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

I'm actually encouraged that this movie has great images in it and actually "works" as a movie in a lot of ways. Hopefully Ridley gets a better script for the Blade Runner sequel.

Blade Runner sequel.

Maybe I've been blind dumb deaf but NOOOOOO

Yeah, it's been in the works for a while. A hopeful sign, though: Hampton Fancher on board for the script, and since he cowrote the original, who knows? I've no doubt Dan O'Bannon is swearing loudly at Prometheus from the great beyond.

Hampton Fancher on board for the script, and since he cowrote the original, who knows? I've no doubt Dan O'Bannon is swearing loudly at Prometheus from the great beyond.

I have this nightmare of Lindelof being called in to rewrite it. Just leave Blade Runner alone please, tyvm.

i feel the need to say this morning how much i love that this thread, originally just They're Remaking 'Alien', starts with

psych

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, February 11, 2005 10:16 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark

it's just so perfect considering where we find ourselves now

Waiting for the speculative fiction universe version of the avengers where all the robots form gangs and do battle, destroying most of humanity in the process.

Data and R2D2 vs Weyland bots & the Replicants; etc

Harrison Ford could stab R2D2 with a sword, Hylander style

Highlander

Prometheus was in the works for a while - is there any actual talk from Ridley Scott about "next year when I'm shooting the Blade Runner sequel"?

idk if Prometheus will ever become my "I am drunk and want to eat salty foods and watch a movie before sleep" movie, thank god we still have Highlander

You know what we're missing in 2012? Science fiction/fantasy with music that has vocals. By Queen.

cant even imagine how badly dude is gonna screw up bladeruntheus

;_;

Did I tell you guys about my plan to watch recent Ridley Scott films in the run up to Prometheus so I wouldn't get my hopes up? I ended up only having time for that Robin Hood one before I went on vacation. I watched the theatrical release, but apparently the thing with his recent films is that the theater version gets all the exposition cut because he can't make a movie of any reasonable length

Hmm and everyone else. I'm at a loss as to why Scott lacks the juice to push through 3 hour epics like Cameron and Nolan get away with.

one thing about prometheus at least it was only 2 hrs long

Yeah, I mentioned above that that in many ways is the biggest red flag that tons of stuff was cut.

A 2 hour sci-fi epic ... how quaint.

xp - I'm guessing the lack of billion-dollar grosses in his resume?

Billion dollar grosses are a totally contemporary thing. I bet 90% of Scott's films were hits.

the secret is that Ridley's 3 hour versions aren't any better, they just flesh out some unnecessary plot threads or show back story for boring characters

Only "Kingdom of Heaven" has gotten the superzize treatment, no? "Blade Runner" and "Legend" both gets director cuts, "Alien" and "Gladiator" reluctant director cuts.

Robin Hood had an extended cut, too

lotta people must have watched that

lol

Eh, it's like 15 minutes more or something.

That movie made money. Cost $150, made $350? Something like that?

let me check

Tickets for 21+ 10:15 PM show 2nite. Looking forward to (watching jbr) decipher this in a drunken haze whilst I cross-reference it with two weeks' worth of spoilers!

There are certainly annoying mistakes in the movie -- characters whose personalities flip on a dime, characters who figure out that the aliens created us based on who-knows-what, "DNA match". But there were a lot of things people consider errors that I thought added to the movie. The first scene, David's motivations, not knowing what the aliens' plans were -- these were all fine by me. I did not need the blanks filled in.

They should make a movie that's just all blanks. It would look like this:

I JUST SAW ALL OF ALIEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS MORNING

HOLY SHIT

Okay hold on

Let me just back up here

...first...time...ever?

HOLY SHIT

this seems consistent with first time ever. also OTM.

Yeah yeah I know

Fucking great movie, dunno why I waited so long to see all of it, in order (I'd seen most/all of the famous scenes)

I re-watched Alien on the weekend. The shot of Jonesy when the Alien gets Harry Dean Stanton is the greatest piece of animal acting ever

watched it not so long ago, noticed an audacious shot just before it gets harry dean stanton - might be director's cut only idk - where you see a kind of top-down almost full shot of it hanging there among the ducts, looking like part of the ship itself. if you know what you're seeing it's like a massive reveal but if not you probably don't even realise.

I JUST SAW ALL OF ALIEN FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS MORNING

HOLY SHIT

― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Sunday, June 17, 2012 3:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

I only saw it for the first time recently too, and yes I was suitably impressed. Just finished watching Aliens tonight and it's much better than I remember from when I saw it 15 years ago. Why do I vaguely remember seeing the Queen Alien hanging off the back of the ship at the end whereas this one I saw had no such scene...??

aliens is kind've amazing

i just watched the first 30 minutes of it last night after i got home from the bar... i love the space scenes at the beginning so much... the music cue when you see ripley's ship hanging underneath the salvage vessel (which you never actually see in its entirety... so great)

I love how everytime the crew sits down together there's always those cross-conversations, it just feels so natural like you can almost right away tell who likes who, who's in charge...like natural lunch-room politics.

and I love the way he uses the classic horror camera tricks, but uses your knowledge of them AS a trick: in the scene where they're looking for the facehugger in the lab, you aren't sure if the camera being down so low is the facehugger POV and then when Skerrit knocks over the shelf you're like AGH OH FUCK wait no that's not it...

it's just such a brilliantly constructed movie

noticed an audacious shot just before it gets harry dean stanton - might be director's cut only idk - where you see a kind of top-down almost full shot of it hanging there among the ducts, looking like part of the ship itself. if you know what you're seeing it's like a massive reveal but if not you probably don't even realise.

lol this is the scene i had to stop watching at the other night! and i've been thinking about it for days! so i'm going to finish watching now. maybe...

aliens is bollocks fuiud

I love how everytime the crew sits down together there's always those cross-conversations, it just feels so natural like you can almost right away tell who likes who, who's in charge...like natural lunch-room politics.

YES. They seem like real people doing boring blue collar space jobs! Also, fucking amazing cast. Harry Dean Stanton for life.

Been waiting for this: Film Crit Hulk posted a thing about te problems of Lindelof and theme:

http://badassdigest.com/2012/06/17/film-crit-hulk-smash-the-damon-lindleof-intervention/

He's pretty astute for the most part but I wish Film Crit Hulk would just drop the schtick.

c+p into text editor, change to lower case. instant readability!

also replacing 'hulk' with 'i' turns him into gollum. 'i hates writing columns like this'!