Alien: Earth

[dahliaclone]

I've been very careful to not get my hopes up for FX's huge series production of Alien: Earth. The marketing campaign has been fantastic. The trailers look great. But that doesn't mean the show is going to stick the landing. Call me cautiously optimistic.

Now I'm full on pumped. The embargo has lifted for reviews and they are basically all raves. Excited for this.

 

[Fishhead]

I've been very careful to not get my hopes up for FX's huge series production of Alien: Earth. The marketing campaign has been fantastic. The trailers look great. But that doesn't mean the show is going to stick the landing. Call me cautiously optimistic.

Now I'm full on pumped. The embargo has lifted for reviews and they are basically all raves. Excited for this.

Thanks. Did not hear about it. DVR set

 

[dahliaclone]

Thanks. Did not hear about it. DVR set

I think it's the biggest budget/production that FX has ever done. They threw a TON of money into it.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I've been very careful to not get my hopes up for FX's huge series production of Alien: Earth. The marketing campaign has been fantastic. The trailers look great. But that doesn't mean the show is going to stick the landing. Call me cautiously optimistic.

Now I'm full on pumped. The embargo has lifted for reviews and they are basically all raves. Excited for this.

The commercials definitely caught our eye. On our list for sure.

 

[HFCS]

I've been very careful to not get my hopes up for FX's huge series production of Alien: Earth. The marketing campaign has been fantastic. The trailers look great. But that doesn't mean the show is going to stick the landing. Call me cautiously optimistic.

Now I'm full on pumped. The embargo has lifted for reviews and they are basically all raves. Excited for this.

People can and will disagree but I think Alien (and predator) has been the best big movie franchise lately with the least duds.

Prometheus 9 (misjudged masterpiece imho)
Covenant 6.5
Prey 8
Romulus 8

I’m counting days for this.

 

[HFCS]

I think it's the biggest budget/production that FX has ever done. They threw a TON of money into it.

If bigger budget than Shogun, wow. Shogun was almost distracting how it looked and sounded so much better than nearly any feature film.

 

[CyValley2]

 

[dahliaclone]

If bigger budget than Shogun, wow. Shogun was almost distracting how it looked and sounded so much better than nearly any feature film.

I think I saw it’s cost is $250M which is what Shogun was and it’s expected to surpass that number.

 

[houjix]

People can and will disagree but I think Alien (and predator) has been the best big movie franchise lately with the least duds.

Prometheus 9 (misjudged masterpiece imho)
Covenant 6.5
Prey 8
Romulus 8

I’m counting days for this.

Never been a big Alien fan as most of the series is predicated on jump scares, but I'm a huge Predator fan. Even the bad entries have always entertained(AVP2 excluded). Prey was great and Killer of Killers was really good too. Excited about Badlands. It looks like the series are overlapping again.

 

[HFCS]

Never been a big Alien fan as most of the series is predicated on jump scares, but I'm a huge Predator fan. Even the bad entries have always entertained(AVP2 excluded). Prey was great and Killer of Killers was really good too. Excited about Badlands. It looks like the series are overlapping again.

Alien would be a top 10 movie for me even if you edited out the scariest parts. My favorite parts are just the take on industrial space business, the set, performances, the music, the ominous future corporate villain. The beloved sequel, while fun and I get why many love it, is not aging nearly as well as the original. I put Alien more in the same basket as 2001 but it happens to have horror elements.

There are near limitless plot lines for Predator "in time" like they did with Prey and Killer of Killers. Hope they don't overdo it but so many. Ancient egypt, ancient rome, feudal japan, colonial America, WW2, Vietnam, in the future where humans are lazy slugs like in Wall-E but predators hunt us against our AI robo-protectors. It could go forever.

 

[NorthCyd]

Never been a big Alien fan as most of the series is predicated on jump scares, but I'm a huge Predator fan. Even the bad entries have always entertained(AVP2 excluded). Prey was great and Killer of Killers was really good too. Excited about Badlands. It looks like the series are overlapping again.

I've seen some bad takes, but this one is a doozy. Just going to ignore the excellent set design, creature design, atmosphere, suspense, action, and body horror elements of the movies (well the first 2 at least). The first 2 are both top notch examples of sci-fi and horror, and Aliens is also an excellent action movie.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Not much of an Alien franchise fan but there's a drought of anything remotely watchable in the subscriptions I have so will give it a click.

 

[HFCS]

I've seen some bad takes, but this one is a doozy. Just going to ignore the excellent set design, creature design, atmosphere, suspense, action, and body horror elements of the movies (well the first 2 at least). The first 2 are both top notch examples of sci-fi and horror, and Aliens is also an excellent action movie.

I can't think of many movies that get better and better upon rewatching and better and better over time than original Alien. I really put it with 2001 and in some ways maybe better. They both speak to the massive cultural issues with technology in 2025 in a current way.

 

[HFCS]

Not much of an Alien franchise fan but there's a drought of anything remotely watchable in the subscriptions I have so will give it a click.

The latest movie "Romulus" wasn't anything ground breaking but it bottled up some of the classic formula in a slick way and came up with a few new special effects/action ideas. If the series does the same it'll be good.

You definitely didn't need much if any back story to enjoy Romulus and I'm sure this will be the same. Easter eggs for hardcore fans but everyone can watch.

 

[dahliaclone]

Don’t forget this drops tonight!

 

[wenkeej]

Alien and Aliens are both spectacular movies in completely different ways. Everything else Alien related is marginal at best.

And the more they try to shoehorn into an established storyline, especially prequel stories, the more they muddle and retcon the story in the name of money.

And this retcon take I apply to most franchises.

 

[HFCS]

Alien and Aliens are both spectacular movies in completely different ways. Everything else Alien related is marginal at best.

And the more they try to shoehorn into an established storyline, especially prequel stories, the more they muddle and retcon the story in the name of money.

And this retcon take I apply to most franchises.

To me Prometheus fits beyond my wildest dreams of what we might ever get, I think it's a misjudged masterpiece from an all time great director...but Covenant didn't go where I wanted the next chapter to go so it's a bitter thing. Romulus is a very well made movie and fun if you just go in wanting fun and don't care about recycling of ideas, there is one fun unique action scene. Alien3, Resurrection and the AVP movies...I ignore them pretty easily.

The tricky thing about Alien and maybe Empire Strikes back is they set this bar where it's like these are near perfect works of art but also fun pop cutlure sci fi/action/horror. The more times I watch Alien I have to put it next to 2001 and the Godfather more than sequel Aliens or Terminator or a good Star Wars movie, it's just flawless and the messages are more timely today than in 1979.

A lot of people (not saying you) understandably complain about all the sequels/prequels in big franchises not doing anything original and relying on recycling old ideas and nostalgia...but then also they rage against something impeccably well made like Prometheus not being exactly like the original so what do they want? To me if somebody really hates Romulus and really hates Prometheus they just do not want any sequels/prequels to anything because if both of those are poor quality (one being unique, the other a formula, both looking/sounding amazing) there's nothing that would please.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

Alien would be a top 10 movie for me even if you edited out the scariest parts. My favorite parts are just the take on industrial space business, the set, performances, the music, the ominous future corporate villain. The beloved sequel, while fun and I get why many love it, is not aging nearly as well as the original. I put Alien more in the same basket as 2001 but it happens to have horror elements.

There are near limitless plot lines for Predator "in time" like they did with Prey and Killer of Killers. Hope they don't overdo it but so many. Ancient egypt, ancient rome, feudal japan, colonial America, WW2, Vietnam, in the future where humans are lazy slugs like in Wall-E but predators hunt us against our AI robo-protectors. It could go forever.

The original Alien was a horror movie set in space. Aliens was an action movie set in space. Almost same context but different genres. I enjoy them both.

 

[HFCS]

The original Alien was a horror movie set in space. Aliens was an action movie set in space. Almost same context but different genres. I enjoy them both.

I love them both but the more I rewatch Alien just seems more and more classic/timeless and Aliens seems like a James Cameron 80s action movie...totally awesome but a James Cameron 80s movie.

They both hit even harder today with the AI/robotics news, as does 2001. Other than the "xenomorph" we're to a time where aspects of these movies aren't nearly as sci-fi as they used to be. Every week there's another story like Xwitter's AI referring to itself as "mecha Hitler" I immediately think of Mother and Ash and Hal...not so much Bishop.

 

[CloneFanInKC]

I liked how Prometheus ties into the original films.