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

I am still all good with it.

it's a weird, ambitious and sadly awful genre movie, therefore likely to be cherished by a devoted cult for decades to come

so was alien v. predator, but i'm not seeing a cult coming, unless that new yorker poem was actually about alien v. predator

(i think it was!)

I still have yet to watch PREDATORS

The end of "Predators" is remarkably similar to and nearly as bad and unsatisfying as the end of "Prometheus." Adrien Brody is like our generation's Michael Caine.

so was alien v. predator, but i'm not seeing a cult coming, unless that new yorker poem was actually about alien v. predator

not nearly weird or ambitious enough, imo

it's a weird, ambitious and sadly awful genre movie, therefore likely to be cherished by a devoted cult for decades to come

― contenderizer, Friday, July 13, 2012 11:19 AM (2 hours ago)

around the second time I saw it I also watched the shining and the parallels were not lost on me

ppl forget cuz it's so well-regarded now but the shining was considered a stinkeroo upon release - kubrick even got nommed for a razzie!

predators is WAY better than prometheus
this is not an opinion. it is fact.

Topher Grace stuff...man, I dunno

they're both shit imho

yeah

i will not ride or die for predators but i watched it on a couch and it was a damn good time

It's a goofy movie for sure, but I enjoyed it.

i saw Predators at a 10am media screening and had a good time. i mean, it's bad, but it knows it and so is kind of awesome in its badness. maybe you just have to be tired and stressed and looking for two hours of brain-free time. i did kind of have a flashback to its ending during Prometheus' ending! mostly because my feeling on both was "where are you gonna go? do you even know how to fly that thing? etc." maybe Adrien Brody should have been the android. or an android in Predators. both really.

predators is WAY better than prometheus
this is not an opinion. it is fact.

― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Friday, July 13, 2012 5:47 PM (2 hours ago)

hahahaha NO

FACT

Blu-ray in October with 15 minutes of deleted scenes, Scott commentary and ...er..text file of the script.

guys I preordered the blu-ray a month ago, so I can plan on a long fall/winter of coming home from the bar and chilling w/Prometheus before bed

I loved how predators had a serious 80s vibe going for it.. action film with a cadre of stereotypical international badasses going up against and being mercilessly slain by aliens

(spoilers)

Predators is totally rad

the 80s action movie vibe was the best thing about predators, totally won me over

Yes, that was the best thing about it.

the other best thing was how it always seemed like adrien brody's head was cgi-ed onto a strongman's greased-up body

Predators was solid, but it has nothing on the batshit entertainment value of Predator 2.

the other best thing was how it always seemed like adrien brody's head was cgi-ed onto a strongman's greased-up body

^this is literally the only thing i remember about predators. i will ride for alien vs predator though.

trejo should have played noomi rapace's character.

i dug that they were trying to do an 80s thing with predator, in theory, but it just felt like fanfic... plus adrien brody, are you kidding me? you replace SCHWARZENEGGER with ADRIEN BRODY!?!?!

like first rule of 80s badassery is cast an actual credible badass

[Dutch is talking to the General]
Dutch: So why don't you use the regular army? What do you need us for?
Dillon: 'Cause some damn fool accused you of being the best.
[Dutch turns around and sees Dillon sitting in a chair in another room]
Dutch: Dillon! You son of a bitch!
[They arm wrestle in mid-air during a handshake, Dillon is apparently losing the contest]
Dutch: What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils? Huh? Had enough?
Dillon: Make it easy on yourself, Dutch.
[Dillon begins to lose further]
Dillon: OK, OK, OK!
Dutch: You never did know when to quit, huh?
Dillon: Damned good to see ya, Dutch.
Dutch: What is this fucking tie business?
Dillon: Aw, come on, forget about my tie, man.

the way he says "DEE-LON!" kills me

Early SCHWARZENEGGER accent is so good, once he was able to give convincing line readings in English but still so oddly emphasized

meat grinduh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQcGljqpfdg

my friend, when he was working at the local community college's library for a short period actually created me a dummy library account with the name PLO CHOPS

http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/08/02/chainsawsuit-ruins-it-for-you-prometheus-2/

Man, I want Carl Weathers in an Expendables movie

* The crab aliens are incredibly lethal when first encountered, yet at the first sign of hunger, Williams says he’ll just “grab and eat one of those crab aliens.”

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/30813/4b68692c793d5_30813n.jpg

If I'm being honest I want Carl Weathers in every movie.

The Space Jockey uses a fighting style that appears to be Muay Thai kickboxing. It's likely that the Space Jockey is in fact using an alien martial art that simply resembles Muay Thai kickboxing in every particular, or indeed that at some point in the past Space Jockeys visited Earth to teach humans Muay Thai kickboxing.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/06/bacteria-transform-the-closest-living-relatives-of-animals-form-single-cells-into-colonies/

well placed!

talked to a friend about this movie on saturday night. he was genuinely surprised to learn that anyone thought there was anything silly or unreasonable about it. i forget that this is not the real world.

the world where prometheus is reasonable is the real world?

can't hear you s1ocki munchin on popcorn

I ended up seeing this in all 3 formats - IMAX 3D, 3D, and 2D

would've gone a 4th time at the local dollar cinema but it was gone in a flash

i don't know what to say to that

I think you can call yourself Edward IIID after that. xppst

I've streamed it 2x on some grainy Eastern Euro tripod cam bootleg... that has to count for something.