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

first time a Scott has been contrasted w/ C Denis?

I'll be honest and say her work isn't the first that comes to mind when watching Domino.

My problem with most of Ridley's work since his career resurrection is his insistence on trying to recapture the corny glories of Gladiator. A Good Year aside - easily one of the worst movies of the last decade, despite it's train-wreck watchability - I think the bigger efforts have had good elements to them, but crowd-pleasing over-sentimentality always gets in the way. Robin Hood is awful, but mostly because of how much he gets right and then squanders it time and time again with a terrible screenplay and absolutely no understanding of how to match the visuals with the hokey, focus-grouped story. Early reviews of this are disappointing, but if you're not chock full of trepidation going into a Ridley Scott film at this point, you're probably a deranged optimist. I'm just hoping the film embraces the grimness and doesn't have a bunch of (wonderfully costumed) kids on ponies charging onto a battlefield.

I'll rep for the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven though.

"Matchstick Men" an underrated Ridley detour, featuring one of the last times Nic Cage acted, along with "Lord of War."

I always forget about that one. It was solid from what I remember.

oh dear, it's kind of a shrug

I'll be honest and say her work isn't the first that comes to mind when watching Domino.

thank you, genuine lols at this

and i might as well say, considering it cost 1 trillion dollars this was the most poorly planned and executed scientific mission of all time

damnit not only are my expectations rapidly plummeting, i'm now feeling bad about dragging along my flatmate who only saw alien a couple of months ago.

i'd recommend seeing it in 2D as well. Things get pretty murky

How do you think it would hold up for an 8-year-old boy?

There's some pretty disgusting imagery. I wouldn't recommend it

Oh, disgusting isn't really the issue. I'm more concerned about it's ability to hold his attention. He's been sorta stoked for it following the trailer.

well it's not exactly a thrill a minute. It feels a bit aimless at times actually

Hmmmm...doesn't sound promising.

Bah. Aliens is idle for long stretches, and that movie is awesome. We as a collective culture need to work on our attention spans, people!

this isn't Aliens dude. Far from it

He liked Aliens, from what I hear (watched it with his mother - lol), but even when it's slow, it's pretty compelling.

http://thequietus.com/articles/08946-prometheus-ridley-scott-review <- "Then there's the penis problem."

"So disembodied has the fervour become from the brilliantly original, stylish and adorably camp 1979 flick that the gods themselves couldn't forge a spectacle gaudy enough deep in the womb of Mordor, or wherever it is nerds think babies come from, to meet these expectations. "

Didn't need to read past this to know this is not a writer whose opinions I am interested in hearing.

wtf

I didn't make it very far into Alien but nothing about that movie reads as "adorably camp" unless 70s hairdos send you into an uncontrollable tizzy

and he can git tae fuck with that Mordor taunting

also waiting til the last paragraph to say 'there is much to praise about the movie' and then do a big handwavy oh the cast the visuals etc

thing is, most of the positive reviews seem to basically be oh the cast the visuals stretched out over a number of paragraphs

well if this stinks then I may have to put Ridley in the same column as John Carpenter; love you to death thank you but your services are no longer required

taking an 8yo to this movie seems insane imho

when I saw the Avengers in the theater recently they showed the trailer for this ahead of it and it made the younger kids in front of me burst into horrified tears

Like I said, he's seen Aliens. We've watched a few R-rated flicks together. I do a pretty good job screening out stuff I'd be uncomfortable with him seeing.

But has he seen Alien?

The 2nd one I would have been much more comfortable at a younger age. Big scary screeching monsters get blown the fuck up with awesome guns.

In related news, Aliens: Colonial Marines got pushed back again til next February.

Apparently they're making a Wii U version, which will finally give you a reason to have that second screen, I guess.

Alien was a horror film. AlienS was a boom boom action film.

Prometheus is ?

TBA

that was a statement, not a question

So disembodied has the fervour become from the brilliantly original, stylish and adorably camp 1979 flick that the gods themselves couldn't forge a spectacle gaudy enough deep in the womb of Mordor...

What has always bothered me about Alien is that it started a trend in cinema that said a carefully selected crew of engineers and scientists for a highly sensitive mission could in fact be a bunch of loutish idlers.

this fuckwit has never seen alien

Yeah, wtf?

I don't mind ppl giving movies bad reviews but I wish there was some kind of physical punishment for making up stupid bullshit about source material they've never seen

harrumph

"Prometheus" picks up where "Star Wars" left off, with the death of Spock and the resurrection of the Last Starfighter and the resumption of the quest for another dimension that hearkens back to the original.

loool

Aliens was great but it was too dinosaury for my liking

I went to the midnight screening of this. It was... interesting. The 3D is really good. And I'm no fan, I'm really not, but the 3D was really effective in this, I thought. It's a beautifully designed film; the suits, the ship, the interiors. Just great to look at. It's the kind of thing to have playing on a loop on a massive screen in your stylish apartment. The Chariots of the Gods stuff was bunk, naturally, but it somehow didn't matter too much. It didn't ruin my enjoyment, anyway. It's neither the haunted horror of Alien, or the sleek action fest of Aliens - nor whatever the other films were meant to be - it it is a decent, very flawed but wonderfully atmospheric, SF film.
Tired now. Very tired.

That Quietus review is just awful.

also waiting til the last paragraph to say 'there is much to praise about the movie' and then do a big handwavy oh the cast the visuals etc

Ugh.

Didn't go in the end. Gave my ticket away and went home and watched the latter stages of Mathieu-Isner with my girls instead, all of us speaking faux-French in support of Paul-Henri.

Too much like work outside of work.

Also: ill.

i get the feeling having wiki-spoiled this for myself [via no self-control] i ought to save my hard-unearned cash, looks pretty lame

Yeah, I'm waiting until the porn parody is released.

pornmetheus? prometheass? promelingeus? promidgeteus?

pornintheass, i'm guessing

This Ain't Prometheus

probemetheus

you guys, really.

Prom Eat The Ass