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Charlize Theron thinks it is pretty badass to be in a Ridley Scott Space Movie! PROMETHEUS featurette
Hey folks, Harry here... PROMETHEUS is beginning to hop into the next gear in terms of marketing and we're beginning to see images in these featurettes that we might not want to see. There's a moment with Charlize with a flamethrower in this spot that I wish I could erase from my brain. So tread carefully, if you haven't already been doing so. As for me, I just can't help myself. I have to see this stuff - the foreplay before the release of a film like PROMETHEUS is part of the fun of this kind of film. So - here ya go...
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May 21, 2012, 1:45 p.m. CST
Yeah, DO NOT WATCH THIS, there actually are some new bits in there... DAMN IT, FOX! STOP!!!!!
by Astronut
I hope this film makes shitloads of money. Because it will send a sign that "ORIGINAL BIG-BUDGET, HI-CONCEPT SCI-FI" can STILL BE DONE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jesus!! Enough spoilers!!
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That giant head looks pretty cool.
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May 21, 2012, 1:52 p.m. CST
You convinced me astronut,not worth it,going to ignore everything Prometheus related until the 1st
by lookylookymoontard
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Anyway, back when Craig Kilborn had his CBS late-night show, he supposedly had a male actor on for two segments and they were supposedly talking about women during commercial. Either the actor didn't realize that they were miked and everyone in the control booth could hear him, or he didn't care. The actor asked if Kilborn had ever "had the Theron," meaning Charlize Theron. Kilborn said no. That's when the actor smirked, leaned in and said, "Kilby … you have GOT to try the Theron." That actor was Vince Vaughn
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May 21, 2012, 1:56 p.m. CST
Oh big deal, we already knew it gets onboard the ship another way
by Domi'sInnerChild
Probably the eye sperm. She's just following protocol like Ripley wanted to in Alien, just no Ash to overide her this time.
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May 21, 2012, 1:59 p.m. CST
Charlize Theron has a pretty GOODass that there should have a featurette focus on.
by Vince Ricardo
Make it so, Ridley!
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May 21, 2012, 1:59 p.m. CST
I thought we came from an ape ancestor? Let's see how they explain that.
by mistergreen
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director.......minus the direction. I would drink her bathwater.
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May 21, 2012, 2:12 p.m. CST
Come on Ridley, can't all women astronauts be naked in the future?
by Jaster Mareel
The fucking Feregi had that shit worked out!
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May 21, 2012, 2:14 p.m. CST
Coincidentally, I think it would be pretty badass to be in Chalize Theron.
by Mugato5150
I think this film has performance anxiety when faced with all the fucking comic book movies so they're blowing their load in the trailers. But they shouldn't because despite being technically an Alien prequel, it looks a lot more original than the fucking comic book movies coming out this summer.
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really wish I hadn't seen that. Why da fuck did they have to incluse that flame thrower shot?? In other news - I'd happily give my left nut for an hour in the sack with Theron. Dat ass...
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That is all.
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in a very short time. We went from Old Stone Age to New Stone Age in no more than 1000 years. That's from being only as bright as Neanderthals, to the Cave Paintings of Lascaux and Alta Mira, and Chauvet, where 28,000 years ago they worked out the principles of animation.
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May 21, 2012, 2:24 p.m. CST
Still....barely....holding.........on.........from.....spoilers
by LowDevil
Not sure how long i can keep from watching anything Prometheus related. Its so hard
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May 21, 2012, 2:26 p.m. CST
I Think This Was Pretty Obviously Marked With Spoiler Tags
by Raskolnikov_was_framed
so stop complaining if you chose to watch it and saw something you didn't want to...you were warned
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Seems like it,... Harry,the website,update,remember?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w6RXFeV7VE&feature=related more Spoilers included! be aware!
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I'm going the other way, I want to see anything and everything I can! It's been 33 years, another week or two isn't going to heighten the experience. GIVE ME ALL OF IT RIDLEY!! AHHHHHHHhhhhh
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Didn't the script for this leak out months ago? I remember reading it, but it hasn't dulled my desire to see this movie a single bit.
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You will not mind seeing it once the film starts. It's a tony little bit of the story. It's a BIG story.
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Just because there's a sign on some meth that reads: "Do Not Enjoy This Meth," that's not going to stop me from grabbing a hit of that sweet, delicious meth.
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May 21, 2012, 3:30 p.m. CST
Does eye sperm guy nail Noomi getting her knocked up giant tequilla worm?
by Domi'sInnerChild
They seem buddy, buddy in most scenes. Just a theory. Maybe Fassbender gives him the black goo as a "small things" experiment. Seems safe to assume he removes the worm too.
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I've watched every single piece of marketing for this film...I've had some things spoiled for sure...but I won't complain about it because I chose to click play
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May 21, 2012, 3:43 p.m. CST
twogunjames "It's a tiny little bit of the story. It's a BIG story....."
by Astronut
That's cool but I wish it were THREE HOURS instead of TWO.
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May 21, 2012, 3:44 p.m. CST
Could the twist be that Vickers is actually the hero of the piece?
by FreeBeer
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Vickers clearly bailing right before Prometheus rams the ship. So she probably survives to the last act.
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will be that M. Knight Shyamalan directed the whole thing by speaking commands into the ear piece that Ridley Scott was wearing.
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Thats just not funny and borders on cruel. I am gonna have that in the back of my mind for the next 9 days waiting for the film to drop.
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May 21, 2012, 4:36 p.m. CST
This is going to be the film that Event Horizon SHOULD have been...
by ChickenStu
Tried watching Event Horizon earlier today. All I could see is how it could've been better.
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...posted on one of the Prometheus fan-sites about a week ago...except w/o the hi-res.
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Not just alien gods. But the supernatural sort of God that shows up in science fiction movies now and again and makes atheists froth.
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May 21, 2012, 4:52 p.m. CST
i hope you die, sorry, that was already done in SciFi's Battlestar Galactica, and it was one of the all time worst endings to a story, ever.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
"God did it," FUCK THAT SHIT!
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Vickers IS Weyland. Vickers is an android body which hosts Weyland's brain/memory engrams. Theron might be the hottest girl ever.
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On someone (couldn't really tell who, David?), what's the big deal? It's not like we saw the monster or anything...
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I wanted that movie to be good. In a way it's as big a disappointment as Phantom Menace. All I wanted was a competent Alien knockoff, but watching it now I just see missed opportunity after missed opportunity.
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May 21, 2012, 5:30 p.m. CST
If Vickers is Weyland, wouldn't he just looking in the mirror all day touching himself?
by Domi'sInnerChild
There's no way that's it. No way. Lacks motivation.
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May 21, 2012, 5:35 p.m. CST
The flamethrower scene implies Vickers is this movie's Sigourney...
by I Hope You Die
...it's the chick who says "you're not bringing him on my ship" and gets shit done who survives to the end.
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May 21, 2012, 5:42 p.m. CST
(eyes closed, fingers in ears) la..la..la..la..la..la..la..la..
by adeceasedfan
Don't want to see one more image until my ass is in the theater.
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& she was a great Aeon Flux. I am wondering & curious enough about what her evil queen of the snow white gothic fantasy film will entail..
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May 21, 2012, 6:30 p.m. CST
even9, Theron is far more beautiful than Kristen Stewart.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
There is no way Kristen Stewart is the fairest of them all. Theron looks damn good as the Queen. Enough for me to buy a ticket? The more I think about it, the more I think so. But I will be rooting for Theron the whole time.
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May 21, 2012, 6:33 p.m. CST
Too bad they didn't go for a hard R and include lots of tits!
by smudgewhat
Big tits, small tits, happy sad tits, suckled tits. You get my drift.
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I really, really want to like this movie. A lot of what I see makes it look fantastic...but there's something in the back of my head that keeps telling me I'm going to be disappointed. That ultimately they'll be a lot of great imagery and freakish moments that still add up to a rather blah experience. It comes from moments like in the clips for this featurette where the acting just seems...off for some reason. I do hope I'm wrong.
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And she has black hair and black leather in Aeon Flux but she has black hair and is naked in The Devil's Advocate. But she's also all scratched up and bruised. But you're going to see a little of that when you fuck Satan.
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Up yer game Aint It Cool staff
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Sorry but I liked the ending to BSG and I'm not particularly religious. It's more like God or what ever the higher power was ( they weren't really conclusive aout that " You know he doesn't like that name " ) manipulated it. Since the higher power bit was also part of the original BSG and they were loosely following it that part made sense. Also it's not like you didn't know that there was something else going on from the beginning.
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May 21, 2012, 7:05 p.m. CST
I'm not sure I buy the "Space Jockeys seed Earth"concept, and here is why:
by Jake Pantlin
In the trailer, we see pictures from around the world of the same "star map." The archaeologists say that they believe aliens came to Earth and left these clues for us to find them. Well, what if aliens didn't draw those pictures? What if, far from space, they sent messages to Earth (telepathic or radio or other) that were picked up by primitive cultures from around the world, and those humans drew what they saw in their heads, as "messages from God". The space jockeys may have never visited Earth. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they simply find out about Earth in the film from Prometheus being there. They could have sent messages to millions of worlds, preparing the people of those worlds to accept them when they arrived. Anyway, there is my crazy theory.
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May 21, 2012, 7:33 p.m. CST
didn't think it gave away anything. So she uses a flame thrower. No biggie really.
by peter
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Hell yeah! I can't wait! Everyone I know wants to see this movie. At least the theater won't be full of fucking kids...
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May 21, 2012, 8:28 p.m. CST
I understand now why GDT was talkig about this in relationship to AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.
by justmyluck
spoilers.... ....really, it's a big spoiler........ I have footage of Noomi Rapace trying to escape a large, tentacled, VERY Cthulhu-like creature as an engineer/terraformer gets entangled by it. It's *supposedly* the adult version of the spawn which gets surgically removed from Noomi (briefly seen in the second trailer).
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I didn't look. I don't want anything to be spoiled for me for this movie. I wish I didn't even know it was an Alien semi-prequel thingy whatever. If the Rotten Tomato scores start rolling in, in the 80 or 90 percents than it"ll be boner-city until 6/8. I think this will be an epic year for movies.
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May 21, 2012, 9:10 p.m. CST
real deal, we won't agree on BSG, but George R.R. Martin agrees with me!
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
BSG took the easy way out. The "something else" being God all along... give me a break. The cynicism, the struggle for survival and the recurring idea of hope in the face of fate was the real spirit of the story; to take that away by having God do it was the ultimate cop-out. They (the writers) built it, but they didn't know where to go, the writers gave up. The ending wasn't known all along, it was not in the series bible (how ironic!). Listen to Moore's podcasts and commentaries; It ended up more as a "fuck you" to their studio system for screwing them over several years, but it became more of a "fuck you" to the fans who expected and were promised answers. It was a betrayal to the genre they claimed to embrace. It was a betrayal to the fans they claimed wouldn't be let down. Dues ex machina is not story telling.
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It was a reveal in the very first trailer, and clearly Ridley thought better of it, and never used it again. Meredith Vickers is naked on the surface of the planet, calmly watching nanomachines reform her. And another obvious twist, if you know anything about nanotechnology: the little bastard machines rebuild a perfectly good new spaceship, by combing the two wreckages. Violation and transformation are the two important themes in Prometheus.
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May 21, 2012, 10:32 p.m. CST
Just release the damn movie before these marketing idiots show us the whole damn thing
by cgih8r
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May 21, 2012, 10:40 p.m. CST
What have I done? WHAT HAVE I DONE?! (Dammit, I watched it.)
by tylerzero
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May 22, 2012, 12:31 a.m. CST
Miss Charlize -I only take roles that inspire me- Theron.
by Ted Knight
Uh Huh, and one big-aaaaaaass mother fuckin' paycheck! I'm a 1 percentin' multiple mansion dwellin' gajillionaire bitches! And seriously guys, that face has seen better days. Mighty Joe Young Charlize? Oh yeah! Young Adult Charlize? eehhhhhhhhhhhhhh... where's that taut skinned little flesh package Noomi at?
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...the giant tentacle monster saving Rapace from the Space Jockey in the latest commercial??????? Why give that away?
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May 22, 2012, 5:32 a.m. CST
@shermdawg: I think that might be going into a new trailer, because that sequence was provided to me in *scope*.
by justmyluck
I think what's happening is that FOX knows there's a built-in, fail-safe audience for Ridley Scott and ALIEN, so they can show whatever they want and it won't matter. Likewise, the more tantalizing, spoilery, canon-like imagery they show, the more die-hard fans want to see it actually play out. Then there's the Sci-Fi/horror *pocorn* audience, where they're playing the trailers and TV spots like a sizzle reel, since that audience won't be spotting the ALIEN references, so they have to pump it up to all markets. So, yeah, I think FOX knows they have a big hit on their hands and it's win-win for each side of the draw.
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Event Horizon WAS better, until Anderson was forced by Paramount to cut 20 minutes of violent scenes in order to receive an R rating. I think it was Paramount's missed opportunity rather than Anderson's. Not to say that the movie would have been a certain classic or anything, but damn it would have been better.
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May 22, 2012, 6:24 a.m. CST
The entire plot of Prometheus is copied from the Tom Baker Doctor Who arc "Seeds of Doom"
by veteran_of_mu
The creature is a krynoid. And that big head is obviously modelled after Charlize her own bad self just like in the Tom Baker Doctor Who arc "Face of Evil". David is just a mobile version of Xoanan. And Noomi Rapace is the spittin' image of the young Elisabeth Sladen - DW's Sarah Jane. Plus I hear that later in the movie the Space Jockey wears a multi-coloured scarf.
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The big tie-in to the Alien franchise is Ripley popping out of an Alien egg in the nude! Kind of like jumping out of a big Birthday cake. It's a gift from Ridley to the Alien nerds. *boing!*
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May 22, 2012, 9:16 a.m. CST
"Meredith Vickers is naked on the surface of the planet, calmly watching nanomachines reform her"
by buggerbugger
Just because Vickers is doing a voiceover during that clip doesn't mean that it's physically Vickers in the clip. It doesn't even mean that the voiceover is part of that scene in the movie itself; it could be taken from a Vickers scene elsewhere. Trailers play this trick all the time.
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May 22, 2012, 9:19 a.m. CST
"The entire plot of Prometheus is copied from the Tom Baker Doctor Who arc "Seeds of Doom""
by buggerbugger
C'mon, we all know that 'The Seeds of Doom' is a direct lift of 'The Thing from Another World' and its progenitor. Alien plant monster in the Antarctic thawed out and taking over base personnel?
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May 22, 2012, 10:19 a.m. CST
Come on, we all know the plot is lifted from Fools Rush In
by Domi'sInnerChild
After a one night stand with Isabel (Salma Hayek, Alex (Matthew Perry) realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions. If that isn't a summary straight out of what we've seen in the trailers, I don't know what is.
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Because they are getting RAPED
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May 22, 2012, 10:52 a.m. CST
Lame. Why didn't they do a viral to introduce Vickers?
by Royston Lodge
Like, have Vickers starring in a evil corporate training video or sumthin'.
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May 22, 2012, 11:30 a.m. CST
LINK: Interview w/ Daniel Twiss, an Engineer from Prometheus - GIGUNDO SPOILERS
by obijuanmartinez
http://ifonlyuk.com/interviews/interview-daniel-twiss/
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Saw this footage, and after I got my head outta the gutter (having seen enough Hentai & tentacles), I remembered reading about some of the old A L I E N concepts from the O' Bannon "Starbeast" days which involved tentacles... Still don't think this would kill ATMoM...would LOVE to see that, no matter what
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May 22, 2012, 12:10 p.m. CST
I made the mistake of watching the last trailer that spoiled way too much. No more until it comes out.
by NeonFrisbee
Btw, it's officially R rated now, right? Yay!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I24QUMglk3s
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May 22, 2012, 2:21 p.m. CST
@obijuanmartinez, etc.: Giger did tentacle thingies back in the days of NECRONOMICON.
by justmyluck
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spoiler....... As I mentioned up the TB a bit, I'm pretty sure this is more of a direct reference to Lovecraft and the Cthulhu — as Guillermo del Toro recently spoke to the media about *the ending* of PROMETHEUS. Just as Ridley attracted Giger to ALIEN after seeing his 1977 Necronomicon book, Ridley dipping into Lovecraftian imagery for this would make just as much sense.
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May 22, 2012, 2:56 p.m. CST
The naked person at the beginning of the first trailer is a man.
by I Hope You Die
No way Theron has hands like that.
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May 22, 2012, 3:13 p.m. CST
So Mouth of Madness would have been killed if any movie with tectacles came out?
by Domi'sInnerChild
So really, it was Sharkotopus that did it in, not Prometheus.
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May 22, 2012, 3:19 p.m. CST
@domi'sinnerchild: It's more Lovecraftian than just the tentacles.
by justmyluck
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....spoilers, again.... ...yes....avoid.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft_Mythos
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I must have missed "something". To me the ending of BSG was about this last generation of human beings making the right decision to ally with the cylons and also to get rid of the technology that broke the time travel cycle and changed the future (no more civil war with the cylons). Sure, they had the help of the Gods but at the end it was the decision of the humans. Who knows if in the previous time cycles there were also other in-head angels and they still chose to keep the technology when they timed travel back to pre-historic times. What I hated about the ending is how extremey boring the last episode was. I don't know who directed it or edited it. It did not play with my emotions the way the last episode of a series does.
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May 22, 2012, 4:18 p.m. CST
Seriously, is the hint of scary old tentacled alien "Gods" automatically Lovecraft?
by Domi'sInnerChild
Let's say it really is a complete knockoff of Mouth of Madness (highly possible with the hacky writers) and Del Torro was rightfully scared off. Wouldn't that be kind of a disappointment? You'd hope this would be a more original story than Alien rehash set up with a spooky more action filled highly Lovecraft influenced third act. Personally, I really hope there's more to this movie than that. At this point, "eeeek, Tentacle God!" sounds more like the Ghostbusters sequel than an Alien prequel. Seriously, Ghostbusters, South Park, and Justice League have mined for gold here. I have trouble accepting that was the big "gotta make this movie now" idea that showed up in the script and got a 200 million budget. But then again, they made John Carter so what do I know?
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...spoilers.... ...turn back ye lost souls.... The Engineers in PROMETHEUS are the god-like beings who presided over worlds, like Earth, as are the *old ones* in the Cthulhu series. The crew of the PROMETHEUS being completely out of their league in understanding how the Engineers consider humans irrelevant, and the horrors they are dealt in learning this, is also out of Lovecraft. In the end, the Engineers in PROMETHEUS and the *Elders* in AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS are both revealed to have destroyed by their own creations. Yes, there's more.
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...spoilers.... ...sigh.... I forgot to address directly that the tentacled creature isn't a god.
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There isn't the wow and shock factor in that of say... an alien design by a creepy little foreign dude with a disgusting lifecycle nobody had ever thought of before. Engineers as Gods and tentacles things as monsters equals done to death pseudo religeous sci-fi crap only people like fans of the Riddick movies feel is underappreciated. Even more so because the target audience thinks it's a ripoff and it killed the actual big budget version of the source material... assuming the electric alien invasion guy did rip it off in his story.
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May 22, 2012, 5:15 p.m. CST
@domi'sinnerchild: You'd already made up your mind about PROMETHEUS, as evidenced by the lack of initiative in doing your own research.
by justmyluck
I'll be there opening day with a packed house.
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May 22, 2012, 5:25 p.m. CST
If you mean that it'll suck if it's a Lovecraft ripoff, then yes
by Domi'sInnerChild
I have made up my mind. The bar is much higher for this movie than to just rehash some old books and throw an android the shoots basketball on a bike in.
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May 23, 2012, 6:37 a.m. CST
@domi'sinnerchild: Then you're just trolling and expressing fanboy stupidity, since Giger's work was inspired by Lovecraft, thus was the original ALIEN.
by justmyluck
http://www.google.com/search?q=Alien+lovecraft+Giger Reading about a subject, before shitting on it, might save having to wrench your foot out of your mouth in the future.
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That Scott pissed on all of the Alien spinoffs, apart from Aliens, and fucks Fox over when he reveals that the Aliens were created in this future. That would make AVP and Predator 2 invalid.
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