PROMETHEUS (euro-spoilers start on pg 22)

[kid8]

I still want to watch this but the fucking tv ads are stupid as hell and getting annoying.

[miss black america]

one part that elicited a laugh was when the camera focuses on a computer readout saying "condition normal situation whatever" for a few seconds and then kate dickie says it out loud

[edgeev]

stupid decision to make the space jockeys/engineers look like Alfred E. Newman

[ifear]

guys, guys, it was all Ridley's fault

well, lindelof says it's ridley's fault
other things he said included 'it's not an alien prequel' and 'we knew what we were doing with lost'

[number none]

Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?

RS: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.

[number none]

I think it's clear at this point that Lindelof and Scott are both idiots

[boa]

i saw this. it's a blast to watch but to enjoy it i really had to forget about the Alien movies. if i hadn't then it would've been the most disappointing thing

[number none]

the awfulness of this movie has little or nothing to do with it being an Alien prequel

[badhat]

so whats the deal is it pretty explicitly an alien prequel afterall?

[darkendofthestreet]

This was so disappointing, despite being so pretty to watch on a massive screen/Fassbender doing a great job with what he was given. My hatred for Rafe Spall continues to be justified.

[fosse]

so whats the deal is it pretty explicitly an alien prequel afterall?

Yeah, it very clearly is, it's just not set on LV-426 so it's not directly before Alien, meaning there's gonna be any two of these things before we're likely to get to that point

[boa]

the awfulness of this movie has little or nothing to do with it being an Alien prequel

as said before, a few good scenes and a gorgeous aesthetic make it a fun cinema movie but it's really nothing more than that. it's probably better than Resurrection but it doesn't compare to the others, even the third.

alien/aliens





alien 3







prometheus



alien resurrection












avp

avp:r

edit: the gap between alien/aliens and alien 3 is twice as big really

[mchamartin]

No way, even though the plot makes no sense this movie is way more entertaining than Alien 3. It's at least eye candy if nothing else, Alien 3 isn't even that.

[trope]

So I saw this last night and I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of disappointment. What the fuck. Probably the worst bit was when they woke up one of these godlike beings that supposedly engineered life on earth then was disappointed or whatever so tried to undo its mistake. What does this representative of an incredibly advanced ancient civilisation have to say? URRR HULK SMASH

[Grand Epic]

No way, even though the plot makes no sense this movie is way more entertaining than Alien 3. It's at least eye candy if nothing else, Alien 3 isn't even that.

Remember when Roger Ebert said Alien 3 was on of the best looking bad movies ever made?

Well anyway, here's his 4-star review of Prometheus:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120606/REVIEWS/120609989

[chairkicker]

alien 3 is one of the best looking movies ever made. perhaps not the best edited, but definitely one of the best looking

[chairkicker]

i am gonna throw a vhs copy of john carpenter's the thing through his window one day, though, with a dot matrix printout of that prometheus review attached

[CoolRanch]

olde Guy Pearce was the most baffling to me, I thought for sure he would get younger or there would be flashbacks.

[mchamartin]

I just saw Alien 3 again like two months ago so it's still fresh in my mind how fucking boring that movie is

[boa]

alien 3 at least has some tension and suspense to it. then again i can't stand the theatrical cut, i'm talking about the 2003 version

[mchamartin]

I've only ever seen the theatrical. Even though I've heard the 2003 version is better it's hard to get myself worked up to go watch a longer version of a shitty movie.

[Ted Pikul]

Imagine how cool the AvP movies have been if they had no human characters

[miss black america]

So I saw this last night and I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of disappointment. What the fuck. Probably the worst bit was when they woke up one of these godlike beings that supposedly engineered life on earth then was disappointed or whatever so tried to undo its mistake. What does this representative of an incredibly advanced ancient civilisation have to say? URRR HULK SMASH

see i actually liked the idea of this, that these beings have been so built up in the minds of the scientists (although you're not really given that growth) that they'll be able to answer the mysteries of the universe and they finally (although the journey wasn't very long) find a living one and manage to wake it and it turns out it's not one of the deep-thinkers but one of the stormtroopers sent to eradicate human life

if they had a 20 minute section where this killing machine is stalking the crew (like... well... alien) it could have been pretty cool but instead it "dies" then appears for a second and then spends 5 minutes wrestling with an octopus

[boa]

This was so disappointing, despite being so pretty to watch on a massive screen/Fassbender doing a great job with what he was given. My hatred for Rafe Spall continues to be justified.

rafe spall is great when he's got something decent to work with. his turn in shaun of the dead "you've got red on you" and his scene stealing detective in Hot Fuzz are just awesome.

that tv show he's in really is terrible though

[steaming shit]

Y'all are being nitpicky. This was pretty fun.

Charlize was hot in that scene where she confronts David in the 'try harder' scene

[the_village]

No way, even though the plot makes no sense this movie is way more entertaining than Alien 3. It's at least eye candy if nothing else, Alien 3 isn't even that.

Remember when Roger Ebert said Alien 3 was on of the best looking bad movies ever made?

Well anyway, here's his 4-star review of Prometheus:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120606/REVIEWS/120609989

why can't i find a roger ebert review of alien 3?

[flash]

there is also the scene where the captain comes in and explains to shaw EXACTLY what the caverns are ('theyre weapons of mass destruction, maaan')
just stupid forced exposition, i think that was directly followed by the father scene

but yeah echoing the sentiments re: this looking fantastic. i really enjoyed rapace when she wasn't talking to holloway, and fassbender owns the film.

they put a bunch of pieces together to set up alien though, why the hell did they put in the slasher ending instead of ending with him in the jockey seat

[d2michael]

Cuz they wanna create $equel$

I was pretty tired and belligerent during my midnite show, but goddamn was that a failure of epic proportions

All that hokey noomi religion/creationism crap

Stupid ass alien lizard at end

This whole movie being quasi tentacle porn

And why do the humanoids look like Kratos from god of war

Blade runner, you're next

[reepicheep]

I dunno how I feel about you guys complaining about the plot right now. here's a bunch of ramblings:

there weren't any real plot holes with a "poorly thought out scientific expedition" as it was clearly Weyland's pet project, staffed with people who were seemingly over curious, backed by David who would manipulate anything for weyland's end game. The engineer going "hulk smash" was to prevent what Noomi successfully did in the end and was probably just a kill squad dude anyway. David had human envy and tested the limits of the boyfriend's desires with that little worm.

ok old man guy pearce was stupid, was young guy pearce used in the viral stuff? that's the only reason why they'd use him. not sure how i feel about viral stuff trumping some good casting though...

apparently android decapitation is a big motif in the ALIEN universe

[Beyerstein]

these guys are all the dumb foreign weirdos.

we gotta wait till all the normal americans see the movie for themselves