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(08-10-2012, 04:34 PM)
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#8101
Late to the news of Prometheus 2 being already in the works, possibly without Lindelof. Really looking forward to this.
At the start of this summer I thought Prometheus would be likely to disappoint and Rises would be a safe bet for movie of the summer, but it turned out the other way around for me. |
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(08-10-2012, 05:41 PM)
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#8102
Saw it yesterday, was hard to avoid spoilers for all these months.
My impressions: -amazing visual design and execution. One of the most visually impressive science fiction movies I've seen. -characters are quite interesting, highlights being Dave, Vickers and the captain... especially his great pickup line "are you a robot?" -I liked the way the movie didn't spell out everything like most movies would. Reminded me a lot of the original Alien - the creation/evolution aspect of life and the "why create and then abandon" aspect of the movie was a great metaphor to humans ambitions to both improve our own nature as well as create new life (either naturally by birth or by engineering it) I didn't see it as a way of incorporating the lunatic intelligent design crap, but more about how religious motives and skewed bias can interfere with science (Shaw being convinced the gods/engineers were inviting them instead of going with the more scientific theory that this is merely a map) -I loved the evolution/morphing of the small worms, deconstructed by the black agent and restructured to become those great looking cobra like things. -the proto facehugger bears a lot of design cues with the one found in Alien. The fangs that administer the poison in the old facehugger are tentacles on this. Note how the engineer just stopped moving once they grabbed his head, while up until this point he was shown wrestling and almost winning. - I found vickers/Weyland/David dynamic to be another great allegory to natural creation/artificial creation and parental attention. The only thing that was bugging me a bit was the pace. I found the movie would've been indefinetly better had they focused more on the middle part of the movie, the attack of the squid and zombie geologist and the infection of holloway. Overall I found it to be an amazingly ambitious movie, even though they were a bit too straight forward with their themes and not ambiguos enough. |
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(08-10-2012, 05:47 PM)
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#8103
good impressions, fabricated.
Nice to hear a reaction that isn't soaked with negativity and disappointment. Personally it's been my most enjoyable mainstream film of the year thus far. Can't wait for the follow-up and I hope Ridley just goes balls-out with it. Get Giger working full time. ;) |
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(08-10-2012, 06:53 PM)
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#8104
Probably the worst movie i've seen in years. And i'm not even an alien fan. I didn't go for Alien. But I expected beforehand to only be a small cameo at some point.
Honestly, it's a very bad movie, both in characters and plot. And the 3D effect felt like it vanished quickly. PS: Of course if I dont try to connect the dots it gets better. But as soon as you think on every detail they hard-pressed into the movie, contradicting what the previous one could try to mean, but yet none is answered or even detailed... it looks like an elaborate fanfiction and that's it.
Last edited by blitzcloud; 08-10-2012 at 06:57 PM.
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(08-10-2012, 07:29 PM)
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#8105
Really enjoyed the movie and I'm actually quite surprised to see people reacting so negatively on it... then again this is the internet, where everyones taste is the ultimate standard, so I shouldn't really be that surprised. |
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(08-10-2012, 08:55 PM)
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#8106
it's just that almost everything was incoherent. When one thinks that something makes a bit of sense, they step all over it later in the movie. Not to mention that they have these fodder characters that act stupid, despite technically being clever. Probably the robot is the one acting more like a clever, yet probably a bit weird since you can't understand why he does what he does, human.
Ohhhh alien albino snake that is acting aggresively, let's try to reach it with the hand. |
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(08-10-2012, 10:22 PM)
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#8107
I thought they set up the motivation for the characters very well, especially Vickers and the Captain. I especially liked those two characters, his pick up line in particular made me laugh out loud in the cinema. Vickers really stole it for me though. The resented child that is usurped by a robot in her fathers favor, so cold inside that she actually wants her father to finally bite it, and how she interacts with David is great. Shaw was a bit underdeveloped, they should've put the effects of religious bias interfering with scientific findings to the forefront a bit more. The map/invitation motive should've been played up a bit more I'd say. I found the movie to be quite straightforward and conclusive in itself. |
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(08-10-2012, 10:51 PM)
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(08-11-2012, 07:51 PM)
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#8111
I mean, the whole point of setting the bases on alien planet was to contain it if something went wrong. |
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(08-11-2012, 07:59 PM)
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#8112
finally saw it yesterday and really liked it. some things bothered me, like the cliffhanger ending. and why the fuck was the proto-alien there at the end? pointless. film would be better as a standalone piece, without any alien connections.
and whats with the hate torwards lindeloff? the script was ok. |
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(08-12-2012, 02:35 AM)
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#8113
Which character had any kind of arc? What were the motivations of David and Meridith (Cherlize Theron)? Why were elite, "hand-selected" men complete idiots when on their mission? Even the hamfisted movie Avatar was capable of accomplishing these storytelling 101 staples. |
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(08-12-2012, 08:04 AM)
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#8114
To get free from Wayland. I thought that was pretty obvious.
Teach THeron to run sideways...lol..if they wanted to kill her just let her be crushed the way Shaw avoided to, or killed by engineer few seconds later. Still enjoyed the hell out of this movie though :) I love all the precursors/forerunners/protheans-etc type of stories. |
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(08-12-2012, 08:09 AM)
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#8115
The biggest issue? pacing but even moreso the editing. The entire last fight scene happened in 5 seconds, grab an axe, "someone is coming", door breaks down, hit button, squid grabs engineer, run away. 5 seconds and I could have done a better job. It was embarrassingly bad, it really was. |
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(08-12-2012, 12:51 PM)
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(08-12-2012, 01:02 PM)
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#8123
Saw it yesterday and I liked it a lot more than I thought I would based on the reviews.
Amazing visual and sound design. I loved every bit of it with the exception of the old man suit for Weyland. He doesn't even looked like an older Guy Pearce, so just take an old actor and use Pearces voice. Many didn't see the extra material with a young Weyland and he doesn't get 'new' life in the movie, so why use an old man suit? Anyway, I didn't read through the whole thread and thanks to the late start in germany I'm late to the party. Did I get the story right? Engineer in the beginning drinks some black goo and kickstarts human life on earth. Movie is called Prometheus, so I guess he shouldn't have done it - Other Engineers aren't fan of his work. Mankind finds the planet with the jockey-ships and doesn't know what to make of it. First I thought it was an ark, but I liked the captains explanation of a military outpost. Would explain the hazardous stuff on board. Drop a few casks on a planet and watch Aliens of all kind evolute it to death! After that - terraforming. Engineers want to do that to earth, because whatever (don't want mankind to exist, want the planet), but someone* sets some black goo loose which results in the killing of everyone on the outpost. One pilot stays alive and is revived in the events of the film that involves the typical stupid-acting horrorfilm characters and one tough and clever (last panel) Charlize Theron. Shit goes down and in the end only David and Liz stay alive and want to learn more. *could mean a fight of some Engineers who want mankind to evolve (the ones who visited the earth and old cultures) and some who just want the planet/resources or maybe find it unethical to 'make' new life resembling their DNA. In the end, I liked the movie. B-Movie characters played by great actors in exceptional design - like Alien, but with stupid people. I don't care for Lindelofs involvement and I don't think the questions in the story that come up can't be answered. I'm looking forward for a DC that maybe answers a few questions and could portray the acting of the crew a bit less stupid.
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(08-12-2012, 01:34 PM)
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#8124
I guess "Prometheus" sounded smarter than "Space Jesus". |
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(08-12-2012, 02:02 PM)
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#8126
Edit: And it doesn't fit with any theme in the movie! Why should they engineer us and then another entity sends us someone to 'safe' us - not them or their makers?
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(08-12-2012, 02:12 PM)
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#8128
My version is more fun for me, so I choose to believe in that. |
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(08-12-2012, 02:25 PM)
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(08-13-2012, 01:10 AM)
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(08-13-2012, 10:42 AM)
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#8133
Finally saw it yesterday. Mixed reactions.
I came to OT to look at this thread to see what the early impressions I was hiding away from were. I did still kind of like the movie. But I agree with a lot of the complaints. I read about 15pages of posts but not everything. So maybe someone already covered these, but I will voice them anyway. I'll just get down straight to my biggest issue with Prometheus: Is Ridley Scott just a creationist apologist? It's kind of telling that he made 2 biggest idiots in the film the Biologist and the Geologist. Those are really the 2 disciplines of science that would give his "aliens created man" concept a very hard time. The geological record on Earth tells us quite a convincing story about where man evolved from. There was no counter for that in the movie. And any biologists watching this were probably either laughing their asses off, or crying. So these engineers's DNA are 99% identical to humans? Well, so are chimpanzees. Did the engineers create those here on earth too? What about the other great apes? There are so many gaping problems with this movie from a biological stand point. Why does a space faring race have to be so freaking muscular? Do all those muscles really serve them well while flying around in space in low-G? Hell, they are in cyro most of their lives. This is a species that was flying around in space ships for thousands, maybe tens of thousands of years before humans. And yet their bodies have the evolutionary traits of something savage that has to walk around on it's knuckles and forage for food in a jungle. It seems pretty clear that RS simply does not believe in evolution. How did that space squid thing get so big just being locked up in that contamination room? What did it eat to get that big? Are we supposed to believe it put on all that mass just by breathing the air in that sterile room? And in a mater of hours? All biological organisms simply cannot grow without nutrients or a food supply. But this one can? On the positive side, I LOVE the David character! I wish the whole movie was just him wandering around the ship doing his chores, watching movies, and being David.
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(08-13-2012, 11:58 AM)
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#8136
Doesn't matter for most movies, but for a movie like this I would enjoy the second viewing a lot more, if I didn't know all this stuff - maybe I shouldn't be in this thread. |
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(08-15-2012, 05:17 AM)
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#8137
I fucking seriously hope that this, of all series, is not tied into shitty christianity. |
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(08-15-2012, 08:28 PM)
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#8139
List of deleted scenes has been posted:
http://weylandinvestors.com/post/294...-scenes-listed There is also a tease that there will be a new cut.
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Rich, smooth, creamy shit. (08-15-2012, 08:33 PM)
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#8140
doesn't appear those scenes will address flaws in the script logic. too bad.
These scenes seem interesting though ARRIVAL OF THE ENGINEERS [2:31 * DAVID’S OBJECTIVE * A KING HAS HIS REIGN [3:40] * FIFIELD ATTACKS [2:01] * THE ENGINEER SPEAKS [4:06] * FINAL BATTLE [5:30]
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(08-15-2012, 08:33 PM)
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(08-15-2012, 08:39 PM)
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(08-15-2012, 08:39 PM)
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#8143
The engineer speaks, what. God damnit.
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(08-25-2012, 03:41 AM)
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#8145
So late to the party on this one, but the movie just opened up here in Japan.
I really dug it. Saw it in 3D and I think my eyes were melting out of my face. As for the story, the only thing I really had an issue with was the opening sequence which lacked context and was far more vague than anything else in the movie. It didn't help that the alien craft you see at the start bears little resemblance to the other ships seen in the movie. Outside of that however, I had a great time and it was exactly what I was expecting. |
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(09-06-2012, 09:56 PM)
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#8146
Finally saw this movie. Hell yeah it's a prequel to Alien. Overall, a great sci-fi flick (best one since Moon (Avatar doesnt count). But definitely below the benchmark Ridley Scott has set in Alien and other movies. I think he has kinda lost his touch somewhere. There are real shortcuts taken in the script. For example, when Prometheus first descends on LV-223, Charlie conveniently spots the artificial structure which later sets the environment for the rest of the movie. The two scientists being lost in the structure is the oldest scary movie cliche in the world. As soon as they showed us that they were lost, I instantly knew they are soon to be dead. Another tired cliche. Another one I remember is near the end of the movie when the captain and his co-pilots cheesily accept the suicide mission and ram the alien spacecraft. I mean I understand the significance of the scene, but it was handled more in the Michael Bay way rather than Ridley Scott way. When the alien ship drops, Shaw just rolls away from the tumbling ship that's the size of a small city. Vickers get smothered. Well crap. Why didn't they just ran in the different direction in the first place? Things like this annoyed me.
Few things I didn't understand: What was the significance of the opening scene where the humanoid drinks the oil thingy and disintegrates? Also, why were the humanoids running in the structure? Who were they running from? Finally, why didn't the final surviving "Engineer" speak with the humans and David? I was extremely disappointed when he started acting like another movie monster instead of being a supremely intelligent being like the Engineers are supposed to. Another question, why did David put the microbe like leech in Charlie's drink, and what was Charlie transforming into? Was it the same thing the scientist transformed into? I may seem like I'm whining a lot, but it's not true. I really liked the movie. These were just a few concerns I had, and some disappointment due to this being a Ridley Scott movie. Anyways, on to Prometheus 2. |
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(09-07-2012, 05:59 AM)
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#8147
I didn't think it was at all. Just set in the same world.
It could also be that David said something else. Can't really figure out his motives, being an android and all.
That's just my take. IMO the movie didn't make sense and should just be enjoyed for what it was; cool visuals, good action, and characters that are weirdly interesting despite having unclear motives. |
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(09-07-2012, 06:08 AM)
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#8149
Yup, very interested in these. It will take an extended cut for me to pick up the Blu-Ray, I really hope that tease wasn't just that.
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(09-07-2012, 02:52 PM)
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#8150
So this is how they create human-like beings? I thought it would've been more complex than simply drinking oil and disintegrating...besides, if this is the case, they're setting the stage of evolution, not straight up "creation" of humans. Right?[/QUOTE]
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