They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

i'm in

anyway i'm just kidding it would be better if the engineer characters were just completed unrelated to hr giger

*actually*

leave the engineers but just expunge any reference to facehuggers and chestbursters and never have them show up or wake up, i'm sure fassbender could handle the flute

first way i can think of improving this movie is that none of them wake up

just a bit of robofass pottering

ie performing some of the better-known routines from the ouevre of dennis potter

anyway an advanced alien culture with only one type of WMD is like an old dog with only one trick

just have it be something different and interesting

like this

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldjbxuZa6c1qf0aafo1_500.jpg

http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/624/files/2012/03/Escale-%C3%A0-Pharagonescia.jpg

SPLOZZ

castro assassination plan #253 imo

Maybe this has been mentioned upthread but is it consensus that Prometheus retcons the eggs in Alien to be the canisters?

i can't see why it would be. the eggs hatch facehuggers and the canisters leak black goo. also the eggs are eggs and the canisters are canisters. plus it's a pred ship.

Yeah, these dudes deal in bio weapons. Nothing saying they always have to be transporting the exact same bioweapon every time.

I just thought... if the engineers made us - WHO MADE THE ENGINEERS?

Oh crap, 5 seconds ago that was a shit gag in my mind, now I think it could be where lindelof actually wants to go with the sequel.

Imagineers

headband dude

YAPHET

KOTTO.

CALL HIM BY HIS NAME, HE'S AN AFRICAN PRINCE

otm

lol at "Imagineers"

Oh man think of how next level this would have been if it was Walt Disney secretly frozen on the ship instead of Weyland.

You know, what we're really missing these days is cool comic book adaptations of movies. Downloaded the original Alien one the other day, pretty cool.

http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/3/36/Marvel_Comics_Super_Special_Vol_1_17.jpg

I own this.

I was reading <A href="http://www.darkhorse.com/Books/15-027/Aliens-Omnibus-Volume-3";>a collection of stories in the Alien universe</a> last weekend, they're impressively bleak and down on plucky humans.

not the onion

http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/03/seattle-ticket-taker-spoils-prometheus-on-moral-grounds/

hehe wonder which red state's going to sponsor that bill

well we're just going to warning-sticker movies the same way we're warning-sticker-ing soda and cigarettes

hmm... so based on "just doing my job ma'am" bit I can see how management might have put him up to it to forestall rants from crazy pro-lifers. the bigger problem here is, it's not an abortion! it's a caesarean, and iirc the miracle baby gets on quite nicely post-procedure.

haaaaaaaaa

"at first everyone treated him like a freak, but then they understood why god had let him live"

the only way this would be acceptable is if the dude spoiled it by singing 'bodies' in full-on jonny rotten voice. and also if the ticket-taker was johnny rotten.

noomi and fass as joshua and caleb accepting their inheritance and marching into hebron to face the children of giants as a test of faith in god's grace

I feel like the ticket-taker may have been trolling considering it's a big ol' squiddy parasite. Still, pretty hilarious

Because Poe's Law is standard operating procedure, sullen teenager behavior is indistinguishable from earnest rightwing religious types

I haven't seen prometheus yet, but I've seen an awful lot of spongebob

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/523538_10150890935797261_1474100003_n.jpg

omg

it occurred to me while i was watching it!

lol

this was both better and worse than i was expecting

really glad i went in with low/no expectations

found it really beautifully shot and designed, a couple good performances, a bunch of interesting ideas, and tons of plot points handled unbelievably poorly

^ yup.
the behavior of the secondary characters was not believable or realistic in the least. that and the very last scene bothered me most.

have seen it twice and will probably go for a 3rd next week

it's weird to tell ppl "have low expectations and see it multiple times" but knowing where the clunkers are really makes the film easier to navigate and enjoy

I kinda love this movie

I am still all good with it.

it's a weird, ambitious and sadly awful genre movie, therefore likely to be cherished by a devoted cult for decades to come

so was alien v. predator, but i'm not seeing a cult coming, unless that new yorker poem was actually about alien v. predator

(i think it was!)

I still have yet to watch PREDATORS

The end of "Predators" is remarkably similar to and nearly as bad and unsatisfying as the end of "Prometheus." Adrien Brody is like our generation's Michael Caine.

so was alien v. predator, but i'm not seeing a cult coming, unless that new yorker poem was actually about alien v. predator

not nearly weird or ambitious enough, imo

it's a weird, ambitious and sadly awful genre movie, therefore likely to be cherished by a devoted cult for decades to come

― contenderizer, Friday, July 13, 2012 11:19 AM (2 hours ago)

around the second time I saw it I also watched the shining and the parallels were not lost on me

ppl forget cuz it's so well-regarded now but the shining was considered a stinkeroo upon release - kubrick even got nommed for a razzie!

predators is WAY better than prometheus
this is not an opinion. it is fact.

Topher Grace stuff...man, I dunno