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Ridley Scott's Prometheus Trailer

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Very excited about this... The name of the movie itself is incredibly inspired and inspiring and the trailer looks ace. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a disappointment like Scream 4, which I was every bit as excited about.
 
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Edmond Dantès;33680915 said:
I love that debate. For me, his eyes in one particular scene allude to it and the strength he exhibits at the end, when hanging for dear life.
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I just don't see how a replicant could administer the Voight-Kampff test and be able to tell a human from a robot based on emotional response, when they themselves have limited emotions.

IT MAKES NO SENSE!
 
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Samus4145 said:
What is this Space Jockey everyone is talking about?
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SilentProtagonist said:
Quick observation: If this is intended to be a helmet (with clear eyes), that's supposed to fit onto the large humanoid SJ's head, then why are the eye holes so far apart? They would need a strange shaped head to fit that. Also, it seems strange that there would eye-holes in a modern/future/alien helmet at all.
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Because the tech takes so much space in the helmet that the eyes have to be displaced. Does that really sound far-fetched?? It's like cameras.

It might be futuristic, but it all looks organic too. If animals developed eyes over countless millions of years, why wouldn't advanced organic tech have eyes too? It just makes sense.

edit: They also built a giant head. Who knows what those aliens are thinking.
 
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EVIL said:
you don't know what kind of helmet it is, maybe its some kind of death mask sculpted in likeness THEIR gods?. Remember, its alien tech, it doesn't need to make perfect sense from a human perspective.
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I know, just an observation. If it's the same "helmet" from the "suit" we saw in Alien/the trailer, then we know it's attached to somesort of.... computer? Thing? In the central chamber. This is apparently also where the Star Map is located according to the trailer.
 
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FStop7 said:
It looked fucking ridiculous. I got shushed in the theater twice for that film - the first time for laughing out loud at Dan Hedaya's comical expression when he examines a piece of his own brain and again for the stupid looking newborn alien thingy when it made a sad face.
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Yeah, can't blame "those bastard producers" for the shitty ass writing, inappropriate tone, and irreverence for the original films.

One of the rare good scenes in that movie is finding the failed hybrids.
 
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song from the trailer


Mato said:
Very excited about this... The name of the movie itself is incredibly inspired and inspiring and the trailer looks ace. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a disappointment like Scream 4, which I was every bit as excited about.
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How does the name Prometheus fit into the story? Is it related to Greek mythology, or is it the name of a ship?

LINDELOF: We’re not going to talk about specifically how it connects into the movie, other than yes, Prometheus was a Titan who stole fire from the Gods because they were keeping it to themselves and they were worried what mankind would do, if we got our little paws on it. So, that theme is a resonating idea – what humans are doing that we probably shouldn’t be doing, in terms of technological innovation and, perhaps, exploration. Is there a line that shouldn’t be crossed? Part of the fun of the movie is understanding exactly why we called it Prometheus. And also, it sounds really pretentious, like Inception, so we were just like, “Yeah, that makes the movie sound really smart!” It’s so much better then my original title, Explosion. Well, there might be an explosion in the movie.

whole interview
 
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Darklord said:
SpaceJockey.jpg
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There is a minor detail here that bothers me. See the cables/sinews on the Jockey's right upper arm? And the way they seem to connect to the "backpack" (well, I always thought it was some kind of pack)? In the latest shots, the "backpack" looks like it's a part of the chair, disconnected from the Jockey. Or am I looking at this wrong?
 
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Flo_Evans said:
I just don't see how a replicant could administer the Voight-Kampff test and be able to tell a human from a robot based on emotional response, when they themselves have limited emotions.

IT MAKES NO SENSE!
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Maybe all Blade Runners were replicants, but distinct from the Nexus models and were more in tune with human emotions due to their programming. I mean who better to hunt down replicants than other replicants. This may be bit of stretch though.
 
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Space Jockey inconsistencies and mysteries and whatnot are easily explained by the fact that Ridley and co. had no fucking clue what the thing was meant to really be or what its purpose was.

They've basically admitted they only put the Space Jockey scene in there because the thing looks awesome as hell and super-evocative, and the studio didn't want to let them waste money on a scene they saw as pointless. Fortunately Ridley and Giger won out.
 
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Damn, the art direction of this movie is so appealing.

In a sense, the "futuristic" aspects are "outdated", as in: we love to present the future as uber-slick, bright an high-techy, while this isn't. I don't know how to explain myself.

Either way, this look makes everything much more realistic and dangerous looking. Not "slick white door slides open and astronauts start roaming a planet with their trusted high-tech force field that allows them to breath", but rather "dark metal door with creaky gears opens slowly and the astronauts hope to god their spacesuit is airtight so they don't suffacate when entering the planets surface".
 
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alphaNoid said:
It gets asked every 3 pages, please read the thread or use google. Its getting kind of tiring explaining to people what can easily be found by oneself.
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Considering I have read plenty of pages, but its never explained. I have seen the pictures reply with, but that doesn't explain WHAT IT IS. That's my question.
 
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CaptYamato said:
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Watch The Wire right now!
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They could have avoided fucking up the fiction in this movie by simply having it be about another earlier expedition stumbling across the Space Jockey before the crew of the Nostomo.



Zeliard said:
Space Jockey inconsistencies and mysteries and whatnot are easily explained by the fact that Ridley and co. had no fucking clue what the thing was meant to really be or what its purpose was.

They've basically admitted they only put the Space Jockey scene in there because the thing looks awesome as hell and super-evocative, and the studio didn't want to let them waste money on a scene they saw as pointless. Fortunately Ridley and Giger won out.
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The fiction is what it is. And the Space Jockey is central to the original story. The ship he is in is sending out a message in an alien language that the crew of the Nostromo assumes is an SOS. Towards the end of the film the Nostromos computers deciphers the message and reveals that it is actually warning others to stay away from the ship.
 
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lol @ "generic"

Probably the most inaccurate word you could use to describe this movie. If only we had more stuff like this.
 
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Zeliard said:
Space Jockey inconsistencies and mysteries and whatnot are easily explained by the fact that Ridley and co. had no fucking clue what the thing was meant to really be or what its purpose was.

They've basically admitted they only put the Space Jockey scene in there because the thing looks awesome as hell and super-evocative, and the studio didn't want to let them waste money on a scene they saw as pointless. Fortunately Ridley and Giger won out.
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yeah this is why lost failed in its final seasons
 
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brianjones said:
yeah this is why lost failed in its final seasons
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Making it up as you go along is pretty much inevitable. Whether that's done well or not is a different matter.

Prometheus won't fail because they had no idea what the Space Jockey was in 1979. It will because they have no idea what it is now, or rather, no interesting idea.

Though regardless of script problems, I imagine that Ridley's visual and atmospheric sense will go a long way towards carrying this sort of movie.
 
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Zeliard said:
Making it up as you go along is pretty much inevitable. Whether that's done well or not is a different matter.

Prometheus won't fail because they had no idea what the Space Jockey was in 1979. It will because they have no idea what it is now, or rather, no interesting idea.

Though regardless of script problems, I imagine that Ridley's visual and atmospheric sense will go a long way towards carrying this sort of movie.
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Honestly if the movie is great I wont mind the altered history. But then both movies cant stand as great for me. If they did alter the fiction to retcon a human as the Space Jockey, then one of the 2 movies is going to be relegated to non-cannon junk bin with the rest of the shitty sequels. Cant have it both ways Scott.
 
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SilentProtagonist said:
What else looks similar to this? Keep in mind that to be 'generic', you'll need several mainstream examples.
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I dunno...I got a Event Horizon and any other military in space sci-fi!...

Also Inception-esque horn...c'mon!

Just seems like I've seen it and experienced it all before...

Zeliard said:
lol @ "generic"

Probably the most inaccurate word you could use to describe this movie. If only we had more stuff like this.
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Yes because clearly this theme and atmosphere is so original and never been done before.
 
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Samus4145 said:
Considering I have read plenty of pages, but its never explained. I have seen the pictures reply with, but that doesn't explain WHAT IT IS. That's my question.
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Ok, well then I apologize. The Space Jockey in itself is 100% mystery. Nobody knows anything about it, and for 32 years now fans have talked about its validity and role in the universe. Its sparked so much attention that Ridley has returned it seems to fill in the blanks.

So you ask 'who is the Space Jockey?' and I'll tell you that everyone in this thread wants to know the same thing.
 
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