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

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!

xxxpost: again, LINDELOOOOOOF!

is this movie anything like Event Horizon? it looks like it from teh trailers.

why didn't they just get an old guy to play weyland

It's not as relentlessly creepy as Event Horizon. It's very well done but not particularly frightening. xp

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?

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.

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*

ha this film wasn't nearly as good as event horizon, make of that what you will

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.

people get old

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

in fairness to Ridley though, he was clearly trying to make a different kind of film here. He just failed at it miserably

lonely android bit just reminded me of moon

or, y'know, 2001

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

"I watched your dreams. There was a Patrick Wilson cameo!"

"i watched your dreams. it was like a christopher nolan film or something"

"also, what the fuck happened to your English accent?"

"all these civilisations, on different continents, centuries apart. they all agreed prometheus sucked"

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.

are you David the android from the movie?

it's nothing like either of those films, it's like appalling internet fanfic

I did enjoy how it looked a lot, mostly, even if it unnecessarily emphasises the tech-level disconnect between this and the Alien movies.

But I would also propose a new law: if you don't understand how DNA works, you're not allowed to use it in a SF script.

What bugs me is that RIdley Scott MADE Alien

Yeah, but Ridley Scott didn't write Alien, or Prometheus.

hahaha DG

Ebert 4 stars, GK thinks it's the shit

This was very silly.

Saw this last night, really wasn't sure what to make of it. I've avoided reading reviews/this thread, so sorry if I'm trotting out recieved wisdom, but is the consensus that it's a pretty cool, if flawed, sci-fi flick that'd seem 'better' if it wasn't related to the Alien series in any way?

consensus is that it's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.