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

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

Where The Humans Aren't

this was incredibly disgustingly bad and stupid and awful

so... should we see it?

I'm going in with my Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes mindset. Just focus on the art direction. Ignore all else.

it looked very good and it was woeful

was the 3d ridiculously dark?

blogger Jeff Wells: "impressively composed and colder than a witch's boob in Siberia"

stupid trailer making me excited stupid ilx stupid ridley

hmph

Lindelof seems to be taking most of the heat, which is no doubt deserved. Still, Ridley did hire him

STUPID LINDELOF

it's being politely panned on bbc2 now

Fuckin Lindelof making sure the 26th ridley scott film in a row was dumb!

This was great, btw.

I'd genuinely like to hear from someone who loved it

yes please god

friends who've seen it told me it was bollocks at best

"... best" say noodles vague's friends!

I am straight up 100% officially unwaveringly anticipating the hell out of this until I have any reason not to.

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, March 19, 2012

welp

should we join hands and pray or something, I'm feeling very at-sea all of a sudden

Have either Charlie Brooker or David Mitchell weighed in yet?

not making any moves till I hear from armond

he hates ridley scott, so i can't imagine he'll pick this one to fall in love with

That's So Armond!

This was... OK. Worse than cubed. Better than Resurrection. Much stupidity, which I can't really go into without spoilers. For all that Ridley Scott has been playing down the idea that this is a prequel to Alien, the film goes out of its way to set up that movie - some of which I found satisfying. But it also raises lots of questions (so I'll come back and ask them when a few more people have seen). Main gripe though is that there is too much plot; a vaguely interesting premise meets blockbuster movie requirements = aagggh no one would really do that IRL.

Fassbender is great until he too is undone by the script's stupidity. Rapace is bearable. Most everyone else is wasted. The 3D is mostly unflashy but I suspect you lose nothing by seeing it in 2D.

Plot

In the distant past, the spacecraft of an advanced humanoid alien race arrives on Earth. One of the aliens consumes a dark liquid, causing its body to disintegrate and fall into a nearby waterfall—seeding Earth with the building blocks of life.

xpost Thank you! 1 out of 1 StanMs found the previous review helpful

all fair, jeff, tho without going into the details it's hard to see where you'd bump it up as high as 'ok'

The first maybe 40 mins are good tension/premise building, imo everything after the first expedition was incoherent hackneyed cliche- and the incoherence is by far the greater problem than the cliche.

just heard the end of a polite panning on radio 4

this film is beginning to sound so awful i think i'll have to see it

i think you may be onto something there

i have spent most of the last 24 hours talking about this movie and how dreadful it was- in a way that makes it better value than a movie i saw, liked and forgot.

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