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

Franco burns to death in a box, that's something

er, spoilers??

fuck's sake

removing bookmark

that's a bit more specific info than i was hoping for from james, tbf, but i kinda feel like if you're looking at a thread for a movie that's on general release you've only got yourself to blame if and when spoilers show up

if you're looking at a thread for Ridley Scott's new Alien movie you've only got yourself to blame

fair

Was it ever explained why they cast Guy Pierce in bad makeup as an old man the first movie, vs. just an older actor?

Or Guy Pearce, for that matter?

He appears in a web exclusive (IE cut scene) as young himself (and also does so in Covenant, I think I heard?)

is there any other big-budget franchise which has gone on as long as the alien series without actually making a decent film in (charitably) 25 years? even the bond series accidentally makes a reasonable one every couple of decades

every step they take to world-build this universe past aliens has just made it more boring and boxed it further into the corner of 'hapless chumps get chomped in space (occasionally a predator shows up)'

i had no idea it was out. i just looked at imdb and it came out what, yesterday? there is a natural etiquette to these things. however point taken

ugh the "bond is sometimes good" bat signal has been activated on a day when i am very busy

20 years! Still, Jesus, 20 years.

ugh the "bond is sometimes good" bat signal has been activated on a day when i am very busy

tbf i said 'reasonable'

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mark s just desperate to wade in with an impassioned defence of the bond series, i can tell

fraid we're not getting away from von daniken as long as ppl stan for kubrick as a deep thinker

― mark s, Thursday, May 11, 2017 6:52 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

important post

it's true, the part where barry lyndon fought a pistol duel with an ancient alien was really terrible

it spoke to me, the guy who gets world-weary when having to listen to others talk about how deep movies are

makes u think

all my posts are important, some of them may not be well understood yet

Much like Kubrick's oeuvre

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deep/shallow such a lousy critical metaphor anyway

In today's lack of surprise

http://io9.gizmodo.com/ridley-scott-admits-fan-backlash-over-prometheus-influe-1795126523

the biggest problem is that ridley scott is a nincompoop

or strength, if you're tracer hand and not read this thread any more

he's no tony scott, that's for sure

at this point he's more like Dr. Gene Scott

He could play him in a movie easy!

Sorry about spoiler, but it happens in the first 5 minutes of the film

Nobody else is dumb enough to have gone to see this, huh?

Only opens in the UK today (think there were previews yesterday) and not until next week in the US.

i might go and see it this weekend

the lure of franco immolation is too strong to resist

Wasn't at all interested in seeing this but I was promised some food if I went out, the pizza was good, the film went beneath my low expectations.

There's some pretty impressive sights, visual references to Bocklin and possibly John Martin, but it probably all looked better in the concept art stages because it has that fakey blockbuster look to it.

The aliens never look as good as they did in the first four films, which surprised me. Looks like they stuck to cgi entirely?

There was some bizarre choice of sexual innuendo in the dialogue which the audience cracked up at. Several people started shouting about how much the film sucked, they were told to fuck off and thankfully they did after 10 minutes or so. I got a sense that they wouldn't have liked it even if it was great.

Fassbender gets some of the bulk of the bad dialogue and I'm not sure how well he could have delivered it all but the lead actress is good.

Genuine question: why did people have such hopes for this one? Have Scott's recent films been good?

who are these "people" you're referring to?

I don't know if I've ever been in a commercial theater where people yelled stuff at the screen unless it was some special event or like rocky horror

my god, you are a fortunate soul

I understood that was an unavoidable aspect of the experience in the US of A

Rich Juzwiak, suffering for art

http://themuse.jezebel.com/in-space-everyone-can-see-you-make-a-shitty-sequel-lik-1795018650

...a weird homoeroticism between Fassbender droids ensues. I wasn’t sure if David teaching Walter to play a recorder-like wind instrument was meant to be funny—“Watch me, I’ll do the fingering”—but the screening audience I saw this movie with on Friday evening certainly found that line hilarious. You have to take your entertainment where you can find it, I suppose.

Yeah that was the moment.

fwiw Vanity Fair preferred Life over this

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/03/life-jake-gyllenhaal-daniel-espinosa-review
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/05/alien-covenant-review-ridley-scott

yeeesh

I also prefer having a life over this

how would you know

:)

:D

Matt Zoller Seitz gave it four stars on Ebert's site, Ignaty gave it a B+ on AVClub.

i'm willing to give this a chance, i often don't agree w/the conventional wisdom on movies like this.