SSgt Burton wrote:
bigbisont wrote:
Unfortunately I don't see a movie focusing on the colonial marines ever. To be honest I'm not sure I'd want one. You see how the community was up in arms about variations in the aliens looks and lack of screen accurate gear (more so the last AvP game on the gear). Can you imagine what modern hollywood would do to it?? How some exec would take the Colonial marine and "make him better, edgier and hipper"?!? Tweaks in a game are one thing, if I saw an exec "improve it" the way they tend to do these days, I just dont think I could bear it.
Quoted for truth!
We've had this discussion many moons ago. My take was pretty much exactly as Bigbisont described it...
There is a distinctive "soul" to the Colonial Marine Corps portrayed in "Aliens." It is what I (along with many of us here) fell in love with. If Hollywood tried to do it again, they "would" change things dramatically. The fact is they did have "another" military present in Alien: Resurrection--- does anybody really remember or care about the United Systems Military? Has anyone here tried to replicate one of their uniforms? About the only cool thing they had was the "shock rifle."
Any new film involving the USCM just wouldn't be the same, and there is far too great a possibility that the "soul" we fell in love with will not be there (meaning a HUGE disappointment). They won't make another Alien movie with the USCM as we already have "Aliens." As for a stand alone movie with just the USCM fighting a "different" species... they already made "Starship Troopers."
Kevin
This.
It was plain in
Aliens that the Marines regarded Bug Hunts as dull and routine, much like roach exterminators. A series or movie based on that would be boring. As to facing human forces, why would execs shell out the extra for sci-fi, when just making something like
Combat,
Tour of Duty,
Saving Private Ryan or
Generation Kill does the same job, without the added expense of futuristic hardware?
It'd be hard for anyone to recapture the magic of Cameron's characters. Hudson was whiney, but we loved him. Who else but Cameron and Paxton could pull that off?