*arched eyebrow*
http://screencrush.com/prometheus-blade-runner/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 8, 2012 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a terrific idea!
http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/31254/lucas%20laughing.jpg
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Became a muddle once the action kicked in, with some cool ideas and sequences, but nothing in the way of a satisfying resolution for any of the potheads.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Man, what in the world would Lucas look like without a beard to delineate the divide between his neck and face?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
rich
― / me, / me. /. /. (goole), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.lolriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/George-Lucas-Without-a-Beard.jpg
― wmlynch, Monday, 8 October 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
Jabba, basically.
― Death Grits 2 (WmC), Monday, 8 October 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Jon Spaihts on the script pre-Lindelof:
http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1563
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
So that lovemaking sequence echoed my original lovemaking sequence where he explodes!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
does not sound like a huge improvement
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
I would actually like to read Spaights' version of Prometheus. He wrote a couple of hard sci-fi spec scripts, Passengers and Shadow 19, which are pretty good.
The final product really does have the stamp of Lindelof indulging Scott's worst instincts.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
hard sci-fi
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
sorry it's a Party Down aftereffect.
i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol it's cool Roman is probably my favorite nerd character of all time.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
you can bet he would have wriiten a scathing review of Prometheus on his prestigious blog, sir.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:18 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah it would have been cool to see somebody else do it.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
so many would have/could have been's with this flick. *sigh*
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder how many people read that post, wanted to post "HARD SCI-FI", and then saw it'd already been done. Know I did.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Monday, October 8, 2012 9:18 PM Bookmark
Yeah, exactly, this is always what's been so cool about this series (and, really, why AvP sucked so bad - it was just so anonymous). Of course, I was pretty hyped when I first heard Scott was doing this; if it'd been good I doubt I'd be whining that the fascination of the serial-director thing had been thrown off.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
AvP is a Paul W. S. Anderson joint, which isn't such a bad thing, other than the fact he's made some pretty shit films. Well, actually, some friends always spoke intriguingly if not positively of Event Horizon, which I couldn't bring myself to pick up the other week on seeing his name. But I've actually watched several of his things in the last few years. I feel like he's generically bad, but not completely anonymous.
I feel like Ridley Scott and James Cameron each did interesting things with the franchise that were productive as films. Fincher and Jeunet did things that were interesting but not necessarily productive. Scott did a quote-unquote non-Alien franchise film that was not really that interesting, and not productive.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
It's kind of shocking how much AvP there is in Prometheus. The scene where Weyland explains the mission to the crew is practically the same scene in both movies.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
not least of all the final scene with the hybrid alien emerging from the engineer/predator too.
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
latebloomer stop making me sad thinking about that, was trying to envision AvP as a totally different thing offshooting from a similar background but no actual link
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
Either fake, or an early draft: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/leaked_script.txt
― James Mitchell, Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:46 AM (6 months ago)
^^^Despite fanboys' insistence claims of fakeness, this turned to be one of Lindelof's earliest perversions of Spaihts original script^^^
― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol that interview reminds me of the fact that the super advanced high tech medical machine on the ship didnt have a 'lady' setting
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
space misogyny will be alive and well
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
nah it was calibrated specifically for Weyland
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
i.e. clumsily "subtle" foreshadowing of Weyland being on board
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
his daughter was a weyland, too
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
I bet it'd work on androids
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
iphones, maybe
― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
I meant cybernetic organisms and you know it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
We toyed with the notion that the xenomorphs might have a soft carapace like a soft-shelled crab
a soft, tasty carapace.
― ledge, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 09:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Boy these xenomorph boils are great."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
okay i just saw this and uh... it was great???? people were having conniptions about the "craft" and "story" or whatever? good god people! this is a movie featuring not one but two heads in a bag! it's got tummy staples! cranky astro staff on an alien planet in an electrical storm touching goo they shouldn't! faces being melted off! inexplicable parental nicknames! it's an ALIEN movie through and through!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
i mean.... daaaaaamn this was a sick movie
nah it was bollocks
― DG, Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
i don't really understand the black liquid, what the deal was there.. i guess idris was right, some sort of bioweapon gone wrong? in that respect i was really "there" with the characters i.e. wtf is this shit, let's get out of here
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
honestly the way you guys talked about this movie i thought it was going to be full of long speeches about the meaning of life but about 90% of it is staggering bleeding through hallways and not knowing why, which is what alien movies are all about wth is wrong with you guys
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 11 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
alien movies are about blue collar stiffs getting thwarted in their attempts to cash a paycheck by a scary monster, but ultimately their employer, the scariest monster of all.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 October 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Tracer: I approve of the way you think.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
idk tracer g'luck to you if the characters brought you 'there' with them, but i think you're a looot brighter than most of the morons that get splatted in this pos, and the continued stupidity of these clown left most everyone else cold
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Friday, 12 October 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
some were perhaps a bit cocky it's true
god i loved it when they finally reach the live engineer, they're speaking with an actual alien intelligence for the first time (though it's actually david who speaks to him! humans too DUMM), this religious moment when mr weyland hoping it'll be like the virgin mary sprinkling holy water on his tired bones and he'll spring up like lazarus, and the abortionee lady hoping he'll reveal something of his race's intentions on earth... and he just starts WRECKIN SHOP. woops, you're in an alien movie, i guess you forgot!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 12 October 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
you loved that part eh
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, 12 October 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like that scene would have been much improved by the addition of Samuel L Jackson and replacing the engineer with a shark of some kind.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 12 October 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
preach on, Tracer
― Nhex, Friday, 12 October 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
I saw that film, best moment of it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 12 October 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
Because they were all staggering down hallways trying to escape the Meaning of Life, which was trying to kill them.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 12 October 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
real talk!
― ryan, Friday, 12 October 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
tracer you have made me a BELIEVER
― j., Friday, 12 October 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link