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

just the worst

I'm actually waiting for the Legend tie-in.

Only just got round to seeing this - the first forty minutes or so were absolutely fantastic; massively intriguing, beautifully directed. Became a muddle once the action kicked in, with some cool ideas and sequences, but nothing in the way of a satisfying resolution for any of the plot threads.

I want to see the director's cut! Knowing it will be bad is not deterring me at all.

*arched eyebrow*

http://screencrush.com/prometheus-blade-runner/

― Ned Raggett, Monday, October 8, 2012 1:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what a terrific idea!

http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/31254/lucas%20laughing.jpg

Became a muddle once the action kicked in, with some cool ideas and sequences, but nothing in the way of a satisfying resolution for any of the potheads.

Man, what in the world would Lucas look like without a beard to delineate the divide between his neck and face?

rich

http://www.lolriot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/George-Lucas-Without-a-Beard.jpg

Man, what in the world would Lucas look like without a beard to delineate the divide between his neck and face?

Jabba, basically.

Jon Spaihts on the script pre-Lindelof:

http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=1563

So that lovemaking sequence echoed my original lovemaking sequence where he explodes!

does not sound like a huge improvement

I would actually like to read Spaights' version of Prometheus. He wrote a couple of hard sci-fi spec scripts, Passengers and Shadow 19, which are pretty good.

The final product really does have the stamp of Lindelof indulging Scott's worst instincts.

hard sci-fi

sorry it's a Party Down aftereffect.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

hard sci-fi

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sorry it's a Party Down aftereffect.

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:15 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it's cool Roman is probably my favorite nerd character of all time.

you can bet he would have wriiten a scathing review of Prometheus on his prestigious blog, sir.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 1:18 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it would have been cool to see somebody else do it.

so many would have/could have been's with this flick. *sigh*

I wonder how many people read that post, wanted to post "HARD SCI-FI", and then saw it'd already been done. Know I did.

i liked the idea of each alien movie being passed to a different, newish sort of director, and wonder who'd have gotten the gig this time if not for scott -- gaspar noe? andrea arnold?

― Philip Nunez, Monday, October 8, 2012 9:18 PM Bookmark

Yeah, exactly, this is always what's been so cool about this series (and, really, why AvP sucked so bad - it was just so anonymous). Of course, I was pretty hyped when I first heard Scott was doing this; if it'd been good I doubt I'd be whining that the fascination of the serial-director thing had been thrown off.

AvP is a Paul W. S. Anderson joint, which isn't such a bad thing, other than the fact he's made some pretty shit films. Well, actually, some friends always spoke intriguingly if not positively of Event Horizon, which I couldn't bring myself to pick up the other week on seeing his name. But I've actually watched several of his things in the last few years. I feel like he's generically bad, but not completely anonymous.

I feel like Ridley Scott and James Cameron each did interesting things with the franchise that were productive as films. Fincher and Jeunet did things that were interesting but not necessarily productive. Scott did a quote-unquote non-Alien franchise film that was not really that interesting, and not productive.

It's kind of shocking how much AvP there is in Prometheus. The scene where Weyland explains the mission to the crew is practically the same scene in both movies.

not least of all the final scene with the hybrid alien emerging from the engineer/predator too.

latebloomer stop making me sad thinking about that, was trying to envision AvP as a totally different thing offshooting from a similar background but no actual link

Either fake, or an early draft: http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/leaked_script.txt

― James Mitchell, Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:46 AM (6 months ago)

^^^Despite fanboys' insistence claims of fakeness, this turned to be one of Lindelof's earliest perversions of Spaihts original script^^^

lol that interview reminds me of the fact that the super advanced high tech medical machine on the ship didnt have a 'lady' setting

space misogyny will be alive and well

nah it was calibrated specifically for Weyland

i.e. clumsily "subtle" foreshadowing of Weyland being on board

his daughter was a weyland, too

I bet it'd work on androids

iphones, maybe

I meant cybernetic organisms and you know it

We toyed with the notion that the xenomorphs might have a soft carapace like a soft-shelled crab

a soft, tasty carapace.

"Boy these xenomorph boils are great."

okay i just saw this and uh... it was great???? people were having conniptions about the "craft" and "story" or whatever? good god people! this is a movie featuring not one but two heads in a bag! it's got tummy staples! cranky astro staff on an alien planet in an electrical storm touching goo they shouldn't! faces being melted off! inexplicable parental nicknames! it's an ALIEN movie through and through!

i mean.... daaaaaamn this was a sick movie

nah it was bollocks

i don't really understand the black liquid, what the deal was there.. i guess idris was right, some sort of bioweapon gone wrong? in that respect i was really "there" with the characters i.e. wtf is this shit, let's get out of here

honestly the way you guys talked about this movie i thought it was going to be full of long speeches about the meaning of life but about 90% of it is staggering bleeding through hallways and not knowing why, which is what alien movies are all about wth is wrong with you guys

alien movies are about blue collar stiffs getting thwarted in their attempts to cash a paycheck by a scary monster, but ultimately their employer, the scariest monster of all.

Tracer: I approve of the way you think.

idk tracer g'luck to you if the characters brought you 'there' with them, but i think you're a looot brighter than most of the morons that get splatted in this pos, and the continued stupidity of these clown left most everyone else cold

some were perhaps a bit cocky it's true

god i loved it when they finally reach the live engineer, they're speaking with an actual alien intelligence for the first time (though it's actually david who speaks to him! humans too DUMM), this religious moment when mr weyland hoping it'll be like the virgin mary sprinkling holy water on his tired bones and he'll spring up like lazarus, and the abortionee lady hoping he'll reveal something of his race's intentions on earth... and he just starts WRECKIN SHOP. woops, you're in an alien movie, i guess you forgot!

you loved that part eh

i feel like that scene would have been much improved by the addition of Samuel L Jackson and replacing the engineer with a shark of some kind.

preach on, Tracer