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

well, david pilots the space jockey ship to Planet Old-Timey Space Jockeys and kills them all. at that point he has an evil spaceship, the black goo, access to all of the space jockeys' advanced sixth-century technology, and shaw as a captive test subject in hypersleep. why's he crash the ship on a mountain? just in the hopes that someday a beacon of shaw singing john denver will lure somebody to the crash site and it'll look more realistic? why not just hit the gas and go looking for victims for his insane experiments, if he wants to destroy all humans and also destroy all space jockeys for whatever reason that we aren't told? go looking for colonist ships in hypersleep even. or was he really planning on staying on his creepy basement planet forever, happily tinkering on model ships and facehuggers, and it's only after these morons show up that he's like "hey, wait, this gives me an idea"?

i like genre staples, i just want to find them in good genre movies. with a cast half this size, that i related to as people, where you had any time given over to building up suspense and audience identification, i might have been freaked out and heart racing in the theater, not wanting to see them face whatever horrible thing lies around the creepy corner. but it just blitzed through everything. the titles coming onto screen too fast is basically the movie in microcosm imho. but glad you had more fun with it!

even his cover story to walter is pretty stupid (unless it's a more intelligently-written bit, where he's ashamed of what he did and wants walter to like him and is putting off telling him the truth until later) - - - why even admit the suspicious coincidence of their ship arriving and releasing the black goo? you'd think he'd be like "yes this planet is truly mysterious, we arrived to find everybody dead, the best i can tell is that they developed this deadly pathogen and then accidentally released it, shaw had only begun to plumb its riddles when she tragically passed away. please pay no attention to her horrible preserved corpse over there in the corner." but OTOH the idea that david doesn't really "get" people, for all his love of lawrence of arabia (or am i mixing prometheus up with wall-e?), is actually an interesting one that you'd hope more could have been done with.

I appreciated the lack of explanation for why the ship was crashed! like idk I hope Ridley doesn't make another movie to explain why he couldn't find a spot to properly land it

i'm fine with every single thing not being spelled out, it's just when the actual things we're shown, and the character's motivations, don't make any internal sense it just seems like they're making shit up and throwing it into the movie. idk i should stop thinking about this movie but man it was real dumb.

did u see the part where an alien burst through a guy's back, that was hardcore

With the mystifying Idris Elba onsessed with Stephen Stills in Prometheus, and John fucking Denver in this one, obviously in the Aliens universe/Ridley Scott's head nobody has written a song since 1980.

Is the escape from the lab in Alien: Resurrection the high point of the idea that Aliens actually think and co-operate?

Ripley: They cut the power.
Private Hudson: What do you mean *they* cut the power? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!

nobody has written a song since 1980

Ridley is Geir

SPOILERS

Saw this brought up elsewhere so I can't take credit, but why the hell did David create a fake headstone for Shaw? He had no expectation that anyone was ever going to come along that he would either need to show it to or otherwise explain.

he's an insane robot?

Neural networks will produce some bizarre outputs.

idk, her body with a huge gaping hole in the torso /could/ be under there

I couldn't figure out if what others found was actually a preserved her or a sculpture

i wanted to see more of his drawings. basically everything i wanted to see more of in this movie last about a minute onscreen. i even wanted to see more of the terraforming room on the ship. or more of the ship.

The stone city. Wanted to see more of that.

so I shouldn't watch this huh

do you want to see Fassbender smooch himself

I want to watch Fassbender smooch me

“I’ll do the fingering.”

imo they established via Walter that the David android models were pretty much discontinued and boxed up on earth, but didn't have enough of Walter reacting to how fucked up David was

Holy shit there is so little in theaters right now that this is the only thing of interest, despite its presumptive shitness.

David's erotic will to power is on of the main reasons to watch this film

guys should i get baked and go to see this tomorrow, y/n

AMC here was showing Smokey and the Bandit on several screens for some reason, I really wish I'd gone to see that instead. I guess Pirates of the Caribbean Five could be distracting or something although personally you'd have to pay me money to go back to that series after 2 and 3. Also, if Colossal is playing in your town, I finally did see that and it's good! Flawed but good... interesting, thought-provoking, got under my skin. Content warning for survivors of abusive relationships and alcoholism, though.

3 is the best potc: 1, 2 and 4 are weak

o wait colossal is playing here tomorrow - maybe i should use it as a palate-cleanser after this

I've already seen GotG, and there's like nothing else. Tons of shit. And most of the movies opening this weekend look like shit, too.

ah shit, I missed Colossal

um, hello, a little film called Baywatch...

Oh shit, that's by the Timecrimes guy!?

Would watch Timecrimes guy direct Baywatch.

baywatch is a timecrime guy joint?!?

No, but wouldn't that be great. Colossal is.

Goddam it, that's playing at literally one theatre at literally one horrible time.

Priyanka Chopra on the big screen is enough to make me go see Baywatch. but i'm old and sad and live vicariously through hollywood's flickering lights...

I think Colossal might still be building up to wide release so maybe there will be other chances? Or it might just be stuck within "indie niche" theaters permanently, dunno. I do think many of its qualities would carry through on home video FWIW.

yeah, idk, I feel like some of the films in that tier keep churning through different national tiers of small theaters and then unceremoniously dump a home release pretty quickly

tbf if I saw that it was for rent on amazon or w/e I'd do it in a second, knowing I just barely missed it at the local theater

This is rather fine and made with far more craft than this series deserves at this point, and Fassbender gets his best showcase for his bitch-priss-elegance than he's had in years, but the last 50 minutes or so are a surrender into nonsense.

alfred's review essentially works as an endorsement for me

substitute "Taylor York" for "Fassbender"

colossal definitely didn't play where i live. this is playing where i live:

When her boyfriend dumps Emily, a spontaneous woman in her 30s, she persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. At Emily's insistence, the pair seek out adventure, but suddenly find themselves kidnapped. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter is tested and strengthened while they attempt to navigate the jungle and escape.

i can't get used to new goldie face...

http://dailycandidnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Snatched-Movie-Review.jpg

So the mom was right to be ultra-cautious? Is that the point of the movie?

yup. they never should have taken that trip. the daughter learns...that she has a lot to learn.

man I don't even want to watch that on streaming and I recently watched "how to be single"

I didn't get a lot of new info but it was mildly life affirming for young people

"This is rather fine"

Alfred, when did you suffer brain trauma?

Watching Fassbender get fingered.

I'm late to this but Colossal suuuuuucked so much, this basically has to be better

Saw this on a plane, it was unexpectedly worse than Prometheus. Maybe suffered from the small screen but yeah, not recommended if you thought Prometheus was subpar.

Fassbender and Scott made a queer movie because the monster one was just bleh.

An enjoyable read! Thank you.