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

it's the way their lips move

and the steely-provocative eye thing

e.mcgregor had the chameleon thing going on as well

w/both fassbender and mcgregor, you get this thing where even though you've seen them in multiple films and indeed in photoshoots out of character, you're still...not quite...sure...what they actually look like

it's true!

But whatever they look like, they have a very charming smile.

no dude, after Basterds he's still pissing about in Jane Hex / Jonah Ayre / Centurion.

Eh, clearly these were in the can already. We'll see where his career winds up, but Pearce had his run. Just because he's recognizable doesn't mean he's a star, much as I usually like him. Regardless,

Theron is so clearly the A-list movie star in this movie!

Fassbender's next film, btw, is also with Ridley Scott, with an original script by Cormac McCarthy. After that he's apparently back with McQueen for round three.

I've read a few Fassbender interviews (after lingering around airports and newsstands over the last couple weeks) and the interviewers in mainstream magazines, especially the men's magazines where he's on the cover, are pretty horrible. It's like a quick nod to Hunger, acknowledgment of his mainstream US roles, talking about BIG SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER role in Prometheus ("what is it like working with Ridley Scott?!?") and then jokes about Shame that nearly always take the form of "So, a lot of people have been making dick jokes about your work in that movie, but, haha, we don't make dick jokes in this interview! So, I hear you have a large penis."

not a bad life all in all

idk, if I was a serious actor I'd get tired of dick jokes

actually, that was probably his internal motivation for the smiling sneer he used in Prometheus

"I'm doing all this acting, here, and interviewers are just going to ask me about nudity"

yeah, Shame was a pretty ridiculous movie though

I thought it was pretty great! I only saw it in the theater, though.

I am imagining the interviewers doing the funny-into-serious face of Sasha Baron-Cohen.

priority one

insure return of organism

for analysis

ha, never noticed the word use error before

maybe they were planning to take out some sort of xenomorph policy

heh

Or then again, maybe Ridley just wanted to reference 80s biker-noise band the Head of David at the end?

― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 5:33 AM (5 hours ago)

lol

have we talked about the coors light/promotheus cross-promotion ads here? guess they've given up on the prestige/quality image now that people have seen the movie.

so I have a t-shirt with big cooper black letters that says "Language is just math that's hard for engineers to do" - if I got another one that said "science fiction wishes it came up with the antikythera mechanism," which t-shirt would be the best

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Antikythera Mechanism device shirt of course.

BTW, hello Tomboto! Was wondering what you take on this would be.

The Antikythera Mechanism device shirt of course.

Put the slogan on the back, put a photo of the reconstruction on the front.

saw a pretty good nerd shirt yesterday, it said

i^2 keep it real

have we talked about the coors light/promotheus cross-promotion ads here?

I think robyn was the victim of a stealth Prometheus promo during Mutek

i^2 keep it real

dying

omg maybe i was! i srsly almost said no, no coors light for me, but i was thirsty...

Because I know you were all waiting for it, Andrew Sullivan is seeing this tonight. (He says he finds Alien to be clearly superior to Aliens.)

is there a franchise out there that varies as wildly in tone from movie to movie as the alien movies?

I'm sure Vivid Video has something.

isn't that a pr0n company?!?

is there a franchise out there that varies as wildly in tone from movie to movie as the alien movies?

I'm pretty sure Vivid's tone remains pretty consistent from franchise to franchise.

I rewatched the first 40 minutes of Alien last night but then i got scared bc i was all alone and tired and it was late. i was reminded that it is a really good movie, with good actors and a good script and good direction.
true story

Re: Batman -- I dunno:

First four Batmen: Darkly goofy
Next three: GRIM DOOM

Batman movies still carry a tone that's more similar, because it's Batman, after all, and he is a tone in himself (dark)

Start the franchise with camp Batman and you get camp Batman >>> Goth-goof Burton Batman >>> gaudy campy Schumacher Batman >>>> GRIM DOOM OSCAR Batman.

they should do some kind of tracking and find out how many people have gone and rewatched Alien as a result of seeing Prometheus

The Alien franchise carries plenty from movie to movie. It's not like, I dunno, Halloween 3. There's a shared design, mood, etc.

I was going to watch Alien again, but I pretty much have it memorized.

is there a franchise out there that varies as wildly in tone from movie to movie as the alien movies?

First thought was the James Bond movies, but that's more of a change from actor to actor.

Alien is good to watch again
especially because it has NOTHING TO DO WITH PROMETHEUS

maybe half a thing

I watched it the night before seeing Prometheus and sorely wish I hadn't, as it just made it worse.

The beginning of the two movies is the same, effectively.

Alien is so superior it's almost painful
if someone was watching with me they would've left the room because i would've been saying "oh my god, do you see this? that's how a sci-fi movie should be" every 2 minutes. instead i was just thinking it.

A board veteran weighs in

complaining about this movie diminishing Alien is so stupid

rrrobyn otm

i also blogged about some of the same points he hits... i couldnt help myself, i HAD to blog! http://markslutsky.com/post/24983621638/prometheus

nothing could diminish Alien, not even this movie - did someone say it did?

i read your blog post and otm-ed it throughout

i dunno--maybe i missed some things but i didnt get a "humans are special" vibe from the movie. kinda felt that idea was part of what led them into that death trap. almost a freudian death-drive kinda thing. and that the closing "that's why I'm human and you're not" (or whatever it was) seemed far more ambiguous to me than reaffirming the audience's faith in their own humanity.

i could def be wrong but some of the collective wisdom coalescing around this movie strikes me as a little off (not unlike what happened to AI).

it connects the dots back to humanity whcih is lame

making the aliens in this movie "genetically identical" to humans is also lame