Noah Hawley wants Alien: Earth to feel like watching the original movie for the first time (www.avclub.com)

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[-] wordcraeft@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Article title aside, it sounds like the show will be more about capitalist dystopia than xeno kill count. I kind of wonder how much screen time the creatures have at all, compared to a Game of Thrones style character narrative.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The capitalist dystopia was always the true horror of the films. None of the terrible shit that happens in the first two films (or Resurrection) would have happened if capitalism wasn't heavily involved.

[-] wordcraeft@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Fair point. I think only the AvP movies skip the capitalism commentary in favor of pure action-horror, and those are now non-canon.

I may be one of the only people on the planet that enjoys every single one of the Alien and Predator movies, though.

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

AvP is no longer canon? Why? It was the only Alien movie I've seen and I throughly enjoyed it when I saw it in theaters as a teen.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, I also like pure action movies that don't give a fuck if the plot makes sense or is even believable and the AvP movies are awesome at that lol.

At least the first two Alien movies do make it very subtle, with the main focus still being action and horror. It just they actually cared about the story and the capitalism is the glue that makes the "why are they so stupid?" stick.