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

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new alien revealed

spraaaang burst

Spoiler stuff in this report (which I read anyway because hey)

http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-alien-covenant-footage-showed-destruction-on-a-who-1793864681

prometheus is on telly and i am rewatching it

it is bad

so very bad

it has one good scene and that's it

the only people more incompetent than the scientists aboard the ship are the scriptwriters

you must be watching it wrong

i am quite tired

it's precisely as beautiful as The Room and for the same reasons

try the "VERT" and "HORIZ" knobs, sometimes that kicks the narrative into gear.

now and then i wonder if it's meant to be a comedy (not that it works as one, but there's a kind of slapstick rhythm to some of the scenes)

I def laughed when the Engineer just kills the rich guy

needed more of this guy:
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def a high point and a little like the punchline to a 2-hr setup

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also fassbender's goody-dreamy smile

i mean goofy-dreamy

and the entire self-caesarian is of course virtuoso hilarious

"error: this med-pod is calibrated for male patients only"

now i am rewatching GODS OF EGYPT

the wrong scott brother died imo

also why are you torturing yourself like this, mark

lol gods of egypt what did we ever see in alex proyas

Burk Sharpless strikes again

remember when aaron sorkin was publicly astonished to discover that hollywood isn't a true meritocracy a week or too ago? the two-word counter-argument that should have instantly convinced him that yeah mediocre men DO get way more chances than women or people of colour is 'alex proyas'

I'll still hang out and watch I, Robot and Dark City pretty much any time, though

i couldn't sit through i. robot once tbh. i caught ten minutes of it on tv recently and holy hell that cg has not aged well at all

for one thing there more than 1 robot, sort it out scriptwriters

i did watch gods of egypt on netflix recently and all i could focus on was gerard butler's accent, which literally changes from scene to scene - it's the laziest performance i've seen in forever, even by big gerry's usual mahogany-laden standards

i am rereading this entire thread while rewatching gods of egypt

i've got to the bit -- which seems to have occurred before many ppl saw prometheus -- where ridley cites the agreement of three most important authorities on the "big questions" viz the Vatican, NASA and Erich von Däniken

Total road comedy there

gods of egypt >>> prometheus is all departments, including sci-fi look and "answers the big questions abt where we come from"

i post this while watching the "giant lesbian asps in a hellraiser maze" section

a teeny-tiny lawrence-of-arabia thing that puzzled-annoyed me while rewatching the space-caesarian of a thread-topic movie yesterday

david watches peter o'toole saying "the trick, mr potter, is not minding that it hurts", and quotes it to himself as he slooches his hair into a version of o'toole's fey do (iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)

except he doesn't quote it right, he entirely misses the (also somewhat fey) emphasis o'toole gives the word "minding" -- but he's a robot, why does he decide NOT to get it right, NOT to repeat it exactly?

(of course it's a p bad scene in the david lean movie, in that mr potter is a clumsily signalled comedy cockney and the point, abt burning yrself with a match, is do-you-see obvious, L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying, ho hum nothing new under the giant desert sun)

L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying

had to double-check you weren't talking about prometheus there

<i>(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)</i>

This very OTM.

oops

(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)

They wake up. They're already on some planet. Bad robot. Bad BAD robot. etc etc -- yeah, this would've been cool.

had to double-check you weren't talking about prometheus there

i assume much stupid blogging ink has been spilled on how LoA is the crypto-key to prometheus, i just wanted to get the much bigger similarity into print viz both films are bad

still rereading (gods of egypt long over): passage where tuomas suddenly starts posting needs more backstory

threadread completed, good work ilxor

Various new TV spots, etc. etc. plus this bit of weirdness involving John Denver and what may have happened to Rapace's character:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-alien-covenant-footage-teases-the-grim-fate-of-noo-1793989478

That alien smashing its head against the glass so it can eat Danny McBride looks so bad it's putting me off this entire movie. Well, that plus the presence of James Franco and Danny McBride, who are both deal-breakers for me. But seriously, that alien actually looks worse/dumber than the human/alien hybrid from 4.

maybe they're planning to honour alien 3 by opening with the discovery of her corpse in a broken hypersleep chamber and that'll be the extent of her involvement

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You guys get het up about the dumbest shit.

BTW - http://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3430628/alien-day-prepares-covenant-theatrical-release-original-1979-film-prometheus/

Alien Day returns on April 26, a nod to planet LV-426 from the iconic Alien films, as the countdown continues for the highly anticipated new chapter in Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking Alien sci-fi thriller, Alien: Covenant, releasing in theaters worldwide beginning May 10.

Cast members from Covenant will join fan-focused festivities including a live streaming event, an interactive trivia challenge, worldwide screenings, all-new product launches, special reveals and more.

The biggest surprise, however, if a theatrical re-release of Prometheus, which sets the stage for Covenant.

jared kushner is basically gob bluth in that episode of arrested development where he

You guys get het up about the dumbest shit.

mods new board descrip pls

well that was weird

Jared Kushner, xenomorph

Prometheus and, I'm sure, Prometheus 2 are the dumbest shit but are people really getting het up about it