Ridley Scott's "Prometheus"

[Chiropteran]

He wasn't simply "less afraid" of the alien cobra. He was almost completely unafraid, and wouldn't stop messing with it.
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How can you possibly know that? You can't. Again, you just making an assumption. Your assumption leads to the movie being flawed in your mind. My assumptions lead the movie to being more enjoyable to watch.

You do it to yourself.

 

[Proprioceptive]

51`

 

[Gibsons]

How can you possibly know that? You can't. Again, you just making an assumption. Your assumption leads to the movie being flawed in your mind. My assumptions lead the movie to being more enjoyable to watch.

You do it to yourself.

He practically stuck his finger in the things mouth!

 

[Ichinisan]

I missed where the bio said they weren't afraid anymore.

They walked past the same corpse that had previously scared them off and entered the ooze room...then started joking around...then started cooing and using baby talk to a hissing alien cobra thing.

 

[Jadow]

yeah those 2 guys were idiots.

You'd think with the kind of money that expedition cost and what was at stake, they would have only the best of the best onboard that ship. not a couple maroons like those guys.

 

[Skel]

They walked past the same corpse that had previously scared them off and entered the ooze room...then started joking around...then started cooing and using baby talk to a hissing alien cobra thing.

Yeah, I realized who you were talking about after I made the post. I had thought we were talking about the not running to the side, not those idiots. Like I had said, fear didn't explain that scene. My only guess, and reaching mind you, is everything he thought he knew made him believe it was harmless. Still a really stupid thing to do.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yeah, I realized who you were talking about after I made the post. I had thought we were talking about the not running to the side, not those idiots. Like I had said, fear didn't explain that scene. My only guess, and reaching mind you, is everything he thought he knew made him believe it was harmless. Still a really stupid thing to do.

Yup. I'm perfectly willing to suspend disbelief to a degree. I just can't enjoy a movie when I'm forced to perform mental gymnastics to explain the sloppy mistakes.

 

[SSSnail]

The running from spaceship scene reminded me of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms

 

[BladeVenom]

Huh? Did you watch the same movie as me? If that snake was any sort of normal "earth snake", the guy would have been fine in his suit. Thick glass all around the head, some sort of plastic material around the rest of the body, WTF is any normal snake going to do? I wouldn't be afraid of a rattlesnake if I was wearing armor like that.

It obviously wasn't any sort of "earth snake."

Rattlesnakes have been known to bite through thick leather boots.

They just saw a bunch of dead Engineers with space snake sized holes in their suits, now they see a space snake. :hmm:

 

[spikespiegal]

Easily one of the worst films I've seen this year. If Ridley Scott's name wasn't associated with it the film could easily be a Sy-Fy channel production with all the cheesy monster crap.

I stopped counting all the continuity problems and gaping plot holes. It's like there were two films, and Ridley randomly spliced them together to piss off the studio.

 

[blankslate]

Wasn't it written by the same writer who came up with the rage inducing ending for "Lost"?

Never watching anything written by him again. Had Ridley Scott worked with a different writer this film might've been very good. The quality of direction and cinematography that one expects in a Ridley Scott film is there, however, the story is weak by comparison to his other sci-fi movies.

 

[glen]

You know who would have done a hell of a job writing that movie?
Stephen King. He always has a good mix of scarey, theology, and plot twists.
Would have loved to have seen what he would have done with it.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Wasn't it written by the same writer who came up with the rage inducing ending for "Lost"?

Never watching anything written by him again. Had Ridley Scott worked with a different writer this film might've been very good. The quality of direction and cinematography that one expects in a Ridley Scott film is there, however, the story is weak by comparison to his other sci-fi movies.

You're kidding right? Where was the good direction in this abomination?

Here is a list of all the good Ridley Scott films.

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Thelma and Louise

'But what about Blackhawk Down and Gladiator?!?!'

Uhhh... lol

 

[SphinxnihpS]

You know who would have done a hell of a job writing that movie?
Stephen King. He always has a good mix of scarey, theology, and plot twists.
Would have loved to have seen what he would have done with it.

I would prefer to see what you would have done with it than what was done with it.

 

[BladeVenom]

Here's Lindelof's second draft of the screenplay. http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/leaked_script.txt

 

[Via]

Prometheus was probably doomed, but if it's makers had at least had a shred of courage to follow through on at least some sequences it might have been "good" doomed instead of "bad" doomed.

The two guys that everyone (rightfully) bitches about are a perfect example. If the filmakers had the balls to follow the "pot" angle to any sort of depth and show the two idiots going off and getting completely fucked-up, falling-over-each-other high everything that happens to them afterwards would have been (somewhat) acceptable and made (a litle bit of) sense.

But no - that's too much for the team that made this ham. Pot? but...but.. that might piss some people off! We can't go any farther in that direction. Be thankful we even mentioned it at all.



Here's an idea for them, free of charge: Have the two guys get so high they start hallucinating (maybe the cryosleep had the effect of making them more sensitive to the weed). That could explain why they got lost.

Then - have them see the visions, and make us guess what was real and what wasn't, or whether they even happened at all.

 

[SP33Demon]

Here's Lindelof's second draft of the screenplay. http://www.prometheus-movie.com/uploads/leaked_script.txt

So Vickers was a robot after all.

SUDDENLY two wires strike out and stab into her Butt cheeks, another one stabs and sticks to the top of her spine, another to strike and stab into her knees and as SHAW screams out in pain and agony a much more thicker and longer snake like wire slivers up her leg and upper right thigh.
From behind SHAW we can see the thick pulsing and throbbing snake like 'Penis' shoot up with force between SHAW'S legs followed by a loud howling scream.

Also, Tentacle pron lmao.

 

[BladeVenom]

So Vickers was a robot after all.

In the 2nd draft, but as you can see almost everything was changed. So I don't think she was a robot in the movie.

 

[PliotronX]

In essence I think

Spoiler

the alien was the savior and David was a dick for spiking the drink but the offspring ultimately saved its mother

. Trippy film.

 

[thejunglegod]

Ridley Scott (and the scriptwriters) were focusing on the "Alien Jesus" angle, but ultimately the producers got scared of the controversy it might generate and ordered the filmakers to destress that idea in a major way. This heap of junk is what was left after they spliced it all to hell. The way the engineer reacted makes much more sense if you consider we crucified his ancestor.

People keep coming up with absolute weird stuff without links and expect it to be the way they think it is. Links for this please?
Reminds me of how fans contorted the end of ME3 to create an indoctrination theory.

 

[Ichinisan]

People keep coming up with absolute weird stuff without links and expect it to be the way they think it is. Links for this please?
Reminds me of how fans contorted the end of ME3 to create an indoctrination theory.

There have been multiple links to an interview in which Ridley Scott, the director, confirms the alien Jesus thing.

 

[notposting]

Worst thing is seeing any of the science-fiction/good-writing fans reviews of the movie. When the comparison is George Lucas and The Phantom Menace, well, that's not inspiring me to go to see the movie. Glad I waited it out...

Also as a couple reviews I read pointed out, it's not that there is a dumb thing or two in the movie, maybe an unexplained action or behavior...it's that it is full of dumb thing after dumb thing after unexplained (and unexplainable by current knowledge) thing happening. The overwhelming dumbness wears you down.

 

[CZroe]

Worst thing is seeing any of the science-fiction/good-writing fans reviews of the movie. When the comparison is George Lucas and The Phantom Menace, well, that's not inspiring me to go to see the movie. Glad I waited it out...

Also as a couple reviews I read pointed out, it's not that there is a dumb thing or two in the movie, maybe an unexplained action or behavior...it's that it is full of dumb thing after dumb thing after unexplained (and unexplainable by current knowledge) thing happening. The overwhelming dumbness wears you down.

It's not nearly as extreme as Episode 1 but it is an appropriate analogy.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

yeah, the phantom alien won't be getting a penny from me. now that i've come back to my senses, i'm going to wait on total recall as well.

 

[blankslate]

You're kidding right? Where was the good direction in this abomination?

Here is a list of all the good Ridley Scott films.

1. Alien
2. Blade Runner
3. Thelma and Louise

'But what about Blackhawk Down and Gladiator?!?!'

Uhhh... lol

Not kidding and you're perfectly entitled to your opinions of course. Although the tone might need moderation