James Cameron made the right choice. This is how you make a proper sequel. Not a remake disguised as a sequel, only a new setting with the same scares that simply wouldn't hold up because you've seen it before.
Aliens expands on the lore, continues the story of Ripley but takes it entirely into new territory.
I implore those that dismiss the film as simple action fodder to provide their own idea. How would you make a sequel to alien without conceding by saying, "I-I wouldn't"?
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I-I wouldn't because Aliens is GOAT and can't be beat
wouldve had kill them to put at least some drone?
remember that the derelict didnt got blown uo so its still on the planet, there was no need for ripley to continue the series in 3 and resurrection
Cameron is God himself.
>ruins the xenomorph by making them space bugs
FRICK. OFF.
>first xeno just wanders around and kills when encountered
>crawls into cubby because autism and loud noises scares it
>gets btfo
>dominos prank call, "send more brains"
he turned two of his victims into eggs and was waiting for the facehuggers to hatch and create more xenos until one of them would be a queen facehugger and speed the process
the queen reproductive system doesnt conflict with eggmorphing
>dismisses Aliens
>uses term coined in Aliens
For me, it's Alien.
her ass is hilariously flat tho
what's up with that
Can't have it all.
>no sequel of a ship finding kane's son drifting in space
>no sequel of a team insopectng the derelcit ans finding the ultramorph (a xeno born from the spacejockey)
>no xeno homeworld
>no aliens 90s cartoon
missed oportunities
Holy shit I fricking hate Ridley Scott and his fanboys so fricking much. Prometheus and Covenant are terrible fricking movies that don’t make any sense. Frick David
For a sequel that sticks a lot closer to ALIEN I would focus away from the slasher horror aspect.
Been there, done that. I'd probably go for something like Heart of Darkness where a crew wake from cryosleep to find themselves in a Giger-nightmare planet.
Maybe they're searching for a crew that went missing before. The focus is not on a Xenomorph hunting them down. The giger planet is planet is billions of years old seemingly and tells a horrific story that is gleaned through the crew doing archaeological things.
I would let the horror of what the crew learns be the horror of the movie itself. One nightmarish realization after another. Stuff that spells doom for humanity. Paints a nightmarish view for humanity's future. But is also bleakly beautiful in a twisted way.
Would be somewhat similar to STALKER in how it is the mind-frick landscape that is the greatest challenge.
It's really difficult to get across how engaging a story like this could be. Just let the landscape and the characters exploring it tell the story. Can end in a major mind-frick revelation. Maybe time moves backwards on the planet and though they think it has been days, it's actually been thousands of years. They're going further and further back into the past, eventually leading them to come face to face with the landscape when it was alive and truly nightmarish. The true horror being that the planet was never 'dead' but they were simply unable to perceive that time was reversing because they had trespassed and by doing so they've doomed humanity. Sort of like starting up a long since dormant, self-healing machine.
>For a sequel that sticks a lot closer to ALIEN I would focus away from the slasher horror aspect.
>Been there, done that.
ah yes who cant forgot godfather 2 being a musical and godfather 3 being a war movie
Okay I effort posted frick you
Kek
Right in the nards
>I would let the horror of what the crew learns be the horror of the movie itself. One nightmarish realization after another.
Has this ever been successfully done? horror movie with just concepts of horrible things being discovered without any actual horror scenes happening? I'm not criticizing, just asking for examples if you can think of them
Seven?
Basically Dead Space.
At the Mountains of Madness, if it were faithfully adapted, would be what you're describing. Hardly any action and the horror come with the realization that humans are nothing in the grand scheme of things, and that the surviving elder ones are displaced in time, surviving in a time when their civilization is no more. But knowing hollywood, they'd just make needless action scenes and focus instead on the 2 guys being hunted. With a sequel hook at the end instead of just having the guy go crazy.
I read Del Toro's script and it was fricking awful. Glad it never got made.
I made it a few pages into reading that script before giving up in disgust. Filmmakers who adapt Lovecraft keep radically changing the source material t to try to appeal to the masses, or maybe just because they themselves do not understand the source material on any level more sophisticated than lmao tentacles, but in doing that, they lose everything that makes Lovecraft actually interesting. And it's not like Lovecraft requires some genius tier intellect to understand to begin with, you just have to be slightly more intelligent than average. But despite that, we have essentially zero actually good Lovecraft story adaptations in the medium of film.
this italian short movie is as close as you will get
>turned the xenomorph from a single rampaging killer into an expendable horde for the rest of the franchise
i dont know if this was a good thing in the long run
>rampaging killer
You must have seen a different movie.
>into an expendable horde for the rest of the franchise
>alien 3 had one
>alien resurrecrion had 12
what did anon mean by this?
Alien 3 tried to be closer to the original formula, while still being a sequel to Aliens. Resurrection also had multiple Aliens, and so did the AvP films.
so?
>cameron neeeerfeeeeed the alieeen aaahhhhhh
>how dare some marines, pirates, soldiers and predators be more deadly than a bunch of unarmed tuckers aaaahhh
Not getting Giger involved was a huge mistake, the queen looks goofy.
the queen looks exactly how he wouldve designed her
I doubt he'd do a caricature of his own design. It'd be something much scarier.
no one ever disliked the queen, dont try to make it a thing
he was in alien 3 and they changed the design anyway
Because it came from a fricking dog.
He made more than just that, he made a ton of designs for 3 and they didnt use a single one.
maybe the designs were shit. I don't know, I wasn't there lol
The designs weren't shit, Fox was.
They were shit.
You forgot to write: /s
Frick Cameron. Ruined two 10/10 movies with dumb action sequels.
Brainlet.
Aliens and T2 are all time action classics
that’s like showing someone the best hot dog ever
Cope.