#Prometheus sequel

[captaingimpy]

Alien: Covenant – A Well-Crafted, Yet Predictable Journey - Alien Retrospective Review Part 2

Alien: Covenant, directed by Ridley Scott, is a film that attempts to balance the philosophical ambitions of Prometheus with the horror and suspense that defined the original Alien series. It’s a movie that executes its story with technical precision, delivering stunning visuals and eerie atmosphere, but it ultimately struggles to surprise or fully engage, especially for viewers familiar with its…

[r3stless-mindz]

[fennekineko]

Is it just me or does Prometheus look like fine yandere material? Or at least overprotective type. I can just see him finding a living mortal somewhere around the battlefield and deciding to keep them close for their own safety for a while.

...and made someone (Heracles lol) run to Charon and buy food for them.

[theropoda]

Prequel Copium Masterpost

(X, X, X, X)

[biblempreg]

checked my drafts saw a post i made yesterday about watching alien the covenant. good thing it's there bc i immediately forgot i did that.

[slow-clap-processors]

Artemis

Chell said nothing.

And that was her choice.

But if she had the last word, she’d say:

“Yes.”

“You didn’t ask,

If I wanted to go;

Not that I’m going to correct you.

Because if I had a voice it would be screaming,

I deserve better.

"It’s no wonder the portals are orange and blue,

One behind my eyes and one inside you;

Gateways leading to different parts of the same room

We both know how this puzzle is solved;

Just look away,

A click of the gun and it’s finished.

The sound of the radio echoing after my footsteps.

"I am a predator and these tests are my prey-

That’s what you said. I don’t know what to say.

A huntress? oh please,

You make me sputter in outrage and weak in the knees-

I always knew the cake was a lie.

Don’t worry.

No one was fooled by my act either.

"I am the moon, and I am not.

They banished me there and I have turned it against them.

I love it like a crow loves it’s nest,

High in a maple tree,

Fabricated from plastics and pure poison.

What I mean is, I’m used to bad dreams,

Limited breath, and things which are not as they seem.

"I don't sleep, which is fine

I don't prefer my nights to be restful;

Maybe I should.

But maybe instead,

You could turn off the emancipation grill,

And we could grow seedlings in the companion cubes

So they'll always have someone to sing to them.

"Don’t scrape the floors

Of the vines and trees,

Don’t wash away your scars for me.

I will banish the crows, but don’t ask me

To sing for you.

Don’t look at me like they do,

Like i’m some slice of delicious

Vanilla,

Crazy,

Cake-

I promise, I don’t taste nice.

"Notice how you never use my name?

Look me in the eyes,

Coward, Titan, I know

Your cameras will never let you forget.

A girl could never dream of a prettier headstone."

GLaDOS’s sister poem: Prometheus

[peaopol]

little did he know this cat would go on to kill everyone and everything he would ever know

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)

16/03/2024

Alien is a 1979 film directed by Ridley Scott.

The progenitor of a successful series of films, as well as books, comics and video games, it is considered one of director Ridley Scott's best films as well as among the masterpieces in the history of science fiction cinema. The events revolve around an alien species which in the story is identified with the generic definition xenomorphic, made up ferocious predators endowed with intelligence but incapable of feeling emotions, who reproduce like parasitoids by nesting in the bodies of other living beings causing their death.

Alien had three sequels, all with Sigourney Weaver as the protagonist: Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. Two crossover films connected with another film series, Predator, were also produced, called respectively, Alien vs. Predator and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. Prometheus, a prequel more relevant to the Alien universe, was released in 2012, followed in 2017 by Alien: Covenant, while a direct sequel, Alien: Romulus, will be released in theaters on August 16, 2024.

In 2002 it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

[torridturncoat]

it was so hard having to die on the alien covenant >>> aliens hill but its also incredibly hard to be right & to know it in this world

[clownkiwi]

man, i gotta return to those ridley scott prequels!!! i may think he's an old hackfraud that managed to be a prolific sci-fi director because he directed alien so well, but i just gotta know what he was cooking in the prequels....

[deanpinterester]

my very honest opinion is that ian holm did not need to be in that new alien movie

[rapidkirby3000]

Many thanks again! 😎

"Big things have small beginnings" is still my personal favorite quote, albeit moreso on its own, rather than that dreadful movie itself that is 'Prometheus'. 🙄

I know I'm not reinventing the wheel with this super lukewarm take, but sometimes the simplest explanation is the best one. I could talk about how "Boyhood" felt like a backstabbing from a friend I used to trust, but who the hell remembers "Boyhood" anyway?

"Prometheus" would've been just bad as a movie on its own, but connecting it to the Alien franchise made it insulting.

And the Star Wars sequels started well enough but having not enough cooks and too many cooks simultaneously ended up ruining the whole thing for everybody.

It's a shame, because in terms of disappointments we have a lot to choose from. If only it was the other way around.

[femboy-c-cups]

Aliens? ripley's bad day

Covenant? prometheus sequel

Romulus? ripley's bad day

despite objectively being ripley's worst day, Alien 3 is actually a prometheus sequel

[valtsv]

i've definitely said this before but it really does drive me crazy that the alien prequel-sequel films (prometheus and covenant) set up such a compelling narrative foils-who-are-also-mirrors gothic horror in space dynamic in david and elizabeth and then just abandoned it and fast forwarded to the conclusion. i don't even think they were necessarily wrong to end it the way they did (with david killing elizabeth because he knew she would never share his god complex, destroying her species' "gods", and further violating her body without her consent by doing fucked up unethical engineering experiments with her corpse out of a perverse desire to create new life with her in the only way he can), but it feels so cheap and such a disservice to the characters that they didn't show us everything that led to that point. the development of the messed up codependent psychosexual Thing they had as the only survivors of the prometheus expedition, and its inevitable paranoid breakdown when it became clear that they were ideologically opposed in fundamentally immutable ways, culminating in one of them inevitably destroying the other. it's not like they would even have had to give up all the religious imagery/parental trauma themes that they tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to use in covenant. if anything it would've been even better *finishes my drink and leaves the bar without paying, walking out into the night before you can stop me*

[scotianostra]

On February 16th 1954 the writer Iain Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife

Banks was a son of a professional ice skater and an Admiralty officer. He spent his early years in North Queensferry and later moved to Gourock because of his father’s work requirement. He received his early education from Gourock and Greenock High Schools and at the young age of eleven, he decided to pursue a career in writing. He penned his first novel, titled The Hungarian Lift-Jet, in his adolescence. He was then enrolled at the University of Stirling where he studied English, philosophy and psychology. During his freshman year, he wrote his second novel, TTR.

Subsequent to attaining his bachelor degree, Banks worked a succession of jobs that allowed him some free time to write. The assortment of employments supported him financially throughout his twenties. He even managed to travel through Europe, North America and Scandinavia during which he was employed as an analyzer for IBM, a technician and a costing clerk in a London law firm. At the age of thirty he finally had his big break as he published his debut novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984, henceforth he embraced full-time writing. It is considered to be one of the most inspiring teenage novels. The instant success of the book restored his confidence as a writer and that’s when he took up science fiction writing.

In 1987, he published his first sci-fi novel, Consider Phlebas which is a space opera. The title is inspired by one of the lines in T.S Eliot’s classic poem, The Waste Land. The novel is set in a fictional interstellar anarchist-socialist utopian society, named the Culture. The focus of the book is the ongoing war between Culture and Idiran Empire which the author manifests through the microcosm conflicts. The protagonist, Bora Horza Gobuchul, unlike other stereotypical heroes is portrayed as a morally ambiguous individual, who appeals to the readers. Additionally, the grand scenery and use of variety of literary devices add up to the extremely well reception of the book. Its sequel, The Player of Games, came out the very next year which paved way for other seven volumes in The Culture series.

Besides the Culture series, Banks wrote several stand-alone novels. Some of them were adapted for television, radio and theatre. BBC television adapted his novel, The Crow Road (1992), and BBC Radio 4 broadcasted Espedair Street. The literary influences on his works include Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Arthur C. Clarke, and M. John Harrison. He was featured in a television documentary, The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks South Bank Show, which discussed his literary writings. In 2003, he published a non-fiction book, Raw Spirit, which is a travelogue of Scotland. Banks last novel, titled The Quarry, appeared posthumously. He also penned a collection of poetry but could not publish it in his lifetime. It is expected to be released in 2015. He was awarded multitude of titles and accolades in honour of his contribution to literature. Some of these accolades include British Science Fiction Association Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Locus Poll Award, Prometheus Award and Hugo Award.

Iain Banks was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the gallbladder and died at the age of 59 in the summer of 2013.