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Ok in a surprising move the title of the sequel to Ridley Scott's Prometheus will be called Alien: Paradise Lost. While not much is known about the plot yet this simple change does raise a few question. And how will this effect Neill Blomkamp’s Alien movie?

Seems like there was a small leak, and Fox just decided to release the trailer anyway! I don't know about everyone else... But at the time, the first Independence Day movie was minblowing in that there had not been a humans vs aliens movie like it at the time. i went to see it in the theaters 6 times. I highly doubt this one will have the same impact as the first, as there have been a lot of big spectacle movies since then, but I'll still go see it, if only because of the first movie.

I always liked Alien 3, despite its sad ending (actually, that still worked for me, and the score is smegging beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1bd9L5Tw7k&list=PLCF78A6D4F54F01DA ), and knowing from what troubled origins it came makes me appreciate it even more. I do remember that Sigourney Weaver said it felt like God was giving her the role of Queen Isabella in 1492: Conquest of Paradise to make up for the sheer hell of shooting Alien 3. Now, Alien Resurrection on the other hand... There is one thing that does not, and never will belong in an Alien movie, and that is humor.

I did really like alien 3. it had teh same sense of isolation and hopelessness as the original. I always hated aliens. cameron turned it into an action movie. that's not alien for me. I think the alien is scary no matter what. seeing the origins in prometheus didn't make it less scary, it makes it more scary because it kinda makes me feel vulnerable in my own being. not due to external monsters, but the potential within . those things that can get inside our bodies to the cellular level. it's no longer just a fear of a predator, but also a fear of disease. also, I know almost exactly what a nuclear warhead is, I know what it does, how it is made, and more or less who makes it. and I know why. is it scary? yes, it's one of the most scary things I can think of. i think not knowing about something gives a sense of constant danger, something we can grow accustomed to. constant dread will eventually subside into a hyper awareness and eventually a comfort with hte idea of danger. it's the existence of safety that makes the danger more stark. when we know the origin of something, when we know that there are safe places in the universe, we know the danger ever more acutely.

Couldn't agree with Jess more regarding the look of Apocalypse, they screwed him up beyond belief. Bryan Singer has the worst taste in design especially when there are people out there doing fantastic interpretations of Apocalypse.

How long do you envision such a story to be? And what is the conflict - who are the characters?

Ridley Scott has confirmed that the Prometheus sequel is definitely more of an Alien film: “Well, really it’s “Alien.†They’re going to go to the planet where the engineers came from, and come across the evolving creature that they had made. Why did they make it? Why would they make such a terrifying beast? It felt bio-mechanoid, it felt like a weapon. And so the movie will explain that, and reintroduce the alien back into it.†Ridley Scott has talked about how he considered the Alien (the creature) to be done and no longer scary. Creative Assembly proved him wrong with Alien Isolation which was praised for returning Alien to its former horror glory. But the inclusion of the traditional Alien in Alien: Covenant has been in question for sometime because of Scott’s past comments. No longer though, as Scott confirms the Alien will feature in Alien: Covenant in all stages of its life cycle: “There was always this discussion: Is Alien, the character, the beast, played out or not? We’ll have them all: egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy. I think maybe we can go another round or two.â€

We have already seen his story. And since there wasn't anyone for him to interact with until Barcas woke him up - what would that be like, anyway? It's not as if there actually was anything for him to do.

All the people they tested to become Zoalords and who got rejected, and presumably killed. The endless experiments to perfect the Zoaforming procedure (Consider that Guyot stated that even as recent as, what, 1987? Most of the subjects die from the process). The experimentation, which amounts to torture. The rebellions against Chronos - there must have been some, over the past four centuries - and which all failed until the Guyvers appeared. Familial bonds ripped apart, societies skewed to serve Chronos' ends, countries put through wars to change the geopolitical landscape to their desires. I think it would be horrifically depressing.

I think that is going a bit TOO far, considering the general quality of the last 2 films. That being said, Apocalypse is still supposed to be a human/mutant, and having him extremely large wouldn't make sense in the context of the movie. Like How Colossus is also suppose to be huge... it just doesn't make sense in the real world. Things do NOT have to be comic accurate. Or Hugh Jackman would never have been Wolverine. Even Marvel has made slight changes to characters because of practicality/realism. It's up to the studios to try and make things work. A 8-10 foot tall character walking around just isn't practical, or very real. Fanboy/girl-ism is that last thing this movie genre needs. ----- Anyway. I thought the trailer looks pretty decent. Showed off some cool bits and characters, while teasing the plot. I know I will be going to see it in the theaters. And I thought the tease at the end was slightly uncalled for in the first trailer... But still kind of nice.

QFT. It'd be an interesting back story for sure to see how they built Chronos.

Its been a while since I posted but here are my thoughts. As mentioned earlier, there are other manga authors that are still continuing their works like Kentaro Miura, Yoshihiro Togashi, George Morikawa, and others who are famously known for their slow pacing or long hiatus periods. Guyver is no different, it has small periods where all the chapters that we have were done in a small period of time with long idle unproductive time in between. Since Guyver is Takaya's only major work, I believe he's just dragging the series out for reasons that he only knows (could be that that series is his life support for his career/reputation, or other more personal reasons). IMO I think that Takaya will finish the story in 20 years (give or take), and it would be very unlikely that anything would happen to him within that time that would prohibit him from doing so, and as others had previously stated, the series has developed so much, that Takaya will have good control over how he'll end it. With a lot of thought put into its development, Guyver will most likely end well considering the fact that Takaya has had so much time in working on it, plus its his magnum opus, Guyver is literally his life! (This is assuming however Guyver remains supported throughout that time and doesn't get dropped) I honestly love guyver and I've rechecked all of the previous chapters and I feel that the ending will involve some sort of Armageddon, in the since that the creators will arrive and in my opinion either them or their "enemy" will be the main villians and chronos/or guyver one's team will probably be humanities only resistance against them. From seeing how events have turned out, and previous hints, I feel that the story might head that direction (I could be wrong though). It would be interesting though if there was a thread started about important things that have to be answered before the series ends.