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

i will rent the dvd to see those

though i bet the alternate beginning is like 20 minutes of noomi and annoying camping in the woods

i wonder if the engineer priest gives a speech in hebrew

on the ad it shows a bunch of blue dudes standing around the sacrificial blue dude, then the later blue dude at his controls which then cuts to a v quick shot of him standing with what looks like something alien-y looming behind him, v quick and vague

unless i got distracted that's all you get unless you torrent buy the blu-ray, normal dvd just gets the film

hm is the blueray out yet?

excuse me blu ray

next monday (in the uk anyway) and it has at least two versions. the 'special edition' has a 3 1/2 hour making-of documentary. might have been easier if scott just popped up at the beginning of the film and apologised

This is such a goofy movie yet I am looking forward to the blu ray.

i am going to go watch this at my parent's house on their fancy TV

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M0FmJPDWi04/UGn7twTKTFI/AAAAAAAAAb4/KVwniea6kyY/s1600/aliens+center.jpg

here are the deleted scenes, looks like 4 of them are already available on US itunes (along with the digital version of the film)

00:02:31:16 (ARRIVAL OF THE ENGINEERS)
00:00:58:05 (T’IS THE SEASON)
00:00:42:08 (OUR FIRST ALIEN)
00:00:42:14 (SKIN)
00:01:22:01 (WE’RE NOT ALONE ANYMORE)
00:02:57:01 (STRANGE BEDFELLOWS)
00:01:25:04 (HOLLOWAY HUNGOVER)
00:00:23:12 (DAVID’S OBJECTIVE)
00:03:27:07 (JANEK FILLS VICKERS IN)
00:03:40:12 (A KING HAS HIS REIGN)
00:02:01:24 (FITFIELD ATTACKS)
00:04:06:06 (THE ENGINEER SPEAKS)
00:05:30:04 (FINAL BATTLE)
00:05:05:19 (PARADISE)

nah u clown that's a muse tracklist

huh, which one is the lightning bolt cover?

here are the deleted scenes, looks like 4 of them are already available on US itunes (along with the digital version of the film)

00:02:31:16 (ARRIVAL OF THE ENGINEERS)
00:00:58:05 (T’IS THE SEASON)
00:00:42:08 (OUR FIRST ALIEN)
00:00:42:14 (SKIN)
00:01:22:01 (WE’RE NOT ALONE ANYMORE)
00:02:57:01 (STRANGE BEDFELLOWS)
00:01:25:04 (HOLLOWAY HUNGOVER)
00:00:23:12 (DAVID’S OBJECTIVE)
00:03:27:07 (JANEK FILLS VICKERS IN)
00:03:40:12 (A KING HAS HIS REIGN)
00:02:01:24 (FITFIELD ATTACKS)
00:04:06:06 (THE ENGINEER SPEAKS)
00:05:30:04 (FINAL BATTLE)
00:05:05:19 (PARADISE)

― space dokken (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:20 (2 hours ago) Permalink

nah u clown that's a muse tracklist

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 01:22 (2 hours ago) Permalink

lol

life lessons from Prometheus

-Ultimately, we're all working/dying for some rich asshole's vanity project
-The sought-after Answers to Life's Big Questions are unsatisfying and nearly incomprehensible.
-the only ones thriving in the modern work environment are psychopaths (androids)
-don't ever let Damon Lindelof near a computer again

― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:49 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't argue with any of that

― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 26, 2012 4:03 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark

I actually ended up enjoying Prometheus too, despite its many glaring flaws. I don't blame anyone for ragging on it, though. There's a lot of needlessly stupid stuff in it.

00:05:30:04 (FINAL BATTLE)
00:05:05:19 (PARADISE)

I was reading these numbers as where in the film they turn up, and I was like 'the extended version is over 5 hours long?????'

-the only ones thriving in the modern work environment are psychopaths
-don't ever let Damon Lindelof near a computer again

former implies latter

[Pondering] Who wrote The Bible?

http://www.sci-fi-london.com/news/blu-ray/2012/10/ridley-scott-talks-prometheus

*arched eyebrow*

http://screencrush.com/prometheus-blade-runner/

just the worst

I'm actually waiting for the Legend tie-in.

Only just got round to seeing this - the first forty minutes or so were absolutely fantastic; massively intriguing, beautifully directed. Became a muddle once the action kicked in, with some cool ideas and sequences, but nothing in the way of a satisfying resolution for any of the plot threads.

I want to see the director's cut! Knowing it will be bad is not deterring me at all.

*arched eyebrow*

http://screencrush.com/prometheus-blade-runner/

― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 8, 2012 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a terrific idea!

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/31254/lucas%20laughing.jpg

Became a muddle once the action kicked in, with some cool ideas and sequences, but nothing in the way of a satisfying resolution for any of the potheads.

Man, what in the world would Lucas look like without a beard to delineate the divide between his neck and face?

rich

http://www.lolriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/George-Lucas-Without-a-Beard.jpg

Man, what in the world would Lucas look like without a beard to delineate the divide between his neck and face?

Jabba, basically.

Jon Spaihts on the script pre-Lindelof:

http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1563

So that lovemaking sequence echoed my original lovemaking sequence where he explodes!

does not sound like a huge improvement

I would actually like to read Spaights' version of Prometheus. He wrote a couple of hard sci-fi spec scripts, Passengers and Shadow 19, which are pretty good.

The final product really does have the stamp of Lindelof indulging Scott's worst instincts.

hard sci-fi

sorry it's a Party Down aftereffect.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

hard sci-fi

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry it's a Party Down aftereffect.

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it's cool Roman is probably my favorite nerd character of all time.

you can bet he would have wriiten a scathing review of Prometheus on his prestigious blog, sir.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:18 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it would have been cool to see somebody else do it.

so many would have/could have been's with this flick. *sigh*

I wonder how many people read that post, wanted to post "HARD SCI-FI", and then saw it'd already been done. Know I did.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, October 8, 2012 9:18 PM Bookmark

Yeah, exactly, this is always what's been so cool about this series (and, really, why AvP sucked so bad - it was just so anonymous). Of course, I was pretty hyped when I first heard Scott was doing this; if it'd been good I doubt I'd be whining that the fascination of the serial-director thing had been thrown off.

AvP is a Paul W. S. Anderson joint, which isn't such a bad thing, other than the fact he's made some pretty shit films. Well, actually, some friends always spoke intriguingly if not positively of Event Horizon, which I couldn't bring myself to pick up the other week on seeing his name. But I've actually watched several of his things in the last few years. I feel like he's generically bad, but not completely anonymous.

I feel like Ridley Scott and James Cameron each did interesting things with the franchise that were productive as films. Fincher and Jeunet did things that were interesting but not necessarily productive. Scott did a quote-unquote non-Alien franchise film that was not really that interesting, and not productive.

It's kind of shocking how much AvP there is in Prometheus. The scene where Weyland explains the mission to the crew is practically the same scene in both movies.

not least of all the final scene with the hybrid alien emerging from the engineer/predator too.

latebloomer stop making me sad thinking about that, was trying to envision AvP as a totally different thing offshooting from a similar background but no actual link

Either fake, or an early draft: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/leaked_script.txt

― James Mitchell, Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:46 AM (6 months ago)

^^^Despite fanboys' insistence claims of fakeness, this turned to be one of Lindelof's earliest perversions of Spaihts original script^^^

lol that interview reminds me of the fact that the super advanced high tech medical machine on the ship didnt have a 'lady' setting

space misogyny will be alive and well

nah it was calibrated specifically for Weyland