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

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.

To be fair, I don't know a lot about horror movies or anything, but this is a great horror movie.

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

It's probably similar to the way Star Wars fans hate the prequels

can we settle this with a dance battle y/n

Well the answer to that is always yes duh

XP alien fans (oh hi dere) would better serve their energy by hating the shitbag AVP movies though honestly.

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

I've never seen Powder, so I just think "a big bald white guy"

Wait so are people sad because space jockey wasn't terrible cgi squid head?

I am so confused by this reaction across the board.

The point is they should never haver revealed the Space Jockey at all and focused on something else for this pointless prequel

creepy apple robot ads were great.

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, May 11, 2014 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a lot of people love Battleship too

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, 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.

So

You accept a world where huge aliens exist, but only if their heads don't look like people. And this whole DNA thing is ridiculous, but blood made of acid is completely within the biological rules. Huh.

Acid blood is cool as shit, is the thing

You can have any imagined present you like in yr SciFi movie.

Just dont explain it if yr explanation is going to annoy everyone.

The acid blood alien/dna powder gym buffs/future intergalactical travel etc etc arent the problem here ito what the audience will swallow while maintaining goodwill. It's the behaviour of the friggin humans (with whom we are meant to identify) that leaves me smh, wtmc & fmsats.

Kill lindelhof slowly over heat and euthanize Scott.

^^^

lol pointing out that this film and everything that happens in it is fucking idiotic is hardly "TEARS DONT LOOK LIKE THAT IN SPACE" pedantry

I like the "you suspended disbelief once so nothing is ever dumb" reasoning too