979 film."
Oh, Ridley.
This is just too easy.
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First Giger dies, and now that.
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 9:02,
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Ridley's getting on a bit too. 77 years old. I'd be surprised if he's around long enough to make these
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RompaStompa Stick it up your jumper, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 9:25,
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They could shoot it back to back and motion capture the black goo to save on post production time.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 10:03,
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Having to suffer through a bitterly disappointing prequel trilogy led by the director of the original who has subsequently forgotten what made that original so great...
To quote an untarnished trilogy:
"There's something very familiar about all this."
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^
The worst part is that I still forced myself to enjoy Prometheus somewhat,
by pretending it's a different universe altogether :(
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omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 11:30,
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Prometheus was terrible.
Long and crap and up its own arse.
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JamTallons, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 11:02,
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I watched it twice just to be sure that Jam was correct by describing it that way
It's true. Every word of it. :(
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 13:30,
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Somebody needs to dart him before production on the Blade Runner sequel starts
God
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The franchise was pretty much dead on it's arse when the third film was released
the fourth was mystifying in how awful it was. And then there was Prometheus which was simply jaw dropping in how dreadful cinema could be. So i've pretty much lost interest in this to be honest
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Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 11:48,
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I'm only going to watch Ridley Scott films
if they're adaptations, like The Martian.
Since his Director's Cut of Bladerunner was so well received (and genuinely improved on the original cinema release), he thinks every idea he has is golden.
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Invisible Wizard - 9th Level Pissant, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 13:52,
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I hated the Martian
Very well made and shot, but just awful in terms of holes - more holey than a swiss cheese shot with a shotgun, and then worked over with a hole punch e.g. (spoiler alert) mending an air lock with polythene sheet and duct tape? FFS.
Saw Interstellar last night, more bollocks - just a chick flick with time travel.
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Varmint, Sat 28 Nov 2015, 20:05,
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You do know that Andy Weir consulted with NASA to make The Martian as accurate as possible?
The plastic/duct tape thing would be perfectly serviceable for a repair like that which doesn't have to be perfect, has to just be good enough to keep him alive. The book is well worth a read by the way.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 29 Nov 2015, 14:18,
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