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

i dunno that the Ridley thing is a shock because the quality of his output has been...not great? (i say this as a massive Kingdom of Heaven apologist)

I just hope we find out that his Exodus movie is also an Alien prequel

Prometheus II: Now With New Boring

Maybe they'll make it with no sound this time so we can just admire Ridley's space-pretty

still love this movie :-/

adorable :)

eh why the hell not

Basically if this is to be any good (it won't be obv) it has two options: go the full-on sci-fi horror route or take the lazily invoked religious hooha from Prometheus one and push it to the extreme (i.e. GIMMME GIGER PLANET RULED BY TALKING ZARDOZ HEAD WITH VAGINA MOUTH)

prometheus vs predator

discussing this with my son the other day but we thought Fassbender was going to duck out and we came up with excellent ditch-the-head storylines, anyhoo the upshot was on the one hand i wanna see this in the cinema to get the full blast of hilarity but on the other hand i don't think anybody shd be encouraging this tool by giving him more money

I dunno, I would be happier if Scott keeps on making incoherent-but-gorgeous hot sci-fi messes like Prometheus rather than the boooring historical epics he's been churning out since the 90s.

LV-426: Conquest of Paradise

Will noomi ridley of this somnolent scott

feel like gremlins > gremlins 2 would be a good template for the direction of this seprequel

PROMETHEUS 2: ANTIMETHEUS

as always, estela said it first, soz

i have you all killfiled, this is just high tech doodling for me tbrr

tbrr if you've killfiled estela AND me then there's absolutely no justification for being on ilx at all imo

I've killfiled every single person on ilx I'm just guessing that the conversation itt has turned to killfiling at this point

I dunno, I would be happier if Scott keeps on making incoherent-but-gorgeous hot sci-fi messes like Prometheus rather than the boooring historical epics he's been churning out since the 90s.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:04 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Really want a Counsellor/Prometheus crossover

my thursday evenings were a counsellor/prometheus crossover for three months after losing €8 on this

this movie still rules h8 u all

oh it rules something alright

it rules h8, i think jjjusten has shown that conclusively

http://i.imgur.com/0SCD45K.jpg

Bad execution but I lol'd

http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/10/michael-fassbender-confirms-prometheus-2-is-happening-but-he-has-no-idea-when-4723410/

Was expecting ''but-he-has-no-idea-why''

but-he-has-no-idea-what-the-first-one-was-even-about

but-he-has-no-idea-why-the-scientist-in-the-first-one-made-the-most-incredible-discovery-in-the-history-of-mankind-and-then-promptly-went-back-to-the-spaceship-to-sulk-and-play-pool-because-he-didnt-see-any-actual-aliens-in-like-his-first-thirty-seconds-of-poking-around

Don't forget him being inexplicably racist against robots!

In a movie with a lot of stupid things in it that character and fake Tom Hardy's performance were probably the most ill-conceived. Like I can take the rest as a gorgeous dumbass genre movie but that character really, really grates.

this isn't the dumbest movie ever but it's the most infuriatingly dumb maybe

it's the kind of dumb that creeps up on you

like, innocently asks for help loading a couch & then BAM you're trapped in a well

It rubs the black goo on its skin

or it gets the giant space wheel again

i think that after all this time people with all sorts of attitudes to the movie are still in this thread marvelling at how unbelievably stupid it is, is testament to how unbelievably fucking stupid it is

"We did 121 hours of Lost. Arguably only 15 to 20 of them were subpar, bordering on turds. It would be great to pretend those episodes never happened, but I love the fact that we're still talking about Nikki and Paulo," Lindelof told Esquire.

"Sometimes the mistake, the thing that wasn't good, is the thing that's really part of the legacy of a show like ours."

this fuckin guy

Itching to go all Godwin's Law on that last quote...

only 15 to 20, more or less an entire season, almost turds but arguably not turds

^ artistic manifesto

I really liked Prometheus. I watched five times in the first month after I saw it. I would still sit down and watch it any time. I found out from some Cracked article that pedants hated it for pedantic reasons and so I am choosing not to read this thread.

Robot just riding a BMX in circles shooting hoops by himself.
Cool!

it rules, f the haters!

history will... not vindicate you

It's nice that everyone hates it; it means I got the used Blu-Ray for $5.

I talk a lot of shit about it but I don't actually hate it. Not completely anyway.

history will... not vindicate you

"I was wrong, I was SO wrong!"

You know what be cool is if this turned out to be a prequel set in the Idiocracy universe

i just watched this again. it's great! i think someone on this thread said that they liked the way it smushed together a bunch of different types of horror movie-that's what i like the most about it. the scene where the lil proto-facehugger kills the two guys is so great. it's a type of scene that's in every monster movie ever-human discovers monster, monster shows what it can do-and the execution is perfect. there's just something about the tempo of it. the way the gruesomeness ramps up so fast, cramming so many horrible things-having a creature tighten itself on you. getting your arm broken, getting attacked by something, being suffocated, having a hostile entity invade your body, having plastic melt onto your face, having something forced down your throat-into a 30-second span but making it feel organic and scary. and then i love the way you don't find out what exactly happened to them for awhile.

another great monster movie moment: when the second guy turns up at the entrance to the spaceship, alive, but with his body contorted into that horrible position that seems to be giving him no discomfort, and the other guy's dawning realization that something really fucked up has happened. and then he stands up!

i think if stephen king ever updates danse macabre he would write about that scene. the only people behaving dumbly part that really bugs me is charlize theron at the end running away from what is basically a giant wheel. like if that was really happening i think your first instinct would not be to run in a straight line directly in it's path. maybe run a dogleg. something.