Prometheus (alien prequel) trailer!

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Love how it evokes the trailers for the original!

Wow. I'm impressed.

All star cast too: Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Charlize Theron.

Yeah, I think it's safe to say I'll be checking this out.

Now this I am looking forward to.

Damn, that looks fantastic!

I guess I feel about the same with this as I did about the prequel to The Thing, which is to say somewhat mixed. At least with this one it has a different name, so it has that going for it.

Scott's said that they never bothered to talk to him about any of the other Alien movies, the just went ahead and made them. From the looks of the trailer, I'd say Scott wants to show 'em what they missed out on.

Well....I was cynical...but this is impressive...I'll retain skepticism though...

There's been quite a lot of buzz about this thing. I'm still not clear how it fits into the Alien mythology. Yes, that ship looks familiar, but the planet is completely different. And, if this is a prequel, the technology looks waaaay more advanced. Still, it looks exciting...

Well, the Nostromo crew were just truckers, plus, who knows how long their trip was...

Anything from the sequels has to either be disregarded, or taken with a grain of salt now...

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Awesome, the Space Jockey. I'm guessing that we do get to see LV-426 and that at the end something happens the really fucks up the planet. My only gripe from the trailer is that equipment looks to clean, I prefer the used grungy look from the first two movies.

No problem. I'd already written off everything after Aliens.

I've never even seen any of the movies that came after Aliens.

A theory I read on IMDB, pure speculation of course, is that it is not the same planet but a different one and what we are watching is just one of many "Alien Ships".

My speculation is that it could be a way for them to get around Aliens. This movie happened on some other planet before the incident on LV-426 but no one knows about it as there are no survivors, Alien took place on LV-426 with another Space Jockey ship, Aliens happened on LV-426 resulting in destruction of the colony and the Alien Hive and the Space Jockey ship, and then a new ship lands on the planet from the prequel.

It ignores the Aliens 3 and 4. It also accounts for why those eggs looked funny in the prequel preview.

It also explains why the Space Jockey ship looked so damn old and rusted in Alien. It's a older Space Jockey ship on LV-426 compared to the one in Prometheus.

It's time to let go of the whole technology thing. This is 2011. Using what they used in Alien and Aliens for the look of the technology would make the movie look out of date. You're just going to have to use your imagination and pretend that both are just as good technology wise as this prequel.

Why? Why does everything have to be grungy?

Nostromo is a space tug hauling minerals back to Earth. It should evoke the grunge feel.

Sulaco is a military ship and it looked pretty clean inside of it.

The colony had the shit kicked out of it so it's pretty dirty but the sick bay was clean.

I don't need grunge on everything.

Oh and I'm not impressed by the sequel.

Kurt Cobain disagrees!

It gives it the real world, every day use look. You don't find brand new vehicles used in military operations. They have the look of being used for operations. It gave them movies a feeling that the equipment and buildings were used and lived in. But then, if it follows the premise that Weyland-Yutani is involved, the new looking equipment makes sense.

About the alien ship, I think it's the same one, having crashed a couple centuries earlier and without survivors, the crew of the Nostromo or W-Y wouldn't know it was there, but knew the signal from the ship having previously encountered the same signal.

You can have a every day look without grunge and dirt everywhere.

Also we don't know Weyland-Yutani is involved.

The scene with the Space Jockey chair is different from Alien and Prometheus.

Alien

http://www.doblu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/alien2848.jpg

Prometheus

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/705/manchine.jpg

Could it be the same ship? Sure. We don't know squat yet about the movie but I'm betting on it being two different ships.

And where is he now?

Hmm...no one's in the chair yet....

I'm betting on someone getting turned into the space jockey.

Look at the chairs and walls in both pictures.

Yes we do, look at the logo on the transport vehicle on the left.

They do look a bit different, but there have been several movies where the same ship or place looks different between the two. I think it is the same ship, just given a retro update for the movie.

Sounds like they are going into bioengineering and definitely into the creation of the biomechanical. My guess is they won't explicitly state that Aliens came from this process, but it will be crystal clear that's the intent. Certainly they have stated that they are investigating the origins of humanity, and that seems to imply genetic engineering.

We'll see, but yeah, definitely jazzed about this one. A shame there aren't any good scifi movies this Christmas, but at least we've got some hope on the horizon.

It better not be the origin story for the Aliens. Not unless it somehow ends with a queen being thrown several thousand years back into the past.

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I'm not even looking at Alien when thinking of this movie, it's apparently a movie in the same universe that uses some of the same places/ideas, but isn't really a direct prequel as such, any more than a WWI movie is a prequel to one set in WWII.

Ridley Scott is on record as saying that the Xenomorph isn't even in it, and that it's only loosely connected to the story of the Alien series at all.

Ridley Scott is also known for lying about his movies all the way up to the day it starts in theaters.

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How so?