Not optimistic, though at least this will look stunning. Kenny Powers, Alien Hunter, would've been awesome.
Yeah, I think I'll just have to switch off, get a bit baked maybe and watch it in IMAX 3D and all that gubbins - it'll certainly be a ride, a feast for the eyes & ears of sorts.
I imagine it'll at least do its thing much much better than
Prometheus did, which was still mainly a rich visual experience, if little else (although I still think, and actually said at the time on its thread on here, that the proposed utterly stunning, all-is-forgiven calibre of its visual splendour was very overstated - just visit Iceland and have it all take your breath away IRL). This'll have some superb fx set pieces no doubt, just like that did; snip all the best scenes/moments of
Prometheus off and stitch them into their own little promo thing, and it'd seem amazing.
Danny McBride is really not working for me here, though. Not his fault at all, and I'm sure being a genuine massive
Alien fan he's done his utmost not to spoil the ambience, but he just carries too much stoner comedy baggage, it's so difficult for me to wash all that off his face, if you get me?! His face is silly.
I though Yaphet Kotto and Harry Dean Stanton's characters provided a few great little moments of levity early on in the original
Alien, but they were also very serious dramatic actors, with serious acting chops. Stanton's just an outstanding film actor full stop, and Kotto's Parker is so wonderfully convincing and human from first to last, I love that character arc. They could give you the world-weary humour, the typical disgruntled blue collar worker moaning, and then the shock, the anger at the realisation of betrayal, the bone-chilling terror, the desperate instinctive last-ditch courage... it's about
range, they don't carry very specific tonal connotations on their very being. McBride totally does, and it's hard to ignore for the sake of giving his character a fair crack of the whip; I'll try, but I imagne he's very much a cheeky 'joker' type in this, in a nod to where the audience knows he comes from. It's clear as day from the trailers. It's another of those things that a lot of people may like, but cheapens it for me, takes me out of the mood it should be working hard to keep me in. "Spoils" is harsh, but tone, and the mood it creates, is everything in a horror film.