Amph On Earth, Everyone Can Hear You Scream: The Prometheus / Alien Discussion Thread (Romulus, Earth)

I didn't love it, but I have watched it more than once on cable, and it's good enough that I look forward to the sequel.

 

It really just seems as though Scott spent all his effort making the film look pretty and assembling a great cast that he forgot to make sure the script was worth the wood pulp it was printed on. It's as though he said, "Ehhh, space Jesus or something" and Lindelof turned it out while he was taking a **** and used the draft as toilet paper.

 

Agree with the fella above me.

 

No, no. He's Darren Aronofsky's Noah.


God help those poor tigers...

 

Meh, I think pretty much all of Lindelof's writing is crap.

Atm I can't say I'm aware of any unanswered questions, or even any questions at all. It's probably because I just don't care.

I love it as it is.

 

I didn't say it wasn't his usual writing style.

 

I feel the same way, though I really don't know how they're going to make a compelling sequel that begins with Noomi Rapace ringing the Engineers' doorbell and whining "Why do you hate us?!?!".

Hear, hear. Great character and a great actor. Fassbender and Idris Elba are probably my two favorite actors working today. Maybe they can find a way to bring Elba back, too. Hey, it's science fiction after all.

 

so i guess the last days on mars has the potential to become the prometheus that prometheus never was. i mean the alien that alien never was.

 

starring fastbinders.

 

I love Prometheus and can't wait for the sequel, since it's obvious that the first wasn't meant to be a standalone film. Even Ridley said he wanted to shoot two movies back to back.

 

i kind of want to shoot ridley in the back.

 

http://www.thewrap.com/prometheus-2...ature-multiple-michael-fassbenders-exclusive/

Sequel coming March 2016!

 

multiple fastbinders might be interesting. like you know one fastbinder is sitting at the table in the mess hall eating cereal and another fastbinder comes in and says, "oh! hello there!" and the first fastbinder looks up and says, "doing well are we?" to which the second responds "quite!", and flashes a brilliant smile. then a third fastbinder walks in carrying a heavy load of power fasteners and, seeing the other two fastbinders goofing off snaps "listen fellows, there are a LOT of things we need to get done before we reach alpha sigma 9. we don't have the luxury of carousing about so GET TO WORK." fastbinder three storms out. the first two fastbinders are silent for a moment. then, fastbinder one says "what's up his evacuation tube?" "a small, furry animal with sharp claws, methinks." replies number two. they both chuckle. suddenly, a fourth fastbinder struts into the mess hall, totally nude. "HELLO BOYSSSSSS!" he booms, with a glint in his eye and a naughty smile on his face.

 

Its impossible to top ALIEN so Ridley is going uphill, he set the bar high its a great movie and cast Yaphott Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, Sig Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm and on and on c'mon its pretty east to rip PROMETHEUS. The writing was off but IM cool with the bog picture the tie-in with WEYLAND was great looking forward to this more than just about any movie in the works.

 

Nah, Prometheus is a bag of ****.

 

Nah, Prometheus is a barrel of fun.

 

The visuals were outstanding though. If you exclude the plot when judging the film and just go by everything else it is pretty good.

 

Your tongue is sticking out your cheek like an alien popping out of John Hurt.

 

The acting was good, the script was terrible, the visuals were great, the plot was convoluted. Everyone put in an A effort except the writers who delivered at best a D+

 

Nah. It's garbage.

 

The two biggest "Huh?" moments in this film for me were 1) Nobody even mentioning the zombie attack after it happened and, more significant, 2)When the pilot character declares out of nowhere that he has everything figured out; that it's a bioweapon storage facility. I don't have any problem with that particular plot development. In fact, I think it's pretty clever that the planet doesn't turn out to be the Rosetta Stone of panspermia and instead is just one piece in a much larger narrative. But nobody is ever shown deducing or vetting this theory. He says it once, out of nowhere, and that's it. It's concrete fact.

One potentially interesting loose thread for a potential sequel: Will Rapace's character ever discover that it was in fact David who killed her husband?

 

Relax, everybody. It's being written by the guy who co-wrote Green Lantern. We're in good hands.

 

If you take this statement:

The acting was good, the script was terrible, the visuals were great, the plot was convoluted. Everyone put in an A effort except the writers who delivered at best a D+

and combine it with this observation:

The two biggest "Huh?" moments in this film for me were 1) Nobody even mentioning the zombie attack after it happened and, more significant, 2)When the pilot character declares out of nowhere that he has everything figured out; that it's a bioweapon storage facility. I don't have any problem with that particular plot development. In fact, I think it's pretty clever that the planet doesn't turn out to be the Rosetta Stone of panspermia and instead is just one piece in a much larger narrative. But nobody is ever shown deducing or vetting this theory. He says it once, out of nowhere, and that's it. It's concrete fact.

I'd say you end up with the equation that was Prometheus.

It would be interesting to see how much of the final result was due to the process it was created under. Directed and Produced by Ridley Scott who called the shots. Written by Jon Spaihts, new to Hollywood and Damon Lindelof, television writer. Prometheus was going to be a sequel to Alien(s)....then it wasn't. Then it was. Then it wasn't. Then it ended up "touching the same universe, but not being directly related to it." I'd bet there is enough material to make a feature length film on how Prometheus was created.

 

Yeah, if you take everything terrible out of Prometheus, you end up with some decent material. Same with Gigli and Plan 9 from Outer Space.