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Prometheus SPOILER thread

60+ strikes me as a little weird, but only a little. There are plenty of films I've seen ten-twenty times or more, and which I'll still happilly rewatch. Alien has probably had a dozen viewings, Casablanca well over twenty, ditto A Matter of Life and Death, Peeping Tom, Red Shoes, Reservoir Dogs must be up there. If you watch them a few times when they come out, and ocne a year since, it soon builds up.
 
I only tend to watch a film more than once if I stumble upon one on the telly.
I'm always more eager to watch a film I haven't seen before.
There are some that demand reviewing but only a few times.
 
There are some film which are more like re-entering a particular world than just re-watching a film for me. The plot isn't really that important anymore, its visual details, the sound, a particular atmosphere and a strong sense of place, even if its an imaginary one, that make me come back. Often they are also films that take me to a particular time of my life and I re-live that period of my life a little when I first discovered the film. There are many films I really love, which I can't watch that often. It's only the ones which have the qualities I described.
 
Orang Utan said:
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That's quite good (altho surely the Prometheus legend and the fact the film is called Prometheus is just a coincidence?!)

I never really gave any thought to the possibility of Vickers being a robot (in fact might have given it some thought had it not been for the line "are you a robot" ironically!) but this wouldn't be the first time Scott has written a robot that doesn't know it's a robot in one of his films!

Only thing is I got a different interpretation of the whole "why did you think my creators created me?" thing. When David first said that my initial reaction was "to serve" (or fulfill some kind of function). And going along with all the religious themes I often think of why "God" demands we worship/serve him(/her/it), which tied nicely into that. I'm sure there are plenty of things we create just because we can (like Alien vs Predator), but the vast majority is to serve some kind of purpose and it made me wonder what our purpose was, not necessarily why they created us (I know it's kinda similar like!). And then, once something has served it's purpose...what do you do with it?...!
 
Ended up on five and a half watches at the cinema the end.

First one was a bit eh?
Second was better than first.
Last three and a half were less good.

The reason for the many watches was I worked with the Secret Cinema bunch all June who were showing it.

http://www.secretcinema.org/newsletter/nl6.html

Really enjoyed it. Working in the AI Laboratory entertaining the punters every night. Some great actors hamming it up and lots of good sets.

Was a very big installation for Secret Cinema running for a whole month. My favourite thing was that the studio had shipped lots of actual props from the film. This included the vehicles they drove from Prometheus to the alien ships. Two of the big tanks (one for actual driving and one for close up filming. Had a good climb around on those when the place was empty. Told they cost over £1m to produce and were driven in.
 
Badgers said:
Ended up on five and a half watches at the cinema the end.

First one was a bit eh?
Second was better than first.
Last three and a half were less good.

The reason for the many watches was I worked with the Secret Cinema bunch all June who were showing it.

http://www.secretcinema.org/newsletter/nl6.html

Really enjoyed it. Working in the AI Laboratory entertaining the punters every night. Some great actors hamming it up and lots of good sets.

Was a very big installation for Secret Cinema running for a whole month. My favourite thing was that the studio had shipped lots of actual props from the film. This included the vehicles they drove from Prometheus to the alien ships. Two of the big tanks (one for actual driving and one for close up filming. Had a good climb around on those when the place was empty. Told they cost over £1m to produce and were driven in.
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i've talked to two lots of people who went to that. they were all really annoyed it was Prometheus, as they all had already seen it
 
joustmaster said:
i've talked to two lots of people who went to that. they were all really annoyed it was Prometheus, as they all had already seen it
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I thought that from the off. It should have been alien or aliens really. Met a couple of people who had been to see it at IMax for £16 and then paid £35 for Secret Cinema which is a shame.

Almost all the feedback on the installation was fantastic. We were stopping people and giving them 'android education' with some really fun features for them to play with too. Rather than a load of pretty stuff to look at it was very interactive and mainly a laugh.

Crash course in androids/AI for me (gotta take these things seriously eh?) and got a bit of the acting bug. Not any good but had an audition Thursday and a call back for this week :D
 
Orang Utan sent me here so sorry for the bump.

I watched it last night, enjoyed it but the allegory doesn't fit in with the logic on screen. It's full of plot holes.

Killed a couple of hours anyway.

My mate designed that secret cinema thing!
 
Orang Utan said:
There's another thing that makes no sense. Where does the xenomorph come from at the end? Has it evolved superquick from the worms in the chamber? Or has it been deliberately engineered? Does the evolution sequence go like this: worm-squid-massive squid-xenomorph? Or is that just an engineered life cycle?
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:D :D

this thread is class
 
I hear rumours that Ridley is going to make a sequel to Blade Runner.
If he hires that hack Lindelof for that then I'm not watching.
 
Structaural said:
I hear rumours that Ridley is going to make a sequel to Blade Runner.
If he hires that hack Lindelof for that then I'm not watching.
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Last I've read was that Hampton Fancher, screenwriter of the first Blade Runner, is having a crack at the script and that so far Lindelof has not been asked back for the Prometheus sequel. I would not be surprised if that has something to do with the fact that all the criticism of Prometheus focused on the screenplay.

Both films are in the very early planning stages and may not even happen. Ridely Scott is currently working on a thriller with Brad Pitt.
 
Structaural said:
I hear rumours that Ridley is going to make a sequel to Blade Runner.
If he hires that hack Lindelof for that then I'm not watching.
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Can't imagine how they'll do that. Blade Runner 2: Deckard and The Real Girl. Deckard and Rachel go on the run, whilst the clock ticks on their mortality. I hope it involves escaping on a unicorn and lots of lasers.
 
watched it last night and really enjoyed it, mind you as opposed to a few peeps at work who went and saw it at the cinema and came out dissapointed , I wanst going in thinking it was an ' Alien ' film, in fact i was surpirsed how much ' alien ' stuff was in it
 
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