New Prometheus trailer (here be rage)

[Terminal Blue]

Odd that the main corporate type appears to be a woman. The Alien movies were supposedly a metaphor for male aggression. (The Alien implants it's off-spring to a host, the off spring kill the host. The first one to burst out of John Hurt even looked like a woody.

I believe this is the original image by HR giger on the basis of which he was hired to design all the alien concepts (I could be wrong). But assuming I'm not it might give you a different perspective.

Spoiler

The screenwriter actually said that he wrote the alien as a way to make rape imagery personally frightening to a male audience. Thus, I don't think the alien is male at all, I think it's deliberately ambiguous, because that makes it more unsettling. Heck, the costume was basically an elaborate dominatrix outfit with a big shiny black dildo for a head.

On topic. Seriously, can you not suspend disbelief for a minute? That stuff was the height of technology in 1979. It wasn't selected for kitschy stylistic purposes, it was just the stuff which was available.

 

[RJ 17]

Edit :
Dafaq i recognize on his shoulder ?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6iW29w0sMV4/TjV9SN4SeBI/AAAAAAAAApo/QKNhN84aMlU/s1600/space-jockey-alien.jpg

LoL, Prothean with a Shoulder Cannon.

Anyways, I can see that you've got a valid point in the "This is supposed to be a prequel, why is there better tech?" category...however I really don't think it's that big of a deal.

 

[ToxicPiranah]

I think the major problem is with the consumers as much as the advertiser's. As a consumer you want the bang for your buck, so advertisers give us a large chunk of the story and in some cases give away the plot or make it possible to guess easily, however they only do this so that you have more of a clue of what the films about and so you want to see the whole thing.

Compare it to say picking a book up in a book shop, you'll read the blurb and then you might flick to around half way to 2/3rds of the way through the book and pick up a significant piece to the story, it makes you want the book so you buy it. That's all it is. However could you imagine the shit storm that would have been kicked up if AVP2's trailer had been just like the 1979 trailer for alien? You wouldn't help but think that they'd done you over.

I personally am psyched about seeing Prometheus as even though I can try to guess what's going to happen from the trailer I still want to see it glued together as a whole.

Also people mentioning CGI, I think directors rely to much on them now days and not the bare bones of film making such as proper lighting and the right camera angles. The original alien film relied heavily on this, I quote Scott himself "I've never liked horror films before, because in the end it's always been a man in a rubber suit. Well, there's one way to deal with that. The most important thing in a film of this type is not what you see, but the effect of what you think you saw". CGI eliminates the "man in a suit" problem but means directors get "creative" going for big shots.