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

i am gonna be watching out for left-right up-down action in sf films in future

you could say the same about minority report or the matrix or star wars, it's all running back and forth

like in minority report he's pretty much acting out the life of those balls in the maze in the auto scenes

i'm not even gonna touch the internal stupidities cos i assume this was not meant to have any resemblance to real human beings and the ways in which they may or may not behave, the people were just a convenient hook to hang all the hot helmeting action on

Love you guys

fifield hung someone on a literal hook iirc

this was crap

i stole idea from josh clovers matrix book but i mean early sci fi is all about *travel* in the same way horror is always about the body so it makes sense in a way. look at 2001.

not sure where stuff like i robot and ai fit in there though

i kept waiting for the story to start then it was over and our Joel was laughing at me as i sat there staring disbelievingly at the screen

Wanna see this again

nope!

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california moray eel

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I finally saw this on Friday. What a fucking stinker.

Also, I now see why Kate Dickie had so little dialogue in Red Road. She reminded me of that woman from Spatz and Mike & Angelo.

a tower of hot piss

ugg boots though

i wonder could this movie feasibly be re-edited not to be such complete shite, even if that required 5 mins of a blank screen with some sketchy voice-over narration round or about the time she goes all days of our lives with her wombhugger b/f or w/e

Yeah, I think it would take some serious "restoration from damaged print of 100-year-old movie" title cards. "(Missing Scene [20 mins]...)"

hahah just paged back through the thread, i'd forgotten that chainsawsuit.com thing.

David: I have researched the historical significance of the name “Sisyphus.” He was a Greek figure, damned to repeat the folly of his past over and over as punishment.
Dr. Falmouth: It’d be pretty ironic if the crew of our ship lived up to that namesake. Like if we each were the Sisyphus in our own story.
David: It would be.
Dr. Falmouth: That’s the name of our ship, too. Sisyphus.

i wonder could this movie feasibly be re-edited not to be such complete shite, even if that required 5 mins of a blank screen with some sketchy voice-over narration round or about the time she goes all days of our lives with her wombhugger b/f or w/e

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:49 PM (38 minutes ago)

scott's got a directors cut w/ 20 minutes of cut footage, I'm sure it'll be an improvement, also sure in 15 years this will be considered a scifi classic and y'all will be saying why didn't we listen to ed we're fools *sob*

yeah i'd figured on the 20-30 mins for a director's cut, the question wasn't purely zingy tbf

in 15 years, the cut of this movie that was inflicted on us will be a whispered legend, a whispered tale told by broken former movie execs at the wrong parties. as to another cut, well who can say

in 15 years this will be thought of the way we today think of Virus and Sphere

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Oh god, I watched Sphere a couple weeks ago. It is very true to the Crichton book. Which is to say, the characters and dialogue suck and it's an irritating film. Makes Prometheus look.... better by comparison

good save

why would adding 20 minutes to a shitty movie improve it

10 mins of lindelhof being horsewhipped, 10 mins of ridley scott apologising, idk i could see it working

lindelhof and scott drink black goo together and jump off a waterfall

which runs swiftly into a closeup to black before a pullout reveals it to be flowing reels of film into a canister

Oh god, I watched Sphere a couple weeks ago. It is very true to the Crichton book. Which is to say, the characters and dialogue suck and it's an irritating film. Makes Prometheus look.... better by comparison

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, September 17, 2012 4:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh it's very true to the book except for dropping the ending which makes the whole book worthwhile

20 extra minutes of idris and charlize flirting and then slow-dancing to "etta james"

no idea how the quotes got in there

it would be like the bar scene in far from heaven

Why you all hating on Sphere, it's the only film ever made where Queen Latifah somehow gets killed by jellyfish.

Was a fan of the book, found the movie hopelessly dopey IIRC. "Worst Film Adapted From a Michael Crichton Novel" would be a pretty good poll - - - somehow despite having a really strong hand on the pulse of techno-thriller pulp entertainment, dude had really bad luck as far as blockbuster adaptations go, Jurassic Park obviously excepted.

The movies of The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man are both really good

it's Congo in a walk

yeah Congo is the worst.

Timeline or whatever the dark ages one is pretty grim, too.

Congo is hilarious

Also, I now see why Kate Dickie had so little dialogue in Red Road. She reminded me of that woman from Spatz and Mike & Angelo.
Haha, excellent! KD's accent kept kicking me out of the film. I wasn't sure if it was because she was wooden, or because it was too fucking weird hearing someone from East Kilbride in a science fiction film. One of the folk I saw it with said it would have been better if they'd cast Limmy instead of her. Wouldn't've been any more jarring.

damon lindelof should be imprisoned

on an island, in space, with god

hmm strikes me that this may well be his outlook anyway

I'm trying to forget that I spent money on watching this piece of shit, so kindly leave this thread to die.

bonus footage is apparently stuff that fills plot holes that enable a sequel that may not happen <--- unlikely to make this shitpile any better admittedly

it would have been better if they'd cast Limmy instead of her

lol

pretty sure the sequel got greenlit for 2014

what I'd like to see in an extra 20 minutes are things that square some of the unexplained character behavior - e.g. fifield getting the biologist high on his "tobacco" before he starts inexplicably sticking his hand in strange alien faces. supposedly the edit that was released was scott's pg-13 cut (i.e. he was expecting it to be rated pg-13).

I'm getting this weird feeling you guys didn't like this movie

I enjoyed it

Pretty much all the character behaviour in this film is unexplained - except where that one guy at the beginning says "I'M A LONER SOCIOPATH ONLY IN THIS FOR THE MONEY JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR OK" - so that would be a long 20 minutes.

pretty sure the sequel got greenlit for 2014

i thought it was "in talks"

i mean i'm only interested so i know which films i won't be seeing in 2014