Prometheus

[DoomsdayApex]

I want a trailer now!

 

[SigourneyBeaver]

Every single Prometheus thread, forum, blog are saying the exact same thing

 

[DoomsdayApex]

And we deserve it now.

Other than the TDKR, I am so hyped this catch this movie next year.

 

[SigourneyBeaver]

You and me both with the exception of The Avengers

 

[JakeSully]

Some interesting notes from Damon Lindelof:
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/fe...ew-damon-lindelof-prometheus-ridley-scott.php

I think a PG-13 movie can be very, very scary, but it just has to be more clever about how it’s scary. This movie is not going to be gory. It’s going to be a psychological underpinning of how something very, very bad is about to happen. I don’t know what that bad thing is, I’m very nervous about it, and I know that it’s coming. That’s very cool.

 

[redhawk23]

You and me both with the exception of The Avengers

Welcome to the hype! Great screen name. lol.

 

[CelticPredator]

Alien isn't even that gory.

But I hope they filmed a nice R-Rated version.

 

[chamber-music]

Apart from the chestbuster scene and Ash leaking his milky synthetic blood I don't remember much gory stuff in Alien.

Wasn't half of the crew cocooned anyway.

 

[CelticPredator]

Deaths mostly off screen. Sans for Brett (kinda) and Parker.

Only Brett and Dallas were cocooned.

 

[The Morningstar]

They were turning into eggs weren't they?

I understand where you are coming from with the complaint about Cameron's take. But Aliens is still ****ing awesome.

 

[CelticPredator]

Aliens is amazing. The problem is, people dumbed down the Aliens from then on out. Not really Cameron's fault...just the fault of two dumb Predator Fanboys.

 

[CelticPredator]

As a big Bay fan....Cameron DOES care about the story. About the characters. Bay is all action. Which is totally fine. He even admits that. But you'll never get a really good rounded film. But I never ask him for that either.

But Cameron IS the better filmmaker. Fact.

Terminator, Aliens, T2, and True Lies are some of the greatest films of all time. Sorry, but they are.

 

[CelticPredator]

True Lies is great. It's cooler then you are. But not as rude. See what I did there? I made a pun.

Yes, James Cameron IS more polished then Michael Bay. James Cameron tells a story. Michael Bay tells action. Both give the public what they want. Entertainment. And holy ****, do I have mad respect for both of them.

 

[CelticPredator]

And that would be a good assumption. Wrong though. I love that Predator. He's been my favorite ever since that damn movie. Just the coolest mask.

 

[JakeSully]

Michael Fassbender's 'Prometheus' Character Inspired By... Greg Louganis?

MTV News sat down with Fassbender while he was promoting his new film, "Shame," and he asked the actor what it was like to join the legacy of "Alien" robots.



Fassbender explained that for his character, David, he took his own path when conceiving him. "I kind of went my own way, really. I didn't watch the ['Alien'] films. When I found out I was doing it, I didn't revisit them," he said.


He did, however, check out another famous robot-related movie before starring in "Prometheus."



"I watched 'Blade Runner,' but I didn't watch the 'Alien' films," said Fassbender, who admitted that Ian Holm's and Lance Henriksen's performances are always in the back of his mind. "Of course, they're in there. I can remember them from when I've seen the films before, but I sort of went a different way."


And for inspiration completely out of left field, Fassbender said he looked to Olympic diver, Greg Louganis. "Louganis was my first inspiration. I figured that I'd sort of base my physicality roughly around him, and then it kind of went from there," he said.


Perhaps he'll be doing some deep space diving. Who knows?

 

[CelticPredator]

That Gort mask is similar. Either as Stan's original design, or the P2 version. But not the same.

It's still cool though. I dig CP's more. I even have Sideshow's lifesized replica. Beautiful.

 

[CelticPredator]

I agree.

*shakes hand*

You're pretty cool.

But a total dick. haha.


It's obviously in jest...not serous.

 

[CelticPredator]

Yeah, YOU can take jokes...but some of the mods can't. Honestly.

 

[CelticPredator]

Nice knowing you.

Honestly, they'll probably ban you for that. Or infract you. Or warn you.

 

[echostation]

getting back to Allah's topic of what is the prometheus

All the reports have thus far gauged and shown this film is kind of a prequel but puts things into a certain perspective when you see the other Alien films... just as said in earlier posts that apparently when you see prometheus, you'll see the other Alien films under a new light and it broadens the perspective more.

The reason for this is the major spoiler about what PROMETHEUS IS... It's the source of sole energy spiritualistic power that the Xenomorphs/Aliens use for everything.... however it is tampered with by a group of Human explorers who find it and set things off into such a chaotic mess that while the Humans somehow (not sure yet) benefit from the power of Prometheus... the Xenomorphs entire civilization and organized ways of life collapse and they become violent and rampage against the humans and want to exterminate ALL life as they've lost their spiritual way.

It's very much an extreme revisionist reverse take on European hegemony in America

 

[Viscal]

Some interesting notes from Damon Lindelof:
http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/fe...ew-damon-lindelof-prometheus-ridley-scott.php

Thanks for this. I missed this bit somehow. I will add it to the FACTS section of my site.

http://www.prometheusnews.net/movie/facts

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I'm expecting huge things from this film.

Considering the synopsis and the nature of the script, does anyone speculate that is this film going to be philosophical?

 

[Viscal]

There were many instances where Ridley Scott and Lindelof have said that it will be philosophical; namely ideas pertaining to God and stealing stuff

 

[DoomsdayApex]

I'd assume Scott would feature some of those aspects in the movie. However, considering the discovery of humanity's origins, I wonder if there will be criticism.

 

[Viscal]

I bet. But those critics if they exist are idiots who can't see past the fact that the movie is fiction.