feel like gremlins > gremlins 2 would be a good template for the direction of this seprequel
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:12 (ten years ago) link
PROMETHEUS 2: ANTIMETHEUS
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
as always, estela said it first, soz
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:39 (ten years ago) link
i have you all killfiled, this is just high tech doodling for me tbrr
― bi-polar uncle (its OK-he's dead) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
tbrr if you've killfiled estela AND me then there's absolutely no justification for being on ilx at all imo
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:42 (ten years ago) link
I've killfiled every single person on ilx I'm just guessing that the conversation itt has turned to killfiling at this point
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
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
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
my thursday evenings were a counsellor/prometheus crossover for three months after losing €8 on this
― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
this movie still rules h8 u all
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
oh it rules something alright
― nah, really, great post (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
it rules h8, i think jjjusten has shown that conclusively
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0SCD45K.jpg
Bad execution but I lol'd
― 龜, Thursday, 17 April 2014 07:35 (ten years ago) link
http://metro.co.uk/2014/05/10/michael-fassbender-confirms-prometheus-2-is-happening-but-he-has-no-idea-when-4723410/
― StanM, Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link
Was expecting ''but-he-has-no-idea-why''
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
but-he-has-no-idea-what-the-first-one-was-even-about
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 May 2014 05:35 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 May 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
this isn't the dumbest movie ever but it's the most infuriatingly dumb maybe
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 11 May 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
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
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 06:20 (nine years ago) link
It rubs the black goo on its skin
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 May 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
or it gets the giant space wheel again
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 06:25 (nine years ago) link
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
― Hastings Banter (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 May 2014 08:08 (nine years ago) link
"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."
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 May 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
this fuckin guy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 May 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
Itching to go all Godwin's Law on that last quote...
― StanM, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:29 (nine years ago) link
only 15 to 20, more or less an entire season, almost turds but arguably not turds
^ artistic manifesto
― j., Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― just like the one wing dove (Crabbits), Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
Robot just riding a BMX in circles shooting hoops by himself.Cool!
it rules, f the haters!
― ryan, Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
history will... not vindicate you
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
It's nice that everyone hates it; it means I got the used Blu-Ray for $5.
― just like the one wing dove (Crabbits), Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I talk a lot of shit about it but I don't actually hate it. Not completely anyway.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
"I was wrong, I was SO wrong!"
― ryan, Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
You know what be cool is if this turned out to be a prequel set in the Idiocracy universe
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Sunday, 11 May 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― slam dunk, Sunday, 11 May 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
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!
― slam dunk, Monday, 12 May 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
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.
― slam dunk, Monday, 12 May 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
To be fair, I don't know a lot about horror movies or anything, but this is a great horror movie.
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:15 (nine years ago) link
Honestly, I do wonder if this is a fight that breaks down on horror nerd/sci fi nerd/film dork lines. I'm actually mystified by the level of hate people have towards this movie, and a couple of you tend to have good taste, so I'm trying to work out why I think it's super solid and you all don't, which is why I'm guessing it has a lot to do with your approach etc
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
It's probably similar to the way Star Wars fans hate the prequels
― 龜, Monday, 12 May 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
can we settle this with a dance battle y/n
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:32 (nine years ago) link
Well the answer to that is always yes duh
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
XP alien fans (oh hi dere) would better serve their energy by hating the shitbag AVP movies though honestly.
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:48 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but everybody knew those were gonna be trash
We had a small hope that Ridley Scott would have done something worthy of the mythos
Like unfortunately every time you see the original Space Jockey in Alien you're just gonna think of Powder
― 龜, Monday, 12 May 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
I've never seen Powder, so I just think "a big bald white guy"
― Slumdog Baseballionaire (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 12 May 2014 03:54 (nine years ago) link
Wait so are people sad because space jockey wasn't terrible cgi squid head?
I am so confused by this reaction across the board.
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, 12 May 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
The point is they should never haver revealed the Space Jockey at all and focused on something else for this pointless prequel
― 龜, Monday, 12 May 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
creepy apple robot ads were great.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 12 May 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
― just like the one wing dove (Crabbits), Sunday, May 11, 2014 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a lot of people love Battleship too
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 12 May 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
― ohhhh lorde 2pac big please mansplain to this sucker (jjjusten), Monday, May 12, 2014 4:05 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well not having a squid head is ridiculous retconning on its own (the helmet just happened to look like bones!), but having him turn out to just be a tall guy with a sick gym bod and pale skin is stupid. Having him drink something and turn into DNA is stupid. Having his DNA be "identical" to ours is stupid.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 12 May 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link