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

Goddamm that og trailer is so good

I'm gonna be so goddam sad when they stop using film to make movies

Does ALIEN have the greatest cast ever?

I was thinking that exact thing watching the trailer. If it's not the greatest it's damn close.

Does ALIEN have the greatest cast ever?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:11 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

feel like that trailer gave away TOO MUCH

― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, March 17, 2012 9:45 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

has there ever been a movie that was part of a franchise where the audience didn't know for sure until actually seeing the film?

The screaming alarm in that Prom. trailer reminds me of Clare Torry's screaming at the end of "Speak to Me", right before "Breathe" kicks in.

guys go to 2:37 in the trailer

1:37, sorry

http://i.imgur.com/UL3mC.jpg if you're lazy

While I'm still a bit meh re: 3D and wasn't planning on even checking out this silly prequel stuff (even though I've bought some kind of Alien quadrology box thig twice now, first as DVDs and later BluRay) I have to admit that trailer kinda - aw hell, yeah, I want to see it now.

thig->thing

at least the movie was shot in 3D, not post-converted, and what we've seen so far looks fantastic in 2D, so no one should complain about that aspect at least.

This and The Dark Knight Rises both coming out in 2012 will make the end of the world in December a little more bearable, I guess.

this was shot in 3d?

can i just watch it in 2d?

Of course. Has there been a 3D release that wasn't generally available in 2D also?

http://www.hd-3dmovie.com/images/imax-deep-sea-3d-movie.jpg

so tonight my friend told me that the yoga festival she's organizing starts on june 8 and i said "that's the day Prometheus comes out!!" [blank stare] "The new aliens movie!!"
she laughed
but i was serious

i <3 u rrrobyn

:)

wait so this is in 3D+IMAXZ too?! whoa

Yeah, I don't know what day of the week June 8 is, but I'll be pulling a sickie if it's a weekday

if only there was a way we could find out...

Re:3-D, while it's the last thing I want to see, 1) This is the first Ridley Scott joint in 3-D, and the man knows how to make a movie, 2) It's actually shot in 3-D, rather than retrofitted and 3) Scott is one of those rare directors so thrilled with the 3-D results that he's sworn (ha) never to make another 2-D movie.

Of course, the question should be, have you ever seen a 2-D version of a recent 3-D movie and wished it was in 3-D? I would answer no, and I've seen a bunch of them "flat," from Captain American and Harry Potter to recent Pixars. Not a one had me leaving the theatre wishing things were jumping at my face. A few that I saw in 3-D - Up, TS3, Hugo - might as well have been in 2-D, bar a scene or two. So who knows what Ridley has up his sleeves.

And then there's Avatar, which I could not have at through were it not in 3-D, which is its own sort of novelty category.

Yeah wow this is badass. Amazing trailer. Had no idea Charlize Theron was in this.

3D, who cares. I've never really had an unpleasant 3D experience with RealD, the worst that happened was that bits didn't look 3D enough. Which, hey, puts you back in the same spot you were already in.

thing is im not super convinced 'the man knows how to make a movie' anymore

otm : (

fucker better not George Lucas me.

space jockey all with a liberian accent

We're on an express elevator to hell...going down!
Yipppieeeeee!

trailer's neat, space jockey starts to chest burst @ 2:11. also looks like the aliens came from humans infected with a virus, which is an interesting wrinkle if that's where they went with it.

unfortunately it seems like the grubby "used future" set design got lost somewhere, this looks like it takes place 3000 years *after* the first alien.

I haven't seen anything like that except, uh, midi-chlorians.
It must be using them for blood.

thats a terrible wrinkle imho

c'mon man we've met the xenomorph and IT is US

MIND BLOWN

ok not really but w/e

so lame

Our people are dying, Burke. We must do something to stop the Aliens!
Hold on a second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.

Does ALIEN have the greatest cast ever?

I'll watch anything with either John Hurt or Ian Holm to this day, and Alien had both. Kinda the opposite of my reaction to Nick Cage or Sandra Bullock in the credits (which would make Welcome to Hollywood (2000) the worst cast ever, I suppose).

unfortunately it seems like the grubby "used future" set design got lost somewhere, this looks like it takes place 3000 years *after* the first alien.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, March 18, 2012 12:56 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

heh this happened with the star wars prequels too

what happened was that 30 yrs passed between the first one and the prequel in real time and people invented computers :(

they still could have made a grubby looking movie for a lot of money with all those computahs

It's probably a fancier ship tbf

thing is im not super convinced 'the man knows how to make a movie' anymore

You know, I hadn't really considered it, but yeah, his last 20 years have been erratic as fuck. But then, half of his films in that span seemingly also star Russell Crowe (I forgot that Robin Hood movie existed!) so who knows.

Maybe the man has just been making the wrong movies?

s1ocki hates scifi and everything good, maybe has acid 4 blood

i don't think that's the Space Jockey's chest bursting either

feel like she's getting locked in for a space ride

getting out i would say

greatest cast ever = The Right Stuff. but Alien is close

sorry 2:12, def space jockey chest burst tho