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

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

I saw that film, best moment of it

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

Because they were all staggering down hallways trying to escape the Meaning of Life, which was trying to kill them.

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

real talk!

tracer you have made me a BELIEVER

Tracer otfm

The blu-ray looks incredible, fwiw.

This is probably the best sci-fi movie I've seen in awhile, better than the one about moon rocks or blowing up the sun. It inspired me to go back and watch Aliens again too.

Being inspired to watch Aliens is always a good thing. But this was a bad, bad (frequently gorgeous-looking), bad movie.

I'm not convinced by this film, though I lean towards the pro, but I still really really want the 3D Blu-Ray.

also: the moment when you realize she's the last one left alive on this godforsaken planet, i really felt the horror of it, the aloneness. and then she realizes that vickers' self-contained luxury suite might still be in working order, makes her way over to it, scrambles up into the airlock with seconds to go, seals the door, grabs a bunch of oxygen, looks around, into the swaying, busted interior and..... grabs an axe. i was like BO BO BO BO BO REEEEEEEEEEEE-WIND

If I ever watch this again I'm going to play a drinking game, I'll take a shot every time I want to shout at the screen "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS". Think I'll be dead within an hour.

also: the moment when you realize she's the last one left alive on this godforsaken planet it cost like £10 for a ticket to watch this hackneyed (lol) shit, i really felt the horror of it

i feel for you boo, i really do

you haven't mentioned all the hot taking helmets on and off action yet

Hot hints for the sequel:

I hadn't done sci-fi for so long and I enjoyed doing it. Plus, when it comes to the Alien world, no one else had addressed the origin question and I thought that was interesting to tackle. Prometheus evolved into a whole other universe. You've got a person [Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw] with a head in a bag [ Michael Fassbender's David] that functions and has an IQ of 350. It can explain to her how to put the head back on the body and she's gonna think about that long and hard because, once the head is back on his body, he's dangerous.

So that's the sequel?
[Laughs] I wish it was that easy. They're going off to paradise but it could be the most savage, horrible place. Who are the Engineers?

Also, file under "this fuckin' guy":

Ridley Scott also briefly confirms that he is indeed still working on the sequel to Blade Runner, specifically whether the movie will bring back its original star — who, just so you know, is definitely a replicant now:

It's not a rumour – it's happening. With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he can live [laughs]. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage.

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