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
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Jesu swept (ledge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― stet, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
if idris and charlize get it on i'm back on board
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
off screen, pretty ludicrously tbh
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
as mentioned upthread she was doing pretty well with all the abdominal crunching so she must have been fiiiiiiiine.
― Jesu swept (ledge), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
no it was sound, sure wasn't she jumping about the fucking place within ten minutes
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
whats ludicrous is that it's off screen amirite
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
nahwhamsayyn
But ya charlize is crazy/hot in this
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Millsner, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
charlize is crazy/hot in everything ... except monster where she's just crazy, i guess
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Millsner, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol weren't you ever on a school tour
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
I did in fairness like Beardie Geologist's recognition of his fifth-wheelness.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
somebody spent a month recreating the trailer with paper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KIgNinx_G_U
― Darin, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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.
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― fancy poodle (latebloomer), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
paper preview is great. maybe i'll just watch it again and skip the film. ridley scott is a doofus.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Worse? That would've pushed it into the great beyond of awful. Too bad; could've been all time.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Would've loved to see them holographically recreate insanely muscled, big headed Jesus doing sermon on the mount.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
^ the review that they don't want you to read
― irrational angst that makes me innocuously thingy (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
xposts : wow! That was both the greatest and onliest paper trailer I've ever seen!
― StanM, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost: again, LINDELOOOOOOF!
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
is this movie anything like Event Horizon? it looks like it from teh trailers.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
why didn't they just get an old guy to play weyland
― ༼◍ྀ ౪ ◍ི ༽ (cozen), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
It's not as relentlessly creepy as Event Horizon. It's very well done but not particularly frightening. xp
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
One thing that puzzles me after having watched it is. How long was there between the scene of Shaw and David(in 2 parts) are seen descending from the crashed ship and taking off in the other one?Long enough to jettison a cargo? Or am I missing something, thinking that other ships on this base had similar cargoes?Like what is on the ship that Shaw has just placed in play to create more hassle across the universe?
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
was it ever explained why david infected the hot guy?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, June 6, 2012 2:57 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thought it was & that was how come Shaw who has an emotional scene about her inability to get pregnant became impregnated with the starfish monster thing. Trying to think if that was another variation introduced in this film. I thought he birth of the Giger alien was a lot more direct than having to go through 2 stages before emerging. Also that it emerged at an earlier stage in its development in the original, it bursts out of John Hurt's stomach looking about 12" long and very phallic. It seems to be adult at birth in this film.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
this is truly one of the worst films i have ever seen, for real
i mean i was loling at the horrible bits *and so was everyone else in the cinema*
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
ha this film wasn't nearly as good as event horizon, make of that what you will
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
fassbender as smithers was probably the best thing in this, esp pottering about on his lonesome in space practising one-liners doing his hair
I could have watched a lot more of that. Lonely android in cool ship.
What bugs me is that RIdley Scott MADE Alien, he was intimately involved in the film, and yet he obviously has no real idea about why it works. At least half a dozen ILXers, myself included, have a better feel for his own creation than he does. That's depressing.
― seven league bootie (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
people get old
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
What bugs me is that RIdley ScottGeorge Lucas MADE Alien Star Wars, he was intimately involved in the film, and yet he obviously has no real idea about why it works
― retro-shittified (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
in fairness to Ridley though, he was clearly trying to make a different kind of film here. He just failed at it miserably
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
lonely android bit just reminded me of moon
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
or, y'know, 2001
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
specifically moon cos of the dicking about nature of his activities
"i watched your dreams" - would get an instant whack in the cyber-nads in my book
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
"I watched your dreams. There was a Patrick Wilson cameo!"
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
"i watched your dreams. it was like a christopher nolan film or something"
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
"also, what the fuck happened to your English accent?"
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
"all these civilisations, on different continents, centuries apart. they all agreed prometheus sucked"
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
I saw this twice within 24 hours, and would see it again in a heartbeat. Love it. It's like Forbidden Planet mixed with Star Trek: the Motion Picture and a selection of front covers from 1970s SF novels. The plot doesn't make one lick of sense but it looks like what I always hope sci-fi movies would look, but never, ever actually do.
― DavidM, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
are you David the android from the movie?
― Number None, Thursday, 7 June 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link