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

aka THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF HIPPY SCIENTIST AND LAWRENCE OF ARABIABOT HEAD-IN-A-BAG

You liked all the music, forks? Even the gloopy inspiring stuff?

ehhhh okay not ALL the music.
i feel kinda like this was ridley scott's "alien tree of life"

even all the annoying parts
lalalala aaaaaaaareeee youuuuuu ssaaaaaad yeeeeetttttt
DUN DUN DUN AREEEEE YOUUUUU SCCAAAAARED YET
rinse repeat

eh, i liked the annoying SUSPENSE filler music
i dunno, i don't see films in the theater much and i generally steer clear of blockbusters period (prior to the avengers the last big film i saw was likely up) so maybe i was just fooled by a good soundsystem

@VGirl, would listen

Don't see how a plausible interpretation of the movie makes up for a generally appalling script full of unrealistically asinine characters and scenes that just don't connect with each other.

― Jesu swept (ledge), Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:17 PM (Yesterday)

agree. the problem with prometheus isn't that david lacks a coherent agenda. he's a bit of a cypher, but since he's a robot, it's easy enough to manufacture some sort of explanation for his behavior. his motivations, after all, don't even have to seem credibly human. the main problem is the idiotic dialogue and senseless actions of the film's human characters.

that said, i do like jjj's argument that david's goal is nothing less than the destruction of the human race. i don't know that i buy this interpretation, but i'm looking forward to thinking about it next time i see the film. and i will. though it's terrible, i'm a sucker for sci-fi, weird horror and puzzle movies.

all will be explained in prome3us (dir. Fincher)

Come on folks, what we really want is: BRING ME THE HEAD OF DAVID THE ROBOT

*applauds*

Man I'm all for this if Warren Oates is returned from the grave.

What about an android Warren Oates?

Fassbender - Holm - Henriksen - Ryder ALL ANDROID EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!!!

Fate of humanity decided by...

http://www.mindwafers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Rockem.gif

(L-R: Lindelof, God)

Lindelof signs on to make TV series about .... ugh:

The Leftovers, produced by HBO in association with WBTV, takes place after the Rapture happens but not quite like it’s supposed to. It is the story of the people who didn’t make the cut… and a world that will never be the same. Lindelof and Perrotta will co-write the script and executive produce the project, now in development, with Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger. If The Leftovers moves forward, Lindelof will serve as the showrunner.

Key comment:

Great book, but the whole thing is based on around not explaining WHY/HOW it happened and dealing wit the reaction, aka, classic Lindelof. Will be interesting to see how Perotta’s intimate styles work with Damon’s…”think about it mannnnn” style.

wonder if faith will somehow be an element

In a story about surviving the Rapture? Nah.

yeah, by damon lindelof. not likely

Left Behind is being made by Lindelof for HBO? I love Kirk Cameron!

hopefully its in the more fucked up vein of post rapture life like a thief in the night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly4CPRE_Ke0

this movie features a 8 yo kid going to the guillotine at the end

To be faur to the book, it's very much a secular rapture--faith makes no difference to who vanishes and who doesn't.

To be fair to Lindelof, he'll fuck it up.

thanks everyone for softening me up

i finally went in today purposely ignoring any connection to alien movies and expecting an independence day type of debacle. i really enjoyed the stupid characters and appreciated the opportunity for david to relentlessly hardson the scientists and people of faith. i think vickers hit it best when she called her dad a mad scientist or something. it was a pretty good b-grade sci fi film pretty much up until the engineer woke up. i would have liked it if more of the characters survived the ending too. i think the flame has been dishonored thoroughly enough at this point that we can dispense of the one human + one robot surviving formula. anyway overall i'd call it a pretty good c-grade sci fi movie and i enjoyed some of it enough that i've mentally downgraded all of the original movies to c-grade in my mind too. really appreciated idris elbas stephen stills line and also the engineered garments jacket fassbender was wearing for much of the movie.

really appreciated idris elbas stephen stills line

you nearly had me

i'm still waiting for the hilarious deleted scene where he finds out he porked a robot, cmon ridley don't let us down on the dvd release

"hilarious deleted robot porking scene" display name now up for grabs

fu it is i got rights mayyyne, i know my rights mayyne

"really appreciated idris elbas stephen stills line"

you nearly had me

yeah, one of the worst moments in a movie brim-full of them

whatever it was lovably off-key

it was so obvious and screenwriter-y to throw in a silly popculture reference at that point

Such writerly moves are heretofore referred to as "Lindelawful"

well i admit i'm a philistine but maybe its just more obvious to screenwriter types who hang w/ other screenwriter types swapping silly popcultural references (screensters?)

screendogs

so i guess what i'm hearing is that if you stretched this movie out to two or three seasons of tv it would be like a cross between lost and star trek

i also really liked the subtle messages in charlize's hairstyles and ugg boots

charlize is (physically) like a hitchcockian paragon of "cool blonde" in this movie. minus the couture.

stephen stills thing struck me as odd because if people are still talking about stephen stills at the outer reaches of the known universe then I'll be damned.

watched Alien for the first time in like 10 years the other day. I guess most already noticed this but Alien and Prometheus are basically beat-for-beat mirror images of each other. Like, even to the point of characters not acting very rational or intelligent. Pretty funny when Ash yells something to the effect of "Don't touch it!" and everyone just kinda pulls back and lets the little bugger run off! IT JUST BURST OUT OF SOMEONE'S CHEST FUCKING KILL IT WITH FIRE.

Also, yeah Alien is a great movie. Not as scary as I remembered. I preferred the look of the aliens in Alien 3 the best I think. why on earth would a "perfect" killing machine/organism be upright on two feet like that.

Pretty funny when Ash yells something to the effect of "Don't touch it!" and everyone just kinda pulls back and lets the little bugger run off! IT JUST BURST OUT OF SOMEONE'S CHEST FUCKING KILL IT WITH FIRE.

― ryan, Saturday, June 30, 2012 7:00 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, because if a scary monster burst out of your friend's chest the first thing you'd do would be to run straight at it

dont try to retcon alien as being as dumb as this movie its not gonna work on us dog

one character (can't remember his name, with the headband) was about to hack at it with a machete! They stop because Ash tells them to.

i wouldnt do that because i dont think either movie is dumb!

They're in shock. Ash demonstrates some authority so they listen to him

and as i mention way upthread this is an early hint of ash's true motivations that is way more graceful than anything in p-dog

yeah that's true. it's the kinda thing that as a viewer certainly sticks out but it's believable that no one on the ship would have given it much thought.

it def didnt stick out to me the first time i saw it & i doubt my experience is unusual. something crazy and scary and covered with blood jumps outta someone's chest, it's not really strange that someone would be like, "stay away from that ferocious monster"

They don't know what it is or what it is capable of or whether it is toxic or contagious in some way, staying away from it doesn't seem like a stupid idea.

you're both right. i usually go into frantic kill mode if i see an nasty unwanted critter in my home but this would be a special situation. in any case, im impressed with headband dude's initiative!

usually go into frantic kill mode if i see an nasty unwanted critter in my home

it's true, when a threatening thing popped out of my mom's torso that one time I smashed it with a phone book

you gotta get it before it runs under the refrigerator!

yeah, i reject any insinuation that alien is anywhere near as dumb as prometheus. alien may not be a perfect movie, but it's very well thought-out and the character motivations make good sense, imo. prometheus is moronic in comparison, and the "big themes" are by no means a plus.

scientist in prometheus observes the presence of an alien worm in his eyeball, but rather than seek medical attention, ignores it in favor of playing unprotected in the dirt some more. for fuck's sake.

I am always putting off going to the doctor for stuff