Prometheus
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- Horp0
Ridley Scott has been widely reported as saying in interviews that he wanted to get away from face huggers and all the baggage of Alien.
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but isn't that press-on-towel with wings and a vagina just a re-designed face hugger? It does exactly the same thing. It lunges and hugs face. Later on we see a glass helmet dome melting inwards towards the wearers face under an attack.
This means that either the film is actually not as original as they were initially claiming it was going to be, or they are reacting now to the fear that the film could flop ( I don't think our enthusiasm here actually plays out as representative of the mainstream audience ) by re-thinking what they reveal to make it seem more familiar to the original.
I was intrigued the other night when UK showed the TV premier trailer for the movie in the ad break for The Bridge (or Homeland, can't remember which but it was a popular show with large adult audience ratings). It was great to see the trailer, and a narrator introduced it and made it all seem like a big deal... but then at the end they said "Now, get on your computer and tweet about how excited you are, and in the next ad break we'll show a selection of your tweets" and to me... that just seemed like the kind of desperate marketing initiative that's usually reserved for movies that are stinkers and destined to fail.
Usually these are movies where a rich white girl from the Hamptons finds herself suddenly orphaned by a freak tragedy and has to go and live with her raucous black aunt in the ghetto. At first she struggles to survive the culture shift, but her classical ballet training proves to be a big hit amongst the hip hop community who start to appropriate her moves and learn to respect her despite her uppity seeming manners and her grace.
She, simultaneously finds their outlaw dance possé manouvres dangerous and exciting and meltingly sexual, and in many ways she recognises their spasticated lurches as being the real embodiment of dance... primitive and wild, not structured and cultivated.
She also falls in love with a troubled, but handsome (in an oddly european way) young black man, and despite this being the 21st century, that attraction still largely stands as the tension point around which the film is spun (white & black disguised as rich & poor in order to be 'politically correct'), culminating in a much anticipated dance challenge where the perfect synergy of classical ballet and street dance prove victorious over the rival gang, and the young couple then seal their love with some very provocative after-competition bogling and a few meaningful stares at each other. No kissing though. There are racial boundaries to respect.
In the final scene, the parents show up. They didn't die after all, it was an elaborate life insurance scam that went wrong and now they're off to prison. The young classically trained white virgin flips them the finger and shouts "Yo!" as they get carted off to prison. The street kids all high five her because now she's finally made the gangland grade thanks to having incarcerated parents.
Titles roll.
- ian0
You've been watching Julia Stiles' films again, haven't you?
- Ramanisky20
one of the best trailers ever .. no dialogue just visual & sounds
and yes I saw this trailer in the theater and nearly shit myself- first movie to give me nightmaresbrandelec
- I agree with one of the YouTube comments, they should have left out the Queen so it was total surprise at the movie.ETM
- movie.... did I say I agree with a comment on YouTube??ETM
- LOL yes you didRamanisky2
- detritus0
I went on to the IMAX site last night, realising stupidly and belatedly that release is mere weeks away, so I should book now...
...Prometheus is in 3D?
I had no idea.
I'm not exactly encouraged by this..
- qoob0
- a_c0
A few semi-spoilers in here...
- 23kon0
well done fun ...
- GeorgesII0
I love how Stones put a huge spoiler in the original post
""---- There is a DNA of the original Alien, ---- [but] that's as far as it goes, everything else is completely different. It's all about everything.""Well I guess, they are going to come in contact with an infectious DNA which will transform them in alien..
- teh0
1 of the best alien moves i ever saw:
Wondering what Prometheus twist will be that wasn't done in D9.
- teh0
Can anyone tell me what makes this different from Aliens? It looks like the visuals are better of course with the CG ability we have but its the same story just on a grander scale.
Trying to tie it in to cave paintings mayans etc its all been done already.
X-Files anyone?
- Given that it's not been released yet, it's doubtful anyone here has a worthwhile opinion on the matter.detritus
- teh0
I guess I feel utterly unfulfilled with alien movies. The last good one being District 9. I actually get sick in my stomach looking at Giger's stuff. I liked it 20 years ago and still aliens can't get a better interior?
I liked "Contact". I thought that was a great idea.
I guess I'm just tired of the same old alien/bacteria/virus kill the human population alien movie.
I would like to see a "NightBreed" meets AREA51 movie.
Prometheus just looks like a grande scale of shite to me!!!
IMHO
- dopepope0
I like Contact too. It's pretty underrated. It seems the most realistic depiction of what would happen. Unless you think the government wouldn't reveal one shred of info if they did get a signal in the first place.
- teh0
- Cube 1 was a good idea, after that it's just more cubesESKEMA
- Fucking LOL?monospaced
- yeah, cube was goodgeorgesIII
- teh0
Best Alien movie EVER!!!
- Akagiyama0
- Who wrote that crap ? "Ooh, science - it can't tell us everything." Fuck off already. Don't try to shoe-horn in the...mikotondria3
- ...fantasy/bullshit element of a script in such a ham-fisted way.
Movie: instantly rejected. Fail.
It's ALL about the writing.mikotondria3 - Movie-making is just showing writing - get smarter people to do it, fucking suck-ass ball-faces. Fuck them. What a turd.mikotondria3
- OH BOY THE DRAMAernexbcn
- I think it adds the question "How does the Yutani Corporation fit into this?" There is no alliance between them yet.Akagiyama
- did fake pilot design that? :)
teh
- 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