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

I'm looking forward to seeing Russell Crowe play both a xenomorph gladiator and Robin Hood. The biggest outstanding question at this point is whether the black goo could work to bring back Thelma and/or Louise, or whether it'll be retconned that the '66 Thunderbird was actually an early model of the flying 'Spinners' from Blade Runner. There's also a fan theory going around in the last forty-eight seconds that, possible spoilers, it'll turn out the black goo was actually the 'black rain' from the film of the same title. Not sure how I feel about that one but I'm confident Scott can make it work since clearly it is something he feels really passionately about.

To be honest, a part of me is starting to worry that he failed to learn anything from the botched launch of DC's universe (sorry, BvS:DoJ fans!) and is trying to do too much with one movie. You have to build to these things organically. Still, Tracer and I are super stoked to finally see the factory where the downed Black Hawk was assembled - I mean that's a story we've all been wanting to see for the last sixteen years, and it's essentially criminal that Scott refused to answer these nagging questions for so long.

And then at the end Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine meet again. "So, rematch?"

how are you leaving out the most important RCU movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aPgA5549g

I just want to see if they managed to restore the Roman republic.

If we could get Tony Scott multiverse action going on here then all is forgiven, Denzel in Top Gun going after alien queen is some strong shit

Oh man, that would be the real crown jewel.

Uh cough infinity stone cough

this is pretty cool

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7kP-OOVQAA9N7v.jpg

the film will obviously still be awful tho

sub-giger but very acceptable poster

Looks like one epic kegger

say "giger kegger" ten times fast, I dare ya

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ToECIZV2zRE/hqdefault.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/fc6c785c0d8324fc9b7ae04f385c6dbe/tumblr_om1uiui8ug1vdbx3no1_540.jpg

new alien revealed

spraaaang burst

Spoiler stuff in this report (which I read anyway because hey)

http://io9.gizmodo.com/new-alien-covenant-footage-showed-destruction-on-a-who-1793864681

prometheus is on telly and i am rewatching it

it is bad

so very bad

it has one good scene and that's it

the only people more incompetent than the scientists aboard the ship are the scriptwriters

you must be watching it wrong

i am quite tired

it's precisely as beautiful as The Room and for the same reasons

try the "VERT" and "HORIZ" knobs, sometimes that kicks the narrative into gear.

now and then i wonder if it's meant to be a comedy (not that it works as one, but there's a kind of slapstick rhythm to some of the scenes)

I def laughed when the Engineer just kills the rich guy

needed more of this guy:
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/spaceballs-movie-review-alien-parody-ragtime-gal.jpg

def a high point and a little like the punchline to a 2-hr setup

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also fassbender's goody-dreamy smile

i mean goofy-dreamy

and the entire self-caesarian is of course virtuoso hilarious

"error: this med-pod is calibrated for male patients only"

now i am rewatching GODS OF EGYPT

the wrong scott brother died imo

also why are you torturing yourself like this, mark

lol gods of egypt what did we ever see in alex proyas

Burk Sharpless strikes again

remember when aaron sorkin was publicly astonished to discover that hollywood isn't a true meritocracy a week or too ago? the two-word counter-argument that should have instantly convinced him that yeah mediocre men DO get way more chances than women or people of colour is 'alex proyas'

I'll still hang out and watch I, Robot and Dark City pretty much any time, though

i couldn't sit through i. robot once tbh. i caught ten minutes of it on tv recently and holy hell that cg has not aged well at all

for one thing there more than 1 robot, sort it out scriptwriters

i did watch gods of egypt on netflix recently and all i could focus on was gerard butler's accent, which literally changes from scene to scene - it's the laziest performance i've seen in forever, even by big gerry's usual mahogany-laden standards

i am rereading this entire thread while rewatching gods of egypt

i've got to the bit -- which seems to have occurred before many ppl saw prometheus -- where ridley cites the agreement of three most important authorities on the "big questions" viz the Vatican, NASA and Erich von Däniken

Total road comedy there

gods of egypt >>> prometheus is all departments, including sci-fi look and "answers the big questions abt where we come from"

i post this while watching the "giant lesbian asps in a hellraiser maze" section

a teeny-tiny lawrence-of-arabia thing that puzzled-annoyed me while rewatching the space-caesarian of a thread-topic movie yesterday

david watches peter o'toole saying "the trick, mr potter, is not minding that it hurts", and quotes it to himself as he slooches his hair into a version of o'toole's fey do (iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)

except he doesn't quote it right, he entirely misses the (also somewhat fey) emphasis o'toole gives the word "minding" -- but he's a robot, why does he decide NOT to get it right, NOT to repeat it exactly?

(of course it's a p bad scene in the david lean movie, in that mr potter is a clumsily signalled comedy cockney and the point, abt burning yrself with a match, is do-you-see obvious, L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying, ho hum nothing new under the giant desert sun)

L0A being a big-budget film that looks great but doesn't really know what it's saying

had to double-check you weren't talking about prometheus there

<i>(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)</i>

This very OTM.

oops

(iirc while he goes back to minding the ship alone while all sleep == the good-idea-for-a-film-within-a-bigger-bad-film)

They wake up. They're already on some planet. Bad robot. Bad BAD robot. etc etc -- yeah, this would've been cool.