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

Ah, nerds on it already:

http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/1112/alienprometheus-timelines/p1

I think I might go back for a re-watch this weekend. I can't get the visuals out of my head. It's deeply flawed but if it looks as good on second viewing as I remember it, then I'll take it for what it is.

It does look as good, trust me. Arguably it looks even better, you kinda know where to draw your eye now.

Yeah I saw it first in IMAX 3D, second time in a run-down regular theater. It played better the second time, actually. My opinion of the film is basically the same: beautiful, entertaining, yet frustrating.

Fassbender owns the movie, IMO.

saw it again

there's way too much great stuff in this movie to quibble, and it makes a lot more sense than I thought it did the second time; I missed how the snakes evolved from the goo hitting the maggots. how could I have missed that? too busy laughing

can I just say that the eye worm wigged me the fuck out

can y'all summarize the reactions on this thread because i just saw this piece of shit and i want to see if any of you suckers fell for it

I resent films that are so shallow they rely entirely on their visual effects, and of course science fiction films are notorious for this. I've always felt that there's another way to do it: a lot of effort should be expended toward rendering the environment of the spaceship, or space travel, whatever the fantastic setting of your story should be–as convincingly as possible, but always in the background. That way the story and the characters emerge and they become more real.[16]

–Ron Cobb on his designs for Alien.

i don't even know where to start, the whole christian sci-fi thing, the uninteresting and frankly stupid characters, the fact that wherever the original movie(s) took interesting turns this thing went for the most boring clichés, THE FACT THAT THE SPACE JOCKEY IS JUST A BIG ANGRY BALD GUY

also like... so lead scientist lady and her (totally horrible, couldn't wait for him to die) boyfriend deduce from some cave paintings of a tall guy and stars that the stars are the home of humanity's creators (WHY), so they go there, they find this incredible archaeological ruin and actual BODIES of these creatures, the greatest most important find in human history, and they get all depressed because there was no one to talk to in the first building they went into?

if you had told me that the scifi flick of the year would be men in black 3 by a mile...

the scientists' obsession with talking to the aliums gets really annoying

i hate movies where the lead characters are really stupid and make the stupidest assumptions and then they turn out to be RIGHT

this movie is really everything that went wrong about LOST (dumb characters, lame christian-izing)

we are on the same side i am so glad seriously WTFFFF

i'm actually kind of angry at my friends right now for liking it. but they secretly know i'm right.

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
on a cross around my neck please take care of it maybe it is aliens
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
oh it's in my side pocket i kept it for you because

WHO CARES

if only this movie had just been fassbender-android and a ship and aliens

i hated how he got all smirky and smart alecky at the end "hope it all came out okay OOPS POOR CHOICE OF WORDS ;)"

the worst thing about the space jockey was the reveal that he didnt actually have a cool space elephant head, it was just a dumb helmet. but i did like the concept of the big reveal of the space jockey being the equivalent of them walking in on god smoking a bong... god wakes up and finds out he has some kids he didn't know about, and pretends he doesnt know them

"father... my maker... how do i become immortal???"
"uhh, who are you again?"

agh
yet i couldn't even hate him though or really feel anything about him except 'wow, bad writing/execution of plot'
the old movies and hair dying and accent doing though and dream invading, good. red-laser droids, good. surgery chamber, yes. the rest, transparently manipulative, pointless.

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=prometheus_nutshell

I weirdly didn't mind the reveal of the aliens being flute-playing marble statues. Maybe I'm getting old and softheaded, IDK.

I hated the stupid characters though.

some excellent points there. xp

Oh yeah the Christian shit was pretty unforgiveable

it's the whole movie man. the last line is "this is dr. shaw in the year of OUR LORD 2193..." before she goes off to certain doom in order to redeem humanity

did someone post that interview where ridley scott is like the whole reason the engineers hate us is because we killed jeezo

god decides to annihilate earth cuz hes tired of paying child support

the whole basic premise of the movie is so poorly explained, it's like a video game plot. so the engineers created us for some reason... and then something something they got mad, now they hate us... so they left cave paintings.. so we'd come visit them after their own weapons destroyed them... oh well we'll explain it in the sequel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

lol that's good.

"why did the aliens leave star maps behind that just led to their weapons research facility?"

That video was perfect

yes i feel more at peace after watching it haha

"is david a secret asshole"

that guy should be making major cash as a story editor

The fact that lindelo gets hired to write major blockbusters and this guy's relegated to making internet vids =proof that god is a cruel ringmaster

That should have been the subtitle to Prometheus, actually

*crul

Haaaaa

Money quote from the Red Letter Media review:

"In regard to the hate for this movie: If you're one of those people who gets that upset over this movie, then you should probably stop watching movies altogether. In a world of 'Jack and Jill's, and 'What to expect when you're expecting's and movies like that, an ambitious but incredibly flawed sci-fi film, if that's what gets you horribly upset, then there's no hope for you."

Then they clarify that by saying " Slight disappointment (we) can understand, but not "this is the worst movie ever""

It's not the worst movie ever by any means. It's not even 'bad', because there are, as mentioned, too many technically good things about it for it to be outright bad. It's just fucking stupid, and it's fucking stupid because of Lindeloff, I'd wager.

What has Lindeloff done right that inspires people to keep hiring him?

"In regard to the hate for this movie: If you're one of those people who gets that upset over this movie, then you should probably stop watching movies altogether. In a world of 'Jack and Jill's, and 'What to expect when you're expecting's and movies like that, an ambitious but incredibly flawed sci-fi film, if that's what gets you horribly upset, then there's no hope for you."

Jack and Jill is a litterbox full of cat shit. Prometheus is a nice bowl of ice cream with a few cat turds in it. I tolerate a litterbox full of cat shit in my house but cat turds in my ice cream would be a deal-breaker.

I'm kind of curious about Cowboys & Aliens now - I assumed that it was a dumb actioner with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford - is there a twist where the aliens are mistaken space Jesuses or something?

Nah they're just grasshopper-looking critters mining for gold

What has Lindeloff done right that inspires people to keep hiring him?

― Peaceniks, Homos, and Potheads Who Wear Ties (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 09:03 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

made an incredibly popular and influential tv show that millions of people watched and some of them even appear to be well adjusted human beings and will defend it if it comes up in conversation