Pretty interesting. A lot of talk, but it doesn't really say anything or give me any confidence that it will be interesting. He says he is going to go "retro" which depending on what that means is kind of confusing.
Does it mean they are going to have CRT green-screen monitors, even though we know that in the future there will be very low power super-flat huge monitors. Are they going to have jet fighter flight helmets, and lots of blinking lights instead of heads up displays?
Lord knows, it's got to be hard to conceive of future tech. In Alien no one balked at the CRTs and other things. Like, in Aliens, it seems pretty obvious that we should not send humans into an unsecured war zone - we already know there will be many different kinds of drones and AI robots.
Anyway, they all know that anything with the Alien moniker on it will make tons of money ... so why not at least try to not make it laughably fake?
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SickSpazmoid (843)
10 months ago
I don't know if they originally had in mind to give retro-futuristic aesthetic to "Alien", but this is how it looks today and I like it very much. It is perfectly fine in sci-fi to have some techs far advanced, while others are lagging. It is a common trope and genres like steampunk are based solely on this premise. Sci-fi that actually attempts to plausibly predict the future is a niche genre. Even the fairly recent video game "Alien: Isolation" keeps the original look, but one of the many dumb decisions taken by Ridley was to switch to generic sci-fi aesthetic, instead of keeping it more distinct with the CRTs, the mechanical keyboards, the beeping sounds and so on.
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TrentnQuarantino (9187)
10 months ago
Just say you like it! That's OK! ;-)
I liked the movie, but that was all kind of silly.
Lame justifications about it are unnecessary, you just like it and can ignore it.
I like it, but cannot refrain from mentioning the silliness.
It is interesting at how fast the technology for that stuff changed.
Also interesting is to think about how alien technology is always weirdly
shaped and odd looking stuff. I'd bet that if humanity does ever meet an
alien race, their technology will look a lot like ours.
I do think Ridley ( if he was the one ) had the right idea in Raised By Wolves.
That stuff was envisioned in a really cool way. Just too bad it got cancelled,
it was kind of cool.
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SickSpazmoid (843)
10 months ago
It is no lame at all, it is how things are. You want the generic Star Trek look of Prometheus - what we currently perceive as "futuristic". People want more style. This is why they made the game this way and now they are making the series the same way. Even Scott backpedaled a bit in "Covenant" by giving more "industrial" look to the tech and greenish UI for the computer screens.
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10 months ago
I really doubt they were trying to make something that would be considered retro futuristic today. It looks retro now because it was made 45 years ago. You see that a lot with old science fiction. There end up being some things that seemed futuristic then but ended up looking dated somewhat quickly. They were dong the best they could with the technology and budget and time they had. Some things held up better than others.
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