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

Blame Lindelof.

I'm enjoying the fake commercials, but mostly because thy're content-free w/r/t the movie. I have the problem that I always do with trailers in that I usually enjoy the experience more having walked in without much foreknowledge.

the latest david commercial is p awesome. the TED talk was a little eye-rolling but still fun as a poitless teaser.

https://www.weylandindustries.com/img/david/david-real-emotions.gif

lol, confidence = disgust

remarkable similarities, at least if you understand german.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75REq0QpS-k

Holy shit, dude's facial modeling is straight out of Oblivion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1byZkbNB3Jw

Ha, you just beat me to it. New international trailer y'all ^

I feel like i've seen enough at this point

I still wonder a bit exactly how much they ARE giving away. I have this suspicion it's far less than it seems.

I lolled at this:

"it's an invitation"

"from whom?"

FROM RIDLEY SCOTT

Hahahah good eye!

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

mp4401 19 minutes ago 48

an invitation from ancient aliens, eh?

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/155/594/yesitis2.gif?1311943181

well I have no self-control

THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER

another great trailer btw, though it does spoil the mystery

Yeah so I can't wait for this movie. Put me in cryosleep until it opens.

http://ambienceofmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/i_want_to_believe.jpg

Not watching anymore trailers. I'm there on opening weekend.

Guy up thread in a few years
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1gf1Y2E22xI/S0YyddpnSZI/AAAAAAAAABw/iV8jjPGDIkM/s400/birkin.jpg

please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck

wow that soundtrack is intense

music and effects have to be loud enough to keep audience awake

yah especially old folks

I was a teenager when I saw Alien and it just barely worked

http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx304/thebitchlizard/Funny%20pics/Cool-Dog-Hey-Cool-story-bro41.jpg

Apparently, somewhere in this long interview the length of the movie is revealed: 119 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0rb_9fqB4 (french introduction, the rest is in english, about 3 minutes in)

For those inclined:

http://io9.com/5906286/shot+for+shot-break-down-of-all-the-new-alien-monsters-in-ridley-scotts-prometheus/gallery/1

I was just coming to post that.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/8/2012/04/tumblr_m3ab8epirb1r94e9jo1_500.gif

Goddamn I love a good face melt

HOT HOT HOT

Closed my eyes when this was on before Avengers.

maybe im a particularly suspicious soul, but this level of marketing generally bespeaks a less than awes movie.

Eh

im perhaps being solipsistic but ive been assailed with marketing for this thing in a way that seems quite excessive, which leads me to surmise that reviews and word of mouth for this will be poor, but they've decided to throw a great amount of money at marketing in order to achieve respectable numbers regardless. this pet theory may of course be bunkum. i tend to be often wrong.

as least they have flamethrowers

assailed with marketing for this thing in a way that seems quite excessive

I feel kind of the opposite of this, I've barely heard about this movie outside of this thread! Haven't been to a theater in a while, though.

The quality of the movie has nothing to do with the size of the marketing campaign. That's generally determined by the budget. The only way, I think, to determine the quality of a film solely from its marketing campaign is to look at the TV spots the week before and after it is released.

Yeah, the only adverts for this I've seen are internet stuff; mainly bits popping up here or on FB or io9 or something.

Oh, and the trailer before Sherlock Holmes. That was it.

SPOILERS OMG

It got an R rating, good on Fox for not shooting for PG-13.

Clip of landing spaceship!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0KdRc7jBgY

Short commercial with 'in a world...' type voiceover guy but also some more gross bits!

http://io9.com/5910562/new-prometheus-tv-spot-shows-the-many-ways-this-crew-is-doomed

i think the only question left at this point for any sci fi fan who's been watching the trailers is whether the planet is lv426 or not

Glad they're keeping it nice and yucky.

man, i get the googlies just thinking about this shit

anyway, opening shot in that trailer looks a bit too "digital" for my tastes, esp the "prometheus" and weyland logo branding. suppose they'll refine that for release?

Yeah that clip's been severely edited down. The Prometheus logo's superimposed (I guess they think anybody watching the clip is too dumb to realize that the ship is called Prometehus).

i think the only question left at this point for any sci fi fan who's been watching the trailers is whether the planet is lv426 or not

― the late great, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's hard to tell. It looks like a different planet, but the big ringed gas giant in the background of some of the shots seems to give away that it's at least in the same system. The alien spaceship crashing in the trailers is clearly of the same type as the derelict from the first movie, but whether it's the exact same one is hard to tell. I kinda hope it isn't. I'd rather this story be more self-contained.

there's clip somewhere were ridley scott says the system is zeta (2) reticuli which is the one mentioned in alien, so...

i didn't realize lv426 was in zeta reticuli, that would seem to nail it down then