Ye, thank god for the internet. Rejected Street Fighterer Zubaz never would have been able to reach his full potential without it.
Zen wrote:I think A.I., done by Kubrick, would have really been something.
Maybe it'd have been better, but no one bats a thousand. Having the kid be the sole protagonist doomed it in my opinion - outside of being a Pac-Man-esque monster that wants to hug his mom, he just has random things happen to him. He's not really an active agent.
On the topic of softer and schmaltzier versions of stories, I just looked at Kubrick's credits page and noticed he worked on that PBS film standard mainstay, Lolita. A film where the protagonist is only around ~20% as evil as his book counterpart. Perhaps the correct call, as one wouldn't want the people in the theater vomiting in their seats I guess.
David Lynch but his Twin Peaks The Return was easily as good as anything else he's done
That's 'cause Lynch ain't no hack fraud. While Scott has always talked about making Alien-origin mythology movies since the beginning of time.
.. heh, I just had a funny idea of how one could have made those movies. Step 1. Have the Engineers be the protagonists, no humans. Step 2. Have them talk to one another in their made up alien language, but go full George Lucas with it and don't have subtitles. It's completely stupid but so is the premise. It deserves to produce a movie that bombs completely.
(Also, Prometheus does kind of undermine Alien in a "Hans didn't shoot first" kind of way. It ret-cons things so those miners aren't the first humans known to have xeno contact.)
(There's also kind of a sadness that abandoning the Xenomorph and using different monsters is obviously necessary to improve the quality of this franchise, but they can't do it because they're too afraid it won't sell. Ergo, the franchise is doomed to zany bad fanfiction from here on out.
I actually really liked seeing the giant blue goon and squid monster in Prometheus, even if they weren't used well. If the Blue Goon wasn't just a stupid monster, he could have been used to turn the movie into a blend between Cube and Predator. Maybe he's a sadistic asshole, so you could throw a little Saw in there, too.)
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And in the beginning, Yahweh said "let there be light". But, before he could invoke the 9th level Wish spell to make it happen, Ridley Scott grabbed his arm and said "Woah, slow down there hombre. I think we should first make a film explaining where the aliens came from. Otherwise, they won't understand."