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― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
For some reason I was skimming through the thread and my favourite thing was this Super Furry Animals callout:
important questions to be answered in prometheus sequel1) are there space jockey women2) do they have hair― the late great, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:54 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
1) are there space jockey women
2) do they have hair
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 02:54 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:23 (nine years ago) link
jolly white giant as a giger/brothers quay stop-motion puppet instead of what we got was another missed opportunity.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cpnas.org/events/daser-051514.html
I still haven't seen the movie, and I can't vouch for the quality of the event either, but this is happening in DC on Thursday.
― how's life, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Prometheus woulda been a great movie if midway thru they had cut to The Last Starfighter
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
This makes me think there's potential in a Turkish Star Wars version of Prometheus
― lauded at conferences of deluded psychopaths (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link
Why did David the android infect the dude scientist with the alien disease? Was that ever explained?
― jmm, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:10 (nine years ago) link
oh man if you missed that the the entire movie made no sense whatsoever!
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
wish it was like BATS and he got to proclaim, when asked why he would betray everybdoy and create these horrible monsters, ''I'm a robot. It's what we do.''
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:07 (nine years ago) link
I saw that most recent Liam Neeson movie, the one on the plane, and after this long, convoluted, complicated, pretty much impossible bad guy scheme plays out, and the bad guy is revealed, the bad guy goes on a rant that ends with the actual words "And it was so easy!" And yet the bad guy never explains how the bad guy did any of the near-impossible things the bad guy did. More movies should be that wave-the-hand audacious. Maybe this one wanted to be. Because it's about the questions, maaaan, not the answers. It's about making you think.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
Man, this movie must be one of the most impressively and confidently filmed pieces of shit ever. They should have let the CGI team have a crack at the script.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:27 (nine years ago) link
Otm
Great looking and sounding and reasonably well cast and performed, great setup and goodwill towards it, great trailer, stinking piece of crap throw shit at a wall story
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 May 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Haha wow this movie really was insanely stupid
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
..ly awesome
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 June 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
I love how the magestic engineers just decide to whop ass when meeting the humans
sequel??
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 21 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Yeah does look like it intended to set itself up for the further adventures of kickass female archaeologist and headless android in space looking to teach 'God' a lesson.
― Stevolende, Monday, 21 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
they could also do a further adventures of the lil first alien baby
― da croupier, Monday, 21 July 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
God this movie makes me so angry every time I think about it. The thing in the top picture is not a big bald guy in a fucking spacesuit like in the bottom picture, fuck you Lindelof and Scott 4ever.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208192152/avp/images/2/26/SpaceJockey.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UyheCMRhcxo/T9LAAvMAc4I/AAAAAAAAFxM/TGzY03M3iNY/s1600/Prometheus+alien+in+space+suit+helmet+88015_gal.png.jpg
― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Monday, 21 July 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Hey, elephant-head spacesuit fashions change, man.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
yeah that part in Alien is really good and weird. mysterious. another mystery ruined by revelation
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
in the sequel, on the engineer home planet, they explain that humanity (you) are a tangent to their own ego (I)(You) Tan (I)yutaniWeiland-Yutani
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
Also, we('re) on an i(s)land... like metaphorically or something.
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 24 July 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
Medieval diving suit design:
http://i.imgur.com/1qWB8.jpg http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111208192152/avp/images/2/26/SpaceJockey.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, July 21, 2014 12:56 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol yes
― mh, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVZUVeMtYXc
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OgD57dF.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
<3
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
that's better than the whole movie
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LENanHn.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Lmao
― 龜, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
Beautifully done.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/Vn2nWD4
― brimming with misplaced confidence (Phil D.), Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Vn2nWD4.jpg
excited (really!) to see how Exodus will complete the trilogy begun with Prometheus and The Counselor.
― ryan, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
The Counselor almost makes more sense as part of the Prometheus mythos
― mh, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:13 (nine years ago) link
lol
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 July 2014 16:20 (nine years ago) link
cant wait till Disney gets a hold of this franchise
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Saturday, 9 August 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
was just thumbing through some old Kirby comics and lol space jockey (1976):
http://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/dynamics/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/Eternals_1976_001_03-04.jpg
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Kirby invented everything
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
I'm talking about the Nintendo character of course
is it wrong that i get kinda stoked every time i see this thread revived?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
depends, are you looking forward to the sequel
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
holy shit at that kirby drawing, what's the comic?
I guess it's the kind of thing lots of people could have simultaneously come up with - it's basically taking WW2 pilot imagery and finding it horrifying and alien rather than heroic could be your basic post-Vietnam, post-60s reconsideration of humans' enmeshment in the electronic and mechanical apparatus (military or otherwise).
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
that's all just stock chariots of the gods imagery tho right?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
that is Eternals No. 1 from July 1976. I have no idea if it influenced Giger's original design or not but both were shopping their artwork around Hollywood studios and optioning things for film rights around the same time.
The overall concept (space gods intervening in Earth's evolution to produce humans and OTHER THINGS) is not unique to Kirby at all but he puts his own spin on it and as far as this particular conception of the dead-god-in-a-ship imagery I would say that no, there is no one else that would have done it the way Kirby did, dude was unique and one-of-a-kind.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 22:56 (nine years ago) link
I'm with you Tracer!
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
as this particular conception of the dead-god-in-a-ship imagery I would say that no, there is no one else that would have done it the way Kirby did, dude was unique and one-of-a-kind.
I'd second that. Love Kirby. Not knowing much about him at this level, I'd also hazard a guess that he was the kind of old-school illustrator who really did that stuff how-to-draw books tell you to do - collecting National Geographic and museum catalogs and shit for reference imagery. If it has a Von Daniken quality, it's probably because Kirby spent some time studying and sketching Egyptian and Mesoamerican art - but again, just speculating.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
speculations probably correct afaik. I do recall reading he kept stacks of stuff like Popular Mechanics and Nat'l Geo by his drawing board, and he pretty obviously used stuff like that for his collage work.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
important find imo!
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link