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

they think they're in heaven

yeah i don't buy this, they may have been people of strong faith expecting to meet their makers but i would guess they were still pretty clear about this being an encounter on a real unknown alien world and not some airy fairy hippy dippy paradise.

It did, no? That's where they put the exploding head.

it didn't have its own airlock, hence the human torch act. not exactly self contained.

Because that part of the ship is actually to be Guy Pearce's, once he wakes up.

ok but then why not pack theron in with the rest of the crew? oh because they had to have some non-secret justification for having that module, grand piano et al. so needlessly complicated!

and you could say "people in movies they be stupid" but i'm sorry my anal standards of movie realism expect scientists on a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR mission to be slightly smarter than highschoolers on a weekend break.

Perhaps then you're seeing the wrong movies.

this clearly has pretensions to be "smart" sci-fi though

if they start making the right ones i will watch them.

I dunno, there appears to be a religious component to this, and there's a lot of money to be found there. If someone was trying to raise funds for a mission to heaven, they'd get a trillion dollars pretty quickly. That's why cults exists.

(Religious component being the sole spoiler here that really has me understanding why so many are calling bullshit on this movie.)

one trillion's not gonna be that much, by then. this is a shoestring operation by a crazy old guy. like how many mercenary geologists are there, anyway? I want to see that guy's papers.

was it ever explained why david infected the hot guy?

nope. i'm guessing that's one of the things they left open for the sequels i'm already hotly anticipating.

You get the idea that this is the first-ever alien environment, and they're supposed to be hippy-dippy types off to meet their makers, no?

this is a shoestring operation by a crazy old guy

Those ideas don't quite add up though. Weyland Corp already has its 'Building Better Worlds' tagline and some of the Prometheus crew reference terraforming, as if people have gone to alien worlds many times already (though admittedly the idea that we'd be doing that by 2093 is optimistic at best).

I don't think it was even left open for a sequel. I think they just came up with the idea for the surgery scene and had to shoehorn it in somehow

was it ever explained why david infected the hot guy?

So his hybrid would impregnate Lisbeth with the rapid-growth jellyfish.

yeah but why re: that as well then!

also after Shaw gave herself the C-section and stumbled around in her pants covered in blood and sweat why did no one think to, you know...ask her why? and did she just forget she left the alien thing hanging out on the surgery table?

Forget it lex, it's Prometheus

She thought she'd killed it in the disinfectant process.

David's agenda was to find the elixir of life for pearce, I think. So he was trying out the goo (at the time they thought this was the seed for human life, I think) to see what happened. And if he died, no problem, because he was a douche to him anyway.

i'm sorry my anal standards of movie realism expect scientists on a ONE TRILLION DOLLAR mission to be slightly smarter than highschoolers on a weekend break.

I suffered similarly.

xpost to Lex: Because Fassbender saw Peter O'Toole do it in Lawrence of Arabia.

Eh, all of the previous movies have "Let's interact with alien stuff" as a terrible idea followed by fules, I am not that bothered with this being the case here.

they do at least take guns with them in the first two (tho obv give them up in the second one which is pretty dumb)

It's 2093 or whatever, by then "ONE TRILLION DOLLARS" will be delivered in a Mr Evil voice and your little pinky extended.

Or even a Dr Evil voice.

but cmere

Lisbet kicked the shit out of two crew members before being chased into the med chamber and locking them out.

She then did that thing, taking about ten minutes.

Then she wanders out covered in blood.

Then she's all just chillin with pilot, nbd, several ppl have died in a mutant melee on the deck, nbd, any news with yourself? Naaaw, nbd

robofass contaminates sciencedude for lulz and cos he doesn't like him. robofass seems to be relatively certain that this is not likely to be a benign act of human superpower elixir donation, so the 'trying it out for papa pearce' doesn't rly wash.

it seems like something that could pretty easily backfire against the whole mission, not just the crew but his own chances for survival & return to earth. but maybe his cold robot brain really doesn't care about even that.

nah, doing it for the badness doesn't wash with getting him to say he'd do absolutely anything to find out the truth first

Eh, all of the previous movies have "Let's interact with alien stuff" as a terrible idea followed by fules

but the crew in Alien was a transport crew with zero knowledge of or even interest in aliens - which is presumably why they were selected by Evilcorp to stumble on it in the first place; they'd be dumb enough to break quarantine and let it on the ship

rly this had jumped the intergalactic shark before then tbh. the 'introduction to all our various scientists of differing lol personalities' scene could have come out of an 'alien movie' spoof

if idris and charlize get it on i'm back on board

off screen, pretty ludicrously tbh

I was a bit weirded out that the operation involved cutting deep into someone and then just stapling up the top layer - I'm pretty sure that's not a good idea.

as mentioned upthread she was doing pretty well with all the abdominal crunching so she must have been fiiiiiiiine.

no it was sound, sure wasn't she jumping about the fucking place within ten minutes

off screen, pretty ludicrously tbh

whats ludicrous is that it's off screen amirite

off to see this later, stoked for the opprobrium

meanwhile lindelof blabbers: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/prometheus-damon-lindelof-sequel-ridley-scott-paradise-332875

nahwhamsayyn

But ya charlize is crazy/hot in this

what's more ludicrous is that none of the other crew seemed to notice, let alone ask, about her condition. oh, and there was a presumed dead squid-foetus in the medbay. it seems like elba and his two no-name assistants on the bridge must have been busy playing parchesi all day, since they never bothered to keep up with goings-on aboard his ship. am I to believe there's no CCTV or warning systems monitoring everything that happens aboard?

charlize is crazy/hot in everything ... except monster where she's just crazy, i guess

also hilarious was theron's hardass speech that begin the mission, since she had dick-all influence on the crew once they got beyond the "let's charge headfirst into an alien installation on a strange planet" phase. most of them seemed like they didn't even have any job to do other than wander and gape at strange stuff.

lol weren't you ever on a school tour

I did in fairness like Beardie Geologist's recognition of his fifth-wheelness.

somebody spent a month recreating the trailer with paper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KIgNinx_G_U

it could have been worse i suppose

Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

RS: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

paper preview is great. maybe i'll just watch it again and skip the film. ridley scott is a doofus.

Worse? That would've pushed it into the great beyond of awful. Too bad; could've been all time.

Would've loved to see them holographically recreate insanely muscled, big headed Jesus doing sermon on the mount.

this was an inconsequential&confused hybrid of a v generic alien instalment & a half-arsed 2001-type anthropocentric bit of space pondering.

the anthropocentrism cld have made an interesting film - fassbender as smithers was probably the best thing in this, esp pottering about on his lonesome in space practising one-liners doing his hair - but the ideas behind all this were vapid, they were barely there; it was impossible to share the archaeologist's enthusiasm, it wld have been better if they were fans of the original alien film. yr sat in a cinema glazing over as ppl say MEET YR MAKER over&over, a completely underwhelming climax unfolds w/ the borderline unwatchable old man who wants to live forever, & you realise that charlize theron was totally pointless.

quite pleasant to watch tho, v pretty shiny tundra. wld have been better as an interstellar food poisoning film or something

^ the review that they don't want you to read

The theological component of this is giving me serious pause. I mean, I'm going to see it, but it looks like a $5 matinee, 2D special to me.

xposts : wow! That was both the greatest and onliest paper trailer I've ever seen!