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The International One Sheet For PROMETHEUS Is More Than That Giant Head!!
The Kidd here...
While there's been all sorts of interesting things going on with the marketing of PROMETHEUS, from the viral videos to the featurettes to the tones of different trailers, the one sheets have left a lot to be desired. It's all been repetitive with that giant head... well, peaking its head on every poster.
But now for the international poster, we're getting something a bit different, and, on the positive side, it's not just floating heads of the cast either.
This is imagery we've seen from the trailers already (even the most unspoilery ones), so this piece of action shouldn't come as a surprise to you if you've watched any of the promo material thus far. It's just refreshing to see something cool pulled from the movie, focusing on what the film looks like rather than who's in it. As you can see, only Ridley Scott's legacy is getting top billing.
But my biggest question about the one sheet is who the hell is getting the movie on June 6th? The UK is set to see it on June 1, and the U.S. and Canada had been marked for June 8. Does this mean Fox is moving the film up a couple of days for a Wednesday release?
-Billy Donnelly
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but to photoshoppy.
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May 17, 2012, 10:27 a.m. CST
If the soundtrack is in film sequence, THAT happens near the end.
by justmyluck
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Ugly and poorly designed. And it gives away a critical moment in the film, which also sucks.
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May 17, 2012, 10:29 a.m. CST
Please, somebody photoshop some of those Ack! Ack! Aliens from the movie Mars Attacks into this one sheet!
by Cinemajerk
LOL. That would rock.
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May 17, 2012, 10:37 a.m. CST
Fox exec: "We've gotta let the kids know it's got ACTION!" Ad guy: "Check out this EXPLOSION!"
by No Respectable Gentleman
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.....boot-leg DVD art work, that, one could get from Pyongyang.....
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May 17, 2012, 10:40 a.m. CST
my one complaint abot this film is how spoiler-filled the marketing has been
by Jaster Mareel
I feel like we know the whole damn story. Scott himslef has said several times that it's about where human beings came from. Why the fuck would you do that? The best thing about ALIEN was that nobody had much idea what it was about until they witnessed it. That first teaser trailer (the cracking egg) is one of the best trailers of all time. I still remember being scared by it everytime it came on TV as a kid. While the Prometheus trailers have been great, they tell us WAY too much. !SPOILERS! Here's what we know will happen in the film: 1) Noomi appeals to Weyland to send the Prometheus to a point in space foretold by cave paintings. He relents. 2) David, an android crew member, warns them about the potential dangers of meeting an alien species. 3) When they arrive they discover the invitation was either a misinterpretation or a trap. 4) An alien ship is dispatched from a giant factory/mothership on a course to Earth, to destroy it in some fashion. 5) The Captain rams the Prometheus into the alien ship, crashing it to the ground of the nearby planet. 6) They discover an ancient chamber wherein they realize these aliens are the forefathers of humanity. 7) A proto-facehugger gets inside one of the crew. 8) Noomi is prego with an alien child. It is inconceivable that she does not give birth to it. It may likely be the giant humanoid we see in the trailer. 9) Lots of death and destruction, eventually leading to what is probably the large humanoid getting bonded with the gunner seat from ALIEN. As awesome as all of this is, I didn't want to know all that before buying a ticket.
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Thanks. I didn't realize the Prometheus kamikazees the Space Jockeys' ride....
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May 17, 2012, 10:42 a.m. CST
FOX EXEC: "We gotta appeal to Japanese Anime tentacle rape demographic. Quick! Release a commercial with a shot of an astronaut being mouth raped by a space snake!"
by Cinemajerk
Yup.
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This poster is amazing. Looks like the cover of an old-school Heinlein novel. So sick of giant floating Photoshop heads. This is fantastic. I'd fuck the graphic artist's sister.
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I have a feeling the kamikaze is something that kicks off the last act of the movie - since so much of the action we've seen in the trailers obviously happens on the Promethesus. I think the Space Jockeys are pissed about something the humans do and are leaving LV-421 to punish Earth for their hubris. Crashing the Promethesus into their ship is the only way to stop them from getting to Earth (possibly by releasing a whole mess of Xenomorph eggs on the human population) - how the pilot gets a Xeno implanted into him/her is still a mystery. On another note, while spoilerific, I like the poster. It reminds me of an Amazing Fantasy or pulp novel cover - I for one am tired of posters with just faces on them. Let's hope this kicks off a new era of illustrative posters (much like the old and awesome posters from the Raiders and Sinbad movies)
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May 17, 2012, 10:57 a.m. CST
LISTENING TO THE SCORE NOW... CREEPING VIOLINS OF DREAD!! MEGA-HORNS OF DOOM!! I'M TELLING YOU GUYS RIGHT NOW - -
by Astronut
- - WE ARE ALL IN FOR AN EXPRESS ELEVATOR RIDE TO HELL!! BRING CONDOMS FOR YOUR EYEBALLS BECAUSE THEY ** WILL ** BE RAPED.
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...what happens if there is 'no' graphic artist's sister?? Brother? Anyone? Anyone?
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May 17, 2012, 11 a.m. CST
IF YOU HAVE THE SOUNDTRACK, LISTEN TO THE TRACK "INFECTED," FROM 0:30 - 0:57 AND YOU TELL ME THAT IS NOT THE VIBE OF CREEPING FOREBODING EVIL.
by Astronut
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May 17, 2012, 11:01 a.m. CST
THAT PORTION OF THE TRACK IS LITERALLY LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN FROM HELL HEADING STRAIGHT TOWARD YOU. IT IS UNIMAGINABLY PERFECT FOR THIS KIND OF FILM.
by Astronut
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now they've confirmed in a poster of all things that prometheus rams the alien ship? what the fuck is going on with this campaign?
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May 17, 2012, 11:03 a.m. CST
THE CREEPING VIOLINS AND SLAMMING GATE SOUNDS IN SOME OF THESE TRACKS ARE GUARAN-FUCKING-TEED TO PUT A CHILL UP YOUR SPINE
by Astronut
You're gonna like the way you look. I guarantee it.
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the yelling will cease and the killing will commence!
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May 17, 2012, 11:05 a.m. CST
"HYPER SLEEP"...... SOME AMAZING SOUNDS IN THAT PIECE, TOO. LIKE, ECHOS OF FUCKING SPACE. I'M NOT SHITTING YOU.
by Astronut
Can you tell I'm excited for this film?
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blade runner does not exist in this dojo...
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Maybe. The full length leaked script that Harry was going ga ga over a few months back specifically calls the starmap room The Orrery. Word on the upcoming Art of the Film book has it that this is the actual name of the map room. So the "fake" script was right. How would a faker know this months ago, if they had based their script on the early teasers and trailer? If it's real, then we can despair about the ending, with Shaw the last human survivor, cradling her alien baby after killing the android Vickers. Please don't suck, Prometheus.
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May 17, 2012, 11:11 a.m. CST
Because Blade Runner was not a box office success. Doesn't take a lot to figure out the rationale behind that decision.
by Astronut
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Most of you don't know any more if you really hate something, or if you're just pretending to out of some weird sense of fanboyish obligation.
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May 17, 2012, 11:19 a.m. CST
IN FACT, ANYONE WHO *** DOESN'T *** SHIT THEMSELVES IN FEAR WATCHING THIS DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE AT THE THEATER.
by Astronut
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Aside from the poor scaling issue with the ships...this abomination of a poster makes the movie look like something it's not. Also, WTF with all the people running from the crash? Is this image is supposed to be for the 'kids'? I thought it was rated R.
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More oral/anal fixations from the people who brought you Alien.
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May 17, 2012, 11:29 a.m. CST
Did Sir Ridley approve this? Yes, it looks exactly like an old pulp cover thats only missinf a giant banner "AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION ACTION AND ADVENTURE!!"
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Not certain if thats the tone Sir Scott was aiming for.
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May 17, 2012, 11:29 a.m. CST
People running from the crash - - uh, yeah that's what they're doing. They did that in the trailer as well...
by Astronut
What's the mystery? Also, I admit I don't know you at all, but why be so negative? The film got an R RATING --- AGAINST ALL ODDS! Let's see... 1) Ridley Scott returns to sci-fi/horror 2) Ridley Scott returns to the ALIEN universe 3) Ridley Scott tries to give us something unique 4) The film gets a big budget 5) The studio is set to deliver the film in its original state, unedited, uncensored, and Rated R - RIDLEY SCOTT'S VISION, UNTOUCHED 6) The footage we have seen looks STUNNING 7) The soundtrack is AWESOME Yeah, gee, I'd say this is all just fucking terrible! Why don't haters of this film stop being so THANKLESS. FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! I MEAN, REALLY???????????????
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May 17, 2012, 11:32 a.m. CST
A - WAAAAAHHHHH!!! THE POSTER DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT! A - WAAAAHHHHHH!!!
by Astronut
Who gives a flying shit?? Look at what we're getting!!! Thankless MORONS, swear to god.
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May 17, 2012, 11:34 a.m. CST
Amazing Sci Fi Action Adventure Covers usually had more color.
by Ingeld
"I will paint my picture Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful Grey is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday." The blue-grey palette is so over done these days.
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May 17, 2012, 11:35 a.m. CST
Somebody better get Philbrick at FOX on the phone because that poster is FUCKING HORRIBLE.
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Obviously, the Prometheus is doomed and so is the Derelict. So, one can surmise that there is more than one alien ship. If that's the case, shame on them for such a careless spoiler.
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May 17, 2012, 11:36 a.m. CST
well, there's no question the prometheus rams the jockey ship now.
by zom-bot.com
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this poster is rubbish! Total Rubbish!
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...why does everything about this film feel like old hat?
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avengers' was sucky too, but thank god the movie was not. is this b/c they're now paying someone in china to make these for 5 cents?
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No one is saying the movie is going to be shit. All the complaints and moans are with the regards to the poster. Don't forget, Ridley, most likely, had zero input into this. This is something that the marketting team thought would be appropriate. So get off your high horse. People still have the right to complain!
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May 17, 2012, 11:42 a.m. CST
also, i am super stoked for this film. no poster shall deter my buzz
by smudgewhat
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Seriously stop mentioning Gladiator.
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I don't agree. It's set in the ALIEN universe, like everyone's been dreaming of for 35 years!!! Another film doing that, and - - it's by Ridley!!! I'm thrilled for this. In fact, I could not be more excited unless I won a chance to hang out at the bar and have a couple cold ones with Ridley himself! I mean, let's all face it - - - this is NOT going to "BEST" ALIEN. The odds of that happening are a million to one, IMO. But what this film CAN do is, entertain the living fuck out of us and give us a solid story with good characters, music and visuals. Even if it's a bit derivative of ALIEN, I'm good. Because it's better than another POS licensed movie about fucking robots. In a world loaded with SHIT FILMS, THIS COMES ALONG?? Uh, where do I get in line? Maybe by "old hat" you mean, we've all seen too much coverage..? If that's what you're getting at, I can understand.
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May 17, 2012, 11:49 a.m. CST
There's this cool scene where the alien sucker punches Fassbender
by Domi'sInnerChild
And the one where Charlize grabs the alien and smashes it on the ground like 50 times. Totally not given away in the trailers.
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The twist is, PROMETHEUS isn't ramming the other ship, it's a catastrophic docking attempt.
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May 17, 2012, 11:51 a.m. CST
Hannibal and Kingdom of Heaven? Gladiator made more money than both those films combined.
by Astronut
The studio made the right call.
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May 17, 2012, 11:52 a.m. CST
Notice they're now saying 'from the director of Alien an Gladiator'
by ahdvd
All the trailers and posters up to now have not mentioned Alien at all, choosing to shun the title and instead use 'Blade Runner and Gladiator'. Wonder why the change this late in the game, even if the cat is out of the bag, have some consistency and balls dammit! Stick with the original program!
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get hype get hype get hype
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May 17, 2012, 11:55 a.m. CST
Prometheus ramming the Jockey ship is not guaranteed.
by Ethan Dussault
I was promised Black Hawk Helicopters fighting Dragons by the posters for Reign of Fire. Didn't happen.
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May 17, 2012, 11:57 a.m. CST
don't recall from trailers- is prometheus that big compared to jockey ship?
by zom-bot.com
seems like they enlarged it. the jockey ships seem much more immense, i'd thought.
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May 17, 2012, 11:58 a.m. CST
I'm not on a high horse. There are too many negative whiney bitches around here. It's like someone is doing this great thing (Ridley with this film) and instead of being happy about it, they bitch and moan about every little detail like a 9 year-old girl.
by Astronut
Whiney bitches
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May 17, 2012, noon CST
From the Director of Blade Runner and Alien; Show some guts FOX
by Ethan Dussault
thommcg got my joke.
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May 17, 2012, 12:03 p.m. CST
astronut - personally I'm not questioning anything about the film itself. I'm as happy as a pig in shit that this movie, as Master Ridley Scott, exists. Its just the way Fox is selling it. You know us TB'ers,
by openthepodbaydoorshal
we like to pick at things till they bleed, and of course we ALL know more than the studio heads, right? Right?
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May 17, 2012, 12:04 p.m. CST
Darn it premature sending of unfinished post! Curses!
by Ethan Dussault
nevermind. I just wanted to say Astronut, please don't go down the name calling road of despair.
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May 17, 2012, 12:06 p.m. CST
Prometheus = Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. Planet = Island. Black Goo = Smoke Monster
by Domi'sInnerChild
Space Jockeys = Polar Bears.
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It just starts to get on my nerves sometimes. It's like someone walking up to you, giving you a check for a million dollars and you look at the check and say, "Ew. Why did you get checks with cats on them?!" I can't stand thankless people.
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PhotoShop is a tool, not an art form. If the poster is lame, blame the user, not the tool. Besides, PS files are easier to distribute than a glass painting.
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It officially opens here on the Thursday 7th but there are sessions selling for the evening of Wednesday the 6th too for some reason.
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First words that came out of my mouth were: "Ok, that's badass."
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Just because you see the ship crashing into the other ship does not mean you know what is going to happen. Remember the Enterprise showed previews of it blowing up to pieces in episodes several times but by the end it was whole again. This could be someones dream for all we know and they are throwing us off track on purpose. In Sci-Fi anything is possible.Lets just hope that we *think* we know everything but really dont!
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The end of the movie? On the poster? That takes balls. And I know I would have begged my folks to take me to Alien if it had Sigourney Weaver in her underpants on the poster rather than the subtle hint that a space-egg has something to do with the flick. So, the new Blade Runner movie will have Deckard facing the camera, with half his face as a robot like T2.
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May 17, 2012, 12:41 p.m. CST
The PROMETHEUS marketing campaign will go down in history...
by Aiden Blackwell
...as the greatest example ever of a film studio getting it absolutely 100% right, then loosing any and all confidence in the film they have produced (and in the renowned film maker who has made it for them), and then completely and utterly messing the entire thing up to the nth degree. No further trailers were needed beyond the international release trailer, which did an exceptional job of promoting the film to its target audience, and marked the film out as being something other than a typical Hollywood CGI explosion-fest. All the trailers/teasers released since then have served to erode the mystery and have given audiences a very clear idea of what to expect from a film which appealed to them as one which would hold some shocks and surprises. And now we get a release poster which is a risible mess by any standard. Who on earth signed off on this thing? What the hell are FOX smoking?! I bet that Ridley Scott is absolutely loosing it right now. Unless we're all having the biggest parlor trick in history pulled on us, FOX have completely screwed him over.
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May 17, 2012, 12:43 p.m. CST
Should have gone with floating smiling heads with PenisVaginaSnakes wrapped around their necks
by Domi'sInnerChild
Prometheus: Coming (and we don't mean Alien gizz, perverts) June 6th
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The approach back in the old days was "less is more." As Wrath of Fett pointed out, the teaser for Alien is easily one of the best teasers ever. With the internet & bootlegging, studios have to beat them at their own game as far as drawing people in.
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May 17, 2012, 12:46 p.m. CST
@astronaut: #2 - You sir, are a disappointment to your handle...
by obijuanmartinez
SOME AMAZING SOUNDS IN THAT PIECE, TOO. LIKE, ECHOS OF FUCKING SPACE. I'M NOT SHITTING YOU. It seems someone calling himself astronaut would know there is no sound in space...
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Is it just me, or does the exploding ship look like an Alien in free fall??
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May 17, 2012, 12:47 p.m. CST
From the brother of the guy who brought you Man on Fire
by Tikidonkeypunch
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Your points on what to hate. I was saying the same thing on yesterdays talkback and was told i was complaining about the complainers. When that person was really complaining, about the complaining, of the complainers. I think. ANYWAY - Prepare to be SCULL FUCKED !!!
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May 17, 2012, 12:53 p.m. CST
Studio got nervous. Think about it, Cloverfield and Super 8 both went less is more recently
by Domi'sInnerChild
Budget shot up to 200 million and they lost their PG-13 rating. Then it got a WTF? reaction as a trailer before Avengers from everybody who didn't know what it was. And you have execs worried they're going to get fired. They couldn't change less is more if they wanted fannies in the seats.
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FUCK PHOTOSHOP POSTERS. Seriously, just grab one of the gorgeous frames from the film itself. Are you telling me some shit Photoshop artist using twenty different images to cobble together this shit has a better eye than Ridley Scott?!? When are they going to stop this garbage?!?
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"Photoshop files are easier to distribute than a glass painting" This hurts my head so much, I can't even...
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...and looking out of frame? Such terrible staging. They need to give these shit Photoshop "artists" lessons in basic composition.
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so how did this poster fuck things up??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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May 17, 2012, 1:05 p.m. CST
The tagline THE SEARCH FOR OUR BEGINNING COULD LEAD TO OUR END sounds a lot like MANKINDS GREATEST DISCOVERY COULD BE ITS LAST...from the 2011 The Thing.
by openthepodbaydoorshal
Just sayin'.
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May 17, 2012, 1:14 p.m. CST
Or from The Stuff: Are you eating it or is it eating you?
by Domi'sInnerChild
Such a rip off.
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that the Prometheus ramming the Juggernaut happens relatively early on and is NOT a major secret plot point of the film?? They've shown this moment since the very beginning...they've never tried to hide it...so it leads me to believe it's not that big of a spoiler
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I'm feelin' it. I like that you're feelin' it.
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May 17, 2012, 1:34 p.m. CST
GOT MY TICKET FOR IMAX 3D, 12:01 AM SHOW TIME! THAT PLACE IS GONNA LOOK LIKE THE END OF RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK... FACES WILL MELT!!!
by Astronut
Well. It's true!
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Cause he was flying the ship
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And ive been doing sooo well at being strong and only seeing the 1st trailer so far, and only once. Now i know how the derelict ship crashes. No more till June, i swear this time.
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It's a dramatic moment, sure, but it doesn't tell me anything at all about the tone of the movie. It's more like a mashup of stills from the movie. Bleh.
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May 17, 2012, 2:12 p.m. CST
The Super 8 marketing team got it right. We didn't need all this.
by Lakewater
I would've been happy seeing another black poster with some kind of grey alien pattern barely visible.
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...hinting at extraterrestrial origins for mankind, and a more cerebral film experience. This poster I assume is to pull in the Transformers crowd.
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May 17, 2012, 2:15 p.m. CST
I don't think that space jockey ship is the same one from Alien
by SithMenace
Just part of the fleet.
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The interiors of both ships look completely different. There are no sarcophagi in Alien, the chairs have different arrangements of ribbing and contours, one interior looks more organic than the other. Thought this was settled a while ago.
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May 17, 2012, 2:19 p.m. CST
I think it's fake...but I like the 70's style to it...kinda
by marineboy
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http://www.youtube.com/user/BillHassel?feature=mhee
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May 17, 2012, 2:28 p.m. CST
Forget the poster, the original Alien is a spoiler for this movie.
by Christian Sylvain
*hint - THEY ALL FUCKING DIE
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..."It looks like a Community College midterm submission in Photoshop 101." Fuck off, no it doesn't. It's just trendy to rip on movie posters at the mo' and you thought you'd jump in with some cliched bullshit. I don't particularly like the poster, but it's well made. Guaran-damn-tee you couldn't better it. So once more...fuck off.
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The ship crash should have been saved, not exploited Dramatic tension comes when you DON'T know what will happen Assuming Scott has final say on these materials, my only response is WTF?
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The scales of the two ships is the thing that looks the worst. No fucking way the Prometheus is that big. Also the sheer size of the "derelict" ship is so massive there would be atmosphere obscuring the farthest side of it, like looking at a mountain in teh distance. Ridley and Cameron both accomplished this in their films. Here it's all too crisp, which makes it look pasted in...which it is...obviously. The ships don't actually look like they are colliding, or even recently collided. I can't imagine a scenerio in which this would be the result. Also, we see the Prometheus headed straight into it in the trailer, yet no part of the ship that we can see is even slightly damaged...including it's nose. The smoke plumes don't make any sense. There couldn't possibly be that much smoke the split second of the impact to cause miles of smoke trailes. For this reason it actually looks like dirt...and why would the ships have that much dirt on them? Also, if they are saying the explosion happened much higher, which would account for more smoke and the ships being somewhat seperated, then why is there no smoke above their current position? Charlize's face does not look part of that image. There is actually a 6th person running at the back, but their scale is so completely fucked you can barely make them out and they look like a child. the lighting is totally and completely fucked. The Prometheus is lit from above, the derelict is lit from the right side, neither are lit at all by the massive fucking explosion between them. Although the art team did a fair job of darkening the bodies so they all apear to be lit from behind, the shadows seem to indicate they were originally supposed to be lit up by the explosion. See how the running figures on the plane all look like they are supposed to be lit by a very narrow source, and that apears to be the ships. Also, it's pretty fuckin' lit out there, why do they all have their headlamps on? This also makes me think they were originally lit in perhaps an orange glow from the explosion before someone said that looked stupid....and perhaps made it look like Mars. Of course, I've been trained in this sort of thing so all these things pop out at me quite glaringly, but your typical idiot popcorn muncher would take a quick glance and go =Kewl!=
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May 17, 2012, 3:02 p.m. CST
YA KNOW, I GOT TO THINKING... IF I WERE RIDLEY SCOTT, I'D NOT ONLY STOP MAKING AWESOME MOVIES LIKE ALIEN AND BLADE RUNNER AND THIS...
by Astronut
... I'd also ban you thankless bitches from all theaters. So you can't see Prometheus. And complain about how the lobby poster is crooked and how there was a piece of lint on one of the dude's space suits in the movie. Then you can go sit in your mom's basement and play Diablo 3. Ha. RIDLEY OWNS you, haters. EAT it.
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...the only thing you're "trained in" is bullshit.
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...appears to be bald. Another spoiler perhaps?
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Or is it just a snoopy cap? Whatever. I like the poster anyway. Like a pulpy sci-fi novel cover.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/OTSOG2012
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Poster Design was part of that training. We learned about open vs. closed compositions, how the eye is drawn to and between various aspects, the power of triangles, what colors infer subconsciously, etc. I recommend taking an art design class to all talkbackers because it's damn interesting.
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Larry Niven - Big Space Thingy Gollancz - 300 pages "Stuter knew he had it coming, only the space monkey could save him now"
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May 17, 2012, 3:53 p.m. CST
Man, I HOPE we don't know the skeleton plot since it's pretty paint by the numbers
by Domi'sInnerChild
On one hand, if what we have seen is spoiler-ific, that's a pretty dull framework of a story (pictures in a cave, IT'S A TRAP!, Crewmembers get impregnated and/or killed, ship rams ship heading for Earth, and there's a classic alien egg/sac/queen/whatever) that basically should have been the assumed storyline going in and would be a disappointment. On the other hand, if what we've seen it's the meat of the movie and it bombs because they're holding back the good stuff, that's too bad as well.
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May 17, 2012, 3:53 p.m. CST
Fucking hell, man, any surprises left the marketing cunts didn't exploit already?
by Anti-fanboy
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May 17, 2012, 4:01 p.m. CST
The design sucks because the suits don't let designers have any input anymore...
by mdk
...these things are designed in committee by the braindead assholes in Marketing then the actual work is palmed off to some dumb bitch intern who took a semester of Photoshop classes. Maybe afterward, they'll bring in an underpaid freelancer to try to clean up the mess as much as possible, but he'll be allowed no creative input at all. The days of Saul Bass, Bob Peak, etc. are long dead, thanks to the coked-up douchrbags of Hollyweird.
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May 17, 2012, 4:06 p.m. CST
The tagline is more shit from the cokefiend ass-pirates in Marketing...
by mdk
..."The blank of blankity could end up being blankity blank." Just fill the blanks... works everytime. Get my niece to work up a comp, she took an art class.
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Right on the money...This image ain't going to sell anyone unfamiliar with the material...TOTAL crap.
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That'll pack em in.
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...regarding Photoshop posters. Give me a well-crafted illustrated poster any day of the week; this type of generic Photoshop nonsense is just so bloody dull and lifeless. It's pretty damn sad that given a mouth-watering project like "Prometheus", this is the best that the marketing department could come up with.
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though i would have gone with something more simple like the "U" of the alien craft looming in the foreground in flight, where we mainly just see the two prongs extending down into frame but away from the viewer and in between the two prongs we see the prometheus in the distance...thereby making use of the titular ship and the iconic derelict design.
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May 17, 2012, 5:06 p.m. CST
On an alien world, if a giant donut exploded, would the explorers hear it?
by Domi'sInnerChild
Prometheus. They really don't seem too concerned in the poster, huh?
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That is all.
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this is not a good poster. It looks like some POS Roger Corman would've put out in his heyday.
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...but we don't get this shit poster. Worst piece of marketing yet for Prometheus.
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with the same layout and basic design. Even though that would be cool, it is still a bit much for an Alien saga poster. A L I E N http://fiction.michaelatman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/alien-poster.jpg AL(l)ENS http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aNk/TKJDgDrdTdI/AAAAAAAAVCY/ODQOby_gzlw/s800/aliens+movie+poster.jpg ALIEN³ http://www.impawards.com/1992/posters/alien_three_ver2.jpg -- although, the 3 times the terror, etc. is kinda silly on that poster ALIEN RESURRECTION http://i2.listal.com/image/5608/600full-alien%3A-resurrection-poster.jpg PROMETHEUS (first poster/teaser poster) http://twitchfilm.com/news/PrometheusPoster.jpg All these Alien posters plus the first Prometheus poster are spot on. Dark black void of space with just the title, tagline, and minimal but creepy imagery.
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May 17, 2012, 6:38 p.m. CST
Everything has been perfect except the tag-line has no balls compared to in space no one can hear you scream
by UltraTron
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May 17, 2012, 6:42 p.m. CST
astronut: I remember listening to the phantom menace soundtrack before it came out and boy did I envision it differently
by UltraTron
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May 17, 2012, 6:45 p.m. CST
Well we know they will be stranded without their spaceship. Maybe it's like gilligan's island
by UltraTron
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http://goo.gl/WK78J
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Very true - an approach like Struzan's would no doubt be too much for this film, even though I love his art work. As you pointed out, the original Prometheus poster works very well with the "less is more" approach that the other Alien films used in their campaigns. The new poster looks like it belongs on a video game box (and that still wouldn't save it from looking like crap).
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Couldn't resist.
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May 17, 2012, 10:46 p.m. CST
The one scene that never should have been in the trailers is now all over the goddamn poster?....
by cgih8r
fuck it...who needs surprises
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yikes - someone needs to get fired
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The distributors here have a habit of releasing "tentpole" movies onWednesday with the first showing at about 11:00 to 11:50 PM so it will actually ride over onto the Thursday. It was done for LOTR, all the Marvel movies...(except Thor & Incredible Hulk), Transformers, Harry Potter series... you get the Idea. Not really sure why. But it's fun to go... B
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The poster for 'Gozilla vs Megalon' that depicted the monsters fighting on top of the Twin Towers. http://tokyosos.132productions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/godzilla-megalon-us.jpg
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like that retarded DVD cover for the Dark Knight with the pad pod exploding through a skyscraper. Im convinced..10 year olds from 3rd world nations design these things.
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New from Milton-Bradley!
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I mean, it's far more likely that a seasoned pro like Scott will not just release trailer after trailer and posters that spoil the whole thing, we have not seen the whole and I'd rather believe that there are surprises in wait in the main feature, that the trailers and this poster merely herald moments that may be the big stuff in a lesser film, but not in Prometheus. Plus, this poster is merely showing something well flagged in the trailers, namely the Prometheus plunging into the alien craft, so no new spoilers there.
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May 18, 2012, 2:48 a.m. CST
ciderman -- I agree with your logic, but then again the A L I E N poster had an egg with light seeping from it
by lv_426
and that never happened in the film. The only cracking egg with light shining out from within was in the trailer. Also, that weird netting like floor below the egg on the poster is also not in the film. A L I E N told you nothing about the film's plot or what the monster looked like. Even the ALIEN³ poster was ambiguous enough with just a baby queen alien in the fetal position floating in the void. It never blatantly implied that it would be inside of Ripley. Hell, all we really knew going into ALIEN³ was that Ripley was bald and stuck on a prison colony with no weapons while a single alien roamed around causing trouble.
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May 18, 2012, 3:18 a.m. CST
isn't the Prometheus supposed to be much smaller than the derelict ship?
by Windowlicker74
In this poster they're almost equal in size. looks weird to me..
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May 18, 2012, 3:57 a.m. CST
"The first trailer showed Prometheus blowing up" That does not make it right!!!
by Hardboiled Wonderland
That does not make the poster any less wrong. Many people won't have seen the trailer, at all, anywhere. I was pretty effing pissed off when I saw the trailer and Prometheus ramming the SJ ship. I don't know what photos Rothman has over Ridley Scott, but I sure as hell hope Sir Ridley has enough surprises in Prometheus to cover this shit. Anyone defending the MASSIVE spoilers in the trailers and posters is not a film/Alien fan, period.
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... had "You'll never guess that Darth Vader is Luke's father!!!" and no one complained. Seriously, this poster is terrible, I can't believe the number of people posting how good it is -- they must be plants, surely.
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May 18, 2012, 4:08 a.m. CST
The crewmember directly behind Charlize has a hand puppet
by Hardboiled Wonderland
I'm still flabbergasted how many people love this horrid trashy poster.
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It opens in France on may 30th. (Yeah, we're the lucky bastards, this time.) So this one sheet is not for us either. (But you should see the one currently covering the Paris subway walls - it's God-awful and looks like a film from Soviet-period Kazakhstan pulled out of the ass of an art student with a thing for sloppy photoshop work.) (So I guess we're not that lucky after all.)
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May 18, 2012, 8:23 a.m. CST
HONESTLY, AS LONG AS THE FILM IS GREAT I REALLY DON'T GIVE A FROG'S FAT ASS IF THE POSTER SUCKS.
by Astronut
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will suck urh urh!
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With the noted exception of his Dr. strange and of course, Spidey.
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David having a (robot) dream of what you see in this poster. Then he wakes up. He then stops this from happening later in the movie. Hey, ya never know!!?? Remember the opening of that episode of Star Trek TNG where the captain is saying abandon ship and the Enterprise blows up in a million pieces. Then they stop is from happening later on in the ep. Its Sci-Fi, CHILL OUT SPOILER FREAKS!!!
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May 18, 2012, 12:25 p.m. CST
Seriously, is anybody going to go AWMYGODICANTBELIEVETHEYCRASHEDTHEIRSHIPINTOIT!!!!! during the movie?
by Domi'sInnerChild
Not exactly Kaiser Soze here as a spoiler even if it is how they resolve the whole Space Jockey ship going to destroy Earth thing. What else are they going to do? Hack into the computer with a MacBook and give it a virus?
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