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Prometheus SPOILER thread

It was poorly written, but it was very well made. I don't think you'd be able to tell the difference though. Your basic knowledge of film-making is nada. You can't even tell when a "funny" youtube video is a blatant fake. ;)

Lol this from the guy that loves Avatar? :D
 
Lol this from the guy that loves Avatar? :D


So you are back to resorting to that troll again ? That's really pathetic, especially considering what a twat you made of yourself today.


...and BTW, when and where did I ever say I "love" Avatar ?
 
So you are back to resorting to that troll again ? That's really pathetic, especially considering what a twat you made of yourself today.


...and BTW, when and where did I ever say I "love" Avatar ?

Hey I ain't the one that ponces about like a 6th form film critic loving crap like Avatar then talking down my oh so sight & sound nose at anyone who likes different films to you. :p

That's a good working definition of pathetic.;)
 
The interesting thing I find about Prometheus reviews is that a lot of people either love it or hate it. Either way it has made a lot of people talk about it, which means that it has engaged people in one form or another which is an achievment in itself.
 
I find it hard to believe that he hasn't seen or at least heard of 'Blade Runner' or 'I Robot'.
And pretty much every film with androids in. He's talking out of his arse. Actors/directors always seem to spout so much bullshit in interviews
 
He was a geologist not a biologist but otherwise yeah funny.

I would have added why would someone capable of interstellar travel draw Cave Paintings as a message? Surely they'd be capable of something more elaborate like a big black talking obelisk on the moon!

In fact all the messages were in human works of art not made by aliens, unless they'd been returning every now and then sneak a reference to them in.

Someone will justify this by saying it was implanted in our genetic memory or some shit and thats how the message manifests. If so why did it stop manifesting after ancient times and not keep appearing in human creative processes?
 
Spoilers? How about:

WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT ?

Honestly. Why spend all that money and make such a pretty looking film, only to render it so utterly unbelieveable and incomprehensible?
 
Fifield was the geologist, Milburn the biologist - they both got scared and wanted to run away

They got scared. Then inexplicably went back to hang out in the scariest part with all the containers and then started chatting and trying to pet random aliens?
 
Why did the engineers invite us to their military planet, especially if they intended to wipe us out anyway?

Owes a lot to dear dead Arthur C, the idea of aliens experimenting with lifeforms on other planets and monitoring the progress. Whole thing owes a huge debt to 2001
 
They got scared. Then inexplicably went back to hang out in the scariest part with all the containers and then started chatting and trying to pet random aliens?
Leaving aside the chatting with aliens, didn't they get told the wrong thing by someone on the ship? Memory of it's not great, but I have the feeling they were lied to to get them in that room. They said "where's the big bad?", were told it was west and so went east, when in actual fact they were heading straight for it.

Could well be wrong though :oops:
 
Why did the engineers invite us to their military planet, especially if they intended to wipe us out anyway?

Owes a lot to dear dead Arthur C, the idea of aliens experimenting with lifeforms on other planets and monitoring the progress. Whole thing owes a huge debt to 2001

The screenwriter went on about how they were aiming for a 2001 style film while this was still being writing, so it's not like that wasn't acknowledged. Shame they fell a little short.

Apparently the version released on DVD/Blu-ray will be 20 minutes longer. Maybe then we will find out why they cast Guy Pearce.
 
I wish Dan o'Bannon was still involved/alive. Dunno why the boy did not have a more glittering career - wrote Alien and directed Return of the Living Dead - two amazing seminal works,
 
I wish Dan o'Bannon was still involved/alive. Dunno why the boy did not have a more glittering career - wrote Alien and directed Return of the Living Dead - two amazing seminal works,
Though from what i've read, his version was wack, until Walter Hill got his hands on the script. Many of the great things I the script were additions from Hill apparently
 
20 minutes added to DVD to make us pay for it twice over. :mad:

Nobody is going to hold a gun to your head, forcing you to buy it. I liked the film enough and I am enough of an Alien fan that I was going to get the Blu-ray anyway, so that's a nice bonus. Not sure if it will make the characters behave less stupidly though.
 
Nobody is going to hold a gun to your head, forcing you to buy it. I liked the film enough and I am enough of an Alien fan that I was going to get the Blu-ray anyway, so that's a nice bonus. Not sure if it will make the characters behave less stupidly though.
Maybe it'll be like Apocalypse Now Redux, where suddenly everything makes sense, and then you realise that it was quite a bit better when it didn't.
 
Nobody is going to hold a gun to your head, forcing you to buy it. I liked the film enough and I am enough of an Alien fan that I was going to get the Blu-ray anyway, so that's a nice bonus. Not sure if it will make the characters behave less stupidly though.
Of course not, but I think it's shitty behaviour to do this sort of thing. They do it with computer games too. Can't remember how much extra I spent on DLC for the Fallout games, but it was enough.
 
I quite enjoy the options of having different versions of films. Due to economics the requirements of theatrical and home video versions are quite different. For theatrical showings films have to often come in under a certain length (I think to get his R-rating Scott had to make compromises in terms of running time) and often they get edited for rating and censorship, things which aren't an issue on home video. Of course many directors cuts are redundant fiddling around, but that's fine if the original is also present, which it always almost is (and Star Wars fans are suckers anyway :D). I'll never understand the complaints over having more options rather than less.
 
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I quite enjoy the options of having different versions of films. Due to economics the requirements of theatrical and home video versions are quite different. For theatrical showings films have to often come in under a certain length (I think to get his R-rating Scott had to make compromises in terms of running time) and often they get edited for rating and censorship, things which aren't an issue on home video. Of course many directors cuts are redundant fiddling around, but that's fine if the original is also present, which it always almost is (and Star Wars fans are suckers anyway :D). I'll never understand the complaints over having more options rather than less.
I am a cheapskate and only want to pay once! I think it's fine for an uncut version with more violence/sex or whatever but it I think it sucks if you have to pay again to just see something made clear that should have been clear in the first place
 
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