Prometheus
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- monospaced0
I haven't read this whole thread, but is the black goo just like, what, alien sperma, the spark of alien life and destruction? Does it simultaneously kill us? Why does that one guy drink it in the beginning and why does the cyborg poison that dude with it? How come everyone touched it when they said, don't touch it? You don't do that shit without a good reason, at least something the audience can sort of understand. Give us something to grasp here.
- cannonball19780
^ I hate that this has purposeless graphics. What the fuck are the triangles and the horizon lines for?
- for coolnesssublocked
- +1inv
- Might ask if this is a communication intercepted by the Yutani Corporation.Akagiyama
- homage to prate, josh david, and the other year 2000 web designers.jfletcher
- Josh Davis... damn, can't edit it :/jfletcher
- not even close to Prate's work in TRON. maybe fakepilot74LEO
- computers use lines and triangles to optically map surfaces. This is their interpretation of it.lambsy
- ukit20
Prometheus, it's a metaphor for modern capitalism. The advertising is great, the product is shit
- mg330
I think the Imax screening might be the first time i choose to do acid.
- literally LOL'd on that, Be careful, you might freak the fuck out.albums
- *Waits and watches* This should be interesting.Morning_star
- sounds like a good ideascarabin
- just make sure you're plateauing before you go in and it'll be amazingscarabin
- A-max, the new 3Dmoldero
- sounds like a great way to freak out & go to jail hahasublocked
- i'm not sure "freak outs" actually exist, i haven't seen or ever heard of onescarabin
- monospaced0
Charlize Theron: We're not here to talk to the creators, we're not stupid little archaeologist hippy scum. You've got to be idiots to think we'd find our 'makers' or that you'd talk to them. We have a top secret agenda that's way more important and we brought you along because we can make fun that you believe this.
Scientists: So, fine, we believe. What's your agenda then?
Charlize Theron: We want to talk to them.
- brandelec0
nice to see stringer bell in that role.
*** spoilers ***
why didn't the probes detect lifeforms in the 'face' chamber?
- those worms in the foot print?Ramanisky2
- yes. and the snake in the goobrandelec
- I think the worms turned into the snake thing...but I don't know why the probes didn't pick it upsmrz
- too small a life-form perhaps or maybe because these life-form grow so rapidly when the probes went through those worms were microscopic .. dammit I don't knowRamanisky2
- microscopic .. dammit I don't knowRamanisky2
- ya not sure either... may be they weren't around until they showed up cos those probes were way ahead of thembrandelec
- Better yet, how did the geologist get lost when he was the one that led them in?aaux
- i bought that he got lost cos he got completely spooked once they reached the chamber. after that he lost his bad ass points... even when the snake showed up, he was freaking outbrandelec
- 74LEO0
so what other movies have used black tar?
- CygnusZero40
Im going to see it tonight. Not really expecting much outside of some cool sci-fi visuals. My only real question is how good the story is. I thought of all of Ridley's movies Gladiator had the best story, but Im not expecting anything on that level.
- animatedgif0
Genuinely the only bits about this film that really bothered me were the zombie and I don't think it needed an actual Alien alien at the end.
Totally felt like executive meddling,
"Oh its a bit slow at this point can we get a monster in here?"
"Isn't this meant to be an Alien film? where's my alien?"
- scarabin0
first time i ran into the concept of the black goo was this book, by the author of "snow crash". the goo is made up of millions of microscopic nano machines.
- monospaced0
Ok. We woke him up! Ask him what kind of underwear he wears! No, retard, ask him what kind of batteries his ship uses. Dude, you're idiots, ask him about the... hey, he's looking at us funny. Oh fuck, he killed Kenny! We didn't even find out what kind of $5 sub he likes.
We should have thought about this. We had, like, YEARS of light travel to go over it. Next time.
- I think the robot knew something. You idiots didn't ask him? I thought you asked him. That's why I didn't ask.monospaced
- Shut the fuck up. I asked him and he just made the jerk off hand movement and walked away. That robot's an asshole.monospaced
- Yeah, I heard he watches our dreams. Anyway. Let's get high in our space suits. Bro.monospaced
- youngdesigner0
So I just read this released on June 8 in the U.S....but June 1 overseas.
Why do studios release films earlier in some places than others? It only seems to encourage piracy/bootlegging.
- inv0
And what about therons character (vikers)? Just because she is the most famous person in the cast does she need to have an important role? If someone else played her role you wouldnt care. She had to be there, but wasnt any more important than the captain or whatever (and not given more screentime either)
- I couldn't give a fuck who the actor was, my question is, what was the purpose of the character?Horp
- She was the expedition leader...there had to be someone...inv
- Do you still play with action figures?Horp
- I think the where playing with the artifial child / real child relationship but that really didn't came out ->tank02
- because they where giving johnny rotten, the geology guy to much screentime...tank02
- Horp0
"I disagree that it could "not have been any other way". I think this could have had a great story".
Don't get me wrong Mono... I agree that its feasible that it could have been a great story. What I meant though was that in these circumstances... an aging big-name producer/director with a large portfolio of fairly soft blockbusters, back to reclaim the franchise that he kicked off with his original movie... he has to reclaim the high line, best the other efforts and return Alien to glory... but also, be original, don't make a remake, make a new, genre defying epic like the first one was... but the money, the studio, they get nervous - stats and market research suggest certain things need to be in place to attract large enough audiences, they start to push for more connection, plot changes, echoes of the original.... somehow the tightness of the bolts comes loose, control is lost, multiple people are allowed to hold the steering wheel, it turns into a fucking nightmare, nothing makes sense, time is running out, they have to get this shit finished so they decided to film all sorts of crap and then cook it in the editing suite... which they do, and they convince themselves its okay, it hangs together, its new, and yet it has echoes of familiarity, it exiting, it all seems to work, its fine.... its too late anyway... time to release.
I just think this is the way a lot of films are fucked up these days.
- 'it exiting' means 'its exciting' I cannot fucking type tonight.Horp
- Don't get me wrong, I'm aware of how this probably went down like you described. I just hate the excuse.monospaced
- 74LEO0
one parasite host for another.
- pango0
watch it... give it 7/10
great graphics. but it left too many unanswered questions...
why did they show an alien when it's not a tie in with other movies? o_O
guess we'll have to wait for the second movie.- I think answering the questions in one movie makes it either too long of a film, or too compressed. I'm looking forward to a sequel.twooh
- 74LEO0
so did he jump in the water on purpose...thus evolution of humans? the black tarred engineer then released the first alien-human hybrid into the water then contaminated other fish, organisms in the ocean?
This was the only interesting part of the movie. I didn't know it was a prequel to Alien so I will be interested in seeing how he links Prometheus 2 to the original alien.
I'd like to interview the Engineer that drank the black-tar in the beginning. :)
It would be interesting to know the time frame from when engineer jumps in water to Prometheus 2 meets up with Alien.
- yes he self sacrificed in order to plant his DNA in the water belowRamanisky2
- scarabin0
eric drexler termed the phrase "grey goo" in 1986 in his book "engines of creation", also describing nano tech.