Prometheus
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- 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.
- monospaced0
I see what you mean. We're on the same page: bad excuses.
- robthelad0
I like the bastard film.
- 74LEO0
The one thing I do like bout the Alien movies are their intelligence based on predatory survival and bee-like colonization, reproduction and protection of the queen/bee alien. All alien movies project a sense of superior colonization, war-like predatory mentality.
Humans are inferior because they have become week and dependent from their technology and their mental forms of prejudice, sexism and racism have separated themselves from each other/the colony making them easy to defeat.
Makes sense but this movie has been done before...over and over again.
- I think the plotline of Prometheus will hinge on the opposite of "Humans are inferior"Horp
- true in most alien movies the human race comes together only when their direct extinction is in the balance the only time we wouldteh
- bees/ants/aliens live in true communism, have the same mother/queen and are all siblingsdrgs
- 74LEO0
I didn't know Bene Wong was in The Lady great movie
- dasohr0
is this movie going to make any more sense when it comes out on DVD?
- has any movie made more sense when played on a DVD vs projected on a movie theater screen?monospaced
- well,sometimes there is more content on a dvd, in many cases the extra content helps understand the movie a bit more...
dasohr - interesting to know why engineer stayed and jumped in water, defected? rebell , thief?teh
- JackRyan0
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
- what is this?teh
- Bladerunner quote...JackRyan
- wow. lil rusty on my BR.teh
- this is from spy kids 4prophetone
- prophetone0
why on god's green earth would anyone encourage bootlegging of this film? this is one of those get your $13 worth, must see in theatre kinda movies. what a waste to watch it as a crappy rip.
- cruddlebub0
it wasn't bad, nor amazing, i liked it, but hated it at the same time...
- I hated the old geezer plot at the end, was a bit Indiana jones and the last crusade.Bullitt
- zoozoo0
i'm excited.
- AdamWintle0
Looks totally epic!
- CALLES0
The flute sound was just like the close encounters sound
- randommail0
omg omg omg !!!
- Bullitt0
Loved it, it's not alien, but it never paraded itself as alien anyway more of a hybrid.